The Poor
Will Smit
April 1st 2007
The poor
Orphans
Widows
Do we do what
JESUS
asked us to do?
1. Do we care?
James 1:27(a) NIV
Religion that God our Father
accepts as pure and faultless is
this: to look after orphans and
widows in their distress.
Reading of
Matthew 25:31-46
2) Do you really love JESUS?
John 21:17
The third time he said to him, "Simon
son of John, do you love me?"
Peter was hurt because Jesus
asked him the third time, "Do you love
me?" He said, "Lord, you know all
things; you know that I love you."
18Jesus said, "Feed my sheep”.
Matthew 22:37 NIV
Jesus replied: " 'Love the
Lord your God with all
your heart and with all
your soul and with all your
mind.'
3) Do you really love people?
Mark 12:31 NIV
The second is this: 'Love your neighbor
as yourself.‘ There is no commandment
greater than these."
John 15:12 NIV
My command is this: Love each other
as I have loved you.
4) Do you tell people about
JESUS?
Mark 16:15-16 NIV
15 He said to them, "Go into all the
world and preach the good news to all
creation.
16 Whoever believes and is baptized
will be saved, but whoever does not
believe will be condemned.
Captain of Our Lives
Mark 8:34-38 NIV
34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his
disciples and said: "If anyone would come after
me, he must deny himself and take up his cross
and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save his
life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me
and for the gospel will save it. 36 What good is it
for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his
soul? 37 Or what can a man give in exchange for
his soul? 38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my
words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the
Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he
comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels."