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Divine Justice: A Call to End Oppression

A powerful message from Psalm 10 urging action against oppression and injustice. Let's unite to help the oppressed and bring justice to the fatherless. This historical letter from Cyprian highlights the pervasive evil in the world, calling for change. Through faith and action, we can confront wickedness and seek divine intervention to end suffering and inequity. Join the mission to stand against oppression and uplift the vulnerable.

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Divine Justice: A Call to End Oppression

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  1. MISSION FOCUS 2017 Psalm 10

  2. Psalm 10 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

  3. Psalm 10 1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

  4. Psalm 10 1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

  5. Excerpt from a 3rd century letter written by Cyprian to Donatus, his friend in North Africa

  6. “This seems a cheerful world, Donatus, when I view it from this fair garden , under the shadow of these vines. But if I climbed some great mountain and looked out over the wide lands, you know very well what I would see. Brigands [bandits] on the high roads, pirates on the seas; in the amphitheaters men murdered to please applauding crowds; under all roofs misery and selfishness. It is really a bad world, Donatus, an incrediblybad world.” – Excerpt from a 3rd century letter written by Cyprian to Donatus, his friend in North Africa

  7. Psalm 10 1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

  8. Psalm 10 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

  9. Psalm 10 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

  10. Psalm 10 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

  11. Psalm 10 5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

  12. Psalm 10 6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

  13. Psalm 10 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

  14. Psalm 10 8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

  15. Psalm 10 9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

  16. Psalm 10 10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

  17. Psalm 10 11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

  18. Psalm 10 12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.

  19. Psalm 10 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

  20. Psalm 10 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

  21. Psalm 10 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

  22. Psalm 10 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

  23. Psalm 10 4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

  24. Psalm 10 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

  25. Psalm 10 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

  26. Psalm 10 1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

  27. 2 Thessalonians 2 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

  28. Psalm 10 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

  29. 1 John 4 3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

  30. 2 Thessalonians 2 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

  31. 2 Thessalonians 2 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

  32. 1 John 4 3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

  33. 1 John 3 12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

  34. 1 John 2 18  Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

  35. Luke 12 15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

  36. Psalm 10 1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

  37. Psalm 10 14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

  38. Psalm 10 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

  39. Psalm 10 16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.

  40. Psalm 10 17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

  41. Psalm 10 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

  42. Jesus will answer the cries of the OPPRESSED. (ORPHANS, WIDOWS, and the POOR.)

  43. Jesus will answer the cries of the OPPRESSED. (ORPHANS, WIDOWS, and the POOR.) But by the time He does… We will find that the ANSWER to their prayers will actually be US!

  44. Ephesians 1 22And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

  45. Galatians 2 10 Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.

  46. James 1 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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