![]() So they hear this teaching about not being a servant of money but rather being a servant of God. So this parable, again sort of directed to the Pharisees, is almost preemptively answering a potential question that the Pharisees might raise. Do whatever You need to, Lord, by the power of Your Word and Spirit. So would You do that in our own lives, whether that is just training us and teaching us and reminding us of these truths that you’ve already implanted on our heart, or whether that is conviction and maybe for the first time even conviction of sin and repentance and faith in You. It is able to accomplish all that You will for it to accomplish. We thank You so much that it is living and active and it is able to do all that You’ve sent it out to do. Let’s go ahead and let’s pray and then we’ll jump into the text.įather, I pray that You would be with us as we come to Your Word. So think, in this parable, think of it, how would it resonate to the Pharisees specifically? What was Jesus trying to teach the Pharisees specifically? Then Jesus says, “Hey, you are those who try and justify yourselves before men.” Now before we read this text, I think, so if you look at, go ahead and look at Luke 16, the first parable about the dishonest manager, it said He told this to His disciples and then verse 14 kicks in and it says the Pharisees are here and they’re lovers of money and they heard these and they ridiculed Him. Or if you like, in order for us to live by faith in humble obedience to God’s Word. We’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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