Luke 16:27–31 (ESV)
“And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house— for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’ But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’”
THE DISTRACTED LIFE
Mark 4:19 (ESV)
“But the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.”
THE SELF-MADE MAN
Revelation 3:17 (ESV)
“You say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.”
THE WOUNDED SKEPTIC
Amos 5:10 (ESV)
“They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth.”
THE PLEASURE CHASER
1 Timothy 5:6 (ESV)
“She who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.”
THE ALMOST CHRISTIAN
Acts 24:25 (ESV)
“Felix was alarmed and said, ‘Go away for the present. When I get an opportunity I will summon you.’”
2 Corinthians 6:2 (ESV)
“Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”
Luke 16:31 (ESV)
“If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.”
