Jim Harper – The Work of the Holy Spirit in New Testament Times – Class 6 – Exhortation

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This is a special privilege,
brothers and sisters, for Sister

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Esther and myself.
We sit on the other side of the

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North American continent and we
read about you in the magazines

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and we know some of you, and
this opportunity to become

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acquainted or reacquainted is a
privilege that you may not fully

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appreciate.
How much we are enjoying this

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and are glad to be in your
presence.

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About 3 hours ago, your brothers
and sisters in the Meriden

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meeting met, as we do now, to
break bread and to drink the

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wine and remembrance of our Lord
and now.

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As this circle of remembrance
continues, it began in the

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Eastern Hemisphere many, many
hours ago today.

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And it’s our turn, brothers and
sisters, to join that circle of

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remembrance and to do this
before our God on high and our

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Lord Jesus.
We’re glad to be here. 40 years

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ago.
I can still remember and see the

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little girl in my mind’s eye, in
her shabby pink coat and her

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thin cotton jersey.
And she might have been about

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eight or nine years old at that
time, which was about the

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beginning of December 1966.
I was just finishing up some

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work in Chicago.
And I was living on the South

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side of Chicago in the YMCA,
about to go back east after

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that, and it was a bitterly cold
day in Chicago, just about the

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beginning of winter.
For a reason that I can’t

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remember right now.
I went out of my room at the Y

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and went down the street.
Possibly to mail a letter.

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I can’t quite remember why I was
outside at midday, but because

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of the cold I took off and I
ran.

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I could do that a bit better in
those days and.

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Coming up the street in the
other direction.

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Was this little girl and she was
quite a little imp.

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She got right in my way,
probably half a block.

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She got right in my way.
She planted her feet and she

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spread out her arms like this
and she had this huge smile on

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her face as if to say I’m not
going to let.

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You get by and I think about
that and had a child today

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wouldn’t dare to do that.
You know the the world has

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robbed its children of their
innocence.

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Or the right to be innocent.
Well, I ran up to this little

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girl with her holding her
territory, and I stopped.

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And of course, I’d already
noticed that her her coat was

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wide open.
And I thought, oh, you poor

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child.
And I squatted down in front of

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her, and I grabbed the twins of
her coat and I pulled them

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together around her.
And I can’t remember just what I

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said, but something probably
about, you know, sweetheart,

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it’s way too cold.
And then I realized why her coat

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was open.
There were no buttons on her

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coat.
A little thread here and a

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little thread there where the
buttons used to be and it didn’t

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matter what the temperature was
because my heart melted.

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And I looked back on that,
brothers and sisters, and I

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didn’t do anything if there had
been a.

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Store there.
Would I have gone in?

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Would I have had the faith to do
something?

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You know?
Those were hard times, I

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suppose.
I was in Graduate School.

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I didn’t know what a credit card
was.

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Never owned one at that point in
my life.

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Probably being a graduate
student didn’t have much cash in

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my pocket either.
And I don’t know what I have had

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the faith to go into a store and
try to convince the store owner

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to to give her something and and
to just give me a bill.

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But it didn’t happen, and it
didn’t happen and.

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It passed and the little girl
skipped off down the street and

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basically disappeared in time
and space.

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As far as I know, I’ve never
seen her again in our culture

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and in our language, it would be
fair to say.

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That I felt a tremendous sense
of compassion for that little

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girl, the brothers and sisters,
from a biblical standpoint and

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from God’s standpoint, I’m not
sure that’s true.

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I’m not sure that’s true.
You see in the Bible.

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In the Bible, there are three.
Old Testament words that are

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translated compassion.
Now you think about that for.

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And they’re all.
Us in our language and our.

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Language often shapes the way we
think and therefore in a.

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Lot of respects is related to
our cultural way of doing things

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and thinking of things.
In our language, if you go to

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the dictionary and you open it
up and you turn to the word

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compassion.
What is it?

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It’s a noun, isn’t it?
It’s a noun.

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It’s a concept.
It’s an intangible thing.

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And in our culture, yes, I had
some compassion.

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But not in the Bible, You.
Come to the New Testament and

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there are five different words
that are translated.

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Compassion.
And they’re all verbs, because

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compassion.
In the Bible is something that

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we do.
It’s.

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Something that we do.
Can I show you another example

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like this?
Open your Bibles to Matthew 11.

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It has.
Occurred to me that the Old

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Testament language and the New
Testament language are both.

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And I don’t know how else to say
this because I don’t want to

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sound technical, but they are
both very verb intensive

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languages I set out one time to
just.

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Satisfy myself on that and and
gave up after a while because

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there.
Was so much evidence for it.

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But here’s another case, and you
know the passage well and in its

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own right.
We’ll come back to compassion.

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In just a moment, but in its own
right, it has a tremendous

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exhortational value for us.
It’s the end of Matthew Chapter

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11.
It’s at verse 28.

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Come unto me, all ye that are
laden and heavy labor, and are

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heavy laden, and I will give you
rest.

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You may or may not be aware,
brothers and sisters, that that

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word rest is a verb.
In fact, if you go in and do a

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little bit of your own, you
know, Bible searching I.

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Will give you rest.
Keys off of just one verb in the

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Greek, and that made me think.
And may I share my thoughts with

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you?
What that means is that rest is

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what Jesus does to us.
It isn’t as if we can say, well,

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I can come to Jesus and I can.
Have some rest if I want if I

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feel like I need it.
Or or not.

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If the case may be rest is what
Jesus does to us.

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When we come to him and that
just.

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Puts a discipleship in my mind
on an entirely.

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New level Because I say to
myself, how often do I believe

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you know I’m I’m in the truth.
I.

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Have a relationship to God in
Christ.

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And yet I’m agitated.
I’m, I’m, I’m bothered.

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I’m annoyed.
I’m distressed.

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I’ve got all these problems.
Brothers and sisters, rest is

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what Jesus does to us this.
Isn’t just an intangible concept

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that?
We can take or leave on the

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shelf as we like if we.
Truly come to Jesus.

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It’s what he does to us.
And that just, well, to say it

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frankly, it blows me away
because I.

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Can go through my daily life and
perhaps.

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You can feel this way, too,
believing I’m in the truth.

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And so we are brothers and
sisters, and God be merciful to

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us, so we are.
But I can go through life

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without rest.
What does that say about my?

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Relationship with Jesus at those
low points in my life.

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God help us.
That’s what he does to us.

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He gives us rest now.
Compassion.

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Let’s come back to it.
It’s a verb as well.

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Let’s just go back into the Old
Testament for a moment.

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Go back to Isaiah 55.
And I just want to give you a

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couple of illustrations from the
Old Testament, a couple from the

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New, and that will be the
essence of this exhortation.

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Isaiah 55 and verse 7.
Or we can go back to verse 6 for

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connection.
Seek ye the Lord while he may.

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Be found.
Call ye upon him while he is

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near.
Let the wicked forsake his way,

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and the unrighteous man his
thoughts, and let him return

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unto the Lord.
And he will have mercy upon him

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and to our God, for He will
abundantly pardon now that word.

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Mercy in our King James Version
is one of those Hebrew words

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compassion return to.
Him and he will compassion us.

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With God, it’s not just an
abstract concept, it’s what he

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will do to us.
And the parallelism, because

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there is a parallelism in this
verse tells us how God does it.

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You see, I would have had
compassion on that little girl

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if I could have.
Found some buttons for her coat.

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If I could have done something.
He will have compassion.

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He will abundantly pardon.
That’s the parallelism in that

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passage.
And the one phrase interprets

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the other.
God doesn’t just feel sorry for

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us.
He pardons us.

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If we just simply will turn to
Him.

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He pardons us.
That’s how he does it, Micah.

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Chapter 7
verse 18 Mica 7 verse 18 Who is

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a God like unto thee?
That pardoneth iniquity and

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passeth by transgression of the
remnant of his heritage.

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He retaineth not his anger
forever, because he delighteth

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in mercy.
He will turn again, and he will

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have compassion.
It’s all one word in the Hebrew.

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And it’s all a verb which we
have spun out a verb phrase or

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our translators have.
He will have compassion on us.

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He will subdue our iniquities,
and thou will cast all their

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sins into the depths of the sea.
Thou will perform the truth to

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Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham,
which thou has sworn unto our

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fathers from the days of old.
But there it is, brothers and

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sisters and young people.
God doesn’t just feel sorry for

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us in our plight, in our
mortality, in our frailty.

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In the the temptations that we
all feel.

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If we but turn to him, he will
turn again, and compassion us,

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and subdue our iniquities.
Tread Them Under Foot, Genesis

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315.
Tread them under foot, He will

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put our enemies under his feet.
That’s what God is doing for us

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in his compassion.
We come to the New Testament and

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we come to the Lord Jesus.
We come to the Gospels.

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Matthew 14.
And when we look at our Lord and

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we know this, don’t we?
When we look at our Lord, he

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interprets God for us and we
come to the feeding of the 5000

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in Matthew chapter 14 at verse
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And the rest that he sought with
his disciples, by escaping, as

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it were, to a desert place, is
all taken away from him.

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And the Lord could have feel
felt distressed.

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He could have felt annoyed.
He He could have felt put upon

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and so can we in life.
Brother Russ and I were just

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talking yesterday a little bit
about how we like in our lives,

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brothers and sisters, to create
a comfort zone around ourselves.

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And it and and it’s a it’s a no
man’s land.

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You’re not to encroach on that.
Jesus had no comfort zone.

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He had no comfort zone.
And he had the mindset that

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could cope with that.
We need to reduce, we need to

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shrink the size of the comfort
zones that we build around

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ourself, to insulate ourself
from the cares of this life

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because our Lord has cared for
us.

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And he wants us to do the same.
He wants us to find the buttons

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that I never found.
Verse 14.

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Well verse 13.
When Jesus heard of it, he

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departed thence by ship into a
desert place apart, And when the

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people had heard thereof, they
followed him on foot out of the

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cities.
And Jesus went forth and saw a

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great multitude, and was moved
with compassion toward them and.

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Healed their sick.
It’s all one word in the Greek

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was moved with compassion.
It was a verb and not.

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Just a noun.
Compassion wasn’t something that

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he just could take off the shelf
and and look at it or think

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about it the way we do in our
language and our culture.

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But it was the.
Very part and parcel of his

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being and what he did, what he
did.

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And he did something about it.
He healed their sick and he fed

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them.
Matthew 15 verse 30.

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Two, and this is the other
feeding.

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Now of the 4000 the 1A
compassion A compassioning of

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Jews and.
Now a compassioning of Gentiles.

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This is the Lord with whom we
have to do verse 32 Then Jesus

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called his disciples with him,
and said unto him, and said, I

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have compassion on the.
Multitude, because they continue

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with me now three days.
And have nothing to eat, and I

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will not send them away.
Fasting, lest they faint in the

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way.
Remember how he.

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Challenged his disciples on the
earlier occasion.

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How are we going to find bread
to feed such a multitude?

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And somehow their answer.
Should have come back.

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We don’t know, Lord.
Help us to find a way in him.

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But you’ll do it.
You’ll find a.

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Through him help us to find a
way.

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And so he did.
He did something about it.

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He fed them and we.
Could go on through the lessons.

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Let’s let’s take another because
these are telling us.

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About our Lord Luke 7, they’re
telling us what we need to know.

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Because the Lord has compassion
on us, we brothers and sisters.

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In his eyes are the little girl
with no buttons on her coat.

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He met a mother in her deepest
morning, verse 11 of Luke 7.

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It came to pass the day after
that he went into a city called

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Name, and many of his disciples
went with him and much people.

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Now when he came nigh to the
gate, to the gate of the city,

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behold, there was a dead.
Man carried out the only son of

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his mother, and she was a.
Widow and much people of the

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city.
Was with her, and when the Lord

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saw her.
He had compassion on her, how we

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need this Lord brothers and
sisters, because compassion was

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something he did and he said to
her weep not.

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And he came, and touched the
bear, and they that bare him.

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Stood still.
And he said, Young man, I say

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unto thee, Arise.
And he that was dead sat up and

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began to speak.
And there came a great fear on

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all.
And they glorified God, saying

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that a great prophet has risen
amongst us, and that God has

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visited his people he
interprets.

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God’s compassion for us.
God has visited his people.

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One more Luke 10,
verse 33.

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You’ll relate to this right
away.

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You’ll see the point.
Instantly, you’ve seen it.

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Before, I’ll just remind you but
a certain Samaritan, Luke 10.

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Verse 33 But a certain
Samaritan, as he journeyed came

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where he was and when he saw
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He had compassion on him.
He compassioned him.

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Every now and then some of our.
English translations will use

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the word pity instead, and we
say what a.

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Pity, because compassion really
does have a warmth to it.

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But the reason?
The translators.

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Have done that is because pity
is something we can do.

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We can pity someone and that’s.
That’s active.

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It’s a verb.
We don’t tend to use the word.

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Compassion, that’s why.
I’m sure that’s why the.

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Translators have substituted
that, and we love the good old

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King James compassion, but we
need to be.

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Careful because we must
compassion.

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Someone and not just.
Have it in an abstract way, He

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came near to him.
Where he was and he had

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compassion on him and brothers
and sisters and young people

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that totally.
Totally encroached on the

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comfort zone of that Samaritan.
Totally.

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He had to abandon all of his.
Plans to help this man, to give

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them up, to make the effort to
take him to the inn, to tend to

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his needs for some hours.
You’d get the sense and to offer

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to the innkeeper, if it costs
any more, to bring this man to

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health again.
I’ll pay it when I come again.

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He totally stripped himself of
any comfort zone and he found

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the buttons for that.
Little girl’s coat, the father

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of the prodigal.
He was out looking for him,

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wasn’t he?
And when he came back when the

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son.
Showed the first signs of coming

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back.
The father ran because he had

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compassion on him, and the
father had to abandon all the

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disappointment that he had in
his son.

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Perhaps the sense of betrayal
that he had felt for this lad,

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that he had invested in, and the
lad had gone off and squandered

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it.
All of those things that the

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Father could have been
aggravated by, gone, discarded,

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thrown by the wayside.
His son was coming back and the

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simple.
Word is there again.

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He had compassion on him and he
ran to meet him.

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And so I hope you under you, you
appreciate the the metaphor that

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I’m using when I say he found
the buttons for the code.

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He did something about it.
And so, brothers and sisters and

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young people, listening
patiently, the table now speaks

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to us.
Tangibly, tangibly, we’re going

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to take in our hands.
We’re going to take into our

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between our lips and into our
mouth.

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Tangibly, we’re going to take.
It to ourselves the tokens that

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Jesus asked us to take and when
we do as we do, it is.

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An ongoing reminder.
Of the compassion that our

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father has for us.
And he has made living in the

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Lord.
Jesus and the Lord Jesus has to

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the very death done something.
With that we if only we will.

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Turn to him.
Find rest for our souls.

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And have the pardoning of our
iniquities may we take the.

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Emblems to ourselves, brothers
and sisters, and somehow, by His

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Grace, be able to find the
buttons for a little girl’s

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coat.