<TITLE>09. Par 79-89</TITLE>L-79 And after a while his barns swelled till even he said, why, even, "Soul, take your rest. I've got so much money and so much success! And I'm such great man! I belong to all the clubs. And I have the riches of the world in my hands. I own great sums of land and sums of money, and, why, my, there everybody likes me, a very fine person to be."

L-80 But you know, the Bible said that, that night, God said to him, "I'm going to require your soul."

L-81   Then what did happened? Now there was a beggar, a poor old Christian that layed out there by his gate. And just when they...

L-82 Up in Jerusalem, over there, they--they eat up on top of the house. And the bread crumbs fall off like this, and the pieces of meat, and so forth, hit the floor when they drop them. And they don't pick them up, because everything in Jerusalem, the old city, it--it's...

L-83 Is it all right to say a little joke here? They're f-o-b. You know what that is? Flies on the bread, flies on the beef, flies on the butter, f-o-b, flies on everything. They got out in the street, in the gutters and everything, and fly in and get right up on it.

L-84 So these people up there, they get up on top of the--of the building. And they eat, and then they drop this off, and then they sweep that off. And the dogs, in the streets, eats the crumbs. And he let this poor old Christian lay there in the street and just eat the crumbs that dropped from his plate from his bed, or from his table.

L-85 And then when he got in, after a while, he had sores, and he didn't have anything to put on his sores. His name was Lazarus. And the dogs come and licked his sores so he could try to get well.

L-86   Well, you know, after a while, this rich man, when, he saw he had money to buy all kinds of medicine, if he got sick, have all kinds of doctors. But, you know, sometimes doctors can't help us, medicine won't help us, nothing can help us; we're at the mercy of God. And he come down to the end of his road; the doctors couldn't help him, and the nurses couldn't help him, and medicine couldn't help him, and he died. And then when his soul left his body, see, it left all of his money, all of his education, everything that he had, all of his popularity. They give him a great big funeral, maybe half-masted the flag, and--and the mayor of the city come, and they, and the preacher come and--and said, "Our brother now has gone to Glory," and all like that.

L-87 But the Bible said, that, "He lifted up his eyes in hell, in torment, and looked way across that great gulf there, and seen that beggar that had been laying, there in his door, over in Heaven. And he cried, 'Send Lazarus down here with a little water. These flames are tormenting.' Said, 'Oh, no. See, you took the wrong choice in life.'"

L-88   See, when he come to the end of the road, to step out of life! He had been led by religion. He had been led by education. He had been led by the influence of his--of his success. But, you see, he had nothing to hold his hand, those things end there. You understand, little fellow? You adults do. What I'm... See, he had nothing to hold him. His money couldn't hold him. His friends with the doctors couldn't hold him. Medicine couldn't hold him. His priest, his religion, couldn't hold him. So, there was only one thing for him to do. He had--he had refused to accept Jesus, Eternal Life. So what did he have to do? Sink down into death, into hell. What a fatal mistake that young man had when he refused to walk with Jesus, be led by Jesus. He refused to do it.

L-89 So many young people are making that mistake, today, refusing to be led by the--by the Lord Jesus. Now we see what a fatal thing it is to refuse Eternal Life and be led by Jesus, a Leadership, when He said, "Come, follow Me."


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