According to Matthew 22:39, the second commandment of Jesus is to love your neighbor as yourself. This is the culmination of Leviticus 19:18 and Leviticus 19:34, and as Jesus goes on to say that this and the first commandment fulfills the Law and the prophets. The words of the Law and the prophets are as if God says them Himself. The second commandment, along with the first. Summarizes what God says. And Jesus’ Golden Rule is also an offshoot of Leviticus 19:18 and Leviticus 19:34.
Further, on in Matthew, Matthew 25:31-46, Jesus describes the consequences at judgement of helping or not helping the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger and the sick, and of visiting or not visiting the imprisoned.
We who love God through Jesus have a duty to share the love that God has imparted on us, to others. 1 John 4:7 says to “love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.” On the other hand, 1 John 3:17 says “But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?”
God’s Words in the Bible, for anything in the Bible is the breath of God according to 2 Timothy 3:16, helped with Verse 17, recognizes that as long as Satan prowls the earth there is adversity, misfortune and evil among us, we are to exercise caution as to the degree of love we can give others without causing suffering among ourselves and our families. In fact, 1: Timothy 5:8 says that “if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”
I tell you our first priority is to our households. That involves making use of people that can help us maintain our households regardless of where they’re from. In a sense, there’s a two-fold purpose to this: Not only do we help our households, but we also help those we deem helping our households to be able to help their households as well. All this is within the context of who our neighbor is.
As pointed out in the Parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25–37, your neighbor is someone you can help. There are no borders on who your neighbor is in that regard. It can be anyone from a neighbor that lives next door to people further away who can benefit by, say, from picking the crops on our farms and enabling us to among other things, helping in our nation’s STEM pursuits and healthcare improvements.
But the Bible is also mindful of those who pretend to be needy but are out to take advantage of us through deception and exploitation. Romans 16:17-18 says, “I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.” Colossians 2:8 says, “See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.”
Are we obligated to giving God’s Love to these people? I tell you it’s only to the extent it doesn’t interfere with giving our love to people who are in our God. Once we are satisfied that we and our households are secure against the wrongs these people can do, we can venture to show them by example what God’s Love is, including turning them around to making use of whatever God’s love has been instilled in them.
Further, on in Matthew, Matthew 25:31-46, Jesus describes the consequences at judgement of helping or not helping the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger and the sick, and of visiting or not visiting the imprisoned.
We who love God through Jesus have a duty to share the love that God has imparted on us, to others. 1 John 4:7 says to “love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.” On the other hand, 1 John 3:17 says “But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?”
God’s Words in the Bible, for anything in the Bible is the breath of God according to 2 Timothy 3:16, helped with Verse 17, recognizes that as long as Satan prowls the earth there is adversity, misfortune and evil among us, we are to exercise caution as to the degree of love we can give others without causing suffering among ourselves and our families. In fact, 1: Timothy 5:8 says that “if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”
I tell you our first priority is to our households. That involves making use of people that can help us maintain our households regardless of where they’re from. In a sense, there’s a two-fold purpose to this: Not only do we help our households, but we also help those we deem helping our households to be able to help their households as well. All this is within the context of who our neighbor is.
As pointed out in the Parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25–37, your neighbor is someone you can help. There are no borders on who your neighbor is in that regard. It can be anyone from a neighbor that lives next door to people further away who can benefit by, say, from picking the crops on our farms and enabling us to among other things, helping in our nation’s STEM pursuits and healthcare improvements.
But the Bible is also mindful of those who pretend to be needy but are out to take advantage of us through deception and exploitation. Romans 16:17-18 says, “I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.” Colossians 2:8 says, “See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.”
Are we obligated to giving God’s Love to these people? I tell you it’s only to the extent it doesn’t interfere with giving our love to people who are in our God. Once we are satisfied that we and our households are secure against the wrongs these people can do, we can venture to show them by example what God’s Love is, including turning them around to making use of whatever God’s love has been instilled in them.
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