#matthew 25

[grace-and-grace-alone]

Matthew 6:25-27

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?"

[many-sparrows]

The “God bless you”s bestowed by a person on the street who you’ve given cash to are at least as heartfelt as any blessing from a priest, and I’m pretty certain they are worth more in the eyes of God

[blessedarethebinarybreakers]

Jesus wasn't Palestinian you dumb heretic. Palestine didn't exist yet. The Palestinian people didn't exist yet. Read the fucking bible. Dumbass

(what anon's responding to)

This is going to sound sarcastic but i mean it genuinely: i love getting called a heretic by randos online. helps me know i'm doing some things right!

In honor of Jesus the Palestinian Jew, here's an excerpt from a sermon (which you can read / listen to in full over here) I wrote back in June on how Jesus's direct identification with those the world calls "least" in Matthew 25 empowers (and challenges) us to envision him as literally one with all who are denigrated, disenfranchised, executed by Empire — as Palestinians are today.

...In proclaiming himself not only kin with the world’s outcasts, but literally one with each and every one of them, Jesus empowers us to imagine him in ever newer, ever more expansive ways. He empowered Black theologian James Cone to declare that Christ is Black, and that every time a Black person is lynched, Christ is re-crucified with them. He empowered disability theologian Nancy Eiesland to declare that God is disabled – to envision the throne of God as a wheelchair, and to point out how the wounds with which Christ rose would have impaired his movement. He empowered gay artist Maxwell Lawton to paint Christ with AIDS lesions, and photographer Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin to depict Christ’s resurrection wounds as transgender top surgery scars. Though some have decried all these images of Christ as blasphemous, it was Jesus himself who told us that he is one with those whom the world denies food, safety, medical care, freedom, and love...

btw if anyone has other examples of theologians declaring Christ a member of a marginalized group it's my fave thing so please add on. Another great one is S. Yesu Suresh' declaration that Christ is Dalit (the "untouchable" class in India).

[baudron]

Matthew 25: Verses 31-46

Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,  I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

“He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

[sara-the-wizard]

Wait how did Beth take care of herself please tell me she had a friend

How about this for a friend?

Hamato Beth and Guardian Angel anyone?

Hey, they're two oc I made, they can have fun together! :)

Hope you like it! Lord bless you! ❤

[hymnsofheresy]

there is no need to “defend” God through empty apologism or ideological battle. there is, however, a need to feed the hungry God. to clothe the naked God. to care for the imprisoned God. to comfort the sickly God. and to welcome the foreign God.

[thomastanker02]

It’s like the scriptures say: what we do for the least of those around us, we do for Jesus (Matthew 25:40).

It’s the Lord that we pass everyday on the streets. It’s Jesus that we are feeding at food shelters. It’s Jesus that we comfort at a funeral.

If we reject to look after those who are the least of us on earth, God will make us the least of all on the day of Judgement.

God bless, Jesus loves you ✝️❤️

[missfreudianslit]

wanna help me help my local community?

https://throne.com/missfreudianslit/item/1ee09a4d-fe23-4fc0-b3ab-885e38880ada