Matthew 25:31-46

“The Least of These”

Introduction:

I. The Compassion for the least that Confirms our Condition (34-36)

II. The Characteristics of Compassion for the Least (35-40)

A. It Doesn’t Look for a Reward (37-38)

B. It Gives What’s Needed (Food, water, clothes, nearness) (35-36)

C. It Gives Simple Things (Matt. 10:42)

D. It Gives to Jesus (40, 45)

III. The Complacency that Cripples Compassion to the Least:

Self-righteousness (44)

Application to the Unborn ... they are truly the least of the least.