Maximizing Spiritual Potential

The price of indifference is too high to pay. In Matthew 25:31-46, Jesus provided four insights into why the believer cannot be indifferent to those in need. First, believers cannot afford to be indifferent towards Jesus and His return (Rev 16:15; Matt 24:43; 1 Thess 5:2, 5:4; 2 Pet 3:10). Second, believers cannot afford to be indifferent towards the resources of time, talent, and treasure that God gives them to assist those in need (Matt 24:45-25:30). Third, believers cannot

Jesus and the Poor             Second Corinthians 8:9 says that Jesus, though He was rich, became poor for our sakes, so that by His poverty we might become rich. Jesus was born into a poor family (Lev 5:7, 12:2-8; Luke 2:24). He later in life told a scribe that the Son of Man had nowhere to lay His head by painting a less glamorous picture of what it was like to follow Him (Matt 8:20). Basically, He was homeless, even though the homes of others, such as Peter, Andrew, Lazaru

The Poor in the Old Testament (OT)              There are many applicable passages in the Old Testament dealing with the challenges and treatment of the poor. With special concern to prevent permanent and hopeless poverty, God gave specific commands to His people, Israel, regarding the poor. If a man’s need caused him to be sold into slavery, he must be freed after six years (Exod 21:2). They were to sow the land and gather its produce for six years, then on the seventh year