Many people know that I’m a Christian and know that my greatest desire is to preach the truth of the good news of Jesus Christ.  Many people know this and are resistant to hearing it because they want to live their lives as they see fit.  By nature, people want to follow their sinful way and forget about God and forget about the truth of the Word.  Are you one of those people, do you plug up your ears when you hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ? Regardless if you want to hear it or not, in eternity, you will realize the full truth as revealed to us in Scripture.
 
 
Luke 16:19-31
“There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate,  desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
“Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’  But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented.  And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’
 “Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house,  for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’ Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’”
 
In reference to this Bible passage, Pastor John MacArthur says, “The rich man retained a condescending attitude toward Lazarus even in hell, repeatedly asking Abraham to “send” Lazarus to wait on him.  The flames of hell do not atone for sin or purge hardened sinners from their depravity.”
 
After you die, your heart will continually be set on loving and worshipping God in heaven, or your heart will continually be set on hating and cursing God in hell.  While you still have time, I beg you to consider your condition before God.  As we turn the page to a new year, make a resolution to open up your Bible, examine it carefully, and pray that God would give you a new heart that loves Him and desires to submit to Him.