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Luke 12:13-21
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13Someone in the crowd said
to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
14Jesus replied, “Man, who
appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?”
15Then he said to them,
“Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist
in an abundance of possessions.”
16And he told them this
parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest.
17He 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 my surplus grain.
19And I’ll say to myself,
“You have plenty of grain 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 whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”
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1)
According to
verses 13 and 14 what did Jesus say to respond to a man who asked him to tell his
brother to divide the inheritance with him?
o
Jesus asked the
rhetorical question who appointed him a judge or an arbiter between them.
2)
What did Jesus
further say in verse 15 to follow up his rhetorical question?
o
Watch out!
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Be on your guard
against all kinds of greed.
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Life does not
consist in an abundance of possessions.
3)
According to what
Jesus said in verses 16 and 17 what conundrum does the rich man in the parable
face when his ground yielded an abundant harvest?
o
He
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Has no place to
store his crops.
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And wonders what
he should do.
4)
According to what
Jesus said in verse 18 what plan does the rich man hatch for solving his
conundrum?
o
He will
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Tear down his
barns.
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Build bigger ones.
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And there store his
surplus grain.
5)
According to what
Jesus said in verse 19 what future does the rich man conjure up for himself
since he has plenty of grain laid up for
many years?
o
Take life easy.
o
Eat.
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Drink.
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And be merry.
6)
According to what
Jesus said in verse 20 how will God deal
with the rich fool that very night?
o
That very night his
life will be demanded from him.
o
Then who will get
what he has prepared for himself?
7)
According to what
Jesus said in verse 21 what is the way God deals with the rich fool typical of?
o
It is typical of how
God deals with whoever
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Stores up things
for themselves.
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But is not rich
toward God.
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Luke 12:13-21
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