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Amazing Mercy! Matthew 5: 7 Introduction: v Deut. 32: 4; He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

Amazing Mercy! Matthew 5: 7 Introduction: v Mark 11: 25 -26; And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive your trespasses. 26) But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

Amazing Mercy! Matthew 5: 7 Introduction: v Matt. 18: 21 -35 v Matt. 25: 34 -40 v 2 Cor. 4: 1; Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;

Amazing Mercy! Matthew 5: 7 Introduction: v Heb. 2: 17; Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

Amazing Mercy! Matthew 5: 7 Introduction: v Luke 6: 35 -36; But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. 36) Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

Amazing Mercy! Matthew 5: 7 1. Mercy Glorifies God. A. Glory of His character. B. Glory of His person. v James 2: 13; For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

Amazing Mercy! Matthew 5: 7 2. v Mercy Reveals God. Ex. 34: 6 -7; And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7) Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

Amazing Mercy! Matthew 5: 7 2. Mercy Reveals God. v Eze. 33: 11; Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 1 Ti. 2: 3 -4; For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4) Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. v

Amazing Mercy! Matthew 5: 7 2. Mercy Reveals God. A. In salvation. v Titus 3: 4 -7; But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, 5) Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6) Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7) That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Amazing Mercy! Matthew 5: 7 2. Mercy Reveals God. B. In sending Jesus. v Luke 1: 77 -78; To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins, 78) Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,

Amazing Mercy! Matthew 5: 7 2. Mercy Reveals God. C. In longsuffering. v Dan. 9: 9; To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;

Amazing Mercy! Matthew 5: 7 2. Mercy Reveals God. D. In his people. v 1 Kings 8: 23; And he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:

Amazing Mercy! Matthew 5: 7 3. Mercy Accessess God. A. Mercy shown keeps a man right with God. v Prov. 11: 17; The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh. B. Mercy shown satisfies a man. v Prov. 11: 25; The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

Amazing Mercy! Matthew 5: 7 3. Mercy Accessess God. C. Mercy on the needy refreshes a man’s soul. v Prov. 14: 21; He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.