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Psalm 140:12
King James Version
12 I know that the Lord will maintain
the cause of the afflicted,
and the right of the poor.
This is now fourth in the series of the 2030 articles.
Wherein we were intrigued why that year was chosen.
In the process, we got to know the world programs toward that end.
A previous post shared the 17 SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) of the UN.
Just to recap, we enumerate the goals here:
"End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture."
"Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages."
"Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all."
"Achieve gender equality and empower all men and women."
"Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all."
"Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all."
"Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all."
"Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation."
"Reduce inequality within and among countries."
"Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable."
"Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns."
"Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts by regulating emissions and promoting developments in renewable energy."
"Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development."
"Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss."
"Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels."
"Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development."
Are these sustainable?
First, what is "sustainable"?
Merriam-Webster defines it as:
"capable of being sustained"
What is "sustained"?
Merriam-Webster defines it as:
"maintained at length without interruption or weakening"
Exactly as we thought.
We shall see then if the 17 SDGs will be sustainable.
The point of this exercise is not to shoot down the goals.
But to test it versus the PLAN and WORD of GOD.
We noticed the UN's 17 goals have this inclusive words "for all".
That's a start.
But the final say is GOD's.
If our plans, goals, and actions are acceptable to Him.
What ensures the viability of these goals?
Scripture tells us GOD's laws:
Exodus 23:6
King James Version
6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor
in his cause.
Exodus 23:7
King James Version
7 Keep thee far from a false matter;
and the innocent and righteous slay thou not:
for I will not justify the wicked.
Exodus 23:8
King James Version
8 And thou shalt take no gift:
for the gift blindeth the wise,
and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Exodus 23:10-11
King James Version
10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land,
and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest
and lie still;
that the poor of thy people may eat:
and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat.
In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard,
and with thy oliveyard.
Exodus 23:12
King James Version
12 Six days thou shalt do thy work,
and on the seventh day thou shalt rest:
that thine ox and thine ass may rest,
and the son of thy handmaid,
and the stranger, may be refreshed.
Exodus 23:13
King James Version
13 And in all things that I have said unto you
be circumspect:
and make no mention of the name of other gods,
neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
Exodus 23:25
King James Version
25 And ye shall serve the Lord your God,
and he shall bless thy bread,
and thy water;
and I will take sickness away
from the midst of thee.
Deuteronomy 15:7-8
King James Version
7 If there be among you a poor man
of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates
in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee,
thou shalt not harden thine heart,
nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him,
and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need,
in that which he wanteth.
Deuteronomy 15:9-11
King James Version
9 Beware that there be not a thought
in thy wicked heart,
saying,
The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;
and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother,
and thou givest him nought;
and he cry unto the Lord against thee,
and it be sin unto thee.
10 Thou shalt surely give him,
and thine heart shall not be grieved
when thou givest unto him:
because that for this thing the Lord thy God
shall bless thee in all thy works,
and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land:
therefore I command thee,
saying,
Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother,
to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Leviticus 19:9-10
King James Version
9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land,
thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field,
neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard,
neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard;
thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger:
I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:9-11
King James Version
11 Ye shall not steal,
neither deal falsely,
neither lie one to another.
Leviticus 19:12
King James Version
12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely,
neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God:
I am the Lord.
Leviticus 19:13
King James Version
13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour,
neither rob him:
the wages of him that is hired
shall not abide with thee all night
until the morning.
Leviticus 19:14
King James Version
14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf,
nor put a stumblingblock before the blind,
but shalt fear thy God:
I am the Lord.
Leviticus 19:15
King James Version
15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment:
thou shalt not respect the person of the poor,
nor honor the person of the mighty:
but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Leviticus 19:16
King James Version
16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer
among thy people:
neither shalt thou stand against the blood
of thy neighbour;
I am the Lord.
Leviticus 19:17
King James Version
17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart:
thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour,
and not suffer sin upon him.
Leviticus 19:18
King James Version
18 Thou shalt not avenge,
nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people,
but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself:
I am the Lord.
Leviticus 19:19
King James Version
19 Ye shall keep my statutes.
Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind:
thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed:
neither shall a garment
mingled of linen and woollen
come upon thee.
Leviticus 19:31
King James Version
31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits,
neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them:
I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:35
King James Version
35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment,
in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
Psalm 41:1-3
King James Version
41 Blessed is he that considereth the poor:
the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
2 The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive;
and he shall be blessed upon the earth:
and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
3 The Lord will strengthen him
upon the bed of languishing:
thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
Proverbs 11:1
King James Version
11 A false balance is abomination to the Lord:
but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 11:8
King James Version
8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble,
and the wicked cometh in his stead.
Proverbs 11:10
King James Version
10 When it goeth well with the righteous,
the city rejoiceth:
and when the wicked perish,
there is shouting.
Proverbs 11:11
King James Version
11 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted:
but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 11:18
King James Version
18 The wicked worketh a deceitful work:
but to him that soweth righteousness
shall be a sure reward.
Proverbs 11:20
King James Version
20 They that are of a froward heart
are abomination to the Lord:
but such as are upright in their way
are his delight.
Proverbs 11:23
King James Version
23 The desire of the righteous is only good:
but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Proverbs 11:24-26
King James Version
24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth;
and there is that withholdeth more than is meet,
but it tendeth to poverty.
25 The liberal soul shall be made fat:
and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
26 He that withholdeth corn,
the people shall curse him:
but blessing shall be upon the head of him
that selleth it.
Proverbs 11:27
King James Version
27 He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour:
but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
Proverbs 11:28
King James Version
28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall;
but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
Proverbs 11:30
King James Version
30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life;
and he that winneth souls is wise.
Proverbs 11:31
King James Version
31 Behold,
the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth:
much more the wicked and the sinner.
Proverbs 16:3
King James Version
3 Commit thy works unto the Lord,
and thy thoughts shall be established.
Proverbs 16:7
King James Version
7 When a man's ways please the Lord,
he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Proverbs 16:9
King James Version
9 A man's heart deviseth his way:
but the Lord directeth his steps.
Proverbs 16:11
King James Version
11 A just weight and balance are the Lord's:
all the weights of the bag are his work.
Proverbs 16:20
King James Version
20 He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good:
and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.
Proverbs 16:33
King James Version
33 The lot is cast into the lap;
but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
Matthew 25:40
King James Version
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them,
Verily I say unto you,
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto
one of the least of these my brethren,
ye have done it unto me.
John 15:5
King James Version
5 I am the vine,
ye are the branches:
He that abideth in me, and I in him,
the same bringeth forth much fruit:
for without me ye can do nothing.
1 Corinthians 10:31
King James Version
31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink,
or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
1 John 5:14
King James Version
14 And this is the confidence that we have in him,
that, if we ask any thing according to his will,
he heareth us:
The LORD has many more practical laws.
But you can only understand them if His SPIRIT is in you.
That's how you delight in obeying them.
By being born again.
As commanded by JESUS:
John 3:5-7
King James Version
5 Jesus answered,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit,
he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh;
and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee,
Ye must be born again.
From the 17 goals for sustainable development, we now look to the 5th part of this "2030 thing" series.
We isolated four of these goals, for a purpose.
Click to read now, thanks!
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