Welcome to Tim Minut Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon.

And I'm Patrick Miller. Right now we're learning how to follow Jesus

by working our way through the Gospel of Luke. Jesus talked about money in a way

that would make most of us feel uncomfortable if a

pastor at the church we attended talked like Jesus did. I know as a pastor I

can't talk on money as often as Jesus did or say the things he did.

I mean, it's not that someone's telling me I can't do it.

It's just that I'm afraid that people would think I had some sort of ulterior motive.

Jesus spoke about money a lot.

Depending on how he counted, about 15% of his teaching was about money.

That would be about eight sermons every year.

He spoke more about money than heaven and hell combined. And unlike us, when he spoke about money, he was not timid. He didn't pull any punches. He wasn't afraid of challenging his listeners.

Jesus says things about money especially in the gospel of Luke.

He says things like, Blessed are the poor, for yours is the kingdom of heaven, but

woe to the rich, for they have already received their comfort.

Or he says, whoever does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. That's just some of the

hard and difficult teaching about money that Jesus says in the Gospel of Luke.

Well in this episode we're going to look at Luke chapter 12 in this parable he told about a rich fool.

And the setting is that there are some brothers who are having a dispute about an inheritance.

And they try to get Jesus to be the judge in their dispute.

And he refuses. He doesn't want to take sides but instead he says

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