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“The Least of These My Brethren”

27/9/2018

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Hello All!
 
A short sweet chapter this week..
Continuing reading: the Desire of Ages
Shall read the following chapter:
 
70. “The Least of These My Brethren”
📖  http://www.ellenwhite.info/books/ellen-g-white-book-desire-of-ages-da-70.htm 
 
🕊 Blessings, Lani.
Click on ‘comments’ below, and then scroll to the bottom, to share your favourite quotes ​from the chapter
15 Comments
Lani Sret
2/10/2018 04:57:56 pm

Really enjoyed this short read of a chapter.. following are my favourites quotes from this chapter: "The Least of These My Brethren"..

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Lani Sret
2/10/2018 05:19:51 pm

🤴 “When the Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory: and before Him shall be gathered all nations: and He shall separate them one from another.” Thus Christ on the Mount of Olives pictured to His disciples the scene of the great judgment day. And He represented its decision as turning upon one point. When the nations are gathered before Him, there will be but two classes, and their eternal destiny will be determined by what they have done or have neglected to do for Him in the person of the poor and the suffering. DA 637.1

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Lani Sret
2/10/2018 05:20:57 pm

🤴 In that day Christ does not present before men the great work He has done for them in giving His life for their redemption. He presents the faithful work they have done for Him. DA 637.2

Lani Sret
2/10/2018 05:21:15 pm

🐑 To all who forsook friends or home for His sake He had promised in this life a hundredfold. Now He assured a special blessing to all who should minister to their brethren. In all who suffer for My name, said Jesus, you are to recognize Me. As you would minister to Me, so you are to minister to them. This is the evidence that you are My disciples. DA 637.3

Lani Sret
2/10/2018 05:22:23 pm

🐑 Those whom Christ commends in the judgment may have known little of theology, but they have cherished His principles. Through the influence of the divine Spirit they have been a blessing to those about them. Even among the heathen are those who have cherished the spirit of kindness; before the words of life had fallen upon their ears, they have befriended the missionaries, even ministering to them at the peril of their own lives. Among the heathen are those who worship God ignorantly, those to whom the light is never brought by human instrumentality, yet they will not perish. Though ignorant of the written law of God, they have heard His voice speaking to them in nature, and have done the things that the law required. Their works are evidence that the Holy Spirit has touched their hearts, and they are recognized as the children of God. DA 638.2

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Lani Sret
2/10/2018 05:22:44 pm

🐐 Those on the left hand of Christ, those who had neglected Him in the person of the poor and the suffering, were unconscious of their guilt. Satan had blinded them; they had not perceived what they owed to their brethren. They had been self-absorbed, and cared not for others’ needs. DA 639.3

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Lani Sret
2/10/2018 05:23:58 pm

🐐 To the rich, God has given wealth that they may relieve and comfort His suffering children; but too often they are indifferent to the wants of others. They feel themselves superior to their poor brethren. They do not put themselves in the poor man’s place. They do not understand the temptations and struggles of the poor, and mercy dies out of their hearts. In costly dwellings and splendid churches, the rich shut themselves away from the poor; the means that God has given to bless the needy is spent in pampering pride and selfishness. The poor are robbed daily of the education they should have concerning the tender mercies of God; for He has made ample provision that they should be comforted with the necessities of life. They are compelled to feel the poverty that narrows life, and are often tempted to become envious, jealous, and full of evil surmisings. Those who themselves have not endured the pressure of want too often treat the poor in a contemptuous way, and make them feel that they are looked upon as paupers. DA 639.4

Lani Sret
2/10/2018 05:24:24 pm

🤴 But Christ beholds it all, and He says, It was I who was hungry and thirsty. It was I who was a stranger. It was I who was sick. It was I who was in prison. While you were feasting at your bountifully spread table, I was famishing in the hovel or the empty street. While you were at ease in your luxurious home, I had not where to lay My head. While you crowded your wardrobe with rich apparel, I was destitute. While you pursued your pleasures, I languished in prison. DA 639.5

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Lani Sret
2/10/2018 05:25:20 pm

🐐 When you doled out the pittance of bread to the starving poor, when you gave those flimsy garments to shield them from the biting frost, did you remember that you were giving to the Lord of glory? All the days of your life I was near you in the person of these afflicted ones, but you did not seek Me. You would not enter into fellowship with Me. I know you not. DA 640.1

Lani Sret
2/10/2018 05:25:46 pm

👣 Many feel that it would be a great privilege to visit the scenes of Christ’s life on earth, to walk where He trod, to look upon the lake beside which He loved to teach, and the hills and valleys on which His eyes so often rested. But we need not go to Nazareth, to Capernaum, or to Bethany, in order to walk in the steps of Jesus. We shall find His footprints beside the sickbed, in the hovels of poverty, in the crowded alleys of the great city, and in every place where there are human hearts in need of consolation. In doing as Jesus did when on earth, we shall walk in His steps. DA 640.2

Lani Sret
2/10/2018 05:26:10 pm

💝 Love to man is the earthward manifestation of the love of God. It was to implant this love, to make us children of one family, that the King of glory became one with us. And when His parting words are fulfilled, “Love one another, as I have loved you” (John 15:12); when we love the world as He has loved it, then for us His mission is accomplished. We are fitted for heaven; for we have heaven in our hearts. DA 641.3

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Lani Sret
2/10/2018 05:27:17 pm

📯 In the great Judgment day, those who have not worked for Christ, who have drifted along thinking of themselves, caring for themselves, will be placed by the Judge of the whole earth with those who did evil. They receive the same condemnation. DA 641.4

Eric Dedecker
3/10/2018 08:53:23 pm

To the rich, God has given wealth that they may relieve and comfort His suffering children; but too often they are indifferent to the wants of others. They feel themselves superior to their poor brethren. They do not put themselves in the poor man's place. They do not understand the temptations and struggles of the poor, and mercy dies out of their hearts.

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vlad
3/10/2018 08:54:06 pm

While you were feasting at your bountifully spread table, I was famishing in the hovel or the empty street. While you were at ease in your luxurious home, I had not where to lay My head. While [640] you crowded your wardrobe with rich apparel, I was destitute. While you pursued your pleasures, I languished in prison.

Much improvement needed. We are to follow Christ's actual example, of self-denial and self-sacrifice, especially for those who are the most "undeserving".
#LoveIndiscriminately

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Liz
3/10/2018 09:18:35 pm

“When the Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory:
To those whom He sets upon His right hand He will say, "Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was an hungered, and ye gave Me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave Me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took Me in: naked, and ye clothed Me: I was sick, and ye visited Me: I was in prison, and ye came unto Me." But those whom Christ commends know not that they have been ministering unto Him. To their perplexed inquiries He answers, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me."

Jus as Christ did not discriminate against any but was willing to help every person seeking His help so we should not judge anyone but, being mindful that it is Christ who we are helping, extend help those in need, empathize with them and, as much as we are able to, relieve the suffering of any kind.

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