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What happens when every believer sees themselves as a nurturer? Saints form a Nurturing A.S.S.E.M.B.L.Y. We A dmit our faults to One Another Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, And their works are in the dark, And they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? We don't Conceal…

Giving mercy is giving people what they don’t deserve. This is a terrible business and life strategy and is an open invitation to be taken advantage of. Mercy, like meekness, is usually seen as weakness and poor judgment. Good news in the Kingdom: we will receive mercy. What we deserve is death and damnation……

TEXT: Matthew 5:7 ETS: Jesus pronounces a blessing upon those who are merciful. ESS: The believer is to be a merciful person. OSS: The believer will ask God to create a merciful heart within him. PQ: what does it mean to be merciful? U.W.: Fundamentals TOPIC: Fundamentals of Being Merciful Matthew 5:7…

Are We Saved by Our Mercy or God’s Grace? So we could say that mercy really means a sense of pity plus a desire to relieve the suffering. That is the essential meaning of being merciful; it is pity plus the action. So the Christian has a feeling of pity. His concern about the misery of men and women…

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. INTRO— QUESTION: Have you ever played Mercy? Beatitudes… Beatitudes 5-7 show us what the righteousness (in Beatitude 4 [ Matt 5.6 ]) for which we should hunger and thirst looks like. Jesus preaches it…and lives it! Matthew 9.10 -13 “While he was…

One summer Saturday morning, a father decided to take his son fishing for the first time. The boy had been fishing with his father a number of times before and had watched him closely, but he had never been allowed to fish himself. You should also know that this young man was not unlike many children:…

One summer Saturday morning, a father decided to take his son fishing for the first time. The boy had been fishing with his father a number of times before and had watched him closely, but he had never been allowed to fish himself. You should also know that this young man was not unlike many children:…

Kid’s Minute… Tomorrow is a holiday. Do you know what holiday it is? That’s right- Memorial Day. Why do we have a Memorial Day? Memorial Day is a holiday to remember U.S. military people who died while serving our country…. Many people have the day off, a lot of businesses are closed, & people usually…

Intro: What makes you happy? really happy? My family makes me happy. I’m happy that my girls are here. I’m happy that my son got married last month. Seeing my wife laugh makes me very happy- it’s one of my favorite things. E.g., last month at my son’s wedding, it’s one of the happiest times of my life,…

A call to discipleship is a call to reflect God's mercy. Much like Jesus' teaching on forgiveness, mercy is required to be given by those who have received it. God is the first and true giver of mercy. Mercy is part of his being. We reflect God's mercy as we deal mercifully with others, and we live in a constant flow of mercy: God's mercy to us, and our mercy to others.

When Jesus fulfills our deepest longings, we can live out of the overflow of His life within us. This overflowing life plays itself out in a unique happiness.

Last week, we saw the people of God who are starving and thirsty for righteousness are blessed because they are and will be filled…completely satisfied…finding that satisfaction in Christ Alone. He is our righteousness. Again, our study #Blessed is about identifying what it means to be blessed, who is…

Being merciful is not something we do so that we will receive. Instead it is who we are because of what has been done for us.

Introduction Greetings… The theme of our current series of Sunday morning sermons has been the “Beatitudes Of The Bible.” We find ourselves, having finished up the O.T., looking to the N.T. now and smack dab in the middle of the most “common” beatitudes which are the opening of the Sermon on the Mount.…

THE BEATITUDES: How to Be Truly Blessed Sermon Series “Blessed Are the Merciful” (Part #6) KEY PASSAGE: Matthew 5:7 (NASB) Father God, we thank You again for a wonderful praise and worship experience , and [we] honor You for Your presence in this church. We pray that Your grace, mercy, and peace will…

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A look a the Beatitudes

We’ve been talking the last three weeks about contentment. We’ve seen that God gives us assurance that we are forgiven and that we are right with Him, and this can brings true happiness, true contentment. But it may be that you are still discontent. It could be that despite all you know God has done…