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We need more of Christlike sympathy; not merely sympathy for those who appear to us to be faultless, but sympathy for poor, suffering, struggling souls, who are often overtaken in fault, sinning and repenting, tempted and discouraged. We are to go to our fellow men, touched, like our merciful High Priest, with the feeling of their infirmities.

Believers should offer compassionate, Christlike sympathy to all struggling and tempted individuals. It provides ethical and ministerial guidance on empathy and social support, lacking empirical measurement claims.

It was the outcast, the publican and sinner, the despised of the nations, that Christ called and by His loving- kindness compelled to come unto Him. The one class that He would never countenance was those who stood apart in their self-esteem and looked down upon others.

Christ showed loving-kindness to outcasts and sinners while rejecting self-righteous pride. This is a historical and theological narrative about Christ's ministry.

“Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in,” Christ bids us, “that My house may be filled.” In obedience to this word we must go to the heathen who are near us, and to those who are afar off. The “publicans and harlots” must hear the Saviour's invitation. Through the kindness and long-suffering of His messengers the invitation becomes a compelling power to uplift those who are sunken in the lowest depths of sin.

Believers are commissioned to extend the invitation of salvation to all people through kindness. This relates to religious outreach and ministerial methods.

Christian motives demand that we work with a steady purpose, an undying interest, an ever-increasing importunity, for the souls whom Satan is seeking to destroy. Nothing is to chill the earnest, yearning energy for the salvation of the lost.

Christian workers should maintain steady dedication and earnest energy in helping others. The text outlines spiritual motivation and dedication.

Mark how all through the word of God there is manifest the spirit of urgency, of imploring men and women to come to Christ. We must seize upon every opportunity, in private and in public, presenting every argument, urging every motive of infinite weight, to draw men to the Saviour. With all our power we must urge them to look unto Jesus and to accept His life of self-denial and sacrifice. We must show that we expect them to give joy to the heart of Christ by using every one of His gifts in honoring His name.

Urgency and perseverance are necessary when encouraging individuals to turn to Christ. It addresses religious persuasion and evangelism.