Sermon Tone Analysis
Overall tone of the sermon
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Introduction
Blessed
Merciful
means to pity, to have compassion, to show mercy
pity
feeling of sympathy or sharing in suffering of another
emotion
highlights feeling sorry for another’s predicament, but with condescension [no empathy]
compassion
feeling of mercy or empathy or sharing in suffering of another
emotion and virtue
highlights both empathy with a need/desire to help another
ἔλεος (ĕlĕŏs) - kindness or goodwill towards the miserable and afflicted, joined with a desire to relieve them
emotion roused by contact with an undeserved affliction that happens to another
sympathetic [empathy involved]
mercy embraces both forgiveness for the guilty and compassion for the suffering and needy
mercy is to be a function of Jesus’s disciples, not of the situation that calls for it:
They are to be merciful because of who they are, not because of the actions of another.
Receive Mercy
Jesus’s words set up a reciprocal arrangement: the merciful will receive mercy
Don’t think Jesus was saying, “Show mercy so you will receive mercy”,
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“Show mercy because you have received mercy.”
Don’t forget eschatological implication:
receive mercy now—on earth
receive mercy then—in heaven
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