I. EXORDIUM:
Are you rich in GOD's Presence?
II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:
Believers
III. OBJECTIVES:
To show that life is defined by riches in GOD's Presence not by riches. Be covetous of GOD's Presence.
IV. TEXT:
Luke 12:15 (Amplified Bible)
12:15 And He said to them, Guard yourselves and keep free from all covetousness (the immoderate desire for wealth, the greedy longing to have more); for a man’s life does not consist in and is not derived from possessing overflowing abundance or that which is over and above his needs.
V. THESIS:
Praise, worship and thank You very much LORD JESUS for our eternal life is defined by Your Presence in us, therefore we covet GOD's Presence in our lives.
VI. TITLE:
Riches are not your life
VII. EXPLICATION:
A. Author: Luke, the beloved physician
B. Date written: Before 70 A.D.
C. Purpose: To give a connected and orderly narrative of the life of Christ as seen by eye witnesses,—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines
D. To whom written: Addressed to Theophilus, an unknown person. —Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines
E. Main Theme: Jesus of Nazareth is the perfect Son of Man who came "to seek and to save that which was lost",—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines
F. Key words: Jesus the Son of Man.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines
G. Key verse: Luke 1:4 (Amplified Bible)
1:4 [My purpose is] that you may know the full truth and understand with certainty and security against error the accounts (histories) and doctrines of the faith of which you have been informed and in which you have been orally instructed.
VIII. MAIN BODY:
A. Beware of covetousness
"And He said to them, Guard yourselves and keep free from all covetousness (the immoderate desire for wealth, the greedy longing to have more);"
Take heed or "horao" in Greek means:
1. to stare at
2. to discern clearly (physically or mentally)
3. to attend to
4. to experience
5. to appear: - behold, perceive, see
Beware or "phulasso" in Greek means:
1. to watch
2. be on guard
3. to preserve, avoid, observe, save
Covetousness or "pleonexia" in Greek means:
1. avarice - an inordinate desire of gaining and possessing wealth; covetousness; greediness or insatiable desire of gain.
2. fraudulency, extortion, covetousness
3. practices, greediness
Webster's Dictionary:
Covetousness - a strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; usually in a bad sense, and applied to an inordinate desire of wealth.
Colossians 3:5 (Amplified Bible)
3:5 So kill (deaden, deprive of power) the evil desire lurking in your members [those animal impulses and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin]: sexual vice, impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, and all greed and covetousness, for that is idolatry (the deifying of self and other created things instead of God).
1 Timothy 6:7-10 (Amplified Bible)
6:7 For we brought nothing into the world, and obviously we cannot take anything out of the world;
6:8 But if we have food and clothing, with these we shall be content (satisfied).
6:9 But those who crave to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish (useless, godless) and hurtful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction and miserable perishing.
6:10 For the love of money is a root of all evils; it is through this craving that some have been led astray and have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves through with many acute [mental] pangs.
2 Timothy 3:2 (Amplified Bible)
3:2 For people will be lovers of self and [utterly] self-centered, lovers of money and aroused by an inordinate [greedy] desire for wealth, proud and arrogant and contemptuous boasters. They will be abusive (blasphemous, scoffing), disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane.
Hebrews 13:5 (Amplified Bible)
13:5 Let your character or moral disposition be free from love of money [including greed, avarice, lust, and craving for earthly possessions] and be satisfied with your present [circumstances and with what you have]; for He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down (relax My hold on you)! [Assuredly not!]
2 Peter 2:3 (Amplified Bible)
2:3 And in their covetousness (lust, greed) they will exploit you with false (cunning) arguments. From of old the sentence [of condemnation] for them has not been idle; their destruction (eternal misery) has not been asleep.
2 Peter 2:14 (Amplified Bible)
2:14 They have eyes full of harlotry, insatiable for sin. They beguile and bait and lure away unstable souls. Their hearts are trained in covetousness (lust, greed), [they are] children of a curse [exposed to cursing]!
Illustration:
It is difficult to save money when your neighbours keep buying things you can't afford.
You can't sell the cow and have the milk too.
He that serves God for money will serve the devil for more of the same.
—Great Thoughts
B. Life is not defined by riches
"for a man’s life does not consist in and is not derived from possessing overflowing abundance or that which is over and above his needs"
Abundance or "perisseuo" in Greek means:
1. superabound
2. be in excess
3. be superfluous
4. to cause to superabound or excel
5. be the better, enough and to spare, exceed, excel, increase, be left, redound, remain
GOD has designed us to super abound in everything because He wants us to be channels of blessings. GOD defines our life by being rich in His Presence. We are defined by JESUS in our life.
Romans 15:27 (Amplified Bible)
15:27 They were pleased to do it; and surely they are in debt to them, for if these Gentiles have come to share in their [the Jerusalem Jews’] spiritual blessings, then they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.
Psalms 37:16 (Amplified Bible)
37:16 Better is the little that the [uncompromisingly] righteous have than the abundance [of possessions] of many who are wrong and wicked.
Proverbs 15:16 (Amplified Bible)
15:16 Better is little with the reverent, worshipful fear of the Lord than great and rich treasure and trouble with it.
Proverbs 16:16 (Amplified Bible)
16:16 How much better it is to get skillful and godly Wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Matthew 6:25-26 (Amplified Bible)
6:25 Therefore I tell you, stop being perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life greater [in quality] than food, and the body [far above and more excellent] than clothing?
6:26 Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they?
1 Timothy 6:6-8 (Amplified Bible)
6:6 [And it is, indeed, a source of immense profit, for] godliness accompanied with contentment (that contentment which is a sense of inward sufficiency) is great and abundant gain.
6:7 For we brought nothing into the world, and obviously we cannot take anything out of the world;
6:8 But if we have food and clothing, with these we shall be content (satisfied).
If you are rich in this world, but not rich toward GOD then that's more tragic than death.
James 5:1-6 (Amplified Bible)
5:1 COME NOW, you rich [people], weep aloud and lament over the miseries (the woes) that are surely coming upon you.
5:2 Your abundant wealth has rotted and is ruined, and your [many] garments have become moth-eaten.
5:3 Your gold and silver are completely rusted through, and their rust will be testimony against you and it will devour your flesh as if it were fire. You have heaped together treasure for the last days.
5:4 [But] look! [Here are] the wages that you have withheld by fraud from the laborers who have reaped your fields, crying out [for vengeance]; and the cries of the harvesters have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts.
5:5 [Here] on earth you have abandoned yourselves to soft (prodigal) living and to [the pleasures of] self-indulgence and self-gratification. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
5:6 You have condemned and have murdered the righteous (innocent man), [while] he offers no resistance to you.
IX. CONCLUSION:
The Blessing of the LORD makes us rich in this world. The LORD JESUS CHRIST is both the Blessor and the Blessing of the LORD. Don't be condemned with self-pity if you're not rich in this world because your riches does not dictate your life and riches does not define who you are.
Galatians 3:11 (Amplified Bible)
3:11 Now it is evident that no person is justified (declared righteous and brought into right standing with God) through the Law, for the Scripture says, The man in right standing with God [the just, the righteous] shall live by and out of faith and he who through and by faith is declared righteous and in right standing with God shall live.
2 Corinthians 5:7 (Amplified Bible)
5:7 For we walk by faith [we regulate our lives and conduct ourselves by our conviction or belief respecting man’s relationship to God and divine things, with trust and holy fervor; thus we walk] not by sight or appearance.
Psalms 37:4 (Amplified Bible)
37:4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart.
Praise, worship and thank You very much LORD JESUS for our eternal life is defined by Your Presence in us, therefore we covet GOD's Presence in our lives.
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