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\nEsther and myself.
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\nand we know some of you, and
\nthis opportunity to become <\/p>\n
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\nacquainted or reacquainted is a
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\nappreciate.
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\nand are glad to be in your
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\nAbout 3 hours ago, your brothers
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\nmeeting met, as we do now, to
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\nwine and remembrance of our Lord
\nand now. <\/p>\n
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\nAs this circle of remembrance
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\nAnd it’s our turn, brothers and
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\nremembrance and to do this
\nbefore our God on high and our <\/p>\n
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\nLord Jesus.
\nWe’re glad to be here. 40 years <\/p>\n
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\nago.
\nI can still remember and see the<\/p>\n
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\nlittle girl in my mind’s eye, in
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\neight or nine years old at that
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\nbeginning of December 1966.
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\nthat, and it was a bitterly cold
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\nremember right now.
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\nI can’t quite remember why I was
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\nof the cold I took off and I
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\nI could do that a bit better in
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\nComing up the street in the
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\nWas this little girl and she was
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\nShe got right in my way,
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\nShe got right in my way.
\nShe planted her feet and she <\/p>\n
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\nspread out her arms like this
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\nher face as if to say I’m not
\ngoing to let. <\/p>\n
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\nYou get by and I think about
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\nwouldn’t dare to do that.
\nYou know the the world has <\/p>\n
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\nrobbed its children of their
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\nOr the right to be innocent.
\nWell, I ran up to this little <\/p>\n
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\ngirl with her holding her
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\nher, and I grabbed the twins of
\nher coat and I pulled them <\/p>\n
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\ntogether around her.
\nAnd I can’t remember just what I<\/p>\n
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\nit’s way too cold.
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\nlittle thread there where the
\nbuttons used to be and it didn’t<\/p>\n
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\nmatter what the temperature was
\nbecause my heart melted. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I looked back on that,
\nbrothers and sisters, and I <\/p>\n
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\ndidn’t do anything if there had
\nbeen a. <\/p>\n
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\nStore there.
\nWould I have gone in? <\/p>\n
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\nWould I have had the faith to do
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\nYou know?
\nThose were hard times, I <\/p>\n
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\nsuppose.
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\nNever owned one at that point in
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\nthe faith to go into a store and
\ntry to convince the store owner <\/p>\n
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\nto to give her something and and
\nto just give me a bill. <\/p>\n
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\nBut it didn’t happen, and it
\ndidn’t happen and. <\/p>\n
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\nIt passed and the little girl
\nskipped off down the street and <\/p>\n
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\nbasically disappeared in time
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\nAs far as I know, I’ve never
\nseen her again in our culture <\/p>\n
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\nand in our language, it would be
\nfair to say. <\/p>\n
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\nThat I felt a tremendous sense
\nof compassion for that little <\/p>\n
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\ngirl, the brothers and sisters,
\nfrom a biblical standpoint and <\/p>\n
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\nfrom God’s standpoint, I’m not
\nsure that’s true. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m not sure that’s true.
\nYou see in the Bible. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the Bible, there are three.
\nOld Testament words that are <\/p>\n
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\ntranslated compassion.
\nNow you think about that for. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd they’re all.
\nUs in our language and our. <\/p>\n
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\nLanguage often shapes the way we
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\nIn our language, if you go to <\/p>\n
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\nup and you turn to the word <\/p>\n
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\ncompassion.
\nWhat is it? <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a noun, isn’t it?
\nIt’s a noun. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s an intangible thing. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in our culture, yes, I had
\nsome compassion. <\/p>\n
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\nBut not in the Bible, You.
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\nCompassion.
\nAnd they’re all verbs, because <\/p>\n
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\ncompassion.
\nIn the Bible is something that <\/p>\n
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\nSomething that we do.
\nCan I show you another example <\/p>\n
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\nlike this?
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\nIt has.
\nOccurred to me that the Old <\/p>\n
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\nTestament language are both. <\/p>\n
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\nsound technical, but they are
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\nlanguages I set out one time to
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\ngave up after a while because <\/p>\n
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\nWas so much evidence for it. <\/p>\n
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\nBut here’s another case, and you
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\nIn just a moment, but in its own
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\nexhortational value for us.
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\n11.
\nIt’s at verse 28. <\/p>\n
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\nCome unto me, all ye that are
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\nheavy laden, and I will give you
\nrest. <\/p>\n
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\nYou may or may not be aware,
\nbrothers and sisters, that that <\/p>\n
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\nword rest is a verb.
\nIn fact, if you go in and do a <\/p>\n
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\nlittle bit of your own, you
\nknow, Bible searching I. <\/p>\n
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\nWill give you rest.
\nKeys off of just one verb in the<\/p>\n
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\nGreek, and that made me think.
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\nyou?
\nWhat that means is that rest is <\/p>\n
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\nwhat Jesus does to us.
\nIt isn’t as if we can say, well,<\/p>\n
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\nI can come to Jesus and I can.
\nHave some rest if I want if I <\/p>\n
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\nfeel like I need it.
\nOr or not. <\/p>\n
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\nIf the case may be rest is what
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\nWhen we come to him and that
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\nPuts a discipleship in my mind
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\nNew level Because I say to
\nmyself, how often do I believe <\/p>\n
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\nyou know I’m I’m in the truth.
\nI. <\/p>\n
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\nHave a relationship to God in
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\nAnd yet I’m agitated.
\nI’m, I’m, I’m bothered. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m annoyed.
\nI’m distressed. <\/p>\n
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\nI’ve got all these problems.
\nBrothers and sisters, rest is <\/p>\n
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\nwhat Jesus does to us this.
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\nthat?
\nWe can take or leave on the <\/p>\n
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\nshelf as we like if we.
\nTruly come to Jesus. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s what he does to us.
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\nfrankly, it blows me away
\nbecause I. <\/p>\n
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\nCan go through my daily life and
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\nYou can feel this way, too,
\nbelieving I’m in the truth. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so we are brothers and
\nsisters, and God be merciful to <\/p>\n
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\nus, so we are.
\nBut I can go through life <\/p>\n
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\nwithout rest.
\nWhat does that say about my? <\/p>\n
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\nRelationship with Jesus at those
\nlow points in my life. <\/p>\n
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\nGod help us.
\nThat’s what he does to us. <\/p>\n
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\nHe gives us rest now.
\nCompassion. <\/p>\n
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\nLet’s come back to it.
\nIt’s a verb as well. <\/p>\n
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\nLet’s just go back into the Old
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\nGo back to Isaiah 55.
\nAnd I just want to give you a <\/p>\n
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\ncouple of illustrations from the
\nOld Testament, a couple from the<\/p>\n
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\nNew, and that will be the
\nessence of this exhortation. <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah 55 and verse 7.
\nOr we can go back to verse 6 for<\/p>\n
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\nconnection.
\nSeek ye the Lord while he may. <\/p>\n
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\nBe found.
\nCall ye upon him while he is <\/p>\n
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\nnear.
\nLet the wicked forsake his way, <\/p>\n
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\nand the unrighteous man his
\nthoughts, and let him return <\/p>\n
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\nunto the Lord.
\nAnd he will have mercy upon him <\/p>\n
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\nand to our God, for He will
\nabundantly pardon now that word.<\/p>\n
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\nMercy in our King James Version
\nis one of those Hebrew words <\/p>\n
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\ncompassion return to.
\nHim and he will compassion us. <\/p>\n
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\nWith God, it’s not just an
\nabstract concept, it’s what he <\/p>\n
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\nwill do to us.
\nAnd the parallelism, because <\/p>\n
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\nthere is a parallelism in this
\nverse tells us how God does it. <\/p>\n
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\nYou see, I would have had
\ncompassion on that little girl <\/p>\n
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\nif I could have.
\nFound some buttons for her coat.<\/p>\n
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\nIf I could have done something.
\nHe will have compassion. <\/p>\n
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\nHe will abundantly pardon.
\nThat’s the parallelism in that <\/p>\n
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\npassage.
\nAnd the one phrase interprets <\/p>\n
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\nus.
\nHe pardons us. <\/p>\n
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\nIf we just simply will turn to
\nHim. <\/p>\n
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\nHe pardons us.
\nThat’s how he does it, Micah. <\/p>\n
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\nChapter 7
\nverse 18 Mica 7 verse 18 Who is <\/p>\n
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\na God like unto thee?
\nThat pardoneth iniquity and <\/p>\n
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\npasseth by transgression of the
\nremnant of his heritage. <\/p>\n
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\nHe retaineth not his anger
\nforever, because he delighteth <\/p>\n
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\nin mercy.
\nHe will turn again, and he will <\/p>\n
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\nhave compassion.
\nIt’s all one word in the Hebrew.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s all a verb which we
\nhave spun out a verb phrase or <\/p>\n
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\nour translators have.
\nHe will have compassion on us. <\/p>\n
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\nHe will subdue our iniquities,
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\nsins into the depths of the sea.
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\nJacob, and the mercy to Abraham,
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\nBut there it is, brothers and <\/p>\n
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\nus in our plight, in our
\nmortality, in our frailty. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the the temptations that we
\nall feel. <\/p>\n
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\nIf we but turn to him, he will
\nturn again, and compassion us, <\/p>\n
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\nand subdue our iniquities.
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\n315.
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\nput our enemies under his feet.
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\nWe come to the New Testament and<\/p>\n
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\nwe come to the Lord Jesus.
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\nMatthew 14.
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\nwe know this, don’t we?
\nWhen we look at our Lord, he <\/p>\n
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\ninterprets God for us and we
\ncome to the feeding of the 5000 <\/p>\n
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\nin Matthew chapter 14 at verse
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\nAnd the rest that he sought with
\nhis disciples, by escaping, as <\/p>\n
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\nit were, to a desert place, is
\nall taken away from him. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the Lord could have feel
\nfelt distressed. <\/p>\n
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\nHe could have felt annoyed.
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\nand so can we in life.
\nBrother Russ and I were just <\/p>\n
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\ntalking yesterday a little bit
\nabout how we like in our lives, <\/p>\n
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\nbrothers and sisters, to create
\na comfort zone around ourselves.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd it and and it’s a it’s a no
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\nYou’re not to encroach on that.
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\nHe had no comfort zone.
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\nshrink the size of the comfort
\nzones that we build around <\/p>\n
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\nourself, to insulate ourself
\nfrom the cares of this life <\/p>\n
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\nbecause our Lord has cared for
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\nAnd he wants us to do the same.
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\nthat I never found.
\nVerse 14. <\/p>\n
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\nWell verse 13.
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\ndeparted thence by ship into a
\ndesert place apart, And when the<\/p>\n
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\npeople had heard thereof, they
\nfollowed him on foot out of the <\/p>\n
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\ngreat multitude, and was moved
\nwith compassion toward them and.<\/p>\n
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\nHealed their sick.
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\nwas moved with compassion.
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\nand and look at it or think <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he did something about it.
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\nNow of the 4000 the 1A
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\nThis is the Lord with whom we
\nhave to do verse 32 Then Jesus <\/p>\n
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\ncalled his disciples with him,
\nand said unto him, and said, I <\/p>\n
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\nwith me now three days.
\nAnd have nothing to eat, and I <\/p>\n
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\nwill not send them away.
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\nHow are we going to find bread
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\nAnd somehow their answer.
\nShould have come back. <\/p>\n
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\nBut you’ll do it.
\nYou’ll find a. <\/p>\n
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\nThrough him help us to find a
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\nAnd so he did.
\nHe did something about it. <\/p>\n
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\nHe fed them and we.
\nCould go on through the lessons.<\/p>\n
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\nLet’s let’s take another because
\nthese are telling us. <\/p>\n
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\nAbout our Lord Luke 7, they’re
\ntelling us what we need to know.<\/p>\n
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\nBecause the Lord has compassion
\non us, we brothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
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\nIn his eyes are the little girl
\nwith no buttons on her coat. <\/p>\n
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\nHe met a mother in her deepest
\nmorning, verse 11 of Luke 7. <\/p>\n
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\nIt came to pass the day after
\nthat he went into a city called <\/p>\n
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\nName, and many of his disciples
\nwent with him and much people. <\/p>\n
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\nNow when he came nigh to the
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\nbehold, there was a dead.
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\nsaw her.
\nHe had compassion on her, how we<\/p>\n
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\nsisters, because compassion was <\/p>\n
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\nsomething he did and he said to
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\nAnd he came, and touched the
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\nStood still.
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\nunto thee, Arise.
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\nbegan to speak.
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\nall.
\nAnd they glorified God, saying <\/p>\n
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\nthat a great prophet has risen
\namongst us, and that God has <\/p>\n
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\nvisited his people he
\ninterprets. <\/p>\n
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\nGod’s compassion for us.
\nGod has visited his people. <\/p>\n
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\nOne more Luke 10,
\nverse 33. <\/p>\n
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\nYou’ll relate to this right
\naway. <\/p>\n
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\nYou’ll see the point.
\nInstantly, you’ve seen it. <\/p>\n
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\nBefore, I’ll just remind you but
\na certain Samaritan, Luke 10. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 33 But a certain
\nSamaritan, as he journeyed came <\/p>\n
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\nwhere he was and when he saw
\nhim. <\/p>\n
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\nHe had compassion on him.
\nHe compassioned him. <\/p>\n
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\nEvery now and then some of our.
\nEnglish translations will use <\/p>\n
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\nthe word pity instead, and we
\nsay what a. <\/p>\n
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\nPity, because compassion really
\ndoes have a warmth to it. <\/p>\n
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\nBut the reason?
\nThe translators. <\/p>\n
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\nHave done that is because pity
\nis something we can do. <\/p>\n
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\nWe can pity someone and that’s.
\nThat’s active. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a verb.
\nWe don’t tend to use the word. <\/p>\n
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\nCompassion, that’s why.
\nI’m sure that’s why the. <\/p>\n
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\nthat, and we love the good old <\/p>\n
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\nKing James compassion, but we
\nneed to be. <\/p>\n
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\nCareful because we must
\ncompassion. <\/p>\n
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\ncame near to him.
\nWhere he was and he had <\/p>\n
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\nand sisters and young people <\/p>\n
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\nthat totally.
\nTotally encroached on the <\/p>\n
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\ncomfort zone of that Samaritan.
\nTotally. <\/p>\n
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\nHe had to abandon all of his.
\nPlans to help this man, to give <\/p>\n
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\nthem up, to make the effort to
\ntake him to the inn, to tend to <\/p>\n
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\nhis needs for some hours.
\nYou’d get the sense and to offer<\/p>\n
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\nto the innkeeper, if it costs
\nany more, to bring this man to <\/p>\n
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\nhealth again.
\nI’ll pay it when I come again. <\/p>\n
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\nHe totally stripped himself of
\nany comfort zone and he found <\/p>\n
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\nthe buttons for that.
\nLittle girl’s coat, the father <\/p>\n
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\nof the prodigal.
\nHe was out looking for him, <\/p>\n
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\nwasn’t he?
\nAnd when he came back when the <\/p>\n
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\nson.
\nShowed the first signs of coming<\/p>\n
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\nback.
\nThe father ran because he had <\/p>\n
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\ncompassion on him, and the
\nfather had to abandon all the <\/p>\n
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\ndisappointment that he had in
\nhis son. <\/p>\n
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\nPerhaps the sense of betrayal
\nthat he had felt for this lad, <\/p>\n
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\nthat he had invested in, and the
\nlad had gone off and squandered <\/p>\n
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\nit.
\nAll of those things that the <\/p>\n
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\nFather could have been
\naggravated by, gone, discarded, <\/p>\n
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\nthrown by the wayside.
\nHis son was coming back and the <\/p>\n
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\nsimple.
\nWord is there again. <\/p>\n
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\nHe had compassion on him and he
\nran to meet him. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so I hope you under you, you
\nappreciate the the metaphor that<\/p>\n
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\nI’m using when I say he found
\nthe buttons for the code. <\/p>\n
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\nHe did something about it.
\nAnd so, brothers and sisters and<\/p>\n
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\nyoung people, listening
\npatiently, the table now speaks <\/p>\n
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\nto us.
\nTangibly, tangibly, we’re going <\/p>\n
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\nto take in our hands.
\nWe’re going to take into our <\/p>\n
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\nbetween our lips and into our
\nmouth. <\/p>\n
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\nTangibly, we’re going to take.
\nIt to ourselves the tokens that <\/p>\n
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\nJesus asked us to take and when
\nwe do as we do, it is. <\/p>\n
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\nAn ongoing reminder.
\nOf the compassion that our <\/p>\n
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\nfather has for us.
\nAnd he has made living in the <\/p>\n
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\nLord.
\nJesus and the Lord Jesus has to <\/p>\n
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\nthe very death done something.
\nWith that we if only we will. <\/p>\n
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\nTurn to him.
\nFind rest for our souls. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd have the pardoning of our
\niniquities may we take the. <\/p>\n
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\nEmblems to ourselves, brothers
\nand sisters, and somehow, by His<\/p>\n
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\nGrace, be able to find the
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