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13 Someone in the crowd said to him, \u201cTeacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.\u201d 14 But he said to him, \u201cMan, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?\u201d 15 And he said to them, \u201cTake care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one\u2019s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.\u201d 16 And he told them a parable, saying, \u201cThe land of a rich man produced plentifully, 17 and he thought to himself, \u2018What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?\u2019 18 And he said, \u2018I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, \u201cSoul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 20 But God said to him, \u2018Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?\u2019 21 So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Why did Jesus refuse to act as a judge or an arbitrator?\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What is the relationship between Jesus\u2019 decision and the parable?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Discussion Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesus refused to act as a judge because he was not a typical teacher.\u00a0 He was focused on his main ministry, \u201cI come not to judge the world but to save it.\u201d\u00a0 John 12:47, John 9:14, Isaiah 42:21<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesus refused to act as a judge because of the example of Moses given in Acts 7-23-28.\u00a0 He did not present himself as a judge to his people, but as their deliverer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesus refused to act as a judge because the root of the issue was not a settlement but greed on the part of the asker.\u00a0 This is shown by the lesson of the parable in verse 21.\u00a0 The rich man in the parable was not laying up \u201ctreasure for God.\u201d\u00a0 A few additional scriptures illustrating this same lesson are:\u00a0 Colossians 3:12,13; I Timothy 6:6-10; Ecclesiastes 2:18-22.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 13 Someone in the crowd said to him, \u201cTeacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.\u201d 14 But he said to him, \u201cMan, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?\u201d 15 And he said to them, \u201cTake care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one\u2019s life does not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}