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Our sermon will be on Luke 14:15-24
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What Ya Gonna Miss?
Luke 16:19-31
Years ago, Lizzie was probably 5 or 6, we headed to church on a Sunday morning.
We had a really long driveway.
We had 5 acres and it was positioned with the narrow side to the road.
Our house was past the half way mark.
Anyway, we are about to turn on to the road and I hear a voice, Josh, say “Where’s Lizzie?”
You know, it’s a wonder that we ever get out the door with all kids.
Especially if the kids had a friend with them.
Then our count was off.
Getting back to my story, Josh noticed that Lizzie was missing.
I turned around and did a count, and sure enough she was missing.
I looked in my side mirror and there was Lizzie, hooking it down the road.
The scared look on her face was so precious.
You know, we almost didn’t have a 4th child.
After Christian, I was ready to quit.
You know, sometimes you don’t know what you’re missing until you have it.
I wouldn’t trade Lizzie for anything.
Even with the things coming up.
But sometimes, you don’t know what you have until you’ve lost it.
We are going to talk about what we will be missing when this life is over.
We’ll Miss Silver
The first thing we see in this story is the fact that this man was rich.
It says that he was clothed in purple and fared sumptuously.
Purple was very expensive back then.
Lazarus or Eleazar means “God, the Helper”
And he trusted in God.
He was poor.
Dirt poor.
Like my Poppy used to say “Even the poor people called him poor.”
The rich man had all he needed and more.
He could get whatever his silver could buy.
Lazarus couldn’t even afford food.
Both men did what all of us will do - they died.
And like I’ve heard before, “you don’t see a Uhaul following a hearse.”
We can’t take our silver with us.
We’ll Miss Sickness
It doesn’t say if the rich man had any diseases, but he would have had access to the best medicines and food of the time.
The implication is that he was healthy.
Lazarus probably had Leprosy.
There was no cure for it back then.
Basically, your skin and body parts just started falling off.
The rich man would have had water and servants to fetch it.
Lazarus would have had very little access to water.
I don’t think most of us can understand what it was like to have go get water.
Ours just magically comes out of the wall.
It wasn’t that long ago when you had to get water out of a well.
Some of you remember that.
I know that my Dad didn’t have water in their house until he was in high school.
That’s only a few years before I was born.
Just having access to food gives people better health.
Many beggars of that era died of malnutrition.
Many of us die of eating too much.
When we get to heaven:
There will be need of silver
And there will be no sickness.
We’ll Miss Sorrow
In this story, we see 2 prayers come out of the rich man.
In the first prayer, he begs to have his torment eased.
We don’t know exactly what that torment would be like, but we know that Jesus said in Mark 9:44
Lazarus is pictured as being in the bosom of Abraham.
This idea is like that of a grandfather having his grandchildren in his lap.
Part of his sorrow seems to be knowing that the decisions in life led him to this fate.
Notice that Lazarus has no need, no sickness, and no sorrow.
But the rich man has nothing, is tormented, and is sorrowful.
In the second prayer, the rich man asks that Father Abraham is send word to his family about the torment.
Abraham says that they have Moses and the prophets, which is to say they have the Bible.
He then asks Abraham to send Lazarus.
He says they will listen to someone that has risen from the dead.
Now Jesus is obviously talking about himself here, but look at what he says: Luke 16:31
I think that it was Dr. William Lane Craig once asked Christopher Hitchens if we would believe if God wrote his name in the stars and the once famous atheist (he’s dead now) said “I would think that I was hallucinating.
We have the full Bible and the testimony of billions of people that believe.
And Jesus did rise from the dead.
The rich man didn’t want his family to go through that like him.
He didn’t want them to miss the silver and riches of Heaven.
He didn’t want them to have sickness and physical ailments
He didn’t want them to have the sorrow and torment that he was bearing.
Notice that once the story of Lazarus gets him to the bosom of Abraham, we don’t hear from Lazarus.
He doesn’t have any needs any more.
He doesn’t have any pain or sickness any more.
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