Social Security

“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:” 2 Corinthians 9:8

This last week I have heard so many who are so concerned with Social Security. People are preparing for a major fight over something that is so small. Social Security only provides the bare minimum for ones survival. I believe this is a great time for the Church to stand up and proclaim from the rooftops the Truth that will set us free! Through Christ, God will make all of His favor abound towards us, so that we will always have all sufficiency in all things, so that we may be used by God to abound unto every good work! God’s provision goes beyond just helping us, to abundantly using us to help those around us! Social Security is only able to give us the bare minimum, so that maybe, we might have some sufficiency in some things, so that we may not starve! And for the government to provide this minimal benefit for us will drain billions upon billions of dollars from our citizens who don’t have it to give! Jesus came that we might have life and have it abundantly and our abundance is met according to God’s riches and glory in Christ Jesus. And God’s riches are limitless!

“Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?” Matthew 6:25-26

Jesus teaches us to take no thought for our own lives. We are able to do this because God causes all of His grace to abound towards us, so that we will always have all sufficiency in all things! Why Christian preachers are getting into this fight over Social Security is beyond me? Through Christ we have so much more than Social Security, we have eternal abundant security! Jesus teaches us to look at the birds, they sow not, neither do they reap, and yet God feeds them and provides them shelter and warmth. The birds get to fly South when it turns cold. Believe me, we Christians should be taking notice of the birds! Jesus teaches us that we are to consider the birds, which we are much better than. The birds do not have to sow to reap! Sound like any sermons you may have heard lately? There is a huge message in Christianity today that goes: we have to sow our finances so that we may reap! But according to Jesus that is not how and why we reap. According to Jesus we reap because we look to God and seek His Kingdom and His righteousness! “Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:31-33 We reap because we look to God for our provision, not because we have bought it with our giving! When we are born again we will give, because God has abounded His grace towards us in all things so that we are able to give! We now give because God has given us a new heart that desires to give! We give because we have been born of love and love gives! We give because He Who is greater in us is a giver! We are now members of the Greatest Giver’s body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone. We give because we now have the Holy Spirit within us teaching us, strengthen us, and leading us to give! So many sermons are preached that say if we have a need, then we are to sow some seed, so God can bless that need. But it’s hard to reconcile that message with what Jesus has proclaimed: take no thought for our own lives and look at the birds who don’t have to sow to reap! Jesus also taught us that the sower sows the Word of God! True born again Christians give, we can’t help it, it’s been born into us. But our giving is not the source of our provision, our provision is found in seeking God’s Kingdom and His righteousness, and Jesus leads us into the Path’s of righteousness! Is that great or what? Our needs are met abundantly because Jesus has led us there. The Shepherd has guided us into a place of great abundance. We did not buy our way in, or earn our way in by our giving; we have all grace being abounded towards us in all things because the Shepherd has led us here!

“For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.” Ephesians 5:30

As Christians we are able to look past Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, because we are now members of Jesus’ body. Jesus doesn’t need doctors or medicines to be well, He has the Anointing of God! Jesus doesn’t need Social Security to live by, He has the wealth of God’s riches and glory, and we are now members of His body. “For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:” Ephesians 5:29 Jesus doesn’t hate us, He ever lives to intercede for us and Jesus nourishes us and Jesus cherishes us! This is why we are able to take no thought, because we don’t have to, because we are now cherished by Jesus. You ever cherish something? If we cherish something, everything that is needed to insure that it is kept is provided! We are now kept by the One Who is able and willing, and Who is completely capable of keeping us! We are cherished by the Alpha and the Omega. So look at the lilies in the field and how beautiful they are and you will see how greatly God will provide for us! “And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all of his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith.” Matthew 6:28-30

Think of a glorious Church, without spot, wrinkle, or blemish, and which is strong in the power of Jesus’ might. Now think of how that church can be used to provide for the needs of the world! Think of millions of us being used by God to bless just table scraps and then feeding hundreds of millions of hungry people with them, and then having leftovers! Think of God using millions of us to just walk down the streets, so that the sick may be healed just because they were close to us! Think of millions of us who are used by God to speak to the weather and preventing it from harming anyone! Think of millions of us who have one heart, and who have one accord, and who have one mind! And think of the power of God that will be exhibited through it! God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He changes not. Jesus said that God would use us to do the works that He did and even greater ones, and these are all works that Jesus did! Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth is if we look to Jesus to Author and Finish our faith, God will perform all of these things through us. And the world will not need Social Security or Medicare or Medicaid! The world will have these debates over social programs, but the Truth is that there is not enough money to ever meet the needs sufficiently! But God has the provisions to meet every need according to His riches and His glory! And God will make all of His grace abound through us so that we may always have all sufficiency in all things, so that He may use us to be chartable in every good work!

Pray for our leaders, God has placed them all there. “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is now power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.” Romans 13:1 Whether liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, Socialist or Capitalist, Majority or Minority, God has ordained all of them for His Own purposes and we are to pray for all of them! Be blessed this day and may Jesus truly Author and Finish our faith, so that we are strong in His might to take no thought for our lives, as we are used by God to take great thought for the lives of others!