Emphasis Preaching Journal

Martin Luther provides compelling images about this text: "Day and night everybody's concern is how to make a living. And this stimulates greed to the point where no one is content with what God provides and bestows... Everyone wants to get on better and have more... With this sermon the Lord endeavored to put a brake on such attitude and conduct" (Complete Sermons, Vol. 7, p. 16). "Too often, he adds, we are serving food and clothes, and not them serving us" (Ibid., Vol. 3/1, p. 111).