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MARK 1:40-41

MARK 1:40-41. “40 And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. 41 And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean. MARK 1:42-43.

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MARK 1:40-41

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  1. MARK 1:40-41 • “40 And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. 41 And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.

  2. MARK 1:42-43 • “42 And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed. 43 And he straitly charged him, and forthwith sent him away;

  3. MARK 1:44 • “44 and saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

  4. MARK 1:45 • “45 But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.”

  5. INTRODUCTION • GOOD MORNING. We thank God…

  6. INTRODUCTION • Please repeat after me: “He that covereth his sins – shall not prosper – but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them – shall have mercy” (Proverbs 28:13).

  7. INTRODUCTION • We are so very thankful for this congregation…

  8. INTRODUCTION • VISITORS: you are our welcomed and honored guest…

  9. WHAT IS COMPASSION? • I realize my military and evangelist backgrounds have molded me into a “cut and dry, trust God and get the job done” kind of person. I’m asking each of you to pray for me, that I’ll do a better job in practicing the things I’m about to preach to you.

  10. WHAT IS COMPASSION? • Loved ones, the truth of the Bible reveals that mankind’s real problem is spiritual. We have a love problem, which is a heart problem, which is a sin problem.

  11. WHAT IS COMPASSION? • “To love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul” (Joshua 22:5; Matthew 22:37; Hebrews 11:25).

  12. WHAT IS COMPASSION? • You and I are God’s workers. He is the heart specialist. Our responsibility as RN’s (Registered Neighbor’s), is to assist God, who “trieth the hearts and reins” (Psalm 7:9).

  13. WHAT IS COMPASSION? • Their need is to come to know God and be saved from their sins. • “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).

  14. WHAT IS COMPASSION? • Mercy and compassion are closely tied together in the heart of the ONE “in whom we have to do” (Hebrews 4:13).

  15. WHAT IS COMPASSION? • “I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion” (Romans 9:15).

  16. WHAT IS COMPASSION? • For the Christian to help others get their relationship and heart right with the Father in Heaven, we too must display compassion and mercy to our fellowman.

  17. TRUE MERCY • Christians can and should show true mercy. • Mercy is a blessing from the Holy Spirit especially for those who respond to the Word of God by repenting and being baptized into Christ (Ephesians 1:3; Galatians 3:27).

  18. TRUE MERCY • Mercy is to be shown by Christians to all who need it; to unbelievers and even more so to believers, especially to those who are of the household of faith (Galatians 6:10).

  19. TRUE MERCY • Mercy should be shown in proportion to a person’s awareness that he needs it. This gives him the ability to receive it. The more they need it, the more we should show it.

  20. TRUE MERCY • Showing mercy is an activity whose objective is spiritual. Mercy often begins with a physical need, but the spiritual need of the recipient who receives your gift of love must always be the ultimate goal.

  21. TRUE MERCY • You can be obedient merciful Christians, but NOT perfectly without compassion. • You see with the mind. You sense, you search, and you suffer with the heart of your emotions. Then you serve with the will.

  22. TRUE MERCY • In doing that, there can still be something lacking. It is factual and to a degree, it may be effectual, but it can still be cold (cut and dry, get the job done)!

  23. TRUE MERCY • It is the act of the emotion, that we will define as compassion, that turns an act of mercy into fruitfulness and gives the glory to our loving God.

  24. TRUE MERCY • In other words, to really exhibit mercy, you must experience compassion.

  25. COMPASSION DEFINED • Literally suffering with another; to feel the bowels yearn, to have pity in the inward parts, the seat of one’s feelings and affections.

  26. COMPASSION DEFINED • It is, in essence, experientially entering into the perspective of one who is in need, until you share the hurt, loneliness and fears with him.

  27. COMPASSION DEFINED • Leadership in the absence of compassion is nothing more than cold formalism. It is of little value to society, and disruptive of benefit to the one who leads and those who would be led (cf. 1 Cor. 13:1-3).

  28. COMPASSION IS COMMANDED • “Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother” (Zechariah 7:9).

  29. COMPASSION IS COMMANDED • “Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous” (1 Peter 3:8). “And of some have compassion, making a difference” (Jude 22).

  30. COMPASSION CAN BE SEEN • The daughter of Pharaoh and baby Moses (Exodus 2:5-10). • “And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

  31. COMPASSION CAN BE SEEN • The Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-37). • “But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him.”

  32. COMPASSION CAN BE SEEN • President Abraham Lincoln. • The Husband and the Sparrow (Luke 12:6-7).

  33. COMPASSION CAN BE SEEN • Compassion is reaching out to the sparrows of this world, who might not be so important, who are wounded, falling, and unable to fly on their own, and helping to put them somehow into the shelter of the one who can protect and perhaps heal them (Matthew 7:12).

  34. JESUS, OUR EXAMPLE OF COMPASSION • The compassion of Jesus MUST have been one of His most remarkable characteristics to the people of His day.

  35. JESUS, OUR EXAMPLE OF COMPASSION • What kind of concept of God do you have? Have you ever stopped to think about it? Do you see Him as cold, factual, uncaring, even vindictive?

  36. JESUS, OUR EXAMPLE OF COMPASSION • “The Lord is gracious, full of compassion, slow to anger, and of great mercy. The Lord is good to all; and his tender mercies are over all his works” (Psalm 145:8-9).

  37. JESUS, OUR EXAMPLE OF COMPASSION • First of all, we will walk with Jesus as He had compassion on those who crossed His path in His regular, day to day life.

  38. JESUS, OUR EXAMPLE OF COMPASSION • Before we begin in Matthew 20:30-34, we want to give you a little backdrop by looking at the context of the passage.

  39. JESUS, OUR EXAMPLE OF COMPASSION • In Matthew 20:17-19, Jesus had called His disciples aside and cautioned them that He was about to be betrayed, tried and crucified. • In verses 20-24, we read of the absence of sensitivity of those who were closest to Jesus.

  40. JESUS, OUR EXAMPLE OF COMPASSION • In verse 22, Jesus rebukes and corrects the disciples, and they argue with Him. He says, "Do you think you can drink from the same cup I can?" They respond, "You bet, Lord, we’re the ones who can.”

  41. JESUS, OUR EXAMPLE OF COMPASSION • He says that the lower you get, the greater you are. The more you serve, the higher you go. The more you reach and claw for the top, the lower you go.

  42. JESUS, OUR EXAMPLE OF COMPASSION • Two blind men were sitting by the roadside on this occasion (Matthew 20:30; Mark 10:46).

  43. JESUS, OUR EXAMPLE OF COMPASSION • We read in Matthew 20:31, “The multitude rebuked them.” • The blind men “cried the more saying, Have mercy on us, oh Lord, Thou Son of David!”

  44. JESUS, OUR EXAMPLE OF COMPASSION • Now here is the key to the whole experience. The next sentence says in verse 32, “And Jesus stood still.” • Would you have stopped? What would you have done? • Jesus stood still. God always stands still when people cry out for mercy.

  45. JESUS, OUR EXAMPLE OF COMPASSION • "What will ye that I should do for you?” Literally, "What can I do for you?" (Matthew 20:32). • You can almost hear them cry out in unison, "Lord, that our eyes may be opened” (v. 33). We want to see!

  46. JESUS, OUR EXAMPLE OF COMPASSION • In verse 34 we read, “So Jesus had compassion on them.” • Jesus did what He could do. He touched their eyes. They received their sight and followed Him. • Jesus had compassion and He exercised mercy.

  47. JESUS, OUR EXAMPLE OF COMPASSION • Let’s look at a final setting as we turn to our text in Mark chapter one. Here we see the compassion of Jesus on one who is unlovely, unclean and unwanted.

  48. JESUS, OUR EXAMPLE OF COMPASSION • Again we get a backdrop from the context of what had been taking place by reading in verse 23-31 that Jesus had just removed a demon from a man in the synagogue, and then healed Peter’s mother-in-law.

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