Participants: Chuck Holtry
Series Code: SSH
Program Code: SSH021634A
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00:35 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS, WE'D LIKE TO WELCOME YOU ALL TO 00:37 SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. A VERY WARM WELCOME, ONCE AGAIN, 00:40 TO OUR FRIENDS JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD 00:43 FOR OUR EXTENDED SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS TODAY. 00:46 ALSO, A WARM WELCOME TO THE MEMBERS HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY 00:48 CHURCH AND THOSE WHO ARE VISITING WITH US - ALSO OUR 00:51 AFCOE TEAM THAT'S JOINING US TODAY - A VERY WARM WELCOME TO 00:55 YOU. AFCOE IS THE AMAZING FACTS 00:56 CENTER OF EVANGELISM. WE HAVE A NUMBER OF STUDENTS 00:58 THAT ARE JOINING US FOR A FOUR-MONTH TRAINING PROGRAM 01:01 STARTING THIS WEEKEND. SO WELCOME, GLAD YOU'RE HERE. 01:04 NOW, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY OF OUR LESSON TODAY, WE 01:08 WOULD LIKE TO LET YOU KNOW ABOUT A FREE OFFER THAT WE HAVE, A 01:10 BOOK WRITTEN BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR CALLED THE TRUTH ABOUT 01:14 MARY MAGDALENE . IT'S A GREAT BIBLE STUDY 01:16 LOOKING AT THIS IMPORTANT BIBLE CHARACTER IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 01:20 MARY MAGDALENE - IF YOU'D LIKE TO RECEIVE A FREE COPY OF OUR 01:24 OFFER TODAY, GIVE US A CALL ON THE RESOURCE PHONE NUMBER - THE 01:27 NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #801 - THAT 01:35 NUMBER, AGAIN, IS 866-788-3966 - OFFER #801 - A BOOK CALLED THE 01:42 TRUTH ABOUT MARY MAGDALENE AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THAT TO 01:44 ANYBODY IN NORTH AMERICA WHO GIVES US A CALL AND ASKS. 01:48 BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY DEALING WITH JESUS SHOWING 01:51 SYMPATHY - IT'S LESSON #8 IN OUR LESSON QUARTERLY - 01:53 WE ALWAYS LIKE TO BEGIN BY LIFTING OUR 01:55 VOICES IN PRAISE. SO I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG 01:58 LEADERS TO JOIN ME AND JOIN IN WITH US AS WE SING TOGETHER. 02:02 (SOFT PIANO MUSIC) >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. 02:06 WELL, THIS WEEK WE'RE GOING TO SING ABOUT HEAVEN. 02:09 THE WORLD IS REALLY IN A BAD PLACE AND IT GETS WORSE EVERY 02:14 DAY SO THE HOPE THAT WE HAVE IS GOING TO HEAVEN AND WE'RE GOING 02:17 TO SING ABOUT THAT. HYMN #633 - WHEN WE ALL GET 02:21 TO HEAVEN - WHAT A DAY OF REJOICING THAT WILL BE! 02:25 WE'LL SING THE FIRST, THE THIRD AND THE LAST VERSES OF #633. 02:29 (PIANO MUSIC) >>SING THE WONDROUS LOVE OF JESUS, SING 02:45 HIS MERCY AND HIS GRACE; IN THE MANSIONS BRIGHT AND BLESSED 02:53 HE'LL PREPARE FOR US A PLACE. WHEN WE ALL GET TO HEAVEN, WHAT 03:01 A DAY OF REJOICING THAT WILL BE! WHEN WE ALL SEE JESUS, WE'LL 03:10 SING AND SHOUT THE VICTORY! LET US THEN BE TRUE AND 03:18 FAITHFUL, TRUSTING SERVING EVERY DAY; JUST ONE GLIMPSE OF HIM IN 03:26 GLORY WILL THE TOILS OF LIFE REPAY. 03:31 WHEN WE ALL GET TO HEAVEN, WHAT A DAY OF REJOICING THAT WILL BE! 03:40 WHEN WE ALL SEE JESUS, WE'LL SING AND SHOUT THE VICTORY! 03:50 ONWARD TO THE PRIZE BEFORE US! 03:54 SOON HIS BEAUTY WE'LL BEHOLD; SOON THE PEARLY GATES WILL OPEN 04:03 - WE SHALL TREAD THE STREETS OF GOLD! 04:07 WHEN WE ALL GET TO HEAVEN, WHAT A DAY OF REJOICING THAT WILL BE! 04:16 WHEN WE ALL SEE JESUS, WE'LL SING AND SHOUT THE VICTORY! 04:26 >>I PRAY THAT YOU ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT DAY LIKE WE ARE. 04:30 AT THIS TIME, PASTOR ROSS WILL LEAD US IN PRAYER. 04:38 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SONG. 04:41 NOW, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY, FROM TIME TO TIME HERE AT THE 04:44 GRANITE BAY CHURCH, WE LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT ONE MISSION ACTIVITY 04:47 OR SOME OUTREACH THAT SOME OF OUR MEMBERS ARE INVOLVED IN - 04:50 MAYBE SOMETHING THAT AMAZING FACTS IS DOING - AND SO I'M JUST 04:53 DELIGHTED THAT TAMMY IS WITH US AGAIN. 04:56 TAMMY IS A MEMBER OF THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH FROM THE VERY 04:59 BEGINNING, BUT SHE AND HER HUSBAND DAVE - TAMMY AND DAVE 05:03 STEENSEN HAVE SPENT QUITE A WHILE DOWN IN SOUTHERN MEXICO 05:07 EMBARKING ON A MISSION ENDEAVOR THAT THE CHURCH HAS SORT OF 05:10 ENCOURAGED AND PARTICIPATED WITH THEM. 05:12 SO, FROM TIME TO TIME, TAMMY'S ABLE TO GIVE US AN UPDATE ON 05:14 WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON DOWN IN SOUTHERN MEXICO. 05:17 SO TAMMY, WELCOME - WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE HERE. 05:20 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR. >>I AM GOING TO - IT'S ON - YES. 05:23 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR. WELCOME EVERYONE AND IT IS GREAT TO SEE 05:27 MY CHURCH FAMILY HERE. I AM BACK FOR FOUR MONTHS TO BE WITH THE 05:31 AFCOE SESSION, BUT I JUST RECENTLY CAME FROM MEXICO - I 05:36 WAS DOWN THERE FOR EIGHT MONTHS. AND WE HAVE, IF YOU DON'T KNOW, 05:39 MY HUSBAND AND I - DAVID - HAVE A HEALTH AND EDUCATION CENTER 05:43 DOWN THERE IN A LOCAL VILLAGE CALLED MASUMIAPAN VERACRUZ. 05:48 >>ALRIGHT, WE'VE GOT SOME PICTURES. 05:49 I WANT TO GIVE YOU THE REMOTE - AND IF YOU WANT TO KIND OF WALK 05:51 US THROUGH THOSE PICTURES IT WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE WHAT'S 05:54 BEEN HAPPENING DOWN THERE. >>THANK YOU. 05:56 WELL, I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU REMEMBER BUT THERE WAS A FAMILY 06:00 THAT WE WERE WORKING WITH - GOOD FRIENDS OF OURS NOW - KNIT INTO 06:04 OUR HEARTS. AND HIS NAME IS SERGIO - HIS WIFE'S NAME IS ANNA 06:09 AND THEY HAVE FOUR PRECIOUS LITTLE CHILDREN. 06:12 THERE'S ONE OF THEM MISSING OUT OF THIS PICTURE OR TWO, BUT THEY 06:16 HAD THIS HOME BEFORE - I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER THE 06:20 PICTURES THAT WE SHOWED THE LAST TIME WE WERE HERE EIGHT MONTHS 06:23 AGO - AND THE PROJECT WAS COMPLETED AND THEY ARE NOW 06:27 LIVING IN THIS NICE THREE-BEDROOM HOME WITH THE 06:30 BATHROOM THAT HAS TOILETS THAT FLUSH AND RUNNING WATER AND THEY 06:35 HAVE A KITCHEN AREA - AND SO THEY WERE BLESSED AND I WAS 06:39 BLESSED WHEN I CAME BACK AND SAW THAT FAMILY AND THEIR FACES WERE 06:44 PRICELESS. CAN YOU IMAGINE, WHEN THEY SAW 06:48 ME COMING OFF THE PLANE THEY WERE THERE TO GREET ME AND THEY 06:52 BROUGHT ME BACK TO THE VILLAGE AND I WAS ABLE TO SEE THEIR 06:54 HOME FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. AND THEY'RE HAPPY. 06:59 AND THEY'RE INVITING PEOPLE IN AND HAVING FELLOWSHIP THERE. 07:02 WELL, THEN AFTER THAT, I SAW THE PROJECT - WELL, WE PUT WINGS ON 07:05 OUR SHOES AND WE WERE OFF RUNNING AND WE WENT FROM CHURCH 07:09 TO CHURCH TO CHURCH TO CHURCH TO CHURCH BECAUSE WHY? 07:20 BECAUSE OUR GOAL AND OUR VISION IS TO TRAIN UP LAY PEOPLE IN 07:25 MEDICAL MISSIONARY WORK. YES, WE HAVE A HEALTH AND 07:29 EDUCATION CENTER OUT OF OUR HOME, BUT WE ALSO LIKE TO DO A 07:33 LOT OF TRAINING FOR THE CHURCHES DOWN THERE IN MEXICO. 07:36 AND ONE OF OUR BIGGEST PROJECTS WAS A ONE-MONTH TRAINING OF 07:40 MEDICAL MISSIONARY WORK IN A PLACE CALLED TOBASCO CIUDAD 07:44 PEMEX. AND WE STAYED THERE FOR A MONTH AND ENJOYED OURSELVES 07:48 THOROUGHLY. WE HAD SOME MASSAGE CLASSES. 07:50 WE HAD SOME SEMINAR - HEALTH SEMINARS OF LIFESTYLE CHANGES 07:55 THAT THEY COULD BE TAKING PLACE IN THEIR LIFE AND WE HAD SOME 07:58 COOKING CLASSES AND THEY ENJOYED IT SO MUCH THAT THEY ASKED US TO 08:03 COME BACK. THIS IS THE DOOR THAT CHRIST WANTS US TO OPEN IN OUR 08:09 COMMUNITIES EVERYWHERE. THERE IS A TIME AND THE TIME IS 08:13 NOW FOR MORE AND MORE MEDICAL MISSIONARY WORK. 08:18 I HOPE AND PRAY THAT IF YOU'RE ABLE, YOU'LL PARTICIPATE. 08:21 AND IF YOU'RE NOT, YOU WILL PRAY AND SUPPORT, IN ANY WAY YOU CAN, 08:26 THESE MEANS TO BE ABLE TO BRING THAT TO THE PEOPLE OF OUR WORLD 08:31 TODAY, TO BE A LIGHT FOR CHRIST. >>AMEN. 08:35 WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH, TAMMY, FOR SHARING WITH US. 08:37 WE'RE VERY EXCITED TO SEE THE REPORTS FROM TIME TO TIME, AND 08:40 THIS IS REALLY TAKING THE GOSPEL AND MEDICAL MINISTRY - PUTTING 08:44 IT TOGETHER AND MINISTERING TO THE PHYSICAL NEEDS OF PEOPLE AND 08:48 THEN MOVING INTO THEIR SPIRITUAL NEEDS. 08:51 AND THAT SORT OF TIES IN WITH OUR LESSON FOR TODAY. 08:53 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HOW JESUS SHOWED SYMPATHY TO THE PEOPLE. 08:55 THANK YOU, TAMMY, FOR SHARING. WE APPRECIATE THAT. 08:57 OUR LESSON THIS MORNING IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY OUR AFCOE 09:00 DIRECTOR - AND AFCOE IS THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF 09:03 EVANGELISM. WE HAVE A FOUR-MONTH PROGRAM 09:05 THAT IS STARTING RIGHT HERE AT THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER AND 09:09 CHUCK HOLTRY WILL BE TEACHING OUR LESSON TODAY - LESSON #8 - 09:13 TALKING ABOUT HOW JESUS SHOWED SYMPATHY. 09:25 >>HAPPY SABBATH. >>HAPPY SABBATH. 09:27 >>IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU HERE THIS MORNING. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO 09:31 HAVE SYMPATHY? HOW DOES ONE HAVE SYMPATHY? THERE'S ALL KINDS OF 09:34 IDEAS OF WHAT SYMPATHY IS, BUT TODAY WE'RE GOING TO TAKE SOME 09:38 TIME TO GO STEP BY STEP THROUGH OUR BIBLE AND UNDERSTAND WHAT IS 09:43 SYMPATHY? HOW IS THAT SYMPATHY SHOWN? 09:47 WHAT DOES SYMPATHY CONSIST OF? I'D LIKE TO START WITH A STORY: 09:56 FEBRUARY 18, 1952, ONE OF THE WORST STORMS TO HIT THE 10:01 NORTHEAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES WAS BREWING. 10:05 THE WAVES RIGHT OFF THE COAST OF MASSACHUSETTS WERE REACHING 10:09 SWELLS OF 40 TO 60-FEET HIGH. THE WIND WAS BLOWING FORTY MILES 10:15 AN HOUR. SNOW WAS COMING DOWN. IT WAS JUST A TERRIBLE SITUATION 10:22 AND THE CHATHAM COAST GUARD STATION RECEIVED A CALL. 10:29 THEY RECEIVED A CALL THAT THERE WAS A TANKER IN DISTRESS. 10:32 DUE TO THE HEAVY WAVES, THE TANKER HAD SPLIT IN HALF WHICH, 10:38 UNFORTUNATELY, HAPPENED TO QUITE A FEW DURING THAT ERA, JUST 10:41 BECAUSE OF THE POOR CONSTRUCTION. 10:44 TANKER'D SPLIT IN HALF AND SOON A COAST GUARD TEAM WAS SENT OUT 10:47 AROUND - TO GET OUT - THE SEAS WERE QUITE DANGEROUS, BUT THEY 10:51 WERE GOING TO GO AHEAD ANYHOW. AND NOT TOO MUCH LONGER THEY GOT 10:54 ANOTHER CALL THAT ANOTHER TANKER HAD BROKEN APART THAT NIGHT AND 10:58 IT WAS JUST A MILE OR TWO OFF THE COAST OF CAPE COD. 11:02 THE ONLY WAY TO GET THERE WAS TO GO ACROSS THE BAR IN EXTREMELY 11:06 DANGEROUS SEAS. THERE WAS A MAN WHO WAS WILLING TO DO IT. 11:13 HIS NAME WAS BERNIE. BERNIE WAS WILLING TO DO IT, 11:16 BUT GETTING A TEAM TO GO WAS ANOTHER. 11:19 IT WAS A VOLUNTEER GROUP AND THEY SAID, AT THE TIME THAT THEY 11:21 FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS, ALMOST NO ONE WANTED TO BE THERE. 11:24 THEY PUT OUT THE CALL AND THEY LOOKED AROUND AND IT SEEMED 11:26 EVERYONE WAS SCARCE, BUT THREE MEN AGREED TO JOIN HIM. 11:30 SO BERNIE AND HIS THREE MEN JUMPED ABOARD A 36-FOOT COAST 11:34 GUARD VESSEL TO TAKE ON 60-FOOT WAVES AND 40-MILE-AN-HOUR WINDS. 11:40 INCREDIBLE STORY - THEY HEARD A CALL - AND THAT'S THE FIRST 11:45 THING THAT I WANT TO SHARE THIS MORNING, IS THAT - SYMPATHY 11:48 HEARS. WE'RE LEARNING FOUR THINGS TODAY ABOUT SYMPATHY. 11:51 THE FIRST THING WE WANT TO LOOK AT IS THIS: SYMPATHY HEARS. 11:54 YOU GOT THAT? SYMPATHY - >>HEARS. 11:57 >>HEARS. IF YOU OPEN YOUR BIBLES WITH ME 11:59 TO JUDGES CHAPTER 2, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT A FEW OLD TESTAMENT 12:01 TEXTS - IT'S KIND OF BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE IT GIVES A PICTURE OF 12:04 THE GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT HERE - JUDGES CHAPTER 2 AND WE 12:09 WILL LOOK AT VERSE 16 - JUDGES 2 - STARTING WITH VERSE 16. 12:17 THE BIBLE SAYS, "NEVERTHELESS THE LORD RAISED UP JUDGES, WHO 12:21 DELIVERED THEM OUT OF THE HAND OF THOSE THAT SPOILED THEM. 12:24 YET THEY WOULD NOT HEARKEN UNTO THEIR JUDGES, BUT THEY WENT A 12:28 WHORING AFTER OTHER GODS, AND BOWED THEMSELVES UNTO THEM: THEY 12:31 TURNED QUICKLY OUT OF THE WAY WHICH THEIR FATHERS WALKED IN, 12:34 OBEYING THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD; BUT THEY DID NOT SO." 12:38 NOW JUDGES 2 IS INTERESTING BECAUSE IT GIVES YOU A BIG 12:41 PICTURE OF THE WHOLE BOOK OF JUDGES. PEOPLE FALL DOWN INTO 12:45 SIN. THEY GO THROUGH - WHAT DO YOU CALL THIS? 12:51 - THEY GO THROUGH A DIFFICULT TIME UNDER ABUSE FROM ENEMY 12:54 TRIBES AND THEN THEY SEE THEIR DANGER AND THEY CALL OUT TO GOD 12:58 AND A JUDGE IS RAISED UP AND THEY'RE TAKEN OUT OF THEIR 13:01 DIFFICULT TIME. AND THEN, ONCE EVERYTHING IS OKAY THEY START 13:05 DOING BAD THINGS AGAIN. YOU HAD THIS CYCLE IN JUDGES. 13:08 IN JUDGES 2 IT SHOWS THIS CYCLE: IT SAYS, 'GOD FREED THEM.' BUT 13:12 THEN THEY CHOSE TO GO AND NOT FOLLOW GOD'S COMMANDMENTS - 13:15 VERSE 18, "AND WHEN THE LORD RAISED THEM UP JUDGES, THEN THE 13:20 LORD WAS WITH THE JUDGE, AND DELIVERED THEM OUT OF THE HAND 13:22 OF THEIR ENEMIES ALL THE DAYS OF THE JUDGE: FOR IT REPENTED THE 13:25 LORD BECAUSE OF THEIR GROANINGS BY REASON OF THEM THAT OPPRESSED 13:30 THEM AND VEXED THEM." SO HERE ARE THESE DISOBEDIENT 13:33 ISRAELITES NOT DOING WHAT GOD HAS ASKED THEM TO DO, TOTALLY 13:37 TURNING THEIR BACK ON HIM, NOT OBEYING HIM, BUT HE HEARS THEIR 13:40 GROANINGS AND THAT IS GOOD NEWS THIS MORNING. GOD HEARS THE 13:46 GROANINGS EVEN OF DISOBEDIENT PEOPLE. HE HEARS THE GROANINGS. 13:52 HE SEES WHAT PEOPLE ARE GOING THROUGH. 13:53 YOU KNOW, ANOTHER TEXT OUR LESSON GIVES - I LIKE TO LOOK AT 13:55 - ISAIAH CHAPTER 54 - ISAIAH CHASPTER 54 - 14:02 AND WE'LL LOOK AT VERSE 5 - EXCUSE ME, 14:05 VERSES 7, 8, AND 10 - ISAIAH 54 - WE'RE LOOKING AT VERSES 7, 8, 14:12 AND THEN 10. "FOR A SMALL MOMENT" - THIS IS 14:19 GOD SPEAKING HERE IN VERSE 7 - "'FOR A SMALL MOMENT HAVE I 14:22 FORSAKEN THEE; BUT WITH GREAT MERCIES WILL I GATHER THEE. 14:26 IN A LITTLE WRATH I HID MY FACE FROM THEE FOR A MOMENT; BUT WITH 14:31 EVERLASTING KINDNESS WILL I HAVE MERCY ON THEE,' SAITH THE LORD 14:34 THY REDEEMER." - VERSE 10 - "'FOR THE MOUNTAINS SHALL 14:37 DEPART, AND THE HILLS BE REMOVED; BUT MY KINDNESS SHALL 14:42 NOT DEPART FROM THEE, NEITHER SHALL THE COVENANT OF MY PEACE 14:46 BE REMOVED,' SAITH THE LORD THAT HATH MERCY ON THEE." 14:50 >>AMEN. >>THIS IS ISAIAH SPEAKING TO A 14:53 REALLY DISOBEDIENT, UNFAITHFUL CHURCH AND HE'S SPEAKING OF 14:59 GOD'S HEARING. HE CARES ABOUT THEM. GOD HAS COMPASSION. 15:04 GOD'S COMPASSION IS NOT LIMITED TO OUR OBEDIENCE. 15:07 YOU CAN SAY 'AMEN'. >>AMEN. 15:09 >>GOD'S COMPASSION IS NOT LIMITED TO OUR OBEDIENCE. 15:16 DID HE ONLY HEAR PEOPLE THAT CLAIMED TO BE HIS? 15:20 >>NO. >>NO. 15:23 YOU KNOW, ONE OF MY FAVORITE PEOPLE TO TALK ABOUT IS IN 15:26 DANIEL CHAPTER 2 AND IT'S NOT DANIEL, ALTHOUGH HE'S A GREAT 15:30 MAN, IT'S NEBUCHADNEZZAR. YOU MIGHT TURN THERE REAL QUICK 15:33 WITH ME - DANIEL CHAPTER 2. IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2 WE HAVE 15:38 PAGAN KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR WHO HAS JUST DONE SOME REALLY 15:42 BAD THINGS TO GOD'S PEOPLE. YES, GOD'S USING HIM TO DO THAT, 15:46 I BELIEVE, CARRYING OUT HIS PLANS, ULTIMATELY. 15:50 BUT IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2, VERSE 29 DANIEL IS SPEAKING TO 15:55 NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND HE SAYS THIS, "AS FOR THEE, O KING, THY 15:59 THOUGHTS CAME INTO THY MIND UPON THY BED, WHAT SHOULD COME TO 16:03 PASS HEREAFTER:" - SO HE SAID 'YOU WERE SLEEPING ON YOUR BED - 16:07 YOU WERE LAYING DOWN THINKING ABOUT 'WHAT'S THE FUTURE GOING 16:09 TO HOLD?' 'WHAT'S GOING TO TAKE 16:10 PLACE AFTER THIS?' - "AND HE THAT REVEALETH SECRETS 16:15 MAKETH KNOWN TO THEE WHAT SHALL COME TO PASS." 16:18 NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS LAYING ON HIS BED THINKING, 'WHAT'S THE FUTURE 16:21 HOLD?' AND THE GOD OF HEAVEN CAME DOWN AND SAID, 'I HEAR YOU, 16:25 NEBUCHADNEZZAR. LET ME TELL YOU.' THAT'S AWESOME. 16:30 >>AMEN. >>NOT ONLY DOES GOD HEAR, AND 16:33 HAVE COMPASSION ON THOSE THAT ARE HIS PEOPLE, BACKSLIDDEN 16:36 THOUGH THEY MAY BE, BUT HE ALSO HEARS THOSE THAT ARE PAGAN. 16:41 YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SEVERAL INSTANCES OF JESUS DOING THIS. 16:44 YOU REMEMBER THAT CANAANITE WOMAN WITH THE WOMAN THAT WAS 16:46 POSSESSED - WITH THE DAUGHTER THAT WAS POSSESSED? 16:49 SHE COMES AND SHE BEGS JESUS, 'PLEASE COME AND HEAL MY 16:52 DAUGHTER.' AND THEN JESUS DOES THAT - THAT - THAT UNUSUAL 16:55 RESPONSE FOR JESUS, JUST TO SEE HOW HIS DISCIPLES PAY ATTENTION. 16:58 YOU KNOW, 'SHOULD I GIVE FOOD TO THE DOGS?' 17:03 REMEMBER HER RESPONSE? 'YES, BUT EVEN THE DOGS EAT 17:07 THE CRUMBS FROM THEIR MASTER'S TABLE. YOU'VE GOT TO TAKE 17:08 CARE OF ME.' AND HE DID. HE HEARD HER CRY. 17:12 DID IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE THAT NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS A BABYLONIAN 17:15 KING? DID IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE THAT 17:16 THIS CANAANITE WOMAN WAS OF A PAGAN TRIBE? 17:20 THERE'S THE CENTURION IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 8, 'PLEASE COME HEAL MY 17:24 SERVANT.' THERE'S THE MACEDONIAN IN THE VISION OF PAUL - 'COME TO 17:28 US.' GOD HEARS THE GROANING OF THE PEOPLE ON THIS PLANET, NOT 17:33 JUST HIS FOLLOWERS, NOT JUST THE BACKSLIDERS, BUT EVERY SINGLE 17:38 PERSON. AND IT GIVES US A REASON, I 17:40 THINK, A REASON FOR EXISTENCE. FOR THOSE OF US WHO ARE 17:44 FAITHFUL, BY HIS GRACE, WE CAN SAY, 'PRAISE GOD. 17:48 GOD CARES ABOUT ME.' FOR THOSE OF US WHO ARE BACKSLIDDEN, GOD 17:52 IS SAYING, 'I HEAR YOU. I CARE ABOUT YOU.' AND IT GIVES 17:56 US A REASON TO SAY, 'I'M COMING BACK.' 17:58 >>AMEN. >>AND THE VERY FACT THAT GOD 18:01 SPEAKS TO PAGANS TODAY SHOULD SPEAK TO THOSE OF US WHO ARE IN 18:04 THIS CHURCH, THAT WE NEED TO BE WILLING TO GO AFTER THEM, JUST 18:08 LIKE GOD IS WILLING TO DO SO. >>AMEN. 18:11 >>IF THEY'RE OUT THERE AND THEY'RE HEARING THE VOICE OF 18:12 GOD, I WANT TO BE WHERE GOD'S WORKING, DON'T YOU? 18:14 >>AMEN. >>AND THAT'S A CALL FOR US, 18:17 AT THIS TIME. THERE'S A PASSAGE FROM STEPS TO CHRIST PAGE 100 18:23 THAT WAS IN OUR LESSON. IT SAYS, "HIS HEART OF LOVE IS TOUCHED BY 18:28 OUR SORROWS AND EVEN BY OUR UTTERANCES OF THEM." 18:33 HAVE YOU EVER SHARED YOUR SORROWS WITH SOMEBODY? 18:36 HAVE YOU EVER SHARED YOUR SORROWS WITH NOBODY BECAUSE YOU 18:38 DIDN'T THINK ANYBODY WOULD CARE? I'VE DONE THAT. 18:42 THERE'S SOMETIMES I'D GET ALONE AND - I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS - MY 18:45 FIRST TEACHING JOB - I WAS - I GET SO STRESSED SOMETIMES. 18:49 MY PERSONALITY NEEDS TO LEARN TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE 18:50 CONFIDENCE IN GOD, AMEN? ANYONE ELSE CAN CONNECT WITH ME 18:53 ON THAT? BUT I WAS OUT WALKING ALONG THIS 18:56 COUNTRY ROAD AT THE SCHOOL WHERE I WAS TEACHING, SAYING, 'GOD, DO 19:00 YOU HEAR ME?' AND HE DOES. I KNEW HE DID. 19:06 I COULD SEE THE RESULTS BECAUSE HE HEARD THE GROANINGS. 19:09 IT SAYS, "THE HEART OF LOVE IS TOUCHED BY OUR SORROWS AND EVEN 19:12 BY OUR UTTERANCES OF THEM. NOTHING IN ANY WAY CONCERNS OUR 19:16 PEACE IS TOO SMALL FOR HIM TO NOTICE. 19:20 NO CALAMITY CAN BEFALL THE LEAST OF HIS CHILDREN OF WHICH OUR 19:24 HEAVENLY FATHER IS UNOBSERVANT OR IN WHICH HE TAKES NO 19:28 IMMEDIATE INTEREST." DID SOMETHING HAPPEN TO YOU 19:31 YESTERDAY? THIS MORNING? THAT MADE YOU FEEL OUT OF PEACE? 19:43 THINGS HAPPEN LIKE THAT, DON'T THEY? 19:46 IT SAYS HERE THAT OUR HEAVENLY FATHER OBSERVED THAT AND HE TOOK 19:52 IMMEDIATE INTEREST. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES 19:55 WE WANT A MIRACLE. NOT ALWAYS DO THE MIRACLES COME, 19:58 BUT I WANT TO TELL YOU, THE OBSERVATION IS THERE 20:00 AND THE CARE IS THERE. >>AMEN. 20:02 >>GOD HAS A DEEPER, FULLER PLAN THAN I THINK THAT WE, AS HUMANS, 20:04 CAN REALIZE SOMETIMES, BUT IT DOESN'T REMOVE HIS LOVE IN ANY 20:09 WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM. EXODUS CHAPTER 2 - LET'S GO TO EXODUS 20:12 CHAPTER 2. THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ARE SLAVES IN EGYPT AND 20:19 GOD SAYS THIS TO MOSES - EXODUS CHAPTER 2 AND WE'LL LOOK IN 20:25 VERSE 23. EXODUS CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE 23, "AND IT CAME TO PASS 20:31 IN PROCESS OF TIME, THAT THE KING OF EGYPT DIED: AND THE 20:35 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SIGHED BY REASON OF THE BONDAGE, AND THEY 20:41 CRIED, AND THEIR CRY CAME UP UNTO GOD BY REASON OF THE 20:44 BONDAGE." VERSE 24 - "AND 20:48 GOD HEARD THEIR GROANING, AND GOD REMEMBERED HIS COVENANT WITH 20:53 ABRAHAM, WITH ISAAC, AND WITH JACOB." 20:54 - AND VERSE 25 SAYS, "AND GOD LOOKED UPON THE CHILDREN OF 20:57 ISRAEL, AND GOD HAD RESPECT UNTO THEM." 21:02 I DON'T UNDERSTAND, SOMETIMES WHEN I READ THE WORD OF GOD, 21:11 BECAUSE IT SEEMS SO BEYOND MY HUMAN COMPREHENSION, THAT THE 21:16 GOD OF HEAVEN, THE SOVEREIGN OF THE UNIVERSE COULD HAVE RESPECT 21:20 ON A DESPISED, BACKSLIDDEN GROUP OF SLAVES - AND YET HE DID. 21:28 DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE GOD WE SERVE. 21:30 >>AMEN. >>NOT ONLY DOES HE FEEL THAT FOR 21:32 YOU, BUT HE FEELS THAT FOR EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THIS GLOBE. 21:39 JESUS SHOWS SYMPATHY. SYMPATHY HEARS - SYMPATHY HEARS. 21:48 OFTENTIMES I THINK THAT WE HEAR OUR OWN GROANINGS, BUT WE NEED 21:57 TO PRAY AND ASK GOD TO GIVE US THE ABILITY TO HEAR THE 21:59 GROANINGS OF OTHER PEOPLE. >>AMEN. 22:04 >>BECAUSE WE'RE NOT THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT GROAN. 22:09 WE HAVE A WORLD THAT'S GROANING. SO TRUST THAT GOD HEARS YOURS 22:14 AND THEN, IN THAT TRUST, HEAR SOMEBODY ELSE'S, AMEN? 22:17 >>AMEN. >>SYMPATHY HEARS. 22:19 THE NEXT PART I'D LIKE TO GO TO IS - I'M GOING TO CONTINUE WITH 22:24 MY STORY - IT'S FEBRUARY 18, 1952 - BERNIE AND FOUR MEN ARE 22:31 IN A 36-FOOT COAST GUARD BOAT GOING OUT TO TACKLE 40 TO 22:37 60-FOOT WAVES. THE HARDEST PART WAS CROSSING THE BAR. 22:42 TO CROSS THE BAR - YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHERE THE SEA IS RAISED 22:45 UP - THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA - IT'S VERY, VERY SHALLOW. 22:48 TO GET CRASHED IN THERE IS VERY HIGH - HIGH LIKELIHOOD - 22:52 ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU HAVE SUCH HIGH SEAS. 22:54 THEY KNEW THEY HAD TO GET ACROSS. 22:56 THEY HAD TO TIME IT JUST RIGHT - YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE WAVES 22:59 CRASHING - JUST THE RIGHT TIME - GUN IT AT THE RIGHT TIME. 23:03 IN THEIR PROCESS OF GOING OUT, ONE TIME THEIR SHIP WAS FLIPPED 23:08 UPSIDE-DOWN - COAST GUARD SHIPS ARE ACTUALLY - THEY CAP - THEY 23:11 RIGHT THEMSELVES, SO IT RIGHTED ITSELF. 23:15 THEY LOST THEIR COMPASS - SMASHED OUT THEIR FRONT 23:20 WINDSHIELD - AND THEY KEPT ON GOING AND SOMEHOW CROSSED - 23:24 ALMOST AN IMPOSSIBLE FEAT - THEY CROSSED THE BAR AND GOT OUT INTO 23:28 THE OPEN SEA. SYMPATHY NOT ONLY 23:30 HEARS, SYMPATHY ACTS. SYMPATHY SIMPLY DOES NOT HEAR, 23:37 IT ALSO ACTS - IT TAKES ACTION - IT DOES SOMETHING. 23:42 YOU KNOW, IN OUR LESSON - THEY QUOTED MATTHEW CHAPTER 14, VERSE 23:47 14 - A GREAT PASSAGE - BUT I LIKE TO GO TO MARK 6 - LOOK AT 23:52 THE SAME CONCEPT BUT A LITTLE BIT MORE CONTEXT - MARK CHAPTER 23:55 6, VERSE 31 - NOT ONLY DOES SYMPATHY HEAR, IT ACTS - IT 24:02 TAKES ACTION - AND HERE WE'LL SEE THIS IN MARK CHAPTER 6 AND 24:08 STARTING WITH VERSE 31. "AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, 'COME YE 24:15 YOURSELVES APART INTO A DESERT PLACE, AND REST AWHILE: FOR 24:19 THERE WERE MANY COMING AND GOING, AND THEY HAD NO 24:21 LEISURE SO MUCH AS TO EAT." SO JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES WERE 24:25 LIVING IN A VERY BUSY TIME - DOING GOOD THINGS, BUT THEIR 24:28 LIVES WERE VERY HECTIC - THEY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE TIME TO EAT. 24:31 THE BIBLE CONTINUES IN VERSE 32, "AND THEY DEPARTED INTO A DESERT 24:34 PLACE BY SHIP PRIVATELY." SO THEY GOT ALONE, TOOK A SHIP 24:38 TO A FAIRLY UNINHABITED SECTION OF THE SEA OF GALILEE - THE 24:43 SHORELINE THERE - JUST TO REST AND TAKE SOME TIME - "AND THE 24:48 PEOPLE SAW THEM DEPARTING," - VERSE 33 - "AND 24:51 MANY KNEW HIM, AND RAN AFOOT THITHER OUT OF ALL CITIES, AND 24:55 OUT WENT THEM, AND CAME TOGETHER UNTO HIM." 24:58 THE DESIRE OF AGES SAYS THAT WHEN THEY WERE COMING INTO SHORE 25:02 THEY COULD SEE THE CROWDS OF PEOPLE WAITING. 25:04 AND JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES WERE ABLE TO PULL OFF TO THE SIDE 25:08 UNOBSERVED AND HAD JUST A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TOGETHER, BUT 25:17 VERSE 34, "AND JESUS, WHEN HE CAME OUT, SAW MUCH PEOPLE AND 25:24 WAS MOVED WITH COMPASSION TOWARD THEM, BECAUSE THEY WERE AS SHEEP 25:29 NOT HAVING A SHEPHERD: AND HE BEGAN TO TEACH THEM MANY 25:32 THINGS." I'VE BEEN TIRED IN THE MINISTRY BEFORE. 25:39 THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES WHEN I'VE SPOKEN OR TRAVELED OR MINISTERED 25:45 SO MUCH THAT ALL I WANT IS TO BE ALONE. 25:49 I DON'T WANT TO BE AROUND ANYBODY. 25:51 I WANT TO JUST PULL OFF TO MYSELF - SOME OF YOU KNOW WHAT 25:54 I'M TALKING ABOUT, RIGHT? YOU'VE BEEN IN THAT SITUATION - 25:57 YOU'VE JUST BEEN AROUND - JUST NEED A LITTLE BIT OF SPACE. 25:59 I WANT TO BE ALONE JUST A LITTLE BIT. AND IT'S - THAT'S THE 26:04 FEELING THAT YOU SEE, ALMOST, WITH THE DISCIPLES. 26:08 AND JESUS KNOWS AND HE PULLS THEM ASIDE - AND THAT'S WHEN 26:12 THEY'RE SURROUNDED BY THE MULTITUDE - AND THAT'S WHEN THE 26:14 FEELINGS OF COMPASSION ARE SEEN IN JESUS CHRIST. 26:19 AND THAT'S THE HARDEST TIME FOR ME TO HAVE COMPASSION AND I'M - 26:22 I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE SEE THAT IT'S WHEN JESUS WAS AT HIS 26:27 END, PHYSICALLY, THAT HE WAS STILL SHOWING COMPASSION. 26:30 >>AMEN. >>WHAT AN AWESOME GOD. 26:32 >>AMEN. >>HE SAW THEIR NEEDS - AND 26:34 THERE'S TWO THINGS THAT CAME OUT HERE IN MARK CHAPTER 6: HE SAYS 26:39 HE WAS MOVED WITH COMPASSION FOR THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE A 26:43 SHEEP NOT HAVING A SHEPHERD. ACTUALLY, I WANTED TO MOVE OVER 26:46 TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 9 - MATTHEW 9 TAKES THIS AND JUST ADDS ONE 26:51 ELEMENT TO IT - MATTHEW CHAPTER 9 AND VERSE 35 - VERSE 36 - I 26:56 LOVE HOW THE GOSPELS ARE WRITTEN - IT'S LIKE FOUR PEOPLE WITH 27:01 FOUR DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES WRITING THE SAME STORY. 27:05 IT'S LIKE MY WIFE AND I GOING TO A WEDDING, RIGHT? TWO OF US WILL 27:09 GO TO THE SAME EXACT EVENT AND SHE WILL TELL YOU ABOUT THE 27:13 DRESS AND I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT THE FOOD. VERY SIMPLE. 27:17 AND SO YOU'RE SEEING THAT SAME CONCEPT BEING PLAYED OUT HERE. 27:21 MATTHEW CHAPTER 9 ADDS SOMETHING - MATTHEW, IN VERSE 36 HE SAYS, 27:26 "BUT WHEN HE SAW THE MULTITUDES, HE WAS MOVED WITH COMPASSION ON 27:29 THEM," - WE READ THAT - HERE'S WHY: "BECAUSE THEY FAINTED, AND 27:34 WERE SCATTERED ABROAD, AS SHEEP HAVING NO SHEPHERD." 27:37 HE WAS COMPASSIONATE BECAUSE OF THEIR PHYSICAL NEEDS - THEY WERE 27:39 FAINTING - AND THEIR SPIRITUAL NEEDS - BECAUSE THEY WERE 27:43 SCATTERED AS SHEEP WITHOUT A SHEPHERD. YOU KNOW, I BELIEVE 27:47 THAT WE SHOULD SEE THAT TODAY PROBABLY MORE THAN EVER. 27:49 THERE'S A LOT OF SHEPHERDS - FALSELY SO CALLED - IN OUR WORLD 27:53 TODAY AND WE HAVE A LOT OF SHEEP THAT ARE GOING ASTRAY. 27:57 THE SPIRITUAL CONDITION OF OUR WORLD, IN SOME WAYS, LOOKS 28:01 BETTER THAN, FROM AN OUTWARD PERSPECTIVE, THAN IT'S BEEN 28:04 BEFORE. BUT, IN MOST CASES, IT'S MUCH 28:06 WORSE THAN IT'S EVER BEEN BEFORE. 28:08 WE HAVE SHEEP SCATTERED WITHOUT A SHEPHERD. 28:12 IT SAYS HERE THAT THEY FAINTED AS WELL. 28:14 THEIR PEOPLE WERE TIRED. THAT'S ACTUALLY THE MEANING OF 28:17 THIS PASSAGE HERE - THEY WERE TIRED. THEY'VE BEEN UP ALL DAY 28:19 LONG - THEY WERE TIRED. WE HAVE TIRED PEOPLE TODAY. 28:22 SO HERE'S THE REASONS: THEY HAD PHYSICAL NEEDS AND SPIRITUAL 28:26 NEEDS - AND THEN JESUS SAYS THIS IN VERSE 37, "THEN SAITH HE UNTO 28:32 HIS DISCIPLES, 'THE HARVEST TRULY IS PLENTEOUS, BUT THE 28:36 LABORERS ARE FEW; PRAY YE THEREFORE THE LORD OF THE 28:40 HARVEST, THAT HE WILL SEND FORTH LABORERS INTO HIS HARVEST.'" 28:43 WHAT A PRAYER - BECAUSE IF YOU STUDY THIS - A MAN BY THE NAME 28:46 OF DEREK MORRIS PUT TOGETHER A WHOLE BOOK CALLED THE RADICAL 28:49 PRAYER , BASED UPON THIS. FASCINATING. 28:53 THIS IS A PRAYER THAT SAYS, 'I WANT TO SERVE' - IF YOU REALLY 28:58 LOOK AT ITS CONTEXT. WHEN YOU PRAY THIS PRAYER - 29:00 'LORD, SEND LABORERS OUT TO THE HARVEST' - YOU'RE SAYING, 'LORD, 29:02 SEND ME.' THAT'S THE PICTURE THAT'S BEING GIVEN HERE. 29:06 AND JESUS IS TELLING THEM 'I HAVE COMPASSION ON THEM. 29:09 I SEE THEIR NEEDS. NOW IT'S TIME FOR US TO PRAY THAT GOD'LL GET 29:12 US OUT THERE.' SYMPATHY HEARS AND SYMPATHY ACTS. 29:19 SYMPATHY HEARS AND SYMPATHY ACTS. 29:21 LUKE CHAPTER 7 - LUKE CHAPTER 7 AND VERSE 11, "AND IT CAME TO 29:31 PASS THE DAY AFTER," - THIS IS A - THE STORY OF THE WIDOW OF NAIN 29:35 AND HER SON - HER DEAD SON - AT LEAST FOR PART OF THE STORY - 29:41 LUKE CHAPTER 7, VERSE 11, "AND IT CAME TO PASS THE DAY AFTER, 29:44 THAT HE WENT INTO A CITY CALLED NAIN; AND MANY OF HIS DISCIPLES 29:47 WENT WITH HIM, AND MUCH PEOPLE." 29:49 SO AGAIN, WE SEE JESUS HAS A LOT HAPPENING. 29:51 HE HAS MANY OF HIS DISCIPLES - THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE 29:54 SURROUNDING JESUS AS HE GOES TO NAIN. 29:56 HE IS BUSY. HE HAS A LOT HAPPENING. 29:59 VERSE 12 - "NOW WHEN HE CAME NIGH TO THE GATE OF THE CITY, 30:02 BEHOLD, THERE WAS A DEAD MAN CARRIED OUT, THE ONLY SON OF HIS 30:06 MOTHER, AND SHE WAS A WIDOW: AND MUCH PEOPLE OF THE CITY WAS WITH 30:09 HER. AND WHEN THE LORD SAW HER, HE 30:12 HAD COMPASSION ON HER, AND SAID UNTO HER, 'WEEP NOT.' AND HE 30:17 CAME AND TOUCHED THE BIER" - THE COFFIN - THAT'S NOT REALLY 30:22 A GOOD JEWISH PRACTICE. YOU KNOW THAT, RIGHT? 30:24 TO GO OUT AND TOUCH THAT WHICH CONTAINS A DEAD BODY - BUT JESUS 30:30 WAS NOT BOUND BY RULES OF FORMALITY. 30:34 JESUS' COMPASSION - HIS SYMPATHY - WAS NOT BOUND BY THAT - "AND 30:42 THEY THAT BARE HIM STOOD STILL. AND HE SAID, 'YOUNG MAN, I SAY 30:44 UNTO THEE, ARISE.' AND HE THAT WAS DEAD SAT UP, 30:48 AND BEGAN TO SPEAK. AND HE DELIVERED 30:51 HIM TO HIS MOTHER." BEAUTIFUL STORY. 30:56 TRUE COMPASSION IS NEVER TOO BUSY. TRUE SYMPATHY - YOU KNOW 31:02 I'M USING THEM SYNONYMOUSLY AND THEY ARE SOMEWHAT SYNONYMOUS - 31:05 THEY'RE NOT IDENTICAL, BUT THEY'RE SIMILAR. 31:07 TRUE SYMPATHY AND COMPASSION IS NOT BOUND BY RULES OF FORMALITY. 31:13 TRUE SYMPATHY AND COMPASSION ACTS - IT DOES SOMETHING. 31:17 SO, WE HAVE TWO MAIN THINGS WE'VE LOOKED AT - BROAD PICTURES 31:19 - SYMPATHY HEARS AND SYMPATHY ACTS. IN 2004 - ACTUALLY 2000 - 31:29 YEAH, END OF 2004 - DECEMBER 26TH, SOMEBODY MAY REMEMBER WHAT 31:36 HAPPENED ON DECEMBER 26, 2004? MAJOR TSUNAMI, RIGHT? 31:41 MAJOR TSUNAMI IN THE EAST - SORRY, THE FAR EAST - SUMATRA, 31:49 INDONESIA, THAILAND, INDIA - IN THAT AREA THERE WAS A MASSIVE 31:52 EARTHQUAKE - CREATES A HUGE TSUNAMI - ABOUT A QUARTER OF A 31:55 MILLION PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES. HOW MANY OF YOU FELT SYMPATHY? 32:02 I REMEMBER THINKING, 'MAN, WHAT CAN I DO?' 32:04 AND A FRIEND OF MINE AND I SAID, 'WE'RE GOING TO GO TO 32:07 INDONESIA.' AND SO WE STARTED DOING EVERYTHING WE COULD - 32:11 STARTED PUTTING A TEAM TOGETHER TO GO TO INDONESIA. 32:13 SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE TRIED DOING THE SAME THING - YOU MAY 32:15 UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SAY. 32:16 I HAD EVERYTHING PLANNED. I WAS A TEACHER AT THAT TIME AND 32:19 I JUST TOLD THE SCHOOL 'WE NEED TO START ACTING. WE'VE BEEN 32:23 TEACHING A LOT ABOUT RELIGION, LET'S ACT RELIGION. LET'S GO. 32:26 LET'S TAKE A TEAM AND GET OUT THERE.' AND THEY SAID, 'OKAY.' 32:29 PRAISE GOD I HAD THAT KIND OF SUPPORT. 32:31 AND THEN I STARTED CALLING AROUND TO FIND OUT WHO I COULD 32:34 GO WITH - WE'LL TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES GETTING THERE BUT WHO 32:37 DO WE - HOW DO WE GET THERE? 32:38 AND THEIR RESPONSE WAS VERY SIMPLE: 'YOU CAN'T GO. 32:42 WE'RE NOT ALLOWING YOU.' 'WHY? I WANT TO HELP.' 'SORRY. 32:47 THE WORST THING THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IS YOU'RE GOING TO GO 32:48 OVER THERE AND YOU'RE GOING TO GET KILLED BECAUSE YOU'RE A 32:50 FOREIGNER.' AND I REMEMBER BEING SO FRUSTRATED BECAUSE SYMPATHY - 32:57 JUST THOUGHT IS NOT ENOUGH. SYMPATHY MUST ACT. 33:04 YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOMETHING I WROTE HERE AND I KEEP FORGETTING 33:05 SO I'M GOING TO READ IT. TOO OFTEN SYMPATHY IS A 33:09 BRIEF, INTENSE EMOTION. THAT'S NOT SYMPATHY, 33:13 THOUGH, REALLY. SYMPATHY IS SOMETHING THAT HEARS 33:17 AND SYMPATHY IS SOMETHING THAT ACTS. 33:24 BERNIE, ONCE HE GOT PAST THE BAR, REALIZED - IN HIS LITTLE 33:30 36-FOOT BOAT - THAT HE WAS MISSING HIS COMPASS, THE WINDS 33:36 WERE BLOWING 40 MILES AN HOUR, THE WAVES, LIKE I SAID, WERE 40 33:39 TO 60-FEET HIGH, AND HE'S TRYING TO FIND THE HULL HALF OF THE 33:45 TANKER CALLED THE PENDLETON . 'WHERE IS IT? 33:49 HOW CAN I GET TO IT?' AND AS HE'S DRIVING THROUGH THE 33:52 WAVES, HE GETS THIS SENSE - AND I WAS READING THIS HISTORY LAST 33:57 - YESTERDAY - AT THE COAST GUARD WEBSITE - VERY INTERESTING. 34:00 HE GETS THIS SENSE THAT THERE'S SOMETHING IN FRONT OF HIM. 34:05 HE TURNS ON THE SPOTLIGHT AND IN FRONT OF THEM HE SEES THE 34:10 PENDLETON STILL UPRIGHT, LIFTING UP WITH 60-FOOT SWELLS AND 34:16 CRASHING DOWN IN FOAM AND GOING BACK UP AND DOWN. 34:19 BUT THEN HE'S THINKING, 'IS THERE ANYONE STILL HERE? 34:22 IS THERE ANYONE ON BOARD?' AND THEN HE SEES A LIGHT UP AT 34:24 THE RAIL - 33 MEN WERE STILL ON BOARD THAT SHIP. 34:29 HE DIDN'T KNOW THERE WAS 33 TO START WITH. 34:31 HE PULLED UP CLOSE, THEY THREW A - I THINK IT'S CALLED A JACOB 34:33 LADDER - AND PEOPLE STARTED CLIMBING DOWN. 34:38 HIS BOAT COULD HOLD 12 AND THERE WERE ALREADY FOUR OF THEM ON 34:41 BOARD. WELL, ONCE THEY HAD 12 THEN 14 34:46 AND THEN 16 AND THEN 18 AND HE THOUGHT ALMOST EVERYONE'S READY 34:50 AND HE SEES A WHOLE LINE OF PEOPLE STILL COMING DOWN. 34:54 THEY FIT 32 MEN - ONE OF THEM ACTUALLY DIED - THE FINAL PERSON 34:59 TO GET OFF ACTUALLY DIED AND GOT CRUSHED - BUT 32 MEN PLUS THEIR 35:06 FOUR - 36 ON A BOAT THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO HOLD 12 - AMAZING! 35:14 THEY DID IT. SOMEONE SAID, 'IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO LEAVE. 35:19 YOU CAN'T TAKE ON ALL THESE MEN.' AND BERNIE SAID, 'EITHER 35:23 WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE SAVED OR WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE LOST.' 35:26 IT'S KIND OF A BOLD STATEMENT FOR A CAPTAIN TO MAKE, BUT HE 35:28 MADE THAT CALL AT THAT TIME. BERNIE BROUGHT IN 36 MEN, 35:35 INCLUDING HIMSELF, ALIVE TO THE CHATHAM STATION. 35:38 MIRACULOUS? HE WOULD SAY SO. HE SAID THE HAND OF 35:41 GOD WAS ON THE TILLER. AMAZING. 35:45 SYMPATHY NOT ONLY HEARS AND ACTS, BUT SYMPATHY ALSO COUNTS 35:49 THE COST AND IS WILLING TO PAY IT. 35:52 YOU KNOW, SYMPATHY TAKES ENERGY. HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT 35:56 YOU'VE EVER MET A PERSON THAT NEEDS SYMPATHY? 35:59 MAYBE IT WAS YOURSELF, I DON'T KNOW, BUT I'VE MET PEOPLE WHO 36:02 NEED SYMPATHY AND IT JUST TAKES ENERGY TO GIVE SYMPATHY. 36:06 IT TAKES, SOMETIMES, MONEY TO TRULY ACT ON YOUR SYMPATHY. 36:10 SOMETIMES IT TAKES TIME, BUT SYMPATHY INVOLVES A COST. 36:15 THERE ARE SEVERAL PASSAGES THAT ARE LISTED OUT IN OUR LESSON AND 36:18 THEY ARE JUST EXCELLENT. I LIKE TO NOTICE THEM, IF YOU 36:21 DON'T MIND, COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 3, VERSE 12. 36:23 WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT COLOSSIANS 3:12 AND THEN 1 PETER 36:26 3:8 - COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 3 AND VERSE 12 - AND THEN 1 PETER 3:8. 36:34 (PAGES TURNING) COLOSSIANS 3:12 STARTS OUT WITH THIS: "PUT ON 36:48 THEREFORE," - MAYBE SOME VERSIONS SAY, 'THEREFORE PUT ON' 36:51 - I DON'T KNOW, BUT - "PUT ON AS THE ELECT OF GOD, HOLY AND 36:57 BELOVED, BOWELS OF MERCIES," - YOU KNOW, I USED TO LOOK AT THIS 37:00 AND SAY, 'YOU KNOW, THAT'S KIND OF AN INTERESTING WAY OF 37:02 DESCRIBING' - I'M USING THE KING JAMES VERSION HERE - THE 37:04 INNERMOST PART OF YOU, FILL IT WITH MERCY. 37:09 YOU DON'T MIND IF I DO A LITTLE BIT OF NEW ENGLISH PARAPHRASE, 37:12 OKAY? THE INNERMOST PART OF YOU, 37:13 FILL IT WITH MERCY, "KINDNESS, HUMBLENESS OF MIND, 37:18 MEEKNESS, LONGSUFFERING." WOW, PUT IT ON. 37:25 I WOULD ASSUME THAT IF YOU HAVE TO PUT SOMETHING ON, IT WASN'T 37:27 THERE NATURALLY. >>AMEN. 37:29 >>AND I BELIEVE THAT'S PROBABLY TRUE WITH MOST OF US. 37:33 I CAN'T SPEAK FOR YOU BUT I'LL SPEAK FOR MYSELF: I TEND TO BE 37:37 WORRIED ABOUT MYSELF MORE THAN I'M WORRIED ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE. 37:41 I TEND TO BE MORE SYMPATHETIC TO MY NEEDS THAN THE NEEDS OF OTHER 37:43 PEOPLE. SO, TO CARE FOR OTHERS - FROM 37:46 THE VERY INNERMOST OF MY BODY - HAS TO BE SOMETHING THAT'S PUT 37:48 ON - SOMETHING THAT GOD CAN GIVE. 37:53 IT'S INTERESTING, THAT PHRASE 'PUT ON' IS ALSO USED WITH THE 37:55 ARMOR OF CHRIST. DID YOU KNOW THAT? PUT IT ON. 37:59 1 PETER CHAPTER 3, VERSE 8 - 1 PETER CHAPTER 3 AND VERSE 8 38:08 (PAGES TURNING) "FINALLY, BE YE ALL OF ONE MIND," - I WOULD LOVE 38:21 TO SEE THIS IN A CHURCH TODAY - BE YE ALL OF ONE MIND - 38:25 ACTUALLY, WE DON'T NEED A WHOLE CHURCH TO BE ALL OF ONE MIND. 38:27 COULD WE JUST HAVE A CHURCH BOARD THAT'S ALL OF ONE MIND? 38:29 THAT'D BE ALL THAT WE NEED, RIGHT? 38:30 BE YE ALL OF ONE MIND. WHAT IS THAT MIND? 38:35 VERSE 8 CONTINUES: "HAVING COMPASSION ONE OF ANOTHER, LOVE 38:40 AS BRETHREN, BE PITIFUL, BE COURTEOUS." 38:44 I BELIEVE COMPASSION IS A MINDSET. 38:50 NOW I'VE ALREADY SAID THAT COMPASSION HEARS AND COMPASSION 38:53 ACTS AND IT COUNTS THE COST, BUT I BELIEVE FOR COMPASSION TO 38:57 COUNT THE COST AND BE WILLING TO DO IT ANYHOW, IT HAS TO BE A 39:01 MINDSET. COMPASSION IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE DO; 39:05 IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE ARE. >>AMEN. 39:09 >>AND THAT ONLY CAN HAPPEN WHEN GOD PUTS IT ON. 39:14 IT CAN ONLY HAPPEN WHEN GOD PUTS IT ON. 39:20 ONE MORE PASSAGE - 1 JOHN CHAPTER 3, VERSE 17 - 1 JOHN 39:25 3:17 - AND HE USES THE SAME WORD AS PAUL DID THERE IN COLOSSIANS 39:32 - "BUT WHOSO HATH THIS WORLD'S GOOD, AND SEETH HIS BROTHER 39:35 HAVE NEED, AND SHUTTETH UP HIS BOWELS OF COMPASSION FROM HIM, 39:40 HOW DWELLETH THE LOVE OF GOD IN HIM?" THAT'S A PRETTY STRONG 39:46 STATEMENT. HE'S SAYING, 'IT'S ONE THING TO 39:49 SAY; IT'S ANOTHER THING TO DO.' >>AMEN. 39:54 >>SO WE'VE GOT A - QUITE A FEW THINGS COMING - YOU KNOW THE 39:56 WORD 'COMPASSION' ACTUALLY MEANS - IT COMES FROM THE LATIN WORD 39:59 'COMPATI' - I PROBABLY TORTURED IT, BUT IT MEANS THIS: 'TO 40:04 SUFFER WITH' - THAT'S WHAT COMPASSION MEANS - TO SUFFER 40:09 WITH. COMPASSION IS NOT A PASSING 40:13 FLEETING THOUGHT, IT'S A WILLINGNESS TO SUFFER. 40:17 I KNEW WE'D HAVE TO SAY WHO WAS THE ULTIMATE SHOWER OF 40:19 COMPASSION? JESUS CHRIST - HE SUFFERED WITH US, DID HE NOT? 40:24 >>AMEN. >>HE HAD COMPASSION ON US. 40:33 THERE'S A LADY THAT I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF MEETING. 40:36 I THINK I'VE SHARED HER STORY BEFORE BUT I WANT TO SHARE A 40:37 PORTION OF IT AGAIN. SHE HAD SOME MEETING IN THE 40:41 COUNTRY OF THAILAND AND WHEN I SPENT SOME TIME WITH HER I 40:45 REALIZED THAT SHE HAD SOMETHING CALLED COMPASSION. 40:48 NOW, IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THAT WAY ALWAYS - FROM THE OUTWARDS, 40:50 SOMETIMES, WITH A PERSON, BUT I COULD SEE, DEFINITELY, AS I 40:52 SPENT TIME WITH HER THAT IS SOMETHING THAT SHE HAS. 40:56 SHE CAME AS A MISSIONARY TO THAILAND 34 YEARS AGO IN HER 41:02 EARLY 40S - SHE IS NOW IN HER MID 70S - GOES BACK TO HER HOME 41:06 COUNTRY A MONTH EVERY YEAR TO GET REJUVENATED BUT SPENDS HER 41:10 LIFE IN THAILAND MINISTERING. 41:14 SHE, BY AND LARGE, EATS THE WAY THEY DO, LIVES THE WAY THEY DO - 41:19 I'VE BEEN TO HER HOUSE - ALMOST IDENTICAL TO THE PEOPLE WHO SHE 41:23 MINISTERS WITH. SHE HAS COMPASSION. 41:25 SHE HAS LEARNED TO SUFFER WITH - BEAUTIFUL. 41:33 IS THERE SOMEONE GOD'S CALLING YOU TO SHOW COMPASSION ON? 41:39 THIS MORNING IS SOMEONE ON YOUR HEART - OR SOME GROUP OF PEOPLE 41:42 ON YOUR HEART - OR SOME PLACE THAT GOD HAS ASKED YOU TO HAVE 41:45 COMPASSION ON? MAYBE GOD'S ALREADY PLACED SOME 41:48 PLACE ON YOUR HEART AND RIGHT NOW YOU ARE SHOWING COMPASSION - 41:51 YOU ARE SUFFERING WITH - AND I GUARANTEE YOU THAT YOU ARE 41:55 SHOWING THE LOVE OF GOD IN A WAY THAT'S INCREDIBLE. 41:59 THAT'S WHAT GOD'S ASKING. TO TRULY BE WITH HIM IS 42:05 ALSO TO HAVE HIS COMPASSION. DID JESUS PAY A COST FOR US? 42:11 >>YES. >>HEBREWS CHAPTER 2, VERSES 16 42:15 THROUGH 17 TELLS US THAT HE TOOK ON OUR NATURE. THAT WAS A LITTLE 42:19 BIT OF A COST - AT LEAST IF IT WAS A NATURE LIKE MINE. 42:23 THAT WAS DEFINITELY A LITTLE BIT OF COST, RIGHT? 42:26 YOU COULD SAY AMEN. >>AMEN. 42:28 >>2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 8 AND VERSE 9 IS THAT HE WAS MADE POOR 42:36 SO THAT I COULD BE MADE RICH. >>AMEN. 42:39 >>SO HE TOOK ON POVERTY - NOT ONLY DID HE TAKE ON MY NATURE, 42:42 HE TOOK ON MY POVERTY. 42:44 PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 2, VERSES 7 THROUGH 8 - STARTING IN VERSE 5 42:48 IT SAYS HE TOOK UPON - HE HAD THIS MIND IN HIM, RIGHT? 42:51 THAT HE WAS WILLING TO GO TO THE DEATH - EVEN THE DEATH OF THE 42:53 CROSS - SUFFER HUMILIATION. HE PAID THE COST. 42:59 NOT JUST OUR NATURE AND POVERTY, BUT DEATH AND HUMILIATION. 43:01 YOU KNOW, HEBREWS 4 ALSO TELLS US THAT HE WAS TEMPTED IN ALL 43:04 WAYS LIKE YOU AND I ARE, YET WITHOUT SIN. 43:06 HE WAS TEMPTED - WHAT A COST. WHY WOULD HE DO THAT? 43:11 WHY WOULD ANYONE PAY THAT KIND OF PRICE? 43:19 HE HAD COMPASSION. >>AMEN. 43:21 >>HE HAD SYMPATHY AND SYMPATHY PAYS THE COST. 43:26 SYMPATHY HEARS, SYMPATHY ACTS, SYMPATHY PAYS THE COST. 43:29 AND OUR FINAL POINT THIS MORNING: SYMPATHY FEELS - OR I 43:36 COULD USE THE WORD 'WEEPS' - SYMPATHY FEELS - SYMPATHY WEEPS. 43:45 A 17-YEAR-OLD GIRL, GOING THROUGH THE STRUGGLES THAT 43:50 17-YEAR-OLD GIRLS GO THROUGH, I GUESS - I WOULDN'T KNOW - BUT 43:54 THEN, SO MUCH MORE. ENDED UP TAKING HER LIFE. 44:00 HER PARENTS WERE JUST IN INCREDIBLE SORROW AS THEY SAT 44:04 THERE TRYING TO GRAPPLE WHAT HAD JUST TAKEN PLACE IN THEIR HOME. 44:08 AND THE PASTOR CAME BY AND HE SAT DOWN NEXT TO THEM AND JUST 44:17 SAT THERE AND TRIED TO GRAPPLE WITH WHAT THEY WERE GOING 44:22 THROUGH. AFTER AWHILE HE STARTED CRYING 44:25 UNCONTROLLABLY AND CRIED UNTIL HE HAD NO TEARS LEFT. 44:31 AND THEN HE GOT UP AND LEFT. THE HUSBAND AND WIFE DIDN'T NEED 44:40 WORDS RIGHT THEN, THEY SIMPLY NEEDED SYMPATHY - RAW SYMPATHY. 44:48 THEY SAID LATER THAT IT WAS THE BEST THING THAT COULD HAVE 44:50 HAPPENED TO THEM - SOMEONE COULD JUST SIT THERE AND CRY WITH 44:53 THEM. SYMPATHY WEEPS - IT FEELS THE 44:58 NEEDS OF THOSE WHO WE ARE MINISTERING TO. 45:02 BY THE WAY, THAT SAME SYMPATHY THAT WE SHOW IS THE SYMPATHY 45:06 THAT GOD SHOWS FOR YOU AND I. HE WEEPS WHEN YOU'RE CRYING. 45:12 HE CARES ABOUT WHAT YOU AND I ARE EXPERIENCING. 45:15 YOU KNOW, WILLIAM BOOTH - GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH, FOUNDER 45:19 OF THE SALVATION ARMY, MADE THIS STATEMENT WHICH IS - I'M NOT 45:24 COMFORTABLE WITH THIS STATEMENT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE IT IS 45:28 ATTACKING ME HARDER THAN I'VE BEEN ATTACKED BY A QUOTATION IN 45:30 AWHILE. IT SAYS THIS: "IF YOU CAN'T CRY 45:33 OVER THE CITY, WE CAN'T USE YOU." 45:38 IF YOU CAN'T CRY OVER THE CITY, WE CAN'T USE YOU. 45:43 THAT'S A PRETTY - ANYHOW, LIKE I SAID, IT'S A LITTLE HARD FOR ME. 45:50 REMEMBER JESUS - LUKE CHAPTER 19 - LUKE CHAPTER 19 AND VERSE 41 - 45:55 LET'S - WE CAN ACTUALLY TURN THERE - WE'VE BEEN QUOTING ONE 45:57 SO LET'S ACTUALLY TO THIS ONE - LUKE CHAPTER 19 AND VERSE 41 - 46:09 THIS IS THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY AS THEY'RE GOING - JESUS HAS A 46:13 TRIUMPHAL ENTRY SUNDAY, GOING INTO THE - JERUSALEM - "AND WHEN 46:16 HE WAS COME NEAR, HE BEHELD THE CITY, AND" - THE BIBLE SAYS HE 46:19 "WEPT OVER IT." VERSE 42 - "SAYING, 'IF THOU HADST KNOWN, 46:23 EVEN THOU, AT LEAST IN THIS THY DAY, THE THINGS WHICH BELONG 46:27 UNTO THY PEACE! BUT NOW THEY ARE HID FROM THINE EYES. 46:29 FOR THE DAY SHALL COME UPON THEE, THAT THINE ENEMIES SHALL 46:32 CAST A TRENCH ABOUT THEE, AND COMPASS THEE ROUND, AND KEEP 46:36 THEE ON EVERY SIDE AND SHALL LAY THEE EVEN WITH THE GROUND, AND 46:39 THY CHILDREN WITHIN THEE; AND THEY SHALL NOT LEAVE IN THEE ONE 46:41 STONE UPON ANOTHER; BECAUSE THOU KNEWEST NOT THE TIME OF THY 46:45 VISITATION.'" WHAT'S HE SAYING? 'I CAME TO YOU AND 46:53 YOU DIDN'T REALIZE IT. YOU KICKED ME AWAY. 46:57 YOU REJECTED ME AND YOU WILL BE DESTROYED BECAUSE OF YOUR 46:59 ACTIONS. THIS IS NOT FROM ME, THIS IS YOUR CHOICE. 47:05 IF ONLY YOU KNEW WHAT WAS HAPPENING.' THE VERY PEOPLE WHO 47:09 KILL HIM, HE KNOWS ARE GOING TO KILL HIM. HE'S NOW WEEPING OVER 47:15 THEIR FUTURE. I BELIEVE TO WEEP OVER OUR SORROW IS HUMAN. 47:20 TO WEEP OVER OUR ENEMIES' SORROW IS DIVINE. 47:23 >>AMEN. >>TO WEEP FOR OURSELVES - WE ALL 47:27 DO THAT - BUT TO WEEP FOR THE SORROW OF OUR ENEMY? 47:31 THAT TAKES GOD. THAT'S A LOVE THAT'S BEYOND OUR HUMANITY. 47:36 BY THE WAY, HE CAN GIVE IT TO US. >>AMEN. 47:38 >>I KNOW IT'S NOT IN ME, BY NATURE, AND I WOULD ASSUME - I 47:41 HOPE YOU DON'T MIND ME STEPPING ON YOUR TOES - IT'S NOT IN ANY 47:43 OF YOU, BY NATURE, EITHER. >>AMEN. 47:45 >>IT'S ONLY FROM GOD, BUT THAT'S THE KIND OF LOVE HE CAN GIVE US. 47:53 JOHN CHAPTER 11 - NOT ONLY DID HE WEEP THERE - THERE'S A COUPLE 47:59 PLACES WHERE WE SEE JESUS WEEPING. 48:01 THIS IS ANOTHER ONE - JOHN CHAPTER 11 AND VERSE 35 - JOHN 48:11 11:35 - I GUESS IF YOU JUST READ IT WE WON'T KNOW THE CONTEXT, 48:15 BUT I'M GOING TO ASSUME YOU ALL KNOW THE CONTEXT: LAZARUS HAS 48:18 DIED - ONE OF THE CLOSE FRIENDS OF JESUS - THEY ARE AT THE TOMB 48:21 WITH MARY AND MARTHA. JESUS SEES THE GRAVE - HE SEES A 48:25 LOT - HE KNOWS A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN THE MINDS 48:27 OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE EVEN THERE MOURNING THE 48:29 DEATH OF LAZARUS. THERE'S A LOT HAPPENING. 48:32 IT SAYS THAT JESUS - IN VERSE 33 - WAS GROANED IN THE SPIRIT - HE 48:35 GROANED IN THE SPIRIT AND WAS TROUBLED. 48:38 AND IN VERSE 35 IT SAYS, "JESUS WEPT." 48:42 WHY? WHY DID HE WEEP? 48:45 YES, I KNOW THERE'S A LONG PROFOUND ANSWER THAT TALKS ABOUT 48:48 HE WAS WEEPING BECAUSE HE KNEW THAT PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE WERE 48:51 ACTUALLY GOING TO TRY TO KILL LAZARUS AGAIN - NOT THAT THEY 48:53 KILLED HIM THE FIRST TIME, BUT THEY WOULD TRY TO KILL HIM AFTER 48:56 HIS RESURRECTION. THERE WERE GOING TO BE ONES IN 48:57 THAT CROWD WHO WERE GOING TO KILL HIM. 48:59 HE WASN'T WEEPING FOR LAZARUS BECAUSE HE KNEW LAZARUS WAS 49:02 GOING TO BE RAISED UP FROM THE DEAD. 49:03 BUT HE WAS ALSO WEEPING FOR ANOTHER REASON: HE WAS WEEPING 49:05 IN SYMPATHY WITH MARY AND MARTHA. 49:08 YOU KNOW, ROMANS CHAPTER 12 AND VERSE 15 TELLS US SOMETHING - 49:13 ROMANS CHAPTER 12 AND VERSE 15, "REJOICE WITH THEM THAT DO 49:22 REJOICE, AND WEEP WITH THEM THAT WEEP." 49:26 REJOICE WITH THEM THAT DO REJOICE AND WEEP WITH THEM THAT 49:29 DO WEEP. I ADDED AN EXTRA 'DO'. IT'S OKAY TO CRY WITH SOMEONE 49:38 JUST BECAUSE THEY NEED TO BE CRIED WITH. 49:41 IT'S OKAY TO LAUGH WITH SOMEONE BECAUSE THEY NEED SOMEONE TO 49:44 LAUGH WITH THEM. JESUS DID IT. IT'S A CALL I THINK 49:48 HE'S ASKED US TO DO. IT'S A PART OF MINISTRY. 49:51 SYMPATHY HEARS. SYMPATHY ACTS. 49:56 SYMPATHY PAYS THE PRICE. AND SYMPATHY WEEPS. 50:04 "THE WEIGHT OF GRIEF OF AGES WAS UPON HIM" - DESIRE OF AGES PAGE 50:08 534 - "HE SAW THE TERRIBLE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSGRESSION OF 50:11 GOD'S LAW. HE SAW THEN THE HISTORY OF THE 50:14 WORLD BEGINNING WITH THE DEATH OF ABEL, THE CONFLICT BETWEEN 50:17 GOOD AND EVIL HAD BEEN UNCEASING. 50:19 LOOKING DOWN THE YEARS TO COME HE SAW THE SUFFERING AND SORROW, 50:27 TEARS AND DEATH, THAT WERE TO BE THE LOT OF MEN. 50:34 HIS HEART WAS PIERCED WITH THE PAIN OF THE HUMAN FAMILY OF ALL 50:40 AGES AND IN ALL LANDS. THE WOES OF THIS SINFUL RACE 50:49 WERE HEAVY UPON HIS SOUL AND THE FOUNTAIN OF HIS TEARS WAS BROKEN 50:54 UP AS HE LONGED TO RELIEVE ALL THEIR DISTRESS." 51:00 THINK ABOUT IT: THE SORROW OF ALL PEOPLE IN ALL LANDS. 51:07 SO I HAVE A SYMPATHY HERE THAT JESUS HAS AND THIS SYMPATHY 51:12 HEARS THE CRIES OF ALL PEOPLE - THE GROANINGS OF ALL PEOPLE. 51:16 THIS SYMPATHY ACTS UPON IT AND DOES WHATEVER IS NECESSARY. 51:21 THIS SYMPATHY DOESN'T WORRY ABOUT THE COST BUT PAYS IT 51:26 FREELY. AND THIS SYMPATHY FEELS. THAT'S INCREDIBLE SYMPATHY AND 51:34 THAT'S THE SYMPATHY OF JESUS CHRIST. 51:37 SO WHEN WE GO BACK AND WE LOOK AT THIS CONCEPT OF HOW JESUS 51:42 SHOWED SYMPATHY, IT'S NOT THAT HE JUST HAD SOME KIND OF INTENSE 51:47 FEELING OF 'THAT'S TERRIBLE. I'M SORRY YOU'RE GOING THROUGH 51:49 THAT.' IT WAS SO MUCH MORE. WHAT AN AWESOME GOD WE SERVE. 51:56 >>AMEN. >>SO HE CAME HERE. 52:00 HE HEARD OUR CRY. AND 2,000 YEARS AGO HE TOOK UPON OUR 52:06 NATURE - HE TOOK UPON OUR FLESH AND HE CAME HERE AND HE ACTED. 52:15 THEN HE PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE - THE PRICE OF HIS OWN LIFE. 52:19 AND I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU THAT TODAY HE STILL FEELS. 52:25 >>AMEN. >>HE STILL HEARS. 52:28 WE HAVE A SAVIOR WHO IS AWESOME. >>AMEN. 52:32 >>I WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE YOU WITH MARK CHAPTER - MATTHEW CHAPTER 9 52:42 AND VERSE 36 - MATTHEW 9, VERSE 36 (PAGES TURNING) "BUT WHEN HE 53:01 SAW THE MULTITUDES, HE WAS MOVED WITH COMPASSION ON THEM, BECAUSE 53:07 THEY FAINTED, AND WERE SCATTERED ABROAD, AS SHEEP HAVING NO 53:12 SHEPHERD." TODAY, REMEMBER THE SYMPATHY OF 53:17 OUR GOD - HE HAS COMPASSION ON YOU AND ON THE WORLD 53:20 THAT IS AROUND YOU. CAN WE PRAY AS WE CLOSE? 53:25 OUR FATHER, WE'VE BEEN MOVED AS WE LEARN ABOUT THE 53:29 INCREDIBLE SYMPATHY OF JESUS TOWARDS US. 53:35 FATHER, WE JUST WANT TO PRAISE YOU THIS MORNING FOR IT. 53:38 HELP US TO HAVE JOY IN THAT LOVE - TO REST IN THAT COMPASSION AND 53:45 SYMPATHY AND THEN, FATHER, TO SHARE IT WITH OTHER PEOPLE. 53:48 WE PRAY FOR THIS IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS, AMEN. 53:54 WE HAVE A FREE OFFER - JUST WANT TO REMIND YOU, IF YOU HAVEN'T 53:58 HAD A CHANCE TO CALL ON IT, IT'S OFFER #801 AND THE NUMBER TO 54:03 CALL WOULD BE 1-866-788-3966 THAT IS 866-788-3966. 54:11 THANK YOU SO MUCH. GOD BLESS YOU. (MUSIC) 54:22 HELLO FRIENDS, WE ALL KNOW A MARATHON IS ONE OF THE 54:24 LONGEST AND HARDEST RACES A PERSON COULD RUN. 54:27 BUT DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE ULTRA MARATHON THEY USED TO HAVE 54:30 IN AUSTRALIA? IT WAS 544 MILES FROM MELBOURNE TO SYDNEY. 54:35 IT ATTRACTED AS MANY AS 150 WORLD-CLASS ATHLETES. 54:39 BUT THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED THAT NO ONE WOULD EVER FORGET. 54:42 IN 1983 A 61-YEAR-OLD POTATO FARMER NAMED CLIFF YOUNG DECIDED 54:47 TO ENTER THE RACE. NOW PEOPLE WERE VERY AMUSED 54:49 BECAUSE HE HAD ON RUBBER GALOSHES OVER HIS BOOTS AND 54:53 WHEN THE RACE BEGAN AND ALL THE RUNNERS TOOK OFF, SURE ENOUGH 54:56 OLD CLIFF WAS LEFT BEHIND SHUFFLING ALONG VERY SLOWLY 55:00 - BUT HE WAS SHUFFLING VERY PERSISTENTLY. 55:03 NORMALLY, DURING THIS 7-DAY RACE, THE RUNNERS WOULD GO ABOUT 55:06 18 HOURS RUNNING AND THEN THEY'D SLEEP FOR 6 HOURS, BUT NOBODY 55:10 EVER TOLD CLIFF THAT. WHEN THE OTHER RUNNERS STOPPED 55:13 TO REST DURING THE NIGHT, CLIFF JUST KEPT ON RUNNING. 55:17 SOME PEOPLE WERE AFRAID OLD CLIFF WAS GOING TO HAVE A HEART 55:19 ATTACK AND THEY WERE ASKING THE RACE ORGANIZERS TO SHOW MERCY 55:22 AND STOP THE CRAZY OLD MAN. BUT HE WOULD HAVE NONE OF IT. 55:25 EACH DAY HE WAS GAINING ON THE PACK BECAUSE WHEN THEY WERE 55:28 SLEEPING HE WAS PLODDING ALONG. DURING THE LAST NIGHT OF THE 55:32 RACE CLIFF PASSED ALL OF THESE WORLD-CLASS ATHLETES. 55:37 NOT ONLY WAS CLIFF ABLE TO RUN THAT 544-MILE RACE WITHOUT 55:40 DYING, HE WON - BEATING ALL THE OTHER RACERS BY 9 HOURS, 55:45 BREAKING THE RECORD AND BECOMING A NATIONAL HERO IN THE PROCESS. 55:49 WHAT'S REALLY AMAZING IS THAT WHEN THEY TOLD HIM HE HAD WON 55:51 THE $10,000.00 PRIZE, HE LOOKED CONFUSED AND SAID HE DIDN'T KNOW 55:54 THERE WAS A PRIZE AND HE DECIDED TO SHARE IT WITH THE OTHER 55:57 RUNNERS. WHEN ASKED HOW HE WAS ABLE 56:00 TO RUN ALL NIGHT LONG, CLIFF RESPONDED THAT HE GREW UP ON A 56:03 FARM WHERE THEY HAD ABOUT 2,000 HEAD OF CATTLE AND, BECAUSE THEY 56:06 COULDN'T AFFORD HORSES, HE USED TO HAVE TO ROUND THEM UP ON 56:08 FOOT, SOMETIMES RUNNING TWO AND THREE DAYS NON-STOP. 56:12 SO, THROUGHOUT THE RACE, HE JUST IMAGINED THAT HE WAS CHASING 56:14 AFTER THE COWS AND TRYING TO OUTRUN A STORM. 56:17 OLD CLIFF'S SECRET WAS TO KEEP ON RUNNING WHILE OTHERS WERE 56:21 SLEEPING. YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US 56:23 THAT THE RACE IS NOT NECESSARILY TO THE SWIFT. 56:26 SOMETHING LIKE AESOP'S FABLE OF THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE - THE 56:30 TORTOISE JUST KEPT ON PLODDING ALONG. 56:32 THAT'S WHY JESUS TELLS US IN MATTHEW 24:13, 'HE THAT ENDURES 56:36 UNTO THE END, THE SAME WILL BE SAVED.' 56:39 NOW YOU MIGHT SLIP AND FALL DURING THE RACE. 56:41 YOU MIGHT EVEN GET OFF TO A BAD START. 56:43 BUT IN THE CHRISTIAN RACE THAT WE RUN, THE MAIN THING IS YOU 56:46 WANT TO FINISH WELL. 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