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The Kingdom of God

A Kingdom of Love and Compassion

Paul spoke of “the kingdom of the Son he loves” (Colossians 1:13). The
kingdom of God is not like the kingdoms of the world. The kingdoms of
the world are built on self-ambition, greed, and pride. The kingdom of
God is built on love and compassion. Jesus, the King, demonstrated such
love and compassion for people. He did this in many ways.

Once, when He saw the people “harassed and helpless, like sheep
without a shepherd,” He had compassion for them. He then told His
disciples to “pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers
into his harvest” (Matthew 9:38). On another occasion when He saw a
crowd of people, He was moved with compassion and healed the sick
among them (Matthew 14:14). On yet another occasion, His compassion
compelled Him to feed a multitude of hungry people (Mark 8:2).

One time Jesus was moved with compassion and taught the people
(Mark 6:34). He knew that their greatest need was to know about His
loving heavenly Father. He also had compassion on a bereaved mother
and comforted her by raising her son from the dead (Luke 7:13–15).
Finally, moved by compassion, Jesus cast a demon out of a tormented boy
(Mark 9:22–27). As members of Christ’s kingdom of love, and as imitators
of our compassionate King, we must
demonstrate compassion for others
(1 John 3:16–17). That compassion
It is more important must move us to do something.

for us to show
To help us understand what such
compassion than it compassion looks like in real life,

is for us to carry out Jesus gave us the example of the Good
Samaritan who compassionately cared
our religious duties. for the man who had been beaten by
robbers (Luke 10:30–37). Jesus was
teaching that it is more important for
us to show compassion for others than it is for us to carry out our religious
duties. He therefore commands us to “go and do likewise” (v. 37).

A Kingdom of Generosity
Because the kingdom of God is a kingdom of compassion, it is also
a kingdom of generosity. The word “give” is found 199 times in the

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