{"id":45157,"date":"2022-10-01T01:41:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/a-question-regarding-homeless-people-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:41:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:41:54","slug":"a-question-regarding-homeless-people-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/a-question-regarding-homeless-people-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"A Question Regarding Homeless People &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A querist asks, &#8220;Could you show me a scripture in the Bible where it talks about homeless people, and why people become homeless?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Bible doesn&#8217;t <strong>specifically<\/strong> address the problems of homeless people, but it does address what kind of loving, caring, and compassionate <strong>attitude<\/strong> God&#8217;s people should have toward the poor. The Bible also tells us what God&#8217;s response is toward those who do not show compassion toward the poor. As an example, the following scriptures by the Proverb writer, Solomon, are provided:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Proverbs 14:31<\/li>\n<li>Proverbs 17:5<\/li>\n<li>Proverbs 19:17<\/li>\n<li>Proverbs 21:13<\/li>\n<li>Proverbs 22:9,16<\/li>\n<li>Proverbs 22:22<\/li>\n<li>Proverbs 28:27<\/li>\n<li>Proverbs 29:7,14<\/li>\n<li>Proverbs 31:9,20<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An additional suggestion would be to look at every passage in the Bible with the word &#8220;poor&#8221; in it and see how the word is used in each passage.<\/p>\n<p>The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia further explains the use of this term in both Old and New Testaments.<\/p>\n<p>As Christians, we should be willing to help the poor &#8220;according to our ability&#8221; to do so (Acts 11:29).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A querist asks, &#8220;Could you show me a scripture in the Bible where it talks about homeless people, and why people become homeless?&#8221; The Bible doesn&#8217;t specifically address the problems of homeless people, but it does address what kind of loving, caring, and compassionate attitude God&#8217;s people should have toward the poor. The Bible also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/a-question-regarding-homeless-people-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Question Regarding Homeless People &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}