Compassion

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Compassion

• Created by MB Raper 12/08

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Definitions

• Merriam Webster Definition of Compassion Noun
  to bear or suffer sympathetic consciousness of
  others distress together with a desire to
  alleviate it.

• Merriam Webster Thesaurus Definition of
  Compassion sorrow or the capacity to feel sorrow
  for anothers suffering or misfortune capacity
  for feeling anothers unhappiness or misfortune.

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• ANTONYMS
• Cruelty
• Harshness
• Hatred
• Indifference
• Meanness
• Mercilessness

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LACK OF COMPASSION

• Unmerciful Servant
• Matthew 1823-35
• Servant owed large debt he could not pay
• Master could sell servant, his family, his
  belongings
• Servant begged for mercy
• Master had compassion and forgave entire debt
• Second servant owed small debt to first servant
• Debt could not be paid
• First servant had his servant thrown into prison
• Master angry and executed punishment for the
  first servant

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• 32 Then the master called his servant in, You
  wicked servant, he said, I canceled all the
  debt of yours because you begged me to.
• 33 Shouldnt you have had mercy on your fellow
  servant just as I had on you?
• 34 In anger his master turned him over to the
  jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back
  all he owed.
• 35 This is how my heavenly Father will treat
  each of you
• unless you show compassion to your brother
  from your heart.

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LACK OF COMPASSION BRINGS CONSEQUENCES

• Proverbs 2113
• Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor
  will himself cry out and not be answered.
• Proverbs 24 17-18
• Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not
  let your heart be glad when he stumbles, lest the
  LORD see it and be displeased, and turn away His
  anger from him.

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SYNONYMS

• Benevolence
• Charity
• Clemency
• Commiseration
• Compunction
• Condolence
• Consideration
• Empathy

• GRACE
• Heart
• KINDNESS
• MERCY
• Sorrow
• Sympathy
• Tenderness

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COMPASSION EXPRESSED

• The Parable of the Prodigal Son
• Luke 1512-32
• Youngest son rejects family, demands inheritance,
  leaves home
• Made fair-weathered friends, lives it up
• Spent fortune, is alone, homeless, hungry
• Decides to go home and ask to be a servant
• Father always watching for his sons return
• Sees him a long way off, runs to meet him
• Had a Welcome Home Party

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• 28 But the older brother became angry and
  refused to go in (to the party). So his father
  went out and pleaded with him.
• 29 But he answered his father, Look! All these
  years Ive been slaving for you and never
  disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me
  even a young goat so I could celebrate with my
  friends.
• 30 But when this son of yours who has squandered
  your property with prostitutes comes home, you
  kill the fatted calf for him!
• 31 My son, the father said, you are always
  with me, and everything I have is yours.
• 32 But we had to celebrate and be glad, because
  this brother of yours was dead and is alive
  again he was lost and is found.

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BENEFITS OF COMPASSION

• Proverbs 1117 A man who is kind benefits
  himself, but a cruel man hurts himself.
• Proverbs 1431 Whoever oppresses a poor man
  insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the
  needy honors Him.

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Remember the Golden Rule.

• Luke 631 Do to others as you would have them do
  to you.

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• Teach us dear God, to have compassion enough to
  realize that all men are created in Your image.
• Marian Anderson