No Orphans in CHRIST God’s Attitude toward Orphans God cares for the orphan Ps 68:5 Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in Holy habitation. Hosea 14:3 In you the orphan finds mercy

No Orphans in CHRIST God’s Attitude toward Orphans God considers the oppression of orphans a serious offense Jer. 7:6 Do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow

No Orphans in CHRIST God’s Attitude toward Orphans God defends Orphans Deut.10:17-18 For the LORD your God is God ofgods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bride. He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow and loves the sojourner, giving food and clothing.

No Orphans in CHRIST God’s Attitude toward Orphans God defends Orphans Ps 10:17-18 O LORD, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.

No Orphans in CHRIST God’s Attitude toward Orphans God promises to punish the oppressors of Orphans Exodus 22:22-24 You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. If you do mistreat them and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry, and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

No Orphans in CHRIST God’s Attitude toward Orphans God provides for Orphans Deut. 14:28-29 At the end of three years you shall bring out the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns. And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.

No Orphans in CHRIST God’s Attitude toward Orphans God Sustains Orphans Psalms 146:9 The LORD watches over the sojourner; he upholds the widow and the fatherless

No Orphans in CHRIST The Believer’s Duty to Orphans Detest the Oppression of Orphans Psalms 94:1-6 O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth! Rise up O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve! O LORD how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult? They pour out their arrogant words all the evil doers boast. They crush your people, O LORD and afflict your heritage. They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless.

No Orphans in CHRIST The Believer’s Duty to Orphans Detest the Oppression of Orphans Proverbs 23:10 Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless

No Orphans in CHRIST The Believer’s Duty to Orphans Entreat God to Deliver Orphans Psalms 84:3 Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

No Orphans in CHRIST The Believer’s Duty to Orphans Entreat God to Deliver the Orphan Job 24:1-3 Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days? Some move landmarks they seize flocks and pasture them. They drive away the donkey of the fatherless they take the widow’s ox for a plead.

No Orphans in CHRIST The Believer’s Duty to Orphans We are to involve Orphans in the faith Community Deut. 16 :9-11, When we come to worship the Lord we are to welcome and provide from our abundance that the Lord has provided.

No Orphans in CHRIST The Believer’s Duty to Orphans We are to give Generously to Orphans Deut. 24:19-21 When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands…Same for your olive trees and your vineyards

No Orphans in CHRIST The Believer’s Duty to Orphans Believer’s are to Care for Orphans Job 31:16-23 Matt. 25:31-46

No Orphans in CHRIST The Believer’s Duty to Orphans Believers are to Care for Orphans Eph. 2:12 Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise having no hope and without God in the world. 2:19 you are no longer strangers and aliens but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the house hold of God.

No Orphans in CHRIST The Believer’s Duty to Orphans Believers are to Care for Orphans James 1:27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained from the world.