人生中最重要的事
路加福音十二章13至23节
13众人中有一个人对耶稣说：“夫子，请你吩咐我的兄长和我分开家业。”
14耶稣说：“你这个人！谁立我作你们断事的官，给你们分家业呢？”
15于是对众人说：“你们要谨慎自守，免去一切的贪心，因为人的生命不在乎家道丰富。”
16就用比喻对他们说：“有一个财主田产丰盛，
17自己心里思想说：‘我的出产没有地方收藏，怎么办呢？’
18又说：‘我要这么办：要把我的仓房拆了，另盖更大的，在那里好收藏我一切的粮食和财物，
19然后要对我的灵魂说：灵魂哪，你有许多财物积存，可作多年的费用，只管安安逸逸地吃喝快乐吧！’
20 神却对他说：‘无知的人哪，今夜必要你的灵魂，你所预备的要归谁呢？’
21凡为自己积财，在 神面前却不富足的，也是这样。”
22耶稣又对门徒说：“所以我告诉你们：不要为生命忧虑吃甚么，为身体忧虑穿甚么；
23因为生命胜于饮食，身体胜于衣裳。
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基督只应了他一句（14节），便继续向众人讲话，提醒他们不要贪恋钱财，「因为人的生命不在乎家道丰富。」基督再次用比喻来讲解这个真理。
比喻中的财主拥有丰富的田产，可惜人生观却完全错误。他重视肉体而非灵魂；重视短暂的今生而非永恒。
世人可能认为他是一个杰出的成功人士。他擅于计划，以致年年丰收；他又精于打算，准备扩充他的仓库。他的人生正不断迈向新的高峰！
他对自己说些甚么呢？「灵魂啊，你有许多财物积存，可作多年的费用，只管安安逸逸地吃喝快乐吧！」然而，财物是不能满足灵魂的！今天的人之所以心浮气躁，其中一个原因，正是因为这方面出错：他们吃喝玩乐，想用种种物质来满足自己，谁不知这一切都只能满足肉体，却完全不能满足人的心灵！
财主所想的「多年」，究竟是多久呢？神却对他说：「你只能活到今夜！」神「破坏」了他的人生大计。财主虽然拥有仓库和田地，却没有醒觉他的人生并非在他的掌握之中，而且人生短暂。
基督提醒众人，永恒远比今生重要；同时，认识神也远比赚取财富要紧。
基督在马太福音十六章26节提醒我们说：「人若赚得全世界，赔上自己的生命，有甚么益处呢？人还拿能甚么换生命呢？」
WHAT IS IMPORTANT IN YOUR LIFE?
Luke 12:13-23
13 Then one from the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
14 But He said to him, “Man, who made Me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”
15 And 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.”
16 Then He spoke a parable to them, saying: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully.
17 And he thought within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?’
18 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.
19 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.”’
20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’
21 “So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
22 Then He said to His disciples, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about the body, what you will put on.
23 Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
Message
Christ replied briefly (v.14) then went on to warn the crowd about greed, 'There is more to life than money'.
Again he used a short story to drive home that truth.
In the parable, the rich successful farmer had a totally wrong perspective. He preferred his body to his soul and he preferred time to eternity.
The world would have considered him a smart man, an outstanding success. He had planning ability. He had bumper crops. He had the capacity to extend his storage barns. He was on the way up!
What were his thoughts? 'I will say to myself you have plenty of good things laid up for many years!' But a man's soul cannot be satisfied with 'goods'. One of the reasons behind the restlessness of this age is just that. Men and women are trying to feed and satisfy their inner beings by those things which only touch the body.
He spoke about 'many years'. But how long is eternity? And what did God say? 'Tonight - now!' God broke in on his thoughts and his life-program. What he didn't realise was that he might own his barns and his land, but he had a permissive occupancy on life itself.
Christ was wanting his hearers to realise that Eternity is more important than time. Knowing God, said Christ, is far more important than all the riches of earth.
Christ said it again in Matthew 16:16, 'What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? What is your answer to that?'