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Love of neighbor

Love of neighbor

Welcome back to my story. I have many stories that will help you live a life of virtue and to have a purpose in your life of great value. Each human life is precious, and anyone at risk and vulnerable is to be protected and given the chance to live a fully complete, happy life. You are blessed if you can choose to have a profession that serves others. I said clearly that I came to serve and not to be served and give my life as a ransom for many. What I mean is I take a stand for the poor, the abused, and the downtrodden so that they can be freed from injustice, poverty, and oppression. 

We must work together, taking action every day in whatever way you can to bring support, healing, protection, food, justice, and truth to the needy oppressed people that are downtrodden by the responsible rich. Working for social justice is to work with me. 

The greatest love anyone can have is to dedicate their lives to lifting the poor from poverty and hunger. I told the story of Dives; my friend Luke wrote it down in the Gospel story chapter 16:19–31: Dives lived in great luxury, but he would not give even the crumbs that fell from his table to the starving, sick, dying man Lazarus that lay begging at his gate. Only the dogs had compassion and licked his sores to heal him. But it was not enough. He died, and his spirit lived on in paradise. When Dives died, he came to suffer in hell. 

It is a simple story, but one that says the uncaring, cruel, and greedy rich that create poverty and leave many millions to starve will come to a bad end. I dedicated my life and risked it to help change society so the poor would escape from hunger and poverty. That challenge is still with us today. I invite you to do good and help change it. 

Use your skills and ability to learn and be wise, and use what wealth you can earn to help others in need, open your heart, and share your surplus. You can change society and bring greater social justice. If humankind accepts my challenge to love each other instead of exploiting and killing each other, all can live in harmony, equality, and justice. 

Remember the story of the Good Samaritan? There was a victim of robbers dying on the side of the road. A Levite, who was a temple official, and a priest came by. They did not stop to help, but they hurried away. Then a person from Samaria, who was not a citizen of Israel, a simple trader, came by and immediately showed compassion and care, helped save the dying man, brought him to a rest house, and paid for his recovery. That is loving your neighbor. The challenge to you is, what would you do? 

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Zacchaeus

Zacchaeus in the Bible was a man whose life-changing encounter with Jesus was recorded by Luke (Luke 19:1–10). Zacchaeus was one of the head tax collectors in the region of Jericho, and the Bible says he was a rich man. Jewish tax collectors like Zacchaeus were scorned by their countrymen for a couple of reasons: one, they were known for cheating the taxpayers; and, two, they worked for Rome. The other Jews saw Jewish tax collectors as collaborators with the enemy—traitors to their own people.

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