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Recap
God defines what love is - sacrifice.
If we aren’t sacrificing (self-denying) are we really loving?
The Spirit is essential to our ability to deny ourselves, it is not natural for us.
Would you sacrifice for your enemies?
Intro
This sacrificial love is how the world will know that we belong to God.
Remember:
We know what God’s mercy looks like, we just don’t like to give it.
The problem is, when I form opinions like that I am projecting my own definition of justice on others.
We like our version of justice because we think we can find our own justification.
Justification is a theological term for earning something.
We often hear this term in regards to salvation.
We are justified, the price is paid for our salvation.
We all have a tendency to believe we can earn our own salvation and that leads us to treat others as if their actions can earn their salvation or damn them to hell.
I know I believe in a standard of living, and in my own head, I project my understanding on others instead of seeing them this huge point Christ makes about the idea of sacrifice.
God could have required these tax collectors and sinners to live up to a standard and try to earn their way, but he doesn’t ask them that.
Instead he emphasizes grace and mercy.
That is God’s desire.
He doesn’t expect us to earn our salvation, He gives mercy.
Ephesians
He has all the mercy.
James 2:12-
If we have been saved by grace, we should be an accurate representation of that grace.
If we say it is by grace we have been saved, then we need to lead with mercy.
We know what God means by grace and mercy because we have experienced it, but if we don’t allow that definition to dictate how we engage in the world around us, we have lost our saltiness and put our light under a bowl.
We have a dead faith.
We have a useless religion (on par with every other religion in the world).
We often confuse our vengeance for God’s justice, when grace tells us another story.
As a result of the love God has for us, we have been given mercy.
So we should be giving mercy and grace to others.
This mercy and grace should inform our idea of justice on every level.
When someone says it isn’t fair to be gracious or merciful, we should respond with “yup!” Consequences are important to justice and biblical, but so are grace and love.
Again, it is only by the spirit (given to us in grace), that we are capable of truly employing the ideas of love and mercy in the world in which we live.
Challenge
Who do you hesitate to give mercy to?
In what circumstances do you look to justify yourself and what you want to see? How has the church sought their own idea of justice instead of the justice of God?
Initial Thoughts
Mercy is recieved, Grace is given, both inform our perspective on God’s justice.
Sacrifice for God will not be able to earn your salvation, therefore God doesn’t desire it.
Sinners need mercy and can’t earn salvation so why would God lead us on?
Give Grace/Mercy instead as you have been given it.
Which also feeds into the idea of Justice.
MERCY—compassion for the miserable.
Its object is misery.
By the atoning sacrifice of Christ a way is open for the exercise of mercy towards the sons of men, in harmony with the demands of truth and righteousness (Gen.
19:19; Ex. 20:6; 34:6, 7; Ps. 85:10; 86:15, 16).
In Christ mercy and truth meet together.
Mercy is also a Christian grace (Matt.
5:7; 18:33–35).
MERCY-SEAT—(Heb.
kapporeth), a “covering;” LXX. and N.T., hilasterion; Vulg., propitiatorium), the covering or lid of the ark of the covenant (q.v.).
It was of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, or perhaps rather a plate of solid gold, 2 1/2 cubits long and 1 1/2 broad (Ex.
25:17; 30:6; 31:7).
It is compared to the throne of grace (Heb.
9:5; Eph.
2:6).
The holy of holies is called the “place of the mercy-seat” (1 Chr.
28:11: Lev.
16:2).
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