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 the gate of the rich man’s home. In his hunger he longed to be fed from the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table, it certainly seems that he was not invited inside to dine and enjoy the fine food that was enjoyed by the rich man. He was not offered any ointment for his sores, he was not bathed and given clean clothes. He died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s bosom God valued him greatly even if his fellow human didn’t.
The rich man was valued by men and was buried. He does not have the privilege of angelic interest, but finds himself in a place of neglect and suffering without even water to cool his tongue, he is far away from the beggar and has a gulf fixed between his place of torment and paradise. We are also told that he didn’t believe and that his family whom he was concerned about also wouldn’t believe even though “one should rise from the dead.”
It is necessary to believe God’s Word and in particular place your faith in the Living Word, The Lord Jesus Christ, before you die. Your preparations have to be made on this side of eternity.
"Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow.
For what is your life?
It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away."
James chapter 4 verse 14.
Prepare to meet God by believing on His Son Who was raised from the dead “for our justification.” Romans 4:25.
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 the gate of the rich man’s home. In his hunger he longed to be fed from the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table, it certainly seems that he was not invited inside to dine and enjoy the fine food that was enjoyed by the rich man. He was not offered any ointment for his sores, he was not bathed and given clean clothes. He died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s bosom God valued him greatly even if his fellow human didn’t.
The rich man was valued by men and was buried. He does not have the privilege of angelic interest, but finds himself in a place of neglect and suffering without even water to cool his tongue, he is far away from the beggar and has a gulf fixed between his place of torment and paradise. We are also told that he didn’t believe and that his family whom he was concerned about also wouldn’t believe even though “one should rise from the dead.”
It is necessary to believe God’s Word and in particular place your faith in the Living Word, The Lord Jesus Christ, before you die. Your preparations have to be made on this side of eternity.
"Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow.
For what is your life?
It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away."
James chapter 4 verse 14.
Prepare to meet God by believing on His Son Who was raised from the dead “for our justification.” Romans 4:25.