ReCreate Church’s Podcast

Recreate Church, Pastor Michael Shockley—Service, Sunday, July 3, 2022

Who’s On The Throne?

Today, Pastor Michael is turning the reins over to Nick Dowdy.  Nick’s message is about "Who is sitting on the throne of your heart?”.  Does the Gospel you’ve chosen to believe put the Lord on the throne of your life or you on the throne?  

Today, Nick covers ideology and world view contribute to beliefs from childhood on.  At some point we make a decision on how religion fits or doesn’t fit into our worldview.  At some point you are making a decision on theology.  Theology can be Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, or other world religions and we make decisions, heavily influenced on what we grew up in.  Human nature choses things we are comfortable with, so this influences our theology and typically fits our core beliefs.  

When our ideology determine our theology, it corrupts our view on God. Another way to look at this is we shape God to fit in our box.  Christians these days seem to have a consumer mentality; picking which church we want to attend, typically a place we are comfortable in.  This is a double edged sword; we want to be loved and accepted (good) but we may not be at the right place to study the gospel (bad).

Is our worldview taking in the Scripture, entirely?   We have to guard that we are growing in Christ and that our worldview isn’t taking over our relationship with the Lord.  One cannot earn a spot at the Lord’s table; Jesus Christ has earned that spot for us.  

Jesus’ words should make us uncomfortable; we are called to security in our standing in the Lord but we are never called to comfort.  Comfort is the enemy of growth; we stop growing when we get comfortable.  So, are Jesus’ words challenging you?  They should!   

Verses can be found today in 2 Timothy 4: 3-4, Ephesians 2: 8-9 and 2: 11-14 and Matthew 10: 34-39 and Psalms 139: 23-24.

Recreate Church, Pastor Michael Shockley—Service, Sunday, June 26, 2022

More and More.

Today, Billy Huneycutt is filling in for Pastor Michael. More and more is a loose term that came from a bible study that Billy was in, in the past.  More and more may not always be good in human terms but in God’s terms it is!

 In human terms we can do vices ‘more and more’ yet when we trust in the Lord we receive his blessings, ‘more and more’.  We struggle with ‘our’ ways; we like ‘our’ ways.  But God has asked us to follow Him.  So, therein lies the struggle.

But even with sin, we cannot have so much sin that God cannot forgive.  Real freedom is in Christ as he does ‘more and more’ for us.

It’s about following God, wholeheartedly and not let distractions pull us down.  It’s all about ‘more and more’!

(CSB Baker Illustrated Bible Study Notes) The exhortation is that the Thessalonians “do this even more” (see 3:12 and 4:10)—that is, excel and be outstanding to an ever greater degree in that which they have learned and are doing.

A commonplace in ancient letters was to remind the reader of what he or she already knew. In the same way, the apostles remind the Thessalonians of the fundamental teaching that has been handed over to them, which is not only doctrinal but moral (4:2). The authority behind this teaching is that of “the Lord Jesus.”

Verses can be found today in 1 Thessalonians 4: 1-8, Romans 5: 1-2, 2 Corinthians 3: 15 and Romans 12: 1-2.

Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.

Recreate Church, Pastor Michael Shockley—Service, Sunday, June 19, 2022

Father’s Day!

Today, Pastor Michael is talking about Fathers and Father’s Day.  

What does a hero look like?  We all have our ideas of what they may look like, however not all heroes look like modern day super heroes from Hollywood and the comic books.  Real heroes can be First Responders, those that go into harm’s way.  The pandemic may have even altered our ideas of what a hero is: those that worked the front lines in the beginning of the pandemic and those working supermarkets and other places that allowed us to function, normally.

Today, Michael is looking at the Midianites and at harvest time they would raid Israel and take their crops and their livestock.  In those days, there were no kings, no police, essentially: nothing, except your own village.  And everyone was scared of the Midianites.  And this is where Gideon comes in.  This man of courage is hiding in a hole, in the ground!  Does not look like a man with courage!  This particular hole was a wine press, no less.  And he wasn’t down there to make wine but was threshing wheat.  Normally this would take place on a hilltop, where wind would blow away the chaff and the grain would fall down.  But he’s in a hole; why isn’t he on a hilltop?

He’s hiding!  He’s afraid the Midianites will see him and come to take his grain and likely, kill him.  He’s not as alone in that hole as he thinks he is.  Somebody was watching him in that hole!  An angel was watching.  The angel comes up to him and says that the Lord is with him.  Gideon feels that the angel totally has the wrong guy! 

(CSB Baker Illustrated Bible Study Notes) 6:11–24. Nonetheless, an angel of the Lord, who turns out to be the Lord himself (cf. 6:14), appears to Gideon. The Lord affirms to Gideon his presence and addresses him as a mighty warrior (6:11–12). But Gideon merely questions why, if the Lord is indeed present, Israel has not experienced the kind of miraculous deliverance known during the exodus (6:13). In response, the Lord commissions Gideon to save Israel out of Midian’s hand (6:14). But Gideon simply stresses his clan’s weakness and his own insignificance (6:15).

To counter Gideon’s protestation, the Lord reiterates his presence, but Gideon still demands a sign (6:16–18). Not until the angel disappears, after causing fire to flare from a rock to consume the offering Gideon brought, does Gideon realize he has been in the presence of the divine (6:19–22). Upon assurance from the Lord that he will not die even though he has seen the angel face to face, perhaps to commemorate the Lord’s declaration of peace (6:23) Gideon builds an altar to the Lord and names it “The LORD Is Peace” (6:24).

So Gideon sees, it was God and it He wasn’t kidding around.  He gives Gideon a task to tear down the altar to Baal and build a proper altar to the Lord.  Which he does.  And the community ain’t exactly happy about it, demanding his death (sure are quick to judge, aren’t they?).  Gideon is supported by his Father, Joash, who challenges Baal to contend for his own altar.  To add to the craziness, a messenger tells everyone that invaders are coming yet the people rally behind Gideon and the folks solidify into an army. He faces a fighting force, bigger than his own and defeats the Midianites and they never bothered Israel again.

That’s a lot to take in.  Gideon did the right thing.  Courage isn’t that you’re not afraid, it’s when you don’t let fear stop you from doing what’s right.

Verses can be found today in Judges 6: 12-32.

Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.

Recreate Church, Pastor Michael Shockley—Service, Sunday, June 12, 2022

Simon, Jesus and Forgiveness.

Today, Pastor Michael is looking at Simon, when he invited Jesus to dinner.  Simon was the established person of faith and Jesus is this new, up and coming Rabbi.  

Simon being pretty confident in his spiritual position wanted to see what Jesus was all about.  So, he and Jesus and others broke bread together and while Jesus and the others were eating, a woman barges into the room.  Definitely not invited!  Then it gets even stranger…

Simon knew this lady and this lady apparently didn’t have the best reputation in the hood.  One thing for sure, she was not invited and as the stunned onlookers watched, this lady approaches Jesus’ feet and she is crying, crying so profusely her tears are streaming.  She then touches his feet and takes down her hair and used her hair to clean the dust off of Jesus’ feet!

By today’s standards, that sounds weird enough, but it was equally as weird, if not even worse, in those days, in that culture.  And Jesus told Simon the story of the creditor and the two debtors, each of which was forgiven a debt by the creditor, one being a larger debt.  Jesus used this parable to teach Simon that the one that loved him the most was the one he forgave the most.  And Jesus used that story to show Simon that the lady, whom had just washed his feet, had done for him things Simon didn’t even do, even though he was an invited guest in Simon’s home.

(CSB Baker Illustrated Bible Study Notes) 7:44–50. Jesus then applies the parable to the treatment that he has received from Simon and the woman (7:44). Jesus does not criticize Simon for being inhospitable, for these courtesies were not necessarily an expected part of ordinary hospitality. Jesus’s point is not that Simon was rude but that the woman showed “much” love (7:47). One would greet “friends” by kissing them on the head, but the woman kissed Jesus on the feet (7:45). On a special occasion one might put inexpensive oil on a guest’s head, but the woman poured expensive perfume on Jesus’s feet (7:46).

The woman’s love for Jesus is the result of her forgiveness (7:47a). That love and gratitude flow from forgiveness is clearly the point of the parable (7:41–42), and the woman’s actions of love toward Jesus stem from her experience of a forgiveness that has already been received. In 7:48 Jesus simply confirms the forgiveness of the woman. Indeed, 7:50 clearly shows that it is faith that has saved the woman. In the application of the parable, the statement “the one who is forgiven little, loves little” (7:47b) applies to Simon and has an ironic twist. People who assume they are righteous will never experience much love for Jesus since they are so unaware of their sinfulness.

The biggest spiritual obstacle for most people is that they aren’t sinners, in their own eyes.  Only sinners get saved!

Verses can be found today in Luke 7: 36-50.

Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.

Recreate Church, Pastor Michael Shockley—Service, Sunday, June 5, 2022

The End.  

Today, Pastor Michael is finishing up his series on Daniel.  We started this series in February and we’re finishing it up today, all 12 chapters behind us.  We may not do it fast, but we do it right!

Daniel has come to the end of his life.  He has seen revelation after revelation.  And yet, he still has some questions, here at the twilight of his life.  How does everything wrap up?  How does this all end?

In Chapter 12 we find that there will be a great distress, predicted.  The Lord will raise a champion during this time, Michael.  After a time of great suffering, God will send Michael to deliver his people . The deliverance includes resurrection to “everlasting life” (12:2) for all whose names are written in the book of life.  Those not in the book of life are raised to “everlasting contempt”. 

(CSB Baker Illustrated Bible Study Notes) 12:1–4. The victory will not come without persecution and perseverance (12:1). These words encourage the godly in any age to await the kingdom of God. The saints are promised life everlasting and joy, whereas the ungodly will experience everlasting disgrace (12:2–3). All who die will be raised to life, but not all who are raised in the body will enjoy lives of everlasting bliss—only those whose names are recorded in the book of life. The godly respond to God and will be accounted to have insight and to be wise; they will lead others to life, wisdom, and righteous living. Their future will be glorious, as they will share in the victory of the Lord.

The visions are to be closed, so that the wise might read them and gain understanding (12:4). Revelation of the future is for encouragement and the development of hope, faith, and love, rather than for speculation. The godly will always find comfort in the revelation made to Daniel.

Daniel’s told to keep on believing and never did get to know everything he wanted to know.

Faith isn’t just believing what God told you.  Faith is trusting God with what He hasn’t told you.

And that’s where the books ends; with a decision to trust.  

In the end, the good guys win!  That’s the final message in Daniel, trust God with your past, present and future.

Verses can be found today in Daniel 12: 1-13.

Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.

Recreate Church, Pastor Michael Shockley—Service, Sunday, May 29, 2022

The Virus of Doubt.

Today, Duncan is filling in for Pastor Michael as Michael is under the weather today.  Duncan is talking today about a spiritual virus, going around for centuries: DOUBT.

Every once in a while, all Christians come up with some doubts.  Doubt is a normal experience to everyone, actually.  Even atheists doubt their positions, sometimes.  The question isn’t will you catch the virus of doubt…it’s how you prevent the virus from turning into a terminal disease and killing your faith. 

What the virus of doubt really looks like.  First you may think doubt is the opposite of faith.  The opposite of faith is unbelief, not doubt.  Second, some think doubt is unforgivable, but it’s not., which is clearly shown in Luke Chapter 7, following today’s verses. Third, you may think doubt is unhealthy, but, again, it’s not.  It actually can help and strengthen your faith.  

So, while we shouldn’t go out of our way to seek doubt, it can work to our benefit if we deal with it responsibly.

Doubt looks a little different, when you examine it up close.

Where does doubt come from?  First, it often comes up in your mind.  This is where we begin wondering if some Christian concepts are rational in our mind.  Where people challenge your faith.  Second, you must know what you believe.  An inadequate view of God is an open invitation to doubt.  Emotions come in to play, too.  Some are emotional believers, some are not.  You cannot misunderstand the role of emotions of faith.  Faith isn’t fundamentally a feeling; it’s a decision of the will to follow Jesus Christ.  It doesn’t ebb and flow, depending on how pumped up you are.  

Doubt can also come into play with people that have been emotionally scarred in their past.  This can affect the way you view God; you’re just waiting for God to let you down as others have in the past.

Doubt can develop because of our will.  Will is where we make choices.  A Christian can decide to not turn away from sin; then questions why God isn’t comforting him, when the underlying cause of his problem is his willful decision to continue sinning. 

Stubborn sense of pride also causes doubt issues as can the case of one never having committed to Christ in the first place.  

So, will, emotions and minds: where doubt can play in our lives.  And let us not forget the father of lies: Satan, who can place doubts in our faith, through mistrust and confusion.  

So how do we regain our spiritual health if we have doubts?  Here are five steps, following the letters of the word “FAITH”:

 

F = find the root of your doubt.

A = ask God and others for help.

I = identify a course of treatment.

T = take care of your spiritual health.

H = hold your remaining questions in tension.

Use your doubt to increase your faith and don’t have to be afraid of questions.  Use it grow stronger in your faith than it ever was!

Verses can be found today in Luke 7: 9-35, 1 John 4: 4, Mark 9: 24, James 4: 2 along with 5: 16 and 1 Corinthians 13: 12.

Recreate Church, Pastor Michael Shockley—Service, Sunday, May 22, 2022

The Story of God’s People Stuck in the Middle of a Mess They Didn’t Make!

Today, Pastor Michael is continuing his study on Daniel and today we’re in Chapter 11.

Even if you’ve been reading the Bible a long time, Daniel 11 is one of those complicated chapters.  Thankfully, Michael starts out with prairie dogs and that has to be a good thing.  His prairie dogs are living happy in their prairie dog home, only to find a herd of Bison to the north and south of their home.  They are seriously hoping these buffaloes move along.  A humungous bull buffalo steps out from each side and have a huge fight.  Big problem for the prairie dogs!  This fight is taking place right in the middle of their prairie dog town!

So, this fight, goes on for years.  Whenever one buffalo dies, another one replaces him.  So, the buffaloes and prairie dogs are in a generational issue; why on earth didn’t the prairie dogs just leave?  

They didn’t leave because there were buffaloes everywhere!  No matter where they went, they’d run into more buffalo.  No where to go.  Plus they’re little prairie dogs; what can they do to big buffaloes?  In the end, they were ‘getting by’.  

One day, a big buffalo from the northern side comes into the fight and finally notices the prairie dogs.  And he starts stepping on the prairie dogs!  Andy, is the big, mean buffalo and he is the worst!  The prairie dogs finally band together, band up, and for a little while, Andy is gone.  But there is a story, in prairie dog lore that there will be a new, meaner buffalo that will be forthcoming, some day.

This, in a nutshell, is the story of Daniel 11.  But without the prairie dogs.

In the analogy, however, the prairie dogs are God’s people, trying to make a life.  The buffaloes are the two kingdoms of Greece, always fighting in the Promised Land, wreaking all kinds of havoc to the Jews.  Who were stuck in the middle of a situation that was mostly out of their control.

(CSB Baker Illustrated Bible Study Notes) 11:2–20. The detailed description of the interrelationship between the kings of the south and the kings of the north in Dn 11 has long challenged biblical scholars. The angel reveals to Daniel that three more kings (Cambyses, Smerdis, Darius Hystaspis?) will rule over Persia. The fourth (Xerxes I?) will try to incorporate Greece into the Persian Empire. Upon the death of Alexander the Great of Greece (“a warrior king,” 11:3), his kingdom was divided into four parts: Macedonia, Thrace, Syria (“the king of the North,” or the Seleucids), and Egypt (“the king of the South,” or the Ptolemies). Daniel 11:5–20 relates the rivalry and wars between the Ptolemies and Seleucids until the appearance of Antiochus Epiphanes.

The heart of this story, is everyday people.  

As people today, we also find ourselves in situations we didn’t create and that we have to live in.  We can be stuck in struggles that we didn’t cause, decisions made by people unattached to us.  The lesson here is pertinent to us today, just as it was to the Jews so many millennia ago.

And everyday people can take heart in the fact that struggles and trials do not destroy faith.  It only destroys what we think is faith.  

Verses can be found today in Daniel 11 and Romans 8: 28.

Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.

Recreate Church, Pastor Michael Shockley—Service, Sunday, May 15, 2022

Daniel and The Unanswered Prayer.

Today, Pastor Michael is continuing his study on Daniel, a hero of the faith.  Daniel had legendary faith, so much that even Ezekiel named only three people: Job, Noah and Daniel, as heroes of the faith.  

Three years after the “Lion’s Den” story, we find Daniel in Chapter 10, no longer a young man.  In Chapter 9, the Lord had promised that the Jews would return to the Promised Land.  Almost all of Daniel’s life, he’s lived in Babylon.  At this point in the story, God has moved the heart of Cyrus of Persia to allow the Jews to return to Jerusalem.

So why didn’t Daniel return to Jerusalem?  Because it was a long journey and Daniel was in his eighties and potentially have to walk a long, long time (insert Proclaimer’s 1980’s song reference here). God wanted Daniel to stay and finish his work in Babylon, so he was there for the Lord’s purpose.

Daniel was in prayer and mourning for three weeks.  He is laboring in prayer at this time.  So why is he so upset?  Didn’t God answer his other prayer…the Jews returning to their homeland?  This is the ‘next challenge’…it’s not over when one prayer is answered!

Not all of the Jews returned to Jerusalem, some (perhaps even a majority) stayed in Babylon.  And Daniel was getting word back that some of those that did return, didn’t finish rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem and some were getting back into pagan idolatry.  

So, Daniel had to be, needless to say, frustrated.  That’s why the laboring in prayer for three weeks., doing nothing but praying.  He wanders out of the city and is distraught.  This is one of the greatest heroes of the faith that has ever lived and he’s prayed for 21 days and he feels his prayer isn’t being answered. 

While Daniel is out wandering around, he notices a white apparition down at the river.  He collapsed at the sight and wondered, “Who is this person by the Tigris River?”.  The being reached down and lifted Daniel up and said, “Daniel, you are greatly loved.  I have been sent with an answer to your prayers.”

The angel, it turns out, was sent the first day Daniel started praying.  But here it is, 21 days later and he’s just NOW getting to Daniel.  The angelic being explains that he was held up by the Prince of Persia.  Who is this Prince of Persia?  The story involves a demon that had taken over the Persian kingdom and the archangel Michael was sent to deal with him.  So while Daniel was praying, the archangel Michael was dealing with a demon!

The angelic being then tells Daniel of God’s peace to him and lets him know that the Persian empire is ending and Greece will be taking over.   Which was a lot for Daniel to take in.

This vision overwhelms Daniel and the angel touches him 3 times to wake him up.  The angel strengthens him and assures him that the Lord loves him and wanted to reveal his plan to him.

If we pray and the answer does not come when we expect it, it doesn’t mean God doesn’t care.  It means the answer will come in His time, perhaps not our time.  

Don’t ever give up!

Verses can be found today in Daniel 10: 1-21 and Ephesians 6: 12.  

Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.

Recreate Church, Pastor Michael Shockley—Service, Sunday, May 8, 2022

Daniel’s Prayer and the Vision of the Seventy Weeks.

Today, Pastor Michael is picking back up with his study on Daniel.  In our past lesson, Daniel had predicted the rise of Alexander the Great.  When Alexander strolled into Jerusalem, the priests and rabbis brought out Daniel Chapter 8 and showed Alexander that their God predicted his coming and he was so impressed he didn’t destroy the city or the temple.

In Chapter 9, today, Daniel is an older man now around 80 or even older.  He is reflecting about all that he has lived and how he saw the Babylonians take over, move him to Babylon and spend his career as a royal advisor to the King of Babylon.  Then he retired and the Meads and Persian empires arose and on the last day of the kingdom of Babylon and the king called Daniel out of retirement for a prediction and Daniel predicted the fall of Babylon.  

Which.  Happened!

Now Daniel saw a regime change and Daniel started seeking understanding by reading the scriptures, notably Jeremiah. He found in Jeremiah 25: 11-12, that it seemed like it’s time for God to bring His people home.

(CSB Baker Illustrated Bible Study Notes) Daniel 9:1-4. Daniel longs for the era of restoration, for the establishment of the kingdom of God and of the messianic kingdom. To this end he fasts and prays for the restoration of his people to the land (9:3).

9:4–19. Daniel’s prayer consists of confession and petition. In the confession he identifies with the history of his people, with their sin and punishment. The prayer of confession consists of a repetition of four themes: Israel’s rebellious attitude to the law and the prophets, God’s righteousness in judgment, the fulfillment of the curses, and the hope of renewal of divine mercy and grace.

Daniel begins with an affirmation of God’s mercy, inherent in Israel’s confession of who God is (9:4). In contrast Israel has sinned against their covenant God (9:5). They have rejected the prophets (9:6). Therefore the Lord is righteous in his judgment. Yet the disgrace of Israel is apparent wherever they have been scattered (9:7). Their lot has changed by their own doing, but the Lord is still the same (9:9–10). Israel has received the curses of the covenant (9:11; cf. Lv 26:33; Dt 28:63–67). The Lord has been faithful in judgment, even in bringing about the desolation of Jerusalem (9:12). Again Daniel affirms the righteousness of God (9:14).

Daniel throws himself on the mercy of God as he prays for the restoration of Jerusalem, the temple, and God’s presence among his people (9:17–19).

We look around our nation today and wonder when unbelievers will get serious with God.  God looks around and wonders when believers will get serious with Him!

Daniel didn’t say they deserved His help. He stated because of “His mercy”, showing the righteousness of God.  God sends Gabriel, the angel, to Daniel in a vision.  Gabriel tells Daniel that it will take 70 weeks (here weeks not being weeks today, but years then) to finalize judgment on sin, atone for sin and transgression and bring in everlasting righteousness, fulfill the prophetic word and anoint the most holy.

One of the lessons here is that the Bible can be trusted.  It predicted to the year how things would transpire right in Daniel, chapter 9!

Verses can be found today in Daniel 9: 1-27 and Jeremiah 25: 11-12. 

Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.

Recreate Church, Pastor Michael Shockley—Service, Sunday, May 1, 2022

Downsizing the Stuff of Our Lives.

Today, Duncan Crook is standing in for Pastor Michael.  Duncan gives a wonderful story of taking care of his father as he was aging and how his dad had hoarded away quite a few items.  Items that meant something to him but the next generation wasn’t perhaps so sure and was tasked with cleaning it up.  

And therein lies Duncan’s message today:  Things are either given away or taken away, and the biblical guidance is we should know what is valuable and set our minds on things above, not on earthly things.   Sooner or later we all lose control over things in our lives and it’s best to come to terms with that and not let things become idols.

Be on your guard against greed and realize it’s not all about possessions.  

(CSB Baker Illustrated Bible Study Notes) 12:13–21. The next section is on possessions (12:13–34). First, Jesus warns against greed (12:13–15). A man wants Jesus to arbitrate in an inheritance dispute between his brother and himself (12:13). This would be typical work for a rabbi. But Jesus refuses, insisting that this is not his role (12:14). In 12:15 he warns of the root problem: greed. A greedy person thinks that the good life is found in things, but this is a distorted perspective.

This discussion leads Jesus to relate the parable of the rich fool (12:16–21). The problem with the rich fool is not that he has bumper crops or that he decides to build more storage space (12:16–18). The problem is that he invests his entire life in his possessions (cf. 12:15). He draws all his security from his material goods (12:19) and fails to reckon with God. He is living as if he will never die and has forgotten the importance of spiritual riches (12:20–21). Such a shortsighted investment in temporal things is foolishness indeed.

Verses can be found today in Luke 12: 13-21  and Ecclesiastes 2: 18-19.

Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.