Christ’s Sympathy for Suffering Humanity
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our pattern; will we copy it? Will we have a care for God’s heritage?
Will we cherish tender compassion for the erring, the tempted, and the
tried?—
Letter 45, 1894
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Touched With the Feelings of Our Infirmities—Christ, our sub-
stitute and surety, was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. His
human life was one long travail in behalf of the inheritance He was
to purchase at such an infinite cost. He was touched with the feelings
of our infirmities. In consideration of the value He places upon the
purchase of His blood, He adopts them as His children, makes them
the objects of His tender care, and in order that they may have their
temporal and spiritual necessities supplied, He commits them to His
church, saying, “Inasmuch as ye do it unto one of the least of these
My brethren, ye do it unto Me.”—
Manuscript 40, 1899
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Christ Came to Relieve Suffering—This world is a vast lazar
house, but Christ came to heal the sick, to proclaim deliverance to
the captives of Satan. He was in Himself health and strength. He
imparted His life to the sick, the afflicted, those possessed of demons.
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He turned away none who came to receive His healing power. He
knew that those who petitioned Him for help had brought disease upon
themselves; yet He did not refuse to heal them. And when virtue from
Christ entered into these poor souls, they were convicted of sin, and
many were healed of their spiritual disease, as well as of their physical
maladies. The gospel still possesses the same power, and why should
we not today witness the same results?
Christ feels the woes of every sufferer. When evil spirits rend a
human frame, Christ feels the curse. When fever is burning up the
life current, He feels the agony. And He is just as willing to heal the
sick now as when He was personally on earth. Christ’s servants are
His representatives, the channels for His working. He desires through
them to exercise His healing power.—
The Desire of Ages, 823, 824
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Christ alone had experience in all the sorrows and temptations that
befall human beings. Never another of woman born was so fiercely
beset by temptation; never another bore so heavy a burden of the
world’s sin and pain. Never was there another whose sympathies were
so broad or so tender. A sharer in all the experiences of humanity
He could feel not only for, but with, every burdened and tempted and
struggling one.—
Education, 78
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