This week, someone asked me this question, “What is the difference between Grace and Mercy?” Mercy is having compassion or pity upon someone who has wronged you. Someone who doesn’t deserve it, but you extend or offer mercy unto them. GRACE IS MERCY IN ACTION! While it is not difficult to find the biblical answer, it is difficult in understanding or comprehending the answer in our flesh.
Hebrews 4:14-16 says:
Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
GRACE HELPS YOU
WHEN YOU WANT TO
Hebrews 4:14 says:
Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
“No sacrifice but Calvary. No priest but Christ. No confessional but the throne of grace.” —Martin Luther
WE MUST HOLD ON TO THE
Romans 10:17 says:
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
WE MUST HOLD ON TO OUR
Hebrews 10:23 says:
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
Holding on to our profession, is holding on to what He professed! Remember it this way… Hold on to the promises, because He is faithful that promised.
GRACE HELPS YOU
WHEN YOU WANT TO
Hebrews 4:15 says:
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Write down the illustration of the refiner’s fire and the assayer’s fire:
In the trials or fire, we can’t give up! We must give in! Give in our desire, our will for the desire and will of the Father. Jesus was without sin, but we are not. We do not have the strength or power over sin because of our flesh and its weakness. So what do we do? We surrender and call upon the ONE who has strength. We call upon the ONE who has been there before us. The ONE who has conquered and defeated these temptations that we experience. He
Sometimes there are people who walk away. It is because the assayer’s fire has revealed what is within.
1 John 2:19 says:
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
GRACE HELPS YOU
WHEN YOU WANT TO
Hebrews 4:16 says:
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
There is a man in the scriptures that understands. Look at his statement…
Job 23:3-8 says:
Oh that I knew where I might
that I might come even to his seat!
I would order my cause before him,
and fill my mouth with arguments.
I would know the words which he would answer me,
and understand what he would say unto me.
Will he plead against me with his great power?
No; but he would put strength in me.
There the righteous might dispute with him;
so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there;
and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
Remember the story of the young girls and the Amish school shooting?
We see the words, “grace and mercy” joined together only in one section of the Old Testament.
Genesis 19:18-19 says:
And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord: Behold now, thy servant hath
Grace in the Old Testament was visible through this story of Lot receiving help from the Lord. In the days of the tabernacle and temple they sacrificed lambs for the sins of the people. It costed the people and families greatly. The lamb were the best of the herd, no blemishes, no spots. This was all a picture of grace and mercy.
In the New Testament, we see a greater sacrifice in Jesus. The sins of the world are different than the sins of a person or family. Once and for ALL, Jesus died for our Mercy and Grace.
John 1:17 says:
For the law was given by Moses, but
What is it that is causing you to feel like running away, giving up or even leaving here today broken? In comparison to Christ and the words of promise we have today, how does it look? Yes, the flesh tells you to quit, throw in the towel, but what do the scriptures tell us?
Hebrews 4:16 says:
Let us therefore