We continue looking at the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus and specifically consider the truth that there is indeed a hades/hell awaiting the unregenerate into which they enter the moment they pass out of this life.
The wicked go through this present life willfully blind to the reality of judgment and hell. But in hell their eyes will be opened to its truth - all too late.
We begin this series by looking once again at the Lord Jesus' account of the rich man and Lazarus. This doctrine is being denied in our day by some well-known evangelical celebrities who insist that the wicked will be annihilated rather than sentenced to eternal torment. This is a heresy and a dangerous one.
This is the account of Jesus saving Zacchaeus and shows us that salvation is entirely of the Lord's effectual calling of the sinner.
When we are born again, we really become sons of God. He adopts us into His family because He really is our Father now. There is a great change from the Old Covenant to the New. One concerns a bondage leading to fear, the other to the love of our Father.
Human beings thirst for happiness and fulfillment but most never find it because they are looking for the wrong object and in the wrong way. Christ alone is the living water.
Jesus meets the woman at the well and reveals Himself to her, granting her salvation. There are important truths here for us, especially in regard to true worship.
