Jesus Befriending and Promoting the Lowly
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By: rejoice mohamadi
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Does Jesus believe lowly people are valuable? How valuable?
Yes Jesus loves the lowly. Jesus hangs out with the lowly to promote inclusion of all members of society. Jesus has set up hospitals to help recovery of illnesses, churches to build faith, correctional facilities to rehabilitate criminals, schools and universities to educate children and adults. Most of all Jesus promotes Marriage and family. God is love. The Holy spirit is there for those who ask, seek and knock. The righteous shall live by faith and prayer. Jesus greatest gift to me is that he gave freedom from slavery to his people. Like God and Moses to the Israelites. That is what I like most about Jesus. No matter how lowly you are Jesus invites you to be his friend for life. I have a nephew, named Jamie-Luke. He has aspergers syndrome. Jamie-Luke has a low IQ but a big heart. He has unconditional love for his mother. I have schizophrenia but God gave me a spirit for learning and knowledge and a love of books. The meaning of disciple, in Greek, is to learn. I like reading about angels, supernatural things, God, bible, children`s books, environmental issues, indigenous culture and atlases.



By: sharron hill
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how can i assured of my eternal safety?



By: jember sante
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Does Jesus believe lowly people are valuable? How valuable?
yes he does believe. examplesA. Certainly there was nothing special about his parents. Joseph, of course, was thought to be the father of Jesus. No one knew about the virgin conception of Mary by the Holy Spirit. Neither Joseph nor Mary had anything about them that would make them stand out. They were not famous or wealthy. They were ordinary folks who blended in the masses of people. Joseph was a simple carpenter and Mary was just a young mother. B. And the place of Jesus' birth certainly points to it being a lowly event. He was not born in the large, bustling city of Jerusalem, which was the capital of Israel, but in an insignificant little town called Bethlehem¨six miles southwest of the imposing city of Jerusalem. Not only was he not born in a palace, but he was born in a stable where animals were sheltered. C. It's true of course that angels appeared to shepherds as they watched their flocks by night, but shepherds themselves were looked down upon as those having a lowly profession. The angels did not appear to anyone important. And besides no one else saw or heard what they did. Jesus' birth was uneventful. because of his humble beggining he consders lowly peopleas important. Lowly things usually are not considered to be very important. Certainly lowly things are not powerful or important. And many lowly things are not worthy of praise. Downtown at Pioneer Square or at the waterfront there might be lowly people in lowly situations who might be pitied, but they are not worthy of praise. While there may be exceptions, generally, the words lowly and praise don't go together. But the Christmas story is different. In this story we truly hear about Lowly Events that Are Worthy of Praise.



By: lucy gachanja
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Does Jesus believe lowly people are valuable? How valuable?
First to Jesus everyone belongs to God. What Jesus endeavoured to show, according to me is that though the society segments us in different aspects after all we are all the same. And this augments the fact that Jesus really believed that the people we brand lowly are actually very valuable. We derive also a very important that judgement only belongs to God. We should not judge by their class, we never know what lies in them and neither do we how we can significantly change there lifes. Jesus knew this to well. Image a morale-booster he was to the tax gatherers and sinners, for them to know after all someone accepts them. What a lesson was it for the disciples to learn that the innocence is heavenly. The lesson of being a servant first tells all. I think the cliche you have to serve before you can lead stems from this. I would believe the more lowly you get sometimes the better for your learning. You simply cant learn when you are the top. The poor woman who so little Jesus says she give the biggest. Why is that?? the lowly are more valuable because they give with their hearts and not in a showcase tell-it-to-all of the society`s top. What a relieve was it for the Samaritan woman to learn she can be appreciated even by a Jew. I tend to think there existed the kind of animosity we see between the Arab world and Israel.Imagine a people from two nations shaking hands freely. What a scenario? And that what exactly Jesus wanted to show. I wish we could genuinely draw lessons from His exploits today.



By: Murithi Magiri
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Valuable of lowly people



By: Cecilia Canonigo
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Does Jesus believe lowly people are valuable? How valuable?
Jesus believes lowly people are very valuable because in helping them, what we receive in return is not through them but instead through God. Though many people see getting something in return for giving something as a valid means for doing something. Doing something with no expectations from the other person offers more blessings in the eyes of God.



By: Schmel Gulley
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Can a Camel enter the eye of a needle?



By: thomas akanvese
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Does Jesus believe lowly people are valuable? How valuable?
I believe since we are created in His image, therefore we have value. Since God so loved the world and we are in it, therefore we have value. No matter how much money, status or power we have.



By: Victor Emmanuel
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Jesus believes that the lowly are valuable. Example could be drawn from this lesson and I quote: But Jesus said, Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these. Jesus believes in the little children coming to him because he knows they don`t sin nor do any evil that can deprive them from the seen the grace of God. In according to the book of John - For God so love the world that he sent his only begotten son that who so ever believe in him should not perish but have everlasting live. Jesus love the sinner but hate sin and this why he make himself available to them ''like going into their houses, mingle with them in street etc'' so that they may recognise him as the way to heaven.



By: Fasakin Adebayo Joseph
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Now all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming near Him to listen to Him. And both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them." ( Luke 15:1-2)

Then some children were brought to Him so that He might lay His hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, "Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." ( Matthew 19:13-14)

He called the twelve and said to them, "If any one wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all." And taking a child , He stood him in the midst of them; and taking him in His arms, He said to them, "Whoever receives one child like this in My name is receiving Me; and whoever receives Me is not receiving Me, but Him who sent Me." ( Mark 9:35-37)

And He sat down opposite the treasury, and began observing how the multitude were putting money into the treasury; and many rich people were putting in large sums. And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amount to a cent. And calling His disciples to Him, He said to them, "Truly I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the contributors to the treasury; for they all put in out of their surplus, but she, out of her poverty, put in all she owned, all she had to live on." ( Mark 12:41-44)

There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink." For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. The Samaritan woman therefore said to Him, ‘How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) ( John 4:7-9)

And it came about when He went into the house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching Him closely…And he went on to say to the one who had invited Him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and repayment come to you. But when you give a reception, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, since they do not have the means to repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous." ( Luke :-1-:1)


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