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Introduction - Weighing Consequences
In fact, studies show that the part of the brain that comprehends action/consequence may not even fully develop until 25 years of age.
But understanding the consequences of our actions is not the same as considering them.
Human Beings do not look death in the eyes.
It really doesn’t matter why we don’t,
But we agree right?
Nobody looks death in the eyes until death grabs you by the face to stare at you.
Sometimes from a near death experience
sometimes from illness
sometimes from the death of a loved one
Yet just as quickly as we look at death, we turn away.
We do everything we can to forget what we saw.
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry says understanding actions and consequences comes at 25 years of age.
But I’m not so sure that we consider those consequences Cedar View.
We have been blessed this morning to participate in the ordinance of Baptism.
We have been blessed because at every utterance of the gospel the Christian has the been given the grace of God to be conformed into Christ’s image just a little more.
We saw the Gospel demonstrated through the baptism of Seth.
as he stood
Seth was buried with Christ in baptism, and raised to newness of life.
Was submerged,
and lifted out of the water,
Painting us yet again the picture
Our text this morning speaks of 2 men
One man was buried and did not rise again.
One man will hear the Word of God, and believe the Word with the consequence of eternal life
Another man will hear the Word of God, and reject the Word, with the consequence of eternal damnation
The focus of the passage is on the man who did not rise.
The tone of this passage is heavy, mournful, sober
We will come out the other side rejoicing in the Gospel, but first we must behold the consequences of Adam’s actions.
The consequences of our own.
We must behold the consequences of Adam’s actions.
The consequences of our own.
For we can only understand the heights of grace and mercy when we behold the depths of God’s wrath upon the unrighteous, like you and I once were.
Who is your ONE?
Keep them in in mind as we explore our text this morning.
Our theme this morning is our battle cry marching into a lost and condemned world:
The Word of God is our Richest Treasure, and our Only Hope of Salvation from God’s Wrath
To explain our theme to a lost and condemned world we will examine 3 PROCLAMATIONS this morning
Proclaim that Man's Feasts will Fade (v.19-23)
Proclaim that Tomorrow's Torment is Everlasting (v.24-31)
Proclaim the Hope of Lazarus (v.22,25,31)
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Proclaim that Man’s Feasts Will Fade ()
Introduction - Weighing Consequences
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In fact, studies show that the part of the brain that comprehends action/consequence may not even fully develop until 25 years of age.
But understanding the consequences of our actions is not the same as considering them.
Who is your ONE?
Look at the feasting of the Rich Man this morning an consider what feasts your ONE might enjoy in this life that distracts them from the gospel.
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v.19 - A Rich Man
What is a rich man in America?
If I took a poll of every member here at Cedar View, my guess is that not a single one of us would consider ourselves rich.
It can be helpful at times though to recall from history different understandings of wealth.
Christian, consider that Luke, in describing this Rich Man, was making it explicitly clear to the reader that this man was extremely wealthy.
When Luke wrote his gospel, a man wearing purple that feasts every day would be understood to be on par with royalty, if not actually royalty.
By regarding his food and his clothes.
A Rich Man
Clothed in purple and fine linen - signs of royalty
Feasting in abundance daily
Why does Luke emphasize these details?
We are not just told that this is a Rich Man but we are SHOWN that he is a rich man
And then Luke introduces the poor man
So rich in our culture can be more difficult to define.
But wealth and poverty are always understood in relation to one another.
So rich in our culture can be more difficult to define.
But wealth and poverty are always understood in relation to one another.
Praise God that we literally have food in abundance, and where we don’t have the most expensive clothes available like the Rich Man did, we do have quality clothes that many lack.
So how then do we apply the text?
Considering our ONE, do we compare them to the Rich Man or to Lazarus?
To help us better understand and apply “Beware of Today’s Feast” let us move on from the Rich Man and introduce Lazarus
v.20-21 - A Poor Man
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“And at his gate...”
Remember that the Rich Man is the main character in this story.
Lazarus is introduced as a supporting actor, a part of the setting to demonstrate fully the overwhelming wealth and status of the Rich Man.
And like the Rich Man’s description, Luke does not merely tell us that Lazarus is poor, but Luke demonstrates to us clearly the DETAILS of his poverty.
Laid at the Gate - Likely the place that the desperate, crippled, and homeless came to beg and panhandle in this day
Covered with sores
Desired just the crumbs from the table
Dogs came to lick his sores.
Consider these 2 men.
One Rich enough to own a gate, ---- the other so poor he can merely beg beneath it.
One clothed in the clothes of royalty, ---- the other clothed in open and weeping sores
One eating to excess every day, ---- the other begging to eat the crumbs from the floor
One lacking no comfort, ---- the other so desperate for comfort that only the dogs of the street came to offer relief from his pain.
There exists a divide in this life Christian.
There are those that have and those that have not.
We see first hand the feasts of this life.
Either at our own table or at our neighbors.
There are some of us and many in our community that devote their entire lives to becoming Rich Men.
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They strive and push to indulge in all of Man’s Feasts to show themselves approved in retirement, to live in comfort, ease, and abundance.
To clothe themselves in purple, to feast daily
Luke wants us as the reader to behold the feasts the Rich Man and the table crumbs of Lazarus.
But Christian, the terror of this text begins as we read v.22-23
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I would hazard to guess that most of us in here have not interacted with a homeless man or woman in the past year maybe even the past 5 years.
Since living in Olive Branch I have not myself because it is just far less common to see in rural areas.
But so just as it is difficult to define wealth in our culture, who in our culture can relate to Lazarus?
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