HEART THAT TOUCHES (3 OF 10)
Scripture: Mark 1:40-45
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Heart That Touches (3 of 10)
Series: The Heart of Jesus
Stephen Whitney
Mark 1:40-45
B.B. Warfield (D. 1921) was a professor of theology at Princeton Seminary from 1887 - 1921. Some conservative Presbyterians consider him to be the last of the great Princeton theologians before the spit in 1929 that formed Westminster Seminary.
In describing the ministry of Jesus he wrote, ''The emotion which we should naturally expect to find most frequently attributed to Jesus whose whole life was a mission of mercy, and whose ministry was so marked by deeds of beneficence that is was summed up in the memory of his followers as a going through the land 'doing good' (Acts 11:38), is no doubt 'compassion'.''
Compassion is defined as: suffering with another or sympathy. It is having a tender heart towards someone who is hurting. Our English word comes from the Latin com meaning ''with'' and passio meaning ''suffering.'' When you have compassion for someone, you ''suffer with'' them.
In NT times the word compassion was used to express what a mother felt for her child in her womb. Jesus went out of his way to embrace the unloved and unworthy, to prove that ''nobodies'' matter to God even if society rejects them.
Jesus showed us that he loved people as individuals.
DIRECT REQUEST :40 Leper - was ceremonially unclean meaning they could not go to the temple to worship. They were outcasts of society meaning they were not allowed around people who did not have leprosy and therefore, had to live outside of town.
In the OT leprosy was defined as a skin rash or swelling. Leviticus 13:10-11 If there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white and there is raw flesh in the swelling, it is a chronic leprous disease in the skin of his body.
John MacArthur - ''While the OT term for leprosy includes other skin diseases, this man may have actually had true leprosy, or else his cure would not have created such a sensation.''
Today leprosy is c ...
Series: The Heart of Jesus
Stephen Whitney
Mark 1:40-45
B.B. Warfield (D. 1921) was a professor of theology at Princeton Seminary from 1887 - 1921. Some conservative Presbyterians consider him to be the last of the great Princeton theologians before the spit in 1929 that formed Westminster Seminary.
In describing the ministry of Jesus he wrote, ''The emotion which we should naturally expect to find most frequently attributed to Jesus whose whole life was a mission of mercy, and whose ministry was so marked by deeds of beneficence that is was summed up in the memory of his followers as a going through the land 'doing good' (Acts 11:38), is no doubt 'compassion'.''
Compassion is defined as: suffering with another or sympathy. It is having a tender heart towards someone who is hurting. Our English word comes from the Latin com meaning ''with'' and passio meaning ''suffering.'' When you have compassion for someone, you ''suffer with'' them.
In NT times the word compassion was used to express what a mother felt for her child in her womb. Jesus went out of his way to embrace the unloved and unworthy, to prove that ''nobodies'' matter to God even if society rejects them.
Jesus showed us that he loved people as individuals.
DIRECT REQUEST :40 Leper - was ceremonially unclean meaning they could not go to the temple to worship. They were outcasts of society meaning they were not allowed around people who did not have leprosy and therefore, had to live outside of town.
In the OT leprosy was defined as a skin rash or swelling. Leviticus 13:10-11 If there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white and there is raw flesh in the swelling, it is a chronic leprous disease in the skin of his body.
John MacArthur - ''While the OT term for leprosy includes other skin diseases, this man may have actually had true leprosy, or else his cure would not have created such a sensation.''
Today leprosy is c ...
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