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  (CLIP) DO YOU SHOW RESPECT OF PERSONS IN THE CHURCH
  by Mack Tomlinson
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the value and importance of every
believer in the church, from the most marginalized and struggling to the
leaders and mature ones. Paul's message to the Corinthians highlights
that no one is less or dispensable in the body of Christ, and respect of
persons should not be shown based on popularity or status. Jesus
identifies with the least of these, emphasizing the need to love and
care for every believer as if we are doing it for Him.

Topics: "Value of Every Believer", "Unity in Diversity"
Scripture References: 1 Corinthians 12:22, James 2:1, Matthew 25:40, Galatians 6:2, Romans 12:10

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This sermon emphasizes the value and importance of every believer in the
church, from the most marginalized and struggling to the leaders and
mature ones. Paul's message to the Corinthians highlights that no one is
less or dispensable in the body of Christ, and respect of persons should
not be shown based on popularity or status. Jesus identifies with the
least of these, emphasizing the need to love and care for every believer
as if we are doing it for Him.

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CONTENT
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All the saints are in Paul's heart. The most carnal, the weakest, the
neediest, the most marginalized on the fringe of the church, the one who
feels like a shrimp every time they go to church and they're around the
mature ones. All the saints from the leaders to the struggling believer,
all are valuable and important to Paul.

And Paul says to the Corinthians some remarkable things. Remember, he
says this, to those who seem to be less, you're not less. And to those
who feel I'm not a hand, I'm not an eye, so I'm less, they're not less
in any way, Paul says.

And those members who seem to be less are not to be viewed by anyone as
being less, but rather as indispensable and necessary and honored and
significant. Now brethren, we sin this way often in the church subtly
and we don't even realize it. Respect of persons.

Do we ever show it? The popular, the important, the well-known, the
gifted, the whatever. Do we show them respect of persons? Do we treat
them differently than the newest babe in Christ and the most struggling
saint who needs our love and our attention and our word and season
rather than our favorite friend in the church? Jesus said, the least of
these. The least of these.

That's Me. In that you've done it to the least of these, you've done it
to Me. That's who I lovingly identify with, the unknowns.

Just believers. Followers of Christ.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/IBYs25riqQc.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mack-tomlinson/clip-do-you-show-respect-of-persons-in-the-church/
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