Oh, let the Son of God enfold you with His spirit and his love.

Let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you,

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with an illustration of covetousness as we pick up in Luke chapter 12 verse 16 and now with today's

message here's pastor chuck beware of covetousness and then to illustrate it he gave them a parable

he said the ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully and he thought within himself saying

what shall i do because i have no room to bestow my fruits and he said i know what i'll do I will pull down my barns and build greater.

And there I will bestow all my fruits and goods.

And I will say to my soul, soul, you've got it made.

You've got a lot of goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

But God said unto him, thou fool. This night, thy soul shall be required of thee. thee interesting the man's opinion of himself and

God's opinion of himself his opinion of himself was I've got it made God's opinion of him

was thou fool now notice this.

This man was still in the dream state, not the fulfilled state.

He had not yet built the bigger barns.

These were only plans.

As soon as I have the bigger barns, as soon as I fill them, then I will be able to say, all right, you've got it made. Kick back, eat, drink, and be merry. Take it easy. You've got it made.

He never did arrive at that point. I would dare say that when, if he had not died that night,

...