Luke 12

Go Deep

(The God Who Feeds Ravens: Luke 12)

Read Luke 12:1-48. Note any repeated words, ideas, or themes and jot them down.

What is hypocrisy? In what sense is hypocrisy like yeast or leaven?

How might my hypocrisy hurt others? How might it hurt me?

Read verses 5-7. How do these verses connect? What can we learn from them?

How do verses 8 and 9 add to the point Jesus is making?

Explain the relationship between fear and hypocrisy. Fear of whom? Why is it that fear so often leads to hypocrisy? What is the fear that terminates it?

Read verses 13- 15. Teachers were sometimes expected to end disputes. What do you make of Jesus’s response to this man’s request?

Jesus mentions “all kinds of” (literally “all”) greed” in verse 15. What kinds of greed are there?

Read the parable in verse 16-20 and Jesus’s conclusion in verse 21. What is the wisdom in these verses for us?

What do you think it means, in practical terms, to be “rich toward God” (verse 21)?

How is greed related to fear?

How does the “therefore” in verse 22 connect with what has just been said?

What is Jesus trying to convey about God in verses 24-28?

What does Jesus have in mind when he tells people to “seek his kingdom?”

In what way does God give Jesus’s people the kingdom (verse 32)?

How could we show, from this passage, the way to overcome fear and escape the sins of hypocrisy and greed?