Text: Matthew 9:35-38 Date: October 15, 2023 Speaker: Jim Donohue, Pastor at Covenant Fellowship Church, Glen Mills, PA QUOTES: CHARLES PRICE: “Compassion comes from seeing people in their true state. Praying for compassion is not likely to be very effective. Opening our eyes to see people as they really are is the true source of compassion.” MARK McCLOSKEY: “If you want to develop a burden for the lost, go out and talk to the lost and find out how lost they really are.” CHARLES SPURGEON: “If ever anybody should despise us for Christ’s sake, let us not count it hard, but let us be willing to bear scorn and contempt for him. Let us say to ourselves, ‘Then did they spit in his face. What, then, if they also spit in mine?’ If they do, I will ‘hail reproach, and welcome shame’, since it comes upon me for his dear sake. See, that wretch is about to spit in Christ’s face! Put your cheek forward, that you may catch that spittle upon your face, that it fall not upon him again, for as he was put to such terrible shame, everyone who has been redeemed with his precious blood ought to count it an honor to be a partaker of the shame, if by any means we may screen him from being further despised and rejected of men.”