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Valid!Valid!

Being able to prove that you have rights…!

Rhetoric question: (W.E.B. Dubois 1903)

“How does it feel to be a problem”

To have problems is different from feeling that you are a problem

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Black all day (Raymond Patterson)

This morning when he looked at me

I saw how black I was

Though there was nothing I could see

To give him any cause

But I was black all day and mean

And leaving none to doubt

I showed all day what I had seen

This morning stepping out

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Value

Value and Valid (validity) are two distinctly different words,

though their meaning is often mixed up.

Men often consider one’s value on the basis of one’s “rights”.

Being “poor” means having no value,

And if you have no value means that you have no rights…

For many the status of “being poor” and having no rights is directly related to their faith in Christ.

The day will come when the passport of the poor will be “valid”

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Luke 6: “Blessed are the poor”

20 Looking at his disciples, he said:

“Blessed are you who are poor,    for yours is the kingdom of God.21 Blessed are you who hunger now,    for you will be satisfied.Blessed are you who weep now,    for you will laugh.22 Blessed are you when people hate you,    when they exclude you and insult you    and reject your name as evil,        because of the Son of Man.23 “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your

reward in heaven.

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Luke 6: Jesus and the Sabbath

Where the Pharisees criticize Jesus that the disciples pick grain on the Sabbath and Jesus tells them that the He is Lord of the Sabbath.

3 Jesus answered them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 

4 He entered the house of God, and taking the consecrated bread, he ate what is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.” 

5 Then Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

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Luke 6: Jesus and the Sabbath

On another Sabbath, Jesus heals a man with a shriveled hand. .

9 Then Jesus said to them(the Pharisees) , “I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?”

10 He looked around at them all, and then said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did so, and his hand was completely restored. 11 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were furious and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.

Doing good has no boundaries…is unconditional!

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Matthew 25

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy:

“War and Piece” and “Anna Karenina”

Tract: Where love is there is God also.

A short story of 17 pages.

Martuin, the shoemaker: Luke 6 and Matthew 25

37 Lord, when did we see you hungry…?44  “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry…?

Stretch out and look left and right…who do you see?

May our vision reach further that just what you see in front…