Moved with Compassion

Good morning, Revolution Church. If you guys know we serve a faithful God, I want you to put your hands together with me. I want you to scream out a shout of praise to Jesus! Let's go! You cause in all you do And yours is the way, the truth, the life that I will choose Oh, I know that I know You won't ever let me go Every loan, every heart You are faithful all the time Oh, I've tasted and I've seen You've been so, so good to me And God, I know that I know You're faithful all the time Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh You're faithful all the time Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh No, I will go to the left or right And I will keep heaven in my sight And no, I will not be shaken Nothing is moving me And I've got a faith that's sure of things I cannot say Oh, I know that I know You won't ever let me go Every loan, every heart You are faithful all the time Oh, I've tasted and I've seen You've been so, so good to me And God, I know that I know You're faithful all the time

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh You're faithful all the time Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh And I won't stand on word of man And God, I'll stand on yours instead All of my hope, all of my faith All of it's in your name And the world cannot deny All that you've done in my life All of my days, all of my praise All in Jesus' name And I won't stand on word of man And God, I'll stand on yours instead All of my hope, all of my faith All of it's in your name And the world cannot deny All that you've done in my life All of my days, all of my praise All in Jesus' name All of my days, all of my praise All in Jesus' name Oh, I know that I know You won't ever let me go Every loan, every heart You are faithful all the time Oh, I know that I know You won't ever let me go Every loan, every heart You are faithful all the time Oh, I've tasted and I've seen

You've been so, so good to me And God, I know that I know You're faithful all the time You're faithful all the time Faithful all the time I know that you are faithful And I know that you are good And I know that you are constant You are faithful, God You're a trusting God You're faithful all the time The Lord is God. Oh oh oh oh Faithful all the time Who thought I'd find you at the lowest place? Who thought you'd fill me in the crowd? And who knew you'd make good my mistakes? Nothing like I thought you were, you're better What a God, what a God Oh oh oh oh What a God, what a God Oh yeah, oh oh What a God, what a God You truly are What a God, what a God Oh yeah, oh oh And I thought you showed up for perfection Cause what kind of God looks for the lost? And they say it's love for a sinner You said, no it's not, no it's not

You said, no it's not, no it's not What a God, what a God What a God, what a God What a God, what a God You are, what a God, what a God Oh, what a faithful God Oh, sing it to Him Oh, I'm crying, it's a cry, oh yes And if the highest place I reach is at Your feet Then I've done it all And if the best thing that I've seen is Your glory Then I've seen it all Your love has changed my life Forever satisfied, God You are my everything And if the highest place I reach is at Your feet Then I've done it all And if the best thing that I've seen is Your glory Then I've seen it all Your love has changed my life Forever satisfied, God You are my everything And if one word is the only thing You speak Then I've heard it all And if I feel Your heart and never see Your hand I still have it all No treasure of this life Forever satisfied, God You are my everything You are my everything

You are my everything What a God, what a God What a God, what a God What a God, what a God What a God, what a God And if the highest place I reach is at Your feet Then I've done it all And if the best thing that I've seen is Your glory Then I've seen it all Your love has changed my life Forever satisfied, God You are my everything And if one word is the only thing You speak Then I've heard it all And if I feel Your heart and never see Your hand I still have it all No treasure of this life Forever satisfied, God You are my everything God, You are my everything You are my everything I have spent our ages at Your feet And we've done it all The best thing that I've seen is Your glory And we've seen it all Your love has changed my life Forever satisfied You are my everything One word is the only One word is the only thing You can do

I've done it all And if I feel Your heart I'd rather never see Your face I still have it all No treasure of this life Could ever satisfy that You are my everything God, You are my everything Oh God, You are my everything You are You are my everything You are You are my everything God, You are my everything God, You are my everything Let's just sing that out God, You are my everything You are my everything You are my everything God, You are my everything You are You are my everything You are my everything Worship team, stay up here real quick Heavenly Father God We get low before You right now We give You glory in this place, come on We give You glory in this place, Lord We lift Your name up in this room, God The name above all names

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty Lord, we give You glory today Come on, if God has ever done anything for you I want you to praise right now like He saved you Come on, praise right now I don't know about you, but God has done thing after thing after thing Miracle after miracle Sign after sign in my life In my family's life And He deserves my highest praise And I know that in this room today There is testimony after testimony After testimony of the Lord's goodness And of His miracles And so today what I want to do Is the Bible tells us That one day Every crown that we have right now We're going to lay at the feet Of Jesus Christ We're going to lay it at His feet You know what that means? It means every accomplishment that you think is yours Is His And so right now I just feel like This song where we're singing God, You're my everything You're my everything You're my everything

The Lord's asking the question Is He really your everything? And if He is It's time to worship Like He is Alright So right now we're going to go back into this bridge We're going to go back into this bridge And we're going to, listen If God didn't do one more thing for you It's enough It's enough You guys understand those lyrics? If He didn't do anything else God is enough I don't know about you But I'm breathing today I'm able to speak I'm able to see I'm able to walk God has given you a miracle Right here If you're walking If you're standing If you're lifting your hands God is working through your life And somebody needs to hear this I know this ain't planned but hey We ain't got a service after this So it'll be alright

Somebody came in here today And you need to hear this God still has purpose For your life You're not too far gone You haven't committed so many sins that now the Lord is ashamed of you, okay? God loves you. And so right now, if you've ever found yourself in a low spot, let's praise God for it. Because it showed us how high He is. So if you guys know what it's like to be in a low spot and to be able to look up and see the greatness of our God, can we worship during this next bridge? Let's just go crazy, man. Why can't we do something different in service? Why do we always have to come and just have three songs or two songs and a sermon, right? Let's worship the Lord for what He's worth. Is He worth something to you? Come on, let's sing, Drew. Let's sing. Because if the highest place I reach is at Your feet, then I've done it all. And if the best thing that I've seen is Your glory, then I've seen it all. Your love has changed my life, forever satisfied, God. You are my everything. And if one word is the only thing You speak, then I've heard it all. And if I feel Your heart and never see Your hand, I'll still have it all. No treasure of this life could ever satisfy, God. You are my everything. Because if the highest place I reach is at Your feet, then I've done it all. And if the best thing that I've seen is Your glory, then I've seen it all. Your love has changed my life, forever satisfied, God. You are my everything.

And if one word is the only thing You speak, then I've heard it all. And if I feel Your heart and never see Your hand, I'll still have it all. No treasure of this life could ever satisfy, God. You are my everything. You are, You are my everything. God, You are my everything. You are my everything. You are my everything, God. You are my everything. You are my everything. You are my everything. You are my everything. If the highest place I reach is at your feet, then I've done it all. If the best thing that I've seen is your glory, then I've seen it all. Your love has changed my life, forever satisfied. God, you are my everything. And if one word is the only thing you speak, then I've heard it all. And if I feel your heart and never see your hand, no treasure of this life could ever satisfy. God, you are my everything. You are my everything. You are my everything. Let's just sing that out. God, you are my everything. You are my everything. You are my everything.

We thank you, Jesus. If he's your everything, let's give him a shout of praise right now. As I came back down, I was worshiping down here, and I heard my kids singing. And as I was listening to their little voices sing praises to Jesus, I was thinking about how God viewed every single one of y'all. As you sing, and you praise, and you worship, God sees something different than we do, amen? I'm thankful for a good father. Amen. All right, you guys can be seated. Thank you guys for showing up today. How many of you are glad to be in the house of the Lord? Amen, amen. So good, so good. Well, hey, real quick, today is a special day. Everybody say special. Today is a special day, because our fearless leader and pastor, it's his birthday today. So we're going to do something, and we're going to try to not sing off key. Come on, somebody. We're going to sing happy birthday to Pastor Pacer. You guys good with that? The loudest shout you got, come on. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Pastor. Happy birthday to you. Oh, that sounded fantastic. Isn't it cool to have fun in church? I love that. I love that so much. Happy birthday, Pastor.

No lava cakes. That's what I heard, second service. No lava cakes. But that's all right, because you got Jesus, right? He's better than a lava cake. All right. Well, praise the Lord. Hey, real quick, I got a couple of announcements to make. Number one, we're in a transition period with some doors in the church, okay? Everybody say kids. Kids. Kids are important, right? Would you agree with that? Their safety is important, right? Okay, so these two doors right here, I know we've been used to going out those doors and just like coming and going. What we're going to do for the children of our church to make sure they are safe. Everybody say safe. Safe. Okay? We're going to lock these wings down. The doors are all going to be locked so that somebody crazy can't get in there. Amen? Amen. All right. If you would, do us a favor over the next couple weeks, we're going to be in that transition period. Would you guys just go through these doors? We've got that beautiful four-year now. Praise God for that.

Tons of space out there. Pacer was telling me, I think last week, I don't know what it's been this week. He's like, we don't have space out there anymore. But yeah, so if you guys would go out that way, that would be awesome. Also, we have a new sermon series coming up and it's talking about this. You see, I want you to look beside you. You see all these empty seats in here? There's a new sermon series coming up on August 9th. It's called No Empty Seats. The reason this is important is not for some kind of flash in the pan thing. Do you guys realize there are people that are dying, hurting, and broken out there? You guys realize that? And it takes one moment of clarity to change all of that. And so what I want you guys to pray about and start thinking about is somebody that you can invite, a friend, a family member, drag them here, okay? Put a little thing on a hitch and put their leg in it and drag them here. You know what I'm saying? Seriously, it's so important, man, that we are reaching outside of the four walls. And so just be praying, thinking about who that is. I know every single person in here, you probably have somebody you're thinking about. So bring them to church. Amen? All right. And then lastly, if you're a new guest with us today, I just want to thank you so much for choosing Revolution Church as your place to stop today. And the good news is you walked into the best church ever, so you don't need to visit anywhere else. Right? I'm not biased or anything. So thank you for being here today. We want to welcome you as our honored guest. Make sure to get a gift.

out in the lobby as well if you haven't done that and those that are here and you've been here for months and you still are not part of a serve group or a small group or discipleship group it's time to get involved say get involved praise the lord so that means uh you you guys are going to do that right so we've got we got some cards in the back of the seats uh that you can give us your info uh you can talk to me talk to some other church staff members as well and we can get you connected does that sound good all right and lastly uh today and this service at this moment we give back we give our tithes and our offerings i don't know if you guys realize this or not because it's been satan has done a great job at skewing what it means to tithe okay there's been many people misuse those funds there's been many pastors and churches and things do weird stuff with it what i want to tell you today is none of that has anything to do with the principle of tithing that's that's not a that's not a man-made thing it's a god-made thing and and so uh in fact the bible tells us those who think it's not in the new testament jesus is talking to those that are talking about giving a tenth of their income and he says to them he says uh you have lost these other things talking about love and and and these qualities they've stopped doing that but they tithe okay and then jesus responds and he says you you should have kept doing the former while doing the latter so jesus actually affirms tithing so if you've been taught that that ain't true and that ain't that that's not that is not real okay read the word and here's why that jesus affirms it you guys ready for this your finances are a piece of your life does god want half your life does he want all of your life and so because he wants all of your life he wants to send blessings not just in your home with your kids right he wants to send blessing into your finances and if you don't allow him in he can't bless it god's not going to force himself on you and so today i want you to consider if you've never tithed before or maybe you stopped if that's something that maybe the enemies got into the crack i want you to consider giving back today we have several ways to give we have uh tap tags on the back of the seats that you can just tap your phone on there we have uh buckets in the back of the sanctuary uh you can give online on our app uh just please consider doing that not for myself i don't care if you do it or not uh the lord do it for the lord amen all right let's pray together heavenly father lord we love you we thank you for what you're doing in this church we thank you for what you're doing in this service today and god we look forward to all of the healings the signs and the wonders to come from this one lord we uh we just give you all the glory and all the honor and all

the credit for everything that you're doing in jesus name amen amen good morning church my name is sherry and this is amy we are so glad that you're here today amy what's going on with our church church we'd like to invite you on august 5th at seven o'clock to worship night as we come together we pray over our students and our teachers as they head back to school join us for that all kids will be with their families in the sanctuary as we pray over them and their teachers as they start this new school year amen we'd also like to invite you to next sunday which is our connect one luncheon lunch is on us get to meet our pastor his wife connie get to know his values and his vision for our church you can go to our website and go to our church center app you can also qr code down below sign up and we would love to meet you there church we are so glad that you're here with us today if you need prayer our prayer team would love to meet you at the front after this service enjoy the service how's everybody doing today you guys doing good awesome thanks for the song thanks for the happy birthday wishes as a matter of fact i was just curious and then but you know while you guys were finishing up the last song i i went into uh chat gpt and said when is the next sunday that july 26 falls home and it's uh 37 okay 2037 so i won't get that again for a while 11 years but i got it today amen thank you thank you guys for the song and also i do want to say uh that i'm not the only one having birthday today there's jeff up in the media booth we got terry over here mccoy we've got troy on the security team we got stephanie uh who else am i missing somebody help me anybody else in here have a birthday today all right happy birthday to everyone and we're excited for what God's doing. Helping hands was absolutely a major success and so so grateful and I want to say thank you again as Pastor Chris said thank you for giving because that allows us to reach our community do these things and also I want to say thank you to all of you who served who volunteered you put a lot of smiles on kids faces and and then last I want to thank the staff because they have worked around the clock can we give it up for all all those individuals thank you guys for the hard work the effort that you put in and so what we do have now is a video clip that's going to show some

highlights over the last two weekends so let's watch that all right good morning how's everybody doing this morning all right you ready amen it's it's incredible to see the crowd the volunteers all of you that are here thank you so much can we give Jesus just a big hand clap of appreciation man God has been so good he's blessed us so much with the opportunities to serve this community and we're grateful for that this is our 19th year it's helping hands 2026 it's incredible that it started many years ago is just a small thing at Heritage High School and it's grown to such an event well I have been involved with helping hands since 2019 so seven years of either serving here or supporting the ministry it's been incredible and I'm so thankful to be a part of it one of the reasons that I love serving at this ministry is that it is a form of worship when we are serving others we are also serving God directly and that brings me so much joy and when he has loved you you only want to just come back and love others as well this is my first year helping for helping hands and I was helping a kid and he picked New Balance shoes and I asked him I said New Balance my favorite shoes I said you always wear New Balance's and he told me this is my first pair of new shoes that made me cry but and then he said he runs track and he said last year I was running track in my hay dudes all season he said until a guy gave me a pair of shoes but it was pretty touching I think about this 19 years this thing started so small and now it's become an event at this magnitude it's crazy what God's doing amen I want to go ahead and turn it over to Pastor Tim he's gonna encourage us and then pray and he won't need the chair to stand in okay so here we go I want to encourage you to look for opportunity there's gonna be opportunity for the Lord's gonna open a door for you to just share God's love just share his love on people and that's what we're doing right that's why we're here all right guys you ready come on let's go let's find our station let's find our place let's love let's love these people like Jesus would amen I would encourage you to come be a part of an incredible outreach program.

God will use you. He will use your gifts. You'll have an amazing time, and you'll be blessed for it. It's an amazing feeling to be able to help the kids, and some of the stories definitely get to your heart. You know what I mean? And God is good all the time. Amen. Those smiles are priceless, aren't they? So incredible to see the smiling faces, to hear the stories, the laughter, the jumping, the dancing, everything that went into that. It was awesome. And again, thank you, each one of you, who give to allow that to happen. Every year, you hear me say, the budget gets more. The shoes this year, the average price was $63 a piece, which I didn't realize they had went up, but I will go ahead and say thank you, because we met our budget again. You gave, and God did. Amen? Praise the Lord. So good. So many people's lives were touched. As a matter of fact, I was talking to the shoe station, which is the people who brought the shoes in, and they were blown away. Their staff, I was able to talk with them. They're from all over the region, the southeast, managers from different stores, and they were just saying how grateful they were and how blown away they were for the number of volunteers that were serving the community. And so, thank you again for everything that you guys have done. Today we're in another stand-alone series, our message, we're out of a series. We do have this series coming up, No Empty Seats, and I'm excited about that.

It'll be starting in August, so be thinking about that, praying about that, inviting people to come. But today, I'm going to move on with that same topic from last week. Last week, the title of the message was, Who is My Neighbor, or Who is Your Neighbor? And today, the title of the message is going to be, Moved with Compassion. Moved with Compassion. How many of you realize that Jesus was the most compassionate person to ever walk this planet? And he was moved with compassion. I think there's more than six times in the New Testament where it references Jesus being moved with compassion. And in the Old Testament, God had compassion, and more than a dozen times in the Old Testament, we will see that. But Jesus gives us the example of how to love and how to serve our communities. There's one verse in the Bible, it's Matthew 935, that touches on all of these things in one particular verse. So I want you to go ahead and look at that. If you have your Bibles, open it up, Matthew 935, and it'll also be on the screen. It says, Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. So I want you to leave that verse up there just for a second, because the things that this church really puts a lot of emphasis on are all found in this one particular verse. And those are preaching the gospel. Anybody see preaching the gospel in that verse? Do you see that? That's one of the reasons that we talk a lot about, this is our purpose, because Jesus gave us the example. Another thing that we see here is that he was teaching in the synagogues. So that is about making disciples.

That's discipleship 101. It's teaching and training and mentoring. And then the other thing is healing every sickness in the cities and the villages, and this is serving our community. Now I want to talk for a minute about this word healing. Early this morning, probably 5.30 or 6 o'clock this morning, the Holy Spirit just really started putting the word healing heavy on my spirit. And I felt like the Lord was saying that I'm going to supernaturally heal some people today in these services. And I want you to go ahead and share that and let people know to expect. It's not an individual. It's not a person. It's going to be the Lord, amen, that does that. So I want you to be praying about that. If that's you today and you need healing in your body in any area, I want you to help me believe that the Holy Spirit's going to move in that capacity and do that. But let's look at the word healing here in the Greek, the original manuscript. The word healing here, interesting enough, is therapeo, therapeo, and it means to serve. We talk about serving our community. I said we see this in that Matthew 9.35. So it means to serve, to do service, and it also means to restore, to help. So Jesus. Jesus was actually healing the community. He was serving the community. Sometimes by the manifestation of miraculous healing. Other times by serving them, feeding the 4,000, feeding the 5,000, whatever. But Jesus was always about this. So this is where we get the example, the importance of going out the four walls and serving our community. Now this word, therapeo, it actually later was passed into Latin as therapeia.

Went from therapeo to therapeia, and then later in the 19th century, it entered the English language as therapy. It's where we get the word therapy. So when you see healing in the New Testament, the Greek word for that, interesting enough, is therapy. So when you put this into perspective, Jesus was not only preaching the gospel and making disciples, he also provided spiritual, physical, and mental therapy in the city and the villages. He was providing healing. Now, we understand that as we do these things, that we are following the examples of Jesus, and again, that is our goal at Revolution Church, amen? Preach the gospel, make disciples, and serve our community. So I wanted you guys to hear that, where we get it from. It's not something we just dreamed up. This is what we're going to say is important, but according to Jesus, it's what is important. So when we talk about the goals at Revolution Church, I want you to know this, that if you're new to this church, if you're new to the body, or you would like to know of more opportunities to serve, then next Sunday is your day. I want you to put it on your calendar, next Sunday at 11.30, it'll be during the third service, so I would encourage all of you to come to the second and stay after for the third, because we're going to have lunch, I'm going to share the vision and values with you, and I'm also going to share with you opportunities that maybe you don't realize exist in terms of serving. So that's next Sunday, 11.30, at the pavilion, which is around back. Now, 42 people had already pre-registered as of last week, but I will say, and I want you to hear me, there's still room for you. Look over at your neighbor and say, there's room for you. There's room for you. So sign up, church app, website, or if you're not able to do that, show up in person, and if there's not enough food, we're going to pray over it and multiply it in Jesus' name. Can I hear an amen?

So it'll be covered, it'll all be good. Let's move back into verse 36 here. The Bible says that when Jesus saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them because they were weary and scattered like sheep having no shepherd. One thing right here that we see that Jesus saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion, and so I want to say this in this new sermon series that we have coming up. These empty seats that we have around the church, they actually represent people, and people that aren't in church, that aren't in the body of Christ, they are like people without shepherds, and they need this, and they need the body. They need the body of Christ. So we're going to really put a lot of emphasis. It's going to be like a four or five week, I think, Pastor Chris, a four or five week sermon series. So we're going to reach our community, amen, and we're going to do it in the name of Jesus. When we look here, Jesus being moved with compassion, that word compassion in the Greek, I shared it last week, it actually emphasizes the deep emotional response from the gut that one experiences towards people's suffering, and it demands action. We talked about that last week, that compassion causes you to stop. Compassion is contagious. Also last week in the Good Samaritan, we talked about the priest, the Levite, and the Samaritan, when they saw the guy on the road, beaten and left half dead, they all saw him, but only one of them stopped. The one that stopped was the Samaritan, and the reason that he stopped, according to Scripture, he was, the Bible says, he was moved with compassion. He had that gut feeling. There was something that wouldn't allow him to walk by, so he stopped. Now his action resulted in this man being healed and being restored back to his state. Now this leads to point number one. If you're taking notes, I want you to look at this. Point number one is when we compassionately serve others, listen closely, there's that

word, healing often follows. Follows for them and for us Okay, I want to say that again. I want you to look at it closely when we as a church body as individuals compassionately serve others Healing often follows for them and for us when we look at the Helping Hands event, honestly I think we're the beneficiaries of that entire event When you look at the smiling faces you hear the thank yous I had a mother come out in the lobby out here and she's new to the church She said I want to meet your wife. I want to thank her because and she shared shared rocker her son I've got a new pair of shoes and I'm gonna tell you something guys. There's nothing There's no greater joy than helping someone and just being a being a help. And so we realized that But we have a lot of people in this church who are in recovery We have multiple recovery groups that attend here. I think the last service there was no less than three different recovery homes There was part of the service and this week I was reading an interesting article on recovery and it was by the National Institute of Health and Here's what this article shared. They revealed that serving other people Has a positive effect on long-term Sobriety, did you hear that? The survey said that that people in recovery if they serve others According to this this survey that it has a long-term effect on their sobriety You know last weekend We we had Adam Campbell and I would appreciate that testimony you gave last weekend Adam It was absolutely awesome, but Adam Campbell came to a Helping Hands event and he was a full-blown alcoholic. I Remember meeting him and and realized that he had some struggles He came to the event 18 years ago as an alcoholic, but today he celebrates 18 years of sobriety That's incredible. That's a praise the Lord moment. Can I hear an amen to that? So he showed up at an event that he didn't want to attend and then he left changed What was it that caused the change? He ends up healed from this addiction You see I'm convinced that it was the model that Jesus had put in place You compassionately serve other people and healing is going to be the result So today we can celebrate that because because he is healed and something else I want to say about Adam is that when we have an event at the church to serve our community

I don't have to get on the phone and say hey Adam. Are you coming today? No, Adam will beat me there He's always serving and I think honestly this is the reason because he realizes This had an effect on his life a positive effect and it's helped him to stay clean Amen, praise the Lord for that. So not only did we see that with with Adam and we we appreciate your testimony We saw it with another lady in our church, Michelle Collins. Thank you for your testimony as well last weekend powerful because Michelle showed up Several years ago the heritage high school helping hands event you heard her testimony She was struggling the enemy had gotten her head and said you're not good enough You don't even deserve to raise your children. You should take your life And this was the lie the enemy was planting in her mouth. But but what happened she showed up in an event and You guys compassionately served her her testimony is that that some of you went to her loved her Put your arm around her and as a result here. We see years later that she she's doing amazing she's married has a big family is has been extraordinarily successful in the business world and She's still serving God and serving the community. Amen so This is not something that Revolution Church just discovered It's something that Jesus has showed us long ago from the scripture and he's saying here's what you do And this will work now Let's look at it at an example in the Bible of healing that followed compassion It's I want to look at Matthew 20 If you have your Bibles, let's look at chapter 20 verses 29 through 34 the Bible says as Jesus and his disciples were leaving Jericho a large crowd followed they followed him Verse 30 two blind men were sitting by the roadside When they heard that Jesus was going by they shouted Lord son of David have mercy on us The crowd rebuked them and told them be quiet But they shouted all the louder Lord son of David have mercy on us Jesus stopped and called them. What do you want from me to do for you?

He asked. Lord, they answered, we want our sight. Verse 34. Jesus had compassion. There's the word. Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately, say immediately. Immediately they received their sight and followed Him. Do you notice here the similarities from the parable of the Good Samaritan? If you would leave that up there for a second. Two blind men. They're not in the synagogue. They're not in the church. Where are they at? They're on the side of the road. They're in the streets. Now, I don't think this is an accident or coincidence, but the road that these two blind men are on is the road between Jericho and Jerusalem. Okay? Jesus and His disciples are traveling this journey. Last week we talked about the parable of the Good Samaritan and the man that was beaten and left half dead was traveling, it said a certain man was traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho. So, in both cases, they're on the same road. Are you guys with me?

I didn't pick that up until just last week. They're traveling on the same road. In one case, you've got a parable. In this case, you have something that's actually happened. Jesus is going to take the parable now. He's going to take the parable that He taught and He's going to put it into practice. Okay? How many of you realize it's harder to live it than it is to preach it? You guys with me? It's easy to talk about something. It's harder when you do it and you live it out. So, Jesus is going to do that. So, the two blind men, they're on the same road. Now, we know in the parable of the Good Samaritan that the priest didn't stop. He saw the man in need, but he didn't stop. Jesus, the Bible says, is our high priest. Say high priest. The high priest showed us by example when he saw two blind men on the side of the road needing help, the high priest did stop. Are you guys with me? He stopped and he went to them. Now, something else we can pick up from this event is number one, Jesus was on an important mission. I shared last week, I said, I'm sure the priest was busy. I'm sure the Levite was busy. I'm sure they had somewhere to go,

probably appointments. Maybe they had a teaching in the synagogue. I don't know what it was. I'm sure they were busy. But I also want you to understand that the high priest, Jesus, was on a very important mission as he traveled from Jericho to Jerusalem. And I want you to understand why it was so important. Because Jesus was traveling to Jerusalem for the final Passover. Just days from now, when this happened, Jesus is going to be laying down his life. He's walking this road up to Jerusalem toward the cross of Calvary. He's going to lay down his life on Calvary for all humanity. And in the middle of what we would say, how many of you would say that's pretty significant? That's why he came, right? He came to die for the lost. This is massive. It's huge. It's significant. But on that path, on that journey, he sees two beggars. And if anyone would have had an excuse to continue on the journey because they're on an important mission, it would have been Jesus.

But instead, Jesus stopped. He saw the need and he stopped. And that's what we're called to do, Christians. That's what we're called to do, church, is see the need and then stop. So he stops. He walks over to the blind men and he asks them a question. How many of you realize Jesus doesn't have to ask questions? How many of you realize that Jesus knows everything? Okay. He asked a question for their benefit. And here's the question he asked them. He said, what is it that you need? Again, Jesus being all-knowing, being God in the flesh, he knew what they needed. They needed healing. They were blind. They needed their sight. But yet he asked them, what do you need? And then they spoke and they told him. Why did he ask him? What can we learn from this? Something very significant. Many times in our life, the reason we don't receive is because we ask not. Are you guys with me?

Receive not because you ask not. Have you ever thought, well, that's just too big? Or God's preoccupied, He don't need to deal with this, this is not that big, it's not that massive. No, we need to ask. And that's why these blind beggars, He said, what do you need? So what happened when they spoke their need, they were speaking by faith. The Bible says that life and death comes from our what? Comes out of our tongue, out of the things we speak. God didn't think this world into existence, He spoke it into existence. So I want to encourage you today, if you don't learn anything else, whatever it is that you're praying about, you're believing God for, start speaking it. Start talking about it. Do like one family, put it on your refrigerator so every day you look at it and then you speak it and you call it. And so this was part of their healing. They spoke it, and then from there, Jesus walks over, lays hands on them, imagine this. Never seen, blinded, and for the first time, you're healed and you miraculously, supernaturally you're healed and you can see in color, you can see people. Things that was described to you for years now make sense, it becomes clear. And the Bible tells us this, and we don't want to miss out on this point, is after they received their sight, the Bible says that they followed Him. They followed Him on this dangerous road back up to Jerusalem. And so many things that we can learn from that. But Jesus was moved with compassion when He touched their eyes. And then He healed their sight. Second point, three points today, the second point that I want you to listen to is this. Compassion is the overflow from a heart transformed by Jesus. Come on out here and amen to that. Compassion is the overflow.

It's what comes as a byproduct of having a new heart, being saved. Has anybody in here ever been saved before? Amen? How many of you can get excited when you talk about or think about being saved? We get excited. I mean, it's awesome. It's incredible. And so let's look at this transformed heart. It was prophesied before Jesus even came to this earth in Ezekiel 36, 26. Check this out. He said, I will give you a what? I'll 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. This right here is an awesome experience. How many of you remember that happening to you? I see one person. How many of you guys remember when that happened to you? It was the best thing that I've ever experienced in my life. You hear me say on a regular basis, it'll be the best decision you've ever made. You'll never regret it. It's phenomenal. It's crazy good. It's amazing to be saved. See, I remember at 22 years old when I was lost and it seemed like everything I touched went wrong and then Jesus saved me and gave me a new heart. And I've become a new person. And you did as well. So it's awesome. This new heart that God gave you is actually full of love and compassion. That's why you do what you do.

That's why you want to serve people around you. Another thing I wanted to share with you guys today is last weekend, as a matter of fact, at Greenback, everything about Greenback Helping Hands was record-breaking. Can we praise the Lord for that? A thousand and seven children received shoes down there. Honestly, I think our number last year was a little less than 400, is that right? So a little less than 400 kids received shoes last year at Greenback. This year, a thousand and seven. Almost triple. Socks, I think 10,000 pairs of socks at Greenback. The first few years, we couldn't get anybody to come out to Greenback High School. And now, it's like, what do you do with all these people? I'm going to tell you, between 11 and 12 o'clock, the floodgates of Greenback opened up. Because people were coming from different directions. They were lined around the school. Somebody said, there's two lines, they're around the school, trying to queue them into one area. But it was awesome. It was amazing. It was God. Everybody was moving. What I was doing, I was going around to different stations and talking to volunteers and appreciating and hearing stories and incredible. But I stopped by one particular, I stopped by the shoe fitting. And there was a lady there that was, you know, she was putting shoes on kids' feet. And she said, hey, you got a second? I got a quick story to tell you, I said, yeah, and she said, and she was tore up in a good way. She said, so I had a young girl come through and I took it that it was like a preteen or teenage girl and she came through her line and she said that she had sized her up for

the shoes. She went over to shoe station and got the box of shoes, brought them back. The young lady sitting there in front of her, she said, I knelt down and she said, when I opened the box of shoes, she said immediately tears just started just flowing down this young girl's cheeks and it was like, it was, she said, it was so touching. When she looked at her new shoes, she just started tearing up and then she said, then she told me this, she said, this really got me. She said, I have always wanted that pair of shoes, but I didn't think I could ever get them because I couldn't afford them. She said, my friends have those shoes and now I've got them. Thank you. I'm telling you, yeah, praise the Lord. So our volunteer, she said, so now I'm crying, she's crying and she's telling me the story and I'm crying, we're all, I'm crying now and it's like, that's compassion though. That's compassion and I want you to understand something. That volunteer, you will not be able to keep her from signing up next year to serve at Helping Hands. It's contagious. It's so awesome. Ashley, I saw you back there cutting hair and the kids smiling and you, you know, that's hard work, Sandy. It's hard. I know. I can't even imagine how you feel today after two weekends of just doing that. It's one kid after another kid after another kid and listen guys, this is not for pay. This is serving our community, serving God and I want to tell you something. When you cut those kids' hair, it's more effective than the sermon I'm preaching right now. Come on, do you hear me? And they can walk into their school feeling good about themselves and knowing that a Christian made me feel this way.

It's powerful. It's impactful. It's compassion and we, and we see that and I love it. I love it so much. You know, so as we grow in the Lord, as we mature in the Lord, you know, we're going to see and we want to see compassion cultivated in our lives. I want more of it and I know you do as well. I hope our church is even more compassionate. I hope we can do, have more outreach next year than we have this year. Don't want you to look at Colossians 3, 12 through 13. Paul said this, he said, therefore, as God's chosen people, how many in here today are chosen by the Lord? Woo, don't that make you feel good? He chose you. He selected you. Dearly and dearly beloved, now he's going to give some instructions. Here's what he said. He's talking to all of us. He said, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another. If any of you has a grievance against someone, forgive as the Lord forgave you. Such a powerful statement here. The first thing that we see is Paul instructs us that we are to clothe ourselves with these attributes. Kindness. I should clothe myself. Gentleness. Compassion. As a matter of fact, when I started digging into this verse, the Lord challenged me to pray this prayer every morning before I start my day.

Is God, would you clothe me today with compassion? I don't want to walk by someone in need because I'm busy or because my agenda's important. And I know you don't as well. If we'll pray that prayer, I promise you one thing, we're going to be more compassionate. What about this? What if everyone in our church started praying, God, clothe me with kindness. Help me just to be kind. Help me to be patient. Help me to have compassion. Would you allow me to do that? And then he finishes it up with just exercising forgiveness. Forgiving people that you may have an issue with. Letting go of it. And so, we see here that Paul gives some great instructions. This leads to the last point. Point number three is this. And I want you to listen closely to this because it's true. Compassion, cost, saving. something. Compassion costs something. It's not free. It'll cost you, and I would say that it may cost you the things that you love the most. One of those things that we love the most is time. We love our time. Compassion will require you to stop. When you see the need, I know time is important. We like our time, but it'll cause us to stop. Second thing, and this is, Pastor Chris touched on this earlier, compassion will cost you money. Okay? It'll cost you money, but the dividends that you get back, you can't even compare to the results that come back as a result of that. Can I hear an amen to that? It may not be in a monetary way, but it'll be in such a way that you can't even compare it. It'll cost you money. It'll require you to give, because, I mean, just like the Good Samaritan. What did he do? He put him on his animal, took him to an inn, covered the cost, cost him money. He even left the message with this. He said, I'm leaving. Whatever you need, take care of him. When I come back, I'll pay for it, for that. And then the last thing that

it cost us, it'll cost you your convenience. And man, we love our convenience, do we not? We love the things that are convenient to us. It'll require us to lay aside our plans to help someone in need. Honestly, the greatest example that I see in the Bible that Jesus gave on compassion is found in Romans 5.8. Take a look at this verse. This is the last verse. We're wrapping it up today. The Bible says, but God demonstrated his own love toward us in that while we were still sinners, think about this for a second. See, some of us have been saved so long, we forget what we were like when we were lost. Sometimes we just need to be reminded while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. How many of you today are grateful for the sacrifice that Jesus made for you? Come on. No, how many of you are really grateful for that? If you're grateful, I'm going to ask you to stand right now. Give him praise right now. Come on. Let's give him some praise that he deserved. Father, we love you. We appreciate you. We're grateful for the sacrifice that you made for all of us. We can't thank you enough. We can't give enough. We can't serve enough. God, I know you're not looking for any of that to justify our salvation, but today, God, we're grateful. In closing, this is the message. While you were dying in your sins, Jesus saw you. No, he stopped and he looked down and he saw you as an individual. He not only saw you, but he stopped. I want you to think about that. I want you to visualize you in your sins, Jesus looking on you in that condition, and he stopped. Man, I get emotional just thinking about it. That he would have stopped for me. You don't even know my sin, and I don't need to share, but he still stopped, and he saw me dying. Yeah, I was a young man. I was in my 20s, but I was dying. I had a dark heart. I had a heart that I didn't ask for. I was born with this. It's the sin nature, and I was dying. You were dying. He saw you, and here's what he did. He realized—Tearsa, will you come up here for just one second? We'll use you as an example this morning, an illustration. How's that? How old are you, Tearsa? Seven. Seven years old. Tearsa, about a year ago, accepted Christ into her life, and I praise the Lord for that. She wanted to be baptized, and she tried. She went to the river. She got down to the water, but she wasn't quite ready. There was some fear because Tearsa hadn't learned to swim yet. Well, Tearsa learned to swim. She took a lesson. And she learned to swim. Amen? Did you like to swim? She loves to swim, she just don't like this moment on stage. Poppy embarrassin' her.

When she learned to swim, she said, Poppy, I'm ready now to go to the river. I'm ready to get baptized. And she got baptized. And she's following Jesus. I love it, you were talking earlier, your kids worship, and I love it when I look down at Tirza and see her hands raised up during worship, singing and praising the Lord. It's awesome. But I want you to understand something, that Tirza was born with a dark heart. She is such a precious girl, but she was born with this same heart that all of us were born with. And Jesus looked down and saw this young lady, realizing that she needed help. That she was dying inside because of this heart she was born with. Jesus looked down at Tirza and he stopped. He saw her and he stopped. And realizing that the only hope for this young lady was that he give her his heart. So Jesus took Tirza's heart and gave her his heart. Jesus doing this knowing that he would die as a result of this transplant. But he did it for her anyway, because he loved her. He did it for you anyway, because he loved you. And that's what happened on the cross of Calvary. He went to the cross and he died because he realized that we all had a dark heart. Even the most precious little girls and little boys realizing that we all needed this. And he was willing to die for our sins and say,

And say, here's my heart. Take it. Live with it. Let it impact you. Let it allow you to have compassion toward others. To serve others. And now for the rest of her life, she's going to be able to live for Jesus and be able to reflect him on this planet. Is that not great news? Praise the Lord. It's awesome, Tears. I'm so proud of you. Proud of all of you. But you know something? There may be some people here today that's never experienced that. There's 892 correctional facilities that are watching this online. There's some that's walked through these doors today and maybe they've never been saved or born again. Do you think they can be today? Amen. Will you pray? Would you pray for their heart? Would you pray right now for me? Heavenly Father, I pray for this day and I pray for the church and for all the people we got at Helping Hands and all the people we have in church right now and all the people we have online and that they get saved today and they have a soft heart

and they know Jesus really well and that they just have a wonderful day and get saved today. In your name I pray, amen. Praise the Lord. Will you bow your heads with me right now and just pray for anyone lost, whether they're in prison or here in person, they would say yes to Jesus today. Father, today, God, Lord, your words went forth. The gospels went forth. God, the worship team did an incredible job leading us into your presence. And Lord, right now there may be some people in this room that this prayer of tears is going to impact. I pray, Lord, if there's anyone here today that's never truly been born again, that it would happen before they leave today. While everyone's praying, quick question. Is the Holy Spirit speaking to you today? Do you need to surrender? Do you want to surrender? Do you want to give Him your heart and receive His? If that's you and you just say, Pastor, remember me in prayer, that's me. I want you to raise your hand up right now across this building. Amen. Anyone else, just hold up your hand. real quick, that's me. Anyone else, real quick, is God speaking to you? Praise the Lord. Thank you, Lord. Amen. Father, we're so grateful, Lord, that you're still saving the lost. You love humanity so much that you stopped. You gave your life. I'm gonna ask the prayer team if you guys would come up. We're gonna sing this last song, and I wanna encourage you to take advantage of this moment. I want you to take a quick look

at the people that are up here at this altar. I know them all, and I respect every single one of these individuals. They've been praying for this moment, and I want you to understand what the Holy Spirit said to me early this morning, that supernatural healing is coming today. If that's you that needs healing for anything, I want you to understand that these individuals are now prayer therapists in this house. Did you hear me? I shared that in the first service. The first person that came to the front to receive his therapy was a medical physician, and he shared with me, he said, that was such a moment for me just to experience this prayer. These guys have been praying, and they're now ready to pray for you, but here's what you need to do. Two things need to happen. You need to step out from your seat. If you really are serious about this moment, step out and be intentional on sharing exactly what you need. Just like the blind men, what do you need? Share it with these therapists. As they pray, I believe God's going to work supernatural healing in your life. Do you believe that? Let's worship with the praise team, and you guys just start making your way forward. All the saints and angels, bow before your throne. All the elders cast their crowns before the Lamb of God and say, you are worthy of it all. You are worthy of it all. For from you are all things, and to you are all things. You deserve the glory. You deserve all our praise today. It's all your glory, God. All the saints and angels, bow before your throne. All the elders cast their crowns before the Lamb of God and say, you are worthy of it all. You are worthy of it all. For from you are all things, and to you are all things. You deserve the glory. Tell him he's worthy this morning. He's worthy. You are worthy of it all. Yes, you are, Jesus. You are worthy of it all. For from you are all things, and to you are all things. You deserve the glory. Let's put everything aside, forget the person that's next to you. We are worshipping the King, our Saviour, your Creator. The incense is your worship, it's your prayers. And it goes to heaven, He sees it. Give Him a sweet aroma this morning. Let it rise, let it rise, let it rise right now. Let it rise, let it rise, let it rise. You are worthy of it all.

You are worthy of it all. For from you are all things, to you are all things. You deserve this glory. You are worthy of it all. I don't think we're done here. You are worthy of it all. For from you are all things, and to you are all things. Come on, give it away. Give Him your worship, don't hold it in. I believe there's healing, there's healing in your praise. It's a sacrifice of praise that we bring you God. For from you are all things, and to you are all things. You deserve the glory. You are worthy of it all. You are worthy of it all. For from you are all things, and to you are all things. For from you are all things, and to you are all things. Oh, from you are all things, and to you, from you Lord. Lord, from you are all things. We give it all, God. And to you are all things. Give it to him this morning. Give him your worship. From you are all things, and to you are all things. So from you, yes. From you are all things, and to you are all things. You deserve the glory. You deserve the glory. As we close this service, if everyone could just close their eyes. There's nothing on this platform that needs.

When you're in the presence of a king, he deserves the full attention. When you're in the presence of a king, he deserves the full attention. Hello. There's a season you've been waiting. I'm not ready for you. I'm ready for you now. The light blinded, the crowd didn't matter. It was about connecting with me. I'm ready for you now. I'm ready for you now. The season of waiting is over. Come and receive, speak out, receive, reach, and receive from me. My love is for you. I'm ready for you no matter what it is. I'm ready for you now. I'm ready for you now. I'm ready for you now. For a friend you are all things. And to you are all things. You deserve the glory. You are worthy of it all. You are worthy of it all. For from you are all things. And to you are all things. You deserve the glory. Sing that out, just the voices. You are worthy of it all. You are worthy of it all. From you are all things. And to you are all things.

You deserve the glory. You're able to preach the gospel. Lord, I pray that you give us the boldness to be able to speak to people that need to hear it. I just pray your blessing upon the entire congregation as we continue to pray and worship you today, Lord. We thank you, we praise you, in Jesus' name, amen. We are just missing, so if you guys want to continue to worship, you can stay or you can leave if you need to.