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"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.’"    Luke 16:27-31 (ESV) At a funeral I am sometimes asked what I think the departed my say now that they have experienced the afterlife. I am never certain, but I know that Jesus told us about a rich man who ignored God all His life wanting his poor buddy to go and tell his family that God is real, the afterlife is real, and they really need to pay attention their relationship with God. Jesus told him that this would not happen, and that it would not happen because it is unnecessary, and would not make a difference. Sometimes we think that if God would just perform a miracle, then many more will come to Him. Yet God has told us that we have what we need to come to Him. We have the creation He made and His precious Word. Satan has powers, and in the end, he will use his powers to deceive, and those who trust in miracles are perfectly set up to be deceived. The power is in God, not the miracle. It is God we need to focus on and His Word that reveals what truth is. We must never neglect His Word or even the miracles He has done will be meaningless.

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