Luke 16:27-31 (ESV Strong's)
And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house— for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’ But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’”
Tag: We Have the Scriptures!
The above passage is taken from the story of the rich man and the beggar, Lazarus. Both of these men died but the rich man went to a place of torment and Lazarus went to a place of paradise. The rich man is now the beggar ... he is begging God to send someone to warn his family about this place of torment and the place of paradise. Of course, being the privileged man that he is, he “instructs” God to send the beggar, Lazarus, to do his bidding. Notice that the heart of the rich man still has no compassion for Lazarus; only for his own family. God’s response is that the rich man’s family has the Scriptures to point them to the place that Lazarus is in. The truth is, for today, all the Scriptures point to the same place. People fail to believe God’s Word and suffer the consequences. The world likes to create its own philosophy and direction for life, but when the end comes, they will all have the same torment. The Scriptures speak for themselves. If they fail to believe in the Scriptures, even Christ’s resurrection from the dead will have no meaning for them. For, it is in the Scriptures that we understand the reason for his death, burial and resurrection.
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