Compassion

JESUS the Messiah, the Son of the Living God, even though bearing the same physical restrictions as other human beings, reflected the COMPASSION of God towards those around him in ways that far surpass our human ability to express compassion. (as an example of "The Kingdom of God") JESUS didn't just "feel" compassion (like some of us do - that just makes US feel good about ourselves), everything JESUS did was DRIVEN by the compassion of God in him to respond to the need.

When faced with a crowd of thousands who had followed him out into the wilderness to hear him teach, who aside from a few loaves and fishes had no food, JESUS had COMPASSION for them and multiplied the loaves and fishes and fed the multitude with more left afterwards than what was there in the first place.

When faced with those who were crippled, blind, sick, etc JESUS had COMPASSION for them and "healed all those that came to him by faith"

When faced with the sufferings of people who were oppressed and even possessed by spiritual evil (demons / fallen spiritual beings) JESUS had COMPASSION on them as the victims that they were and with great authority commanded those oppressive spirits to leave their victims, leaving them at peace and in their right mind.

When faced with the sorrow of those mourning over the death of Lazarus (one of his followers) JESUS wept and being filled with COMPASSION for them commanded Lazarus to raise from the dead 4 days after he died. He did and many believed the teachings of JESUS after that...

When faced with the fear and sorrow of a woman found in the act of adultery that was about to be stoned to death under the "law", JESUS had COMPASSION on her, his words piercing through and exposing the hearts of those who were gathered to stone her, "He who is without any sin at all throw the first stone." No one could throw the first stone. Then he said to her, "Go and sin no more..."

And, when JESUS had spoken and done all that God had commanded him, and knowing that our ultimate punishment for sin was eternal death and separation from God, was DRIVEN by COMPASSION to submit himself as a living sacrifice for the sin of the entire human race. The only human being to have walked the earth without sin and separation from God, the only one for whom it was impossible to die, gave up his own life to the torture and death of the cross in exchange for the eternal lives of all humanity...

When all had been done and all fulfilled, God the Father looked upon the human race and the willing sacrifice of His only begotten Son, filled with COMPASSION, raised JESUS from the dead and opened the gates of ETERNAL LIFE to all those that would repent and come in by faith in the sacrifice and resurrection of His Son.

And, ever since then and to this day, around the world, wherever this message of hope is proclaimed in obedience and the power and demonstration of the COMPASSION of God, People are fed and clothed and sheltered, cripples walk, the blind see, the sick are healed, those oppressed by spirits go free, others receive back their loved ones from the dead, and those in fear and sorrow over their sinful lives and separation from God, who repent are completely forgiven and cleansed and given a new, eternal life to enter into and walk in. A new life. One that God desires to fill with His COMPASSION for others...

The "Good News" without God's Spirit of COMPASSION is Bad News. The one thing that GOD deliberately did NOT accomplish through the death and resurrection of JESUS: The establishment of "Religion"...