HEART OF ACTION (3 OF 9)
Scripture: Matthew 14:14-21
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Heart of Action (3 of 9)
Series: Christ's Heart for Sinners
Stephen Whitney
Matthew 14:14-21
In the early morning on March 13, 1964 Kitty Genovese was brutally attacked with a knife as she returned to her apartment in Queens, New York. She screamed and shrieked as she fought for her life. Yelling until she was hoarse, for thirty minutes she was beaten and abused. Thirty-eight people watched the half-hour episode from their windows across the street. Not one so much as walked over to the phone and called the police. Kitty died that night as thirty-eight witnesses stared in silence.
Her death helped to create the hotline we know as 911so people can quickly call the authorities in the case of an emergency.
Apathy is the exact opposite of compassion.
Compassion is defined as: suffering along with another;
an act of mercy, full of pity; tender-hearted.
Synonyms are: empathy, sympathy or tenderness.
Writer James Joyce – “Pity (compassion) is the feeling which arrests the mind . . . and unites it with the human sufferer.”
Background
Matthew 9:35-36 Jesus went through throughout all the cities
. . . when Jesus saw the crowds, he had compassion on them . . .
Jesus saw sadness everywhere he went. He saw hurting people who needed someone who would personally care for them.
The humanity of Christ is revealed by his heart of compassion for people who were hurting with no one who cared for their needs.
COMPASSION :14
Great crowd – 5,000 men plus women and children (:21)
so the crowd could have been as large as 20,000 people.
In a large crowd people are just numbers because you personally don’t know who all the different people are or their problems.
In a large crowd there will certainly be people who are hurting.
They may be hurting from disease, broken relationships, depression, rejection, helplessness or addiction.
Proverbs 14:10 NIV – Each heart knows its own bitterness.
No one really knows the pain you feel in your hea ...
Series: Christ's Heart for Sinners
Stephen Whitney
Matthew 14:14-21
In the early morning on March 13, 1964 Kitty Genovese was brutally attacked with a knife as she returned to her apartment in Queens, New York. She screamed and shrieked as she fought for her life. Yelling until she was hoarse, for thirty minutes she was beaten and abused. Thirty-eight people watched the half-hour episode from their windows across the street. Not one so much as walked over to the phone and called the police. Kitty died that night as thirty-eight witnesses stared in silence.
Her death helped to create the hotline we know as 911so people can quickly call the authorities in the case of an emergency.
Apathy is the exact opposite of compassion.
Compassion is defined as: suffering along with another;
an act of mercy, full of pity; tender-hearted.
Synonyms are: empathy, sympathy or tenderness.
Writer James Joyce – “Pity (compassion) is the feeling which arrests the mind . . . and unites it with the human sufferer.”
Background
Matthew 9:35-36 Jesus went through throughout all the cities
. . . when Jesus saw the crowds, he had compassion on them . . .
Jesus saw sadness everywhere he went. He saw hurting people who needed someone who would personally care for them.
The humanity of Christ is revealed by his heart of compassion for people who were hurting with no one who cared for their needs.
COMPASSION :14
Great crowd – 5,000 men plus women and children (:21)
so the crowd could have been as large as 20,000 people.
In a large crowd people are just numbers because you personally don’t know who all the different people are or their problems.
In a large crowd there will certainly be people who are hurting.
They may be hurting from disease, broken relationships, depression, rejection, helplessness or addiction.
Proverbs 14:10 NIV – Each heart knows its own bitterness.
No one really knows the pain you feel in your hea ...
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