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The Entitlement Jesus - love God and take from your neighbors
by Shawn Hyland | August 8, 2011
Jesus taught us to "love our neighbors as ourselves" (Luke 10:27). He showed us that Love is an action of giving and sacrificing out of one's own heart. Jesus spent three years convicting and encouraging the rich to "give to the poor" - hence, "love (give to) your neighbor".
Throughout his ministry, he never went to the poor and told them to "take from their neighbor". His command to all was LOVE (give to) others - if you were the rich young man or the widow with two mites. He never taught any financial class of people to expect something for nothing. No one was ever entitled to another man's property or wealth. No one was taught to take from the neighbor, they were commanded to love or (give to) their neighbor.
America's non discrestionary budget items known as "Entitlement Spending" has brought our debt to un-biblical proportions and worse, has taught a large class of our population to expect government handouts which"takes from their neighbors" not "love(s) their neighbors".
The top 3% of Americans give nearly 50% of all money received by charities. The more our Entitlement Spending takes from the wealthy "takes from their neighbor", the less they will have to give to the poor "love their neighbor". The secular dream of solving poverty and sickness through trillions of dollars of government spending (welfare, medicaid, medicare) will never break the root curse of where poverty and sickness comes from. Christ and His Church is the answer, but a tax attack on the top 3% of Americans is an attack on 50% of the Church's/Charity's budget.