Luke 12:13-21 · The Parable of the Rich Fool
Everything Must Go: If I Were a Rich Man
Luke 12:13-21
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by James Merritt
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If I had announced ahead of time that today I wanted to give a message only to people who were rich you realize that this room would be mostly, if not totally, empty. Most of you, if not all of you, wouldn’t show up for two reasons. First of all, most of you do not think of yourselves as being rich. If you heard that announcement, your first response would be, “We aren’t rich so we will sleep in.”

You are actually the second reason why nobody would come, because what you would do is say, “We don’t need to hear the message, but let’s drive up there to see who does show up.” So those people who think they are rich wouldn’t come, because they don’t want others to think that they are rich and the they don’t want others to think that they think they are rich.

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