The Rich Fool

Dominic Jackson teaches on Jesus’ parable of the rich fool in Luke 12, where a man builds bigger barns to store his abundance but loses his life before he can enjoy it. The story is not a simple condemnation of wealth, but a confrontation with greed—the subtle shift of trust and allegiance away from God and toward self-sufficiency. Jesus names this as a vision problem: a darkened eye sees the world through scarcity and fear, while a clear eye sees generosity and grace. The parable calls us to loosen our grip on what we cannot keep and to become rich toward God—not by earning status, but by opening our lives to the kingdom’s abundance. What we do with our money reveals what we believe about God.