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COMPASSION 21
JESUS IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE HUNGRY MULTITUDES
Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:30-44; Matthew 15:32-39; Mark 8:1-9
(cmpas21.doc)
*THROUGH EYES OF COMPASSION*
 
        A pastor went into a supermarket to pick up his wife.
As he waited near the checkout lanes, he overheard a clerk telling a young mother that she couldn't use her food stamps to buy the socks her daughter had selected.
He saw disappointment on the child's face, so he impulsively stepped over, handed her a few dollars, and quickly walked away.
He didn't dare look at the mother because he was afraid he might have embarrassed her.
He was only trying to practice the principle of
 
Matthew 25:40, "And the King will answer and say to them, `Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, /even/ the least /of them/, you did it to Me.'"
We sometimes find it difficult to see the poor through eyes of compassion.
Rather than dwelling on the exceptions, we need the attitude expressed by Andrew W. Blackwood, Jr.
He wrote:
 
Jesus, why didn't You tell me You were hungry?
Why didn't You tell me You were thirsty?
Why didn't You tell me those were Your toes sticking through cracked shoes?
I didn't know You needed Medicaid;
Why didn't You tell me they'd sent You to jail?
I want to open the door and invite You in;
Please tell me who You are next time You knock.
Jesus gives us many opportunities to express compassion to Him through the various people and circumstances that we encounter in life.
It is up to us to recognize, through the power of the Holy Spirit, that opportunities to be compassionate towards anyone are opportunities to minister to Jesus!
        Jesus took every possible opportunity to be compassionate towards people.
One such opportunity was the feeding of the hungry multitude to whom He continually ministered.
The most famous of these feedings is The Feeding of the 5,000.
The lesser known and, I suspect the lesser preached feeding, is The Feeding of the 4,000.
The Evangelists Matthew and Mark both record The Feeding of the 5,000 and The Feeding of the 4,000.
Matthew is a Jewish tax collector who wrote to a Jewish audience to convince them that the King of the Jews had come.
Mark presented Jesus Christ as a Servant to a Gentile audience that knew little about Old Testament theology.
\\ The four narratives are so similar that I believe it would be beneficial for us to use Mark's account in 6:30-44 and harmonize the other accounts with it.
The other accounts are The Feeding of the 5,000 in Matthew 14:12-21 and The Feeding of the 4,000 recorded in Matthew 15:32-39 and Mark 8:1-9.
All of these narratives are about Jesus' compassion to the hungry multitude.
Before we can harmonize these narratives, we need to read Mark 6:30-44.
/(Remember this is a narrative and will be more easily understood if it is treated as accordingly.)/
I.
THE CIRCUMSTANCES (OR SETTING).
The Feeding of the 5,000 occurred shortly after the death of John the Baptizer.
Jesus and His disciples were not only tired from constant ministry, they were probably dealing with grief.
Jesus instructs the disciples to come away with Him to rest, because they didn't even have time to eat.
So, they got on a boat to go to a lonely place, but the people ran ahead of them to the destination and waited on shore.
When Jesus comes on shore, the action of the story begins.
The setting of the feeding of the 4,000 was near a mountain by the Sea of Galilee.
Jesus had just healed the multitude and the multitude was about to disperse.
As they were about to disperse, He noticed that they had nothing to eat.
Whether tired, bereaved, or occupied with ministry, Jesus demonstrates insight, foresight, and compassion towards people.
/(We are aware of the circumstances, so let's look at:)/
 
II.
THE CHARACTERS.
1.
The Protagonist is Jesus Christ.
Both Mark and Matthew portray Jesus positively.
His attitude and actions are exemplary.
2.
There is no stated antagonist.
Although there is no stated antagonist in the story, life brings unexpected, antagonistic circumstances.
People are often hungry, sick, and shepherdless, because of time and chance.
Likewise, Satan is an unseen antagonist in this narrative.
Satan was always the undercover antagonist against everything that Jesus did, said and stood for.
There is also here some mild antagonism from the disciples.
They suggested that the people be sent away.
They manifested, probably unknowingly, unbelief in the miracle working power of Jesus Christ.
They also manifested a different motive and manner of ministry than their Lord, Teacher and Master.
When will we learn that to have a different motive and manner of ministry than your leader is to demonstrate some antagonism?
/(Alright!
We have covered the circumstances and the characters.
Now we are ready for:)/
 
III.
THE CONFLICT (ACTION OR PLOT).
The conflict before us is a moral conflict.
The conflict is between the morality of Jesus and the morality of the disciples.
In all of these narratives, Jesus is concerned that the people will faint from hunger on their journey home.
The disciples morality did not include any sense of responsibility or concern for the multitude that was following Christ.
The morality of the disciples was based upon figures, rather than faith which expresses itself through love (Galatian 5:6).
But by contrast, Jesus felt compassion for the multitude.
This is the Greek word is */splagchnizomai 4697/.
This word is translated "compassion" 11 times in the New Testament; 10 times of Jesus directly or in illustration and 1 time about God in illustration.*
Four of those occurrences are found in these narratives.
feel compassion and felt compassion */4697 splagchnizomai /*"to have the bowels yearn," "to be moved in the inward parts," "to feel compassion."
/splagchnizomai/ is from
 
/4698 splagchnon/ "an intestine."
/splagchnon/ "b. the bowels were regarded by the Hebrews as the seat of the tenderer affections, especially kindness, benevolence, compassion; hence equivalent to our /heart/, [/tender mercies, affections/, etc.]."[1]
 
compassion /splagchna/ "The verb gives the oriental idea of the bowels as the seat of compassion."
Compassion is "a deep feeling for and an understanding of suffering with an accompanying desire to relieve that suffering"  (Webster's Third New International Dictionary).
Christ was passionate concerning the multitude.
Jesus was deeply moved with compassion towards these people because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and He was the Good Shepherd, the Great Shepherd, and the Chief Shepherd.
The shepherd's job was a job of care and tenderness.
It was job that included guiding, guarding, and grazing the sheep.
In this particular context, He displayed His compassion for them by feeding them both *spiritually* and *naturally*.
\\         He cared about and was concerned about the welfare of the multitude.
He was not just concerned about the salvation of their souls and the healing of their bodies.
He was concerned about the quality of their journey home.
*Jesus was compassionate towards the full spectrum of human pain*, i.e.
 
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He was compassionate concerning their spiritual condition.
2.      He was compassionate with respect to their lack of direction.
3.
He was compassionate towards their physical sickness.
4.      He was compassionate towards the quality of their journey home.
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He was compassionate concerning their physical hunger.
It is also important to point out that Jesus expressed His compassion physically.
He didn't just command a supernatural fullness in their stomachs, but He provided real food for their nourishment.
*CARE FOR THIS POOR BOY!*
 
        A story about President Lincoln appeared years ago in the Gospel Herald
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