Luke 18:18-30 & 19:1-10
Two well-known stories are the Rich Young Ruler and a rich tax collector named Zacchaeus. Both were wealthy, but one became poor and the other became richer. Interestingly, these two stories are sandwich the story of a poor blind beggar who became possibly the richest of the three.
Luke 17:20-37
Left Behind: is a series of 16 best-selling novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins dealing with the dispensationalist, pre-tribulation, pre-millennial, eschatological interpretation of the Biblical apocalypse. Whew! So says Wikipedia. As we move from last week’s “personal end of time on earth,” what does the Bible say about the end of time on earth for everyone?
Luke 16:19-31
I skipped over the Shred Manager story because I already preached on that, and I landed on this bombshell. Theologians have been arguing over this question for centuries. The more important issue is why Jesus told this story at this point and how important it is to our own personal eschatology. Oops! I mean to our own end of time on earth.