It’s All in Your Mind

] @Juqdu. 6 <Jiu f/)tmM/uJ Jllind "dbul uLk ,w.f, wlu,J ,µ. JwJ1 tn1, N- u,/ud (I£ JuJ1 dmtk, IUidttJt'. k ,µ o/- dmthl/nl mind." Luke 12:29 The phrase doubtfut mind should be translated not anxious. It means to be divided or variance. The book of James talks about a double-minded believer. This describes a believer in Christ who claims His name but has a divided mind. What makes a doubtful-minded Christian? What makes for an anxious mind? The study of this phrase in Luke 12 begins in verse fifteen. Do you think the disciples ever had any questions about material things? Did the disciples ever think about material things? Some of them had families. Some had a business before they were called to follow Christ. I have often tried to imagine what some of the wives of the disciples thought when they didn't come home for dinner. I wondered what happened when Peter came home one day and said to his wife, "I gave up the boat." You can imagine her saying, "How are we going to live?" What Peter said we do not know. Possibly he told her that they were going to live by faith. Sometimes our Bible is strangely silent about the lives and families of the disciples. What did they do for their families? What did the Lord admonish them to do? Normally our answer is, "They lived in a different age." Are you aware that there are Christians in the twentieth century that are not as well off materially as some of the disciples in the first century? Somehow we have taken affluence and equated it with Christianity. The normal teaching of the parable of the rich fool is a teaching regarding eternity and man's soul, and I have no criticism of this. In Luke 12:15, however, Jesus said to His disciples, "galtt /uni., an.d bv.iui.u a/. ~ /N a man '.1. .1.ip. t!mUi,J.,Jl,, Ml in du alm.mhmtt 6/- du lltimµ whwt lu ~-" After giving this statement to the disciples, He gave the parable of the rich fool. It seems that this parable was meant to be the foundational teaching on the subject of covetousness and life on earth; and to teach the disciples something about a doubtful mind. There were times I believe that the disciples came to Christ and said, "Master, we have a material problem. We have families at home.D I believe this happened as they followed the Lord. The parable of the rich fool teaches about a doubtful mind. The Bible has much to say about material things and money. If Christ found that problem in His day, it is probably enlarged today. Many people are drawn between two thoughts; the teaching of Christ and 25