Thread: God COMMANDS you to love people and feed them!
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God COMMANDS you to love people and feed them!
Posted : 5 Aug, 2011 09:18 AM
What is more important to give food to the poor or to love our enemies/neighbours?
But have not love, I am nothing.....
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
Do we need to give food to people?
God said yes. He commands us that!
Fasting:
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,
And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out;
When you see the naked, that you cover him,
And not hide yourself from your own flesh?
Then your light shall break forth like the morning,
Your healing shall spring forth speedily,
And your righteousness shall go before you;
The glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.
Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer;
You shall cry, and He will say, �Here I am.�
1 Corinthians 13
The Greatest Gift
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Isaiah 58
Fasting that Pleases God
1 �Cry aloud, spare not;
Lift up your voice like a trumpet;
Tell 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 did not forsake the ordinance of their God.
They ask of Me the ordinances of justice;
They take delight in approaching God.
3 � Why have we fasted,� they say, �and You have not seen?
Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?�
� In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,
And exploit all your laborers.
4 Indeed you fast for strife and debate,
And to strike with the fist of wickedness.
You will not fast as you do this day,
To make your voice heard on high.
5 Is it a fast that I have chosen,
A day for a man to afflict his soul?
Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush,
And to spread out sackcloth and ashes?
Would you call this a fast,
And an acceptable day to the LORD?
6 � Is this not the fast that I have chosen:
To loose the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the heavy burdens,
To let the oppressed go free,
And that you break every yoke?
7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,
And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out;
When you see the naked, that you cover him,
And not hide yourself from your own flesh?
8 Then your light shall break forth like the morning,
Your healing shall spring forth speedily,
And your righteousness shall go before you;
The glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.
9 Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer;
You shall cry, and He will say, �Here I am.�
� If you take away the yoke from your midst,
The pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,
10 If you extend your soul to the hungry
And satisfy the afflicted soul,
Then your light shall dawn in the darkness,
And your darkness shall be as the noonday.
11 The LORD will guide you continually,
And satisfy your soul in drought,
And strengthen your bones;
You shall be like a watered garden,
And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
12 Those from among you
Shall build the old waste places;
You shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach,
The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.
13 � If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
From doing your pleasure on My holy day,
And call the Sabbath a delight,
The holy day of the LORD honorable,
And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways,
Nor finding your own pleasure,
Nor speaking your own words,
14 Then you shall delight yourself in the LORD;
And I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth,
And feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father.
God and Jesus both says if you love Him surely you ought to show some kinds of signs, by keeping His commandments. And to make all of this solid and sound as to what God has spoken in the Old, Jesus confirms it in the New in Matthew chapter 25: 31 �When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. 34. �Then the King will say to those on his right, �Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36. I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.� 37. �Then the righteous will answer him, �Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?� 40. �The King will reply, �Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.� 41. �Then he will say to those on his left, �Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.� 44 .�They also will answer, �Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?� 45. �He will reply, �Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.� 46. �Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.�
Love is action, and its not about us, its about others, our works of love that will be judged by God. Its the same as when a man or a woman says he/she loves their spouse, yet there are no physical signs no works of such love in action. There must be works of love that proves what a person's words say... In the book of James, he says how can you say you love your brother or sister, and see them begging for food or have need of clothing and you verbally wish them God's speed, but you don't do anything to provide for such blessings... this is nothing but dead works... not love works, or works of love.
Thank you Ella for your love for God and your feeding the poor! :applause:
By Richard:
John 10:10 NIV Jesus says, "I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full!"
I Corinthians 15:19: If only for this life we have hope in Christ , we are to be pitied more than all men.
Romans 6:23: The Gift of God is ETERNAL *LIFE* in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Luke 12:15,20,21: Jesus says, "Watch out be on your guard against all kind of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions...God said to him You fool! This very night your life will be demanded of you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself. This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself!"
John 12:25: Jesus says, "The man who loves his life will lose it.While the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for ETERNAL *LIFE*!"
Matthew 4:7,8: "The Devil took Jesus to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. Satan said "All this I will give if you will bow down and worship Me."
I John 2:15: "Do not love the world or anything in the world, If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him."
If we love people, we love God Jesus. :hearts:
If we feed people, we give food to God Jesus. :bow:
If we support people and restore their lives, we are the ture sons of God! :angel:
This is the prosperity Gospel: we can prosper only in love when we give out our heart,love, food and support to people. And prayers to God to save people.
Amen Bahira, this is what being in ministry is all about. I am praying for the people in Africa, where they are suffering from famine. It is heart breaking to watch the children sick and dying from starvation. The UN is delivering the food, however, there are hostile forces who are trying to prevent it. :prayingm:
