Posted on 11/13/2021 10:51:23 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor” (Proverbs 14:31).
“He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker,” he says we ought to take care of the poor but that does not always mean that we have to make them a welfare case. We are not to rob the rich in order to feed the poor. That is going against the will of God. God has made the rich for a specific reason, and He has made the poor for a specific reason. When we begin to try to destroy those boundaries, you are interfering with the will of God for those people. Of course, the Devil is always in the business of trying to break down God’s purposes.
Socialism is an attack on the will of God on how people are supposed to live. Under capitalism a man can be poor, or he can be rich. It’s a matter between the people and God.
You can ask, “Why does God make some people rich if riches damn people?” Because God has to damn some folks. You say, “Well, I thought God wants to save everybody?” He does, but some folks don’t want to be saved—so God damns them. That is a side of God that most folks don’t really grasp. If a man rejects the truth, and loves unrighteousness then God will send them strong delusions that they will believe the lie . . . that they all might be damned.
If God sees that you don’t want the truth, and won’t accept the truth, or believe the truth—then He will do whatever is necessary to blind you. If riches will blind you, He’ll use riches: “Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain” (Proverbs 30:8-9).
“. . . but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor,” Jesus came to preach the gospel to the poor (Mark 4:17). A Christian that honors God will have mercy on the poor folks. Your brethren that are not as well off as you, you are to help to supply their needs. I know that some of the brethren seem to always be on the poverty level—don’t seem to be able to get above it—God is dealing with them over it. They are doing the best they can. “But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality” (II Corinthians 8:14).
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Being spiritually poor is, imo, a much more important element with which to contemplate scripture.
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