Sermons on Opressing The Poor:

Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit

Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on Mar 15, 2011

We have as much of the Spirit of God within us as we clear out room of ourselves.

Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit Lent #1, March 13, 2011 Matt. 5:3 Intro: Welcome to the first Sunday in Lent, the season of preparation for Easter. While many of us like the idea of spontaneity, with its surprise and playfulness, we also recognize that the things in life that really are ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:3-12

Denomination: Baptist

Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit Series

Contributed by Don Jones on Jan 17, 2008

The first in the series on the Beatitudes. 1. The Happy, 2. The Humble, and 3. The Heaven bound

Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit Matthew 5:3 Introduction The crowds had begun to follow Jesus. His miraculous works, teachings, and His name had spread throughout the regions. Large crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and the region across the Jordan followed him. Now when ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:3

Denomination: Baptist

Good News For The Poor Series

Contributed by Charles Scott on Feb 25, 2008

God is ever willing to forgive and heal us of our moral leprosy.

Lk 4__14-22 and 5__12-13 Proclaim glad tidings to the poor Friday after Epiphany Reading 1 1 Jn 4:19–5:4 Beloved, we love God because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God ...read more

Denomination: Anglican

Good News To The Poor

Contributed by David Welch on Aug 4, 2018

This message explores the Biblical admonition to minister to the poor.

Chico Alliance Church Pastor David Welch “Taking Good News to the Poor” Evidence of God’s presence Introduction For some time now the issues concerning our partnership with Abraham’s house ministry to the community have been discussed and even debated among us. On this issue we have ...read more

Scripture: Luke 4:16-22, Matthew 11:2-6, Luke 3:7-11, James 1:26-27, Matthew 25:31-46  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit

Contributed by Gary Holt on May 25, 2019

week 1 of the sermon on the mount series: poor in spirit

Beatitudes #1 “Blessed are the poor in spirit” Matthew 5:3 Have you ever been poor? Giving plasma for gas money poor Evicted poor because you can’t pay the rent poor Duck tape on the broken car window poor Electricity got turned off poor Poor is defined: Having little or few possessions or ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:3, Luke 18:13

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit

Contributed by Yury Gaudard on Aug 23, 2018

Beatitudes

Sermon on the Mount “Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit” Matthew 5:3 The Sermon on the Mount is taught in the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry. Immediately after his baptism and temptation he had begun to announce the good news that the kingdom of God, long promised in the Old Testament Era, was now ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:3

Poor Stewardship Is Dangerous Series

Contributed by Doug Fannon on Oct 1, 2018

Anything that that pulls us a way from God is dangerous to our spiritual health and well-being. What will degrade our stewardship to God? Greed. The Bible calls it covetousness.

Video: Possessions (1:10 min - available on SermonCentral) I want to begin by asking a very simple question: Do you own your possessions, or do your possession own you? Think on that for bit. The message today will deal with all our stuff. What do we do with it all? Is all our time taken up ...read more

Scripture: Luke 12:15-21, Revelation 3:17-18

Denomination: Baptist

Being Close To The Poor Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 5, 2015

'No one must say that they cannot be close to the poor because their own lifestyle demands more attention to other areas.'

Thursday of 2nd week in Advent 2015 Joy of the Gospel The passage from Isaiah we just heard is from what is often called “Second” Isaiah, probably a disciple of the original Isaiah who wrote during and immediately following the Babylonian exile. It is full of hope; from this we find ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 41:13-20

Denomination: Catholic

Benefits For Giving To The Poor

Contributed by Clarence Weaver Sr on Nov 23, 2013

In everyday living, we too have many opportunities to infuse our relationship with others with harmony. In Psalm 41 the Bible offer us seven benefits the Lord promise He will do for considering the poor.

Benefits For Giving To The Poor Proverbs 28:27; Psalm 41:1-3; Matthew 25:34-40 Elder Clarence Weaver Introduction What a great example of living in love and harmony Jesus gave to the world with His simple request for a drink of water from a Samaritan woman at the well in Samaria. Jews and ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 28:27

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Poor Man's Love

Contributed by William R. Nabaza on Jan 9, 2015

To show that only the LORD can provide pleasures and He has given us His HOLY SPIRIT as Wine and Oil to fill us with joy here on earth.

I. EXORDIUM: Are you a lover of pleasure? Do you always drink wine? II. AUDIENCE PROFILE: Believers III. OBJECTIVES: To show that only the LORD can provide pleasures and He has given us His HOLY SPIRIT as Wine and Oil to fill us with joy here on earth. IV. TEXT: Proverbs 21:17 (Amplified ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 21:17

Denomination: Pentecostal

Poor Naomi And Ruth

Contributed by Greg Nance on Jun 14, 2015

Destitute and broken people are those God seeks to save. Who but the poor in spirit are prepared to receive the King of kings and enter the kingdom of heaven?

Last week we began a study of the book of Ruth. We went through chapter one where Naomi is the chief character. Naomi is married and has two sons. They live in the bread basket of Israel, Bethlehem, but a famine hits and Naomi’s husband moves his family to Moab where he and both his sons ...read more

Scripture: Ruth 2:1-23

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit Series

Contributed by W. Alderman on Feb 23, 2016

This the first of a series on the Sermon on the Mount

BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT Text: Matthew 5:3 ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:1-3

Denomination: Baptist

Poor-Ly Done Series

Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jun 24, 2018

The people of Sodom cared nothing for the poor and needy, and this is one of the reasons Sodom was destroyed. Do you know why this lack of concern for the helpless angered God?

OPEN: A woman wrote in Reader's Digest about the time when she 10 ten years old and she found a wallet. There wasn’t any money in it, just a paper with a phone number and address on it. But she knew how these things worked. She’d return the wallet to its owner and THEN she’d get a reward! She ...read more

Scripture: Ezekiel 16:48-50

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Instruments Of Liberation Of The Poor Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 11, 2016

it means working to eliminate the structural causes of poverty and to promote the integral development of the poor, as well as small daily acts of solidarity in meeting the real needs which we encounter.

Thursday of the 32nd Week in Course 2016 Joy of the Gospel As we move into the last Sunday and last week of the liturgical year, we continue to be challenged by Jesus to follow Him all the way to death. We know not what that end shall be, except that He has promised to be with us. We live for the ...read more

Scripture: Mark 6:36-37

Denomination: Catholic

Caution To The Disheartened Poor

Contributed by Leslie Tarlton on Jan 19, 2014

An Expositional Series on the Book of James

James 5_7-12 Caution to the Disheartened Poor Much of Pastor James’ message is a warning to the rich for mistreating the poor and to the poor for focusing too much on wanting to be rich, rather than seeking and focusing their attention on God. It is very easy to get caught up in the ...read more

Scripture: James 5:7-12

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational