The supreme test of goodness is not in the greater but in the smaller incidents of our character and practice; not what we are when standing in the searchlight of public scrutiny, but when we reach the firelight flicker of our homes; not what we are when some clarion-call rings through the air, summoning us to fight for life and liberty, but our attitude when we are called to sentry-duty in the gray morning, when the watch-fire is burning low. It is impossible to be our best at the supreme moment if character is corroded and eaten into by daily inconsistency, unfaithfulness, and besetting sin.
F.B. Meyer

COMPASSION and Sympathy

COMPASSION and Sympathy

COMPASSION and Sympathy

  1. Christ set an example of # Lu 19:41,42
  2. Exhortation to # Ro 12:15 1Pe 3:8
  3. EXERCISE TOWARDS 3a) The afflicted

    # Job 6:14 Heb 13:3

3b) The chastened # Isa 22:4 Jer 9:1 3c) Enemies # Ps 35:13 3d) The poor # Pr 19:17 3e) The weak # 2Co 11:29 Ga 6:2 3f) Saints # 1Co 12:25,26 4) Inseparable from love to God # 1Jo 3:17 Joh 4:20 5) MOTIVES TO 5a) The compassion of God # Mt 13:27,33 5b) The sense of our infirmities # Heb 5:2 6) The wicked made to feel, for saints # Ps 106:46 7) Promise to those who show # Pr 19:17 Mt 10:42 8) Illustrated # Lu 10:33 15:20 9) Exemplified 9a) Pharaoh’s daughter # Ex 2:6 9b) Shobi, &c # 2Sa 17:27-29 9c) Elijah # 1Ki 17:18,19 9d) Nehemiah # Ne 1:4 9e) Job’s friends # Job 2:11 9f) Job # Job 30:25 9g) David # Ps 35:13,14 9h) Jews # Joh 11:19 9i) Paul # 1Co 9:22

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