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Compassion and Sympathy

 

Compassion and Sympathy

Christ set an example of - Lu 19:41,42

Exhortation to - Ro 12:15; 1Pe 3:8

EXERCISE TOWARDS

• The afflicted
- Job 6:14; Heb 13:3
• The chastened
- Isa 22:4; Jer 9:1
• Enemies
- Ps 35:13
• The poor
- Pr 19:17
• The weak
- 2Co 11:29; Ga 6:2
• Saints
- 1Co 12:25,26

Inseparable from love to God - 1Jo 3:17; Joh 4:20

MOTIVES TO

• The compassion of God
- Mt 13:27,33
• The sense of our infirmities
- Heb 5:2

The wicked made to feel, for saints - Ps 106:46

Promise to those who show - Pr 19:17; Mt 10:42

Illustrated - Lu 10:33; 15:20

Exemplified

• Pharaoh's daughter
- Ex 2:6
• Shobi, &c
- 2Sa 17:27-29
• Elijah
- 1Ki 17:18,19
• Nehemiah
- Ne 1:4
• Job's friends
- Job 2:11
• Job
- Job 30:25
• David
- Ps 35:13,14
• Jews
- Joh 11:19
• Paul
- 1Co 9:22
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