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by: Debbie Galyen

04/29/2025

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“Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you ...” (v34). In Jesus day, as in our own, there were competing ideas about what kind of people would “inherit” God’s kingdom. Jesus startled everyone by declaring that God did not use worldly measurements of religiosity, and culture and tribe did not matter. Instead, God was looking (among “all the nations”, v32) for those who loved the Son by ministering to those made in his image – especially “the least of these” (v45). 

“You did it to me” (v40). We honor the King by doing as he did. When we serve those that our world despises - the needy, the stranger, the prisoner – we serve him. 

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“Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you ...” (v34). In Jesus day, as in our own, there were competing ideas about what kind of people would “inherit” God’s kingdom. Jesus startled everyone by declaring that God did not use worldly measurements of religiosity, and culture and tribe did not matter. Instead, God was looking (among “all the nations”, v32) for those who loved the Son by ministering to those made in his image – especially “the least of these” (v45). 

“You did it to me” (v40). We honor the King by doing as he did. When we serve those that our world despises - the needy, the stranger, the prisoner – we serve him. 

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