Sharing Food Storage
From: "Sterling D. Allan" <sterlingda@greaterthings.com>
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Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 8:41 AM
Subject: Sharing Food Storage
Some great excerpts below from a friend who wishes to remain anonymous. In the
pattern of the Savior who offers us salvation though we do not deserve it, she suggests
that during the difficult times, offering food or other supplies to people who do no
deserve it because they did not prepare is very much in keeping with the Christian
walk. I believe she makes a great case. I would think that the only
"condition" for such service is the broken heart. Mosiah describes it as
the "begger putting up his petition." On the other hand, those who demand
it or seek to have it by force should have no part of it.
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I found an answer to a forum question a while back . . .
The question: When famine times come, do we feed our neighbors who have not
prepared, and have said, I'll just remember you have food, or do we do like the ten
virgins, and say, you didn't prepare by having your own oil, sorry?
Mosiah 4:11-30 King Benjamin, given his talk by an angel speaks to the people
telling them what they should do on a day to day basis.;....
verse 16 and also, ye yourselves will succor those that stand in need of your succor;
ye will administer of your substance unto him that standeth in need; and ye will not
suffer that the beggar putteth up his petition to you in vain and turn him out to perish.
17 Perhaps thou shalt say: The man has brought upon himself his misery;
therefore I will stay my hand, and will not give unto him of my food, not impart unto him
of my substance that he may not suffer, for his punishments are just.
18 But I say unto you, O man, whosoever doeth this the same hath great cause to
repent........thru verse 21....then how ye ought to impart of the substance that ye have
one to another. 22: And if ye judge the man who putteth up his petition to
you for your substance, that he perish not, and condemn him, how much more just will be
your condemnation for witholding your substance, which doth not belong to you but to God,
to whom also your life belongeth; and yet ye put up no petition, nor repent of the thing
which thou hast done. 23 I say unto you, wo be unto that man, for
his substance shall perish with him; and now, I say these things unto those who are rich
as pertaining to the things of this world.
If we are striving to become a Zion person, in order to bring about a Zion people, it
seems to me that we will strive to live a higher law than this Telestial one, of
"sorry buddy, you brought it upon yourself, I warned you to
prepare!" A Zion people will be striving to live the Law of Consecration
.
And there will be no poor [nor hungry] among them.
In Inspired version: Matt 24:39 And whoso treasureth up
my words, shall not be deceived. (concerning the end tribulation and false prophets and
Christs.)
Who shall sit on the right hand of God? Matt 25:31-33 ...he shall separate them
one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats. And he shall set
the sheep on the right hand, but the goats on the left.
So who will be on the right side? He has just told the parable of the 10
virgins, and the talents. The King says to come and sit on his right
side, "for I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat, I was thirsty and ye gave me drink,
I was a stranger and ye took me in." and then: Verily I say unto you,
inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it
unto me.
On the left hand, were those who fed not the hungry, not clothed the naked, nor visited
the sick and in prison, same thing, did it not unto Him..
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Sterling
