When We Say They Should Go Out and Work if They Need Food, Instead of Giving to Those in Need, Are We Listening to Jesus Wishes for Us?

When We Say They Should Go Out and Work if They Need Food, Instead of Giving to Those in Need, Are We Listening to Jesus Wishes for Us?

We hear others say it all the time and it makes some type of sense, but are we really doing what Jesus wants when we turn our backs on the less fortunate?

It says the following in 1 John 3:16-18: By this we know love, because He [Jesus] laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.