When someone has done you wrong, how do you react? Do you show them mercy? We often ask God for mercy, but do we extend it to others? Surely goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life…if Jesus Christ is the Lord of your life.
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consider the miracle of Mercy we all
love Mercy especially when we’re
receiving it the story of Mercy behind
Psalms 57 is this David is fleeing for
his life from King Saul d David ran from
King Saul almost 10 years living in Cavs
because Saul hated him why because the
women of Israel were
saying Saul has slain his thousands but
David has slain his 10 thousands it was
the political egotism then that we see
now on Fox News it hasn’t changed the
story is that David was fleeing for his
life and he’s hiding in the cave at in
Getty on the western shores of the Dead
Sea if you’ve ever been there you know
that caves are everywhere King Saul was
sure that he had David trapped because
King Saul had 3,000 men with him and
they had David captured and they were
going to execute him the next day Saul
and his Royal Guards had selected a cave
in which to spend the night what Saul
did not know is that David and his men
were sleeping in the same cave in the
very dark Corners hardly daring to
breathe isn’t it interesting when bitter
enemies find themselves by Divine
appointment in the same
cave in the same
church on the same
Pew or sitting around the same dinner
table finally the campfire died down
Saul and the royal guard slept David’s
men whispered David this is your chance
we can stop running from this guy shoot
him put that spear right through him God
has delivered this demonic murderer into
your
hand David said
no beckoning his men they tiptoed out of
the cave on the way past Saul David took
Saul’s razor sharp Spear and cut off the
skirt of Saul’s robe it was an active
absolute Mercy he could have easily
killed him the next morning he went to
the cave mouth of a cave and waved that
skirt so that Saul and all of his men
could see that his life had been spared
and one of the greatest acts of Mercy in
the Old Testament David asked God for
mercy in Psalms 57 the fact is that the
god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob is a god
of tender Mercy the Bible says says in
Lamentations 3 it is of the Lord’s
mercies that we are not consumed because
his compassions fail not they are new
every morning David writes surely
goodness and mercy shall follow me all
the days of my life the point you cannot
Escape God’s goodness and mercy they
follow you around day and night early in
the scripture God wanted man to know
about his Mercy he instructed Moses in
Exodus the 25th chapter and you shall
put on The Mercy Seat on top of the Ark
and in the ark you shall put the Ten
Commandments that I give you listen very
clearly everything that God created in
the Tabernacle physically was actually
demonstrated in life in the New
Testament The Mercy Seat is a picture of
God’s mercy and Christ dying at the
cross all of this was orchestrated by
God there are the archangels there is
The Blood On Top Of The Mercy Seat the
mercy seed was sprinkled with the blood
of the sacrificial lamb for
sin why because when God looks from
Heaven at you he looks through the mercy
seat and the blood before he can see the
Ten Commandments which is the basis of
judgment his judgment is based on Mercy
his judgment is based on Mercy the blood
of the sacrifice was sprinkled by the
high priest on the gold lid of The Mercy
Seat Paul wrote without the shedding of
blood there is no remission of sin the
Crimson stream of blood that flows from
Calvary is the secret to your salvation
and to your salvation to your salvation
and to my salvation we sing the song
what can wash away my sin nothing but
the blood of Jesus what can make me
whole again nothing but the blood of
Jesus oh precious is the flow that
washes white as snow no other Fountain I
know nothing but the blood of Jesus
Christ there is power wonderwork Power
in the Blood of the Lamb the blood will
never lose its power it reaches to the
lowest hell to the highest Heaven it
washes white as snow it makes the sinner
forsake his way it removes the guilt of
the past and the fear of the future it
breaks the chains of misery and habit
that enslave you one drop of that blood
makes every demon in Hell tremble with
fear Give the Lord Praise in this
house if Satan can take the mercy out of
Christian conduct he can kill
Christianity if the church becomes
obsessed with the Trinity of buildings
budgets and banquets and loses
compassion for the lost and the dying we
should close our doors and write ibad
over the doorpost ibod is a word that
means the glory of the Lord has
Departed the church without Mercy is a
tree without fruit it is a well without
water it’s a cloud Without Rain
Christianity without Mercy is just
another
cult the church is a hospital for the
wounded yes it’s a place for the
Brokenhearted it’s the place where
prodal Sons and prodical Daughters can
come and have a new beginning we’re not
trying to cast people
out but who we can bring
in that’s Mercy is most difficult to
demonstrate because man is inherently
self-centered a person that’s wrapped up
in his own self is
overdressed selfishness short circuits
every prayer and it tarnishes everything
it touches selfishness in your marriage
in your family in your church or in your
business is a
cancer the person who lives herself
alone alone dies that way
alone it is easy to be selfish if you
can get along without a family and
friends you hear self-centeredness in
your speech my house my friends my
desires my future my goals my ambition
my my my my my my my shut
up
in Israel there’s a dead sea nothing in
it lives all it does is take in the
fresh water from the Jordan River
because it never gives out the Dead Sea
is stagnant it’s lifeless it’s a useless
body of stinking oily
water far too many Christians are like
the Dead Sea they constantly
absorb but they never give
out ask yourself the question if
everyone gave like I gave could this
church
exist you take in but you never give out
ask yourself if everyone prayed like I
prayed if everyone attended like I
attend if everyone served the Lord like
I serve what would this church
be would it be the Dead Sea or would it
be rivers of living
water listen to this Mercy will be made
manifest a man may have money in his
pocket and not show it he may have
musical skill of
Beethoven and not reveal it he may have
the knowledge of Albert Einstein and not
expose it but if a man or a woman has
mercy of God in their soul it will be
manifested you cannot hide
it
Mercy will be manifested by serving the
measure of a man’s greatness is not the
number of servants he has but the number
of people he
serves the Bible says he that is the
greatest among you is the servant of all
say that with me the servant of all Paul
served God
and neero served Rome Paul lived most of
his life in jail and died in poverty
neero spent his life in a Roman Palace
being rich powerful and self-centered so
what’s the point the point is this we
name our sons Paul and our dogs
Nero Mercy will be manifested by
forgiving the story is told true story
of Peter pet Holm Peter Holm was a world
famous engineer he built Bridges and
railroads and tunnels in many parts of
the earth he gained wealth and fame but
later came to failure poverty and
sickness he returned to the little
village where he was born and together
with his wife and little girl he eak out
a meager living Peter Holm had a
neighbor who owned a fierce dog Peter
warned that neighbor that that dog was
dangerous but the old man contemptuous
told Peter home to mind his own business
one day Peter Hol came home to find that
fierce dog at the throat of his little
girl on the ground he tore the dog away
but the dog’s teeth had gone too deeply
and the little girl died the sheriff
shot the dog the neighbors were bitter
against the owner when sewing time came
they refused to give him any
grain grain because his Fields would not
produce anything for him to
eat he could neither beg borrow of
anything nor buy seed whenever he walked
down the road the people of the village
sneered at him but not Peter
home he could not sleep at night for
thinking about his neighbor very early
one morning he rose and went to his shed
and got his last half bushel of barley
he climbed the fence
and he SED seed in the field of the man
that broke his heart when the seed came
up it revealed what had
happened because part of his own field
was Bare while the field of his neighbor
was
green listen to what I’m about to tell
you Mercy requires that we sow seed in
our enemy’s Garden are you that merciful
are you that merciful when the prodical
son came home his father didn’t say you
long-haired
hippie you spent all the money I gave
you you disgraced my name you’ve come
into my kosher home smelling like a hog
but his father said my son was dead He’s
Alive kill the fatted calf call the
maraches let’s
celebrate
as the world around us seems to take a
very dark turn you might ask yourself is
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storm Mercy looks for a way to forgive
can you forgive your husband for the
pain he caused
you can you forgive your wife for the
things she said about
you when she was screaming to the top of
her
lungs can you forgive your children who
have disappointed you and your children
will disappoint you
forgiveness is not
optional forgiveness is not optional
Jesus said if you forgive men their
trespasses Your Father in heaven will
forgive you your trespasses but without
forgiving others there is no forgiveness
for
you that’s God’s word not mine The
Lord’s Prayer is forgive us as we
forgive those Mercy looks for a way to
forgive listen Mercy will be manifested
in restoring those who have fallen into
sin Paul said Brethren if a man be
overtaken in a fault you who are
spiritual hear that you who are
spiritual restore such a one in the
spirit of meekness considering yourself
Mercy searches for a way to restore a
fallen brother or sister the religious
will say he got what he had coming to
him kicked him out of the church shunned
him
the Bible says you who are spiritual
restore
them if you’re spiritual restore
them Mercy says this is my brother this
is my sister they’re hurting one good
hug can make the difference when you
meet your arms hug them forgive them
restore them because that’s what Jesus
would do Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians to
correct the church for sexual misconduct
I want to tell you First Corinthian
Believers really botched it they had
Financial mismanagement in the church
they were getting drunk at Communion
think about that the Bible says who does
that as punching their ticket to hell
that’s what he says in second
Corinthians they
repented and they were restored by Paul
and he writes these words I have
confidence confidence in you in all
things all of that you used to do is now
forgotten and forgiven this is a new
beginning and I’m not going to drag it
up every 6
weeks think of the healing
power if all of the people who ever came
to know Christ in America would come
together and live Under The Canopy of
the love of God for each other and live
by the principles of righteousness this
nation would have a voting base that
would put someone in the White House who
would at least be
legal Mercy is greater than
sympathy sympathy is not
Mercy sympathy is an
emotion and sometimes it goes
away instantly sympathy is an emotion
sometimes followed by Tears there are
those who weep easily and their tears
are meaningless and without worth it’s
all right to weep if you’re willing to
do something when you get through
weeping the Bible says Jesus wept and
then he went to the cross and died to
back up those
tears let’s make it something more
practical if your brother or your sister
has a need of $20 and you have $40 in in
your pocket give them $20 you tight wad
solve the
problem listen don’t ever pray about a
need you can solve right don’t ever pray
about a need you can meet only the
spiritually strong can show Mercy Jesus
was mighty and he was merciful tender
Mercy drove him from the B of Heaven to
a stinking manger with cattle donkeys
and goats Tender Mercies compelled him
to kneel beside a prostitute and say
neither do I condemn thee go and sin no
more the religious the pompus the
Pharisees the Lords of legalism wanted
to kill her but the merciful great
physician Jesus Christ the son of God
said let save her he was mighty they
were weak ego-driven insecure Unholy
legalistic as are many Christians in
America his Mercy caused him to touch
the Rotting Flesh of of lepers his Mercy
drove him to Samaria to minister to the
social outcast the church in America is
obsessed with finding the right people
let me tell you something anyone who’s
lost or hurting that’s the right
people
his tender Mercy stopped a funeral
procession and raised the Widow’s son
back to life that funeral procession
became a
parade tender Mercy caused him to weep
over Jerusalem in the Garden of
Gethsemane tender Mercy compelled the
Creator to allow the created to bind his
hands to a trial of mockery Mercy
commanded that he stretch out his arms
and allowed the Romans to kill him Mercy
form the final words from his blood
soaked lips father forgive them for they
know not what they do Mercy begets Mercy
the price of Mercy is not a massive
collection of rubies diamonds sapphires
Pearl gold or silver the price of Mercy
is Mercy Proverbs 11:17 says the
merciful man does good to his own soul
Proverbs 21 says he who follows after
Mercy finds life righteousness and honor
David showed Mercy to King Saul later
when he sinned deeply and David did Sin
deeply he had a man
killed God’s mercy spared David’s life
God has a mercy Bank in heaven every
time you are merciful to another person
he puts that much Mercy in your account
how much do you have in your mercy
account Proverbs 11:17 the merciful man
or woman doeth good to his own
soul the merciful person doeth good to
his own
soul God’s keeping an account someday
when you really foul up and you
will God says you’ve got just enough
Mercy in your account to cover the
situation the Bible says he Delights in
mercy God is looking for a way to show a
broken a battered and a bruised
Society Endless and boundless
Mercy we are his hands his feet his
voice if the voice of Mercy is heard it
must be our voice because I assure you
when you
listen to the news telecast on
America it is saturated with hate
resentment bickering battering we are a
nation so divided we can’t stand each
other because light and darkness do not
mix light is going to have to get
brighter and that’s us and we get
brighter by supporting us to make the
body of Christ stronger this true story
a teenager was raised in a good home by
loving father in his Rebellion against
his father the teenager broke the law
and was sent to prison for 10 years his
father was bitter for the shame the son
had brought to him the son wrote letters
to the father saying I’m sorry will you
forgive me the father refused to read
them he returned the letters to his son
unopened with written Return to Sender
at the end of 10 years he sent his last
letter home he said in the letter I will
be getting out of the penitentiary next
week I’m going to take the train that
goes by the family form if you will
allow me to come home tie a ribbon in
the tree beside the tracks and I’ll know
that I have been forgiven if there is no
ribbon there I’ll stay on the train and
never come home
again he was released from prison he
bought his ticket he got on the train
and with every turn of the wheel
he was
wondering is there going to be a ribbon
in that tree or would his father never
see his face again at last the train
rounded the bin and started climbing the
steep grade that led to the family form
he was beside himself with anxiety he
told the man to cross the aisle from him
his story and that he was looking for a
yellow ribbon in that tree he said Do
You See a ribbon in the tree beside the
track at the top of the hill the man
looked he said no there’s not a ribbon
there are hundreds of ribbons hanging in
that tree there are ribbons on the fence
there are ribbons on every Bush there
ribbon on the porch what does it mean he
said it means my father has had mercy
and he’s forgiven me I’m going
home
Can We Stand
Together
question to whom do you need to show
mercy God has a mercy
book he has Mercy
account how does your account
look I want you to pray
personally this
week about
you demonstrating
Mercy to people that you
love to the body of Christ to people in
your
family let’s pray this prayer together
heavenly father father let the mercy of
God let the mercy of God be reflected be
reflected from the body of Christ from
the body of Christ let it be a healing
Force let it be a healing Force for our
city for our city and for our nation and
for our nation as we love one another as
we love one another as we Inspire one
another as we Inspire as we build up one
another as we build up for we are
Brothers and Sisters in Christ we are
brothers and sisters we are the family
of God we are the family of God in the
authority of your name in the authority
of your name May the mercy of God May
the mercy of God be demonstrated
demonstr in a very practical and
Powerful way powerful way in Jesus name
in Jesus name amen amen Give the Lord
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