There is a people group who, many Christians ignore, there is
a people group, who the Lord in his heart, has a special place
for there is a people group, who all the way through the
scriptures. The Lord says, I want you to
protect this group of people, which group of people am I
talking about well before I reveal the answer to you first,
let me tell you about this famous American pasta.
This Pastor said my favorite people in the world.
The people I look up to my heroes, they're not theologians
there. Not celebrities.
It's this ordinary couple in their 60s.
Why is this couple so special? Well, they are very Ordinary
People for, man. He's a mechanic and the woman.
She's a hairdresser. But together, they made a
decision as 60 years old, to do something quite incredible.
They have just adopted their 11th, child out of the foster
care system, and that really blows me away.
Because if you think about it, most people in their 60s are
thinking about slowing down most people in their 60s.
Thinking about winding down and retiring, but this 60 year old
couple has decided to have a leaven foster children running
around their house. But when you hear the reason why
this couple made this decision, I believe it will blow you away.
They said, how come if it says in the Bible pure and undefiled
religion before God and the father is this to visit orphans
and widows in their trouble and to keep oneself unspotted, from
the world. How How come if the Bible says
the best thing you can do as a Christian is to visit orphans
his to look after orphans. Why is it in America?
There are 800,000 orphans in the foster care system and
supposedly. At the same time in America,
there are meant to be millions and millions of bible-believing
Christians, why does that not a dull?
And when I heard that it convicted me greatly, it made me
think, made me look at my own life.
So what is the people group, who God?
Wants us to defend. Well, it's the vulnerable, the
poor, the Widow, the orphan is supposed to be a voice for the
voiceless to cry out to every mother who has a child in their
wound. That has been knitted together
by God and cry out to them and say mother's, please, don't do
it to cry out. For every Widow who's been
downtrodden, who has no husband to protect her to cry out for
every child that does not have a father or mother to wrap their
arms around them. No, it's to love those who are
unloved to protect. Those who need protecting and to
care for those who have never been cared for that is our
responsibility as Christians. Listen to me, I praise God, for
every unbeliever who puts clothes on the back of those who
are cold. I praise God, for every
unbeliever who feeds the poor, who cares for the hungry, who
looks after the needs of those who need justice?
But I've got to say this, it is not the job of the non-Christian
to care for the poor. No God has entrusted that to his
people and woe to us. Shame on us when the unbeliever
does the Lord's work better than the Lord's people?
The Bible says, they have grown fat.
They are Sleek. Yes, they surpass, the Deeds of
the wicked, they do not plead the, cause the cause of the
fatherless yet they prosper and the rights of the needy, they do
not defend Almighty friends. When did our hearts grow so
cold. After we've eaten three meals
every single day for years and Years.
How did we forget about the needs of the hungry?
After we have a warm roof over our head?
Why is it we? So often forget about those who
have no shelter, while we spend hours and hours entertaining
ourselves on social media or on Netflix, on our smartphones, why
is it? We forgotten about those who
have absolutely nothing. Right now, as we speak, there is
a widow in Moldova who is lonely and she has no husband to
protect her. Right now, as we speak, there is
an orphan in Burkina Faso, who has no mother, no father to tuck
them into bed, each night. And to say, it's okay, you doing
a great job song. Right now, as we speak, there is
a group, a massive group of Christians in the north of
Nigeria who are being destroyed. And there is no news reporter.
There is no media coverage over this terrible Injustice, that is
happening to the people of God right now, and it is your job,
and it is my job. A job to cry out enough is
enough. These are God's people who God
made and we need to love them and we need to protect them and
we need to defend the cause of the week.
I want to tell you something, I can't say this about many verses
but this verse that I'm about to read to you haunts me.
When I think about the reality of it, Proverbs 21 verse 13
says, whoever shuts his ears to The Cry of the poor will also
cry himself and not Hard, why should we expect the Living?
God to hear our prayers to open his eyes to open.
His is too, when we call out to him, and we've spent our lives.
Shutting our eyes ignoring the needs of those around us who are
crying out for help. Why should we expect the Lord to
have compassion on us when we cry out to him in our hour of
need? And we did not show compassion
to those who cried out to was in their hour of need.
But hey now there's Then I forgot to emphasize in its this
Jesus said, it is better to give than to receive and the man or
the woman who lends to the poor lends to the Lord.
A number of years ago, I was preaching with one of my best
friends in a small village in England.
When after we'd finished Street Preacher me noticed that one of
the shops had a massive big sale on.
It had literally hundreds of discounted shoes so my friend
who is not rich man by any stretch of the imagination He
walked into the shoe shop and said, if I gave you 500 pounds
500 English pounds, how many shoes can you give me?
And the man said I could give you dozens and dozens of shoes.
My friend said really, I'll take him.
You see what I want to do is I want to send over a massive, big
truckload of shoes and clothes. So my friends over in Armenia,
because as a Ministry over there, Christians are doing this
ministry work, and they give clothes to the poor and shoes to
those who cannot afford to buy shoes.
Choose anyway, a couple of days later, I'm again in the car with
my friend. My friend looks at me and says,
remember, last week, when I bought all of those shoes I
said, yes, I do. He said, well, you're never
going to believe this, but just today a man approached me.
And he gave me a check of how much money five hundred pounds.
And then he said, Joe Christians, don't realize just
what they're missing out on when you have a big vision of God,
big things happen. But when you only have a small
vision, God only small things happen.
A my dear precious believe it's true, isn't it?
God is no man's data. And if we step out in faith,
very rarely to scald Knievel's empty-handed now.
I have no right to tell you what to do with your money that's
between you and the Lord, because every single one of
those will one day stand before the Lord God, and he will say, I
gave you x amount of money and this is how you stewarded it,
but suppose a small watching now and you feel Like this message
was for you and you feel like you do have a desire to give to
the poor but you're saying Joe. I don't really know where I
should give my money. Well, if I may, could I share
with you for Christian Charities, who I personally
really believe in and no one has asked me to make this video.
It's actually something I feel I should have done a long time
ago. Number one Armenia Ministries.
Now this isn't to be confused with the theological position.
Armenia is a small little country on the border of turkey
and actually 26% of the population of those who live.
There are living in total poverty.
They really do know what it is to be poor.
My friend who I was telling you about before, this is the
ministry he worked with to send the clothes across in those
containers. I actually know the couple who
run this ministry. I've met them a couple of times
and they really are a humble couple.
They help the poor they give to widows.
They help the disabled. They run Bible clubs.
They've got a team over there. Who is basically Really working
around the clock to make sure they're doing the Lord's work
and sending out the gospel and helping the poor people in the
name of Jesus. So if you would like to give to
their Ministry or if you'd like to send clothes across or if you
just like to receive their newsletter and pray for them,
please fill out the contact page and I'm sure someone will get
back to you very shortly. Number two, the Metropolitan
mission in India. The Metropolitan mission is an
orphanage which homes nearly 100 children, they run a school, the
educate the children. And they teach the children, all
about Jesus Christ. But not only do they do work
with children. They also employ, if you like
evangelist and send them out to reach the lost.
Again, this is just a small little work, which don't even
have a website, they're actually looked after and overseen by the
Association of evangelist. And again, they don't have a
donate button, so if you'd like to give to this ministry, please
fill out a contact form. And you'll be told how you can
help support this work, which is so vital and which is Helping
many children in India. Number three, the Slavic gospel
Association SGA is a missionary society which supports
missionaries churches and provides Aid and shelter and
food for the poor and the needy they operate in many countries,
including Romania, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia, and Serbia.
And if you'd like to find out more about how you can support
them and how you can even help in this very current, Ukraine
crisis, please also visit Website.
And lastly number for open doors, at guess, out of the four
Ministries, I've named, perhaps, you've heard of open doors more
than the other ones, it was founded by the Evangelist called
brother Andrew also known as the god Smuggler because he used to
smuggle Bibles beneath the Iron Curtain today open doors
supports more than 60 countries countries, where it is
incredibly dangerous to be a Christian.
We're talking about places like North Korea like Korea and
Afghanistan, which has recently been named the most dangerous
place to be a Christian in 2022. If you'd like to know more about
how you can support the work of open doors, and how you can give
to those Christians who really are struggling.
So that to be bold about their faith.
When there's so much persecution on their shoulders, please do
visit their website. I'll leave a link in the
description box and also follow the link that you can see on the
screen. Right now guys, there is a heap
of other Ministries and Charities.
I could have named them. And I do apologize if I've not
named one which is particularly dear to your heart.
I just wanted to give you a taster and perhaps expose you to
some Ministries, you've never heard of before.
But I did wonder now, I think people are probably thinking the
word Progressive Christian. As I've started to talk about
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