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To The Least of TheseTo The Least of TheseMatthew 25:31-46Matthew 25:31-46

It’s All About JesusIt’s All About Jesus

• Jesus Reigns– The highest and central

• Jesus Aims– The lowest and peripheral

• Jesus Rewards– The care or neglect

Jesus Reigns: The highest/centralJesus Reigns: The highest/central

• “He will sit on the throne of His glory” (31)• “All the nations will be gathered before HIM” 32• “HE will separate them…” 32• “HE will set…” 33• “The KING will say…Come, you blessed…” 34• “I was…you gave…you came…to ME” 35-36• “Depart from ME, you cursed…” 41• “go away into everlasting punishment” 46

Jesus Aims: Lowest & PeripheralJesus Aims: Lowest & Peripheral

• Jesus’ Father– Isaiah 57:15 For thus says the One who is

high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

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Jesus Aims: Lowest & PeripheralJesus Aims: Lowest & Peripheral

• Jesus’ Father

• Jesus’ Mother (Mary’s Magnificat)– Luke 1:52-53 He has brought down the

mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble estate; He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent empty away.

Jesus Aims: Lowest & PeripheralJesus Aims: Lowest & Peripheral

• Jesus’ Father• Jesus’ Mother (Mary’s Magnificat)

• Jesus’ Ministry– Luke 4:18-19 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon

Me, because He has anointed Me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."

Jesus Aims: Lowest & PeripheralJesus Aims: Lowest & Peripheral• Jesus’ Father• Jesus’ Mother (Mary’s Magnificat) • Jesus’ Ministry

• Jesus’ LIFE – Luke 2: 7, 15-16 And she gave birth to her firstborn

son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn...When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.“ And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger.

Jesus Aims: Lowest & PeripheralJesus Aims: Lowest & Peripheral

• Jesus’ Father• Jesus’ Mother (Mary’s Magnificat) • Jesus’ Ministry

• Jesus’ LIFE – Phil 2:5-8 Christ Jesus, 6  who, though he was in the

form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, 8 he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Jesus Aims: Lowest & PeripheralJesus Aims: Lowest & Peripheral

• Jesus’ Father • Jesus’ Mother (Mary’s Magnificat) • Jesus’ Ministry• Jesus’ LIFE

• Jesus’ Rebuke – Rev. 3:17 For you say, I am rich, I have

prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.

Jesus Aims: Lowest & PeripheralJesus Aims: Lowest & Peripheral

• Jesus’ Father • Jesus’ Mother (Mary’s Magnificat) • Jesus’ Ministry• Jesus’ LIFE

• Jesus’ Rebuke • Jesus’ Reward

– Matt. 25:40 "And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’

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Refugee MinistryRefugee Ministry

Homeless MinistryHomeless Ministry

• WS Rescue Mission – 5th Tuesdays 6:30 p.m.

• Bethesda Center• Second Harvest Food Bank• Samaritan Ministries

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The Persecuted/ImprisonedThe Persecuted/Imprisoned

• June ‘09 Arrested for her faithJune ‘09 Arrested for her faith• Refused to renounce ChristRefused to renounce Christ• Accused of blasphemy against Accused of blasphemy against

MohammedMohammed• Nov ‘10 Sentenced to hangingNov ‘10 Sentenced to hanging

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