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Only reciprocal beatitude...
Notice a shift?
The first 3 beatitudes are about my position and relationship with God...
Then we hit last week which was a transitional beatitude from positional righteousness to living in right relationship with one another
and now we are looking at our relationship with others in showing mercy....
next week will be the exception here, but you can see how its about our position and relationship with God and shifts to our relationship with others..
What is Mercy? - to have pity or compassion...
We are often quick to ask God for mercy, but slow to extend it to others?
Let’s break it down simplistically here....
How many of us are perfect?
How many of us want the people in our lives to show mercy to us?
Why do we struggle with showing mercy to others?
Someone wrongs us and we decide to hold their feet to the fire...
It’s like the servant in:
How often do we expect others to show compassion to us, but choose not to extend it to others?
Matthew (A.
The Heart of a Kingdom Citizen (5:1–12)) Weber
They are “others-oriented.”
What we have received in such abundance, we must dispense abundantly
Mercy is showing compassion and pity on others...
Matthew (2.
Paradigmatic Preaching: The Sermon on the Mount (5:1–7:29)) Blomberg
“Merciful” embraces the characteristics of being generous, forgiving others, having compassion for the suffering, and providing healing of every kind.
It is also the gateway to forgiveness...
Mercy and forgiveness often go hand-in-hand
Forgiveness is the removal of a debt or consequence without anything needed on your end
So, we are forgiven by the blood of Jesus…made available because of His mercy....
So, what are we to do?
We are to forgive…we are to show mercy
We must not only bear our own afflictions patiently, but we must do all we can to help those who are in misery.
We must have compassion on the souls of others, and help them; pity those who are in sin, and seek to snatch them as brands out of the burning.
Misconceptions or Extremes of Mercy...
1. Sweeping under the rug
The difference in showing mercy and sweeping it under the rug is that mercy recognizes the sin or wrong doing....
Sweeping under the rug pretends that it doesn’t exist or it didn’t happen
Mercy acknowledges it happened....but says, I am going to forgive
2. Lack of Accountability/Passivity
The thought is that forgiveness doesn’t hold people accountable...
Or that whoever is doing the forgiving is being passive...
The accountability exists in the recognition of wrong doing...
It means taking responsibility for what you have done...
It means coming to the person understanding that you have done wrong and being willing to deal with the consequences....
For mercy to be truly extended, there needs to be true repentance....
God doesn’t extend mercy on everyone....He extends mercy on those who are His children...
We read:
But, how do we receive Jesus...
So, for mercy to be extended, there must be sincere and true repentance...
Mercy isn’t saying what you did was okay, or ignoring what you did…it’s saying what you did was wrong....and you accept and acknowledge that…and then mercy says the consequence has been removed...
The guilt has been dissolved...
So, when we extend mercy, we aren’t sweeping it under the rug or not holding them accountable....It’s the opposite…we are addressing it and holding them accountable…but we remove the major consequence....
Now there still may be consequences...
The person who is in prison and responds to Jesus and becomes a christians doesn’t automatically get out of prison...
But, in his position before God, He is now the righteousness of Christ, and is no longer headed toward the ultimate consequence of eternal death....
Similarly, if someone hurts us, we can forgive them, but there still may be residual consequences....if someone steals from me, I probably won’t loan them something for awhile...
If someone has a history of abuse, though they may be changed, it will likely still take time to build back trust and see the fruit of their true repentance...
But, prayerfully, in the long term, the relationship can be restored...
So, we are to be people of mercy and forgiveness…and we will be shown mercy!
Let’s end with some benefits of mercy
1.
We can truly have a living and active relationship with God
We become a part of the kingdom heaven and the family of God!
James 4:7–8 (NIV)
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you...
2. We no longer face the consequence of eternal death
Jesus says in:
3. We have relationship with others
When we show mercy and forgive others, it frees us to truly love them!
So, when we show mercy, we can be apart of the body and love others.
As we wrap up this morning, I encourage you to think about how merciful you are...
Do you constantly hold other’s feet to the fire, or are you quick to forgive?
Have you come before God and accepted His forgiveness?
If not, you can do that be believing in Him, confessing your sin, and accepting His gift of salvation...
Are you an active, loving, part of the body?
This morning we get to celebrate part of the body and commit to being active in it as we dedicate Jordan Doll to the Lord...
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