Good morning and welcome in today today were to take a look at at a passage of scripture from Micah chapter 6 but before we do that I wanted to ask you a question.
Can you pick out two or three things in your life that’s you really love? Up here in northern Minnesota a lot of people love to go fishing. It’s really a lot of fun to catch a big fish. Many other people would say I love to spend time with my kids. They love to be together with them and go canoeing or four wheeling. Many other people really love riding a motorcycle. They like driving down the highway and feeling that cool breeze running through their hair on a hot July day.
The word love is a very strong word. It’s a very strong emotion to possess. Do you know what God wants us to love with a consuming passion? He wants us to love Mercy.
Micah 6:8 – He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Do you know what the word mercy really means? It is showing compassion and forgiveness towards someone who it is within one’s power to punish or harm.
For an example, think about a child who does something really wrong at home to his mother. She tells the boy that when her dad gets home he’s going to have to punish him. With great fear and respect of his dad, he runs back into his bedroom and closes the door and starts to cry.
Just then his dad starts to walk through the front door. The mother starts to explain the incident to him. He walks through the bedroom door and the boy starts screaming and begging for mercy. He says I’m so sorry for what I did and I truly regret it in my heart. Please forgive me.
The dad sits down gently next to the boy on the bed as he sobs. You know what my son? Because of your soft-hearted apology I can tell you my three favorite words…. I forgive you.
God wants us to love Mercy. That is what he requires out of each of us.
Luke 6:36 – Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
God the father is so merciful with us. If one is professing to be a follower of Jesus Christ, we want to be filled with this quality. When people apologize and reconcile like The Prodigal Son did with his dad, we need to be forgiving with others, understanding how much God has already forgiven us. We must learn to forgive because God will not, if we refuse to extend to others the the same gift that we have received from Him.
James 2:13 – For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
Do you really want to be blessed in your life? If you’re blessed you are enjoying the Bliss of Heaven. It’s being divinely favored by God. Here are a group of people who are blessed by Him.
Matthew 5:7 – Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Matthew 9:9-13
9 And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.
10 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance..
Instead of bringing a sacrifice to be offered to God, before bringing an offering to the church, God wants us to go show mercy to others. Many people in the world today are sick in the darkness of their unforgiven sins. Jesus wants to heal them and make them whole again. It doesn’t matter what path they’ve come from, it doesn’t matter what they’ve done, His mercy waits for us each day.
Hebrews 4:16 – Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
We’re not good enough because we’re just sinners. Nothing we could ever do could redeem ourselves in the eyes of God. There’s only one who God has provided as a sacrifice for our sins, the Lord Jesus Christ.
1 John 1:9 – If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Many people out in the world today have really dirty jobs. They come home and they’re full of grease and oil dirt and mud, but it sure feels good to step into a shower and watch all that dirt go down the drain. God wants to wash the dirt of sin in our lives down the drain. Praise Him for His abundant Mercy.
1 Peter 1:3 – Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
As we learn from The Book of Micah today what does God require of us?
Colossians 3:12 – Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Lamentations 3:22-23 – It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Do you want to be blessed? Go and show mercy then.
That’s where I’m going to stop right now, but Lord willing, we’ll talk to you some more tomorrow. Till then, bye-bye everybody.♥️
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