This document discusses the topic of kindness. It defines kindness as good will and benevolence that delights in helping others. Some key points made include: - Acts of kindness include caring about others and making efforts to help them through both words and deeds. - People should prepare their heart with charity and do good works to demonstrate kindness to others, as Jesus exemplified. - God requires His people to be kind to others and set a good example, just as He Himself is kind. We should strive to help others as we would want help ourselves.

2. Kindness Search
• Kindness is found to be an amazing
quality that each one can benefit from
and be a benefit to others. Acts 20:35
• What is kindness?
• How can I be kind?
• What does God require in view of this
subject?

3. • KINDNESS, n. [from kind, the adjective.]
• 1. Good will; benevolence; that temper or
disposition which delights in contributing to the
happiness of others, which is exercised cheerfully
in gratifying their wishes, supplying their wants or
alleviating their distresses; benignity of nature.
Kindness ever accompanies love.
• 2. Act of good will; beneficence; any act of
benevolence which promotes the happiness or
welfare of others. Charity, hospitality, attentions to
the wants of others, &c., are deemed acts of
kindness, or kindnesses. Acts 28.
-Webster’s Dict.

4. Help Others!
• When you care about others and make efforts
to help them you are demonstrating kindness.
– People desire and look for it in others. Prov.19:22
• Prepare your heart with charity for others.
– Jesus did this constantly.
Lk. 2:14; Mt. 4:23; Acts 10:38
• Kindness is made known by the fruit of doing
good for and toward others. Eph. 4:32
– Example: Matthew 5:43-48

5. God Requires That We Be Kind
• The faithful do the right things, and in
character set (are being) the right example!
2 Cor. 6:6; Col. 3:12; 1 Cor. 11:1
• We should always strive to help others.
– A precursor to friendship. Mt. 7:12
– Are you a good neighbor? Luke 10:29ff
• What are you suppose to go and do?
• Need a genuine care for folks well being, as
you would for yourself.

6. God Is Kind
Titus 3:4
• We need to be like God, by being kind.
– It’s part of exercising godliness. 1 Tim. 4:7-8
• Reach out to those who are lost. Mk. 16:15
• Jesus saves! Obey Him today! Heb. 5:9
– Hear & believe the Gospel… Rom. 1:16; 10:17
– Repent of sin… Luke 13:3
– Confess faith in Christ… Acts 8:37
– Be baptized into Christ… Rom. 6:3-6
– Be faithful to Christ… Rev. 2:10