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Intro
Welcome to True Worship Church!
It brings me great joy to see you all here today.
I hope this week has been prosperous and beneficial for you all.
Today is the last day of my sermon series on the Life & Love of Christ.
Has this series blessed you?
I think we have had an amazing couple of weeks but I don’t expect things to cool off anytime soon.
Here’s why?
Because In 2 weeks (Everybody say, “In 2 weeks”), we start a new sermon series titled “Devil in the Details.”
We’ll do a deep dive in to those parts of our life we keep hidden or things we know about ourselves which makes us uncomfortable to even think about.
Have you ever had a pile of stuff or clothes on your bed and you just grab the sheet or blanket and just cover it up?
My daughter, Jada, does that.
I’ll tell her to go and clean her room and make her bed and she’ll just pull her blanket over whatever is on her bed.
You would be amazed at some of things you can find under he blanket.
What’s hidden under your blanket?
You know we have those places in us we don’t want people to know about, we don’t like to talk about it and we don’t like other people talking about it to us.
I want to deal with that and see if God has a word for us to help bring deliverance and breakthrough.
I am excited about what God is going to do over the next several weeks.
So be here for the start of my new sermon series called “Devil in the Details” in 2 weeks which is actually the launch of our 9 am service.
Somebody say, “Amen.”
You do not want to miss a week of that series!
I’ve been preaching on the Life and Love of Christ by sharing parts of Jesus’ story that I believe prove that He loves us.
I’ve tried to take some passages of scripture and point out some new things that you can only see by getting into the story yourself.
The Parable
Jesus did something really good?
Does anybody know what that was?
He used these in a 3rd of His teachings.
He used it when talking about the Prodigal Son, the sower, the tares, the hidden treasure, the lost sheep and the Good Samaritan.
He told parables!
He used simple things to teach on deeper things.
He would use parables to reveal the spiritual and moral lessons of His teachings.
So, I’d like to look at the life and love of Christ through one of His parables.
Let’s go to the text.
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“Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day.
“Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day.
20 “And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores,
21 and longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man’s table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores.
22 “Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried.
23 “In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and *saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 “And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.’
25 “But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.
26 ‘And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.’
27 “And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father’s house—
28 for I have five brothers—in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’
29 “But Abraham *said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’
30 “But he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!’
31 “But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’
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Names One and not the Other
What is the 1st thing Jesus does here in verses 19-20?
He names the poor man and keeps the rich man nameless.
Jesus immediately goes against the norm.
The norm would have been to name the rich man and leave the poor man nameless.
Jesus was all about messing up the way things were done in the world system and what man called acceptable.
I want to be clear here.
Jesus is telling a parable.
He is telling a story to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson.
He told the parable in a context and way that the people hearing Him would understand the the ideas, the imagery and the people described in the parable.
Are we relating to the people who are in our context?
The things we share with others are they able to relate to God by the things we speak?
People should understand God in a sense by being with you and me.
We reveal God to others in our context.
We use ideas, imagery and people in our conversations that those around us would understand.
You know the more time we spend with people, the more they get to know us right?
But they should also be getting to know more about God because by spending time with us, they are in fact spending time with God.
Somebody say 2 for!
Anybody remember Mr. Alan’s slogan “2 For”?
It meant that I could buy 2 items there for a much better deal than if I was to go somewhere else and buy the same 2 items at regular price each.
It should be a much better deal for people to be around us because they get the “2 For” deal!
You and God!
Jesus starts out talking about a rich man.
How many folks in here are going to be rich?
That’s right!
You need to have vision.
That’s right declare that thing!
Speak that thing!
But you better listen to the message today!
You better listen!
This rich man was dressed in purple and fine linen.
He wasn’t just rich.
He was filthy rich!
Wealthy!
He lived in a palace (right?, historical context - we’ve got to go in to the story) because that is where rich people lived in that time.
This purple material was dyed with an expensive dye that came from a certain kind of shellfish.
Think about that.
He was so rich that in order to make his clothes somebody had to dive in to the sea to get shellfish to make his clothes.
Yeah, he had it like that!
There is a lady in the Bible who sold purple and help fund Jesus’ ministry.
Her name was Lydia.
She was rich too and saved.
The church need a bunch of Lydia’s!
We need some Lydia’s to help fund our vision.
This guy wasn’t the kind of rich, like he just got his taxes back.
You know how we are?
We balling when we get them taxes back.
New hair and new shoes!
The rich man had it like that.
He lived the good life!
He lived that way every day.
He was on that Bill Gates level, Jeff Bezos (Amazon) level kind of rich.
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