The NXR Podcast - January 09, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - What Does The Bible Say About Caring for the Poor？


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6 minutes

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821

Sentence count

33

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The Bible teaches us that we should be generous toward all, but as we seek to be generous, we must exercise discernment so that the resources that God has graciously blessed us with are actually designated toward those who truly need them. The church of God is finite and therefore its resources are finite, and what God demands of us is not reckless generosity, but rather wise stewardship.

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00:00:49.320 now galatians tells us that as often as we have opportunity we should seek to do good
00:00:59.720 toward all but especially the verse continues the household of faith our god is infinite
00:01:08.760 but his church is not our god is infinite he owns the cattle on a thousand hills
00:01:17.280 but the people of God the church of God is finite and therefore its resources are finite
00:01:24.860 and what God demands of us is not reckless generosity but rather what he demands of his
00:01:34.400 people is wise stewardship wise stewardship and in this stewardship that's the overarching banner
00:01:44.380 we find good biblical generosity but as we seek to be generous and the ways that we are commanded
00:01:53.720 we must exercise discernment we must be careful so that the resources that god has graciously
00:02:01.720 blessed us with are actually designated toward those who truly need them that's the primary
00:02:10.180 principle and emphasis of the text today the text the principle the heartbeat of our text
00:02:17.100 is not stinginess it is generosity but it is a generosity that is calculated and wise
00:02:29.180 a generosity that demonstrates good godly stewardship so that those who are truly in need
00:02:37.400 receive the answer to their need one of the reasons why there are people who are truly in need
00:02:45.620 and they don't receive the resources they need that they require is because the people of god
00:02:52.160 are foolish in the way that we serve the poor well what we see in the bible again and again and again
00:02:58.480 is we see a few people given much. 0.95
00:03:04.100 Now what we see in our culture,
00:03:06.220 and sadly even in Christian church culture today,
00:03:10.340 is we see churches not seeking to be generous
00:03:13.560 as the Bible dictates,
00:03:15.780 but we see churches rather pulling PR stunts.
00:03:22.400 Churches taking a page right out of Hollywood
00:03:24.960 rather than the Bible.
00:03:26.080 caring for 10,000 widows
00:03:30.460 with the equivalent of a $50 Chili's gift card
00:03:34.340 doesn't actually help
00:03:38.400 taking a lot of resources
00:03:41.380 but wanting to put up big numbers
00:03:43.760 for the approval of man
00:03:45.260 and so there's just this sprinkling
00:03:48.020 where everybody gets just a tiny crumb
00:03:50.160 and no one's actually really helped
00:03:52.380 see what our text tells us today
00:03:55.140 is that if a church follows God's standards,
00:03:58.740 if a church obeys and submits to God's word,
00:04:02.040 then a local church, perhaps of our size,
00:04:05.380 may have two or three, perhaps given the context,
00:04:08.660 maybe four or five widows 0.96
00:04:10.400 who are not receiving just canned goods, 0.57
00:04:13.380 but are actually on the payroll of that church.
00:04:17.480 Every month, their rent, their medical bills,
00:04:21.260 all of their groceries are paid.
00:04:25.140 See, the Bible dictates real generosity that actually meets real needs.
00:04:34.320 And it must be given to those who are really in need.
00:04:40.660 Not just to anybody who can weave some kind of narrative, some kind of sob story on social media.
00:04:49.240 No, the church must be discerning.
00:04:51.780 We must be wise.
00:04:55.140 We must care more about the approval of our Heavenly Father
00:04:59.500 than the approval of our culture. 1.00
00:05:04.960 Do we actually love widows? 1.00
00:05:07.960 Or do we love PR stunts and the approval ratings that we might gain by them?
00:05:16.900 This text tells us how to actually care for the poor.
00:05:22.500 The real poor.
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