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What I want to talk about today really began with the Jonah series that we wrapped up last week.
It was incredible to me that there was a guy who was hand picked by God to give the greatest gift that there could possibly be, which is a saving knowledge of God and he wanted nothing to do with it.
And when we got to chapter 4 in Jonah we see that Jonah was happy when God was blessing him but didn’t want anyone else receiving that blessing.
Jonah liked being blessed by God but didn’t seem to have any compassion for anyone but himself, and the people that he identified with.
Didn’t seem to care about anyone else.
I had been thinking about Jonah’s lack of compassion for the last couple of weeks and really haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.
I notice that many people, many Christians even who—on some level— lack compassion for anyone other than themselves.
Now that obviously isn’t everyone but there are a lot of people out there that don’t have much compassion outside of their own likes and goals.
I am not proud of it, but on some level I too find that I am not always as compassionate as maybe I should be.
There is an inconsistency that exists in the person who says they are in Christ who doesn’t have any compassion on others.
If you don’t have compassion and you say that you have surrendered to Jesus then something is desperately wrong.
Christians, should corner the market on compassion.
So let’s talk about what compassion is.
First of all, when I talk about compassion, not just the idea of the feeling, I want to talk about the
First of all, when I talk about compassion, its not just the idea of just a feeling, I want to talk about the
biblical definition of compassion, why we should have it, and finally how to get more of it.
biblical definition of compassion is a word that means showing kindness or favor, having pity or showing mercy.
That sounds very much like the Webster’s definition.
But the biblical definition goes further.
splanchnon The Greek word means literally “to be moved in one’s bowels.”
Have you ever felt that?
Where you get moved in your gut at something?
When something just moves you to tears?
Or to a heartfelt, or bowel felt reaction?
That is what God-like compassion is, which all Christians are called to posses.
Why?
Because when we are surrendered to Jesus, we have God living inside of us.
His Holy Spirit is living in us.
And compassion is a
fundamental and distinctive quality of the biblical conception of God, and to its prominence the world owes more than words can express.
The Greek word means literally “to be moved in one’s bowels.”
God is the ultimate picture of compassion.
God has more compassion than the world put together.
It is only God’s compassion that brings us into a saving knowledge of Him.
God’s nature, who he is.. is the very definition of compassion.
Compassion is part of the nature of God.
All throughout the OT we see God being compassionate and having compassion on His people.
This is God’s nature.
To be compassionate to his people.
And we see the same kind of compassion from Jesus.
Can you imagine what would have happened if God was selfish and not compassionate?
Can you imagine what the world would look like if we worshiped a self-serving God?
There would be no world!
There would be no us because our sin separates us from Him
and the first time you sinned, the first time you messed up.
The first sinful thought in your head, actually in conception our very nature is sinful.
So we wouldn’t even have the opportunity to be conceived because of our sin nature.
But God is so compassionate that He loved us while we were yet sinners.
Christ died for us.
So God is compassionate
I think that there is a problem that exists in the world regarding this lack of compassion.
The problem that If it doesn’t affect us, we don’t care.
If we aren’t touched by it than we aren’t interested, or, that our compassion is misplaced and aimed at something that may not be quite as important.
I have lost sleep over the orioles losing a game.
Last Sunday night when the Eagles played the cowboys, the Eagles tied up the game in the 45th quarter and Rachel, knows me so well said, “you want to turn off the game now and go to sleep happy?”
I said, “yes”, and I was!
But that is compassion that is misplaced.
People do have compassion but sometimes it is misplaced.
Jesus tells a parable about compassion.
If we are going to have compassion we must understand that:
Compassion sees what we see when the poor Jewish man gets mugged and beaten.
This was a regular problem for travel in the first century, especially on this route.
It was not wise to travel it alone.
Jerome, an ancient historian calls this route the bloody way because it was notorious for this sort of problem.
You never know who was going to ambush you.
This dude is on his way to Jericho and gets mugged.
Compassion sees
What we notice next is that a man walks by him and the verse says that he SAW him.
He SAW him.
The priest probably thought that he might be dead and that if he helps him, if he touches him and he is dead then the priest cannot preform his priestly duties.
It’s part of the law.
It looks like his religion is getting in the way of doing what God really wants him to do.
Has that ever happened to you? Have you ever missed out on an opportunity to help someone in need because you had a church thing going on?
I can’t help you because I am trying to read my bible.
I can’t help you because I am praying, or having coffee with a friend of mine who is a Christian and I don’t want to miss it.
Don’t let your religion get in the way for doing the work of God!
The Levite does the same thing.
He saw and then walks by.
both of these guys turn the other cheek.
Wrong context!
What we see from the third man, the Samaritan, the dog (as they would have called him) has compassion on him.
Compassion sees.
Jesus
Jesus had compassion over the city of Jerusalem.
He sees it, really sees it for what it is and weeps over it.
Compassion sees.
Not only does compassion see but it acts.
2. Compassion acts.
In scriptural usage compassion is always both a feeling and the appropriate action based on that feeling
Elwell, W. A., & Beitzel, B. J. (1988).
Compassion.
In Baker encyclopedia of the Bible (Vol. 1, p. 504).
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House.
So compassion is something that is deep, it is felt.
We would say heart-felt, the ancients would say bowl felt.
But there is more than a feeling, its an action that goes with it.
That is when you know there is true compassion, there is action that takes place.
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The Samaritan, sees the poor fellow, has compassion on him and then does something about it.
He is moved to move.
How many of us think that we have compassion only to shake our heads and say, that’s a shame.
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