7/13/2023 0 Comments Lazarus and the rich manWe’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.
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