the final point in verse 21.

So is the man who lays up treasure for himself, he's a fool, he's mindless because he hasn't

given consideration to God and he's going to face God and he could have purchased souls

for eternity as chapter 16 will point out and he has no thought for his mortality and

here he's dead.

Before he could ever realize any of his greedy plans, he was done.

Welcome to Grace To You with John MacArthur, I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

On a gravestone it's been understood that the dash between the birth date and the death

date represents that person's life.

Everything he or she ever did summed up in a small line.

For those of us who don't have the second date chiseled into the stone yet, our line

is incomplete, but that leads to an important question, how should you plan?

How should you conduct your life now knowing that your death date is coming?

Consider that today on Grace To You as John MacArthur continues his study, stories with

purpose, with a look at a successful man and his date with death.

Here now is John MacArthur with the parable of the rich fool.

Luke chapter 12 verses 13 through 21, let me read this text to you, and someone in the

crowd said to him, Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.

But he said to him, Man, who appointed me a judge or arbiter over you?

And he said to them, Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed.

For not even when one has an abundance, does his life consist of his possessions.

And he told them a parable saying, The land of a certain rich man was very productive.

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