Proverbs 19:17

 

GOD RECOGNIZES THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE NEEDY

• and he will repay him for his deed.—Proverb 19:17a

 

• “You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry, . . .—Exodus 22:21-23

 

• “When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands..— Deuteronomy 24:19

 

• Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, or the LORD will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.— Proverbs 22:22

 

• He who oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.— Proverbs 14:31

 

• Whoever gives to the poor will not be in need, but he who hides his eyes will receive many curses.— Proverbs 28:27

 

GOD REMUNERATES SERVICES RENDERED TO THE NEEDY

• and he will repay him for his deed.—Proverb 19:17a

 

• For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’—Matthew 25:35-36

 

• ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’—Matthew 25:40

 

• Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God. —1 Corinthians 4:5

January 13, 2019

 

Luke 9:13-17

Never Decline an Opportunity to Supply

“You give them something to eat.”—verse 13

Never Doubt God’s Ability to Provide

They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish—unless we are to go and buy food for all these people.” people.”  For there were about five thousand men.—verse 13b-14

And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing over them. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd.—verse 16

Never Distrust God’s Abundant Sustenance

And they all ate and were satisfied. And what was left over was picked up, twelve baskets of broken pieces.—verse 17

December 30, 2018

From Being a Gleaner in the Field to Owning that same Field

• And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after one in whose sight I may find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.” So she departed and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, …—Ruth 2:2-3
• But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you orturn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God.  “Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may the LORD do to me, and worse, if anything but death parts you and me.”—Ruth 1:16-17

From Being in an Imminent Horror to a Surprising Honor

• During that night the king could not sleep so he gave an order to bring the book of records, the chronicles, and they were read before the king. It was found written what Mordecai had reported concerning Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who were doorkeepers, that they had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. The king said, “What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?” Then the king’s servants . . . said, “Nothing has been done for him.”—Esther 6:1-3
• So Haman came in and the king said to him, “What is to be done for the man whom the king desires to honor?” And Haman said to himself, “Whom would the king desire to honor more than me?” Then Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king desires to honor, let them bring a royal robe which the king has worn, and the horse on which the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown has been placed; and let the robe and the horse be handed over to one of the king’s most noble princes and let them array the man whom the king desires to honor and lead him on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king desires to honor.’”—Esther 6:6-8
• Then the king said to Haman, “Take quickly the robes and the horse as you have said, and do so for Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate; do not fall short in anything of all that you have said.” So Haman took the robe and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and led him on horseback through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king desires to honor.”—Esther 6:10-16

From Being an Orphan to Becoming a Queen

• He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had no father or mother. Now the young lady was beautiful of form and face, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.—Esther 2:7
• Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai, “Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maidens also will fast in the same way. And thus I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.”—Esther 4:15-16
• Then Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me as my petition, and my people as my request; for we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed and to be annihilated. Now if we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have remained silent, for the trouble would not be commensurate with the annoyance to the king.” Then King Ahasuerus asked Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who would presume to do thus?” Esther said, “A foe and an enemy is this wicked Haman!” Then Haman became terrified before the king and queen..’”—Esther 7:3-6

December 23, 2018

Jesus

Matthew 1:21

The Salvation

• And she shall bring forth a son, and you shall call his name JESUS—verse 21a
• These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land; but Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua—Numbers 13:16
• Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.—Zechariah 3:1

The Savior of His People

• For He shall save His people from sins—verse 21b
• “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.—Deuteronomy 7:6
• “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.—John 6:37
• who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.—Titus 2:14
• But you are A CHOSEN RACE, Aroyal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;–1 Peter 2:9

 

November 25, 2018

 

Impulse of Thankfulness

 

1 Timothy 1:12-14

The Undeserved Privilege

• I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, that enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, appointing me to the ministry.—verse 12
• I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.—Philippians 4:13
• But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God.—Acts 20:24

The Unmerited Mercy

• even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief—verse 13
• But for this very reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience, as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.—1 Timothy 1:16

The Unmatched Grace

• and the grace of our Lord was more than abundant, with the faith and love which are found in Christ Jesus.—verse 14
• The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more—Romans 5:20
• Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.—1 Thess. 5:16-18