Re: [TruthTalk] Street Preaching

[Judy Taylor]

 

 

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:51:30 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

A close kin to "discernment" is something called "empathy."  JD
 
jt: I don't think so John.  Empathy and fleshly compassion are close kin.  Deliverance in the power
of the Holy Spirit is close kin to real spiritual discernment - for those who want to be free that is.

Christ became like us to better serve us.  

 

jt: He became like us so that he could die for us with the end being that we become like him eg:

"He made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness

of men; and being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even

the death of the cross" [Phil 2:7,8]

 

That is empathy incarnate.  

 

jt: Going to the cross for us?  That's for sure... No quarrel there..

 

I understand, however, that those who are not empathetic will see it as some sort of demon doctrine 

 

jt: Are you holding to an "empathy" doctrine John? 

The ministry of Jesus is:

"To preach good tidings unto the meek; to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the

captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year

of the Lord, and the day of the vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; to appoint unto

them that mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment

of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting

of the Lord, that he might be glorified" [Isaiah 61:1-3]

 

 --   denying its existence even in the life of Christ.  JD

 

jt: I don't know that we should interpret what he did as just "empathy" John.  He sent gifts to the

Church so that we could do something about it.