Context

• What are the two subjects that Luke mentions directly before this passage? [ Luke 12:4-6, Luke 12:8-12 ]
• How does God care for his people? How should the follower of Christ behave?

Characters

• Why might the man want Jesus to divide his inheritance? [ Luke 12:13, 15 ]
• How does Jesus respond to the man’s request? [ Luke 12:15 ]
• Why did the rich man build bigger barns?
• What was he seeking to achieve? [ Luke 12:19 ]
• What had he forgotten about? [ Luke 12:20-21 ]
• What might the disciples have been worrying about? [ Luke 12:22, 25, 29 ]
• What should the disciples remember instead? [ Luke 12:23, 24, 27-28, 30]
• How are the disciples to be different from the rest of the world? [ Luke 12:30-31 ]
• How are the disciples related to God? [ Luke 12:32 ]
• What did Jesus say would be given to them? [ Luke 12:32 ]
• Why can they sell their possessions? [ Luke 12:33, 30b ]
• Why might it be helpful for the disciples to sell their possessions? [ Luke 12:33-34 ]
• Instead of focusing on possessions, what should they be focused on? [ Luke 12:34 ]

Application

• How does God care for his people?
• What does he already know?
• What is he able to provide?
• What might we be anxious about?
• What should we be focused on instead?
• How should we be different from the rest of the world?