Scripture Refl ection…

Prov 31:8

Ish

58:66

Jer

22:3Psm

140:1

2Deut 15:7

GOD OF The

POOR

“If there is a poor man among you… you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand to your poor brother…” (Deut. 15:7)“Is this not the fast which I’ve chosen… to let the oppressed go free…share your bread with the hungry… bring the homeless poor into the house; cover the naked … do not hide yourself from your own flesh?” (Ish 58:6,7)

GOD is in the Bus iness o f

thePOOR

“… The LORD will maintain the cause of the

oppressed, and justice for the poor.” (Psm. 140:12)

“For You have been a defense for the helpless,

a defense for the needy…” (Ish 25:4)

G O D i D e n t i fi e s W i t h t h e

POORHe who is gracious to a poor man lends to the LORD, and He Will repay him for his good deed. (Pro 19:17)

He who oppresses the poor Reproaches his Maker, but he who is gracious to the needy honors Him. (Pro: 14:31)

“ …for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in;  I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’” (Mat: 25:35-36)

TO ADVOCATE“Open Your mouth for the dumb, for the rights of all the unfortunate. Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the rights of the oppressed and needy.” (Prov. 31:8)

TO CRY FOR JUSTICE

“Do justice and righteousness, and deliver the one who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor. Also do not mistreat…the orphan, or the widow...” (Jer 22:3)

TO GIVE“If there is a poor man among you… you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand to your poor brother…” (Deut. 15:7)“Sell Your possessions and GIVE TO CHARITY…” (Luk 12:33)

“…GIVE to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be filled.” Deut 26:12

(Ref: Luke 6:38, Acts 20:35

sOME cONCEQUENCE

S“Whoever shuts his ears to the

cry of the poor,will also Cry himself and not be

heard.” (Prov 21:13:)"[The wicked] do not plead the

cause, thecause of the orphan, that they

may prosper; andthey do not defend the rights of

the poor. Shall Inot punish these people?

“Declares the LORD.(Jer. 5:28)

… (Ref: Ezek. 22:29,31, Is. 10:1-3, Luk 1:52, Deut.

26:12, Lev. 19:19, Luk 12:33, Mat 5:42, Psm 10:14). )

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Galatians 6:2

The entire law is summed up in a

single command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Gal 5:14

The Greatest Commandment.

Jesus said: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your

heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as

yourself.’

All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

(Mat 22:37-40)

The Greatest Commandment.