I just want to be very clear.... We are living in an age where the Message is misrepresented and misused. I am sitting in the pew squirming and having a rebuttal well up in my outraged heart. Ink is running as fast as I can move it across the paper.... I am an English Major and if what was preached today was on an Essay Test, I would have to give it an F for the lack of comprehension. I was floored that this 'shepherd' had got this out of the passage of Scripture!
Luke 16:19-31 is about the Rich Man and Lazarus. The sermon was about compassion we should have. Her question was how are we like the rich man lacking compassion for the beggar at our gate.
Lets just boil this Scripture to the very core! This is about eternal torment vs. earthly discomfort. If you want to preach about compassion using this Passage then you better be preaching about God's Saving Compassion for us! Like my Dad has said that it is like the church wants to make everyone comfortable in the pew so lets not talk about sin and hell but what about saving them from the burning fires of hell?
I could go on and on about what this scripture means in such detail to exhaust all possible meat one would be able to glean from this Holy Word but it would never touch on how we are like the rich man lacking compassion for the beggar at the gate. There are other great passages on giving human compassion. What comes to my visual mind is a so-called shepherd at the gate of the fold of sheep pacifying us with fake water. Where is her compassion? I have a co-worker that I am trying to plant God-seeds in her life. All the church is providing is junk food? I want Living Water!
This year I am most thankful that I can read and that I have the Living Word to read and that I have the Holy Spirit guiding my heart and soul..... We must be watching! We are called to be the Watchmen! We must tell the Truth every time we hear the half truths. I was bursting at the seams with this.....
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