Mario Murillo: The Compassion of Christ Compels Us to the Cross (Romans 2:4)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 21/12/2022

Mario Murillo: The Compassion of Christ Compels Us to the Cross (Romans 2:4)
Mario speaks at the Living Proof Tent Crusade in Roseville, CA, on 11/16/2022. Quotes: “When the church quit acting like God loved them is when we lost our influence. Because it was that simple fact that we acted as though we were loved. There was nobody with a harder heart than Matthew, the man who wrote this, about His compassion. Jesus said, "Follow Me," and the love came out, the compassion came out. Suddenly, Matthew realized, "There's something about this Jesus that I have to have." Then He went to the cross.”

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Now I'm going to tell you something shocking.
Everybody look this way; I'm going to tell you something
shocking - it begins with the word compassion. 
I don't want anyone to move a muscle.
I want you to look at me
and I want you to listen to the word compassion.
The Bible tells us that Christ was moved by compassion.
That's the first word I'm going to use
in this short part of my message.
The second word is the word compel.
Compassion and compel.
I want to read Matthew 9:35, "Then Jesus went about
all the cities and the 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,"
I'm going to try this again.
"When he saw the multitudes."
How many of you in this room believe that Christ
can see things you and I cannot see?
You know, I'm going to tell you...
He sees that you are a terrified single mother.
He sees that you're a young person
growing up in a world where everything good has been taken.
He knows the ones in this room that want to kill themselves.
He feels something and sees something,
and this is what the Bible said.
"But when He saw the multitudes,
He was moved with compassion for them
because they were weary, scattered,
like sheep having no shepherd.
Then He said to the disciples
'The harvest is truly plentiful, but the laborers are few.
Therefore, pray the Lord of the harvest
that He send out laborers into the harvest.'"
I want to read another translation
of just a little part of that.
"He was moved with compassion."
Charles Spurgeon said that Christ was so visibly
overcome by compassion. He described it this way. 
What He saw not only affected His eyes, but His heart.
He was overcome by sympathy.
His whole frame was stirred with an emotion
which put every faculty into forceful movement.
He waded into sickness. He waded into disease.
He invaded the misery of the humans that he saw, the people.
That's the way He was.
Someone asked me, "Why is preaching powerless today?"
Because the preachers have no compassion.
They're not moved by it. They're not broken by it.
They don't look at an audience.
Too many of our young preachers
see them as a $$check$$, as a statistic. 
But you are not a $$check$$. You are not a statistic.
Do you know that you are so loved by God,
that God the Father bankrupted Heaven
so He could save you? (congregation cheering) 
Am I preaching yet?
So Spurgeon said this compassion overpowered Him.
He had no resistance to it.
It affected every fiber of His being.
And Spurgeon went on to say
that Matthew had to invent a word to explain Jesus.
You see, it's translated in the English compassion.
But in the original language,
it's actually a word that was created by Matthew himself.
He added it to the vocabulary, but we find it as compassion.
But what Matthew's trying to say
is that it was such a profound power.
When I was young, I had the honor
of picking up David Wilkerson at LAX
and driving him to a crusade.
I never met a man more broken for the lost.
There was a day when ministry was totally different
than it is today, totally different.
David would weep.
He couldn't help himself when he saw a drug addict.
So every month, I got to be with David Wilkerson.
And every month, I would be at the Shrine Auditorium
watching Miss Kathryn Kuhlman.
Those of you that saw the awe,
the love of God that used to come out of that woman.
When the church quit acting like God loved them
is when we lost our influence.
Because it was that simple fact
that we acted as though we were loved.
Somebody loves me, somebody loves me.
Why do I know that
when it looks dark, and bad, and impossible,
that I'm going to be OK?
Because somebody loves me.
Now I'm going to stop.
And I'm going to tell you that this compassion
is moving you right now toward Christ.
Right now, you've hardened your heart,
you've hardened your life,
you've done so many things
to defend yourself against loving.