Words of Wisdom for our Graduates
Dr. Barry D. Lovett
13 Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” 14 Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” 15 Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” 16 And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. 17 He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’ 18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’ 20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ 21 “This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God.”
Covetousness is craving more of what you have enough of already.
What do we know about the man in Jesus’ story?
I. He Was wealthy
We are still measuring people by what they have rather than by what they are.
Money has a way of binding us to what is physical and temporal, and blinding us to what is spiritual and eternal.
II. he was industrious.
The Bible commends hard work, but you can work hard and never ask what am I really working for.
III. he was progressive
Progress is not often made in people; it's made in property (things). “is it really progress to move rapidly down a road if it’s the wrong road.”
One night everything changed… Death came knocking on his door. He had prepared for all the possibilities, in life and ignored life's only certainty.
If you believe that God exists, but you live as though he doesn’t, God says you are a fool.
What does it mean to be rich toward God? Is your life centered on God.
There’s something worse than not getting what you desire, its getting what you desire only to discover it’s not what you really wanted after all.
Answers to Sermon Notes
Covetousness is craving more of what you have enough of already.
III. He Was wealthy
We are still measuring people by what they have rather than by what they are.
Money has a way of binding us to what is physical and temporal, and blinding us to what is spiritual and eternal.
IV. he was industrious.
The Bible commends hard work, but you can work hard and never ask what am I really working for.
III. he was progressive
Progress is not often made in people; it's made in property (things).
He had prepared for all the possibilities, in life and ignored life's only certainty.
If you believe that God exists, but you live as though he doesn’t, God says you are a fool.
A life rich toward God is a life centered on God?
There’s something worse than not getting what you desire, its getting what you desire only to discover it’s not what you really wanted after all.