• Question: What kind of God do

?

When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God. Galatians 5:19–21 NLT

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23 ESV

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. Ephesians 2:1–3 NIV

• Answer: The God of

revealed to Moses

The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.” Exodus 34:5–6 ESV

Mercy allows me to escape the

I deserve, and provides the

Reveal Answer

of God I so desperately need.

Common Responses to the Merciful God

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—I cannot approach a God like this.
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Reveal Answer

—I am too far gone to come to Him now.
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Reveal Answer

—My best option is to run from God and find other solutions.
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Reveal Answer

—I will continue to follow the ways of the world.
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Reveal Answer

—I will come to God and trust His mercy.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved. Ephesians 2:4–5 ESV

Mercy reaches

and lingers

Reveal Answer

!

The Lord is good. His mercy endures forever. Psalm 100:5 GW

• God invites me to be like Him by

His mercy and

Reveal Answer

it to others.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. Matthew 5:7 ESV

Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. Luke 6:36 ESV

• What are the

that keep me in bondage?

• What

do I have from my past?

• What is the

that causes my guilt?

The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.” Exodus 34:5–6 ESV

Memory Verse

Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. Luke 6:36 ESV

Next Steps

I will invite someone to church with me next week to meet my merciful God.

I will extend mercy to someone who has hurt me deeply.

My Notes