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Luke 12 - Read-Along · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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  Luke chapter 12 Under these circumstances, after so many
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  thousands of people had gathered together that they were stepping
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  on one another, He began saying to his disciples, First of all,
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  beware the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
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  But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and
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  hidden that will not be known. Accordingly, whatever you have
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  said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have
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  whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed upon the
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  housetops. I say to you, my friends, do not
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  be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no
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  more they can do to you. But I will warn you whom to
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  fear. Fear the one who after he has
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  killed, has authority to cast into hell.
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  Yes, I tell you, fear him. Are not 5 sparrows sold for two
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  cents? Yet not one of them is forgotten
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  before God. Indeed, the very hairs of your
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  head are all numbered. Do not fear, you are more
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  valuable than many sparrows. And I say to you, everyone who
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  confesses me before men, the Son of Man, will confess him also
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  before the angels of God. But he who denies Me before men
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  will be denied before the angels of God.
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  And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will
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  be forgiven him. But he who blasphemes against
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  the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him.
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  When they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and
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  the authorities, do not worry about how or what you are to
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  speak in your defence or what you are to say, for the Holy
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  Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.
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  Someone in the crowd said to him, Teacher, tell my brother to
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  divide my, to divide the family inheritance with me.
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  But he said to him, Man, who appointed me a judge or
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  arbitrator over you? Then he said to them, beware and
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  be on your guard against every form of greed.
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  For not even when one has an abundance does his life consist
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  of his possessions. And he told him a parable,
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  saying the land of a rich man was very productive.
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  And he began reasoning to himself, saying, What shall I
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  do, since I have no place to store my crops?
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  Then he said, This is what I will do.
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  I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I
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  will store all my grain in my goods.
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  And I will say to my soul, soul, You have many goods laid up for
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  many years to come. Take your ease, eat, drink, and
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  be merry. But God said to him, You fool,
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  this very night your soul is required of you.
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  And now who will own what you have prepared?
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  So is the man who stores up treasure for himself, and is not
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  rich toward God. And he said to his disciples,
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  For this reason I say to you, do not worry about your life as to
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  what you will eat, nor for your body as to what you will put on.
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  For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.
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  Consider the Ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, they have
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  no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them.
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  How much more valuable you are than the birds.
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  And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life
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  span? If then you cannot do even a
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  very little thing, why do you worry about other matters?
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  Consider the lilies, how they grow.
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  They neither toil nor spin. But I tell you, not even Solomon
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  in all his glory clothes himself like one of these.
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  But if God so clothes the grass in the field which is alive
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  today, and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more
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  will He clothe you, you men of little faith?
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  And do not seek what you will eat and what you will drink.
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  And do not keep worrying for all these things the nations of the
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  world eagerly seek. But your Father knows that you
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  need these things, but seek His Kingdom, and these things will
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  be added to you. Do not be afraid, little flock,
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  for your Father has chosen gladly to give you the Kingdom.
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  Sell your possessions and give to charity.
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  Make yourselves money belts which do not wear out, an
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  unfailing treasure in heaven where no thief comes near nor
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  moth destroys, For where your treasure is, there your heart
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  will be also. Be dressed in readiness and keep
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  your lamps lit. Be like men who are waiting for
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  their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that
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  they may immediately open the door to him when he comes and
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  knocks. Blessed are those slaves whom
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  the master will find on the alert when he comes.
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  Truly I say to you that he will gird himself to serve and have
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  them recline at the table, and he will come up and wait on
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  them, whether he comes in the second watch, or even in the 3rd
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  and finds them. So blessed are those slaves.
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  But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at
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  what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his
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  house to be broken into. You too, be ready, for the Son
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  of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect.
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  Peter said, Lord, are you addressing this parable to us,
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  or to everyone else as well? And the Lord said, Who then is
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  the faithful and sensible steward, whom his master will
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  put in charge of his servants to give them their rations at the
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  proper time? Blessed is that slave whom his
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  master finds so doing when he comes.
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  Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his
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  possessions. But if that slave says in his
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  heart, my master will be a long time in coming, and begins to
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  beat the slaves, both men and women, and to eat and drink and
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  get drunk. The master of that slave will
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  come on a day when he does not expect him, and at an hour he
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  does not know, and he will cut him in pieces and assign him a
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  place with the unbelievers. And that slave who knew his
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  master's will and did not get ready or act in accord with his
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  will, will receive many lashes, but the one who did not know it,
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  and committed deeds worthy of a flogging, will receive but a
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  few. From everyone who has been given
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  much, much will be required, and to whom they entrusted much of
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  him they will ask all the more. I have come to cast fire upon
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  the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled.
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  But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it
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  is accomplished. Do you suppose that I came to
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  grant peace on earth? I tell you no, but rather
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  division, for from now on five members in one household will be
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  divided, 3 against two and two against 3.
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  They will be divided father against son and son against
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  father, mother against daughter, and daughter against mother,
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  mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and
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  daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.
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  And he was also saying to the crowds, when you see a cloud
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  rising in the West, immediately you say a shower is coming.
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  And so it turns out. And when you see a S wind
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  blowing, you say it will be a hot day.
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  And it turns out that way. You hypocrites, you know how to
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  analyze the appearance of the earth, of the sky.
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  But why do you not analyze this present time?
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  And why do you not, even on your own initiative, judge what is
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  right? For while you are going with
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  your opponent to appear before the magistrate on your way
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  there, make an effort to settle with him so that he may not drag
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  you before the judge, and the judge turn you over to the
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  officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
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  I say to you, you will not get out of there until you have paid
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  the very last cent.