#GodsPath

Greg Johnsonpteranodo
2025-07-23

David James Burrell was a Reformed Dutch minister. He looks to follow Jesus. He says there are many wanting to help, but don’t want to look upon suffering. He calls this “quackery”! Go look upon people in shame and hunger. See crime and anguish. See it with your own eyes if you want to help it.

Today, rather than visit areas w/ crime, we’ll concoct stories about crime in order to wall off people groups.

How can you seek out sufferers?

DAVID JAMES BURRELL (1844-1926) IN THE PORCHES OF BETHESDA "Then observe, in the second place, that Jesus looked on the sufferers. He sought them out, and looked on them. ... There are multitudes of good people who are willing to help, but they do not want to look on suffering. ... O, the quackery of such charity as that! Go, look on the suffering ! Look on it ! See the shame and the hunger, the crime, the pain, the anguish ! See it with your own eyes if you want to help it."
Greg Johnsonpteranodo
2024-08-29

Edward Norris Kirk, Presbyterian minister from Albany, relates the Good Samaritan to education of formerly enslaved people. Those of whom “some wretch robbed them of their inalienable rights.”

Taking responsibility for those you run across even if injured by others.

How can you bind up the wounds of those deprived of their inalienable rights?

"There was once a man, who on his way to Jericho from Jerusalem, fell among thieves. They stripped him, robbed him, and bruised him. I know not that the Saviour had the Africo-Americans in view when he uttered that parable. But it is very applicable to them; for there surely was a time when they were free; and then some wretch robbed them of their inalienable rights, and consigned them to slavery, with all its terrible consequences."

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