Thy Brother's Keepers Don't Live In America

Genesis 4:9-10 'And Yahweh said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? And Yahweh said, What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto Me from the ground.'

It is amazing to me the lack of sincerity, responsibility and brotherhood that goes into some people's speech when they talk of America as a united land, as a brotherhood. It seems easy enough to talk about the soldiers fighting overseas as brothers, as all of them being members of our family. When one dies, we salute him as a fallen brother.

But what about those who have been injured mentally as well as physically? What do they come back too? They come back to a place where the idea of brotherhood is truly lost under the taxing cloth of corporate business.

I have to admit, I am a fan of Michael Moore. He may do things sometimes in an outrageous, outlandlish way but the points he makes concerning our failure to help those less fortunate are unmistakeable.

1 Peter 5:2-3 'Feed the flock of Yahweh which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; neither as being lords over Yahweh's heritage but being ensamples to the flock.'

These are directions to the elders, the leaders not only of a church but a nation, a people - even fathers over a family. What kind of example do you set? What kind of example do our leaders set? Is everything they do defined by filthy lucre, by the money that can be saved or made.

If you have not seen Michael Moore's movie 'Sicko' - you need too. America is the last of the Western civilizations that do not take care of their people. Right now, even as an American, if you were hurt in some European nations, they would take care of you and not charge you. No lawyer or summons would ever come to sue you for failure of payment. America is consumed by its own desire to make money its god, its answer to all problems, its solutions to all questions.

The Acts 28:24-27 'And some believed. . .and some believed not. And when they agreed not among themselves they departed, after that Paul had spoken. . .Well spake the Holy Spirit by Isaiah the prophet unto our fathers, saying, Go unto this people and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: for the heart of this people is waxed gross and their ears are dull of hearing and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts, and should be converted, and I should heal them.'

It held true in Isaiah's day, it held true in Paul's day, and it still holds true in our day.

The Pharisees and Saducees, the politicians of the world, don't want to see and hear - and they really don't want to understand with their hearts and be converted.

Healing was the number one work Yahshua did while walking on this earth - it was the miracle he repeated time and time again. He healed the sick. As Christians, He told us to walk as He walked - that means HEALING - caring for the sick and needy to should be our agenda before any and all other agendas. If we can't see that healing others who can't help themselves is our priority as Christians - how can we expect those who are wordly to see or understand that?

Larry King interviewed Michael Moore this past weekend. When Mr. King stated that Mr. Moore believes Universal Healthcare is everyone's right - Mr. Paul responds by saying, "It is a fallacy to say that everyone has a right to somebody else's services. You have a right to life, you have a right to liberty and you have a right to earn a living, you oughta have a right to keep it. You have a responsibility to take care of yourself. But you don't have a right to get something from government because government has nothing, so government has to take it from somebody and give it to you. So it is a failed policy. It is a form of socialism and socialism doesn't work.'

Here is the problem. We have made healthcare, the aiding and assisting of our brother's in need, a service. And worse, we have made it a service only those who can afford it - should be allowed to have.

1 Corinthians 2:12 'Now we have received not the spirit of the world but the spirit which of Yahweh; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of Yahweh.'

We have the Holy Spirit, like Yahshua had, so we can do what Yahshua did - which was free. He healed for free. Those who were healed by Yahshua were healed for free. In America, you have streets in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, New Orleans and so on, where families are ravaged by poverty, brutalized by gangs, sickness and death is nearly an everyday occurence for neighborhoods with little to no healthcare - and yet in a quieter city, where not much happens - a family can pray for a sick child, the child goes to the Lord - and the family is accused of abuse and victimized for not take the child for treatment by a doctor. Doctors and hospitals lose patients everyday - people die in their care everyday. BUT, if a person dies, especially a child, in the care of their praying parents and family their are accusations of abuse flung. In other words, the response is simple - the Lord is not real and prayers are not real because if they were - the patient would always live - like they do with the doctor's care - oops. If the people say it was the Lord's will and a patient dies, even a child - they are wrong and it is not a religious freedom. If a patient however, even a child dies under the care of physician, we are all suppose to nod our heads and say, 'Yes, they did everything they could and it was just their time.'

Who holds power over life and death - The Lord or the doctor?

Mr. King asked what should happen to a person who has no money and falls down with a heart attack. Should the government provide them with an ambulance and treatment? Mr. Paul's response was, "No - but we don't have a history in this country of that happening even before government started managing healthcare."

Galatians 5:1 'Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.'

Mr. Paul says that we should not help someone who does not have the money to pay for their own treatment. But he also believes that we have this magnaminous system of healthcare that will, through charity, aide those who have fallen.

Sorry, Mr. Paul, I have experienced this charity firsthand. When I was not working and had no insurance and was between the cracks where I couldnt yet get government care, one of my daughters got sick and we took her to the hospital. It was asthma and it could have been life threatening. Without all the particulars, bill after bill came - not one mind you from the hospital itself - but rather a slew of bills from several different directions. No income, house in foreclosure, we had a healthcare provider sueing us for nonpayment.

If you speak to people in Europe and even Canada about such a thing, and they think it is ridiculous. American's are preoccupied with all the cosmetic surgeries and the major surgeries - and they forget that the rest of the world provides the basic needs of its people for nothing - and no healthcare professional sues a patient.

Luke Chapter 10, starting at verse 29, Yahshua lets us know who it is we should be caring for as human beings - and how we should do it. First we have the politicians of the world. They come by the fallen man who is injured and lying in the street. They pass right by or walk on the otherside, convinced that this is none of their business. They don't have to help.

Luke 10:33 'But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him.'

We all know what the good Samaritan (not the hospital or doctor) did.

He bound the man's wounds, poured the best medicine he could provide on the wounds, put his on his beast (his ambulance), and took him to an inn - AND TOOK CARE OF HIM.

Luke 10:35 'And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay.'

Remember this verse.

1 Peter 5:2-3 'Feed the flock of Yahweh which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; neither as being lords over Yahweh's heritage but being ensamples to the flock.'

Our leaders are to be like the good Samaritan. They were chosen to lead, to feed, to care for the flock - not for money. They need to be an example to the flock of what brotherhood is all about by taking care of the weakest among us - the fallen, the injured, the sick, the bankrupt, the hopeless.

If we can spend millions everyday shooting bullets and dropping bombs on people halfway across the world - we can surely find it in our hearts to spend a few dollars on the health and wellbeing of the citizens, the neighbors living among us.

Luke 6:31-34 'And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? For sinners also love those that love them. And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? For sinners also do even the same. And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? For sinners also lend to sinners, to recieve as much again.'

To be different is to be free - to be diffent is to give free - to be different is to heal free.

To be Christian is to be different - to be free - give free - heal free.

Sinners will not do likewise.

Amen