Week 5: Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 5 – Sodom’s Other Sins: Ezekiel 16:49, 50 The references to the poor and needy in the book of Ezekiel are also very important. The first is especially interesting. In this day and age when wickedness is so blatantly rampant, we have a tendency to link one …
OT 5:4 Ezekiel and the Stranger
Week 5: Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 4 – Ezekiel and the Stranger: Ezekiel 14:6-8; 44:6-9; 47:23 The book of Ezekiel is an amazing book. If you have never taken the time to read through it carefully – do it. Choosing how and where to start for today’s post is not easy! The ministries …
OT 5:3 When a Nation Neglects the Fatherless
Week 5: Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 3 – When a Nation Neglects the Fatherless: Jeremiah 5:28, 7:6,7; 22:3,4; Lamentations 5:3 The message to Judah regarding the fatherless is a lot more extensive than what we saw in Jeremiah’s address to Edom. The fatherless are first mentioned in chapter five where the sin of …
OT 5:1 In Thee The Fatherless Find Mercy
Week 5: Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 1 – In Thee The Fatherless Find Mercy: Hosea 14:3 Post Theme: Hosea and the Fatherless In the last blog, we started our look at the fatherless and the prophets in the book of Isaiah. Hosea was Isaiah’s contemporary. Both men prophesied during the reigns of Uzziah, …
OT 4:5 Isaiah and the Fatherless
Week 4, Part 2: Lessons from the Prophets Day 5 – Isaiah and the Fatherless: Isaiah 1:17, 23; 9:17; 10:2 Post Theme: When God Doesn’t Show Mercy to the Fatherless In the last blog, (If you were brave enough to read the whole thing!), we looked at the backdrop of Isaiah with hardly a mention …
OT 4:3 – God’s People and the Fatherless
Week 4, Part 1: Lessons from Psalms and Proverbs Day 3 – God’s People and the Fatherless: Psalm 82:3,4; Proverbs 23:10,11 Psalm 82:3,4 – “Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.” Defend The Poor and Fatherless …
OT 3:3 Job’s Reasoning (Part 2)
Week 3 – Lessons from Job Cont’d Day 3 – Job’s Reasoning (Part 2 – Avoiding Self-righteousness): Job 42:5,6 “I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” Yesterday, we looked at Job’s first reason for his …
OT 2:3 – Accusations Answered
Week 2 – Lessons From Job Day 3 – The Accusation Answered: Job 24:3-11 Eliphaz’s accusation did not go unanswered. In chapter twenty-three, Job describes his true position before God: his rest in the knowledge that God knows the way he takes, his confidence that he has kept the way of the Lord. Then he …
OT 1:4 The Pocketbook – God’s Plan for Provision
Week 1 – Lessons from the Law Day 4 – God’s Plan for Provision: Deuteronomy 14:28,29; 16:11-14; 24:17-22; 26:12,13 Money. Money. Money. Why are so many things about money! It seems sometimes like money is the biggest hurdle in reaching out to the fatherless. Taking on a children’s home or even just adding one child …
OT 1:3 God’s Reminder – The Purpose of the Command
Week 1 – Lessons from the Law Day 3 – The Purpose of the Command: Deuteronomy 24:17-18 In the last post, we mentioned God’s purpose for ministry to the fatherless, the widow, and the stranger. Today we will go a little deeper into it. Deuteronomy 24:17, 18 says: “Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of …
