Does Jesus Christ Care About Social Justice? "Am I My Brother's Keeper?"

Jesus Christ values all people equally. His people value and care for all people equally.

God's people are not "color-blind", unable or unwilling to see clear and visible differences among humans. God's people see and acknowledge the beauty of the differences expressed in creation, including among people.

If you hold the belief that "others" are a different "type" of person, a person not fully deserving of fully and forever sharing God's goodness, blessings, and love, think again.

If you would  be offended to see a certain "type" of person in the eternal heavenly kingdom, think again.

If you would be offended to forever live as a certain "type" of person in the eternal heavenly kingdom, think again.

If you believe you are blessed in a special, favored, or different way because of what you see in the mirror each day (a certain skin color, a certain weight, a certain height, a certain type of clothing, a certain type of physical ability, a certain gender, a certain economic background, a certain family history, a certain level of health and wellness), you've missed it.


From Genesis 4:9 and 10:

Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?" The LORD said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cried out to me from the ground. Now you are under a curse..."

From Amos 2:6 and 7:

This is what the LORD says: For three sins of Israel (God's people), even four, I will not relent. They sell the innocent for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals. They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the ground and deny justice to the oppressed."

From Isaiah 3;31-35:

The LORD takes his place in court, he rises to judge the people. The LORD enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of his people. "It is you who have ruined my vineyard, the plunder from the poor is in your houses. What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor?"

From Isaiah 58:9-12:

"If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings."

From Luke 16:19-31:  (From the New Testament, as told by Jesus Christ):

(Please note: when Jesus tell parables, the characters do not have personal names. When Jesus teaches or gives a prophecy about factual events,  persons in the story have personal names.)

“There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.

“The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’

“But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’

“He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’

“Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’

“ ‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’

“He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’ ”

Why is the unnamed rich man in agony? He is not in agony because he was rich in his human experience. He is in agony because he cared nothing for the suffering beggar (covered in sores) who was laid by his door, who longed to eat even the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. 

Does your heart feel, absorb, and show care for those the world despises?