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Believe me, he is the one you must fear!</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_12_6"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.6" class="v42_12_6">6</span>“Aren't five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one sparrow is forgotten by God. </span><span class="v42_12_7"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.7" class="v42_12_7">7</span>Even the hairs of your head have all been counted. So do not be afraid; you are worth much more than many sparrows!</span></p><h3 class="s">Confessing and Rejecting Christ</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 10:32">Matthew 10.32</ref>,<ref loc="MAT 10:33">33</ref>; <ref loc="MAT 12:32">12.32</ref>; <ref loc="MAT 10:19">10.19</ref>,<ref loc="MAT 10:20">20</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_12_8"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.8" class="v42_12_8">8</span>“I assure you that those who declare publicly that they belong to me, the Son of Man will do the same for them before the angels of God. </span><span class="v42_12_9"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.9" class="v42_12_9">9</span>But those who reject me publicly, the Son of Man will also reject them before the angels of God.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_12_10"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.10" class="v42_12_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.12.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “Whoever says a word against the Son of Man can be forgiven; but whoever says evil things against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_12_11"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.11" class="v42_12_11">11</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.12.11!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “When they bring you to be tried in the synagogues or before governors or rulers, do not be worried about how you will defend yourself or what you will say. </span><span class="v42_12_12"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.12" class="v42_12_12">12</span>For the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.”</span></p><h3 class="s">The Parable of the Rich Fool</h3><p class="par"><span class="v42_12_13"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.13" class="v42_12_13">13</span>A man in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide with me the property our father left us.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_12_14"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.14" class="v42_12_14">14</span>Jesus answered him, “Friend, who gave me the right to judge or to divide the property between you two?” </span><span class="v42_12_15"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.15" class="v42_12_15">15</span>And he went on to say to them all, “Watch out and guard yourselves from every kind of greed; because your true life is not made up of the things you own, no matter how rich you may be.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_12_16"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.16" class="v42_12_16">16</span>Then Jesus told them this parable: “There was once a rich man who had land which bore good crops. </span><span class="v42_12_17"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.17" class="v42_12_17">17</span>He began to think to himself, ‘I don't have a place to keep all my crops. What can I do? </span><span class="v42_12_18"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.18" class="v42_12_18">18</span>This is what I will do,’ he told himself; ‘I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, where I will store the grain and all my other goods. </span><span class="v42_12_19"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.19" class="v42_12_19">19</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.12.19!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then I will say to myself, Lucky man! You have all the good things you need for many years. Take life easy, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself!’ </span><span class="v42_12_20"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.20" class="v42_12_20">20</span>But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night you will have to give up your life; then who will get all these things you have kept for yourself?’”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_12_21"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.21" class="v42_12_21">21</span>And Jesus concluded, “This is how it is with those who pile up riches for themselves but are not rich in God's sight.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Trust in God</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 6:25-34">Matthew 6.25-34</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_12_22"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.22" class="v42_12_22">22</span>Then Jesus said to the disciples, “And so I tell you not to worry about the food you need to stay alive or about the clothes you need for your body. </span><span class="v42_12_23"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.23" class="v42_12_23">23</span>Life is much more important than food, and the body much more important than clothes. </span><span class="v42_12_24"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.24" class="v42_12_24">24</span>Look at the crows: they don't plant seeds or gather a harvest; they don't have storage rooms or barns; God feeds them! You are worth so much more than birds! </span><span class="v42_12_25"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.25" class="v42_12_25">25</span>Can any of you live a bit longer<a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.12.25!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> by worrying about it? </span><span class="v42_12_26"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.26" class="v42_12_26">26</span>If you can't manage even such a small thing, why worry about the other things? </span><span class="v42_12_27"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.27" class="v42_12_27">27</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.12.27!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Look how the wild flowers grow: they don't work or make clothes for themselves. But I tell you that not even King Solomon with all his wealth had clothes as beautiful as one of these flowers. </span><span class="v42_12_28"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.28" class="v42_12_28">28</span>It is God who clothes the wild grass—grass that is here today and gone tomorrow, burned up in the oven. Won't he be all the more sure to clothe you? What little faith you have!</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_12_29"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.29" class="v42_12_29">29</span>“So don't be all upset, always concerned about what you will eat and drink. </span><span class="v42_12_30"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.30" class="v42_12_30">30</span>(For the pagans of this world are always concerned about all these things.) Your Father knows that you need these things. </span><span class="v42_12_31"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.31" class="v42_12_31">31</span>Instead, be concerned with his Kingdom, and he will provide you with these things.</span></p><h3 class="s">Riches in Heaven</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 6:19-21">Matthew 6.19-21</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_12_32"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.32" class="v42_12_32">32</span>“Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the Kingdom. </span><span class="v42_12_33"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.33" class="v42_12_33">33</span>Sell all your belongings and give the money to the poor. Provide for yourselves purses that don't wear out, and save your riches in heaven, where they will never decrease, because no thief can get to them, and no moth can destroy them. </span><span class="v42_12_34"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.34" class="v42_12_34">34</span>For your heart will always be where your riches are.</span></p><h3 class="s">Watchful Servants</h3><p class="par"><span class="v42_12_35"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.35" class="v42_12_35">35</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.12.35!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “Be ready for whatever comes, dressed for action and with your lamps lit, </span><span class="v42_12_36"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.36" class="v42_12_36">36</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.12.36!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> like servants who are waiting for their master to come back from a wedding feast. When he comes and knocks, they will open the door for him at once. </span><span class="v42_12_37"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.37" class="v42_12_37">37</span>How happy are those servants whose master finds them awake and ready when he returns! I tell you, he will take off his coat, have them sit down, and will wait on them. </span><span class="v42_12_38"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.38" class="v42_12_38">38</span>How happy they are if he finds them ready, even if he should come at midnight or even later! </span><span class="v42_12_39"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.39" class="v42_12_39">39</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.12.39!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> And you can be sure that if the owner of a house knew the time when the thief would come, he would not let the thief break into his house. </span><span class="v42_12_40"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.40" class="v42_12_40">40</span>And you, too, must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you are not expecting him.”</span></p><h3 class="s">The Faithful or the Unfaithful Servant</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 24:45-51">Matthew 24.45-51</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_12_41"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.41" class="v42_12_41">41</span>Peter said, “Lord, does this parable apply to us, or do you mean it for everyone?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_12_42"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.42" class="v42_12_42">42</span>The Lord answered, “Who, then, is the faithful and wise servant? He is the one that his master will put in charge, to run the household and give the other servants their share of the food at the proper time. </span><span class="v42_12_43"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.43" class="v42_12_43">43</span>How happy that servant is if his master finds him doing this when he comes home! </span><span class="v42_12_44"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.44" class="v42_12_44">44</span>Indeed, I tell you, the master will put that servant in charge of all his property. </span><span class="v42_12_45"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.45" class="v42_12_45">45</span>But if that servant says to himself that his master is taking a long time to come back and if he begins to beat the other servants, both the men and the women, and eats and drinks and gets drunk, </span><span class="v42_12_46"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.46" class="v42_12_46">46</span>then the master will come back one day when the servant does not expect him and at a time he does not know. The master will cut him in pieces<a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.12.46!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and make him share the fate of the disobedient.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_12_47"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.47" class="v42_12_47">47</span>“The servant who knows what his master wants him to do, but does not get himself ready and do it, will be punished with a heavy whipping. </span><span class="v42_12_48"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.48" class="v42_12_48">48</span>But the servant who does not know what his master wants, and yet does something for which he deserves a whipping, will be punished with a light whipping. Much is required from the person to whom much is given; much more is required from the person to whom much more is given.</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus the Cause of Division</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 10:34-36">Matthew 10.34-36</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_12_49"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.49" class="v42_12_49">49</span>“I came to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already kindled! </span><span class="v42_12_50"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.50" class="v42_12_50">50</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.12.50!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> I have a baptism to receive, and how distressed I am until it is over! </span><span class="v42_12_51"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.51" class="v42_12_51">51</span>Do you suppose that I came to bring peace to the world? No, not peace, but division. </span><span class="v42_12_52"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.52" class="v42_12_52">52</span>From now on a family of five will be divided, three against two and two against three. </span><span class="v42_12_53"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.53" class="v42_12_53">53</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.12.53!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Fathers will be against their sons, and sons against their fathers; mothers will be against their daughters, and daughters against their mothers; mothers-in-law will be against their daughters-in-law, and daughters-in-law against their mothers-in-law.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Understanding the Time</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 16:2">Matthew 16.2</ref>,<ref loc="MAT 16:3">3</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_12_54"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.54" class="v42_12_54">54</span>Jesus said also to the people, “When you see a cloud coming up in the west, at once you say that it is going to rain—and it does. </span><span class="v42_12_55"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.55" class="v42_12_55">55</span>And when you feel the south wind blowing, you say that it is going to get hot—and it does. </span><span class="v42_12_56"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.56" class="v42_12_56">56</span>Hypocrites! You can look at the earth and the sky and predict the weather; why, then, don't you know the meaning of this present time?</span></p><h3 class="s">Settle with Your Opponent</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 5:25">Matthew 5.25</ref>,<ref loc="MAT 5:26">26</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_12_57"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.57" class="v42_12_57">57</span>“Why do you not judge for yourselves the right thing to do? </span><span class="v42_12_58"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.58" class="v42_12_58">58</span>If someone brings a lawsuit against you and takes you to court, do your best to settle the dispute before you get to court. If you don't, you will be dragged before the judge, who will hand you over to the police, and you will be put in jail. </span><span class="v42_12_59"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.12.59" class="v42_12_59">59</span>There you will stay, I tell you, until you pay the last penny of your fine.”</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">12.25: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">live a bit longer; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">grow a bit taller.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">12.46: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">cut him in pieces; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">throw him out.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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