DAILY TRUTH - How Evangelicalism Prioritizes The Faithless Over The Faithful
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Summary
In this episode of Daily Truth, Pastor Ken teaches on the role of the church in caring for the poor, the widows, the orphans, the sick, the elderly, and the orphaned. The church is often called to do good to all, but when it comes to those who have been faithful and faithful, what do we do with them?
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Jesus said, Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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Now, I think that one of the big reasons, a real reason,
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that the evangelical church is not as attractive as it could be
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is because the common principle in the name of missions and evangelism for a very long time
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at the expense of those who are faithful within the church.
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So she needs to be at least 65 years of age.
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And she also, she needs to not have someone else,
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If there's another family member that could meet her needs,
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then let them show some return to their parents,
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and let the church not be financially burdened.
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He doesn't just list the practical, physical criteria.
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she needs to be of this age. She actually needs to be a widow indeed, meaning a true widow. She
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doesn't have other family members that could help. But then he begins to get to the spiritual side.
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He says she must have washed the feet of the saints.
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And he also says, and I think this one's practical and physical, he says she must have brought up
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children. Meaning that if she's a widow and she's 65 years old and she has no sons that can care
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for her, but she has no sons because she was a feminist with blue hair and refused to have
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children, then you know what she gets? Starvation. And cross-reference to Galatians chapter 6,
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as often as you have opportunity. Do good to all. So we don't have to not help. We can help
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as often as we have opportunity. But if it comes down to limited finite resources of a local church
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and there are 10 widows and you can only care for nine of them sufficiently and nine of them
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brought up children, but those children died as well.
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Not only her husband, but also both of her sons perished.
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It was actually her daughter-in-law that provided for her.
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because they were feminists and they hated children.
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children. No, they didn't have sons because either they couldn't, God didn't open their
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wombs, which is a very difficult thing, or because their sons had likewise perished just as their
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husband has. If that's the scenario, there's 10 widows. You can only afford to care for nine of
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them. Nine of them are faithful and one of them is not. You prioritize the nine. What do we do in
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American evangelicalism? In the name of outreach, what we'll do is we'll tax the faithful in order
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to do more for those who at the end of the day despise the church. Whether it be a food drive
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or free car wash or whatever it is, some kind of activity, some kind of service, some kind of
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thing. But when it comes to those who have been faithful and faithful and faithful and faithful,
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when they really need help, maybe it's, you know, a Chili's gift card or, or, you know,
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Or we do precisely what James tells us not to do.
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We say, I wish you well, be warm, well clothed and well fed.
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But then we do nothing for their actual physical need.
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One of the things that makes the people of God attractive
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is when the people of God take care in priority,
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when the people of God take care of the people of God.
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When the people of God take care of the people of God,
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maybe there's something to this whole church thing.
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but just one of them says he's in a far distant land.
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So all of a sudden the economy is getting rough. Everyone's feeling it. He's feeling it, especially because he lavishly spent all of his inheritance and he's far off away from his home country.
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He hires himself out as one who would be a hired hand to feed the pigs. And he's so destitute that he's looking at the pods that are being fed to the pigs saying, that looks pretty good.
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So he was poor because of his own foolish decisions.
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he did not get a handout at taxpayers dime and it caused him to make a change in his life
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amazing huh crazy how that works now but notice this it's not just that so one he comes to his
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senses he realizes i need to make a change but now let's talk for just a moment about the specific
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change that he chooses to make the very next words is he says the servants in my father's house have
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it better than I do. So he doesn't just say, I need to get my act together. I need to go somewhere
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and do something. No, he's very specific. He says, I know exactly where to go. I'm going to go to the
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place where in this house, my father's house, everyone is well provided for. Imagine if the
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church could be like that. I'm in a far distant land. I've been living in a rebellious manner.
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some of these common grace functions are starting to dry up because of a corporate societal rebellion
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against the principles of christ it's affecting everyone but it's really affecting me no one's
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giving me a handout because we're not robbing the taxpayer to give to someone so no one gave me
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anything i'm now coming to my senses where should i go the father's house the father's house they
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everyone's taken care of in the father's house. And what's the entrance? What's the prerequisite?
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What do I have to do to go to the father's house? Repent. I have to say I'm sorry to the father.
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Crazy. I know it's just crazy. You know, I'm sure it would never work. Socialism, it's, but have we
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really tried it though? You know, I mean, come on. Have we really ever tried socialism? Yeah, that's
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got to be the solution, socialism. Or you could do socialism, or you could do prodigal son.
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You could do Bible. I mean, Bible might be worth a try. I know I sound extreme here, but