Title: The Merciful (Sermon on the Mount 5)
Contents
Young children need help from their parents. However, as they grow up, their dependence on their parents decreases, while they realize that they have no choice but to rely entirely on God's help. When your children are starting to take their first steps toward society, you will need to teach them to rely completely on God. Because parents can't follow them everywhere and take care of their children.
Those who live on their own without asking for God's mercy and grace will be trapped in their own limits.
The Christian life is a victorious life following the guidance of God.
A Christian is a person who realizes that he cannot even breathe without God's help and mercy. That is why they are always praying to God. However, in order for that prayer to be fully realized, we must examine whether our lives are worthy of receiving prayer answers.
Would you wish for God's mercy without showing mercy to others?
The Lord said that by showing mercy we also receive mercy from God. Mercy is used in the Old Testament as the word “hesed” and refers to God's favor and mercy.
In fact, mercy is not a price to buy. We have already received the greatest favor from God, which is the forgiveness of sins and the grace of salvation through Jesus Christ.
“He saved us, not because of our works of righteousness,
but according to his mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
did” - Titus 3:5
Therefore, to share a little of the grace of mercy received from the Lord is to show mercy, and God's mercy and mercy are promised to those who do so. Who wants God's infinite and swift mercy? We must look back on our lives before the Word