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Rewards of helping the poor.
Prov. 29:14 If a king judges the poor with truth his throne will be established
forever.
Prov. 31:20 An excellent wife extends her hands to the poor and needy.
Prov. 14:21 He who is kind to the poor is blessed.
Prov. 19:17 He who is gracious to the poor lends to the Lord,. The Lord will repay
him.
Prov. 28:27 He who gives to the poor will never want.
He who shuts his ears to them will have many curses.
Matt 25 They will inherit the kingdom.
Matthew 25 How we treat the poor is how we treat Jesus.
Proverbs 14:31 If you oppress the poor you reproach God; If you are gracious to the poor
you honor God.
Jeremiah 22:16 To know God is to plead the cause of the poor, then things will go
well.
Job 29:12-16 Job?s service to the poor allowed him to receive their blessings.
Luke 16 Use your money to help others, then they will help you.
2 Corinthians 8:3,14, 9:6-15 Give and God will replenish.
Isaiah 58:4-8 Help the poor and receive light, recovery, righteousness, and God?s
glory.
Prov. 22:9 Giving to the poor brings blessing.
Daniel 4:27 Repent and do righteousness by helping the poor. God will prolong your
prosperity.
Ps 112:5 It is well with the man who is gracious and lends; he will maintain his cause in
judgment.
Ps. 112:9 He has given freely to the poor; His righteousness endures forever; his horn will
be exalted in honor.
Benefits of being poor.
Prov. 19:22 It is better to be poor than a liar.
Prov. 19:1 It is better to be poor with integrity than a fool with perverse lips.
Prov. 28:6 It is better to be poor than crooked.
James 2:5 The poor are rich in faith.
Commands about the poor.
Prov. 22:22 Don?t rob the poor.
Prov 31:9 Judge righteously, defend the rights of the afflicted and needy.
Ezekiel 16:49 The sin of Sodom was not helping the poor and needy.
1 Timothy 6:17-19 Hope in God?s supply not riches, be generous ready to share.
Leviticus 19:10 Leave some of your harvest (income) for the poor.
Leviticus 25 Law of Jubilee A completely different economic system.
Deuteronomy 24:19-22 Give your leftovers to the poor.
Zechariah 7:8-10 Do not oppress the poor.
James 1:27, 2:15-17 Visit and help the needy.
Luke 14:13 Invite the needy to dinner.
James 5:4 Don?t forget the poor God will bring justice.
Mark 10:7-27 Give all to the poor and follow Jesus.
Proverbs 31:20 Help the poor.
The nature of the poor
Prov. 28:15 A wicked ruler over the poor is like a roaring lion and rushing bear.
Prov. 10:15 Poverty is the ruin of the poor.
Prov. 14:20 Even the poor?s neighbors hate him.
Prov. 18:23 The poor pleads, but the rich answers roughly.
Prov. 19:4 A poor man is separated from his friend.
Prov. 19:7 People avoid the poor.
Prov. 28:3 A poor man that oppresses is like the driving rain that leaves no food.
Prov. 28:11 The poor with understanding see through the rich who think they are
wise.
Prov. 29:13 Both the poor and the oppressor receive light to see from God.
James 1:11 The rich man will fade like a flower.
Prov. 13:7 Looks are deceiving
Prov. 13:8 A man?s riches may ransom his life, but the poor hear no rebuke.
Prov. 22:2 God makes both the rich and the poor,.
James 2:5 The poor are rich in faith.
Reason for being poor:
Job 1:11,12 A test allowed by God.
2 Tim 2:3,4 Accepting the call to be a Christian soldier.
John 9:1-3 That the works of God might be revealed.
John 11:4 For the glory of God.
Acts 3:6 To enable faith.
Prov. 10:4 Reason for poverty/riches, negligent in his work, diligent makes rich.
Prov. 13:23 There is a abundant food in the idle ground of the poor. Injustice sweeps it
away.
Oppression
Natural desasters.
Prov. 21:17 He who loves pleasure and wine will become poor.
Prov. 22:7 The rich rules over the poor. The borrower becomes the lender?s slave.
Prov. 22:16 Oppressing the poor and giving to the rich bring you to poverty.
Curse for not helping the Poor!
Prov. 28:8 Getting rich by interest results in giving to him who is gracious to the
poor.
Prov 21:13 If you don?t help the poor who will help you?
Prov 17:5 He who mocks the poor reproaches His maker.
Prov. 28:27 He who gives to the poor will never want.
He who shuts his ears to them will have many curses.
Proverbs 21:13 If you don?t help the poor your prayers won?t be answered.
Isaiah 1:14-17,23 Repent, do justice, help the poor or your prayers won?t be
answered.
Prov. 14:31 It is a reproach to God to oppress the poor.
Amos 4:12, 8:4-10 Bitter judgment for ignoring the poor.
Proverbs 14:31 If you oppress the poor you reproach God; If you are gracious to the poor
you honor God.
Amos 5:11 Oppress the poor and you will not receive any benefit from your work.
How we treat the poor is a test of our character.
Prov. 29:7 The righteous are concerned for the rights of the poor and the wicked don?t
understand why.
Matthew 25 How we treat the poor is how we treat Jesus.
1 John 3:17,18 Do you have abundance? If you aren?t giving to the poor you don?t have
love.
Luke 16:13-15 You can?t serve 2 masters, money is detestable in God?s sight.
Jeremiah 22:16 To know God is to plead the cause of the poor, then things will go
well.
Micah 6:8 Live with justice, kindness and humbleness.
1 Timothy 6:6-10 Flee the love of money and pursue righteousness.
Luke 8:14 The cares of this world choke out spiritual fruit.
Mark 4:18,19 Desire for other things chokes out Spiritual fruit.
James 2:1-27 Don?t show favoritism.
Proverbs 11:4 Riches do not profit in the day of wrath.
God moves in favor of the poor.
We can be involved in what He is doing or
we can miss
the move of the Spirit.
Eccl 4:1a ?Then I looked again at all the acts of oppression which were being done under
the sun. And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had no one to comfort
them; . . . ?
Matt. 11:5 Jesus targeted the poor for His gospel message.
Ps 9:18 ?For the needy will not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the afflicted perish
forever.
Ps 69:33 ?For the Lord hears the needy, and dose not despise His who are prisoners.?
Ps 72:12,13 God will deliver when they cry, and He will save them.
Ps 102:17 God hears and does not despise the destitute?s prayer.
Isa 11:4 God will judge in favor of the poor and afflicted.
Luke 4:18 Jesus came to preach the gospel to the poor.
Gal 2:10 ?They only asked us to remember the poor-the very thing I also was eager to
do.?
Jesus sided with the poor. He was born poor. He accepted poverty as a lifestyle. He left heaven with all the trappings of deity and lived as a man. (Phil. 2) Jesus laid down His life even unto death for the reward of the joy set before Him. (Heb 12:2)
There is a reward for service. Jesus told Peter that though he gave up all to follow Him he would receive more now and in the future. We can trust God with our future.
People are called to service which may include poverty. When you apply yourself to a certain job that excludes you from other activities. Some ministries may restrict you from gaining wealth. God will reward you richly. We are told to flee riches and seek God. The Apostle Paul found himself in this situation.
?To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed, and are roughly treated, and are homeless; and we toil working with our own hands; when we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure; when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.? 1 Cor. 4:11-13
Suffering for sufferings sake is ridiculous. What Paul is doing is living for the betterment of others and is not taking thought for himself. ?For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.? 2 Tim 1:12
His joy and goal was to see others advance in their walk with the Lord. ?For now we really live, if you stand firm in the Lord.?1 Thes. 3:8 O may God put that in our hearts.
Does God give us money to manage or to give away? The vast majority claim that we should be stewards of what God has given us. Would a well off steward spend 80% to 90% on himself instead of his master's affairs? We can?t serve two masters. Matt.6:24
"Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves." (Rom. 15:1)
--- Scott McCrae
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