Our text this week, Exodus 22:21-27, now God switches to a recurring theme throughout the bible, how the poor are to be treated. When we think of the abuse of the poor, it is not that much different than making sacrifices to a false god. Christ warned about it saying that you cannot serve both God and mammon. They were to have sympathy for the stranger because of their time of sojourning in Egypt. They are not to treat the foreigner that dwells among them like they were treated as foreigners. Then God gave stern warnings about how He hears the cries of the widows and the fatherless when they are abused and taken advantage of. This is not the righteous widow and the righteous orphan. He hears the cries of those who are oppressed and will hear and respond by making the oppressors wives widows and their children orphans. You are not to afflict any of your neighbors that are suffering for gain. Even when they pledge something, you cannot hold the collateral if it produces misery for they can cry to God for help. As the body of Christ, we have a responsibility to stop oppressor. To stop the abuse of the weak. Much oppression happens in America and we have a duty to plead for the widow and defend the fatherless.
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