Today i am going to tell you the story about the rich man and lazarus
sounds interesting go on with the story holy can't wait okay okay once there lived a rich man
who wore fine purple colored clothes in those times purple was the most expensive dye
and therefore seen mostly on nobles rich people royalty and sometimes on high level officials
every day this rich man would eat splendid meals wearing his purple robe he never had to worry
about anything in life he thought everything could be bought with money and he had everything coming
to him very easily outside the rich man's house lived a beggar his name was lazarus he was hungry
and wore torn clothes he had sores all over his body he would come there every day hoping to find
some leftover food from the rich man but the rich man ignored him and never cared or offered him
food one night lazarus died that same night the rich man died too the angels from heaven took
lazarus to abraham's side of the heaven while the rich man's eternal resting place was in hell
when the rich man saw lazarus on abraham's side of heaven he was confused he did not understand what
he did in his lifetime to receive such suffering and pain after death he pleaded to abraham let
lazarus come down and cool me off by dipping his finger in cool water and putting it on my tongue
i want to be relieved of all this pain that i am going through abraham spoke to the rich man
during your lifetime you received many good things while on the other hand
lazarus received nothing but suffering this was because of no fault of his but he did
and you did nothing to help him out also there's too much distance between lazarus and you
it is impossible for lazarus to help you in any way the rich man cried and begged please
please please help me where were you when you could have helped lazarus did you ever think of
helping him when he sat outside your house every day waiting for you to give him some food and now
after death lazarus deserves all the comfort and love he was ignored off in his life
the rich man thought over all the things abraham told him so he went back to abraham and said
please can you send back lazarus to my five brothers so that he can go warn them to change
their lives abraham was happy that the rich man was finally being unselfish and thinking
about others over himself but he also knew that sending back lazarus would not help his brothers
in any way so he said to the rich man you think your brothers would believe lazarus even if you
went back from the dead and told them they are not willing to listen to moses and the prophets
so why do you think they would listen to a simple man like lazarus
the rich man understood what abraham was trying to say he had no way of redeeming himself or help
his brothers who were living a selfish life the holy tales today's parable is about a
sower this story jesus told to his followers to make them understand the kingdom of god
long long time ago there lived a farmer one day he planted some seeds in his field
he took a handful of seeds and carefully tossed them onto the soil and covered the seeds with
more soil and waited for the plants to grow since the farmer tossed the seeds onto the soil
the seeds fell into four different kinds of soil fuel fell on the pavement where people walked
where the soil was hard and packed the seeds which fell on the pavement just rolled on the top
of it and birds came flying and ate them up there were few seeds which fell on the rocky soil these
seeds sprouted very quickly and in a few days they had leaves and roots sprouting out of them
but soon the plants were dead because the roots could not grow through the rocky soil
when the roots died the plants died too there were few seeds which fell onto the ground which
was full of weeds and thorns these seeds sprouted and began to grow but they never got very big the
weeds entangled and covered the plants and took up all the sun and the nutrition from the soil
these plants could never grow or produce any grains the seeds which fell onto the fourth kind
of soil which was the very fertile soil started sprouting and leaves began to appear these plants
grew healthy roots and the plants began to grow every day healthy and nourished grains began to
appear on the stalks and when the right time came the farmer picked the grains to sell them
or crush them to make flower for bread what did jesus want to teach through this parable holy
through this parable what jesus wanted his followers to understand was that his
teachings about the kingdom of god are like the seeds which the farmer had tossed onto the soil
not everyone who heard jesus believed what he said just like not all of the farmer's seeds
grow healthy and nourished every person is born with different kinds of hearts just like there are
different kinds of soil jesus further explained the hard soil of the pavement is like the hard
hearts of the people who heard jesus's teachings but did not even care to understand the meaning
their hard hearts are not open to follow god and they just go away like the seeds which were taken
away by the birds the seeds which fell on the rocky soil are like the people who are very happy
to find out about god but eventually change their minds and turn away from him like the plants whose
roots die the ones which fell on the soil with weeds and thorns are the people who have hurt the
word of god but get busy making money and having fun that they do not have the time to worship him
finally jesus explained about the seeds which fell onto the good soil these seeds represent
the people who have a good heart and the kind of heart we should all have the good heart listens to
god's word and tries to obey and follow him which helps him to grow just like the plants which grew
well on good soil phew that was some story deep and profound yes and i hope all your children have
a good heart to take in god's words and teachings and that will help you to be a good person
oh yes yes gumbo tubby and i have good hearts because we love listening to bible stories
i am glad you love the stories okay we'll be back soon think of a story and be ready to tell us the
next time we come to visit you of course i will bye bye children take care you too holy bye bye