Kingdom Compassion

Kingdom Compassion

While Jesus taught and preached about the kingdom, His actions and attitudes were driven by compassion. Of course, His advent, His life, His ministry, His death, resurrection and ascension were expressions of the Father's love and His too.

[My Offline Bible] John 3
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[My Offline Bible] John 15
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Jesus Christ changed the game by moving us from loving our neighbors, to loving our enemies but beyond that to loving not as we love ourselves to loving as He has loved us.

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 5
43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? 47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? 48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

[My Offline Bible] John 15
9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

[My Offline Bible] John 15
12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

That's the reason why John the beloved told us by the Holy Spirit that if you don't have love and show it, it is not sure that you are born again...

[My Offline Bible] 1 John 3
14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? 18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

This is the kingdom life! Where through compassion the strong supports the weak not necessarily indulging them because we still have to tell the truth in love.

In fact, whatever we do outside of love, not motivated by love, not mediated by love is sin...

Ministry must be motivated by love for it to be of Christ. The lifestyle of Christianity isn't about how much we can pray, preach and do miracles.....it is about how much we can show Christ kind of love.

We may have relegated the love lifestyle to the background because it takes from us and makes us look weak and vulnerable. We don't want to look weak, foolish, and we don't want to be taken advantage of...

The flesh doesn't want that... But the recreated spirit that the new birth gives us doesn't achieve self importance and satisfaction by exerting himself or by how high or how much it attained but by how much it can give and release...

This is the precursor of the peace in God's Kingdom, it is the precursor of Kingdom prosperity, it is what makes our spiritual efforts and ministry count... Otherwise whatever we do is a waste...

[My Offline Bible] 1 Corinthians 13
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

The revival of love is  the revival of true Christianity ...it is in that that we show enough compassion that'll cause the grace and power of God to flow freely to do miracles beyond our wildest imaginations, not for show or superstardom but to meet needs in love and then we would have good enough right to challenge the erring telling the hard truth in love...

It's unfortunate that this kind of love is stood up against even from the pulpits...it's easier to support selfishness, subtle pride, oppression of the weak and so exalting the flesh as each seek his own and not the things that make for the building up of all...this supports our self aggrandizement and establishes the class culture of the world in church... Where we love our own, those who are like us and those who please us...while the others wouldn't even find space in our minds being burdensome... This isn't the spirit of Christ and a waste of Kingdom resources...

We should reassess our belief system and exorcise worldliness and it's covetousness to seek Christ acceptably and so preserve our souls...

When we show love and give to meet someone else's needs...we aren't doing such person a favor, we are only showing forth the real person God had made us...

Good morning!