Extend Your Hand-When Needed; Day585

But if anyone has this world’s goods (resources for sustaining life) and sees his brother and fellow believer in need, yet closes his heart of compassion against him, how can the love of God live and remain in him? 1John 3:17

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2.4Mile Swim
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Reading List
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24Hour Report
0845, End of Sleep,
0910, Coffee, bagel
0930, Bible Study 1John 3:17  [read more]

”Extend Your Hand – When Needed”
1. Anyone-applies to all
2. See-when you witness someone
3. A Brother/neighbor
4. Fellow Believer
5. Open the Heart of compassion

“Barnes in 1 John 3:17
But whoso hath this world’s good – Has property – called “this world’s good,” or a good pertaining to this world, because it is of value to us only as it meets our wants this side of the grave; and perhaps also because it is sought supremely by the people of the world. The general meaning of this verse, in connection with the previous verse, is, that if we ought to be willing to lay down our lives for others, we ought to be willing to make those comparatively smaller sacrifices which are necessary to relieve them in their distresses; and that if we are unwilling to do this, we can have no evidence that the love of God dwells in us.
And seeth his brother have need – Need of food, of raiment, of shelter; or sick, and poor, and unable to provide for his own wants and those of his family.
And shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him – The bowels, or “upper viscera,” embracing the heart, and the region of the chest generally, are in the Scriptures represented as the seat of mercy, piety, and compassion, because when the mind feels compassion it is that part which is affected. Compare the notes at Isa_16:11.
How dwelleth the love of God in him? – How can a man love God who does not love those who bear his image? See the notes at 1Jo_4:20. On the general sentiment here, see the notes at Jam_2:14-16. The meaning is plain, that we cannot have evidence of piety unless we are ready to do good to others, especially to our Christian brethren. See the Mat_25:45 note; Gal_6:10 note.”