Mercy Message

Consider putting certain things in red that could be skipped during the sermon if i see I’m going to long.

Series: Summer in the Psalms

Week 3

Text: Psalm 103

Title: Mercy

Intro:

Illustration(s): I need something that communicates God’s eternal mercy in comparison to my temporal existence

Or perhaps how mercy is damned up by our lack of distributing

Main Themes:

Praise towards God

Mercy from God

More Mercy from God

More Praise towards God

Teaching Points:

My inability to show mercy reveals my lack of understanding my sinful? Condition

Response:

Parking Lot: (Where I put thoughts to sort out or THROW out later)

Behold the Mercy of God

I must show mercy. Micah 6:8 says I should love to do it! Nothing makes you more of an awesome person than not needing to be right or proving someone wrong, or saying I told you so… my thought process every time I show mercy, is that I get more of God’s! Lord’s prayer teaches it,

Who here today wants to receive less mercy?

Bartemeus or who else, oh son of David have mercy on me, who said I’m a sinner? Believed sin in those times for sure but more than that when I cry out for mercy I am saying, God i know that I have not yet become everything you intend for me, (intended to be)

Mercy is when I am mad at or hurt by others, I ask where the sin or failure might be in me, find verse on sorrow for sin of others because I could fail

Leviticus 4, unintentional sin

Leviticus 5 mercy in the inability to pay full sacrifice - the perceived tyrant destructive God of the OT, says if you don’t have enough, just bring what you can, because your heart is more precious to me than the sacrifice.

He interupts confessions to throw us a party, because He doesn’t want us to live in the sin. there’ s bad preaching and a world out there that says you have to stay ashamed and live in your guilt, but the God we serve, and the God that loves us, wants us immediately be restored to fellowship with Him. I’m not that good of a person, so i need His grace and His mercy and the only way i know to stay connected to that is to lavishly show the same kind of mercy and grace to those around me, no matter what they’ve done to hurt me.

When I say or believe I deserve to be punished, I’m allowing the enemy to make me believe that Jesus’ blood isn’t enough