Good morning, this is September 4th, and this is Nassau Baptist Church. Glad to have you with us, thank you. Our guest speaker today is Matt Dillon. Thank you. Let's go to the Lord in prayer. Father, we thank you for the privilege of gathering this morning with your people. We pray as we look to your word now that we would see your glory. We pray that Christ would be lifted high and that we would know that we are hearing your words. Lord, help me to be faithful to this text and help me to be clear regarding its meaning and help me to be clear regarding its application. In Jesus' name, amen. The one who dies with the most toys wins. You might be familiar with the phrase. It's been printed on numerous t-shirts and bumper stickers throughout the last couple decades. I think it's meant to be humorous. You may have even seen one of these stickers on the back of a beat-up, rusted-out, decades-old car that's about to be in the scrapyard in a couple weeks, which is ironic. So we chuckle, and perhaps we ponder the frivolity of such a mantra. As Christians, surely we would reject any serious manifestation of such an ideology, and we would not identify ourselves as people who are playing life for the toys. Nevertheless, there are some questions that would be helpful for us to answer. For instance, we know that money is not everything, but we also know that it's important, right? And God may ask us to give and to sacrifice, but at the same time, he surely means for life to be enjoyed and is after our joy. These are questions that it's good for us to think about, that it's good for us to answer, and they're questions that'll be addressed in our text this morning. So if you would, please turn with me to Luke chapter 12, Luke chapter 12. This morning we're going to be reading the parable of the rich fool. It's found in Luke chapter 12, beginning in verse 13, and we'll be reading through verse 21. Again, that's Luke 12, beginning in verse 13. Someone in the crowd said to him, teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me. But he said to him, man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you? And he said to them, take care and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions. And he told them a parable saying, the land of a rich man produced plentifully. And he thought to himself, what shall I do? For I have nowhere to store my crops. And he said, I will do this. I will tear down my barns and build larger ones. And there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years. Relax, eat, drink, be merry. But God said to him, fool, this night your soul is required of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be? so is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God. And this is the word of the Lord. At the beginning of Luke 12, Christ is instructing his disciples privately. He's preparing the apostles for vicious attacks that they're going to sustain. And as he warns them against the leaven of the Pharisees, He emphasizes the importance of living for eternal reward rather than temporary pleasure. He emphasizes the importance of fearing God rather than fearing man. We see this earlier in the chapter in verses four and five. Jesus says, I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body and after that have nothing more that they can do, but I will warn you whom to fear. Fear him who after he has killed has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him." So he's shifting their mindset to things that are not here, but are eternal. Not to the present, but to that which is not yet. And some of these themes