There are two types of types of compassions that I have learned. One, naive compassion is when somebody says something like this, “if only somebody would love them, then they would come to Jesus.” The other type of compassion is real compassion. Through this compassion one should learn what it means to really love someone. Not being timid to reveal someones conscience or even realizing that christians aren’t mean’t to be respected.

Naive compassion is when someone says, “if only the church was like what it was suppose to be, then people would get saved.” Jesus, walked on this earth for 33 years. He embodied everything the church was mean’t to be. Yet, people still rejected Him! It has has never been a perfection problem, but a WILL problem.

I noticed today that there are two Lazarus in the New Testament. The first one known as being acquainted with rich man and then other Lazarus who was the brother of Mary and Martha. Now the rich man and lazarus die. And it says that the rich man is tormented in Hades and Lazarus is comforted on Abraham’s bosom.

The rich man asks Abraham to send lazarus to bring him water. His request was denied, then the rich man demanded Abraham to send Lazarus, saying “if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent” (lk 16: 30).  Then in verse 31 Abraham says “If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.”

G. Campbell Morgan says life is never affected by miracles, if it is not affected by the moral. Another words the speactaculous and miraculous will not have any effect upon the life of men if there is not moral change. What if Lazarus was sent back? Remember that Jesus raised Mary and Martha’s brother Lazarus from the dead!? And what happened? They tried to kill him!

Look at Jesus, His entire public ministry there were people trying to kill Him. So it is naive to say that if ONLY we were like Jesus, people would repent. Even after Jesus rose from the dead they were trying to kill His followers!