The NXR Podcast - February 21, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - What Is The Church’s Obligation To The Poor？

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
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7 minutes

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1,004

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82

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In this episode of Daily Truth, Pastor Ken teaches on the role of the church in providing food, shelter, and care for the less fortunate. He uses a common phrase in scripture that is often taken out of context and misused by the evangelical church.

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00:00:00.000 All right, listen guys, I get it. Many of you are unable to financially support this ministry
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00:00:09.540 admonition of the Lord. Praise God for you and that endeavor. However, algorithms are a thing.
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00:00:42.240 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the
00:00:46.940 mouth of God. You're listening to Daily Truth. Think of Matthew chapter 25, verse 34 through 40.
00:00:58.080 It's a common text that many of you are probably familiar with.
00:01:01.420 But there's a phrase in this text that many Christians often gloss over.
00:01:06.120 It says, the king will say to those on his right.
00:01:10.320 This is right after Jesus told a parable of separating the sheep from the goats.
00:01:16.040 Speaking of the final day of judgment.
00:01:19.080 The king will then say to those on his right, come, you are blessed of my father.
00:01:24.620 Take your inheritance.
00:01:25.560 the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry, and you gave me
00:01:32.860 something to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger, and you
00:01:39.280 invited me in. I needed clothes, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you looked after me. I was in
00:01:46.720 prison, and you came to visit me. Then the righteous will answer him, Lord, when did we see you
00:01:54.400 hungry and feed you? When did we see you thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see
00:02:01.520 you, a stranger, and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick
00:02:09.520 or in prison and go to visit you? The king will reply, truly I tell you, whatever you did
00:02:17.840 for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.
00:02:27.880 How often the evangelical church has taken the least of these out of context.
00:02:35.740 In a nutshell, this is what Big Eva does. I'll give you their playbook. It's pretty simple. You
00:02:40.480 probably know. Big Eva says, we're going to milk the faithful to benefit the faithless. 0.78
00:02:50.280 We're going to break the backs of the faithful to benefit the faithless. And that's it. That's a 0.80
00:02:58.340 play. Free car wash, food drive, hallelujah party for Halloween, trunk or treat, whatever it is.
00:03:10.200 But what's the goal? The goal is always to serve the unbeliever. It's always for the unbeliever. 1.00
00:03:18.200 Do you know what Paul says in 1 Timothy chapter 5? He says, when it comes to the church and its 1.00
00:03:23.900 ministry and moral obligation, because it is obligated under God to serve the poor,
00:03:29.140 there's actually a criteria. It's not just a blank canvas for your creative license and freedom.
00:03:36.280 You don't get to define love.
00:03:39.220 Empathy has no place in Christian faith. 0.91
00:03:43.620 Sympathy does.
00:03:45.500 Compassion.
00:03:47.240 Empathy does not.
00:03:49.320 The world is being destroyed right now in the name of empathy.
00:03:54.480 You need to be aware of that.
00:03:58.780 Now, what the scripture teaches,
00:04:01.960 the Apostle Paul, 1 Timothy chapter 5,
00:04:04.420 writing to a young man who is a pastor in a church, he gives criteria and guidelines for
00:04:09.460 helping the helpless. He talks about helping the widow. Right there, we already have an assumed
00:04:18.780 criteria because we're starting with 24-year-old, single, able-bodied young men who just don't want
00:04:27.680 to work a job, right? No. Do you know what help that man gets? Starvation. That's the help he
00:04:36.380 gets. That's the help he needs. That's the help that loves him and pleases God. Yes. The Bible
00:04:45.720 commands that. If any man will not work, let him not eat. And when we override that, whether we do
00:04:54.060 it individually in the name of Christian love, but with bad theology and interpretation of
00:04:59.560 scripture, or whether we do it federally in the civil sphere through laws and legislation,
00:05:06.260 taking people's money at gunpoint, aka taxes, and then creating a welfare system that only
00:05:14.200 incentivizes poverty and makes it worse. In either case, the point is, it is unbiblical.
00:05:21.320 It is unbiblical. Can I be frank with you for just a second right here at the end?
00:05:27.400 Look, some of you guys you're financially supporting this ministry and from the bottom of my heart I say
00:05:32.900 Thank you. I cannot thank you enough. However, some of you you just you can't afford it
00:05:39.580 In fact, some of you you shouldn't afford it. Let's be honest. I mean we're living in joe biden's ridiculous
00:05:47.120 economy. Our nation and our totalitarian political elites lost their minds over the last three years 0.97
00:05:56.140 due to COVID. We have written checks that we simply cannot cash. It doesn't matter if people
00:06:03.080 change the definition of a recession. We are living in a recession right now regardless.
00:06:10.000 Some of you are struggling to afford a carton of eggs at the grocery store. You cannot support
00:06:16.280 financially this ministry at this time, nor should you, but you could still help us tremendously.
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