Sunday, June 16th, 2019 - AM - Blessed Are the Merciful (Matt. 5:7)

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May we learn from Jesus, the best example of compassion and forgiveness.

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About you were 20 minutes. This service and to those who are listening outside of these walls. We invite you to turn in your Bible Baptist Church Sunday morning message continuing on with the Lord's blueprint for a blessed life and we pick up the mantle where we parked it last time together and making my way slowly but surely taking as much time as needed beatitude by the attitude in the series. It's going to be done when the ward beams. It's done a mess. But what a blast pass the scripture and one that we need to be reminded up often Matthew chapter number 5. I'd like to read verses 1 through 12 with you together. And I would also like for you to read out loud when I come the typical first number 7 number 7 and number one. Sing the multitude he that is Jesus went up into amount of rain Galilee. And when he was Steph as the custom was in the day for the rabbis to teach disciples.

disciples came unto him and he opened his mouth and taught them saying

Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. What's that? Are they that mourn for they shall be comforted blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled. All together blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain Mercy blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called. The children of God for theirs is the kingdom of heaven and persecute you for my steak on the stove works Tuesday the prophets which were before you. Lord I pray that you would help us understand your work today. I humbly bow before you and thank you again for being a heavenly father to me. I read the scriptures. But it's what I read about you and them that helped me understand the birds that we're looking at today. Without your mercy towards me Lord. I would not know what Mercy is. Not an understanding of your grade. I wouldn't understand how good it is to experience your hand in life. A joke that this life is a few days and full of trouble Sparks Fly upward James remind us that we have put up Vapor to make a difference for Christ year. This life span has reminded us. About 70 years give or take anything beyond that is your blessing average lifespan today 70 years to make a worldwide impact for Christ 70 years average to take the gospel to the ends of the Earth. You are working today who are souls in life. I pray that you'll start to look at our savior had to consider his words about being merciful knowing that one day of pain that very same Mercy from your gracious omnipotent, and we love you Lord. We praise you help us to grow in your word in Jesus name. I pray amen. I was doing my study for this. I came across a commercial that had identical twin boys and they were inseparable. They were so close that they even dressed alike in the room that can probably relate to that. Tricking people you remember the story about kindergarten and Primary School the teachers not being able to figure out why nobody even press the like it was said that their extraordinary closeness was the reason they never married when their father died over the family business the relationship they had was considered a model of creative collaboration both of them working together because he was busy one of the brothers neglected to ring up a sale and just kind of absent-mindedly left the dollar bill on top of the cash register while I wait on another customer. Then later he remembered the dollar. He went back to the positive only to find the door was gone. gas is Weatherby seen it, but the brother city is not About an hour later his brother came again. But this time it was kind of an obvious note of Suspicion and his brother became angry and defensive remember, how much was a dollar?

every time they tried to discuss the matter the conflict through worse and worse and they told me they hated family in vicious charges and counter-charges incredible outcome with the dissolution of their partnership the installation of a partition down the middle of his for two competing businesses now,

That was an open devices for right in the middle of the community. Remember this story goes on there's a car with an out-of-state license plate pulled up in front of the store might have to settle an old score.

This is what the Man story some twenty years ago about work drifting from place to place and not eating for 3 Days in adults walking down the alley behind your store. I looked and I saw a dollar bill on top of the cash register. Everyone else was in the front or the man went on to tell how he was raised in a Christian Home Instead. I've never before in all my life. I'm so hungry give in to the Temptation look for the door. And I put that dollar bill ever since I came back and face up to an old 10 and try to make amends. Would you let me know please replace the money and pay you whatever is appropriate for the damage. What is trying to finish his Confederate and he was shaking his head?

All of the old man gain control in talking to the gentleman take me to Gentleman by the arm same story when next door on Hulu.

I don't know if those brothers were Believers or not. But as we read about this account, Jesus said blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain Mercy.

Listen to correctly. And how easy is it in life like these brothers today, silly?

In a garage sale member in Georgia drove by church with the Second Baptist Church the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. Is young man who now know they live their whole life.

Just kind of an icebreaker to get us thinking about where we're going. We don't want you to think about life. and you probably know somebody who maybe it's not to this extreme yet, or maybe it's just in the beginning stages, but Our family so wracked with people who Harbor bitterness. They can't get past. Is anyone broadleaf course of human history had any reason to be bitter? It would have been our Lord Jesus Christ. And yet he laid down his life for our sake and he's the one who gave us a picture on the berry called that he was upon an innocent man. Who happened to be by the way? You looked it up its voice from that cross and you didn't cry down lightning from heaven. Like Elijah did to consume the alternate sacrifice. He didn't cry down God's judgement on spinner. He simply said these words father forgive them for they know not what they do. This is the same man who said these words blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain Mercy.

We've been studying the Beatitudes together when we began some weeks ago. I went to court for you how I understand the Beatitudes together I counted them for you. I can maybe you count 7, or maybe you count nine. I count eight and I think it's a good way to count it. So when you take the eighth you divide them into set before we've been looking at these first for beatitude and what it means to learn to lean on the Lord. This is an inward thing poor in spirit. Will it read the list they let more the meet hungering and thirsting after righteousness. This is inside were between us and God the merciful. We're moving into really point three of my overall outline for this living for the Lord. You cannot properly live for the Lord until you've learned to lean on him like the Beatitudes today and it all fits hand-in-glove together. I think it was number seven here. First number 7 the merciful built on what previously came and it's found that the deeper. You cannot be merciful to hear or giving Murphy until you're ready to Hung to be hungry and thirsty for righteousness and feel your meat in Hilliard morning over the spirit. You will not know how to extend proper Murphy Manor we can learn but This is the outward reflection of what's happened inside of us as we progressed through the attitude the words to vocabulary.com have to pull out my dictionary necessarily. We heard a bachelor from giving illustrations a d look up one word What would the grade definitions and it's so hot?

I'm going to do some work with you with the word Grace this morning. Why does the word mercy because the two need to be considered together, I believe. Mercy, and Grace there different facets of the same gym perhaps but there are characteristics to eat that would render us to be able to understand it a little better when you understand what when you put these words together the makarios the blessing that attends the mirthful it's a state of being blessed are the merciful. Why are they black for they shall obtain Mercy as we done to the Beatitudes? We see a pattern there. So 303 set thing that we're looking at and if we're going to stay true to the rest go to present here with this attitude. We think about Mercy. I've been mulling this over and Every time I think about Mercy my mind goes back to somebody else in the scriptures. How many illustration how many object lesson how many living sermons do we have in the Bible itself of what God mean? And what the Lord means when he says blessed are the merciful. In elementary school, I was pretty foolish. Sometimes we play a game called Mercy. Have you ever played bass?

Yeah, that's silly but it's an option of prime sometimes.

Would you believe that somebody walking around wouldn't relent? Pride it takes humility, right?

Because that's not the kind of Mercy. Is it?

It's going to take some compassion on your part when the person your again humbles himself and says, okay I give up. Can't do it anymore. It hurts too bad. The only way you're going to have mercy on them as if you can feel their pain. You're inflicting on them. What's an introspective right?

Give me the number to American culture. We understand mercy and even those kind of way, but the merciful here the state of being merciful pointing is disciple to in the shop. This kind of Mercy is continual.

You cannot be merciful until you have open high until your morning till all these things. Are are are that we mentioned before or in your life. Be merciful. Living for the Lord now outside. We're going to learn what it is to share God's mercy through break it take Grace to Beemer. This is demonstrated. If you want to spend in them for this word Murphy, maybe gotten Cinemark of your Bible right down the word compassion.

compassion This is the mercy that uses were talking about. Now, what's that separate your mind for a moment. Go back to your Sunday school day. Go back to your Bible time. Maybe personal Bible reading. How many people in the Bible can we come together and dream up with remembering that they were compassionate towards someone? Face after face while I don't know what the fish.

These people demonstrated The Compassion that Jesus says they're going to receive compassion from God one day demonstrated. Buy compassion one of the greatest examples. I could give you the Lord Jesus himself. He saved his work. When were there times in the life and Ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ that he was compassionate.

Lifting up his eyes looked upon the most he was moved with compassion.

Jesus looking upon a group of people saw their flight understood their paint I need to do something about it.

James tells us if we tell somebody to depart be warmed and filled nevertheless. We provide not those things that are needful for the body. What profit is that? Faith without works is dead. You start with fade and that's a good way for us to understand that. There are people who misunderstand what FIFA something here and our self-esteem. I'm thinking that they can get to Heaven by being merciful upon other. That's not the way the reason this is not a means of salvation. Be merciful will never block your skin out before God. That black block on your life. In those areas where you fall short of the grace of God must be the only thing that can erase that you can wash that away the propitiation of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but right outside of here, there are people who this is the Angel thing, right? This is Angel is the placards on the world to be a paint. And you have somebody who's living their life and they get to the end of their life and they're getting ready to enter the afterlife. That means they died and at the end of that there's someone sitting on a throne and there's some chill. And their wife is put on the stove. If they do enough good outweighs the bad then they can have a blessed afterlife according to the ancient Egyptian blue. That's as old as time. Perhaps one of the oldest lies of the devil. And yes that is not how a person gets to heaven and never has been and never will be salvation is by grace through faith. Tell the content of that face. Would change from the Old Testament to the new text messages still salvation by grace through faith Abraham.

What was the content of what he believed he believed the promises of God to him? We don't make the mistake of our post-millennial friends. We have coconut oil for in the context of the Old Testament believe the promise of God would come.

Delete. It was counted. It was putting his account as righteous. He staggered not at the promise of God has given in the New Testament the foundation of the doctrine of the Apostles of the Chief Cornerstone by through his check blood and receive peace with God. By grace through faith and we have hindsight, which is 20/20. We know that's in the person of Jesus Christ who came and dwelt Among Us gave us these worth nothing more compassion manifest itself in 4 digits. What's the test called these two brothers problems with their way if they could have just let bygones be bygones and say forget about it, but the one brother held that against his other brother because he could not believe his brother to him. For 20 years for all of that the one knowing that he's innocent. He never even laid eyes on that. I have no clue explanation, by the way.

That will have some stool and he wants to drive away between all that's good. All that. God would do in our lives. It will let him. What's the meaning of bird illustration in the life of our Lord Jesus Christ when he had this kind of compassion on someone? There were about ten lepers one time that Jesus Christ looked upon and he killed them. It was one that turned around to give him thanks, but Jesus Christ and his treatment of those with leprosy. Would be an adequate illustration of what it is to really have mercy something about their state of affairs. The meaning of Mercy is compassion.

Can we have this compassion?

There are people hurting all around us.

Because it's in the devastation. Because of all the things that I've entered into their life that they are broken. You'll have mercy when you can feel what they feel. And go beyond that actually do something to try to correct. No, we can't solve everything understand that but

and he has compassion and he healed. We may not have that feeling power to just waiting something and make all of this stuff to do our level best to make things better as bed this weekend. We can pray we can ask God to heal and sometimes he does and that's God's choice. And all healing is divine. I believe in healing I believe in Divine Healing. I don't believe in Divine healers, but I do believe in Divine Healing and God can touch people I've seen him do it and he said there's no explanation for the doctors are confounded.

Text to God we can pray for those things. Even if we can't manifest feeling the way the Apostles of Our Lord did the way Elijah did the way that some of these key prophetic times in human history when God was revealing himself where two different things, maybe into our pocket. and help Wait, we do this at the church regularly goes to come to our Lord's table Services, you know after the conclusion on front and we've been doing everything that comes into the offering plate on Sunday night skit set of sidewise extend the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ.

This is an ugly world. It's just down right now. If we love one another as we've been love, it will bear one another's burdens to give than to receive. Each of us has been recipient of someone who had mercy in other words, they looked and they saw the situation they had compassion and they did something about it. Did something about it? What were War I mean this is deeply ology. The reward is to obtain Mercy. That's not the motivation. That's the reward. We don't give Mercy to get Mercy. Just forgetting Mercy say

Temperature that's not following me.

Stop as I mentioned that you can earn salvation by forgiving others. And so God will forgive you. That's not how you earn salvation Salvation. We show Mercy because God has shown us Mercy.

If we read it, literally we were blessed are the merciful. Keyword here all throughout the Beatitudes same one that you see in the other for they shall obtain Mercy for those who taking any kind of Greek before this is Hottie. and it can be translated as for or because

one day you see the happiness more than happy by grace through faith understanding the State of Affairs of this wicked world.

How fast forward? That same individual who lived the life full of compassionate Murphy. Standing before the judgement seat of Christ not so great whites from the Judgment seat of Christ whose rendering now to every man according to his work as how they lived in this life. They will receive

and try to get to review their lives. Maybe this would play into some of his words about giving drink.

What's all the weenie in hunger and quite a few? What are you getting to the lease in other words?

It's not a fit for cat. It's not a help you you help me. This is I help you and that's the end of it. Nothing expected. Free freely you receive freely give that one who gave their life living for the Lord being compassionate. You might hear it was all they had. Because they were with compassion. I see God working. Somebody's why. I cannot imagine anything other than the Lord Jesus Christ reviewing that.

Rendering nothing more than a well done. Nothing less than a well done thou good and faithful servant. Don't do it the well done. Well done.

We show her because God has showed us smoking. Is that the way you understand this I'll say that's going to go so far but it's not completely word Murphy has the same meeting that you had emergency across-the-board. Especially when it comes to Heaven hell you're going to run into some problems with it's not the same. There's a profession. We don't just be merciful because Josh been merciful to us. If you do you're going to ignore the structure of what I pointed out to you that's here and their impending reward. You have to have all three. We don't get the full set.

What I'm saying to you is that it's not just giving out because God's given to us. It's being compassionate looking forward to the day when we can stand before the Lord Jesus Christ understanding that we are going to get mercy and compassion from him as our life is reviewed and put through the fire. Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain Mercy.

Who was POTUS in his commentary that for sure you can expect some time then it'll come full circle. You shouldn't expect it, but you shouldn't live expecting it. But it will if you show compassion in how many how many stories how many testimonies have you heard that it was The Compassion of someone that finally broke his hardened spinner to come to try one commentator lined it out really well, and I want to give you the difference between mercy and Grace. I promised you I'd do that two facets of the same gym of the attributes of God. Let's look at how each one Sparkle with its own brilliant in its own magnificent. Murphy as we've said his compassion for people in need now, what's the greatest need of mankind? Find Jesus Christ as your savior. One commentator distinguishes this way grace and mercy, that's what we're looking at behind Mercy. We translate that Murphy and that's the word here merciful Elliott scripture.

Every time you see is he argued that what you see is that a pain misery you see distress connected somewhere in the contact with this word Elliott. Hey Misery, the strap.

self esteem self if you will I can relate with that. I don't know about you. But as a father there been times when I've seen a little one getting hurt and it just tears my heart out. strikes and compassion

Maybe you said a prayer like I'm happy for gorgeous.

Read their don't let them go through that.

You can't say no. sometimes it's comparable What is Elliot? pain misery the stress Now, let's look at the facts of the great result great on the other hand.

When you see that dealing with the thin itself, the guilt in particular of that sin is the roof. Mercy is demonstrated on the fruit of spin.

The weather in can manifest itself in people's lives when they Harbor bitterness and hatred it takes the grace of God to find Salvation from the Sith. What's the capacity of the demonstration ports the devastation?

the word extended self-defense in relief Mercy offers relief the other extends itself in manifesting Harden

new release complete so the two go hand-in-hand they fit together. Jordan Peele on the other hand. What is this? great reinstate to place of paper opens early yet. Blood of Jesus Christ, his son cleanses us from all hurt us from all of us from all sin. That's great. The Compassion of Christ is what he cry from the cross and he said it is finished. He went all the way because of his love.

Mercy there was great and Grace was free. Hard there was multiplied to me.

Blessed are the merciful. That when I was a teenager, I was required to read a book called The Hiding Place. I'm even read that you read that. the terrible story Corrie Ten Boom accounted for timing under a the ravensbruck concentration camp brother sister Betsy. Remember what happened to Betsy?

Corrie Ten Boom or supplements injected to horrible horrible indignities She was in Munich at a church service and I'll give you her words so that we can you can just hear it from her. She said it was at a church service in Munich that I saw him. The former SS man who has guard at the shower room door in the processing center at Ravenswood. He was the first of our actual Jailer that I have seen since that time. And suddenly it was all there. The roomful mocking men clothing site of This Ss. Former SS code.

Church was emptying.

Grateful I am for your message for line. He said to wash my sins away.

His hand was stressed out the steak mine. She said in and I You're so many times. It's spoken often to the people in Bloomingdale the need to forgive. Kept my hands at my side. Can you blame her?

even as the angry vengeful thought Rumi I saw the scent of them Jesus Christ had died for this man. Was I going to ask for more?

Lord Jesus I pray you forgive me and help me forgive him. Obviously gotten saved his former action. This is where the rubber meets the road. This part that you can look inside deeply. Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain Mercy. Set a timer for nothing.

So again, I grease the silent prayer Corrie Ten Boom said Jesus forgive him. Give me your forgiveness.

The most incredible thing happened from my shoulder along my arm and threw my hand at a current. currency in the past from me to him Why won't my heart bring a love for this stranger that almost overwhelming me?

Mercy what is he there was great. Grace was free. Order There Was X to me there my burdens Soul found Liberty. at Calvary Darren to go Mantine Prime Care not my Lord was crucified for your forgiveness. Mercy, and Grace understanding it the way Jesus has it here.

Is a theme throughout the book? chapter 8 chapter 9 chapter 14 chapter 15 chapter 23

all of these in Matthew at the ideas Mercy behind it. Stories that were given to help illustrate and strengthen our understanding is Murphy. Continuum continuum

volume retention in closing Matthew chapter 18

going to let the scriptures speak for themselves. What was the backdrop of what Jesus said blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain Mercy. I reach you the parable of the unmerciful debtor. The servant who is Lord forgave ten thousand talents?

Comparable it was naturally expected that this man who was forgiven so much with intern forgive like locks. What's read the account? Matthew 18 a beginning verse 23

As I read the verse 23 just asked the Lord. How often shall I forgive?

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what the word reply 2304 is the kingdom of heaven? Keith Urban Matthew Turn on the map. Connecting the dots and under a certain team which would take account of his servants. And when he has begun to reckon one was brought unto him which owed him $10,000 but forasmuch as he had not to pay his Lord commanded him to be sold and his wife and children and all that he had and payment to be made the servant therefore fell down and worship him saying Ford have patience with me comes to capitalization here. Define paleo. Then the Lord of that servant was moved with underlined it Circle it draws attention to it moved with compassion and loose him and forgave him the debt. The same servant went out and found one of his fellow servants which owed him and hundred pain and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat saying pay me that thou but went and cashed them in the servants saw what was done. They were very sorry and told him that it to him.

she does not know also have had compassion compassion on the fellow servant even as I had pity on the the horses Lord was Ross and delivered.

After this story teaches reminder so likewise shall my heavenly father do also unto you if you from your heart forget if not, everyone is brother there.

There's nothing more powerful. the life of a follower of Jesus Christ together with other followers of the Lord Jesus Christ and this aspect of the New Testament cold even here in Matthew binding and loosing.

Message the power that is entrusted to you by Jesus Christ the head of the church and he reminds you as his father. You're his work and feed them on Earth. Shall be bound. in heaven

the heaviest thing you will ever carry as a follower of Jesus Christ. You can find that a word a deed, whatever it might be you can bind that person and you can approach the bar of the Lord Jesus Christ one day at his Bemis TN safe.

This has to be made right?

pirate costume with that Sirius cost why wait until they're how much more blessed would it be?

Did you take care of it here and now? Because the other side of that the Lord said whatsoever he lose. honor shopping routes in heaven how to stand before the Lord at the bema seat of Christ have a display of mercy and compassion.

But you took care of it. You laid it before the feet of Christ you have compassion and you saw the hurt you saw the pain. The world now can review that and say it's loose in heaven. We can make it right sometimes other times. We wait too long. And these people get beyond our voice fear is the god of Grace in heaven who understands and cares and knows and we can come before him and ask for his healing. And the balm to cover that bitterness that we carry so long. It's time for you to the follower of Christ to do some inventory in your life.

Try to avoid winding up where this unmerciful servant found himself at the feet of his Lord. Google Now hasten not for the way. Take care of it. I don't know how much more time each of us will have on the trumpet sound or when we take our last breath. It's over.

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