The NXR Podcast - January 09, 2023


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

Topics
wise stewardship
Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
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Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

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Word count

821

Sentence count

34

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4

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Summary

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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.

Transcript

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00:00:49 now galatians tells us that as often as we have opportunity we should seek to do good
00:00:59 toward all but especially the verse continues the household of faith our god is infinite
00:01:08 but his church is not our god is infinite he owns the cattle on a thousand hills
00:01:17 but the people of God the church of God is finite and therefore its resources are finite
00:01:24 and what God demands of us is not reckless generosity but rather what he demands of his
00:01:34 people is wise stewardship wise stewardship and in this stewardship that's the overarching banner
00:01:44 we find good biblical generosity but as we seek to be generous and the ways that we are commanded
00:01:53 we must exercise discernment we must be careful so that the resources that god has graciously
00:02:01 blessed us with are actually designated toward those who truly need them that's the primary
00:02:10 principle and emphasis of the text today the text the principle the heartbeat of our text
00:02:17 is not stinginess it is generosity but it is a generosity that is calculated and wise
00:02:29 a generosity that demonstrates good godly stewardship so that those who are truly in need
00:02:37 receive the answer to their need one of the reasons why there are people who are truly in need
00:02:45 and they don't receive the resources they need that they require is because the people of god
00:02:52 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 is we see a few people given much. 0.95
00:03:04 Now what we see in our culture,
00:03:06 and sadly even in Christian church culture today,
00:03:10 is we see churches not seeking to be generous
00:03:13 as the Bible dictates,
00:03:15 but we see churches rather pulling PR stunts.
00:03:22 Churches taking a page right out of Hollywood
00:03:24 rather than the Bible.
00:03:26 caring for 10,000 widows
00:03:30 with the equivalent of a $50 Chili's gift card
00:03:34 doesn't actually help
00:03:38 taking a lot of resources
00:03:41 but wanting to put up big numbers
00:03:43 for the approval of man
00:03:45 and so there's just this sprinkling
00:03:48 where everybody gets just a tiny crumb
00:03:50 and no one's actually really helped
00:03:52 see what our text tells us today
00:03:55 is that if a church follows God's standards,
00:03:58 if a church obeys and submits to God's word,
00:04:02 then a local church, perhaps of our size,
00:04:05 may have two or three, perhaps given the context,
00:04:08 maybe four or five widows 0.96
00:04:10 who are not receiving just canned goods, 0.57
00:04:13 but are actually on the payroll of that church.
00:04:17 Every month, their rent, their medical bills,
00:04:21 all of their groceries are paid.
00:04:25 See, the Bible dictates real generosity that actually meets real needs.
00:04:34 And it must be given to those who are really in need.
00:04:40 Not just to anybody who can weave some kind of narrative, some kind of sob story on social media.
00:04:49 No, the church must be discerning.
00:04:51 We must be wise.
00:04:55 We must care more about the approval of our Heavenly Father
00:04:59 than the approval of our culture. 1.00
00:05:04 Do we actually love widows? 1.00
00:05:07 Or do we love PR stunts and the approval ratings that we might gain by them?
00:05:16 This text tells us how to actually care for the poor.
00:05:22 The real poor.
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