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Just As Your Father Is Merciful
(Lk6:27-38)
God is merciful (Dt4:31).
He is merciful to whom He wants and
To those who know His mercy He is merciful all the more.
Faith is tasting His mercy, and
The life of this faith is showing mercy to others.
Mercy refers to showing compassion, having pity
As a father does for his children and as
Those in a similar situation feel for each other.
After he sinned, Adam was banished from the Garden
But God clothed him in garment of skin for
He had compassion on him.
Because of the groaning and the cry of Israel
God thought of them and delivered them from Egypt, after which
He gave the stone tablets to Moses on Mount Horeb and
Announced the name Jehovah and promised that
His mercy would be for a thousand generations and He would forgive them of their sins.
Those deserving punishment, however, would not be spared.
The temple where the mercy seat,
The atonement cover above the ark with the stone tablets were (Ex25:21)
Reminded them of God's mercy that
Brought them out of Egypt, the iron-smelting furnace (1Ki8:33-53) and:
1) For those who acknowledged the name Jehovah;
2) When they repent for their sins toward the temple He promised to forgive them;
3) He let the defeated and the captives return to the land.
The heart of the Law was for
Those who know God's mercy to show mercy to their neighbors ”
Especially the indebted, the orphans and the widows, and foreigners (Dt24:10-15).
Finally, by God's mercy, the Son of God came as man, that is, Jesus (1Ti2:5)
To rescue men from the hand of their enemy (Lk1:72), and
He said, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days (Jn2:19), because
Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body,
He would show God's eternal mercy for all (Jn3:16) for
He came in the weakness of the flesh and thus was able to sympathize with men (He4:15).
As such, He had compassion on the multitudes of those who followed Him, and
Healed the sick and fed the hungry (Mt14:14; Mk10:47-52).
As He died, He said, "It is finished (Jn19:30), declaring that He:
1) At the height of the Son's suffering the Father's mercy was poured out onto Him (Mt27:46);
2) Condemned the devil, the archangel who is irrelevant to God's mercy (He2:14-16); and
3) Spilled out all His blood and water, pouring out His mercy for all men (Jn19:34).
The Father raised Him back to life and
Jesus sat on the heavenly throne, the mercy seat.
The Holy Spirit comes to those who have received the name Yeshua and
Establishes the throne of grace inside their souls for:
1) Those who call on His name are forgiven of their sins (Lk24:47);
2) In His name they are delivered from all curses (Mk16:17); and
3) In His name He lets the defeated and the captives return (Mt18:19).
Those who have been forgiven of their debts know the shame of a sinner (Mt18:33),
Those who have been hungry know what it means to be hungry,
Those who have been sick know how it feels to be sick,
Those who have tasted His mercy know how to show mercy to one another (Eph4:32; 1Pe2:3), for
When the Son of Man comes in His glory (Mt25:31-46)
He will remember what they had done for the least of them and
Repay them by seating them on the thrones in heaven.
O Lord,
Knowing our place,
God came as man and suffered to show mercy on us ” Yeshua!
Let us now have all the more mercy on souls who are headed to hell and
Those who are the least of us. Amen.