Character of God - Compassion

What is compassion?

• "suffer with"

• womb

• amity

• sacrifice

Pick the correct words for compassion in Hebrew and Greek

• Rakhum - Greek

• Rakhum - Hebrew

• Raccoon - Greek

• Oiktirmos - Hebrew

• Oiktirmos - Greek

Compassion is...

• the core of everyone's personality

• only in women because they birth children

• the love that God has for us

• feeling moved and doing nothing

• an emotional feeling and action

Are you compassionate?

• Yes - most of the time

• No - none of the time

• Sometimes - 50/50

• I try my best...

God's acts of compassion:

• Answering our cries and prayers

• Providing

• Freed the Israelites from Eqypt

• Taking us out from our sin

What did God's people do?

• Did not build altars

• Go back to Egypt

• Refused to return His compassion

• Did not worship other gods

God wants us to:

• Be moved by suffering

• Feel contempt

• Mirror His image

• Care for others

God is

• silent

• steadfast

• sanctimonious

• sedentary

“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast

and have no compassion on the child she has borne?

Though she may forget,

I will not forget you!

See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;

your walls are ever before me."

• Psalm 91:9-10

• Psalm 100: 3-4

• Isaiah 55:6-7

• Isaiah 49:15-16

Compassion is a fruit of the spirit

• True

• False