DAILY TRUTH - Those SOFT Men Who Created HARD Times
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In this episode, Pastor Ken teaches on the difference between compassion and mercy, and how they are two different things. God is a God of mercy, but so are we. The Bible teaches that when it comes to dealing out justice, you should not show favoritism to the rich, but also to the poor. The Old Testament says that you shall not pity the rich but also the poor, and that you should be compassionate toward them. But there are two kinds of compassion. One is righteous, and one is wicked.
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five-star review on your favorite podcast platform thanks hard times create hard men
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hard men create soft times better times times of peace and then these soft times create soft men
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and then soft men due to their softness their effeminacy their weakness they create hard times
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israel is struggling with what i would consider to be the post-war mentality the post-war sentiment
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we did this we did this war thing we did the conquest we're done we're done with it
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we've seen atrocities we saw the barbarians of canaan i mean there were even giants
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god we're done we fought the barbarians and we won and sure some of their children are still
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We don't need to run them down. We don't need to finish the job.
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We're a little bit lazy, apathetic. And I do think
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DEI, man. Israel's, you know, DEI policy. Diversity.
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just a little bit of polytheism just a sprinkle just a sprinkle of idolatry
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but out of kindness and at the end of the day you know it's the thought that counts
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it's the intention it's the motive as long as our hearts are in the right place
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so yes apathy yeah maybe a little ptsd yeah fatigue and tired but also pity
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and in biblical terms that word pity can go either way there are times when the bible says that god
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pitied israel and it's righteous so there is a righteous form of pity there's a righteous kind
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of pity, a compassion, a compassion that is genuinely compassionate. But there is also a type
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of pity that is wicked, that is misguided, that's perverted. It is tweaked and twisted. It's pity
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where there should not be pity. And the Bible talks about this. Think of Deuteronomy. Old Testament
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law. It talks about when it comes to dealing out justice, your eyes shall not pity.
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You should not show favoritism to the rich. And this is rehashed out by Jesus in the Sermon on
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the Mount, also by the book of James. Somebody comes in with fine clothing, not necessarily
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soft. It could be soft, but fine, rich clothing. You can discern this is a person of status, a
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person of, I don't know, prestige, and you say, hey, come and sit in this nice seat, and then
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somebody dressed in shabby clothing comes in, oh, you sit on the floor by my feet, right? So you
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are not to show partiality in regards to favoring the rich, but that's not the only way the principle
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applies. The principle applies across the board in both directions. The Old Testament says you
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shall not pity, show favoritism to the rich, but also not pity the poor. So there is pity that
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comes from god that that we might call mercy and it's righteous it has to do with compassion
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but there's also pity that is sinful and twisted and tweaked perverse that is not compassion
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but rather it's it's tolerance of wickedness it's tolerance of wickedness it's like the
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difference between sympathy and empathy. Sympathy comes from the root word compassion.
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Compassion lending towards love. A pure, genuine, authentic love. So real love is compassion. And
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compassion, that's where we get sympathy from. Empathy, however, is not necessarily the same.
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And I won't make a big debate out of the words because it depends how you use the word empathy
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and blah, blah, blah, but a lot of the ways, I'll at least say this, a lot of the ways that the word
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empathy has been used by our culture in the West today is what the Bible would describe as a sinful
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pity. It's not sympathy, compassion, genuine love, but rather it's favoritism. It's discrimination.
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it's i'm going to elevate this person not not because of anything uh that's objective or just
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or fair but simply because i'm going to arbitrate between you know this person and that because i i
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like this person they're poor or they're a minority and you know this person over there
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they may be doing the right thing but it doesn't matter this is a woman this is a man this this
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person's a minority ethnicity this person's white
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this person's lgbt lmnop you know and this person's just traditional family it makes me sick
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that's that's not righteous pity that's wicked pity and israel had some of that for their adversaries
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