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  1. The symbolism of oil in Matthew 25 enriches the parable of the ten virgins with layers of theological depth and practical relevance. Oil, representing spiritual readiness, vitality, and the presence of the Holy Spirit, serves as a powerful metaphor for the preparedness required of Christ’s disciples as they await His return.
    #Matthew25 #Matthew #oil #wolink #freebiblestudyhub
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  2. The lamp in Matthew 25 represents several profound spiritual truths, including the Word of God, faith, spiritual preparedness, and the presence of the Holy Spirit.
    #Matthew25 #Matthew #wolink #freebiblestudyhub
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  3. Chrysostom, with admirable bluntness, notes that some happily dress a prostitute in gold while stepping over Christ shivering in the poor. Same wallet, different priorities. He wonders what sort of forgiveness—or punishment—fits that logic. It’s an uncomfortably practical question, then and now: who exactly are we most eager to clothe?

    #christian #virtues #matthew25 #churchfathers

  4. Full services are in the videos. Sharing my wife's sermon at this open and affirming Matthew 25 church yesterday.

    09:00am service

    youtube.com/live/yLZTaKq9A7c

    11:00am service

    youtube.com/live/RvzsvdjhjC0?s

  5. Andreas Gerhard Hyperius was Flemish Lutheran/Reformed theologian. He reads Matthew 25 and says God rather fancies the godly poor—the overlooked, the skint saints—so much that Christ treats what you do for them as done to Him. Which is awkward, because we keep arguing about which needy count, instead of checking whether our own compassion’s quietly packed its bags.

    #christian #matthew25

  6. Robert Smith Candlish of the Free Church of Scotland reads Matthew 25 as a direct obligation to fellow believers: if you know a Christian is in need and can help, delay is disobedience. Aid must be immediate, personal, or ensured in your name.

    It’s easy to praise generosity in disasters; harder when help is inconvenient or personal. Whom have you left waiting?
    #christian #usaid #volunteering #development #matthew25

  7. @crumbletiltskin --

    LMAO... OK...

    You don't find it ironic that the strongest support in the Bible for this is actually inside MATTHEW?

    Talk about cherry-picking...

    #Matthew25

  8. In a letter to the Church, the Rev. Jihyun Oh says the PC(USA) will continue to stand with and for the most vulnerable among us

    Stated Clerk and Executive Director: The heart of leadership is lifting up others instead of pushing them down

    #pcusa #Matthew25 #presbyterian
    pcusa.org/news-storytelling/ne

  9. Things Jesus said and ACTUALLY taught. Matthew 25 is a tough read in today's society.

  10. #MAGA #NatCFascists #ChristianNationalism #JesusWasAHippie #Matthew25 #christianembarrassment

    How much more evidence do you need that they aren't really "Christians" but "Saulists." They have never read the Bible and it shows every time.

  11. I voted for #Biden in 2020, and I will vote for him in 2024 in the general because my God the alternatives.
    That said, I hate #immigration politics in this country, and how Biden just went even more hawkish on enforcement to try and appease Republicans. Spoiler alert: nothing will appease them; it’s a talking point they love too much.
    My grandfather was an “illegal immigrant” and it is foundational to my soul that we treat those seeking refuge as human beings. #Matthew25

  12. @geekysteven That #conservatives would use the power of government to suppress individual liberty is bad enough, that they’re doing it out of BS morality and religious hypocrisy makes it even worse.

    If they believed in #Jesus, they would go about doing good, feeding the poor, healing the sick, visiting those in prison #Matthew25

  13. These US Republican governors who drape themselves in the flag & the cross while using brown asylum seekers as pawns to "own the libs" should heed their Lord and Savior's #Gospel:
    “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.’ Then they will go away to eternal punishment." #Matthew25

  14. So @joyannreid is having the conversation (tonight w/ Bishop William Barber) we need to be taking up at a national level - that American Christian Nationalism is devoid of empathy, cast adrift from the principles of #Matthew25 , bearing little resemblance to the core of #Christian values. #GodisLove #GodisDiversity #joyreid #episcopal

  15. From my favorite passage of #Shakespeare - I heard Harriet Walter read it the day of Trump’s inaugural:
    Whet their detested knives against your throats,
    Spurn you like dogs, and like as if that God
    Owed not nor made not you, not that the elements
    Were not all appropriate to your comforts,
    But charter’d unto them? What would you think
    To be us’d thus? This is the strangers’ case
    And this your mountainish inhumanity.
    #GodIsLove #Matthew25 #WilliamShakespeare #coloradosprings #clubq