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A good week.

We got some good rain in my house yesterday.

I don't know if y'all got some or not, but we we did get some rain in our house yesterday.

We need some more and it looks like we may be able to get some in the coming weeks.

Well today.

I want to do a sermon.

We're not going to start a series right now, maybe in the next few weeks.

I'll look about that.

But I want to do a sermon today.

I've actually preached this before.

and I usually, I never go back.

And look through the notes that I wrote, when I preached it before because I want new stuff.

I want it to be fresh.

So I never go back and, and really look, I may use some of the same points, but I tried to look at it from a different angle.

So today I want us to think about in the title of this sermon is the danger of an unfocused life danger of an unfocused life.

Now, many of you know what it's like, To lose your focus.

Don't you never lost your focus at work and then you boss.

Come on out.

What in the world you do and you doing this?

You for you, not even thinking about what you're doing, you know, it's easy to lose focus and I know we have a couple of teachers in here and I bet you can say, you know what it's like when you were students lose focus, they just lose focus and they start thinking about other things and they write down these crazy answers to these questions.

It's because they have lost Focus.

Well, it's easy for us.

To lose focus in the Christian Life.

It is very easy to lose focus in the start living.

For ourselves.

And not God and that is so easy to do.

Well, Jesus.

He told a a story.

He was, he was teaching about attitudes and all of a sudden this man jumped up and he just hollered out to Jesus and ask him a question.

And Jesus answered him like he does like many times by telling a story because he knew what was in this young man's heart.

You see? Jesus was grade at Payne word, pictures, and the exciting thing about it is these word pictures always had a significant purpose for the people.

So he created stories, I guess to articulate Timeless truths that would really leave an impact on the listeners.

So what I want you to do today is I want you to turn to Luke chapter 12. Luke chapter 12.

And this is in your, on the back side of your bulletin, as well, Luke chapter 12, and I'm going to read this story.

It's only we going to start in verses 13 and 13 will go down to verse 21.

And this is what the Bible says.

Then one from the crowd said to him.

Teacher tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.

Now.

Jesus was teaching.

He was talkin about attitudes and all and all of a sudden this guy pipes up.

He says teacher Tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.

But he said to him, speaking of Jesus.

Man.

Make me a judge or arbitrator over you.

Couldn't you just hear him saying that man?

What are you doing?

Asking me that who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?

And then Jesus said to him.

Take heed and beware of covetousness for one's life.

Does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses and I want you to notice something here.

This man told asked Jesus question and he says, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me and Jesus didn't even answer his question.

But what Jesus did is he pronounce judgment on him when he said take heed, and beware of come to this, when one's life does not consist of the things that he possesses.

The how could Jesus say that?

Because Jesus knows our hearts.

And when we ask something and say, say he knows what our motives are and he knew what the motive of this man was.

This man's motive was not.

Will give me the inheritance so I can give some back to the Lord.

No, hit hit his motive was.

I want what's mine.

Now?

When you look at that you saying well, there's nothing really wrong with that.

You know, if he's got an inheritance coming to him.

He should get it.

That's true.

But for this man to say divide the inheritance, tell my brother to divide the inheritance, that means that a couple of things happened.

Number one, their daddy.

So his father just passed away number to yet older brother because he told Jesus to tell his brother, which would have been older because he was the one did he and Out The Inheritance?

So he had an older brother, but he didn't come to Jesus say, Lord.

Help me to mourn.

Lord, teach me how to grieve my father, just passed away.

What he said was, Lord my brother to give me my inheritance.

He was concerned with nothing but money.

And he wanted it for himself.

And so, Jesus exposed his heart.

He didn't answer his question at all.

He just said, Beware of covetousness cuz I know your heart.

And I know why you're not concerned about your dad.

You don't want to grieve him.

You don't want to make a man's where you brought.

You just want, what's yours?

All right, vs. 16.

Did he smoke a bowl to them saying?

All right, so he's going to tell a story and he's talkin to all of them but specifically to this man.

So here's the here's the story.

The Ground of a certain rich man.

He'll did Planet flea 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 they're our store all the crops and my goods.

And I will say to my soul.

So you have many Goods laid up from many years, take your ease eat drink and be merry.

But God, there's another one of these but God's again, but God said to him fool.

You fool this night.

Your soul will be required of you.

Then.

Whose will those things be with you have provided?

And then he gives this summary statement.

So is he who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.

This farmer, and this young man whose father had died.