WEEKEND WORSHIP:
Grateful
Run To The Father
Goodness of God
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Week 1: The Person of Jesus
Week 2: The Purpose of Jesus
Week 3: The Teachings of Jesus
Week 4: The Miracles of Jesus
Today: The Mercy of Jesus
Mercy:
Compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one’s power to punish or harm..
John 8:1-11
Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd. “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?” They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust. When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?” “No, Lord,” she said.
And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”
1. Mercy flows from being in the
“place”!
“…he was back again at the Temple.”
Matthew 5:23
So if you are presenting a sacrifice at the altar in the Temple and you suddenly remember that someone has something against you, leave your sacrifice there at the altar. Go and be reconciled to that person. Then come and offer your sacrifice to God.
It is so important for us to be in the right “place” so that we make decisions from a
2. People are watching our
quotient.
“…A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them.”
“…When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman.”
Are we people of mercy or vengeance?
Are we people of mercy or unforgiveness?
Do we care how people see us?
3. Self-righteousness is
self-condemning.
John 8:3-5
As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd. “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?”
John 8:7-9
They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust. When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest…
Are we
for the sin in others while
ours?
Matthew 7:1-5
Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. For you will be treated as you treat others. The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged. “And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own? How can you think of saying to your friend, ‘Let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,’ when you can’t see past the log in your own eye? Hypocrite! First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend’s eye.
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” - Mohandas Gandhi
1. Mercy flows from being in the right “place”!
2. People are watching our mercy quotient.
3. Self-righteousness is ugly self-condemning.
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