Category: Torment

Subject: Torment

Sermon: Fall Meeting 2020, Jeremiah Cox

JeremiahThe following lessons were preached from November 1-6, 2020 during the West Side Fall Meeting.

Brother Jeremiah Cox is the evangelist for the Elm Street church of Christ in El Reno, Oklahoma. He and his wife Zoe and little girl Collins live in Yukon, OK.

 

Sunday Sermon in two parts

Boldness to Enter the Holiest (Hebrews 10)

Sunday Class

Asking for Wisdom in Faith (James 1)

Monday

The Defense for My Hope

Tuesday

Walking in the Light (1 John 1)

Wednesday

Memories from Home

Thursday

The Generic Jesus

Friday

If They Were Here, What Would They Say?

Lessons Learned from Torment

In Luke 16, our Lord revealed to his disciples the particulars of two men’s deaths: A rich man, “who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day,” but had insufficient love for God. A poor man named Lazarus who desired “to be fed crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table,” and was in good standing with God.

We know the spiritual standing of these two men, because Jesus revealed their disposition after death. The rich man, we are told, was in “torments in Hades” (vs. 23). Lazarus, in contrast, “was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom” where he received comfort (vs. 22).

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