The Power and Purpose of Compassion

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The Power and Purpose of Compassion

• When mercy triumphs

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The Power of Compassion

• Praise the Lord, O my soul, and
• forget not all his benefits--
• Who forgives all your sins
• And heals all your diseases,
• Who redeems your life from the pit
• And crowns you with love
• and compassion Psalm 1032-4

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• Compassion always leads to something
• Who forgives all your sins
• And heals all your diseases,
• Who redeems your life from the pit
• And crowns you with love
• and compassion

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• Forgives all your sins
• He does not treat us as our sins
• deserve or repay us according to our
• iniquities. Psalm 10310
• You will again have compassion on
• us you will tread our sins underfoot
• and hurl all our iniquities into the
• depths of the sea. Micah 719

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• Heals all your diseases
• Let your compassion come to me
• that I may live! Psalm 11977
• I will give you a new heart and put a
• new spirit in you I will remove from
• you your heart of stone and give you
• a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 3626

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• Redeems your life from the pit
• O Israel, put your hope in the Lord,
• for with the Lord is unfailing love
• and with him is full redemption.
• He himself will redeem Israel
• from all their sins. Psalm 1307-8

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• Redeem
• To save a life that has become
• legally forfeit.
• Grace and peace to you from God
• our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
• who gave himself for our sins to
• rescue us Galatians 13-4

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• Crowns you with love and
• Compassion
• Though the mountains be shaken
• and the hills be removed, yet my
• unfailing love for you will not be
• shaken nor my covenant of peace be
• removed," says the Lord, who has
• compassion on you. Isaiah 5410

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How do we live in compassion?

• Repent, then, and turn to God, so
• that your sins may be wiped out,
• that times of refreshing may come
• from the Lord Acts 319

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• Repentance always comes before compassion
• Compassion comes before mercy
• Mercy comes to rescue restore
• All God needs from us is a hungry heart and a
  desire to know him

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• Taking it to the world
• "Two men owed money to banker. One
• owed him 20,000 and the other 2000.
• Neither of them had the money to pay him
• back, so he canceled the debts of both.
• Now which of them will love him more?"
• Simon replied, "I suppose the one who had
• the bigger debt canceled.
• "You have judged correctly," Jesus said.

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• Compassion leading to mercy
• Who forgives all your sins
• And heals all your diseases,
• Who redeems your life from the pit
• And crowns
• Flows from all of us who will humbly accept it
  from God.