God's goodness in a Landlord
Channel: Two Book Church
Date: 18/09/2012

Landlord's, can they teach us something about the heart of God?

"I read your post on preaching God's truth in a landlord, and I gotta tell you John, I just don't get it! What about all of the slum landlords out there?"
Comment last week from a Pastor/Friend of mine

"I was raised in an environment where you help your neighbour and you treat them like you want to be treated. That's our No. 1 rule as a company. It's in our policy manual and we ask everybody on our team to always think of the other person like they want to be thought of themselves."
Sam Kolias, Boardwalk Equities, Globe and Mail interview, Report on Business, 2009

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."
Jesus in Mark 12:30-31, NIV

"Who has a claim against me that I must pay? 
Everything under heaven belongs to me."
God to Job, Job 41:11, NIV

Definintion of the biblical concept of Covenant -- "An agreement between two or more parties outlining mutual rights and responsibilities" 
(does this sound like a lease to anybody?)
The Eerdmans Bible Dictionary 

"And I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed."
God through the prophet Nathan to King David, 2 Samuel 7:10, TNIV

"The days are coming," declares the Lord,  "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel  and with the house of Judah...
I will put my law in their minds  and write it on their hearts. I will be their God,  and they will be my people. No longer will they teach their neighbors,  or say to one another, 'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me,  from the least of them to the greatest,"  
God in Jeremiah 31:31-34, TNIV

"All that said I am glad God does not treat us as we deserve but graciously allows us to stay on even when our rent is overdue and we trash His place."
Larry Luth, a Landlord