Life in the world is not as it really is to God. Travis discusses the contrast Jesus makes between the rich man and Lazarus. There is eternal life with Jesus in Paradise or eternal life in regret alone in constant, conscience torment, and pain in...
How does the bible encourage us to think about wealth. Travis explains how the bible encourages us to think about wealth and poverty. He helps us understand how God thinks about wealth and poverty. A poor person can be just as sinful as a rich...
Parable of the Rich man and Lazarus. To start this part of the series, Travis focuses on the portion of the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, where Jesus compares extravagant wealth and severe poverty. Extreme wealth and abject poverty are not...
Are you saved or self-deceived? Listen to how Jesus uses the parable of the talents to show the reader the rewards and punishment by God for a persons’ faithfulness or a persons’ unrepentant disobedience or unbelief. Travis challenges each of us to...
The doctrine of Hell explained. The purpose of the parable, The Rich Man and Lazarus, is to warn the reader about the conscious punishment of anyone who is not a true follower of Christ, a born-again Christian. Jesus says that some people who...
What did Jesus’ death really save us from. Travis gives us clear teaching on what Jesus’ dying on the cross is saving us from. We talk about being saved from our sins, but what does that really mean. Do you understand what salvation, the good news...
What will judgment in Hell be like. In the parables, Jesus explains what it will be like for the people who face judgment. Although this parable was directed at the Jewish leadership and their presumption that they were Abrahams off spring and would...
How can one go through the narrow gate? Jesus is using parables to show us that we need to strive, now, to enter God’s kingdom. For we do not know when we will die and possibly face judgment or Jesus comes again to bring judgment. Jesus explains...
Heed the warning Jesus gives in this teaching. Jesus is pressing His listeners to make a decision to either repent and follow Him or stay in their comfortable life and sin. Jesus tells the listeners, through the two parables, that He is using to...
Everyone must make this decision. In Luke 13:22-24, Jesus pushes His listeners to make a decision about following Him or continuing in their sin. He tells them, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate.” All followers of Jesus need to make this same...