Blessed Are the Merciful

The Beatitudes • Sermon • Submitted 3 years ago

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This is the fifth sermon in a series on the Beatitudes. This lesson explores mercy not just as leniency, but as "pity + action"

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The Quality

An easy-going attitude

Some see mercy as an attitude that does not see a problem or ignores it

An easy trap when society cares less for justice and right or wrong

God is merciful, yet we could not describe him as having an easy-going attitude towards sin

Just sympathy - James 2:15f

We often think of mercy in a legal way —> leniency towards the guilty

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An outgrowth of our recognition of our own spiritual state: we recognize our spiritual bankruptcy

We mourn our sins

This affects our view of self

We begin to huger and thirst for a solution of righteousness

This leas us to act on our sympathy for others in the same condition

What Does Mercy Look Like?

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