With My Neighbor
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When it is in your power, don’t withhold good from the one to whom it belongs.
The $50 gift…when given something like this, what do you think about doing with it? With wisdom, we so often think like we do with the $50 gift—what can I spend this for on me. While we can and should use birthday money, etc., for us…we need to think about being given the awesome gift of wisdom TO BENEFIT OUR NEIGHBOR!
“When it is in your power”
Don’t DENY GOOD TO WHOM IT’S DUE. ()
Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us work for the good of all, especially for those who belong to the household of faith.
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A matter of doing what is right rather than benevolence.
Don’t DELAY GRACIOUS BENEVOLENCE. ()
This echoes the first ‘don’t,’ and I believe expands it further…to the matter of benevolence (helping) for my neighbor.
A matter of justice/ministry...
for receiving prudent instruction in righteousness, justice, and integrity;
If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, stay warm, and be well fed,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it? In the same way faith, if it doesn’t have works, is dead by itself.
Don’t DESIGN DETRIMENT FOR YOUR NEIGHBOR. ()
If they say—“Come with us! Let’s set an ambush and kill someone. Let’s attack some innocent person just for fun!
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Still, none of this satisfies me since I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the King’s Gate all the time.” His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows seventy-five feet tall. Ask the king in the morning to hang Mordecai on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows constructed.
Harbona, one of the king’s eunuchs, said: “There is a gallows seventy-five feet tall at Haman’s house that he made for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” The king said, “Hang him on it.” They hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s anger subsided.
Esther
Don’t DISHONESTLY ACCUSE ANYONE. ()
Lord, who can dwell in your tent? Who can live on your holy mountain? The one who lives blamelessly, practices righteousness, and acknowledges the truth in his heart— who does not slander with his tongue, who does not harm his friend or discredit his neighbor,
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Do not give false testimony against your neighbor.
Don’t DESIRE THE DIRECTION OF THE DEVIOUS. ()
Do not be agitated by evildoers; do not envy those who do wrong. For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender green plants.
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God is indeed good to Israel, to the pure in heart. But as for me, my feet almost slipped; my steps nearly went astray. For I envied the arrogant; I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Do not be agitated by evildoers; do not envy those who do wrong. For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender green plants. Trust in the Lord and do what is good; dwell in the land and live securely.
Psalm 37.1
The Lord’s curse is on the household of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous; He mocks those who mock, but gives grace to the humble. The wise will inherit honor, but he holds up fools to dishonor.
But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. All of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.
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And just so we are clear in applying all of this truth...
My neighbor
But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
“Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?” “The one who showed mercy to him,” he said. Then Jesus told him, “Go and do the same.”
luke 10.36-37
The wise will inherit honor, but he holds up fools to dishonor.