“Steal No Longer”

August 13, 2020

“Steal No Longer”

Blessings folk!

The Spirit, through Paul, continues to fire off instruction to the Body at Ephesus.

Here is the next…

Eph 4:28
He who steals must steal no longer;
but rather he must labor,
performing with his own hands what is good,
so that he will have something to share with one who has need.

Many times these instructions are interesting, especially from our viewpoint.

We assume that folk will “automatically” start “doing what is right”.

Not so.

We all need to be told.
We need to know.

So, if someone was a thief…a vocation world-wide…we just give them fancier names which I will resist listing…then when they believe unto salvation they should stop stealing.

Not only should they stop, they should labor with their own hands…doing what is good.

This actually strikes at several things in our culture.

Too many do not work with their own hands.
They sit at home and await “assistance”.
This is detrimental to the human soul, especially men.

But note one more point.

We are to work.
To provide for ourselves/families?
Yes!
But the reason mentioned here is so that we can have something to share with those in need.
Think on that.

We work to provide and attain so that we can help one another.

That is not the mind-set of the Body of Christ in the western world.

Is should be.

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