poverty

PovertyA Personal

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PovertyA Personal

response…Psalm 82:3 Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.

PovertyA Personal

response…Proverbs 19:17 Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done

PovertyA Personal

response…Proverbs 28:27 Those who give to the poor will lack nothing, but those who close their eyes to them receive many curses.

PovertyA Personal

response…Acts 9:36 In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (in Greek her name is Dorcas); she was always doing good and helping the poor.

PovertyA Personal

response…Galatians 2:10 All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I had been eager to do all along.

PovertyA Personal

response…How does this work out in practice?

PovertyA Personal

response…Deuteronomy 24:14+15 Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your town. Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

PovertyA Personal

response…Proverbs 14:31 Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honours God.

PovertyA Personal

response…Proverbs 21:13 Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry out and not be answered.

PovertyA Personal

response…Zechariah 7:10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.

PovertyA Personal

response…Proverbs 14:31 Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honours God.

PovertyA Personal

response…How does this work out in practice?

PovertyA Social response…


Elizabeth Fry1780 –1845

William Wilberforce 1759-1833

Sir John Laing1879–1978


Exodus 23:6 Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.


Leviticus 19:15 “‘Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favouritism to the great, but judge your neighbour fairly..


Proverbs 29:7 The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.


Amos 5:12 For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.


How does this work out in practice?

WealthThe Challenges…

Ecclesiastes 5:10Whoever loves money never has enough;whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.


Matthew 13:22 And what is the seed that fell among the thorny weeds? That seed is like the person who hears the teaching but lets worries about this life and the temptation of wealth stop that teaching from growing.


Mark 10:21-22 Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” At this the man’s face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth.


1 Timothy 6:17Tell those rich in this world’s wealth to quit being so full of themselves and so obsessed with money, which is here today and gone tomorrow. Tell them to go after God, who piles on all the riches we could ever manage—to do good, to be rich in helping others, to be extravagantly generous. If they do that, they’ll build a treasury that will last, gaining life that is truly life.

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How does this work out in practice?


Become poor?


Become poor?Mark 10:21-22

Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” At this the man’s face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth.


Become poor?2 Corinthians 8:9 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.


Become poor?Acts 2 vs 44 and 45

All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.”


Become poor?Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled

your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.” Acts 5 vs 3+4


Stay Rich?


Stay Rich?Timothy 6 vs 17 Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.


Be Generous and Content.1 Timothy 6 vs 6

But godliness with contentment is great gain.


Be Generous and Content.1Timothy 6 vs 17+18

Command those who are rich in this present world to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share.

Poverty and WealthProverbs 30:8-9

Keep me from lying and being dishonest.

And don’t make me either rich or poor;

just give me enough food for each day.

If I have too much, I might reject you and say, ‘I don’t know the Lord.

If I am poor, I might steal and disgrace the name of my God.

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