The Moophe. In Luke chapter 16, Jesus tells a parable about a rich man and a beggar, whose experiences after death were vastly different.

Part of what he's teaching in this parable is that the decisions we make during our time on earth will impact our lives for eternity.

And today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg takes a closer look at what Jesus' parable says and doesn't say about life after death.

This man obviously wasn't prepared to do what Jesus had said in the previous parable. Remember

in verse 9 of chapter 16, he had said use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves.

This man hadn't made a friend of the beggar at his gate, clearly. He must have passed in the morning.

He said, well, there's old Eliezer. There's old, ha ha ha, ha. God has helped, you know. If that's God helping, you know. And that's what people say, well, if this is your God and this is what he does, you say, hang on a minute. the records are not finished yet.

We haven't taken the final test.

The whistle hasn't blown.

It's not the end of

the game. I know it looks like this. Why do the people who seem to do right get in in the ear,

and why is it that the people that seem to just do what they want prosper so greatly? That's a question

from the Bible. Modern America has lived with that.

Some of the most fantastic spiritual songs have come out of that experience, have they not?

Tempted and tried, we're oft-led to wonder why it should be thus all the day long.

When there are others living around us, never molested, though in the wrong,

further along we'll know all about it. And further along, we'll understand why. So cheer up,

my brother, cheer up my sister, and live in the sunshine, because we'll understand

it all by and by.

Well, you see, we are such time-bound creatures.

There are we no concept of then to influence us in the living of the now.

So we live all of our now as if there were no then, which is really dumb,

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