This is a message from leading the way with Dr. Michael Youssef.

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You know, the problem with the overuse of the word compassion is that it has the danger of becoming muddled and muddied and marred?

And then really ends up being nothing more than sentimentality.

And you don't have to be a genius to recognize that sentimentality is killing the truth. Sentimentality is blurring the acceptance of evil.

Sentimentality is covering up sin with the dress of tolerance. Sentimentality is

redefining sin and wickedness. Sentimentality is indeed deciding what is right and what is

wrong. Well, I should say, re-deciding.

And let me tell you something.

As a person who trained in the field of sociology,

it will not be long for a culture that adopts sentimentality.

It will not be long before God and His Word will be replaced by what society decides is right and wrong.

It would not be long for God's absolutes to take a back seat to man's definitions. It would not be long before God's commandments and God's injunctions will give way to humanistic arbitration.

It will not be long before that happens. Watch my words.

And that is why I want to explain this day in the coming day is the difference between compassion, biblical compassion, and distinguish it from political and humanistic compassion.

Biblical compassion is rooted in the God of the Bible, not in secular humanism, not in Eastern mysticism, and not in multiplicity of religion.

Biblical compassion has its origin in the compassionate God of Abraham and Jacob and Esau,

the God of the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Biblical compassion is far removed from humanistic sentimentality, and we, the people of God,

must understand the difference.

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