Christ Compassion For The World

The word of God is the foundation in our life. The bible is not simply words about God.

Bible has one hero: Jesus

Bible has one villain: Devil

Bible has one Theme: Salvation

Bible has one purpose: the gory of god

The greatest gift of God to man, next to His Son and His Spirit, is the HOLY SCRIPTURES. Dr.Oswald J.Smith observed, Our attitude towards the Scriptures settles everything. All that we see today are temporal, but with one exception—the Bible! Heaven and earth shall pass away but God’s Word shall remain forever (Mk 13:31).

Without the Bible we have no light or direction in this world of darkness and chaos (Psa 119:105; 2 Pet 1 :19). Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? These are questions puzzling even the best of minds

The word of God is Perfect

The word of God is Powerful

The word of God is Pure

The word of God is Preserve

The word of God is Permanent ( which means unchangeable/unfailing/unmovable

We need to be transformed with this word

It should be our Instruction

It should be our meditation

It should be our motivation

God’s word will inform us

God’s word will Warn us

God’s word will Devote us

Inspire us transforms us, it will change us from inside to outside. Know his word and you will know his plans

I would like to read passage for this morning for a short meditation. Lets turn our bibles to book of Mathew chapter 9 :35-39. Shall we pray

Let me begin my sermon with an illustration which happened in recent history. After the First World War which happened in 1914, the world thought that it wouldn’t happen to face another world war, even though they had formed all the peace keeping organizations. But within the 25 years after the First World War, the Second World War also broke out. The Second World War has bought lots of damage to the society. A man named Bob Pears from US has been send to South Korea as a part of his mission work. What he has seen in the South Korean soil was heart breaking things. Lots of atrocities have taken place. Lots of mothers they have lost their beloved children’s. Brothers they have lost their beloved sisters. Everywhere burnt bodies and collapsed buildings. The poor missionary couldn’t contain all these things and he knelt down in the South Korean soil and made a prayer some thing like this: “Lord let my heart be broken with the things that break your heart”

After few years he went back to US and started a very well known organization which is called the World Vision. And if you see the pamphlet of the World Vision, there you find a word called Compassion. And today my topic is also “Christ’s Compassion for the Word”

From this passage I want to bring out three aspects of Christ.

A. What Christ Sees?

B. What Christ Feels?

C. What Christ has to say?

Webster defines the word "Compassion" as; Pity or Sympathy. From the Greek "Compassion" is defined as "Inward Affection, Pity or Sympathy, yearning.

What compassion means to us today literally is "Suffering With Another!"

compassion was a significant part of Jesus’ ministry. Jesus during His ministry on earth, had compassion on many occasions.

You see, we live in a compassion-less world. Most people place themselves and their family above any other consideration in the world. The sad reality is that most people simply do not care what happens to others! They do not possess compassion. In fact, I would venture to say that most people don’t even know what it means to have compassion!

The word compassion, as it is used in the Bible means, “To be moved inwardly; to yearn with tender mercy, affection, pity and empathy.” It refers to the deepest possible feelings. The phrase, “moved with compassion” means to be moved in the “inner organs”. It has the same idea as our modern expression, “From the bottom of my heart.” Someone has defined compassion as “Sympathy coupled with a desire to help.” Sympathy means “The capacity to share feelings, to enter into the same feelings, to feel the same thing”. So, compassion is “sharing the feelings of others and possessing a desire to help them in their trouble.”

When we read the Gospels, they tell us of Jesus and His great compassion for mankind. We see that our Savior was moved deeply in His inner being by the needs of those around Him. In this message, I would like to address this matter of compassion. I want to preach about The Compassionate Christ. I want to talk about what motivated Jesus to be compassionate and how we can become more compassionate ourselves. Let’s look at The Compassionate Christ this evening and learn His secrets for caring about the needs of others.