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Excellencies
He is Merciful
John Isaacs
June 28, 2009
Kingsway Community Church
What is
God like?
Who is
God is who the
Bible (in its
totality)
reveals Him to
The Bible Reveals
God To Be …
1. Good
2. Powerful
3. Wise
4. Eternal
5. Holy
6. Just
Justice
When a person
receives
what is due.
Justice
Whatever God
wills is Just.
Just
• He is originally just.
It begins with Him.
• He is essentially just.
It is His nature.
• He is infinitely just.
You can’t measure His holiness.
• He is immutably just.
He has never been more or less.
1 Peter 4:5
But remember that they
will have to face God,
who will judge everyone,
both the living and the
dead.
Judgment
God distributes
rewards and
punishments.
Job 37:23
We cannot imagine the
power of the Almighty;
but even though He
is just and righteous,
He does not destroy us.
Lamentations 3:21-23
But this I call to mind, and
therefore I have hope: The
steadfast love of the LORD
never ceases; His mercies
never come to an end; they are
new every morning; great is
your faithfulness.
God
is
Merciful
Mercy
Not receiving
the punishment
we deserve.
Mercy
The
compassionate
outward
manifestation
Mercy
Doesn’t consider
what a man
deserves but looks
at what he needs.
Exodus 34:1-10
1
The LORD said to Moses, "Cut
for yourself two tablets of stone
like the first, and I will write on
the tablets the words that were
on the first tablets, which you
broke. Be ready by the
2
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An
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er
to
in
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g
o
Lo
Sl
ve
Merc ng I ni q ui t y,
and G iful Forgivi n d Sin
sio n , a
racio
us Transgres
Exodus 34:7
But who will by no means
clear the guilty, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers on the
children and the children’s
children, to the third and the
fourth generation.
Joel 2:12-13
12
"Yet even now," declares the
LORD, "return to Me with all
your heart, with fasting, with
weeping, and with mourning;
13
and rend your hearts and not
your garments.“ Return to the
LORD your God, for He is
Joel 2:12-13 (cont.)
gracious and merciful, slow to
anger, and abounding in
steadfast love; and he relents
over disaster.
Jonah 3:10 – 4:2
When God saw what they did,
10
Jesus
Un
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w
An
av
er
to
in
Christ
w
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o
Lo
Sl
ve
Merc ng I ni q ui t y,
and G iful Forgivi n d Sin
sio n , a
racio
us Transgres
We are to be
gracious and
merciful to
others.
Matthew 5:7
Blessed are the merciful, for
they shall receive mercy.
James 2:13
For judgment is without
mercy to one who has
shown no mercy. Mercy
triumphs over judgment.
Showing Mercy
1. Gracious and kind to the
downtrodden.
2. Giving to those in need.
3. Praying for the lost.
4. Sharing the “Good
News” about the love of
Christ.