TCMMY Inspiration Station: When The Account Is Closed

This episode encourages listeners to confront their numbness to tragedy and recognize the importance of living a purposeful life. Through the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, the discussion revolves around self-righteousness, accountability, and the urgency to take action while there’s still time. 
• Exploring the growing numbness to tragedy in society 
• The significance of the parable of the rich man and Lazarus 
• The dangers of self-righteousness and entitlement 
• Encouraging self-reflection and moral accountability 
• The importance of taking timely action to correct one’s path 
• A call for compassion and community engagement

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Chapters

• 0:36 The Power of Self-Righteousness
• 10:36 Avoiding Self-Righteousness for Blessing

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:36

Thank you, hey. Welcome back to the All Purpose Pod for an all-purpose life. Wherever you are and however you're listening to the Inspiration Station and the Call Me, mr you the podcast. We thank you again for making us a part of your week In advance. I want to just say this and get it out of the way before we start chatting with each other this might be one of the toughest episodes, just because of the context of it. You know, I think I don't think I'm pretty positive.

Speaker 1: 1:06

If you look around us and you really pay attention, you'll see that people are starting to get numb to lives being lost. They're starting to get numb to tragedy. They're starting to get numb to what's happening in the world that we're seeing play out in the news. They're starting to get numb to everything that happens outside of our own four walls, outside of our own home, our own family dynamic, our own circle of influence. We're starting to get numb.

Speaker 1: 1:37

This is revelatory. This is scripture coming to life. It's not good that we're like that. It's not good that we're like that. It's not good. It says a lot about our relationship with God, our moral compass. It says a lot. But I want to share this because I'm hoping that this is going to be inspiration to you. This is the inspiration station. I'm hoping that we're inspiring you to make some adjustments, see some things with a different perspective and kind of live your best life, so to speak. I know that just in general, we can be exempted of the word of God in action and conduct Our character, our speech, meaning the words that we say out of our mouth, our lifestyle, publicly and privately, and I always share this because I think it's really important that we don't forget this.

Speaker 1: 2:28

Once the breath that we breathe, which is given to us by loan anyway, you don't own that. There's no copyright or trademark that you can use there. It's not yours, you're just borrowing it. Once the breath we breathe leaves our body, our earthly account is closed. Now I'm not trying to scare anybody, make you think about death prematurely. You need to be aware there's no further opportunity for a last-minute withdrawal or a quick deposit. You shouldn't rely, hopefully, on a deathbed confession. We can't hit a reset button and restart a really bad day where we didn't exemplify who the Lord is supposed to be in our lives or who we value ourselves in as human beings, our moral code, character, integrity, etc. We can't reach back into the land of the living and take away the hurt we inflicted. We can't fix what we broke. We can't make the rock come back into our hands as if we never threw it. The account is permanently closed. The master of the account will now do his reconciliation, weighing checks and weighing balances. The result is determined by the master's findings and he's fully within his rights to make a judgment, the ultimate judgment.

Speaker 1: 3:45

We've been tricked by TV and cinema and movies into thinking that we can make a last minute reprieve. We can do 50 years of dirt and we want to try to hope that in the last few minutes of our existence we can try to correct and fix it. Excuse me, it's not how it works. I believe in forgiveness. I believe in the saving blood of Jesus Christ. If you watch this show, you know this already. I'm not trying to conform you. You get where I'm coming from. You know how I think and how I feel about the Bible and the word and Jesus Christ, et cetera, and Holy Spirit, et cetera.

Speaker 1: 4:27

There's a passage of scripture that kind of illustrates the thought that I want to share with you guys, from Luke, the 16th chapter, verse 19 to 31. I don't want to read the whole thing, but I want you to catch something here. Essentially, this passage talks about a rich man who lives his life in fine linens, living in luxury, every single day of his life. At his gate, where he lived, every single day of his life in luxury, was a beggar named Lazarus. Lazarus was covered in sores, he was sick, he was weak, he was hungry for anything that the master, this rich man, didn't want anymore, anything that he discarded, anything that was his scraps. Lazarus would eat it so that he can live.

Speaker 1: 5:09

Excuse me, the time came when the beggar died and the rich man also died, and the account shares that the rich man looked up and he could see Lazarus across a chasm in paradise, so to speak, in a much better place than where he was. That rich man lived his life comforted and having good things his entire lifetime, while Lazarus had bad things all of his life. And now they're in the midst of eternity and Lazarus has nothing but good things on his side of eternity, while the rich man who lived his life like that now has nothing but bad things on his side of eternity, and even in his current spiritual state he wanted to have Lazarus come and help him, serve him, help make his situation better, even in eternity, eternity and he was made to understand that that couldn't happen. That what he has sown now he is reaping, and what lazarus sown in his lifetime now he's reaping in the afterlife. The whole point of and you can read this Luke 16, verse 19 to 31.

Speaker 1: 6:30

I just want to make a quick few points here. I want you to understand that the power of self-righteousness is so, so dangerous. It may be one of the deadliest sins ever, because you can live your whole life and not even realize it was there. Like this rich man, right in his own mind, even in eternity, thinks he should still be served and catered to, still thinks he deserves he still had a sense of entitlement, even in eternity.

Speaker 1: 7:00

This isn't a bedtime story. This is a warning. This isn't a bedtime story. This is an alarm. This isn't a bedtime story, it's a heads up given way in advance. Could be watching this right now and you're still listening to the sound of my voice. You're still here. You're not in eternity yet. You have an opportunity right now to make some adjustments. I don't know what your lifestyle is right now. I don't know how you treat people. I don't know where you are. I don't know what your heart looks and sounds like, but you have an opportunity. You're still here. This is a warning, an alert, a heads up.

Speaker 1: 7:34

You know, people, I'm not into the horror genre. Anybody that knows me knows that I don't care for it for a lot of different reasons. But the scariest thing to me is thinking that you're all set and you've done all you were supposed to do, only to find out way too late that you were doing you your whole life and you weren't doing him. That's the biggest horror story that I've ever heard of in my life, and there's no happy ending in the end of that horror story. There's no going back, like I shared earlier, when the accounts closed closed permanently. Then it's time for reconciliations and weighing of checks and balances and judgment.

Speaker 1: 8:19

I hope you hear me today. I hope you can hear what I hear, and what I hear is a call to get some things straight while you have the opportunity. The rich man's tragedy befell him before he had a chance to prepare for what you can't prepare for. He had an opportunity to get something straight while he was alive, same as you, but he continued in his lifestyle, continued in the same habits and behaviors and he didn't change anything. And now he's in eternity, in eternal flame, in agony, in suffering, because of the seeds that he's sown in his lifetime. So right now, you're still in the dirt. Right now, you still have seed available to you. What are you putting into the ground? What are you sowing? What are you about to give birth to? What are you about to germinate? What are you about to bring to pass? Now is the time for you to start thinking about that. Now, not yesterday, not tomorrow, not next week. Now, now is the time, because when your accounts close, it's closed permanently.

Speaker 1: 9:35

I'm not going to scare you about deficit reality that we all have to deal with. We hear about the quote all the time. The thing we can rely on is different taxes. I'm not saying that's the only truth, in that those things are true, but there's more. From the account inscription in Luke 16, you can see that there's more. There's more. Are these just Bible stories to you? Sunday school messages? Do you have the ear to hear the message in this? What are you learning from this while you're still alive? This is the only part that matters in all of this episode today.

Speaker 1: 10:11

Take advantage of the opportunity you have right now. Fix whatever needs to be fixed. Release whatever has to be released. Forgive whatever has to be forgiven so that you can be free. Get rid of the poison and the stench or whatever's in your life that you know is crippling your ability to have a bright future. Get rid of it. If you need help, ask for help. We'll help.

Speaker 1: 10:36

Reach out, but do not stay in the lifestyle that you're in, doing what you're doing and thinking that it's good. Self-righteousness is a horrible evil, evil sin. You don't even realize that you're in the wrong place and you've been living it for your entire life. Like that rich man, he looks up to find himself in agony and suffering when it could have been blessing and favor, like in Lazarus' case, when it could have been blessing and favor, like in Lazarus' case. Wherever you are and have you listening to the Inspiration Station and the Call Me Mr U podcast? Thank you again for making us a part of your week. We hope this lands well with you. If you have any questions, by all means please reach out. We'd be happy to help you. Enjoy the music. Have a wonderful day for today.