BY
LUCKY EYIS AMIWERO
FOR YE HAVE THE POOR WITH YOU ALWAYS
BY
LUCKY EYIS AMIWERO
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1 THESSALONIANS 4:11-12
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11)And that ye study to be
quite, and to do your own
business, and to work with
your own hands, as we
commanded you
12)That ye may walk
honestly towards them that
are without, and that ye may
have lack of nothing
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THE BELIEVER DUTY TO
WORK AND HELP THE WEAK
The believer is to work with
his hands, in order to have
enough to meet the basic
necessities of life, not to
depend on any body but to
meet the need of others
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2 THESSALONIANS 3:8
RELATED CHAPTERS
1 TIMOTHY 5:13
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2 THESSALONIANS 3:8
RELATED CHAPTERS
1 TIMOTHY 5:13
9)Not because we have not
power, but to make
ourselves an example unto
you to follow us
10) For even when we were
with you, this we
commanded you, that any
would not work neither
should he eat
11)For we hear that there
are some which walk among
you disorderly, working not
at all, but are busybodies
12)Now them that are such,
we command and exhort by
our LORD JESUS CHRIST, that
with quietness they work,
and eat their own bread
13)But ye, brethren, be not
weary in well doing
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WORK WITH YOUR HANDS
TO HELP THE POOR
The idle worker must work
or lose his right to eat, if a
man will not work, he shall
not eat.
*If a man is able to work let
him work, if he chose to be
idle and refuse to work he
should not be fed, but those
who honestly are with
disability who are unable to
find employment he should
be provided for.
*The believer must work to
provide for the desperate,
hungry, lonely dying and lost
world.
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JAMES 1:27
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27) pure religion and
undefiled before GOD and
the FATHER is this to visit the
fatherless and widows in
their affliction, and to keep
himself unspotted from the
world
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BELIEVER PURE RELIGION
The pure practice of the
Christian faith is a person
who must minister to the
fatherless and widow and
keep himself of being
polluted by the world self
centered and selfishness
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JAMES 2:14-16
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14)What doth it profits, my
brethren, through a man say
he hath faith, and have not
works? Can faith save him
15)If a brother or sister be
naked and destitute of daily
food
16)And one of you say unto
them, depart in peace, be ye
warned and filled;
notwithstanding ye give
them not those things which
are needful to the body what
doth it profit?
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GIVING TO THE RAVAGING
WORLD OF POVERTY
True faith loves and cares
and is compassionate and
reaches out to help the
needy.
True faith is an operative
faith, a faith that really
works, who believe in our
LORD JESUS CHRIST, who
need to give to meet the
needs of the destitute
brothers and sisters
throughout the world
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ROMANS 15:1-2
RELATED CHAPTER
PHIL :2:5-8
1 PETER 2:21
GAL.6:2
HEB.13:3
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1)We then are strong ought
to bear the infirmities of the
weak, and not to please
ourselves
2)Let every one of us please
his neighbor for his good to
edification
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BROTHERHOOD AND LOVE
The believer is to deny self
and live for his neighbor and
not to please himself but
please his neighbor by living
for the good and edification
and building faith and
helping the ravaging world of
poverty
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1 JOHN 3 :17
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3)But whoso hath this
world’s good, and seeth his
brother have need, and
shutteth up his bowels of
compassion from him, how
dwelleth the love of GOD in
him?
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MINISTERING WITH LOVE
AND COMPASSION
BUT WHOSO HATH THIS
WORLD GOOD- has
possession of the world
goods , worldly substance,
material possession, the
temporal goods, things of it
Love has compassion and
give to meet the need of
people
*If a believer have the bare
necessities of life and see a
person in need, how can we
close our heart against him?
How can he shut off feelings
for him and how can the love
of GOD dwells with him.
*The love of GOD does not
exist within a person who
does not help those whom
he sees in need
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ISAIAH 1:17
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17)learn to do well; seek
judgment, relieve the
oppressed judge the
fatherless, plead for the
widow
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LEAN TO DO WELL – to learn
here is to become
accustomed to, to practice it,
to do well, is to stands
opposed to all kinds of evil:
Seek judgment- Execute
justice between man and
man.
*Relieve the oppress be not
only just, but merciful12
Judge the fatherless- defend
and deliver them, as this
word is used
PLEAD FOR WIDOW
maintain the righteous cause
of the poor and helpless
persons against their unjust
and potent adversaries;
whereby you show your love
to justice and mercy, and
that you fear GOD more than
men
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