The Pursuit of Happiness, Part 6

God demonstrates His mercy toward us while wronging Him and others, not holding it against us. Every day we have the opportunity to extend that same mercy to the world around us. When we walk around absorbed in ourselves, we dismiss the mercy God showed us. But when we adopt the lifestyle of our Savior, we won’t be able to deny showing mercy to others.

On Repeat
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This is Amazing Grace
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The Passion
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As You Find Me
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Matthew 5:7
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

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Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love Him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations…

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Psalm 86:15
But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

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Lamentations 3:22-23
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

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Jeremiah 31:31-34
Behold the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like he covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel and after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people…For I will be merciful toward their iniquities and I will remember their sins no more.

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Hebrews 9:11-12
But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come (the kingdom of God has arrived) then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is not of this creation) he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by the means of His own blood securing an eternal redemption.

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1 Peter 2:9-10
But you are a chose race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were a people but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

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Eleemon
Extending kindness to the undeserved in both attitude and action.

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We own and walk in our brokenness.

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We love people over religion.

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Matthew 23:23-24
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!”

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We get out of the seat of judge.

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We live a life of forgiveness.

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Leon Morris
“Nothing proves that we have been forgiven (received God’s mercy) better than our own readiness to forgive (dispense God’s mercy)!”

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Warren Wiersbe
“Mercy is a bridge God built to mankind. Mercy is a bridge we build toward others.”