As there are many charitable non-believers giving assistance to the needy then how does that make Christians who do the same any different from them?
Clearly you are missing the spiritual message in Matt 25.
good point. remember that God says in His Word that those outside ekklesia, outside His people, HE judges. and some of those , who OBEY torah even though they DON'T HAVE TORAH, do what is right and He sees this,
while
those He called to be His people, people who "SAY" that they believe HIM, who have the TORAH, but don't obey His Instructions,
are found to be not in Him..... so, and as, God sees everything and knows everything there is to know, it's best to turn to God, and not to men...
diplomats, emissaries, to foreign countries, while in those countries, are not subject to jail time or(usually?) the death penalty either, if they break the laws - even murder (which happens routinely,btw) .........
but, they ARE subject to being sent away, exiled, banished.
God knows perfectly who are His children, and who are not His children. He knows His sheep, .... it's not like He gets anything mixed up or confused....
He disciplines, often severely, His children. OT and NT. No question. He disciplines (trains) His children, for their good, in the best possible way - as any good father does, so they will live right lives, and not corrupt; as children of LIGHT (get it? "L * I * G * H * T - LIGHT .... truth and right-ruling and just and walking uprightly- against such there is no law).....
so , there remains still a resurrection. some to eternal life, and some to destruction. Don't forget, all through Scripture, it is God who judges everything a person does(it is all written down); and
God who says what is important, and what is not important. God who says, Listen to My Son, Yahshua - HE will give you life, if you let Him.
But if you settle back into the 'old way' , before repentance, before turning to God for forgiveness,
don't think at all that God will be pleased.