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C Jesus had COMPASSION on them
Today we begin
A blessed Fathers’ Day to all of our Dads.
We thank the Lord for all Fathers who reflect the love of our Heavenly Father.
We thank the Lord for our own dads, for giving us life and being there for us.
We even thank the Lord for some dads who weren’t that good at being dads, and with Jesus’ forgiveness, thank Him anyhow.
We will have a prayer for all of our dads a bit later in the service.
Now, to our text.
Compassion.
It’s a compound word that literally means, “to suffer with.”
In the Greek it means to “have the bowels yearn”, as the bowels were thought to be the seat of emotion in ancient times.
And it is what Jesus had for these people.
The Prophet Isaiah records these words about the Messianic Age:
They were sheep without a shepherd.
And Jesus has compassion on them because He is a Shepherd; the Good Shepherd.
And His sole mission was to come to seek and to save the lost sheep of the House of Israel.
This is exactly what we see Jesus doing in the Ninth Chapter of Matthew leading up to our text.
He heals a paralytic.
He calls Matthew, the Tax Collector to be a disciple.
He raises Jairus’ daughter from death.
He restores sight to two blind men.
He opens the mouth of a mute man.
He combats the Pharisees’ charge that He “casts out demons by the prince of demons.”
He goes throughout all the cities and villages and taught in their synagogues proclaiming the Gospel and healing every disease and every affliction.
All of these things show clearly that the Messianic age had dawned on earth.
The promise to Eve is fulfilled; Her seed has now come to crush the head of the devil for us.
Jesus had compassion upon them because they really were lost; lost in the Biblical sense of the Word.
Unsaved, no hope, no heaven.
Now Jesus sees the crowd He has compassion on them.
The English meaning of that compound word means to “suffer with”.
In Greek it means to feel sympathy or pity.
What Jesus sees moves Him to take action.
Comparing them to sheep, He sees them to be harassed and helpless.
Just as the Father sought out Adam and Eve after their disobedience, this Good Shepherd, through His compassion for them, comes precisely to them to bestow His grace.
To save them.
They once were lost, but now, as Jesus comes to them, they now are found.
THIS is the harvest of which our Lord speaks.
Those without a Shepherd
Jesus says, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.”
And these lost sheep are the harvest.
So are you.
Left to our own devices we could never change our condition.
When you are lost, you walk in circles— like a kid in a store that gets separated from his mother, or a Scout deep in the woods who is separated from his patrol.
The more one moves, the more lost he becomes.
We are like that spiritually.
Sin has separated us from God.
And so we wander aimlessly away from Him.
The more we wander, the deeper into the forest of sin and death we go.
There comes a time when we give up on hope.
Deeper and deeper into sin we go.
If only we could find the way out.
God tells us you cannot find your way out.
Despair sets in.
The woods get deeper.
You see yourself as lost.
But Jesus sees you as a part of the Harvest.
He has compassion on you.
He comes to you.
Imagine being lost in the woods and seeing someone standing there who knew you were there, who knew you were lost.
And He gives you His hand and rescues you.
That’s what Salvation is.
A rescue.
Jesus comes after you.
Hunts you down.
and saves you.
It’s a big harvest.
The woods of sin and death encompass the world.
But those who are out there, Jesus’ rescue team, the workers in the harvest are few.
So Jesus does two things.
First, He tells the people to “Ask the Lord of the harvest… to send out workers into His harvest field.”
Pray that the Lord would expand those who are called by Jesus to seek and to save the lost.
Second, He calls His disciples.
Hard men, tough men, uneducated men, but men whom He had found wandering in the woods of the world, who knew that their only salvation was in Him.
The very First workers in the Harvest Field.
A Jesus Gave AUTHORITY to His Disciples
Jesus doesn’t just call them.
He gives them authority.
There is a difference between power and authority.
Power, in the illicit sense, is something that people take upon themselves.
Terrorists have power.
But they don’t have authority.
Authority must be given to you from someone who has more authority than you.
It implies responsibility.
It demands accountability.
A police officer does not work with power.
He works with authority, given to him by the Police Department, which, in turn is responsible to the government, which is responsible ultimately to God.
Jesus gives authority to the disciples.
They are working under Him.
They are doing His bidding, His teaching, His cleansing.
They go forth with His power, not their own.
Their charge: Drive out demons and heal every disease and sickness.
No one but God can do these things.
But Jesus gives them the ability to work on God’s behalf to bring in the harvest.
He tells them:
At this point, Jesus’ sole focus is on the Sheep of the House of Israel.
That circle will expand after His resurrection and right before His ascension when He commands them to “make disciples of all nations.”
But for now, stay away from the Gentiles.
And then do the works of God among them that they may no longer be lost.
All this to seek and to save the lost.
They now bear Jesus to the world.
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