Defined by Christ
Our Daily Bread Podcast
Our Daily Bread Ministries
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
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| 0:00.8 | Life does not consist in an abundance of possessions. |
| 0:04.4 | Luke chapter 12 verse 15. |
| 0:09.1 | Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:12.7 | Defined by Christ was written and read by Sheridan Voisey. |
| 0:24.5 | Luke chapter 12 verses 13 to 21 someone in the crowd said to him teacher tell my brother to divide the |
| 0:30.2 | inheritance with me Jesus replied man who appointed me a judge or an |
| 0:35.9 | arbiter between you? |
| 0:37.9 | Then he said to them, watch out, be on your guard against all kinds of greed. |
| 0:42.9 | Life does not consist in an abundance of possessions. |
| 0:47.0 | And he told him this parable. |
| 0:48.9 | The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. |
| 0:53.0 | He thought to himself, What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops. Then he said, |
| 0:59.0 | This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. |
| 1:05.0 | And I'll say to myself, you have plenty of grain laid up for many years, take life easy, eat, drink, and be |
| 1:12.7 | merry. But God said to him, you fool, this very night your life will be demanded from you, |
| 1:20.3 | then who will get what you have prepared for yourself? This is how it will be with whoever |
| 1:25.6 | stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God. |
| 1:31.3 | Defined by Christ |
| 1:34.3 | Some years ago, artist Michael Landy counted up everything he owned, making a list of 7,227 possessions. |
| 1:43.3 | What he did next was eye-opening. Setting up a factory in London's busiest |
| 1:48.6 | shopping district, Landy publicly destroyed it all. Clothes, artwork, love letters, even his car, |
| 1:55.8 | were broken down, placed on a conveyor belt and fed into grinders. As consumers darted in and out of department |
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