DAILY TRUTH - What Is The Church’s Obligation To The Poor？
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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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All right, listen guys, I get it. Many of you are unable to financially support this ministry
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because you're spending your cash and your lives on raising young children in the fear and
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admonition of the Lord. Praise God for you and that endeavor. However, algorithms are a thing.
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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the
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mouth of God. You're listening to Daily Truth. Think of Matthew chapter 25, verse 34 through 40.
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It's a common text that many of you are probably familiar with.
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But there's a phrase in this text that many Christians often gloss over.
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It says, the king will say to those on his right.
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This is right after Jesus told a parable of separating the sheep from the goats.
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The king will then say to those on his right, come, you are blessed of my father.
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the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry, and you gave me
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something to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger, and you
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invited me in. I needed clothes, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you looked after me. I was in
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prison, and you came to visit me. Then the righteous will answer him, Lord, when did we see you
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hungry and feed you? When did we see you thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see
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you, a stranger, and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick
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or in prison and go to visit you? The king will reply, truly I tell you, whatever you did
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for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.
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How often the evangelical church has taken the least of these out of context.
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In a nutshell, this is what Big Eva does. I'll give you their playbook. It's pretty simple. You
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probably know. Big Eva says, we're going to milk the faithful to benefit the faithless.
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We're going to break the backs of the faithful to benefit the faithless. And that's it. That's a
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play. Free car wash, food drive, hallelujah party for Halloween, trunk or treat, whatever it is.
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But what's the goal? The goal is always to serve the unbeliever. It's always for the unbeliever.
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Do you know what Paul says in 1 Timothy chapter 5? He says, when it comes to the church and its
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ministry and moral obligation, because it is obligated under God to serve the poor,
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there's actually a criteria. It's not just a blank canvas for your creative license and freedom.
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The world is being destroyed right now in the name of empathy.
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writing to a young man who is a pastor in a church, he gives criteria and guidelines for
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helping the helpless. He talks about helping the widow. Right there, we already have an assumed
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criteria because we're starting with 24-year-old, single, able-bodied young men who just don't want
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to work a job, right? No. Do you know what help that man gets? Starvation. That's the help he
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gets. That's the help he needs. That's the help that loves him and pleases God. Yes. The Bible
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commands that. If any man will not work, let him not eat. And when we override that, whether we do
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it individually in the name of Christian love, but with bad theology and interpretation of
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scripture, or whether we do it federally in the civil sphere through laws and legislation,
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taking people's money at gunpoint, aka taxes, and then creating a welfare system that only
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incentivizes poverty and makes it worse. In either case, the point is, it is unbiblical.
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It is unbiblical. Can I be frank with you for just a second right here at the end?
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Look, some of you guys you're financially supporting this ministry and from the bottom of my heart I say
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Thank you. I cannot thank you enough. However, some of you you just you can't afford it
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In fact, some of you you shouldn't afford it. Let's be honest. I mean we're living in joe biden's ridiculous
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economy. Our nation and our totalitarian political elites lost their minds over the last three years
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due to COVID. We have written checks that we simply cannot cash. It doesn't matter if people
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change the definition of a recession. We are living in a recession right now regardless.
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Some of you are struggling to afford a carton of eggs at the grocery store. You cannot support
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financially this ministry at this time, nor should you, but you could still help us tremendously.
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I am asking you, please, if you're willing to do so, take one minute of your time. Leave us a
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This is the way the system works. We want to be innocent as doves, but shrewd as vipers. We need
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to be strategic. You leave us a five-star review and our podcast shows up for more people. And the
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