Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

One day, Jesus is preaching a public sermon about trusting God and not man about God's provision

when he gets heckled by a man in the audience who appears to have totally missed the point. He asked Jesus to settle a family financial dispute and Jesus is like, that's not really what I'm here for, but since you brought it up, you need to check yourself because it sounds like you might be putting your hopes in money and that doesn't go well in the long run. This question serves as the launching pad for the parable of the rich fool. It's about a man

who has built new barns to hold all his wealth, and he preaches the false gospel to himself being

comforted by all his worldly possessions. Wealth and possessions are blessings, but they have to be viewed

rightly. In light of eternity, his possessions are worthless and his perspective is wicked,

because putting your hope in financial security is the anti-gospel.

Jesus continues by saying the man will die that night, and all the things he's stored up will be divided among other people.

He stored up treasure on earth, but he did not store up God.

He points out that death can come at any moment, and for those of us born post-resurrection,

he says to be mindful of the fact that we have no idea when he's going to return.

So he says to be prepared for that.

Preparation can only mean one thing.

Do we know him or not?

This is all about relationship.

That's the only kind of preparation possible or necessary.

It lays the foundation for everything that happens from that moment on.

Daniel 12 and Malachi 4 tell us about the two possible outcomes based on knowing God or not knowing God.

After he says these things, Peter's like, hey, that doomsday prep stuff?

Was that for everyone to hear or just for us?

Peter's starting to understand that

sometimes Jesus speaks differently to his kids than to outsiders. Jesus gives them the same info again,

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