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Rich man and lazarus song9/9/2023 ![]() ![]() We’re going to see we have everything we need to know in order for us to be faithful to God. But, it’s a little nuanced there, hedging my bets.īut that’s sort of what we see in this passage. It’s on his Christian album, don’t worry. Now I almost titled the sermon “You Have Everything You Need” or “We Have Everything We Need.” But me being a youth pastor, all I could think of was the Kanye West song called “We Have Everything We Need.” I thought to myself that would be a little too on the nose for a youth pastor to name something that closely associated with a Kanye song. God has given you what you need to know to live for him, and in the same way in this parable, sort of the summary statement and probably the one that a lot of us are familiar with this passage for, is that God’s Word tells you everything you need to know in order for you to be faithful. Kevin said this morning God has given you what you need to know. Now there is a lot to take from the details in this parable, and we’ll walk through them as we go, but sort of the exclamation mark, so to speak, the summary statement of the parable, if you had to boil the entire thing maybe down into one big idea, I like to do that as often as the text sort of lends itself to coming up with one big idea, if there’s one big idea in this parable, here’s what it would be: God’s Word tells you everything you need to know in order for you to be faithful.Īgain, it’s almost an exact echo of something that Kevin said this morning in his sermon. What we’re going to see in this parable of the rich man and Lazarus is what can that potentially look like, what can happen when that’s the case in our own lives. What it looks like to be a slave to mammon, to money, instead of a slave to God and a slave and servant of righteousness. Tom preached a couple weeks ago on the dangers of serving money rather than God. What we see is a followup from two weeks ago. All of their needs would be met, and yet they still live for themselves rather than living in love of God and neighbor. This parable is about someone who has been taught the Word of God, probably their whole life, and has all the resources they could ever want, all the sort of practical, logistical resources. I didn’t really expect a ton of overlap from some of the themes in Leviticus 19 and Luke 16 in this parable of the rich man and Lazarus, but there were several things that Kevin said this morning in his sermon that actually tie in really well with what we’re going to see here in this parable in Luke. It is surely not impossible for the wealthy to enter heaven (numerous Godly men of the Bible were prosperous), but Scripture is plain that it is very troublesome ( Luke 18:24-25).I’ll be honest. "but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful." ( Mark 4:19). Not only do fortunes not get one into heaven, but they have the potential to separate a person from God like few other things. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter” ( James 5:5). However, as the apostle James advised, “You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. Also, he believed the impoverished, like Lazarus, were cursed by God. The rich man incorrectly saw his worldly wealth as proof of God’s love and blessing. Moral of Lazarus and the Rich Man Parable ![]() This Bible story is a great and powerful reminder that we will pay for our sins on earth when we finally decease, therefore we should love and care for our fellow mankind. Abraham told the rich man that if his brothers did not believe in Scripture, neither would they believe Lazarus, even if he came directly from heaven. Pleading to “Father Abraham” in heaven, the rich man asked that Lazarus come down from heaven to cool his tongue with a drop of water to reduce his “agony in this fire.” The rich man additionally requested Abraham to send Lazarus back to earth as a warning to his brothers to atone for their sins, however, both requests were refused. Lazarus was welcomed into heaven, while the rich man was condemned to hell. ![]()
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