BEHOLD THE MAN
I. Mercy Defined - compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one's power to punish or harm.
Exodus 33:16-23
16"For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth." 17So the Lord said to Moses, "I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name." 18And he said, "Please, show Your glory." 19 The He said, "I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion." 20But He said, "You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live." 21And the Lord said, "Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. 22So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. 23Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen."
Exodus 34:5-7
5Now the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. 6And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, "The Lord the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, 7keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation.
II. God Proclaims His Own Name and Reveals His Character
Jeremiah 31:3
3The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yes, I have love you with an everlasting love: therefore, with loving kindness have I drawn you
God gave us what we did not deserve from creation and made provision for us by way of the mercy seat
Psalm 86:15
15But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth
Psalm 86:14
14Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; mercy and truth go before Your face.
Names were very important it determined who you were
III. Moses Wanted Know Who God was, His Glory
What makes him great, His reputation, glory, honor, glorious, abundance
Exodus 34: 6-7
7...The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin...
IV. Jacob had to Change His Name to Become Like God
Israel the prince of God
V. God Renders Justice with Mercy
VI. We are Saved because of His Mercy
Ephesians 2:4-5
5But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace yo have been saved)...
2 Corinthians 3:18
18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
VII. The King who Rules in Mercy
One of the characters of Jesus that we need to embrace as we behold Him, is that of a merciful King.
Proverbs 3:3-4
3Let not mercy and truth forsake you; bind them around you neck, write them on the tablet of your heart, and so find favor and high esteem in the sight of Goad and man.
Zechariah 7:9-10
9Thus says the Lord of hosts: 'Execute true justice, show mercy and compassion everyone to his brother. 10Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor. Let none of you plan evil in his heart against his brother'
VII. Components of Mercy
It's A Seed
Matthew 5:7
7Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy
James 2:13
13For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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It's Very Important (on the top of God's list)
Matthew 23:23
23Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected they weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.
Ephesians 4:31-32
31Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice. 32And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even s God in Christ forgave you.
It's A Garment (wear it daily)
Colossians 3:12-14
12Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuferring; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
An Ingredient in Wisdom
James 3:17
17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
A Key to Blessings
1 Peter 3:8-9
8Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous; 9not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.
Five Ways to Walk in Mercy
1. See things with the eyes of God
The Apostle Paul prayed Ephesians 1:17 -18, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.
2. Do unto other what you would have them do to you (Matthew 7:12)
3. Be compassionate in your dealings with people
4. Learn to act justly with people
Micah 6:8
8O people, the Lord has told you what is good, and this is what he requires of you: to do what is right, to love mercy, and walk humbly with your God
5. Mercy let's go. It does not give people what they deserve
John Presented Jesus as the Lam of God
John 1:26-27
26John answered them, saying, "I baptize with water, but there stands One among you whom you do know. 27It is He who, coming after me, is preferred before me whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose.
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