Epaggelia

The love of God is most commonly and obviously seen in the different ways Jesus was moved with compassion. His compassion was sourced from the fact that His Father God is love, and from love comes grace & mercy. 

 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with a heart of 

__________, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if someone happens to have a complaint against anyone else. Just as the 

Lord has forgiven you, so you also forgive others. And to all these virtues add ________, which is the perfect bond. (Colossians 3:12-14)

A feeling of sympathy that evokes the desire to refrain from vengeance = __________

This type of compassion is absent in Hebrews 10:28, where punishment is death! When this type of compassionate mercy is shown, it usually describes God, Romans 12:1 & 2nd Corinthians 1:3.

God is portrayed as the type of Father that is full of compassionate mercy, 2nd Cor. 1:3. So when Jesus was forgiving people, he was taking away the offenses that one day would kill them. If we struggle with forgiveness it is because we lack mercy. We need mercy in order to be forgiving towards others.

be kind to one another, ________________________, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you, Ephesians 4:32.

If we struggle with forgiveness we need to pray like Jesus instructed us in Matthew 6:9-15

Do not be guilty of counting the times you must forgive the same person you already have forgiven, but realize that only God knows when you have reached 490.  We will lose count before we get there. See Matthew 18:20-21.

The most obvious way Jesus shows his compassionate nature is in the fact that he did not hide his tears, see John 11:35 (towards others grieving) and in Luke 19:41 (towards others facing judgment) and in Hebrews 5:7 (when facing his torture for our sins). Are we moved to tears when we see people lost, vexed, helpless and wandering in sin? See Matthew 9:36