Harmony of Praise: 18

His Mercy is More

Scripture Verse/ passage:

Micah 7:18–20 ESV

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love. He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

Who is a God like you?

Pardoning iniquity

Passing over transgression

Does not hold onto anger...

Delights in love that is guaranteed and doesn’t end

Compassionate

Able and willing to destroy our sin problem

....His mercies are so great that they separate us from our sins as if they were in an unreachable depth that we cannot fathom. (His mercy embraces us while banishes our ultimately banishes our sin to a place where we can never reach)

Promise keeping God

Faithful

Loving

Main Idea & Explanation:

The Minor Prophets, Volume 2: (Micah–Malachi): An Expositional Commentary Chapter 6: No One like God (Micah 7:1–20)

Micah rehearses the ways in which the true God is unlike all others. Deliverance by mighty acts is among those ways. Yet his emphasis is on God’s willingness to forgive sin and show mercy, which he concludes is the supreme measure of God’s surpassing excellence

The song itself was inspired by a John Newton sermon.

Are not you amazed sometimes that you should have so much as a hope, that, poor and needy as you are, the Lord thinketh of you? But let not all you feel discourage you. For if our Physician is almighty, our disease cannot be desperate and if He casts none out that come to Him, why should you fear?

Our sins are many, but His mercies are more: our sins are great, but His righteousness is greater: we are weak, but He is power. Most of our complaints are owing to unbelief, and the remainder of a legal spirit. And these evils are not removed in a day.  -- John Newton

Intended Response & Application:

Response: Celebration!

Praise the Lord! His Mercy is More!!!! (than anything that we think could keep us from Him… or preventing His plan)

Biblical Theology:

Isaiah: 40:25-26; 43:25; 44:6;

Matthew: 10:29-30;

Psalm 139:1-4; 147:4;

Jeremiah 17:10; 31:34;

Micah 7:18-19;

Hebrews 4:13-15; 8:12;

Verse 1

What love could remember, no wrongs we have done

Omniscient, all-knowing, He counts not their sum

Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore

Our sins they are many, His mercy is more

Verse 2

What patience would wait as we constantly roam

What Father so tender is calling us home

He welcomes the weakest, the vilest, the poor

Our sins they are many, His mercy is more

Verse 3

What riches of kindness He lavished on us

His blood was the payment His life was the cost

We stood ‘neath a debt we could never afford

Our sins they are many, His mercy is more

Chorus

Praise the Lord

His mercy is more

Stronger than darkness

New every morn’

Our sins they are many, His mercy is more

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