The Parable of the Rich Fool | The Stories that Shape Us

``You know, this is the cure for greed. The cure for greed is giving and generosity. Giving and generosity, what it does is it it breaks the stranglehold of greed on our hearts. It it releases us from the prison and the entrapment of materialism. So God's cure for greed is generosity, and generous giving is going to be what frees us from the grip that greed has on our hearts. Use your money to do good, being generous and ready to share. And and and then this, place your hope in God, use your money to do good, and then invest in things that are on God's heart. Invest in things that will outlast you, and then you'll take hold, the scripture tells us, then you'll take hold of the life that really is life, the life that is life indeed. [01:06:18] (49 seconds)

Reject the lie that's at the root of greed. It's easy to say don't be greedy, but there's a lie that many people have embraced at the root of greed, and as long as they're believing that lie, it's gonna be very hard for them not to be greedy. There's a hunger in our hearts that makes us vulnerable to deception. We wanna be happy, of course, we wanna feel secure, we wanna be significant, we wanna be content, but these natural desires can lead us to embrace a false message, and here's the lie. The lie is your life consists in the abundance of your possessions. Jesus said that in our passage. Right? He says, take care, be on your guard against all kinds of greed for one's life does not consist in the abundance of possessions. [00:51:10] (46 seconds)

As for those who in the present age are rich, every person wasn't told to divest all their wealth. But as for those who in the present age are rich, command them not to be haughty. That means not to be proud or arrogant or or or and command them not to be haughty or to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but rather on God. The God who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. A God of grace and blessing and generosity. And verse 18, they are to do good, to be rich in good works, generous and ready to share, thus storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future so that they may take hold of the life that really is life. [01:03:30] (46 seconds)

The land of a rich man produced abundantly and he thought to himself, what should I do for I have no place to store my crops? And then he said, I will do this. I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all of my grain and my goods. And then I will say to my soul, soul, you I don't know, you talk to yourself this way? I will say to my soul, soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years. Relax, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said to him, you fool. You fool. This very night, your life is being demanded of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be? And then Jesus says, so it will be with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God. [00:55:03] (53 seconds)