“Our Compassionate Father” (335)

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He understands what you've been through. He's

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not sitting up there unaware of what you're going

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through. He is right next to you constantly,

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constantly. He's as close to you as the oxygen

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in the air you breathe. So just breathe. God

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promises in Joel 2 .28 to pour out His Spirit

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on all humanity. Welcome to Global Outpouring.

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Were we content for that Thomas outpouring? We

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equipped for that outpouring so that we may engage

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in that very outpouring. I'm Philip Buss. And

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I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast today.

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about the Lord's Prayer or the Our Father. So

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we want to go a little bit deeper into Our Father.

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Our compassionate Father. Thanks so much for

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So today, we're going to talk about our compassionate

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Father. Last time, we were talking about our

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Father who art in heaven, and we went right into

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our Father and talking about Father. But I feel

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like we kind of missed the word our. That's O

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-U -R, not H -O -U -R. It's about our father.

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He's our father. He's your father. He's my father.

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He's the father of everybody on the planet. It

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sounds funny, but I like to say it, everybody

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who has a belly button. You know, he's the one,

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and we talked about this last week, but he's

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the one that makes sure that when a father and

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mother come together, And the sperm and the egg

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come together. He's the one that provides the

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flash of life, the flash of light. He is our

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father. He is the one that relates to all of

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us. So every single one of us, our brothers and

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sisters, we're related to each other because

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we have the same father. Every one of us have

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the same father. And Jeremiah 32 .27 in the ASV.

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Philip, would you read that? I am Jehovah, the

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God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard

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for me? No, nothing's too hard for you. But he

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is the God of all flesh. He is the Father of

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all flesh. And what does Acts 17 .26 -28 say?

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And he has made from one blood every nation of

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men to dwell on all the face of the earth. Yes.

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And has determined their pre -appointed times

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and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that

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they should seek the Lord in the hope that they

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might grope for him and find him, although he

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is not far from each one of us. For in him we

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live and move and have our being, as also some

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of your own poets have said, for we are also

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his offspring. That's right. And that is from

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Paul's sermon. in Athens when he found that all

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of the Athenians were busy worshiping all kinds

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of gods, and they even had an altar to the unknown

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god. And he says, I'm going to tell you about

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that one. And so he's busy telling them about

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the unknown god, and he's trying to help them

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to understand that there is one god. He didn't

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specify that he's our father, but that's who

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he is. And I love what it says. In the King James,

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in the New King James, it says he has made from

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one blood every nation of men to dwell in all

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the face of the earth. There are other translations

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that say he has made from one man, which means

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Adam. And Adam and Eve are one because they started

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out as one. And when they were joined, they were

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one anyway. Yeah, it says further on right after

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they. Made the big bugle that be called burning.

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Exactly. Exactly. And some translations also,

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and I think this is the most accurate from the

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Greek, that he has made from one every nation

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of men to dwell on all the face of the earth.

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So he's our father. We relate to every single

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person on the planet. And we have to realize

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that. We have to realize that he... wants us

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to view other people as our brothers and sisters,

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everybody. It doesn't matter what kind of culture

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we come from. Too many times our cultures divide

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us and make walls in between us and ancient hatreds

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and grudges, those kind of things, divide us.

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And that's what the enemy of God wants to do.

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He's God's enemy, so that makes him our enemy

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because he hates God and we're made in his image.

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Made in God's image, of course. So he wants us

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to regard other people. as someone that we should

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be separated from. When God is trying to show

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us that, you know, he's going to pour out his

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spirit on all flesh, and all flesh relates to

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each other, and we're one family. So, you know,

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when we get to heaven, there will be no cultural

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diversity. Sorry. We're going to be living by

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heaven culture. And that's part of the prayer

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that we were discussing last week about thy kingdom

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come or your kingdom come. Your will be done

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on earth as it is in heaven. In heaven, there

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are no cultural differences between us based

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on the cultures that we had on the earth. There's

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no racial differences. And let's get it right.

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There's only one race, and it's the human race.

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Skin color has nothing to do with race. So all

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of this push about racial prejudice, it's not

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really racial prejudice. It's cultural prejudice.

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And, you know, it's got to be done away with

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because it's not kingdom culture. In kingdom

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culture, we are one. We are one flesh. We are

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one people. on the earth and God made us in his

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image. So that makes him our father. So, you

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know, let's erase all that stuff because that

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needs to go away. We don't need to live with

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that kind of thing. So I love the fact that people

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who have been to heaven and come back to tell

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about it, they all express that they feel like

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when the Lord is looking at them. You're the

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only one. Yeah, like they are the only. Yeah,

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like I'm God's favorite. I'm God's favorite.

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But yet they also know in the same moment that

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he feels the same way about every single one.

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Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah. You know, a lot of

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these, it was out of Manu Kay's book of the testimonies

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of people who went on, and you hear that on different

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ones. It's true. It's me. You know, it's me.

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Yeah, I can hardly wait to have Randy Kay on

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this podcast. We're looking forward to it. I

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know it's going to happen, just don't know when.

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So this is so significant about kingdom culture,

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about on earth as it is in heaven. And that's

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what we have to cultivate. And we, you and I,

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Philip and I, all of us, have a responsibility

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to find that. place in the presence of God where

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we are so fellowshipping with him that we're

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getting kingdom culture infused in us, that it

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becomes part of our nature. Remember where it

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talks about that we are partakers of the divine

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nature. So he's our father, and because he's

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our father, we need to grow up to be like dad.

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You know, he wants us to grow up and work with

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him in the family business. So, of course, the

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family business is all about redeeming the earth

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and redeeming mankind and destroying the works

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of the devil. For this purpose was the Son of

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God manifest to destroy the works of the devil.

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So the Son of God, Jesus, started that process,

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but then he gave us authority to cast out devils.

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So this is part of our job, but we do it through

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the power of the Holy Spirit, through the leading

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of the Holy Spirit. Don't just go out there because

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you've been told you've got the authority. Go

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out there because he sends you and he's given

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you instructions and showed you how to do it

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and showed you what his plan is and how to do

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it. So, you know, walk with the Spirit of God.

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Because if you do it just out of your head, that's

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walking in the flesh. And we're supposed to walk

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in the spirit and not in the flesh. Amen? Amen.

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So what does Malachi 2 .10a say? Every not all

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one father has not one God created us. We all

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have the same father. So there it is, Exodus

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33 .19. Then he said, I will make all my goodness

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pass before you, and I will proclaim the name

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of Yehovah before you. I will be gracious to

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whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion

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on whom I will have compassion. Yes. And Philip

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and I have been reading Randy Kaye's book. Oh,

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dear, I've forgotten the title of it, but we'll

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put it in the show notes in the description.

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I think it's 140 testimonies of people who have

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had near -death experiences. What do they call

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them, Andy? NDEs, yeah, near -death experiences.

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And so many of them were, and Randy Kay himself,

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he was an agnostic, and yet he had an experience

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with God. Yeah, so many of these, I mean, all

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of a sudden they're... They're before the Father,

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and they were not what they're supposed to be.

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Right. That's mercy like we do, not others. We

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don't get this because, you know, in our minds—

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You're not saved, you're going to hell. Yeah.

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The moment you die, it's either heaven or hell.

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Depending on the choices you made, boom, and

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it's done. But so many of these experiences,

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they are meeting Jesus. Or they're meeting the

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Father and he has compassion on whom he will

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have compassion. And he's gracious to those that

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he's going to be gracious to. Bottom line is

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he's trying to get people in. He's not trying

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to get people to go to hell. He does not want

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that. He doesn't want anybody to go to hell.

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It was made for the devil and his angels. So

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he wants people to come to heaven with him. He's

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their father. He's our father. And he has compassion.

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That's the point. That's the title of this. We're

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going to go on and talk some more about his compassion.

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But he says, I'm going to have compassion on

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whoever I want to. And one of my dear, dear friends

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many years ago, Darlene Brown, she said, honey,

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God do what he want to do. And that says it so

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well. Yeah, I see it from time to time. Honey,

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God, do what he want to do. And really, that

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is the bottom line. His ways are so much higher

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than our ways. His thoughts are so much higher

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than our thoughts. We don't get it most of the

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time. We don't get what it is that he's trying

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to say. We don't get what it is that he's trying

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to do. So many things happen. Especially deaths

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and tragic accidents and diseases and things.

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We don't understand what's going on. And there

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are some answers that we understand to a degree

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and some things we just don't get. But God do

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what he want to do. And so I just embrace that.

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When I don't understand, many times, many, many,

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many times, especially in times when I've got

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mental turmoil, and it happens from time to time.

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Brain chatter. Brain chatter. All I can think

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of to say is, Father, I don't understand, but

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I trust you. Yeah. That seems to settle things

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down for me quite a lot. I don't understand,

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but I trust you. So there's lots of things we

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don't understand. Just learn to trust because

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you can't go wrong. You can't go wrong. He is

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faithful, faithful, faithful. You can trust him.

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Yes. Absolutely trust him. So what does Psalm

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103, 8 through 14 say? The Lord is merciful and

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gracious. slow to anger and abounding in steadfast

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love. He will not always chide, nor will he keep

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his anger forever. He does not deal with us according

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to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities.

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For as high as the heavens are above the earth,

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so great is his steadfast love toward those who

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fear him. Fear God, you know. As far as the east

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is from the west, So far does he remove our transgressions

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from us. Hallelujah. As a father shows compassion

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to his children, so the Lord shows compassion

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on those who fear him. For he knows our frame.

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He remembers that we are dust. Yep. Absolutely.

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I feel like dust sometimes. Yes. I learned that

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scripture a long time ago in the King James,

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and it says, As a father pitieth his children.

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So the Lord pitieth them that fear him, for he

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knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are

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dust. That's a whole lot of eths. But the idea

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is that it's kind of like pity. You know, when

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a little child is tired and it's getting to bedtime

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and they can't keep it together anymore and they

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start to cry. You know, you can have compassion

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because you know they're tired. You're not going

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to spank them for crying. You're just going to

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pick them up and say, they're, they're, they're.

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Okay. And you're going to put them to bed because

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that's what they need. And so that's how our

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father is with us. He knows, he knows what we're

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going through stuff. He understands. He understands.

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He understands because he knows he made us. So

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he knows that we're just a lump of clay. We're

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dust. And dust can't always keep it together.

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So, you know, this is where he's compassionate.

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He understands. He understands what you've been

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through. He's not sitting up there unaware of

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what you're going through. He is right next to

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you constantly, constantly. He's as close to

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you. As the oxygen in the air you breathe. So

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just breathe. When you need him, just pause and

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breathe and recognize that he is there and he's

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compassionate. He cares about what's going on

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in your life. He's your father and he really

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is really tuned in and he knows how to fix it

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and he knows how to comfort you. In the trauma,

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he knows how to comfort you in the pain. So let

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him. Let him comfort you. Just receive him. Receive

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what it is that he has to offer to help you through

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this, because that's the whole point. He wants

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you to go through it. It's not that he's excited

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about what you're going through. But he wants

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you to go through it and get to the other side.

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And there will be amazing rewards for the fact

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that you have gone through it, especially if

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you're reaching out to him while you're in the

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process. You have this opportunity to go through

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this test, go through this pain, go through this

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trauma, whatever it is, go through this betrayal.

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Lots of times it's betrayal, and it so hurts

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you. Oh, my, it hurts. But he wants to give you

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the grace to forgive. And he wants to help you

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go on to victory, to be an overcomer. Because

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if you don't have anything to overcome, you'll

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never be an overcomer. Bottom line. Okay. So

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I love Psalm 102, 13. That's just a huge one

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to me. We'll just take a little quick bunny trail.

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You will arise and have pity on Zion. It is the

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time to favor her. The appointed time has come.

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That's right. And that word pity is the same

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word in the Hebrew that's also translated compassion.

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So I love Psalm 102 .13 because it's talking

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about the time. There's a set time that God reaches

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out and has mercy upon Israel. And we have seen

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it in the last 150 years, say, about that where

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where the ingathering of the outcasts of Israel

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has come, and they're still gathering. And this

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is a God thing, and people who don't get that,

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people who think that the church has replaced

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Israel, have completely missed it, completely

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missed it. They do not understand that we Gentiles

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and the church have been grafted into the root

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of Israel, but we do not replace Israel. And

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Jesus is still the king of the Jews. And Jesus

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said to the sheep and the goats, the parable

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of the sheep and the goats and the ones on the

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left hand and ones on the right, it has to do

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with how you treated his brethren. So the tribe

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of Judah is what we see as the Jews, mostly.

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You'll find other tribes that still know who

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they are, but most of them have lost their identity.

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But particularly the Jews, the tribe of Judah.

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and Jesus is the King of the Jews. It was said

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over him by the wise man at his birth, and it

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was said over him by Pilate, and it was written

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over his head as he died for us, that he's the

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King of the Jews. So don't ever forget how he

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relates to the Jewish people. He's their king,

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and he's coming back to be their king and the

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king over all the rest of us. So how we treat

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Jewish people is significant. It's very significant.

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Do we believe that everything that's done in

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the state of Israel is all... No, of course not.

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And, you know, you've got squabbling and you've

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got left wing and right wing and you've got secular

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and religious. And super religious. Yeah, and

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super religious. But the bottom line is he's

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appearing to people. He's showing himself for

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who he is. When we first started going to Israel.

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The Messianic community was very small, but we

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have watched it grow. Hundreds and thousands

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have come to faith in Jesus. Are they perfect?

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No. Are you perfect? No. Am I perfect? No. So,

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you know, let's set our preconceived ideas aside

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and just let God be God and relate to Him and

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help Him to relate to our brothers and sisters

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in Him because He's our... And he's a compassionate

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father. He's had pity on Zion. He's had compassion

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on Zion. And the time for their ingathering has

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come. It's significant. That word, the appointed

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time, is moed. And it means, it literally means

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an appointment. literally means an appointment.

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So like the feasts are moedim, they're moed times,

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and they are appointments for us to meet with

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God. So this is a time of appointment because

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he's had compassion on his people, they've gone

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through enough, and it's time for... this anti

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-Semitism to stop. And we need to be praying

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into that. You need to be praying into, you know,

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whatever's going on in your sphere of influence.

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If there's anybody that's anti -Semitic, it's

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time for them to repent. Help them to repent.

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Hallelujah. Think of God as a parent, okay? A

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parent, a father, father and mother. Okay, a

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good parent is going to make allowances when

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they know that their child is like hungry, right?

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Children get, I already mentioned being tired,

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but children also get cranky when they're hungry

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and sometimes adults too, too. So making allowances

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when having compassion. If somebody is misbehaving

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and it's before dinner, give them something to

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eat. chew on. My mother used to say, I'd come

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into the kitchen, she's cooking dinner. And I'd

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say, mom, I'm hungry. And she would say, get

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a glass of milk. And that would satisfy me until

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supper. So it was a compassionate thing. She

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had an answer for me that would keep me from

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being cranky and satisfy me and give me the patience

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to endure. until dinner was ready. But this idea

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of compassion, the word compassion in the Hebrew,

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in most cases, is racham, and it's related to

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the same root where we get the word in Hebrew

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for womb. And so it's a deep, loving compassion

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that like a mother has. And God said that about

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himself on Mount Sinai when he was talking with

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Moses, showing himself to Moses when Moses says,

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show me your glory. And we've talked about this

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before. But the first thing that he says about

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himself is this word, Raham, that he's talking

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about his compassion. He's talking about this

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love and care. And it's not just a feeling. It

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also has to do with how you handle a child, how

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you handle a baby, right? So, you know, you're

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going to touch the baby. The baby needs to be

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touched. If you're just leaving the baby in the

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car carrier or in, you know, the swing or whatever,

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and you never touch the baby, they're not going

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to get the full... development that they need.

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They need to be touched. They need to be handled.

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They need to be patted. They need to be stroked.

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They, you know, that little stroke when you're

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touching the face. I get that, too. Yes, you

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do. And, you know, that little touch that kind

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of makes them smile. It's not just only. a feeling

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that a parent has. It's a feeling that moves

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into a touch. It moves into an action. So that's

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how our father is. He is compassionate, and he's

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not just going to feel for you. He's going to

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do something about it. Amen? And my dad was an

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amazing man when it comes to babies. He loved

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babies. He always wanted to hold babies. And

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if somebody was in church and the baby's crying,

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he would say, can I hold the baby? And he would

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quiet that baby. He had a gift for quieting children.

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And he would hold the baby up over his shoulder

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and he'd pat the baby. And he'd say, there, there,

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there, there, there, there. And if he was trying

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to put the child to sleep. He tells this about

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me all the time. He'd say so, he'd walk back

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and forth, walk on the floor, patting, patting,

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patting. So tired and so sleepy and so cranky

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and so tired. And, you know, the droning of his

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voice would help to put you to sleep. And, you

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know, he just had that gift. And our Father,

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our Heavenly Father, is every bit as good, and

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I'm sure he's better. He knows how to soothe

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us when we're going through something. When I

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hear about somebody who has lost a loved one,

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I always write to them and say, may you feel

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the embrace of our Father's everlasting arms.

00:27:52.490 --> 00:27:56.210
around you, holding you, holding you up and helping

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you through this, comforting you. You know, it's

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his touch. It's not just like a breeze of the

00:28:03.910 --> 00:28:08.450
Holy Spirit or the weight of his presence. It's

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his touch, his touch that touches our hearts,

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that helps us, that comforts us. Because he's

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compassionate. Amen? So, would you read Psalm

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78, 38, please? But the Lord was gracious to

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them, had compassion on them, and regarded them

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because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac,

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and Jacob, and would not yet destroy them or

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cast them from his presence. No, he was tempted

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to. Yeah, I'm sure he was. That was 2 Kings 13,

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23. Would you read Psalm 78, 38 in the New King

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James? But he, being full of compassion, forgave

00:28:51.349 --> 00:28:55.049
their iniquity and did not destroy them. Yes,

00:28:55.069 --> 00:28:58.109
many a time he turned his anger away and did

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not stir up all his wrath. Yes, amen. I can't

00:29:03.250 --> 00:29:05.730
think of God getting mad in Galatia with shake.

00:29:07.609 --> 00:29:12.569
Universes would rattle. And they will, yet. But

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I like using the Young's literal translation.

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because it's word for word, a literal translation.

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It's not easy to read. The word order is kind

00:29:24.670 --> 00:29:27.190
of weird because it's Hebrew word order instead

00:29:27.190 --> 00:29:30.670
of English. But sometimes you get a little bit

00:29:30.670 --> 00:29:33.289
more meaning out of it. So I put this one in

00:29:33.289 --> 00:29:36.230
the notes. Phil, could you read that one? And

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he, the merciful one, pardoneth iniquity, and

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destroyeth not, and hath often turned back his

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anger. And waketh not up all his jury. So where

00:29:48.420 --> 00:29:50.839
it says in the New King James, he being full

00:29:50.839 --> 00:29:54.539
of compassion, it says he the merciful one. He

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is the merciful one. He is full of compassion.

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And he's merciful. And he pardons iniquity. You

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know, there's such a need for us to repent of

00:30:08.940 --> 00:30:12.119
our iniquity. And this is something we need to

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pray into as we contend for the outpouring, that

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God will move on people's hearts to bring them

00:30:19.099 --> 00:30:23.299
conviction and repentance, because that's what's

00:30:23.299 --> 00:30:27.059
going to loose the whole outpouring. When people

00:30:27.059 --> 00:30:32.680
realize, oh, I didn't know you were real. I'm

00:30:32.680 --> 00:30:36.470
sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. And, you know, so

00:30:36.470 --> 00:30:39.390
many people have been told that God doesn't exist

00:30:39.390 --> 00:30:42.930
or that he's far away and he doesn't care. He

00:30:42.930 --> 00:30:47.009
started it and then he left it up to us. Spirit

00:30:47.009 --> 00:30:51.970
leaves the body. Yeah. Realize. Yes. They understand

00:30:51.970 --> 00:30:56.509
the truth in that moment. Very true. Very true.

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Isaiah 14 .1. For the Lord will have mercy on

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Jacob. and will still choose Israel and settle

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them in their own land. The strangers will be

00:31:08.900 --> 00:31:12.880
joined to them, and they will cling to the house

00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:17.240
of Jacob. That's grafted in. You know, I was

00:31:17.240 --> 00:31:21.140
praying just days before I began writing these

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notes, and I said, Lord, I know that you must

00:31:25.940 --> 00:31:30.839
surely have something in the Hebrew Scriptures,

00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:35.559
in the Old Testament, That correlates with Romans

00:31:35.559 --> 00:31:39.599
11. And I'm just questioning him. Where is that?

00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:42.220
I want to know where it is. And he led me to

00:31:42.220 --> 00:31:44.720
this scripture. The strangers will be joined

00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:46.779
with them and they will cling to the house of

00:31:46.779 --> 00:31:51.640
Jacob. So the house of Jacob is the root and

00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:55.700
the grafting in is the clinging. We're clinging

00:31:55.700 --> 00:32:00.299
to him because he is compassionate, and he doesn't

00:32:00.299 --> 00:32:04.680
want anybody of any of the nations to go to hell.

00:32:04.859 --> 00:32:08.559
He wants what he established in the house of

00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:12.460
Jacob to be available to all nations. That's

00:32:12.460 --> 00:32:15.079
what he promised to Abraham. We talked about

00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:18.019
it in the last episode, about how God called

00:32:18.019 --> 00:32:21.230
Abraham. He called him Abraham, the father of

00:32:21.230 --> 00:32:24.650
a multitude, because you are going to be the

00:32:24.650 --> 00:32:28.069
father of many nations. And it's this many nations

00:32:28.069 --> 00:32:33.829
thing that grafts us in. Amen? So this word stranger

00:32:33.829 --> 00:32:35.829
here, it says the strangers will be joined with

00:32:35.829 --> 00:32:38.589
them. It just means foreigners. So it's definitely,

00:32:38.809 --> 00:32:42.569
it's not the same as the word goyim, but it's

00:32:42.569 --> 00:32:47.369
definitely meaning people of different. cultures,

00:32:47.450 --> 00:32:51.150
different people groups. So that's how we're

00:32:51.150 --> 00:32:56.089
grafted in, into the house of Jacob. So I love

00:32:56.089 --> 00:32:59.650
Isaiah 49, 15. Would you read that, please? Can

00:32:59.650 --> 00:33:02.690
a woman forget her nursing child and have not

00:33:02.690 --> 00:33:05.849
compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they

00:33:05.849 --> 00:33:10.410
may forget, yet I will not forget you. It is.

00:33:11.410 --> 00:33:15.160
And honestly, as a mother, If you get separated

00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:16.980
from your child, if you're a nursing mother,

00:33:17.140 --> 00:33:20.279
if you get separated from your child for long

00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:24.480
enough, you will not forget that baby. Because

00:33:24.480 --> 00:33:29.440
your body is still producing what that child

00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:32.099
needs for sustenance, and it can become painful.

00:33:33.160 --> 00:33:36.779
But God is saying, even if they forget, I'm not

00:33:36.779 --> 00:33:42.740
going to forget. I will never forget you. Don't

00:33:42.740 --> 00:33:45.500
ever think that God has forgotten you. Don't

00:33:45.500 --> 00:33:48.460
listen to that lie. It's a lie. If you're hearing

00:33:48.460 --> 00:33:51.359
that in your soul, if you're hearing that in

00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:55.599
your head, it's a lie. Your Heavenly Father has

00:33:55.599 --> 00:34:00.680
never forgotten you. He is waiting, waiting,

00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:06.500
waiting for you to turn to Him and say, Oh, Abba,

00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:11.599
Abba, help me. I need you. Abba, you know, Father.

00:34:12.039 --> 00:34:15.380
Father, I need you. Father, help me. Because,

00:34:15.500 --> 00:34:19.380
you know, especially if you have had a father

00:34:19.380 --> 00:34:22.320
problem in your life, if you had an absentee

00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:25.219
father or an abusive father or even a passive

00:34:25.219 --> 00:34:27.719
father that just didn't stand up for you, our

00:34:27.719 --> 00:34:32.059
father is not that. I remember a marvelous psalm

00:34:32.059 --> 00:34:37.119
about broken men and how broken men break their

00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:41.559
children and who grow up to be broken men. who

00:34:41.559 --> 00:34:44.199
will break their children. And it's just this

00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:48.619
constant repetition cycle that goes generation

00:34:48.619 --> 00:34:51.440
after generation after generation. I'm not like

00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:54.260
your father. And that's what he says. I'm not

00:34:54.260 --> 00:34:58.340
like your father. I'm not like that. I will not

00:34:58.340 --> 00:35:02.679
do to you what your earthly father did. He is

00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:07.320
our loving, compassionate father. Our Father.

00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:10.119
And He's doing the same thing for everybody.

00:35:10.179 --> 00:35:13.920
And as you experience more and more of His compassion,

00:35:14.260 --> 00:35:17.820
He's going to use you to serve that compassion

00:35:17.820 --> 00:35:20.699
to others. That's one of the things that happens

00:35:20.699 --> 00:35:23.480
in heaven is, you know, people greet one another

00:35:23.480 --> 00:35:27.920
thought to thought, how can I serve you? And,

00:35:27.980 --> 00:35:29.800
you know, the other person responds and says,

00:35:29.900 --> 00:35:32.519
how can I serve you? And, you know, if there's

00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:34.300
some way that you can serve each other, you do.

00:35:34.860 --> 00:35:38.159
Because that's how heaven is. We are all about

00:35:38.159 --> 00:35:42.380
serving. And that's how God designed us originally,

00:35:42.679 --> 00:35:46.079
just like in heaven. He designed it to be that

00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:49.000
way on earth. So the more we understand that

00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:51.059
principle, the more we can serve one another,

00:35:51.219 --> 00:35:54.420
we can serve what God has already worked in us

00:35:54.420 --> 00:35:57.699
and help people come into freedom, come into

00:35:57.699 --> 00:36:00.659
deliverance, come into salvation, come into...

00:36:01.150 --> 00:36:03.769
getting free from stuff that has been a problem,

00:36:03.829 --> 00:36:06.909
to disciple people, bring them into maturity

00:36:06.909 --> 00:36:10.690
so that they can help others to come in. And

00:36:10.690 --> 00:36:13.909
I love the testimonies that came out of the Welsh

00:36:13.909 --> 00:36:16.889
revival and some of the other early revivals

00:36:16.889 --> 00:36:21.230
of the 20th century, where particularly down

00:36:21.230 --> 00:36:25.369
in the coal mines, somebody maybe got saved last

00:36:25.369 --> 00:36:28.610
night in the church, and they've come to work.

00:36:29.260 --> 00:36:32.519
And somebody down in the coal mine is all, all

00:36:32.519 --> 00:36:36.119
of a sudden they come under conviction and they're

00:36:36.119 --> 00:36:38.659
weeping and they're crying and they're moaning.

00:36:38.780 --> 00:36:42.480
Oh, oh, what a sinner I am. Oh, God have mercy.

00:36:42.679 --> 00:36:45.559
Oh, oh. And the person who just got saved last

00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:49.000
night comes to help them accept Jesus as their

00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:52.480
savior and helps them be birthed into the kingdom.

00:36:52.900 --> 00:36:56.019
We don't have to wait until. We've been to Bible

00:36:56.019 --> 00:36:58.559
school before we can help other people get saved,

00:36:58.719 --> 00:37:03.139
you know. Give them what you have. Give them

00:37:03.139 --> 00:37:06.699
what God has worked in you. Give them your testimony.

00:37:07.019 --> 00:37:12.280
Your testimony carries a weight because people

00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:15.800
just need to hear what God has done for you.

00:37:16.099 --> 00:37:21.510
So don't backpedal. Don't hesitate. to share

00:37:21.510 --> 00:37:23.849
with people what God has done in your life. Sometimes

00:37:23.849 --> 00:37:28.510
we feel like kind of a nudge, like maybe I should

00:37:28.510 --> 00:37:30.889
say something, maybe I should share something.

00:37:31.269 --> 00:37:36.289
And the natural man, the fleshly person, begins

00:37:36.289 --> 00:37:41.409
to say, oh no, I'm scared or I'm timid. And that

00:37:41.409 --> 00:37:43.769
scripture, God has not given us a spirit of fear,

00:37:43.889 --> 00:37:46.409
but of power and love and a sound mind. In the

00:37:46.409 --> 00:37:49.789
Greek, that word fear is really timidity. Oh,

00:37:49.789 --> 00:37:54.550
okay. So God hasn't given us timidity. That's

00:37:54.550 --> 00:37:57.750
not from God. He needs to be bold. Yes, especially

00:37:57.750 --> 00:38:01.469
with the power of his Holy Spirit. That's what

00:38:01.469 --> 00:38:04.150
the people in the book of Acts were praying for,

00:38:04.210 --> 00:38:08.110
boldness. And Jesus said that you shall receive

00:38:08.110 --> 00:38:11.309
power from on high and be my witnesses. That's

00:38:11.309 --> 00:38:14.710
what... The power is four, is to be witnesses.

00:38:15.090 --> 00:38:18.929
So as we gather our courage, and maybe you only

00:38:18.929 --> 00:38:22.010
just have a little bitty bit of courage, share.

00:38:22.550 --> 00:38:26.050
Once you start, once you start, it becomes easier

00:38:26.050 --> 00:38:29.030
and easier. Yeah, I remember Tabby, one of our

00:38:29.030 --> 00:38:32.110
youth, when she first started coming to our youth

00:38:32.110 --> 00:38:36.030
retreats, she was just so shy and all that. And

00:38:36.030 --> 00:38:39.030
when she came up to give a testimony or something,

00:38:39.070 --> 00:38:41.559
she... She couldn't look at the crowd. She turned

00:38:41.559 --> 00:38:44.659
around and spoke it because she didn't want to

00:38:44.659 --> 00:38:47.099
look at the people. But now she's just getting

00:38:47.099 --> 00:38:49.840
bold as a lion. Absolutely. Because she's practicing.

00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:53.159
And the only way to get bolder is to practice.

00:38:53.420 --> 00:38:56.900
It's true. And just do it more and more. So what

00:38:56.900 --> 00:39:00.739
if you get rejected? It's just like Jesus was

00:39:00.739 --> 00:39:03.550
rejected by the disciples. You know, they didn't

00:39:03.550 --> 00:39:06.489
stone you like Apostle Paul. Yeah. You know,

00:39:06.489 --> 00:39:08.889
and the more and more you do that, you know,

00:39:08.889 --> 00:39:10.750
the more bold and the more chutzpah you start

00:39:10.750 --> 00:39:13.349
getting in yourself. You know, it's just like

00:39:13.349 --> 00:39:17.090
start a conversation, you know, talking and say,

00:39:17.130 --> 00:39:20.210
hey, do you know Jesus? Right. You know, or do

00:39:20.210 --> 00:39:23.789
you know Jesus loves you? Mm -hmm. And just kind

00:39:23.789 --> 00:39:25.929
of switch it over and now you're talking to him.

00:39:25.949 --> 00:39:28.409
It's not like walking up to somebody and says,

00:39:28.530 --> 00:39:30.690
hey, do you know Jesus? Yeah. You know, kind

00:39:30.690 --> 00:39:33.619
of slap. You know, slap them a little easier,

00:39:33.820 --> 00:39:35.840
you know. Yeah, start the conversation with something

00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:39.440
else. Yeah, and I found that works. Yes, yes,

00:39:39.460 --> 00:39:42.159
it does. You're very good with that. I'm always

00:39:42.159 --> 00:39:43.860
impressed when you start those conversations.

00:39:44.300 --> 00:39:46.400
It's hard for me to start a conversation, but

00:39:46.400 --> 00:39:48.739
I'm getting better. Yeah, no neck of the woods

00:39:48.739 --> 00:39:51.659
at Walmart. Did the Razorbacks win last week

00:39:51.659 --> 00:39:54.420
or something like that? You know, there's always

00:39:54.420 --> 00:39:56.539
something you can start a conversation with.

00:39:56.659 --> 00:40:01.000
Yes. I love Isaiah 5410. Would you read that

00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:04.000
one, please? For the mountains shall depart and

00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:07.159
the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not

00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:10.579
depart from you, nor shall my covenant of peace

00:40:10.579 --> 00:40:14.780
be removed, says the Lord, who has mercy on you.

00:40:14.980 --> 00:40:19.760
He has mercy and compassion on you. And, you

00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:22.239
know, the mountains and the hills are going to

00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:24.480
go away before his compassion goes away. Yeah.

00:40:24.780 --> 00:40:29.559
That's pretty strong. It's pretty strong. Jeremiah

00:40:29.559 --> 00:40:34.719
42, 12. And I will show you mercy, that ye may

00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:37.579
have mercy on you and cause you to return to

00:40:37.579 --> 00:40:41.519
your own land. See, that's another. We have to

00:40:41.519 --> 00:40:43.820
recognize that Israel came back to their land

00:40:43.820 --> 00:40:47.019
because of his mercy and compassion. It's because

00:40:47.019 --> 00:40:50.239
he loves them. It's because he has a covenant

00:40:50.239 --> 00:40:53.519
with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and he promised.

00:40:54.440 --> 00:40:56.639
promised that he was going to give that land

00:40:56.639 --> 00:41:00.800
to those descendants of theirs. And, you know,

00:41:00.820 --> 00:41:04.480
it's just mind -boggling to me that people don't

00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:08.880
get it that the very existence of the state of

00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:13.139
Israel right now is nothing but a miracle. If

00:41:13.139 --> 00:41:15.219
you follow the history of the modern state of

00:41:15.219 --> 00:41:18.219
Israel, it's miracle after miracle after miracle.

00:41:18.400 --> 00:41:22.579
You can see the intervention of God's hand. over

00:41:22.579 --> 00:41:27.599
and over and over. This little, little tiny piece

00:41:27.599 --> 00:41:32.179
of real estate about the size of New Jersey with

00:41:32.179 --> 00:41:35.239
a handful of people in it that were mostly immigrants

00:41:35.239 --> 00:41:39.260
coming from World War II, having been in concentration

00:41:39.260 --> 00:41:43.000
camps and things like that. Here they are, and

00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:46.260
when they declare their statehood, you've got

00:41:46.260 --> 00:41:50.420
all of these thousands and thousands and hundreds

00:41:50.420 --> 00:41:55.239
of thousands of soldiers that are ready to attack

00:41:55.239 --> 00:41:57.760
them. And they attack them all the way around

00:41:57.760 --> 00:42:03.460
from Syria and from Iraq and from Jordan and

00:42:03.460 --> 00:42:07.639
from Egypt and from, I think, Libya. And all

00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:09.760
of these different nations arrayed themselves

00:42:09.760 --> 00:42:13.480
against this little ragtag bunch of people. And

00:42:13.480 --> 00:42:16.420
if you look at a map, here's little Israel, this

00:42:16.420 --> 00:42:20.170
little sliver, and all around it are... The land

00:42:20.170 --> 00:42:23.670
mass looks like 500 to 1, you know? Oh, at least.

00:42:23.789 --> 00:42:26.550
You know. At least. And they had hardly any arms.

00:42:27.010 --> 00:42:30.110
How are they going to win this? It's an absolute

00:42:30.110 --> 00:42:35.110
miracle. And we've heard that they study Israel's

00:42:35.110 --> 00:42:38.050
battles, but they can't use them in their books

00:42:38.050 --> 00:42:40.389
because there's too much supernatural stuff that

00:42:40.389 --> 00:42:42.389
goes on that they cannot explain. Right, and

00:42:42.389 --> 00:42:45.150
the war colleges. The war colleges. Yeah, they'll

00:42:45.150 --> 00:42:48.789
study different wars. There's no explanation

00:42:48.789 --> 00:42:52.210
for Israel winning the wars that they've won

00:42:52.210 --> 00:42:55.070
because it's all divine intervention. Out of

00:42:55.070 --> 00:42:59.650
1 ,500 Syrian tanks against, I think it was just

00:42:59.650 --> 00:43:02.750
a couple hundred Israeli tanks. Yeah. And God

00:43:02.750 --> 00:43:06.469
gives them the wisdom and they all get taken

00:43:06.469 --> 00:43:09.269
out. Yeah. And when it came down to the very

00:43:09.269 --> 00:43:12.489
end of that one tank battle during the Yom Kippur

00:43:12.489 --> 00:43:15.469
War. I think there's four tanks. Yeah. Something

00:43:15.469 --> 00:43:18.789
like that. Yeah. Yeah. It's just miracle after

00:43:18.789 --> 00:43:21.750
miracle after miracle. So you know that it's

00:43:21.750 --> 00:43:26.110
the compassion of our father that is compassionate

00:43:26.110 --> 00:43:30.070
on his children, the children of Israel. And

00:43:30.070 --> 00:43:32.369
if you look out there on Amazon, you can find

00:43:32.369 --> 00:43:36.110
the book called Battle for Israel. Yes. By Lance

00:43:36.110 --> 00:43:39.670
Lambert. Lance Lambert. That's a detailed description

00:43:39.670 --> 00:43:44.489
of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which was a surprise

00:43:44.489 --> 00:43:48.489
attack. All the miracles that happened in that

00:43:48.489 --> 00:43:51.070
war, it's an astounding, because it's all documented

00:43:51.070 --> 00:43:53.969
with facts. Yes. And it's a real eye -opener.

00:43:53.969 --> 00:43:57.769
I highly recommend it to you. Amen. Amen. So

00:43:57.769 --> 00:44:01.469
let's move on to talk about our Father's compassion

00:44:01.469 --> 00:44:04.750
in the New Testament. We've been looking at all

00:44:04.750 --> 00:44:07.269
these Old Testament scriptures, Hebrew scriptures.

00:44:07.730 --> 00:44:12.010
So in the New Testament, the word for compassion.

00:44:12.670 --> 00:44:14.989
From the Blue Letter Bible, they have a part

00:44:14.989 --> 00:44:17.570
of it that explains the outline of biblical usage.

00:44:18.030 --> 00:44:21.989
And this one is very interesting, what the word

00:44:21.989 --> 00:44:26.150
compassion means. It says to be moved as to one's

00:44:26.150 --> 00:44:29.409
bowels. And we're not talking about a bowel movement.

00:44:29.550 --> 00:44:33.190
This is to be moved in compassion in your gut,

00:44:33.230 --> 00:44:36.510
okay? Pardon the use of the word. Some people

00:44:36.510 --> 00:44:39.889
object to that, but hence to be moved to compassion.

00:44:40.619 --> 00:44:42.860
have compassion for the bowels were thought to

00:44:42.860 --> 00:44:46.239
be the seat of love and pity. And then the Strong's

00:44:46.239 --> 00:44:49.900
definition, I'm not going to attempt to pronounce

00:44:49.900 --> 00:44:54.539
this Greek word. It's pretty long. And it says

00:44:54.539 --> 00:44:59.099
to have the bowels yearn, figuratively feel sympathy

00:44:59.099 --> 00:45:03.340
or to pity, to have or be moved with compassion.

00:45:03.699 --> 00:45:08.659
So it's a feeling in your... your innermost being,

00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:12.360
okay? You could call it your gut, but it's kind

00:45:12.360 --> 00:45:15.139
of like having a gut level feeling. Yeah, that's

00:45:15.139 --> 00:45:18.199
good. Right? So compassion is something that

00:45:18.199 --> 00:45:21.440
is deep inside of you that God gives you that

00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:25.320
you can be moved by this, okay? So here's a few

00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:29.340
examples of how Jesus showed compassion. Matthew

00:45:29.340 --> 00:45:33.619
9, 36. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion

00:45:33.619 --> 00:45:42.900
on them because they were So remember that Jesus

00:45:42.900 --> 00:45:47.159
is God in the flesh. He is our Father having

00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:50.880
come to earth in the flesh. Now he's still relating

00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:54.300
to God the Father to show us what it's like,

00:45:54.360 --> 00:45:57.539
but he is the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

00:45:58.940 --> 00:46:01.840
So he's having compassion on the crowds because

00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:04.079
they're like a sheep without a shepherd. And

00:46:04.079 --> 00:46:07.650
he's their shepherd. Remember Psalm 23, the Lord

00:46:07.650 --> 00:46:12.510
is my shepherd. Compassion. It's our Father has

00:46:12.510 --> 00:46:16.409
compassion. He is our shepherd. And then it goes

00:46:16.409 --> 00:46:18.809
on to say, you know, that Jesus said, I'm the

00:46:18.809 --> 00:46:24.070
good shepherd. So, Matthew 14, 14. When he went

00:46:24.070 --> 00:46:27.309
ashore, he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion

00:46:27.309 --> 00:46:30.349
on them, and healed their sick. Okay. So, he

00:46:30.349 --> 00:46:35.119
has compassion to bring healing. And if you need

00:46:35.119 --> 00:46:39.219
healing, he is absolutely compassionate towards

00:46:39.219 --> 00:46:43.079
you. So remember, he's all around you, just like

00:46:43.079 --> 00:46:46.320
the oxygen. Just breathe in his compassion. Breathe

00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:50.860
in his presence. Put your trust in him because

00:46:50.860 --> 00:46:53.739
he is all around you. If you've made him your

00:46:53.739 --> 00:46:58.380
savior, he's inside of you and you are in him.

00:46:58.860 --> 00:47:03.739
And so he has you sandwiched. inside of his amazing

00:47:03.739 --> 00:47:08.800
power to heal. And Jesus himself is still bearing

00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:13.760
the scars of what he bore. So he's still walking

00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:16.420
around with those stripes by which you're healed.

00:47:16.579 --> 00:47:20.199
So if he is inside of you and outside of you,

00:47:20.300 --> 00:47:24.519
it's kind of like the power to heal is arcing

00:47:24.519 --> 00:47:28.489
across you. from one power source to the other.

00:47:28.570 --> 00:47:32.110
It's arcing across you to bring healing into

00:47:32.110 --> 00:47:35.690
your body. So just receive it right now. Receive

00:47:35.690 --> 00:47:38.570
that healing because he has compassion on you.

00:47:38.690 --> 00:47:42.769
Amen? And I remember a minister that was talking

00:47:42.769 --> 00:47:48.090
about how he was asked to pray for someone. And

00:47:48.090 --> 00:47:52.369
he said he felt the compassion of the Lord come

00:47:52.369 --> 00:47:55.829
up inside of him to pray. For whatever this,

00:47:55.989 --> 00:47:58.429
I mean, it was a serious situation. I don't remember

00:47:58.429 --> 00:48:01.690
what the healing need was, but it was very serious.

00:48:02.010 --> 00:48:05.610
And he felt the compassion of the Lord, and he

00:48:05.610 --> 00:48:08.489
knew that because that compassion was there,

00:48:08.570 --> 00:48:11.889
this person was going to be healed. So as you're

00:48:11.889 --> 00:48:14.909
praying for people, ask the Lord to give you

00:48:14.909 --> 00:48:18.809
his compassion that will bring that healing power

00:48:18.809 --> 00:48:22.710
into the person who needs that healing. So Matthew

00:48:22.710 --> 00:48:26.949
15, 32. What does that say? Then Jesus called

00:48:26.949 --> 00:48:30.090
his disciples to him and said, I have compassion

00:48:30.090 --> 00:48:32.610
on the crowd because they have been with me now

00:48:32.610 --> 00:48:36.190
three days and have nothing to eat. I am unwilling

00:48:36.190 --> 00:48:38.829
to send them away hungry unless they faint in

00:48:38.829 --> 00:48:43.369
the way. Amen. Amen. So he has compassion even

00:48:43.369 --> 00:48:49.590
when we're hungry. Yes. He knows these people

00:48:49.590 --> 00:48:54.820
have stuck with him fasting for three days. And

00:48:54.820 --> 00:48:58.579
he doesn't want them to stumble and be faint

00:48:58.579 --> 00:49:01.739
when they're heading back to their home. Yeah,

00:49:01.800 --> 00:49:06.139
there's no fast food place anywhere. No. No.

00:49:06.219 --> 00:49:10.599
Not on that way. Not on that road. So that's

00:49:10.599 --> 00:49:13.900
when he multiplies the loaves and the fishes

00:49:13.900 --> 00:49:18.360
for them. He makes a small thing into enough

00:49:18.360 --> 00:49:23.990
to feed everyone because of his compassion. His

00:49:23.990 --> 00:49:28.670
compassion enabled him to do that miracle. Think

00:49:28.670 --> 00:49:31.610
about the importance of compassion. Our Father

00:49:31.610 --> 00:49:35.010
has compassion to do miracles. So if you need

00:49:35.010 --> 00:49:37.489
a miracle, whatever kind of miracle, you need

00:49:37.489 --> 00:49:41.210
a multiplication of finances. I can't tell you

00:49:41.210 --> 00:49:45.650
how many people I have heard testimonies of that

00:49:45.650 --> 00:49:48.869
they counted their money and it was one amount.

00:49:49.429 --> 00:49:51.869
And then they counted it again and it was more.

00:49:52.269 --> 00:49:54.610
And then they counted it again, and it was more.

00:49:54.730 --> 00:49:57.530
And they counted it again, and it was more, until

00:49:57.530 --> 00:50:01.730
they got what they needed to meet the need. Our

00:50:01.730 --> 00:50:05.610
Father has compassion on all these things, whether

00:50:05.610 --> 00:50:08.250
they're great or whether they're small. He has

00:50:08.250 --> 00:50:10.769
compassion on the littlest things and on the

00:50:10.769 --> 00:50:13.670
biggest things. He is compassionate, and He's

00:50:13.670 --> 00:50:16.690
our Father, and He's going to see to our needs.

00:50:16.909 --> 00:50:20.730
You know, if you had a father that was a penny

00:50:20.730 --> 00:50:24.750
pincher, and he wasn't going to meet your needs

00:50:24.750 --> 00:50:28.170
in a good way, it makes it a little more difficult

00:50:28.170 --> 00:50:31.250
for you to think that God is going to meet your

00:50:31.250 --> 00:50:35.869
needs. But he's not like your father. He's not

00:50:35.869 --> 00:50:40.150
like your father. He is compassionate, and he

00:50:40.150 --> 00:50:43.130
is a good father and a good provider. Remember,

00:50:43.190 --> 00:50:47.789
Yehovah Yireh, Jehovah Jireh. He's the God who...

00:50:48.219 --> 00:50:51.960
sees forward to the need and then sees to it.

00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:55.679
That's what the word means. Yirei has to do with

00:50:55.679 --> 00:50:59.139
seeing. When we think of provider, we think of

00:50:59.139 --> 00:51:05.079
someone who provides. But provision is pro, like

00:51:05.079 --> 00:51:09.960
ahead, vision. He sees ahead. And he sees ahead

00:51:09.960 --> 00:51:11.960
to what you need. And he's already got a plan.

00:51:12.159 --> 00:51:15.579
He's already got the plans there, ready, waiting

00:51:15.579 --> 00:51:19.280
to take care of the need. So that's who he is

00:51:19.280 --> 00:51:21.880
and that's what he does because he has compassion.

00:51:22.039 --> 00:51:25.559
He's our compassionate father, our compassionate

00:51:25.559 --> 00:51:28.139
father. And he'll do for you what he'll do for

00:51:28.139 --> 00:51:31.000
me. He'll do for me what he'll do for you. He'll

00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:33.920
do for everybody, even if we don't trust him.

00:51:34.119 --> 00:51:37.380
He's still providing, right? His word says that

00:51:37.380 --> 00:51:39.940
he sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

00:51:40.840 --> 00:51:43.989
So he's everybody's father. Even if they don't

00:51:43.989 --> 00:51:46.510
even know he exists, he's still their father.

00:51:46.650 --> 00:51:49.409
He was the one who provided the life for them,

00:51:49.510 --> 00:51:52.869
the lifelight. And so he's their father. And

00:51:52.869 --> 00:51:55.409
it's important for us to participate with him

00:51:55.409 --> 00:51:58.289
in the family business of bringing everybody

00:51:58.289 --> 00:52:03.590
home to heaven. But even before that, to bring

00:52:03.590 --> 00:52:06.829
them into the fullness of their purpose while

00:52:06.829 --> 00:52:14.550
on earth. Let's look at Luke 7, 11 -17. Soon

00:52:14.550 --> 00:52:17.309
afterward he went to a town called Nain, and

00:52:17.309 --> 00:52:19.690
his disciples and a great crowd went with him.

00:52:20.429 --> 00:52:23.090
As they drew near to the gate of the town, behold,

00:52:23.389 --> 00:52:26.670
a man who had died was being carried out, the

00:52:26.670 --> 00:52:28.670
only son of his mother, and she was a widow.

00:52:29.230 --> 00:52:32.130
And a considerable crowd from the town was with

00:52:32.130 --> 00:52:35.710
her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion

00:52:35.710 --> 00:52:39.860
on her and said to her, Do not weep. And he came

00:52:39.860 --> 00:52:42.940
up and touched the beer, and the bearer stood

00:52:42.940 --> 00:52:46.579
still, and he said, Young man, I say to you,

00:52:46.619 --> 00:52:50.500
arise. And the dead man sat up and began to speak,

00:52:50.679 --> 00:52:54.619
and Jesus gave him to his mother. Fear seized

00:52:54.619 --> 00:52:57.880
all of them, and they glorified God, saying,

00:52:57.980 --> 00:53:01.880
A great prophet has arisen among us, and God

00:53:01.880 --> 00:53:05.300
has visited his people. And this report about

00:53:05.300 --> 00:53:08.519
him spread to the whole of Judea and all the

00:53:08.519 --> 00:53:11.820
surrounding country. Oh, wow. Can you picture

00:53:11.820 --> 00:53:16.199
that happening? Yeah, that was amazing. Now,

00:53:16.260 --> 00:53:19.059
there's a little bit of a backstory that most

00:53:19.059 --> 00:53:22.840
folks don't learn, don't know. And I heard it

00:53:22.840 --> 00:53:25.780
when we were in Israel one time on a tour. And

00:53:25.780 --> 00:53:29.599
we were looking at this little hill. It's called

00:53:29.599 --> 00:53:34.440
the Hill of Moray. And Nain is on one side and

00:53:34.440 --> 00:53:37.739
Shunem is on the other side of this hill. So

00:53:37.739 --> 00:53:41.559
remember the Shunemite woman? Remember, Elisha

00:53:41.559 --> 00:53:44.440
was going past and she reached out and said,

00:53:44.940 --> 00:53:48.260
Come on and have dinner with us. And she saw

00:53:48.260 --> 00:53:51.300
that he went past that way a lot. And so she

00:53:51.300 --> 00:53:53.940
decided that she's going to make a little room

00:53:53.940 --> 00:53:57.820
on top of her house so that he will have a place

00:53:57.820 --> 00:53:59.920
to stay when he's coming past. That's where you

00:53:59.920 --> 00:54:02.360
get the term we use, the prophet's chamber. The

00:54:02.360 --> 00:54:06.539
prophet's chamber, precisely. So then he asks

00:54:06.539 --> 00:54:10.119
his servant, Gehazi, what can we do for this

00:54:10.119 --> 00:54:13.769
woman? She's done so much for us. And so he says

00:54:13.769 --> 00:54:17.250
she doesn't have any children. So Elisha prays

00:54:17.250 --> 00:54:19.710
for her. She gets pregnant. She has a child.

00:54:20.050 --> 00:54:22.949
And as the child grows up, he's out in the fields

00:54:22.949 --> 00:54:26.690
with his father. And he has a heat stroke, apparently.

00:54:26.809 --> 00:54:30.929
And he comes back from the field and he dies

00:54:30.929 --> 00:54:36.130
in his mother's arms. And so she knows that she's...

00:54:36.400 --> 00:54:38.860
going to go to the prophet, right? She's going

00:54:38.860 --> 00:54:41.420
to go to Elisha. So she puts him on Elisha's

00:54:41.420 --> 00:54:45.320
bed. That's a smart woman. She puts him on Elisha's

00:54:45.320 --> 00:54:50.179
bed where Elisha has laid. And she gets the donkey

00:54:50.179 --> 00:54:53.480
and she rides towards where she thinks the prophet's

00:54:53.480 --> 00:54:56.860
going to be. And she tells her husband, it's

00:54:56.860 --> 00:54:59.139
going to be okay. He doesn't even know that the

00:54:59.139 --> 00:55:02.900
boy has died. But she speaks words of faith.

00:55:03.039 --> 00:55:06.300
And she says, it's going to be okay. And she

00:55:06.300 --> 00:55:10.579
goes and she finds the prophet and she tells

00:55:10.579 --> 00:55:14.360
him what's gone on. And Elisha gives his staff

00:55:14.360 --> 00:55:17.000
to Gehazi and says, run on ahead of me and put

00:55:17.000 --> 00:55:19.920
it on him. And when Elisha gets there, he stretches

00:55:19.920 --> 00:55:23.800
himself over the child several times and prays.

00:55:24.039 --> 00:55:27.940
And he comes back to life. Yeah. You know, that's

00:55:27.940 --> 00:55:30.380
amazing because you remember when the dead man

00:55:30.380 --> 00:55:33.300
was thrown into Elisha's grave. Yes. You know,

00:55:33.300 --> 00:55:37.320
his bones. He resurrected. Exactly. So, you know,

00:55:37.340 --> 00:55:39.780
Elisha had some resurrection power in him. Yeah.

00:55:39.900 --> 00:55:43.780
Yeah. In his bones. Exactly. So what happened

00:55:43.780 --> 00:55:48.219
in that time, in Shunem, Shunem, by the time

00:55:48.219 --> 00:55:52.739
Jesus came, Shunem wasn't much of a town or anything,

00:55:52.860 --> 00:55:57.320
but everybody remembered the story. So when Jesus

00:55:57.320 --> 00:56:01.559
heals this young man, here's the words that are

00:56:01.559 --> 00:56:05.480
being spoken that were recorded. By Luke, a great

00:56:05.480 --> 00:56:08.840
prophet has arisen among us. They're remembering

00:56:08.840 --> 00:56:11.619
Elisha. Because it was just a mile and a half

00:56:11.619 --> 00:56:14.159
or two miles away on the other side of the hill

00:56:14.159 --> 00:56:18.340
where this happened. And they're also saying

00:56:18.340 --> 00:56:23.420
God has visited his people. So this is a beautiful

00:56:23.420 --> 00:56:26.260
picture of the compassion of the Lord. Remember,

00:56:26.380 --> 00:56:30.760
he was moved with compassion to heal this, to

00:56:30.760 --> 00:56:33.650
raise this young man from the dead. You know,

00:56:33.670 --> 00:56:37.670
he could have just watched the funeral go by

00:56:37.670 --> 00:56:42.070
and, you know, waved at him. But he had compassion.

00:56:42.510 --> 00:56:45.710
This compassion moved him. It was the compassion

00:56:45.710 --> 00:56:50.230
of our Father moving through Jesus. Amen. So

00:56:50.230 --> 00:56:54.309
Jesus told some parables. And in the parable

00:56:54.309 --> 00:56:57.530
of the Good Samaritan, you have the story of

00:56:57.530 --> 00:57:01.230
the man that was beaten till they thought he

00:57:01.230 --> 00:57:04.269
was dead, and the thieves stole everything that

00:57:04.269 --> 00:57:08.210
he had. And he's on his way to Jericho, and a

00:57:08.210 --> 00:57:11.269
priest goes by and doesn't do anything, and a

00:57:11.269 --> 00:57:13.329
Levite goes by and doesn't do anything. And I

00:57:13.329 --> 00:57:16.550
think, in all fairness to them, they're thinking

00:57:16.550 --> 00:57:19.250
they're on the way to the temple if they touch

00:57:19.250 --> 00:57:21.349
this dead body because they think he's dead.

00:57:21.659 --> 00:57:24.219
If they touch this dead body, it's going to defile

00:57:24.219 --> 00:57:27.739
them and they won't be able to do the job. So,

00:57:27.780 --> 00:57:30.420
you know, have a little compassion on those two

00:57:30.420 --> 00:57:35.639
guys. But here's the good Samaritan. The Samaritans

00:57:35.639 --> 00:57:40.139
were a people group that the Jews despised. And

00:57:40.139 --> 00:57:42.579
I presume that the Samaritans despised the Jews

00:57:42.579 --> 00:57:47.400
as well. But he was moved with compassion for

00:57:47.400 --> 00:57:51.349
this poor guy who had been beaten up. Because

00:57:51.349 --> 00:57:54.829
he's moved with compassion, he pours oil and

00:57:54.829 --> 00:57:57.750
wine in the man's wounds, puts him on his own

00:57:57.750 --> 00:58:02.690
donkey, carries him to the inn, pays for the

00:58:02.690 --> 00:58:07.329
man to be taken care of by the innkeeper. I mean,

00:58:07.349 --> 00:58:10.969
that's compassion. When you go beyond the call

00:58:10.969 --> 00:58:14.409
of duty, he had no duty to take care of this

00:58:14.409 --> 00:58:22.369
man. Yeah, but it's because... Our Father. Our

00:58:22.369 --> 00:58:25.530
Father is compassionate. And it's our Father's

00:58:25.530 --> 00:58:28.989
compassion that helps us to go past those cultural

00:58:28.989 --> 00:58:32.730
barriers. So, you know, be a good Samaritan,

00:58:32.789 --> 00:58:36.889
right? And then we have the prodigal son. This

00:58:36.889 --> 00:58:40.269
young man, you probably know the story. This

00:58:40.269 --> 00:58:43.769
young man decides that he wants to go and live

00:58:43.769 --> 00:58:46.510
a little. And he says to his father, just give

00:58:46.510 --> 00:58:48.889
me my inheritance that I would get when you die.

00:58:49.090 --> 00:58:52.829
Just give it to me now and goodbye. I'm off and

00:58:52.829 --> 00:58:57.170
I'm going to spend your money on riotous living.

00:58:57.349 --> 00:59:00.550
Which he did. And then he was, you know. He didn't

00:59:00.550 --> 00:59:03.670
have nothing. All of his friends left him then

00:59:03.670 --> 00:59:06.710
when he was out of money. And so he hired himself

00:59:06.710 --> 00:59:10.179
out to take care of pigs, which. You know, this

00:59:10.179 --> 00:59:13.099
is a good Jewish boy. He has nothing. He has

00:59:13.099 --> 00:59:17.420
no reason to be among pigs, right? But he's so

00:59:17.420 --> 00:59:20.000
hungry that he's ready to eat the husks that

00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:22.559
he's feeding to the pigs. And then he remembers.

00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:27.679
He comes to himself. He says, my father's servants

00:59:27.679 --> 00:59:31.199
are better taken care of than I am. I'll go back

00:59:31.199 --> 00:59:33.780
and volunteer to be a servant because I can't

00:59:33.780 --> 00:59:35.519
be a son anymore because I've already spent the

00:59:35.519 --> 00:59:40.070
inheritance. And so he... He goes back to his

00:59:40.070 --> 00:59:42.889
father, and his father sees him coming. And his

00:59:42.889 --> 00:59:46.469
father is moved with compassion for his son.

00:59:46.610 --> 00:59:49.730
Because he's not going to think of his son as

00:59:49.730 --> 00:59:54.630
a servant. It's still his son. He's still his

00:59:54.630 --> 00:59:58.090
own flesh and blood. You can't take that away.

00:59:58.510 --> 01:00:02.210
And so, you know, the boy's trying to volunteer

01:00:02.210 --> 01:00:04.820
to be a servant. And the dad says, you know,

01:00:04.820 --> 01:00:06.599
calls the other servants and says, you know,

01:00:06.619 --> 01:00:09.579
bring the robe, bring the ring, kill the fatted

01:00:09.579 --> 01:00:11.559
calf. We're going to have a party. My son, who

01:00:11.559 --> 01:00:15.619
we thought was dead, has come back. So he was

01:00:15.619 --> 01:00:18.679
moved with compassion so much that he ran, which

01:00:18.679 --> 01:00:23.880
you don't just run. A father is not going to

01:00:23.880 --> 01:00:26.960
pull up his robes and run, but that one did because

01:00:26.960 --> 01:00:31.519
he's full of compassion. And this is how our

01:00:31.519 --> 01:00:36.139
father is. He is ready in an instant to be right

01:00:36.139 --> 01:00:39.179
there for you. He's already there for you. And

01:00:39.179 --> 01:00:42.960
so he's full of compassion for you. And all of

01:00:42.960 --> 01:00:49.320
this is a picture of what he designed us to be.

01:00:50.130 --> 01:00:53.369
He designed us to be carriers of his compassion.

01:00:54.730 --> 01:00:56.750
That's one of the fruit of the Spirit. The first

01:00:56.750 --> 01:00:58.650
fruit of the Spirit that's mentioned is love.

01:01:00.110 --> 01:01:04.750
And I think compassion fits there, right? That

01:01:04.750 --> 01:01:08.190
we were made in his image to carry his compassion

01:01:08.190 --> 01:01:10.730
and to carry it to others and to give it to others

01:01:10.730 --> 01:01:14.369
freely. And so I just want to encourage you.

01:01:14.670 --> 01:01:18.150
that you are called to be compassionate. I'm

01:01:18.150 --> 01:01:21.170
called to be compassionate. That is not to say

01:01:21.170 --> 01:01:26.309
that we get out of our lane where the Lord has

01:01:26.309 --> 01:01:29.130
called us to be. But when you feel that compassion

01:01:29.130 --> 01:01:33.030
of the Lord, you need to act on it. Don't just

01:01:33.030 --> 01:01:36.070
be moved by what you see in circumstances, okay?

01:01:36.610 --> 01:01:39.449
Circumstances can lead you off into human compassion

01:01:39.449 --> 01:01:45.380
that won't produce spiritual fruit. Okay? There's

01:01:45.380 --> 01:01:47.840
a difference between human compassion and God's

01:01:47.840 --> 01:01:51.480
compassion. And if we stay busy pouring out human

01:01:51.480 --> 01:01:54.400
compassion, we will never fulfill everything

01:01:54.400 --> 01:01:58.079
that our Father has given us to do. So just a

01:01:58.079 --> 01:02:00.860
word of caution, walk in the Spirit and not in

01:02:00.860 --> 01:02:04.480
the flesh. But I want to encourage you to do

01:02:04.480 --> 01:02:07.500
what the Lord shows you to do and how He shows

01:02:07.500 --> 01:02:10.929
you to do it. Let's pray. Father, in the name

01:02:10.929 --> 01:02:13.769
of the Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you for your

01:02:13.769 --> 01:02:17.630
compassion. We thank you that you are a compassionate

01:02:17.630 --> 01:02:21.530
Father, and that you are more than we can even

01:02:21.530 --> 01:02:25.289
imagine or think. Your ways are so much higher

01:02:25.289 --> 01:02:27.170
than our ways, and your thoughts are higher than

01:02:27.170 --> 01:02:29.670
our thoughts. Even as high as the heaven is above

01:02:29.670 --> 01:02:32.730
the earth, Lord, so much higher are your ways

01:02:32.730 --> 01:02:35.690
than our ways. So, Lord, we're asking you for

01:02:35.690 --> 01:02:40.079
a download of your compassion. a download of

01:02:40.079 --> 01:02:43.019
your Spirit. Pour out your Spirit on our listeners

01:02:43.019 --> 01:02:46.780
today. Pour out your Spirit on us. We need your

01:02:46.780 --> 01:02:50.440
compassion as well, that we will be led by your

01:02:50.440 --> 01:02:53.820
Spirit to do your work on the earth as it is

01:02:53.820 --> 01:02:57.340
in heaven. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

01:02:58.079 --> 01:03:06.400
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