Lucky Escape
You’re lucky to be alive. You’d better buy a lottery ticket. To examine the reasoning behind such statements would require a lot of discussion. The concept of luck is believed on in many cultures and has the idea of fate or that life is some sort of gambling issue. The other school of reasoning is that the more you own the more you have been blessed and the more important that you are. The beggar dies and so does the wealthy and powerful. Some live in huge houses, drive expensive cars, eat the finest food, wear the finest clothes and enjoy the best of health. Others are starving, have no homes, no clean water and contaminated food, cannot wash themselves properly through lack of water and are constantly plagued by disease. The vail is drawn back on the eternal state of two men by the Lord Jesus Christ as he taught on this scene of time nearly 2000 years ago. One a rich man one a beggar. It is found in Luke's Gospel towards the end of chapter 16. The beggar could only be laid at th...