WEBVTT - This file was automatically generated by VIMEO 0 00:00:08.600 --> 00:00:11.400 Years ago I saw an episode of Dr. 1 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:11.800 Phil. 2 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:17.200 There's more the story. It was about this 3 00:00:16.200 --> 00:00:19.100 old older lady 4 00:00:19.100 --> 00:00:22.400 maybe in her 60s who had this 5 00:00:22.400 --> 00:00:24.400 shopping addiction. 6 00:00:25.300 --> 00:00:28.200 She couldn't stop buying stuff. 7 00:00:29.200 --> 00:00:32.200 and what she bought was almost irrelevant she would just buy stuff 8 00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:35.100 from the $2 shop or online or wherever she 9 00:00:35.100 --> 00:00:35.200 could. 10 00:00:36.400 --> 00:00:39.300 access products. She was constantly buying 11 00:00:39.300 --> 00:00:42.400 and she had got to the point where she had literally completely filled her 12 00:00:42.400 --> 00:00:42.500 house. 13 00:00:43.400 --> 00:00:46.300 with things to the point where there was 14 00:00:46.300 --> 00:00:49.400 lots of rooms you couldn't even get into though these little channels 15 00:00:49.400 --> 00:00:53.100 through her house that you would you would walk through to 16 00:00:52.100 --> 00:00:55.000 be able to get to one spot to the other and only a few 17 00:00:55.700 --> 00:00:58.500 chairs and a bed were left empty. You 18 00:00:58.500 --> 00:01:01.400 know, her garage was filled her car was filled and had 19 00:01:01.400 --> 00:01:05.500 got to the point where she'd started storing stuff at her elderly mother's 20 00:01:04.500 --> 00:01:08.000 house who was in her 80s. She 21 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:10.300 had filled her house with stuff too and her 22 00:01:10.300 --> 00:01:13.400 car with stuff too. And this was the first time 23 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:16.700 I ever kind of come across this phenomenon of 24 00:01:16.700 --> 00:01:20.000 hoarding. I'd never heard of this idea before 25 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:22.500 but there are 26 00:01:22.500 --> 00:01:25.100 these people this this kind of 27 00:01:25.100 --> 00:01:28.400 global phenomenon of people who 28 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:29.900 just collect stuff. 29 00:01:30.800 --> 00:01:33.500 Things possessions sometimes possessions 30 00:01:33.500 --> 00:01:36.700 that have no worth at all like a stack of newspapers from 31 00:01:36.700 --> 00:01:39.500 the last 50 Years or or you know things which 32 00:01:39.500 --> 00:01:43.300 the rest of the world would literally think of as rubbish but there's 33 00:01:42.300 --> 00:01:45.200 this need this desire to hold on 34 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:45.400 to them. 35 00:01:46.900 --> 00:01:49.800 And it's interesting that this I think 36 00:01:49.800 --> 00:01:52.300 is most likely a pretty 37 00:01:52.300 --> 00:01:55.300 modern phenomenon. You know, this is probably a problem that really has only 38 00:01:55.300 --> 00:01:58.300 come about say in the last 50 to 100 years as we live in 39 00:01:58.300 --> 00:02:02.200 a world where we just have so much stuff -so 40 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:04.900 many things I look 41 00:02:04.900 --> 00:02:07.300 at my kids today and I look at 42 00:02:07.300 --> 00:02:10.100 all of the things that my two little boys have all of 43 00:02:10.100 --> 00:02:13.300 the toys all of the gadgets all of the stuff that they 44 00:02:13.300 --> 00:02:17.400 get and I think to myself. Oh my goodness. They have so much 45 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:19.700 stuff. It's completely out 46 00:02:19.700 --> 00:02:20.100 of control. 47 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:24.100 Of course, my parents probably looked at me when I was 48 00:02:24.100 --> 00:02:27.700 a child and said to themselves "Wow, he has 49 00:02:27.700 --> 00:02:30.400 so much stuff. I can't believe how much 50 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:33.100 he has compared to me when I 51 00:02:33.100 --> 00:02:36.200 was a child" and their parents would have looked at them and thought 52 00:02:36.200 --> 00:02:39.100 to themselves "these guys have so much stuff". You know, 53 00:02:39.100 --> 00:02:42.400 it's this it's just generational thing particularly in 54 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:45.500 this modern world where we live where every generation 55 00:02:45.500 --> 00:02:49.000 seems to have even more than the last and 56 00:02:48.600 --> 00:02:51.500 products and having possessions is cheap 57 00:02:51.500 --> 00:02:54.400 and easy and yet 58 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:58.000 it is an ongoing problem for 59 00:02:57.100 --> 00:03:00.200 who we are and as we 60 00:03:00.200 --> 00:03:03.200 saw in the reading today, it's a problem that has been 61 00:03:03.200 --> 00:03:06.100 hanging around for Humanity for a long 62 00:03:06.100 --> 00:03:06.500 long time. 63 00:03:07.500 --> 00:03:12.500 America as an example of overabundance consists 64 00:03:11.500 --> 00:03:14.800 of roughly 5% or 65 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:16.700 less than 5% of the global population. 66 00:03:17.600 --> 00:03:20.300 So, you know all the Americans in the world is about 67 00:03:20.300 --> 00:03:25.100 5% of the global population, yet they consume 25% 68 00:03:23.100 --> 00:03:27.200 of its products. They 69 00:03:26.200 --> 00:03:29.900 produce 25% of 70 00:03:29.900 --> 00:03:32.700 its CO2 emission and 71 00:03:32.700 --> 00:03:35.600 they produce 30% of 72 00:03:35.600 --> 00:03:38.000 its global waste, you know, 73 00:03:38.100 --> 00:03:41.300 one American has the 74 00:03:41.300 --> 00:03:45.700 same impact or you know, footprint as 75 00:03:44.700 --> 00:03:48.900 250 sub-Saharan 76 00:03:47.900 --> 00:03:50.900 Africans - so much 77 00:03:50.900 --> 00:03:54.600 has our society come to a point of overabundance particularly 78 00:03:53.600 --> 00:03:56.700 for the wealthy Nations that one 79 00:03:56.700 --> 00:03:59.400 person can consume and produce enough the same 80 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:02.500 amount of waste as 250 other humans from 81 00:04:02.500 --> 00:04:03.200 another part of the world. 82 00:04:04.300 --> 00:04:07.700 We live in a time and space when materialism is completely out 83 00:04:07.700 --> 00:04:11.000 of control in our world and the 84 00:04:10.300 --> 00:04:13.600 story that we read today rings very 85 00:04:13.600 --> 00:04:15.100 true of the world in which we live. 86 00:04:15.700 --> 00:04:18.600 A man comes to Jesus while Jesus 87 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:21.400 is teaching. He's teaching the words 88 00:04:21.400 --> 00:04:24.500 of eternal life. He is teaching people how it 89 00:04:24.500 --> 00:04:28.300 is. They are to come and know the 90 00:04:28.300 --> 00:04:31.600 kingdom and see in their own lives and he interrupts Jesus 91 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:34.600 in his teaching and gets him 92 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:36.100 or wants him to 93 00:04:37.500 --> 00:04:40.600 Be a judge between him and his brother who are 94 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:42.100 fighting over an inheritance. 95 00:04:44.100 --> 00:04:47.100 He comes up to Jesus and says, you know, give get him to give 96 00:04:47.100 --> 00:04:50.800 me my half of the inheritance, you know, this Injustice of 97 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:54.300 his brother keeping this inheritance from him has brought 98 00:04:53.300 --> 00:04:56.200 him to the point where he comes and interrupts Jesus 99 00:04:56.200 --> 00:05:00.300 in his teaching to get him to to make 100 00:04:59.300 --> 00:05:01.200 his brother see straight. 101 00:05:04.200 --> 00:05:07.100 Because what he wants is he wants his his fair share. He wants to 102 00:05:07.100 --> 00:05:10.600 get his possessions. He wants to get his retirement plan or 103 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:14.300 whatever it is that I might look like and let's 104 00:05:13.300 --> 00:05:16.100 say Jesus isn't all that 105 00:05:16.100 --> 00:05:19.000 particularly interested in helping him out in this. Have a look. If you've got 106 00:05:19.100 --> 00:05:22.800 your Bible open there at verses 14 and 15 107 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:25.400 where Jesus says: "Man who 108 00:05:25.400 --> 00:05:29.300 appointed me a judge or an arbitor between you?" Watch 109 00:05:28.300 --> 00:05:31.600 out be on guard against all kinds of greed. 110 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:34.300 a man's life does not consist of the 111 00:05:34.300 --> 00:05:36.100 abundance of his possessions. 112 00:05:37.900 --> 00:05:41.000 And after this Jesus tells this story 113 00:05:40.500 --> 00:05:43.300 about a rich fool. 114 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:46.300 Of course, he tells the story about a rich 115 00:05:46.300 --> 00:05:49.800 fool to a rich full. Well, maybe 116 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:52.300 he's not rich yet, but he's hoping 117 00:05:52.300 --> 00:05:56.200 to become a rich fool. There's this reality 118 00:05:55.200 --> 00:05:58.300 there the story that Jesus tells is 119 00:05:58.300 --> 00:06:01.200 mirroring or reflecting the person for whom 120 00:06:01.200 --> 00:06:02.400 is asking him this question. 121 00:06:03.300 --> 00:06:06.600 And he goes on to tell this story about a farmer 122 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:09.500 a farmer who has a good crop a great crop a 123 00:06:09.500 --> 00:06:12.300 bumper crop. Right? And if there's any farmers watching 124 00:06:12.300 --> 00:06:15.200 this perhaps, you know more about that than I do 125 00:06:15.200 --> 00:06:18.100 and this crop is so good and so bountiful that he 126 00:06:18.100 --> 00:06:21.500 can't fit it all in his barns. He knows 127 00:06:21.500 --> 00:06:24.400 that if he can store all of this well that he 128 00:06:24.400 --> 00:06:27.600 will be set up for life. So he builds, knocks down 129 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:30.500 his barns and he builds bigger barns and he saws his huge 130 00:06:30.500 --> 00:06:33.300 bumper crop that he has created and 131 00:06:33.300 --> 00:06:36.300 put together and he rests and puts his feet 132 00:06:36.300 --> 00:06:39.300 up and knows that he's done. All he needs to do to be 133 00:06:39.300 --> 00:06:41.600 prepared for retirement for the rest of his life. 134 00:06:43.400 --> 00:06:46.400 Now this guy he he got 135 00:06:46.400 --> 00:06:49.800 this crop not through ill-gotten means 136 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:52.300 not through stealing or taking something 137 00:06:52.300 --> 00:06:55.500 that wasn't his not through, you 138 00:06:55.500 --> 00:06:58.300 know, abusing his workers or mistreating people around him. 139 00:06:58.300 --> 00:07:01.600 It seems in the story that he got this bumper crop 140 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:04.400 through hard work, right? He got this bumper crop 141 00:07:04.400 --> 00:07:07.500 through hard work and and luck and 142 00:07:07.500 --> 00:07:10.500 good timing and you know having the right crop in 143 00:07:10.500 --> 00:07:13.200 the right field and having the right weather conditions or whatever. It 144 00:07:13.200 --> 00:07:16.600 was that made this this crop possible and 145 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:19.200 this money that he has 146 00:07:19.200 --> 00:07:22.200 earned isn't from being any doing something 147 00:07:22.200 --> 00:07:25.400 bad or being terrible to people. 148 00:07:25.400 --> 00:07:29.000 It seems to have come from the hard 149 00:07:28.100 --> 00:07:31.500 work of his own hands. 150 00:07:31.500 --> 00:07:34.800 So I guess what is it about him that makes 151 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:37.400 him a fool? It seems like he's wise when 152 00:07:37.400 --> 00:07:40.500 he gets this big crop. He doesn't like spend it. 153 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:44.100 Or throw parties or you know, it's not like the 154 00:07:44.100 --> 00:07:47.200 prodigal son and goes and waste it all in fact, you kind of does something wise with 155 00:07:47.200 --> 00:07:50.900 it doesn't he? He puts it away. He stores it he prepares 156 00:07:50.900 --> 00:07:53.400 what he has now for the 157 00:07:53.400 --> 00:07:56.600 future so that he will always have something available like that seems 158 00:07:56.600 --> 00:08:00.500 like a wise thing to do and yet he's called a 159 00:07:59.500 --> 00:08:00.900 fool. 160 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:04.200 Let's have a look verses 20 and 21. You've got it open 161 00:08:04.200 --> 00:08:04.300 there. 162 00:08:06.200 --> 00:08:07.400 So after he has 163 00:08:08.700 --> 00:08:10.800 torn down his stores built new ones 164 00:08:12.100 --> 00:08:15.500 And says I'm going to eat drink and be merry. Jesus 165 00:08:15.500 --> 00:08:18.800 God speaks to him and says verse 20. God says 166 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:21.500 to him: "You fool!. This very night you 167 00:08:21.500 --> 00:08:24.200 this very night your life will be 168 00:08:24.200 --> 00:08:24.800 demanded from you." 169 00:08:26.200 --> 00:08:28.300 "Then who will get what you've prepared for yourself? 170 00:08:29.200 --> 00:08:32.900 This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself, but 171 00:08:32.900 --> 00:08:35.100 is not rich towards God. 172 00:08:36.900 --> 00:08:40.200 This is the part where this man becomes 173 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:42.200 the fool. This is the part where 174 00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:45.300 the man does something foolish because from all 175 00:08:45.300 --> 00:08:46.700 he has stored and put away. 176 00:08:47.900 --> 00:08:49.500 He has prepared nothing 177 00:08:50.700 --> 00:08:52.300 for the next life 178 00:08:53.900 --> 00:08:56.000 he has put all of his energy and all of 179 00:08:56.100 --> 00:08:59.700 his eggs into the basket of the finite of 180 00:08:59.700 --> 00:09:02.800 the things that are here in this world, and he's prepared nothing for 181 00:09:02.800 --> 00:09:03.800 the world to come. 182 00:09:04.700 --> 00:09:08.100 He's prepared nothing for life after death. 183 00:09:09.400 --> 00:09:12.500 There is this great danger in this world isn't there in relying on 184 00:09:12.500 --> 00:09:16.000 the things of this world the finite things of this world because as Jesus 185 00:09:15.300 --> 00:09:18.300 tells us here in the Bible tells us in other parts, 186 00:09:18.300 --> 00:09:21.400 these are missed. They are here one 187 00:09:21.400 --> 00:09:23.400 moment and they are gone the next 188 00:09:24.300 --> 00:09:27.100 Yet today this is kind of how our world operates isn't that we're always 189 00:09:27.100 --> 00:09:30.200 thinking about retirement and having enough, you know, 190 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:33.200 super and having the house and having the deposit and having 191 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:36.300 like kind of stuff and when I have these things and then I'll be safe. If only 192 00:09:36.300 --> 00:09:39.400 I could pay down the mortgage. They'll be safe. If only I could pay off 193 00:09:39.400 --> 00:09:43.500 the farm, if I could pay off the business or 194 00:09:43.500 --> 00:09:46.100 whatever it is. Then I'd be financially secure and 195 00:09:46.100 --> 00:09:49.200 I wouldn't have to worry ever again. This is what we do 196 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:49.900 all the time. 197 00:09:50.700 --> 00:09:53.400 We fall into the same trap that this rich fool 198 00:09:53.400 --> 00:09:56.600 does. Yet Jesus says in this rich fool having 199 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:59.800 all of your energy and all 200 00:09:59.800 --> 00:10:01.600 of your security 201 00:10:02.700 --> 00:10:04.900 in the things of this world is foolishness. 202 00:10:06.400 --> 00:10:07.900 They can be taken at any moment. 203 00:10:09.100 --> 00:10:12.900 Famine, fire, drought, war, market crash, 204 00:10:12.900 --> 00:10:15.600 a loss of your own personal health 205 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:18.300 all of these things can be taken in an instant. 206 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:22.300 Because they are of this world. Jesus says that this is 207 00:10:22.300 --> 00:10:25.200 foolishness because the only security in this world, 208 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:28.900 the only true source of security is in the 209 00:10:28.900 --> 00:10:29.300 Lord. 210 00:10:29.900 --> 00:10:32.500 That is where security can 211 00:10:32.500 --> 00:10:35.900 be found not in the fragile things of this world and the 212 00:10:35.900 --> 00:10:38.900 finite things of this well, but in the infinite things of 213 00:10:38.900 --> 00:10:41.200 the world that is to come. The irony of 214 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:44.900 this story, of course is that the rich man in the story is 215 00:10:44.900 --> 00:10:47.500 actually someone who is concerned about preparing for 216 00:10:47.500 --> 00:10:50.600 the future, isn't it? He is concerned about preparing 217 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:53.100 he is concerned about putting away and storing it up. 218 00:10:53.100 --> 00:10:56.600 I'm not spending it all or living a lavish lifestyle, 219 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:59.800 but using it carefully. 220 00:11:00.700 --> 00:11:03.000 And yet in all his preparation, 221 00:11:04.200 --> 00:11:07.300 he forgot to prepare beyond his own 222 00:11:07.300 --> 00:11:10.800 funeral, you know, like he's retirement plan stopped 223 00:11:10.800 --> 00:11:13.800 there and the point that that God makes 224 00:11:13.800 --> 00:11:16.400 him that night is You full you thought you were 225 00:11:16.400 --> 00:11:19.600 prepared. But in reality you are 226 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:21.500 completely unprepared. 227 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:25.100 Because of all that you have in this world all of you stored and put 228 00:11:25.100 --> 00:11:28.100 away from yourself your your account your bank account 229 00:11:28.100 --> 00:11:31.500 with God is on zero because you 230 00:11:31.500 --> 00:11:34.300 spent no time or energy seeking me 231 00:11:34.300 --> 00:11:37.300 out in your life. You spent all your time in your energy seeking 232 00:11:37.300 --> 00:11:38.500 out the things of this world. 233 00:11:40.300 --> 00:11:43.000 And I wonder if as you are hearing this does that sound a little 234 00:11:43.100 --> 00:11:46.200 bit like you does that sound a little bit like your life like 235 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:49.900 you spend a lot of time and energy in the day-to-day 236 00:11:49.900 --> 00:11:52.700 in making ends meet in whatever 237 00:11:52.700 --> 00:11:55.300 it is paying off the house or the car or whatever. It 238 00:11:55.300 --> 00:11:59.000 might be and yet don't spend any 239 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:00.600 of that energy or that time. 240 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:04.500 on storing up Treasures in Heaven or 241 00:12:04.500 --> 00:12:07.500 strengthening your relationship with a 242 00:12:07.500 --> 00:12:10.000 God who loves you and who has called you to be his. 243 00:12:12.700 --> 00:12:15.100 There's a simple message from Jesus isn't there 244 00:12:15.100 --> 00:12:18.900 that a person's life does not consist of the abundance of 245 00:12:18.900 --> 00:12:21.300 their possessions that you know, there's that old saying 246 00:12:21.300 --> 00:12:24.500 whoever dies with the most toys wins. Well, Jesus 247 00:12:24.500 --> 00:12:27.700 is kind of saying no whoever dies with the most toys 248 00:12:27.700 --> 00:12:30.500 still dies. It doesn't matter how many 249 00:12:30.500 --> 00:12:33.200 toys you have because someone else will take them when 250 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:36.900 you're gone. Whoever dies with the best relationship 251 00:12:36.900 --> 00:12:39.400 with a God who loves them. That's the 252 00:12:39.400 --> 00:12:42.300 one who will win right? That's the one who will share 253 00:12:42.300 --> 00:12:44.400 in Jesus's victory with him. 254 00:12:46.300 --> 00:12:49.400 This Parable so mirrors the world in 255 00:12:49.400 --> 00:12:49.700 which we live. 256 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:54.000 So mirrors where we're at that 257 00:12:53.400 --> 00:12:56.700 many of us fall into this trap of 258 00:12:56.700 --> 00:12:59.400 being too consumed by the things 259 00:12:59.400 --> 00:13:02.200 of this world and the day-to-day to not worry about the things of 260 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:05.200 the future you see because this whole parable comes 261 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:08.000 about because this this man interrupts Jesus, you know, 262 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:11.300 Jesus he is he's giving the the words of eternal 263 00:13:11.300 --> 00:13:14.200 life, right? He is giving the The 264 00:13:14.200 --> 00:13:17.000 Living Water. He there amongst them 265 00:13:17.700 --> 00:13:19.200 is the Son of God the Messiah. 266 00:13:20.500 --> 00:13:21.300 telling them 267 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:24.500 how it is they might find eternity. 268 00:13:25.400 --> 00:13:28.300 Showing them how they might see the kingdom of God all 269 00:13:28.300 --> 00:13:28.800 around them. 270 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:31.800 And he interrupts Jesus in that. 271 00:13:33.300 --> 00:13:35.700 To talk to him about getting more stuff. 272 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:40.800 There's that that is the Crux of this whole story 273 00:13:40.800 --> 00:13:43.200 and yet how much do we do the same? 274 00:13:44.300 --> 00:13:46.700 How much in our lives do we kind of interrupt God? 275 00:13:47.400 --> 00:13:50.100 Do we push him to the side so that we 276 00:13:50.100 --> 00:13:53.500 might spend more time and energy and effort on finding the 277 00:13:53.500 --> 00:13:55.300 things of this world and searching those things out. 278 00:13:56.200 --> 00:13:59.200 When the reality is those things are here one moment and 279 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:02.400 go on the next yet. Our eternal life before him 280 00:14:02.400 --> 00:14:06.000 is of such greater value than anything 281 00:14:05.300 --> 00:14:08.000 we might find in this world. 282 00:14:08.900 --> 00:14:11.300 The Clutter that we hold on to in our 283 00:14:11.300 --> 00:14:14.800 lives can so easily choke at 284 00:14:14.800 --> 00:14:17.300 our spiritual life. It can drown out what is 285 00:14:17.300 --> 00:14:20.300 truly important. It can minimize the role of faith and 286 00:14:20.300 --> 00:14:23.200 the importance of our spiritual life in our 287 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:26.800 day to day so that we forget it all together and 288 00:14:26.800 --> 00:14:29.200 we fall into the same trap with this rich young 289 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:32.400 fool who would stop Jesus from talking about the 290 00:14:32.400 --> 00:14:35.800 words of eternal life so that he might get him to judge 291 00:14:35.800 --> 00:14:38.900 between him and his brother about who deserves to 292 00:14:38.900 --> 00:14:39.800 get more of what 293 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:44.500 I'm not going to say much more but to say that what this passage 294 00:14:44.500 --> 00:14:48.200 sets up is this great ideology - this 295 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:51.600 battle between these two ideologies - one ideology 296 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:53.300 is the eat drink and 297 00:14:53.300 --> 00:14:56.600 be merry and the other ideology is that we 298 00:14:56.600 --> 00:14:59.200 are not measured by 299 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:02.400 the abundance of our possessions and Jesus holds these two up 300 00:15:02.400 --> 00:15:05.700 and says, which camp are you in? Are you 301 00:15:05.700 --> 00:15:08.500 someone who lives their life by the "eat drink 302 00:15:08.500 --> 00:15:12.100 and be merry" ideology? Are you someone who recognizes 303 00:15:11.100 --> 00:15:13.900 that we are not? 304 00:15:14.800 --> 00:15:16.800 measured by the abundance of our possessions 305 00:15:18.900 --> 00:15:19.700 I'm going to pray. 306 00:15:20.500 --> 00:15:22.700 And then you can continue on your service. That's pray together. 307 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:27.700 Our dear Lord and Heavenly Father. We thank you for your work. We 308 00:15:27.700 --> 00:15:30.800 thank you for the way that your word 309 00:15:30.800 --> 00:15:33.500 opens our hearts and our minds to 310 00:15:33.500 --> 00:15:36.500 your message and your meaning and Lord. I just pray that what 311 00:15:36.500 --> 00:15:39.400 we've heard today Lord that that might filter from our heads into our hearts 312 00:15:39.400 --> 00:15:42.200 and we might live it out day to day Lord that we might not be 313 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:45.400 concerned of the things of this world, but focus our attention on 314 00:15:45.400 --> 00:15:45.800 what is to come 315 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:49.500 I know we're just thank you for this and right now in Jesus. Amen 316 00:15:49.500 --> 00:15:49.700