About Servants of the Kingdom

When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on His right hand, "Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me." Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, "Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?" And the King will answer and say to them, "Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me." Then He will also say to those on the left hand, "Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me." Then they also will answer Him, saying, "Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?" Then He will answer them, saying, "Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me." And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life (Matthew 25:31-46).

We begin illustrating what Servants of the Kingdom is about by citing a very important passage of Scripture out of the Gospel of Matthew. The text illustrates both the goodness and the severity of God, a phrase that the apostle Paul used in his letter to the church in Rome (Romans 11:22). The example that Jesus gave above was meant to teach an unmistakable principle: that one’s eternal destiny is tied to how one responds to the needs of the poor. While Jesus illustrated throughout the Gospels that there are several criteria that affect a person’s eternal destiny, comforting the disenfranchised and poor is one of them. In this passage, Jesus is giving those who have "ears to hear" a powerful glimpse into the future, when God will eventually judge all humanity for their faith and the choices they have made on earth. Servants of the Kingdom has been born and raised up to intervene in the lives of those Jesus spoke about in Matthew 25. These are the individuals whose lives have been severely compromised, most often because of extreme poverty.

Acute poverty is a violent attack on the body, soul and spirit of man, invading all facets of life, reducing life to mere existence. It is indiscriminate, taking on a life of its own, exploiting our weakest parts. Such poverty steals everything good that God has created in us. It devalues or removes self–worth entirely, while crushing the human spirit. While the root cause of all poverty is the work and strategies of the satanic kingdom, yet God can and will change such circumstances, regardless of how severe they may be, if He has people who will live sacrificially for others through Him. This essentially means we are to adopt the second most important commandment as the standard for our faith: To love our neighbor as we love ourselves (Mark 12:31).

We at Servants of the Kingdom see that the greatest privilege afforded humanity is to become extensions of our Lord in loving the sick, hungry, vulnerable, disenfranchised, and poor. For a Christian, it is a gift to be able to serve the "nobodies" of this world (or, to use the Lord’s words, the "the least of these"), because every time we help someone out of the well of "unalterable circumstances," we bless Christ Himself. As He said:

Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.