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How to Be Truly Rich

How do you define “rich”? Having much money? Having much jewels? Or you prefer being rich in mind? There are two kinds of wealth you can have: be rich in this world and be rich spiritually. If you can obtain only one of them, which one will you choose? I think I am willing to be truly rich. Oh, do you ask me what’s  “ truly rich”? And how to get it? This sermon can give you a perfect answer.

The speech I watched was presented by Tony Evans, the sermon he delivered was titled, “ How to be truly rich”. In this speech, Tony talked about Luke 12: 13 - 21 and this chapter narrates a story about a person that wanted Jesus to solve the problem: Jesus told a story of one person getting chosed for his father’s inheritance between his brother. The speaker always used a vivid and concrete way to tell us a plot or a story from Bible and then lead to the text from Bible. He also utilized many rhetoric methods to resonate for being  helpful for us to understand the content that Jesus wants to tell us.
Now, I would like to discuss about the verse that Jesus narrated and how the speaker to explain and take it deeper.

When he started to talking about the story , the speaker use his own word to repeat the content in verse 15: “He said to them, ‘ Watch out and be guard for every form of greed for not even when one has an abundance does his life consists of his possessions.” Here he used pathos that he did satisfied gestures and facial expressions to implicate that the climax was coming and control the situation of audiences. Then he used the anaphora that said repetition of “ your pursuit” of sentences. He unmasked that people pursue careers, reputations, financial securities and economic gains to push God to the sidelines and these things all are a form of greedy. And then he used repetition and emphasized “a form of greedy” over and over again. Moreover he also gave us a simple example whether you’re spending more time complaining than giving thanks to let us know whether we were greedy. This action caused me to think deeply and he appealed to the emotion of me successfully . What’s more, he used ethos that he quoted the word of Paul: “I’ve learned that whatever state, I’m in to be content, to be at ease where I am until God grants me more.”  This sentence more proved that we need to be content and not be greedy because we all want to close God.

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  1. AnonymousMarch 2, 2018 at 8:52 PM

    It is great for more people like him to stand up and tells how important the 'truly truth' is, for we are always confused what to choose in life.

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