SERMONS ON LAZARUS AND THE RICH MAN
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How Can I Find Acceptance with God (6 of 7)
by Stan Coffey
The lesson material today is certainly not new to most of you. If you have your Bible turn to Luke 16:19. And the question is "How Can I Find Acceptance With God?" Everyone in the world secretly longs to be accepted by God. And so different religions of the world try different things to feel that they are accepted by their God. In some religions they throw their babies in to the river to the crocodiles. They sacrifice the babies thinking that will get them acceptance with God. In some religions people wound their own bodies, they punish their own bodies thinking that will help them find acceptance with God. In some religions...
How can a loving God send someone to Hell? (4 of 5)
by Josh Malone
There is no doctrine that causes people to squirm more than the doctrine of Hell. It disgusts many unbelievers and skeptics and many Christians seem almost embarrassed by it. However, when you look at the Bible honestly you can't help but notice it speaks of Hell, of God's Judgment and wrath, A LOT. This is confusing and offensive to some people. They ask how can you say God is a God of love and say that He would consign anyone to go to Hell? What I want you to see this morning is that Hell is in fact real and so is God's love. By watering Hell down or ignoring it all we really do is water down God's love. You don't understand God's...
The Ministry Of Angels Upon The Believer's Death (9 of 16)
by Stan Coffey
Introduction: In Luke 16 we read the story of the rich man and Lazarus. Lazarus, a child of God, died and was "carried by the angel into Abrahamn's bosom." What a tremendous comfort to believers to know that we will not have to cross Jordan alone. The ministering spirits, the holy angels, who have ministered to us by protecting and delivering us so often on the earth will be with us in our last great battle. I. THE ANGELS MINISTERED TO JESUS FOLLOWING HIS DEATH. A. Angels rolled away the stone of the tomb of Jesus. B. Angels announced His resurrection to His disciples.C. Just as an angel was involved...
Jesus Under Your Table
by Joe Alain
When looking at this particular text the focus immediately shifts to thinking about the state of people in the afterlife. The rich man is in hell ("hades") and Lazarus is in the Old Testament concept of heaven depicted as Abraham's bosom. But there is so much more to this story than who's in heaven and who's in hell...
What Hell Has That We Need (5 of 7)
by Stan Coffey
There was a man who left the snow filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he thought he would send his wife a quick e-mail. However, he couldn't find the scrap of paper on which he had written her e-mail address so he tried to type it in from memory. Unfortunately, he missed one letter and mistakenly sent his note to an elderly woman whose husband had passed away the day before. When the grieving widow checked her e-mail, she took one look at the monitor, read the message, let out a tremendous scream and...
The Other Side of Death
by Jerry Vines
Wednesday night at 8:19, TWA flight 800 took off from JFK International Airport on a flight for Paris. At 8:48 it fell off the radar screen and plunged in a ball of fire into the Atlantic Ocean. 230 passengers on that plane perished. Where are they now? A mother and her nine-year-old son were on that plane. They were getting ready to go on vacation together. One moment they were on this side of death; the next moment they were on the other side of death. Where are they now? A couple had been married for 50 years, like many in our church family. They had given themselves, as a wedding anniversary gift, this trip to Paris. They boarded...
A Certain Rich Man and a Certain Beggar that Had Nothing in Common (9 of 11)
by Ken Trivette
Before us in our text is one of the most solemn and heart-gripping stories in all of the Word of God. It is the story of two ''certain ones'' in Luke that had nothing in common either in this life or the life to come. It is a story of contrasts and differences. It is a story of a diversity of life. It is the story of two men who lived opposite extremes of the social order. One man owned much and the other owned nothing. One man lost everything and the other gained everything. One was a beggar in this life and the other was a beggar in the life to come. Let's consider the story of this certain rich man and this certain beggar. 1. THEY HAD NOTHING IN...
A Man in Hell
by Robert Walker
The testimony of many lost persons in their moment of death indicates they were convinced of hell. SIR WALTER SCOTT, on his death bed, said, ''Until this moment I thought there was neither a God nor hell. Now I know and feel that there are both, and I am doomed to perdition by the judgment of God.'' VOLTAIRE, the noted French infidel, said to his doctor, ''I am abandoned by God and man! I will give you half of what I am worth if you will give me six months' of life. Then I shall go to hell ... O Christ, O Jesus Christ.'' NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, ''I die before my time, and my body will be given back to the earth. Such is the fate of him...
When the Agony and the Ecstasy is Reversed
by J. Gerald Harris
As I am sure you know "The Agony and the Ecstasy" is a biographical novel about the life of Michelangelo written by Irving Stone. The story is all about the troubles Michelangelo encountered while painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II. In our text we see something of the agony of Lazarus, a beggar and a crippled man whose body was covered with sores. But we also get a view of the ecstasy of this rich man, sometimes called Dives, who lived in a palatial home, wore designer clothes, ate caviar and drank his Perrier from a golden goblet. Let's look at this story in Luke 16: 19-31. (Read) Some...
If the Dead Could Speak
by Rex Yancey
Jim Futral will speak tomorrow at five o’clock at Falkner. He was my pastor back in the 60’s. Pleasant Ridge was founded in 1842. The pastors of that church through the years have preached many funerals of people they did not know. They had moved away and perhaps out of state, and came back to the Ridge to be buried. Jim had a funeral like that where a pastor from Arkansas accompanied the corpse back to the Ridge to be buried. Jim read scriptures at the graveside and called on the dead man to pray. The pastor quickly corrected him. Jim said if that man had prayed he would have run out of the cemetery.-What if the dead could....
A Voice beyond the Grave
by Robert Dawson
Two Texas ranchers were bragging about the size of their ranch trying to impress and outdo one another. One rancher asked the other, ''What is the name of your Ranch?'' The other rancher responded, ''The Rocking R, Circle Q, Box D, Flying W, Silver Spur ranch.'' The other rancher, virtually speechless, said, ''Wow! That is some name! How many head of cattle do you have?'' The rancher, with a look of embarrassment said, ''None. They didn't survive the branding.'' There are some things in life that are difficult to survive. One thing none of us survives is life and the branding of sin. It brings death to all of us. The great question concerning life...
Things Found In Hell That Belong In The Church
by Jerry Watts
Let’s talk for a time tonight about 2 very important institutions. One is called the church and the other goes by several name, Hades, Gehenna, or Hell. What do you think of when you hear the word “Church?” Most think of a brick building or some place you “go to”. Yet, in point of fact the church is a group of baptized believers, joining together to fulfill God’s mission and ministry given to them. Jesus said, “I will build my Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.” So it is fair to say that the Church of the Lord Jesus was conceived, designed, instituted, and empowered by Christ himself to impact this world. Yet, the...
Death: What Next?
by Roger Thomas
I've conducted lots of funerals through years. Most have been quite normal. A few have been a little different. But I never had anything happen quite like the true story I recently read of a young preacher and one of his first funerals. A very elderly man who had formerly lived in the town had died in another state. The funeral was held where he now lived but the burial was to be back home. The funeral home called the young preacher and asked him to have the graveside service. The burial was to be at an old country church cemetery several miles out of town. The funeral director explained that since he hadn't lived in town for years...
That My Sinful State Is Burning Me (10 of 11)
by Wayne Hinson
Intro: The greatest tragedy of not "seeing clearly", is for a person to find themselves in hell. Hell is at the end of a godless life. The rich man in our text does so correctly and thoroughly picture the average person in our society today. Most people place hell on the level of Santa Claus, in that they believe hell to be a myth. Common sense, which most people do not have an adequate amount of, would tell anyone that if you wanted to know the truth of whether a place exists, and what that place is like, then ask someone who has been there. I have never been to Rome, and if I wanted to know if it really is there, and what it is like, the I...
The Point of NO Return (3 of 6)
by Keith Krell
If you've ever flown on an airplane you've probably noticed that in the seat pocket ahead of you is a little safety information card. It contains lots of pictures and useful information illustrating what you should do if the plane should have to ditch in to the ocean. Not exactly the kind of information most people look forward to reading as they're preparing for a long flight. The next time you're on an airplane, look around and see how many people you can spot actually reading the safety cards. Nowadays, I suspect you'll find more people talking or scanning their smartphone instead. But suppose you had a reason to believe that there...
Reversal in Flames (18 of 52)
by Christopher Harbin
Some topics we consider taboo. They are not for public conversation. At least that is the message we tend to get in polite society. While the church is not the place to discuss partisan politics, there are aspects of the gospel that have a direct impact on the political and economic structures of the world in which we live. To be faithful to Jesus is not always to be faithful to the social norms, patterns, and taboos of the world around us. Economics is of those issues we don't readily talk about, especially in church. It is one of those themes we have been told does not make for polite conversation. We don't talk about our incomes. We don't talk about the...
Our Motive For Missions
by Ernest Easley
Just a few weeks ago on October 31st at 1:50 a.m., the engines suddenly shut down on a Boeing 767 and plunged 33,000 feet into the Atlantic Ocean. All 217 people on EgyptAir Flight 990 perished! The USA News and World Report writes that ''217 lives were lost in a matter of seconds.'' Lost? What do you mean lost? Lost where? Where did they go? Where are they this morning? One minute they were sitting comfortably on board that plane and in moments they were in eternity! But where are they this morning? Last year in this city 1119 people died! Do you know how many people that is? If you were to fill this worship center on January...
The Great Divide
by James Merritt
1. One of the most fun trips I have ever taken in my life was years ago when my wife and three sons went out west to Colorado, and spent a week in a part of the country we had never been in before. We did everything from horseback riding to white water rafting, to just exploring the great outdoors. 2. But one of the highlights for me, strangely enough, was driving up to a top of one of the Rocky Mountains and standing on what is called by some, ''The Continental Divide,'' and others ''The Great Divide.'' Geologists call it the Backbone of the Continent. Not only is this where the Rocky Mountains reach their highest peak, but...
