Title: Merciful People Receive God's Blessing
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◆ Title/ Merciful people receive God's blessing.
(Be merciful too!)
◆ Bible/ Isaiah 63:7; Luke 6:36
If you look up the word compassion in the dictionary, you will find:
To love and pity others deeply. Or the benefits given as such.
If you look at the meaning of the word mercy (hesed, hemra), it is compassionate, compassionate, pity, pity. be kind, forgive, be kind that means.
The Bible uses the word mercy only for God. Therefore, the attribute that humans do not have is mercy.
In other words, a person is not self-merciful (that is, not capable of having compassion for others, or therefore loving and pitying them and giving and giving of their own).
Someone says that. “That person is very good” But that goodness is a person who cannot love because he throws everything he has. It is a way of living by protecting what you have, not taking damage properly, and showing yourself.
But the Bible says that mercy is not an image of goodness.
So the Bible says in Romans 12:1: “Therefore, by the mercy of God…”
We remember. Only God is merciful.
And the Bible says that he was saved because of his mercy. Because of His mercy, the beings who died in sin were united with God to attain eternal life, and it is said that they became a being that is pleasing to God as well as to man.
Therefore, it is said that the life of the saints who have been saved through the mercy of God, and that it should be a life of mercy. That is what we read today in Luke 6:36. “Be merciful as your Father is merciful” We can see what God requires of us, and that is to be merciful. The reason is that because God is merciful, it is this “mercy” that we who are His children must have.
Philippians 2:1 “Therefore, if there is any exhortation, any comfort of love, any fellowship of the Holy Spirit, any mercy, or mercy in Christ...” He says that one of the attributes that must be revealed in the lives of believers is mercy.
In a nutshell, it means that the image of a saint who becomes a child of God through faith in Christ and lives under the indwelling, guidance, and protection of the Holy Spirit is mercy.
Therefore, I want you to have this kind of God's mercy in your life.
Galatians 5:22 lists the fruits of the spirit, that is, the fruits of the life of those who live by the Spirit, and one of them is “mercy”.
Then, how should we appear in the church or in the various places in our lives?
The Bible says: “Be of one mind, having the same love, being of one accord, being of one mind, let nothing be done through strife or vanity, but in lowliness of mind, let each one consider others better than himself, each taking care of his own affairs, as well as the affairs of others.” Philippians 2:2-3
This is the life of the merciful person, that is, those who share in the nature of God.
1. To have one heart, 2, to be of the same mind, and 3. To be humble and consider others better than ourselves. 4. Say that you are not only protecting yourself, but also taking care of others.
And the Bible says in Romans 12:1 that the image of the saints appearing to those who have received God's mercy is shown in the form of holy worship in which they offer themselves as living sacrifices before God.
I want to become a saint who receives and enjoys God's glory and blessings for me and for you.
Are you a child of God? If so, I want you to have the image of the mercy of the life of mercy in your life today.
The mercy of God is clearly revealed in Exodus.
Exodus 34:5-7 “And the LORD came down from the cloud, and stood there with him, proclaiming the name of the LORD, and the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, kind and truthful. So many Gods, who will show mercy to a thousand generations, and will forgive iniquity and transgression and sin, but will not exempt from punishment, but will repay the wickedness of the father to the third and fourth generations
And by his mercy, God brought the Israelites to the promised land of Canaan and gave it to the Israelites.
He loved and forgave the people who betrayed God countless times during the 40 years in the wilderness, slandered the leaders God had established, and ignored the teachings of living by the word He gave through manna, speaking and judging according to their own right, and living thoroughly self-centered. , God who gave Canaan as promised was truly merciful.
Jesus loved even the man whom one of the 12 disciples would have to sell himself and be crucified, and even Judas Iscariot, who, according to your words, was “a man who wished he had not been born into the world”.
This kindness is what we who have received that love must have.
How, then, can we imitate the mercy of God?
In other words, for the saints to resemble this disposition of mercy
It is possible through participation in God's grace.
It is possible when you trust God.
And it is a special blessing given to those who fear God (Psalm 103:13).
The Bible speaks of God's blessings on the merciful.
James 5:11 God saw Job's pure faith and was merciful and blessed him with a double blessing in the last years of his life.
Like these words, I hope that you will become a merciful person by the grace of God, and that you will receive double blessings and become a source of blessing.
In Genesis 19:16 God led Lot's family out of Sodom to preserve life from destruction.
Psalm 94:18 “If the LORD had not been my help, my soul would have already fallen into silence; O LORD, your kindness upholds me when I say that my feet slip.”
Also, like Lot's family, I want you to live a blessed life in which God preserves and protects your life in any tribulation.
Deuteronomy 30:33 tells us that God had mercy on the Israelites and restored them from captivity.
2 Chronicles 30:9 “If you return to the LORD, your brethren and your children will find mercy from the captives and will return to this land again. The LORD your God is gracious and merciful; if you return to him, He will not turn his face from you.”
Like these words, I want you to have the grace to solve many of the problems you face in your life.
Matthew 5:7 “Blessed are the merciful, for they will find mercy.”
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Dear saints, even if you say you have committed a sin because of God's mercy in your life, you will receive forgiveness through repentance, and even at the end of the final judgment, you will receive mercy through a compassionate life, and the special grace of reducing the day of judgment Blessings to you individually.