This is a message from Dr. Michael Yousef, Bible teacher, on leading the way.

Our prayer is that it will encourage you in your walk of faith.

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America that had showed the world the power of what social scientists called the Protestant

work ethic with all of its hard work and labor, with all of its taking personal responsibility,

with all of its diligent and hard work, with all of its purpose of

succeeding so that we may help others succeed. All of that is now shifting and giving way

to those who can work but refuse to work, yet they demand that those who work are penalized for their hard work.

And today I'm going to show you that this kind of attitude is totally contrary to the Word of God.

To make things worse, we have so many opportunist politicians on both sides of the aisle,

and with some misguided churchmen, by the way, who are going around claiming that Jesus and the early church have promoted

socialism. But that cannot be further from the truth. Listen to me very carefully. Many of Jesus' parables

teach us the importance of hard and diligent work, the importance of accomplishments,

and the importance of free will giving. This business of taking away by force from those who work hard, squander it on some government

program, as we are seeing these days very clearly, is contrary to the scripture. Not only that

socialism is anti-Bible and anti-Christian, it destroys the very dignity with which God has created us.

And if you look at the passage, you can turn to it with me, 2nd Thessalonians chapter 3, beginning

verse 6, all the way to the end.

This is the concluding in the series of messages, the end of history and you from 2nd Thessalonians.

And in this passage, Paul actually goes as far as to say that those who are able to work, but refuse to work as a distinct from those who can't get a job.

Okay? I want to be clear on that. I don't want anybody to misunderstand me. Can I get a witness? He is talking about the person who can work and there is

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