Benjamin Keach was a Reformed Baptist minster, writes on unjust mammon from Luke 16:11. This means give to the poor. God sought to supply “His” needy with the riches He put into their brother or sister’s hand.
When some want a policy position to prevail, they claim US is a Christian Nation. But when a Syrian or Latino is a different denom, they’re out. Was our wealth put in our hands for Christian refugees?
How can you supply what they need?
Thomas Manton, Puritan, on godly living from James & Job. If workers are bothered, the land will cry out to God. Job took worker gripes deadly seriously.
Today, many agree poor should not be crying out, but rather than satisfying them, we stop them or teach them not to cry.
How can you judge your morality by how people cry out to you?
Thomas Cranmer, Protestant martyr, offers in his last words, an appeal for love together like brother and sister. But he sees people act as strangers and mortal enemies.
How might you be guilty of that? Anyone at church annoy you, or perhaps, do you have a clique that you are jovial with, and everyone else is just wallpaper in the rooms you enter?
Greg Johnson