Embodying Christ's Compassion: Mercy Over Sacrifice
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Reading the news especially in these last few weeks, um, I don't know if you saw like the missionaries in Haiti that were murdered, just young 23 year old, um, and my heart straight away jumps to man I want the Lord to come back just make this right it's perfect justice and as born again believers if we put our faith in Christ he's forgiven us our sins because we've all accrued a massive debt of sin at the moment we put our faith in Christ he's faithful and just and he forgives us our sins it's amazing the best thing it's my hope and desire for every person here that you've received that bible says we're adopted into his family and it's something that he's very excited about the Lord is for us to be part of his family in Ephesians 1 it says that it's according to his good will and pleasure that that's the case." [01:26:25]
2. "You sort of wonder, at what point did their hearts get so calloused that they would lose that mercy or lose that compassion and actually oppose the message of Christ? How did that happen? And how easily can that actually happen to us? I mean, it happened to me last week. If we don't keep a close eye on our heart, how easily can we move from doing works of Christ, like that psalm that we just read out, into just being... compassionless, and quite easily doing the work of the enemy in that state, being an obstacle in the growth of other brothers and sisters in their faith?" [56:58]
3. "So the reason for the Sabbath was for man to rest. And in another gospel, it says in the Gospel of Mark, it says the Sabbath was made for who? Man. Not man for the Sabbath." [01:01:13]
4. "So Jesus is saying that the serving of the temple superseded the requirements of the law but then he goes on to make this huge statement which is that one in verse 6 I tell you that something greater than the temple is here who's he talking about yeah Jesus himself so that's a big statement because you have to understand the gravity of it from a Jewish perspective the temple was the presence of God they were okay if the temp if the temple was okay the God was with them it was his dwelling place and it was obviously sacred and it's actually it was everything to the Jews and here Jesus is saying that something greater than the temple is here." [01:09:17]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Remember this God desires mercy not sacrifice this has been good for me and I hope this has been good for you sometimes it's good just to have a good internal look as to how are we walking out our Christian walk and all aspects of our lives and our relationships let's choose mercy amen." [01:26:25]
2. "Compassion when it acts out to alleviate suffering it's actually mercy and that's what we're looking at today actually just in that prayer time that we had then um I could see compassion on Betty we're praying for Lynn Smith and she said she was in the car this morning with the news of Betty and she just started just crying and that's the heart of the Lord we're seeing scripture all the time you know that Jesus looked upon people with compassion in fact it brought up something in me that challenged me so much that I called a brother who sitting here today and I actually apologized because I stepped out of compassion last week." [53:59]
3. "So Jesus is saying that the serving of the temple superseded the requirements of the law but then he goes on to make this huge statement which is that one in verse 6 I tell you that something greater than the temple is here who's he talking about yeah Jesus himself so that's a big statement because you have to understand the gravity of it from a Jewish perspective the temple was the presence of God they were okay if the temp if the temple was okay the God was with them it was his dwelling place and it was obviously sacred and it's actually it was everything to the Jews and here Jesus is saying that something greater than the temple is here." [01:09:17]
4. "So what Jesus is actually doing here is he's he's demonstrating exactly what that last bit of scripture he was teaching on so now he has an opportunity to actually demonstrate it in front of them that he'd heal a man with a shriveled hand right in front of them on the sabbath because he's saying the sabbath is here for man his needs supersede those in fact if you consider that by Jesus doing that he even allowed that man a type of rest that he wouldn't have had if he wasn't healed if he left him in that state so that man that man that had the shriveled hand is now able to rest in the Lord." [01:19:30]
5. "So Jesus is pulling out probably one of the best example well of course he knows what he's doing he pulls out this perfect example of an event where um it was on a sabbath and this priest amalek was looked over the regulations of the law to give david uh and his followers um this bread so to explain a little bit of it because it may be a little confusing there david wasn't a priest and so he had no right to take that bread from the temple it was that was consecrated bread made holy just for the priests but amalek was happy to do it and he was able to do it and he was able to do it and break with um his uh his priestly customs and and overlook it uh and give him the bread and he just basically set down one of the many laws which was they had to um just before the sabbath they had to restrain from uh uh sexual union it was one of the clean laws and that's what that whole bit in there about um keeping yourself from women but he overlooked all the other ones the point was that he correctly understood that the human need that david's need and his companions the hunger was actually above that of the requirements of the law does that make sense he's seeing it as more important and jesus here is approving of it he's saying amalek actually made the right decision that was the correct thing to do the correct interpretation of the law and he did it with the right heart." [01:07:40]
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1. "Reading the news especially in these last few weeks, um, I don't know if you saw like the missionaries in Haiti that were murdered, just young 23 year old, um, and my heart straight away jumps to man I want the Lord to come back just make this right it's perfect justice and as born again believers if we put our faith in Christ he's forgiven us our sins because we've all accrued a massive debt of sin at the moment we put our faith in Christ he's faithful and just and he forgives us our sins it's amazing the best thing it's my hope and desire for every person here that you've received that bible says we're adopted into his family and it's something that he's very excited about the Lord is for us to be part of his family in Ephesians 1 it says that it's according to his good will and pleasure that that's the case." [01:26:25]
2. "You sort of wonder, at what point did their hearts get so calloused that they would lose that mercy or lose that compassion and actually oppose the message of Christ? How did that happen? And how easily can that actually happen to us? I mean, it happened to me last week. If we don't keep a close eye on our heart, how easily can we move from doing works of Christ, like that psalm that we just read out, into just being... compassionless, and quite easily doing the work of the enemy in that state, being an obstacle in the growth of other brothers and sisters in their faith?" [56:58]
3. "So the reason for the Sabbath was for man to rest. And in another gospel, it says in the Gospel of Mark, it says the Sabbath was made for who? Man. Not man for the Sabbath." [01:01:13]
4. "So Jesus is saying that the serving of the temple superseded the requirements of the law but then he goes on to make this huge statement which is that one in verse 6 I tell you that something greater than the temple is here who's he talking about yeah Jesus himself so that's a big statement because you have to understand the gravity of it from a Jewish perspective the temple was the presence of God they were okay if the temp if the temple was okay the God was with them it was his dwelling place and it was obviously sacred and it's actually it was everything to the Jews and here Jesus is saying that something greater than the temple is here." [01:09:17]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Remember this God desires mercy not sacrifice this has been good for me and I hope this has been good for you sometimes it's good just to have a good internal look as to how are we walking out our Christian walk and all aspects of our lives and our relationships let's choose mercy amen." [01:26:25]
2. "Compassion when it acts out to alleviate suffering it's actually mercy and that's what we're looking at today actually just in that prayer time that we had then um I could see compassion on Betty we're praying for Lynn Smith and she said she was in the car this morning with the news of Betty and she just started just crying and that's the heart of the Lord we're seeing scripture all the time you know that Jesus looked upon people with compassion in fact it brought up something in me that challenged me so much that I called a brother who sitting here today and I actually apologized because I stepped out of compassion last week." [53:59]
3. "So Jesus is saying that the serving of the temple superseded the requirements of the law but then he goes on to make this huge statement which is that one in verse 6 I tell you that something greater than the temple is here who's he talking about yeah Jesus himself so that's a big statement because you have to understand the gravity of it from a Jewish perspective the temple was the presence of God they were okay if the temp if the temple was okay the God was with them it was his dwelling place and it was obviously sacred and it's actually it was everything to the Jews and here Jesus is saying that something greater than the temple is here." [01:09:17]
4. "So what Jesus is actually doing here is he's he's demonstrating exactly what that last bit of scripture he was teaching on so now he has an opportunity to actually demonstrate it in front of them that he'd heal a man with a shriveled hand right in front of them on the sabbath because he's saying the sabbath is here for man his needs supersede those in fact if you consider that by Jesus doing that he even allowed that man a type of rest that he wouldn't have had if he wasn't healed if he left him in that state so that man that man that had the shriveled hand is now able to rest in the Lord." [01:19:30]
5. "So Jesus is pulling out probably one of the best example well of course he knows what he's doing he pulls out this perfect example of an event where um it was on a sabbath and this priest amalek was looked over the regulations of the law to give david uh and his followers um this bread so to explain a little bit of it because it may be a little confusing there david wasn't a priest and so he had no right to take that bread from the temple it was that was consecrated bread made holy just for the priests but amalek was happy to do it and he was able to do it and he was able to do it and break with um his uh his priestly customs and and overlook it uh and give him the bread and he just basically set down one of the many laws which was they had to um just before the sabbath they had to restrain from uh uh sexual union it was one of the clean laws and that's what that whole bit in there about um keeping yourself from women but he overlooked all the other ones the point was that he correctly understood that the human need that david's need and his companions the hunger was actually above that of the requirements of the law does that make sense he's seeing it as more important and jesus here is approving of it he's saying amalek actually made the right decision that was the correct thing to do the correct interpretation of the law and he did it with the right heart." [01:07:40]
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