Living The Good Life | Mercy

SERIES: Sermon on the Mount
SUB-SERIES: Living the Good Life
MESSAGE: Merciful
DATE: February 28, 2021

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Matthew 5:7

Merciful, Mercy – “eleemon”
Kind and Compassionate to both the Guilty and the Unfortunate.

RECEIVE GOD’S MERCY

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee was standing and praying like this about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I’m not like other people—greedy, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.’ “But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this one went down to his house justified rather than the other, because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” Luke 18:9-14

The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in faithful love.
He has not dealt with us as our sins deserve or repaid us according to our iniquities.
Psalm 103:8,9

God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love that he had for us, made us alive with Christ even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace! Ephesians 2:4

EXTEND GOD’S MERCY

He answered, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,” and “your neighbor as yourself.” Luke 10:27

“A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him up, and fled, leaving him half dead. Luke 10:30
A priest happened to be going down that road. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. In the same way, a Levite, when he arrived at the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. Luke 10:31-32
But a Samaritan on his journey came up to him, and when he saw the man, he had compassion. Luke 10:33

SEE

FEEL

Compassion – splagchnizomai

DO

He went over to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on olive oil and wine. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. The next day] he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Take care of him. When I come back I’ll reimburse you for whatever extra you spend.’ Luke 10:34-35

“Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?” Luke 10:36

“The one who showed mercy to him,” he said.
Then Jesus told him, “Go and do the same.” Luke 10:37

“Go discover how desperate, naked, and left for dead you really are. Go discover that you are, in fact, broken and lying in a ditch. Go discover that there is no way to justify yourself. Go discover that you can’t do a single thing to inherit eternal life, that unless Someone has mercy on you – extravagant, sacrificial mercy – yes, unless the God of the Holy Wild happens by, a jar brimming with oil in hand, and pockets stuffed with coins to pay the innkeeper, and He stops – well, you’re as good as dead.” (Mark Buchanan, “The Holy Wild”)

REST IN GOD’S MERCY