The Word of God thru Parables
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The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus

Luke 16: 19-31

Jesus uses contrasting types of people in many parables to get across a particular moral lesson. This is one of those. The very rich self centered, selfish man whose love of money and worldly possessions is without virtues or conventional humanities. The character of Lazarus represents the opportunity for the exercise of humanity and a whole class of people. Jesus tells this parable as a lesson to the Pharisees who had just previously derided him and mocked his teachings. The story is a a warning and an example of what comes of their teachings and what they say by example. The point that inhumanity is a damning and inexcusable sin. It is dangerous to trust in riches which cannot provide salvation and are only temporary. At death a person's previous wealth is of no use to one whose eternal destiny is settled at death.
The Law of "Love thy neighbor as oneself" is the supreme duty and to disregard it, without exception is a deadly sin. The selfish worldly man who cares for nothing but his own comfort is the unforgiving man whom the Father in Heaven does not forgive and "neither be persuaded, through one rose from the dead", (Luke 16: 31).

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