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Passion!What if we learned to see people and not just their problems?●Mt 9:36 But when he

saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were distressed and scattered, as sheep not having a shepherd.

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●Passion = any powerful or compelling emotion

–Mt 21:12 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.

●Compassion = sympathy and sorrow for another; a feeling of wanting to help someone who is sick, hungry or in trouble

–Mt 9:36 ... He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.

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Com- passion

Passion

* * 0 A key element in preaching with

passion is having compassion!Being Moved With Compassion!●In the life of Christ we find Jesus being

“moved with compassion” 8 times!●4 times in Matthew alone, with an added

story in between for inference!–Mt. 9:36; 14:14; 15:32 & 20:34–A story to show our need for this (Mt. 18:21-

35; key verses 27 & 33)●10,000 = @ 3,000 shekels, 75lb, $840K

each = $8.4B if it was gold!●100 = a days pay, $64 = $6,400!

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preacher!Passion = any powerful or compelling emotion

●Would you say that Jesus cared for people?

●I believe the old saying is true, “people don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care!”

●We need to live in such a way that people will see the love of God in us!–Jn. 13:34-35 “by this all will know!”

* * 0 I. Right Heart!

Mk 12:30 'And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the first commandment.

●When I was in preaching school in Lakeland one of my teachers would often say, “if you want to be a preacher you need to have two things, a tuff hide and a tender heart!” ●The Bible spends a great deal of time

addressing the importance of the heart!

* * 0 The importance of the heart! Mt 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth

speaketh●The heart is said to be “the life source of the body” but the Bible declares it to be “the life source of the soul!”●The first and greatest commandment

is “love the Lord thy God with all thy heart!”–Mt. 22:37; Mk. 12:30 & Lk. 10:27–Each begins the same way “all thy

heart!”

* * 0 II. Right Head!Php 2:5 Let this mind be in you which was

also in Christ Jesus,●Going back to the 1st and Greatest

Commandment, the heart is where our love begins, but not where it ends!–In Mt. there are 3 elements in this, in Mk &

Lk there are 4!–Heart, soul, mind & strength!●Sometimes people can have a right

heart, but a wrong head!–Rom. 10:1-3 cf. Act. 23:1

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worship!”The woman at the well (Jn. 4)●There are two elements involved

in right/true worship! (Jn. 4:23-24)–In spirit/Spirit (right heart/ by the

Spirit of God)–In truth (right head/ according to the

truth)●These need to be in balance and

it is always both of them together and not one without the others!

* * 0 III. Right Harvest! Mt 9:37-38 Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are

few. "Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest."

●It is only after these first two are in place and we will reap the right results!–Gal. 6:7 Do not be deceived: God is not

mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap”

●We are in the planting and watering business, but God brings the harvest!–1 Cor. 3:6

* * 0When God’s Word is preached with

the right heart, right head it will naturally produce the right harvest!

●Is 55:10-11 "For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater, So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

* * 0 Conclusion:

●God has called us to do our blessed and then promised to do the rest!●There is indeed a great deal we can

learn from the preaching of Jesus!●Christ was in fact the greatest

preacher the world has ever seen and we can learn from Him!●His preaching was characterized by

power, purpose and passion!●Has Jesus changed your life?

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