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MISTAKES OF A SUCCESFUL BUSINESS MAN LUKE 12:16-21

MISTAKES OF A SUCCESFUL BUSINESS MAN LUKE 12:16-21. “It is better to make a life than a living,” Wm. E. Russell (former of Governor of Massachusetts.). This was also Jesus’ philosophy.

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MISTAKES OF A SUCCESFUL BUSINESS MAN LUKE 12:16-21

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  1. MISTAKES OF A SUCCESFUL BUSINESS MAN LUKE 12:16-21

  2. “It is better to make a life than a living,” Wm. E. Russell (former of Governor of Massachusetts.) This was also Jesus’ philosophy. Matthew 6:19-21, 24-26 "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?

  3. Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Luke 12:16-21And He said to them, "Take heed and beware of covetousness, for 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 plentifully. 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. `And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.'' ' But God said to him, `You fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?' So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.''

  4. The Qualities Of This Businessman He was rich, Luke 12:16. Riches can be used for good. Joseph of Arimathea asked for the body of Jesus and put it in his own tomb, Matthew 27:57 The early Christians were selling their possessions and laying the money at the feet of the apostles. Paul does give a warning.

  5. I Timothy 6:9-10 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. It’s the love of money that’s wrong. He made it honestly. He was successful. As far we know he was a good moral man. Yet God called him a “FOOL”

  6. The Mistakes Of This Business Man He was selfish. Look at all the personal pronouns used in 3 verses. My barns My crops My goods My soul Six times he used the word “I”. He never thought of others. Galatians 6:10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

  7. Philippians 2:3 Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves. Mr. Heinz’s motto: God first Others second Pickles last Someone has said there will be 3 questions asked concerning this Did you make all you could? How did you make it? How did you use what you made? THIS IS WHERE THIS MAN FELL SHORT! He thought his soul could be satisfied by material things. “Eat, drink, and be merry”

  8. The material things will perish. I John 2:15-17 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever. II Corinthians 4:16-18Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

  9. How should we live? Matthew 4:4 It is written, `Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.' John 6:27 "Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.'' Colossians 3:1-2 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.

  10. He thought he had a lease on life. Ecclesiastes 9:5 For the living know that they will die. Job 14:1-2 Man who is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. He comes forth like a flower and fades away; he flees like a shadow and does not continue. I Peter 1:24 "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,” Hebrews 9:27 And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes the judgment.

  11. James 4:13-16 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit''; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.'' But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. He left God out of his life. Without God there is no Christ. Without Christ there is no Savior. Without a Savior there is no hope.

  12. This man provided for himself ample goods for this life. He made no such provisions for the life to come. WHAT ABOUT YOU?

  13. Given by David Hamlin on 8-23-09 pm Hollister, Missouri church of Christwww.hollisterchurchofchrist.org

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