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InVerse, 3rd Quarter 2019: "The Least of These" : Ministering to Those in Need

Sikhu Daco

Justin Kim

Israel Ramos

Jonathan Walter

01-God Created

Callie Williams

02-Blueprint for a Better World

Sebastien Braxton

03-Sabbath: A Day of Freedom

04-Mercy and Justice in Psalms and Proverbs

05-The Cry of the Prophets

06-Worship the Creator

07-Jesus and Those in Need

08-The Least of These

09-Ministry in the New Testament Church

10-Living the Gospel

11-Living the Advent Hope

12-To Love Mercy

13-A Community of Servants

You know, we're always trying to find that 1 way, that 1 hack to live a better life.

Coming to you from Silver Spring, Maryland, Welcome to Inverse, a Bible-based conversation on life principles, contemporary issues, and thought-provoking perspectives.

Now here's your host, Justin Kim, with Inverse.

We are smack in the middle of this segment on mercy and justice throughout the Bible.

We looked at different portions of the Bible.

We looked at the gospel in different episodes in the past, but with my panelist friends today, we are looking at different ways to elevate humanity, not based on technology or drugs or these synthetic means, but through the Bible.

Sebastian, you pray for us and pray that we can read the Bible appropriately with the Holy Spirit's help, Holy Spirit's guidance, and we'll get into it.

Father in heaven, Jesus died for people, died to restore them and to bring them to glory.

And Lord, we pray that as we explore the power of your gospel to accomplish that, and other practical ways that we can participate in what God is doing in the lives of other people, that you would bless our study, is our prayer.

Callie, can we, let's go to Matthew chapter 9.

Matthew chapter 9 verse let's go to verse 35 and then verse 36.

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.

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd." Yeah.

Well, Jesus is here about to do his father's business, as he always does.

This is a wonderful description of just Jesus' life and ministry.

He's teaching, He's preaching, He's healing, and He is among the people.

I mean, you know, we talked about what should be on our tombstone in our last episode.

You know, maybe that should be on our tombstone.

But Jesus is here engaged in ministry, and then he sees the multitudes.

He's gazing over these people that are seeking him for whatever needs they have.

And he's moved with compassion because they were weary and scattered like sheep having no shepherd.

What I think is an incredible thing to say about the Son of God, that He has compassion on us who are not the best.

You know, we are pretty evil and mean, but He has compassion on us people.

Yeah, this is a powerful verse in the sense that Jesus was compassionate.

I know that sounds so cliche, but let's step back a bit and let's take a look at a generation.

How many of you are on the internet and you find all these different commercials on Insta or Facebook or Twitter about the latest way to hack something.

Like if you can go in the water and they'll dry in 2 seconds and then you gotta buy these crowd stores.

It's got silver properties, the antibacterial.

If you can just do this exercise in this many minutes, you only have to do this and you lose a hundred pounds by tomorrow.

If you read this book, you can be telepathic, or you can sense, you know, we're always trying to elevate ourselves in different ways.

And the millennial generation makes fun of the past for all the amounts of money that we're spent, but the Millennials do it just as much, but we use it through our cell phones or through glasses and computers in our noses or whatever it is.

And I read a book where I have a son, 2 sons, and raising children, the most advanced human quality you can teach your children is compassion.

And the most human attribute of humanity is compassion.

What's the hack for living a godly and holy life?

Which I think every religion, every ideology wants, but we can't.

There are 2 aspects of compassion that I think make it difficult for Millennials or just human nature in general.

1 is that it requires selflessness, because it's focused on someone else.

You have compassion for someone's situation.

But another 1 that I struggle with the most is compassion a lot of time involves pain.

Well, because you think about you don't have compassion on someone when they're happy.

Like oh they're so happy, I feel compassionate for you.

It's like when someone's suffering and when you take notice of that and you enter into their experience because in this case going back to the text in verse 36 He was moved with compassion for them.

Because they were weary and scattered like sheep having no shepherd So there was something wrong in what he was seeing, and that's what moved him to compassion.

And I have this struggle where I go between either, I can care a lot, so be compassionate, if you will, and I can care and be involved, but that's like exhausting.

And so then it's like, well, I'd rather be apathetic.

So I see the suffering, but I'd rather not see it because then we have this thing like compassion fatigue, and you just don't want to be so compassionate and so giving, and...

But Jesus sees the pain and He still gives into it.

And so Jesus has like this balance though, that I don't know how he does it of yeah he just like he doesn't care so much what people think like oh I want you to like me so I'm gonna like do things for you so he doesn't care like he's apathetic in that sense but he is infinitely caring towards people's basest and most smallest needs.

Okay we'll get to Jonathan but Kelly can I ask you can you define some of your terms?

You wanted to be compassionate but you were empathetic instead and you ended up being apathetic.

So I think we're tracking but just in case someone might not be able to follow those.

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InVerse, 3rd Quarter 2019: "The Least of These" : Ministering to Those in Need

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InVerse 2nd Quarter 2025: Back to the Altar

08 The Altar Life of Jesus, Part 1

29m

InVerse, 1st Quarter 2021: Romans

05 Adam’s Fall and Jesus’ Triumph

27m

InVerse, 1st Quarter 2020: Daniel: Practical Principles for End-Time Living

07-A Church in Crisis

27m

InVerse 3rd Quarter 2024: Stories that Transform

04 Caught in the Crossfire

29m

InVerse, 1st Quarter 2021: Romans

04 Abraham and Faith

27m

InVerse 4th Quarter 2025: The Book of Joshua

07 Deadly Deceptions

28m

InVerse 3rd Quarter 2024: Stories that Transform

09 Giving to God

29m

InVerse, 2nd Quarter 2022: James

13 Faith That Works

26m

InVerse, 1st Quarter 2023: God First

03 Noah: The Grateful Giver

28m

InVerse 1st Quarter 2024: Jesus & Liberty

04 Finding Real Freedom

29m

InVerse, 1st Quarter 2023: God First

07 Ahaz: The Wicked Giver

28m

InVerse, 4th Quarter 2021: Deuteronomy

02 Rebellion and Consequences

27m

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