He Is Merciful And We Are To Be Merciful Lamentations 3:21-24 Deuteronomy 4:31 Psalms 78:32-39 Micah 6:8 Matthew 5:7 Luke 6:36 Ephesians 2:4-5 Romans 12:1-2 Psalms 24:4-10 1 John 2:6 06.08.20

HE IS MERCIFUL AND WE ARE TO BE MERCIFUL

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²¹ Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: ²² Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. ²³ They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. ²⁴ I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”  Lamentations 3:21-24 (NIV)

³¹ For the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your forefathers, which he confirmed to them by oath.  Deuteronomy 4:31 (NIV)

³² In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe. ³³ So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror. ³⁴ Whenever God slew them, they would seek him; they eagerly turned to him again. ³⁵ They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer. ³⁶ But then they would flatter him with their mouths, lying to him with their tongues; ³⁷ their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant. ³⁸ Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath. ³⁹ He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.  Psalms 78:32-39 (NIV)

⁸ He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you?  To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.  Micah 6:8 (NIV)

⁷ “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.”  Matthew 5:7 (NIV)

³⁶ “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.”    Luke 6:36 (NIV)

⁴ But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, ⁵ made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved.  Ephesians 2:4-5 (NIV)

¹ Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship. ² Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.  Romans 12:1-2 (NIV)

⁴ Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; ⁵ guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. ⁶ Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. ⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O LORD. ⁸ Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways. ⁹ He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.  ¹⁰ All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful for those who keep the demands of his covenant.  Psalms 25:4-10 (NIV)

⁶ Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.  1 John 2:6 (NIV)

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“Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan.”   John Chrysostom

“Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.”   Miguel de Cervantes

“Our mercies come in great numbers, but God distributes them by parcels that we are able to acknowledge them and be thankful for them.  He loads us daily that we may not forget Him but have new reasons for praise.  Each day we are in need of new strength, new grace, and new supplies.  Every day affords business, trouble, care, and burdens enough…God would not have us to be overly burdened with worry about tomorrow; He would have us look no further than today.  Take one day at a time, and go to God that He will most plentifully provide for you.”   Thomas Manton

  

“To added affliction He addeth His mercy, to multiplied trials, His multiplied peace.”  Annie Johnson Flint

“Nothing graces the Christian soul as much as mercy.”   Ambrose

“I think we ought always to pray to God to forgive us sins that we do not know anything about. Perhaps the sins which you and I confess are not the tenth of what we really do commit. Our eyes are not sufficiently opened to know of the heinousness of our own sin. It is possible that God in mercy suffers us to be somewhat blind to the abominable accursedness of sin. He gives us enough of it to make us hate it, but not enough to drive us absolutely to despair. Our sin is exceedingly sinful.”  Charles H. Spurgeon

“If God’s default response to human offense is to be slow in His anger—even the righteous kind—how much more should this be true of us, even when expressions of righteous anger may be entirely justified?  Jesus renounced outrage and advanced the power of a gentle answer throughout His ministry.”  Scott Sauls

“Grant, Almighty God, that as You have made known Your law, and have also added Your gospel, in which You call us to Your service, and also have invited us with all kindness to partake of Your grace; O grant, that we may not be deaf, either to Your command or to the promises of Your mercy, but render ourselves submissive to You everywhere, and so learn to devote all our faculties to You, that we may in truth avow that the rule of a holy and religious life, has been delivered to us in Your law, and that we may firmly adhere to Your promises, lest through any of the allurements of the world, or through the flatteries and delusions of Satan, You should suffer our minds to be drawn away from that love which You have once for all manifested to us in Your only begotten Son, and in which You daily confirm to us by the teaching of the gospel, until we at length shall come to the full enjoyment of this love in that celestial inheritance, which has been purchased for us by the blood of Your only Son.”     John Calvin

“There is a wideness in God’s mercy, like the wideness of the sea.”  Frederick William Faber

“When we are in a dark place we are not to despair rather look for patches of God-light for they are most assuredly there.  He is supremely close to His children as they walk through their Valley of Baca’s (tears) taking them from strength to strength.  His Presence is continually with us and even more so in our darkest hours.  Further, He has purpose in each circumstance He allows in the lives of His heirs of mercy.  He can be fully trusted.”  BHY  

“He that demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.”   Thomas Adams

“Do you wish to receive mercy?  Show mercy to your neighbor.”   John Chrysostom

HEART SAVOR

·         Be merciful just as your heavenly Father is merciful.

·         Those who have received mercy should certainly demonstrate it.

·         God desires for us to act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with Him.