Today, on renewing your mind,

Arsix Bro. preaches from the Gospel of Luke.

A Christian is a generous person.

How can a Christian not be a generous person?

For every Christian lives and moves and has is or are being only by the generosity of Almighty God?

What do you have that you haven't received from God?

In the parable of the rich fool, Jesus reveals the heart of a man whose treasure is in the wrong place.

He builds for himself and keeps it for himself.

It's a hard look at the potential we all have to value our possessions and comfort more than God himself.

Here's Dr. Sprole.

Well, we're going to continue this morning with our study of the Gospel according to St. Luke.

We're in the 12th chapter and for those of you who are not inclined to give to the stewardship campaign,

you may want to leave because I didn't plan it this way, but in the province of God,

Luke happens to be giving us Lord's instruction about matters that relate to these sort of things.

But in any case, I'll be reading from chapter 12 beginning at verse 13 and reading through verse 21.

Then one from the crowd said to him,

and he said to him,

the one's life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses. Then he spoke a parable to them, saying,

the ground of a certain rich man yielded plinifully.

And he thought within himself, saying, what shall I do since I have no room to store my crops?

So he said, I will do this.

I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods.

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