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June 03, 2008
Goodwill Toward Man
Hello and thank you for being here today. I want to thank all the new members and people who have written in and that we have prayed for; if you have a prayer request write us and tell us. How can we know what you are in need of unless you do?
Today's subject is really a subject to consider. It's close to the story of the "Good Samaritan". When the Lord was here on Earth He associated himself with the common man for the most part and mostly they were Israelites. When asked by the scribe in
Mark 12:28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? 29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: 30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy hearth, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
The next one is the verse for today's subject.
Mark 12:31 And the second ins like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
Look back in Isaiah when the people were fasting, some wrong some right. It also implies some things that I believe are applicable to us today, if we will only do them. Over and over the Lord warned Israel to help the poor and the widow and the fatherless and the hungry and the naked, these are the same blessings that God will reward the sheep nations that help Israel in their time of need and they will ask; Matthew 24:37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee a hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? or naked, and clothed thee? 39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Now this blessing can only be obtained by helping Israel in the tribulation and it is for salvation, but I believe a rule or law applies even to this day except not just to Israel but to mankind, our brothers and sisters everywhere.
We must always remember, Eve is the Mother of all living, and that's a fact.
I believe if you help them you will be blessed for it now, while you are on earth not to mention when you get to heaven. It is repeated too many times to not pay attention to it.
Isaiah 58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, Lift up thy voice like a trumpet, And shew my people their transgression, And the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek me daily, And delight to know my ways, As a nation that did righteousness, And forsook not the ordinance of their God: They ask of me the ordinances of justice; They take delight in approaching to God. 3 Wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, And exact all your labours. 4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, And to smite with the fist of wickedness: Ye shall not fast as ye do this day, To make your voice heard on high. 5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, And to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Wilt thou call this a fast, And an acceptable day to the Lord?
The Lord's answer:
6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To lose the bands of wickedness, To undo the heavy burdens, And to let the oppressed go free, And to break every yoke? 7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, And that thou bring the poor that are cast outto thy house? When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; And that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
If they did these things look at the rewards the Lord would have given them:
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, And thine health shall spring forth speedily: And thy righteousness shall go before thee; The glory of the Lord shall be thy reward. 9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; Thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, The putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; 10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, And satisfy the afflicted soul; Then shall thy light rise in obscurity, And thy darkness be as the noonday: 11 And the Lord shall guide thee continually, And satisfy thy soul in drought, And make fat thy bones: And thou shalt be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water whose waters fail not.
The rest of the passages are to Israel to rebuild and to be closer with the Lord.
12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; And thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
13 If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, From doing thy pleasure on my holy day; And call the Sabbath a delight, The holy of the Lord, honorable; And thou shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, Nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: 14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; And I will cause them to ride upon the high places of the earth, And feed with the heritage of Jacob thy father; For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Folks, if the Lord would do all that for Israel imagine what he would do for you today for helping people. This is just something you can't lose on, do it for the Lord, do it for yourself, do it for others but by all means do it.
The entire of the world's problems can be summed up here, this, this is Wisdom.
Love,
Michael
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