[TheRealThing]

Just think it is funny how folks will use the bible for one thing and not another... Mathew 25: 35-40. Also think it is funny the few days after 9/11 the former President Bush said that we should not let terrorist change us and we should all go shopping, meanwhile, President Obama says we should not let terrorist change us and continue to be a bastion of hope for millions around the world and yet we hate the later....Sigh

This passage is not in reference to giving money to those with cardboard signs standing at mall entrances or intersections. Nor is it meant to be the inspiration for soup kitchens and assistance programs for the poor from the compassionate bowels of the Church. If you'd bother to discipline yourself and actually read the entire text you might have picked up on that fact. Christ says in the passage you referenced the following; Matthew 25:40 (KJV)
40 "And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."

First who 'His brethren' are not... they certainly are not those who have not bowed before Him in repentance for their sin, and further, trusted in His finished work upon the cross for their salvation. One cannot hope to be called His brother if he is not saved. So all who are not, are excluded from the text you cite.

So who are the brethren? They are those who do His bidding. They spread the good news, they sacrifice their own comfort in His service in order to do His will and His work. Those are His Brethren, the saved. And therefore if one offers God's servant the simple comforts of food, drink, clothing or temporary lodging during stressful times, he is aiding God's work and therefore it is the same as giving those comforts unto Him. But there are coming days of extreme discomfort, that being the days of Jacob's trouble or the Great Tribulation. If one gives comfort to His servants during that time, he will actually be risking his own life and the rewards for such actions will be great.

I find it funny how some folks do a glancing skip off of Scripture without even establishing the correct context and then want to lecture others in judgmental terms.

President Obama says that President George W's reaction to 9/11 was wrong, and that we caused 9/11 and the other acts of terror by our meddling in the Arab World. He therefore went straight over there upon his ascension, apologizing and promising to make amends. Whereupon the American people were immediately tested by a strong round of attempted terror plots. And of course, there is the small matter of Iran going nuclear and ISIS and other enhanced terror organizations who are vowing to destroy the west and Israel, all owing to our conspicuous absence from our responsibilities as world leader to that end. So on the one hand he criticizes his predecessor, pulling out the calming military forces that at the time were ensuring peace while at the same time, calling President Bush's clear victories in Iraq and Afghanistan failures. Ignoring on the other hand and making absurd excuses for the that fact that his own policies have resulted in the Arab World being aflame with war and more unsettled than ever. Sigh, it seems the policies of the previous decades were right after all.