1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:02,962 All the saints are in Paul's heart - 2 00:00:02,962 --> 00:00:04,181 the most carnal, 3 00:00:04,181 --> 00:00:05,659 the weakest, 4 00:00:05,659 --> 00:00:06,963 the neediest, 5 00:00:06,963 --> 00:00:08,380 the most marginalized 6 00:00:08,380 --> 00:00:10,106 on the fringe of the church, 7 00:00:10,106 --> 00:00:12,425 the one who feels like a shrimp 8 00:00:12,425 --> 00:00:13,819 every time they go to church 9 00:00:13,819 --> 00:00:18,046 and they're around the mature ones. 10 00:00:18,046 --> 00:00:20,797 All the saints from the leaders 11 00:00:20,797 --> 00:00:24,892 to the struggling believer, 12 00:00:24,892 --> 00:00:28,310 all are valuable and important to Paul. 13 00:00:28,310 --> 00:00:30,479 And Paul says to the Corinthians 14 00:00:30,479 --> 00:00:32,721 some remarkable things. 15 00:00:32,721 --> 00:00:34,322 Remember? He says this: 16 00:00:34,322 --> 00:00:37,171 To those who seem to be less, 17 00:00:37,171 --> 00:00:39,972 you're not less. 18 00:00:39,972 --> 00:00:42,547 And to those who feel: I'm not a hand. 19 00:00:42,547 --> 00:00:45,062 I'm not an eye, so I'm less. 20 00:00:45,062 --> 00:00:48,241 They're not less in any way Paul says. 21 00:00:48,241 --> 00:00:50,219 And those members who seem to be less 22 00:00:50,219 --> 00:00:54,670 are not to be viewed by anyone as being less, 23 00:00:54,670 --> 00:00:57,852 but rather as indispensable 24 00:00:57,852 --> 00:01:00,830 and necessary and honored 25 00:01:00,830 --> 00:01:02,670 and significant. 26 00:01:02,670 --> 00:01:04,422 Now brethren, we sin this way 27 00:01:04,422 --> 00:01:06,451 often in the church subtly 28 00:01:06,451 --> 00:01:09,551 and we don't even realize it. 29 00:01:09,551 --> 00:01:11,742 Respect of persons. 30 00:01:11,742 --> 00:01:13,640 Do we ever show it? 31 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,090 The popular, the important, the well known, 32 00:01:16,090 --> 00:01:18,901 the gifted, the whatever. 33 00:01:18,901 --> 00:01:20,962 Do we show them respect of persons? 34 00:01:20,962 --> 00:01:22,885 Do we treat them differently 35 00:01:22,885 --> 00:01:25,652 than the newest babe in Christ? 36 00:01:25,652 --> 00:01:27,492 Than the most struggling saint 37 00:01:27,492 --> 00:01:30,218 who needs our love and our attention 38 00:01:30,218 --> 00:01:31,339 and a word in season? 39 00:01:31,339 --> 00:01:36,550 Rather than our favorite friend in the church? 40 00:01:36,550 --> 00:01:41,114 Jesus said "the least of these." 41 00:01:41,114 --> 00:01:44,641 The least of these - that's Me. 42 00:01:44,641 --> 00:01:48,351 In that you've done it to the least of these, 43 00:01:48,351 --> 00:01:50,674 you've done it to Me. 44 00:01:50,674 --> 00:01:54,381 That's who I lovingly identify with - the unknowns. 45 00:01:54,381 --> 00:01:57,570 Just believers. Followers of Christ.