Day 315: The Virtue of Mercy (2024)
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We're reading loop chapter six, seven and eight. We're also reading proverb chapter twenty six vers has one to three. As always, the bubble translation on reading from is the revised tender version.

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Click on, clicking on daily or clicking on subscribe, describing subscribes. You can subscribe to this. It's a wonderful thing. You don't have to do IT do what you want anyways. We're reading, look, chapter six, seven and eight, its day three fifteen, and reading programs about twenty six perses one through three. The gospel according to look chapter six he teaching about the sabic on a sabis while he was going through the grain fields, his disciples pluck and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands.

But some of the therapies said, why are you doing what is not lawful ful to do on the? And jesus answered, have you not read what David did when he was hungry? He and those who were with him, how he entered the house of god and took and eat the shower bread, which IT is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave IT to those with him.

And he said to them, the sound of man is lord of the sabbath, the man with a withered hand on another sabz when he entered the cinna's g and taught a man was there whose right hand was withered and describes, and the furies watched him to see whether he would heal on the sabic so that they might find an accusation against him. But he knew their thoughts. And he said to the man who add the weather hand, come in, stand here and he rose and stood there, and jesus said to them, I ask you, is that lawyer on the seabed to do good or to do harm, to save life, or to destroy IT? And he looked around on them all and said to him, stretch out your hand.

And he did so, and his hand was restored. But they were filled with fury and discussed with one another what they might do to jesus. Jesus chooses the twelve disciples in these days. He went out to the hills to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to god.

And when I was day, he called his disciples and shows from them twelve, whom he named a puzzles, Simon, whom he named Peter, and enter his brother, and James and john and Philip and brave lamu, and Matthew and Thomas and James, the sun of obvious. And Simon was called the zilla and juice the sun of James and judicious, a scit who became a trader, jesus, teachers and heels. And he came down with them and stood on a level place with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all judea and and the sea coast of tire and sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases.

And those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all the crowd sought to touch him for power king forth from him and healed them. All blessings in wales and he lifted up his eyes on his disciples instead, blessed are you poor for yours is the kingdom of god bless IT are you that hunger now for you shall be satisfied bless IT are you that wheat now for you shall laugh bless IT are you when men hate you and when they exclude you and revalue and cast out your name as evil on account of the sun of man, rejoice on that day and leave for joy for behold, your reward is great in heaven for so their fathers did to the profits.

But vote you that are rich for you have received your consolation well to you that are full now for you shell hunger will to you that laugh now for you shall morn and weep. Vote you when all men speak well of you for so their fathers did to the false profits, love for enemies. But I say to you that here, love your enemies and do good to those who hate you.

Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who abuse you. To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer for the other also, and from him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your coat as well.

Give to everyone who begged from you, and of him who takes away your goods, do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you for? Even signers love those who love them.

And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you for? Even signers do the same. And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you?

Even sinners lend to signers to receive as much again, but love your enemies and do good and end expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the most tie for he is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish. Be merciful, even as your father is merciful. Judging others judge not, and he will not be judged.

Condemn not, and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. Give and you will be given to you. Good measure, press down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For the measure you give will be the measure you get back.

You also told them a parable, can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? A cycle is not above his teacher, but everyone, when he is fully taught will be like his teacher.

Why do you see the spec that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Now, how can you say to your brother? Brother, let me take out the spec that is in your eye when knew yourself, do not see the log that is in your own.

I you he quit first, take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the spec that is in your brother's eye. A tree and its fruit for no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again, is a bad tree bear good fruit, for each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from forms, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure produces evil throughout of the abundance of the heart. His mouth speaks heroes and doors. Why do you call me lord lord and not do what I tell you, everyone who comes to me and here's my words and does them, I will show you what he is like.

He is like a man building a house who dug deep and lay the foundation upon rock. And when a flood rose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake IT because IT had been well built. But he who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation against which the string broke.

And immediately IT fell, and the ruin of that house was great. Chapter seven, jesus heels, a syria's slave, after he had ended all his sangs in the hearing of the people, he entered a perm, now a centropolis, a slave who was dear to him, who was sick and at the point of death, when he heard of jesus, he sent him to elders of the jews, asking him to come and heal his slave. And when they came to jesus, they begged him earn esty, saying, he is worthy to have you do this for him, for he loves our nation.

And he built us our synagogue. Jesus went with them when he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. Therefore, I did not presume to come to you, but say the word and let my servant to be healed, for I am a man set under authority with soldiers under me.

And I say, to one go and he goes, and to another come and he comes, and to my slave, do this and he does IT. When geese's heard this, he marvelled at him and turned and said to the multitude that followed him, I tell you, not even in israel have I found such faith. And when those who had been sent returned to the house they found at the slave, well, jesus raises a windows sun at nine.

Soon afterward, he went to a city called that in, and it's the cycles. And a great crowd went with him as he drew near red to the gate of the city. Behold, a man who had died was being Carried out, the only son of his mother, and he was a widow.

And a large crowd from the city was with her. And when the lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, do not weep. And he came and touch the beer, and the bears stood still, and he said, Young man, I say to you, arise.

And the dead man set up and began to speak, and he gave him to his mother, fear, seize them all. And they glorify god, saying, a great profit has arizon among us. And god has visited as people. And this report concerning him spread through the whole of judea and all the surrounding country.

Messenger from john the baptist, the disciples of john, told him of all these things, and john calling to him two of his the cycles sent them to the lord of saying, are you he who is to come? Or shall we look for another? And when the meta come to him, they said, john the baptist has sent us to you saying, are you he who is to come? Or shall we look for another? In that hour, he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits.

And on many that were blind, he bestowed sight, and he entered them. Go and tell john what you've seen and heard. The blind receive their site, the lame walk. Lepers are cleans and the deaf here, the dead are raised up. The poor have good news preached to them.

And bless IT is he who takes no offense at me when the messenger of john had gone, he began to speak to the crowds concerning john, what did you go out into the wilderness to be? Hold a read, a shaken by the wind. What then did you go out to see a man closed in, soft rayed? Behold those who are gorgeously appealed and live in luxury are in kings courts.

What then did you go out to see a profit? Yes, I tell you. And more than a profit. This is he of whom IT is written. Behold, I send my messenger before your face.

Who shall prepare your way before you? I tell you, among those born of women, none is greater than john. Yet he who is leased in the kingdom of god is greater than he.

When they heard all this, the people and the tax collectors are justified. God having been baptized with the baptism of john, but the therapies and the lawyers rejected the purpose of god for themselves, not having been baptized by him. To what then shall I compare the men of this generation and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another.

We piped for you and you did not dance. We wailed and you did not weep. For john na, baptis has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say he has a demon.

The sound of man has come eating and drinking, and you say, behold, a glottal and a drunker, a friend of tax collectors and signers. Yet wisdom is justified by all her children. A sin full woman forgiven. One of the fiery asked him to eat with him, and he went into the ferries house and set at table.

And behold a woman of the city who was a cinner when he learned that he was sitting at table in the ferry's house, brought an alabaster, a flash of appointment, and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, SHE began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and annointed them with the ointment. Now, when the ferrari who had invited him sought, he said to himself, if this man were a profit, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him for. SHE is a sinner, and she's is answering, said dwan.

Simon, I have something to say to you. And he answered, what is the teacher? A certain creditor had two letters, one, oh, five hundred and arii, and the other fifty. When they could not pay, he forgave them both. Now, which of them will love him more?

I am answered the one, I suppose, to whom he forgave more and he said to him, you have judged rightly then turning toward the woman, he said, the Simon, do you see this woman? I entered your house, you gave me no water for my feet, but he has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in, SHE has not seized to kiss my feet.

You did not annointed my head with oil, but he has annointed my feet with appointment. Therefore, I tell you her sins, which are many, are forgiven for SHE loved much but he who is forgiven little loves little and he said, where your sins are forgiven then those who are at table with him began to say among themselves, who is this who even forgives sins and he said to the woman, your faith has saved you. Go in peace.

Chapter some women accompany jesus. Soon afterward, he went on three cities and villages preaching and bringing the good news of the kingdom of god. And the twelve were with him, and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits. And infirmities mary called magda, from whom seven demons had gone out and jian, a point of tusa here is stored and Susana and many others who provided for them out of their means the parable of the sower.

And when a great crowd came together and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable, a sower went out to sow his seed, and as he sowed, some seed fell along the path and was trodden under foot, and the birds of the air devoured red IT and some fill on the rock. And as he grew up, IT weared away because IT had no moisture, and some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew with IT and choked IT, and some fell into good soil and grew and yield at a hundred fold. As he said this, he called out he who has ears to hear, let him here, the explanation of the terrible.

And when his disciple bles asked him what this parable meant, he said to you, IT has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of god. But for others, they are impervious so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. Now the parable is this, the seed is the word of god.

The ones along the path are those who have heard that the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, that they may not believe and be saved. And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive IT with joy. But these have no root.

They believe for a while, and the time of temptation fell away. And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear. But as they go on their way, they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life.

And their fruit does not mature. That's for that. In the good soil, they are those who hearing the word hold IT fast in an honest and good heart and bring forth fruit with patients.

A lap is not hidden. No one after letting a lamp covers IT with a vessel or puts IT under a bed, but puts IT on a stand that those who enter may see the light for. Nothing is hidden that shall not be made manifest, nor anything secret that shall not be known.

And come to light. Take head then how you hear for to him who has will more be given, and from him who has not even what he thinks that he has, will be taken away. The true kindred of jesus and his mother and his brother and came to him, but they could not reach him for the crowd.

And he was told, your mother and your brothers and are standing outside desiring to see you, but he said to them, my mother and my brother, and are those who hear the word of god and do IT jesus comes a storm on the sea. One day he got into a boat with his disciples. Any set to them, let us go across to the other side of the lake.

So they set out. And as they sail, he fell asleep. And the storm of wind came down on the lake, and they were filling with water, and we're in danger. And they went and woke him, saying, master, master, we are parishes. And he awake and rebuked the wind and the raging waves, and they seized, and there was a calm.

He said to them, where is your faith? And they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, who then is this, that he commands even wind and water, and they obey him, jesus hills that never seen demoniacal. Then they arrived at the country of the girls, ines, which is opposite gallery, and as he stepped out on land, they met him, a man from the city who had demons for a long time.

He had warned no clothes, and he lived not in a house, but among the tones when he saw jesus, he cried out and fell down before him and said with a loud voice, what have you to do with me? Jesus, son of the most tight guard, I beg you, do not torment me for he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man for many a time. IT had seized him.

He was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he broke the bonds and was driven by the demand into the desert. Jesus then asked him, what is your name? And he said, legion for many demons had entered him, and they beg him not to commend them to depart into the abyss.

Now, a large heard of swine was feeding there on the hillside, and they begged him to let them enter these. So he gave them leave. Then the demons came out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd rushed down the stepper bank into the lake and were drowned.

When the herdman saw what had happened, they fled and told that in the city and in the country, then people went out to see what had happened. And they came. The jesus found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting at the feet of jesus closed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.

And those who had seen IT told them how he who had been possessed with demons was healed, that all the people of the surrounding country of the gerson's asked him to depart from them, for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned. The man from whom the demons had gone begged him that he might be with him, but he sent him away, saying, return to your home and declare how much god has done for you, and went away for claiming throughout the whole city how much jesus had done for him.

A girl restored to life and a woman healed. Now, when jesus returned, the crowd welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him. And there came a man named jesus who was a ruler of the cinna's g.

And falling at jesus his feet, he begged him to come to his house, for he had an only daughter about twelve years of age, and he was dying. As he went, the people pressed around him. And a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, and i'd spent all her living upon physicians and could not be healed by anyone, came up behind him and touched the fringe of his government.

And immediately her flow of blood ceased. And jesus said, who was IT that touch me when i'll denied? Peter said, master, the multitude surround you and press a pon you but jesus said, someone touched me if I perceive that power has gone forth from me and when the woman saw that he was not hidden, SHE came trembling and falling down before him, declared in the presence of all the people why SHE had touched him.

And now he had been immediately healed and he said, there were daughter, your faith has made you well going peace while he was still speaking, a man from the ruler house came and said, your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the teacher anymore but jesus, on hearing this, answered him, do not fear, only believe and SHE shall be well. And when he came to the house, he permitted no one to enter with him, except Peter and john and James and the father and mother of the child.

And all were wheeling and be wAiling her, but he said, do not weep for SHE is not dead, but sleeping. And they laughed at him, knowing that he was dead, but taking her by the hand, he called, saying, child, a rise. And her spirit returned. And SHE got up at once and he directed that something should be given her to eat. And her parents were amazed, but he charged them to tell no one what had happened.

The book of proverb after twenty six versus one through three, like snow in summer or rain in harvest so honor is not fitting for a fool like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying a course that is careless does not alight a whip for the horse, a bridge for the donkey and a rod for the back of fools. Father and haven't give you praise. And thank you.

Thank you for this day. Thank you for your word. Thank you for continuing to call us back to yourself so that we can not only hear your word, but also see your word, your word made, flesh in action, what god is, as we hear the description of how your sun, jesus Christ, has lived and walked among us, we see your heart, your heart for those who are forgotten.

Your heart for those were neglected, your heart for those we, even our enemies. And god, we know how often we've made ourselves your enemy. And what we see is we see your love.

We see you commanding us to love our enemies. Because when we were your enemies, you love us. When we had rebelled against you, you died for us.

You gave your life for us, help us to live our lives for you this day and every day. And jesus, the name, we pray him. And in the name of the father of the sun of the holy spirit, he man, gosh, I might have mentioned this yesterday.

One of the problems with going through all four gospel, as I can remember what I highlighted in the previous three. Also, there is so much action. We go through three chapters today, and every one of these chapters has so much either.

There they are, what they call action act. And so here we are, but I want to highlight this. We had in Matthew's gospel, we had the sermon on the mount. This is in loose gospel, what's called the sermon on the plane. It's very, very similar to the sermon on amount.

It's kind of an abbreviated form of what jesus must have preached multiple times, like he must have taught this, whether he went to the attitudes like the blessings and wales. There's something about this, and also about the teaching of love for enemies. You know, when jesus teaches about love for enemies, he is asking us to do something that is radically different.

Now, in our din age, mercy is a virtue, right? In our din age, we recognized that we've been so shaped for last two thousand years by Christianity that we recognize that graciousness, we recognize that mercy are virtues there. There are things that can be, you know, virtue of honor with some kind of behavior that's worth praising. And yet mercy was not until Christianity. Mercy was not considered to be a virtue, is considered to a weakness.

Why would you, why would you ever allow someone to do something evil and let them get away with that? Why would you ever forgive someone? Why would you take those who were actually your enemies and pray for them? Why do you love them? That doesn't make any sense and it's true IT doesn't make any sense unless unless there's a higher law at the higher law and justice.

We have talked about this so many times in the old testament, one of the things that got reveals, as he is a got to justice, so that, yes, we need to pay back what we own and that we are old, what other people need to pay us back with. And there's even a higher call in the midst of of justice. This higher call is mercy.

And mercy is very interesting. You know, the blatter word for mercy is mister record, a mesa recording, right? That's the word that is where love meets our need, that where love meets us in our misery, that misery recording right and misery.

When we've said this before, I will say a thousand times again is that mercy is the love that we do not deserve. Mercy is love when we need to be loved the most and we deserve to be loved the least. So even you have this story of the centurion, right? And and he is in the village, and he has a slave who needs healing.

And the people come to jesus and they say he's worthy for you to do this because know he loves our people. He built us synagogue and yet the man, the interior, he knows his state, he knows the truth about themselves. And he actually says, lord, i'm not worthy that you should come in a dunder my roof on one side, the people are saying that hold the italian is worthy, but the centurion, he knows his own heart and he knows, actually the truth is, i'm not, i'm not worthy.

And this is, this is an echo we have of john the baptist right yesterday, when we read the story of the patience of john the back test himself said this, i'm not worry that he should untie the punks of my sandalled. You know, our world would say, no, no, john, come on, you know, don't get down in yourself or no hate in italian. Don't get down in yourself, you are worthy.

And this interior, and john, they know the truth. The truth is, i'm not, i'm not worthy of this love. I'm not worthy of this gift.

I'm not worthy of this mercy. But I need IT. I need IT. And that every single one of us, god, i'm not worthy of your mercy, but I needed. And so because god is so good, he gives us what we need. And that's amazing.

Is that incredible? You know, we have to keep that in baLance, right? That baLance those things to know intention, because IT is very easy for so many of us, so many of us to forget the worth we have in our lord, the worth we have just because we're made in that image or lightness the worthy bestows upon us by his Grace.

And we can focus on our sin, our brokenness, and so we can forget our goodness because we're focused on our broken ness. On the other hand, we can be so focus on our goodness that we forget a broken ness. And so there's that, this, that, that fine line that were called to walk able to say, lord, i'm good in the fact that you have made me and you make things good and ontologically is the fancy word onta logically, i'm good morning.

I am not that i've have to have made into your beloved c creature or even at them baptize have been made into your son or daughter, but I don't always live like that. So yes, you've called me to great heights, but I have not yet reason to those heights you know, not lived up to that that gift you've given me know weren't interesting because i'm not sure I mentioned this before. As I said, jesus saying about jon the baptist, he says he's a profit and not only easy a profit, but he goes on to say in verse twenty eight, chapter seven, I tell you, among those born of women, there is none greater than john.

He was least in the kinney, a god is greater than he. And was is really interesting to think. Like, what does that mean? None born a woman is greater than john.

Yet those who are, at least in the kingdom, god is greater than he have. I mentioned this before. why? How could he s say this? Well, he exists for a number of reasons, but here is my interpretation.

John napi ce was not baptized in the name of the father, son and holy spirit. John backus wasn't given the gift of being adopted by the father. He was given many gifts, again, the greatest profit, no one known greater.

I know you, you guys, we know all the profits. You know all the profits by now. You know how great they were. You know how incredible they were. Here's john, who is the greatest.

And yet the gift given to you and to me, in our baptism, we're god makes us into his beloved sons and daughters. He'd dop us as as his beloved sons and daughters. As we said yesterday, the god speaks after he says, you are my beloved son.

You're my beloved daughter with you. I'm well pleased that gift means that you have been raised greater than john baptist, higher than join the baptist, not because uni are more virtuous than him, but because the Grace of god resigns and you, the holy spirit, a bites on you. I said, Peter says later on in the new testable, he says, you've been made partakers of the divine nature in your baptize.

You made partakers the divine nature, meaning you share the very nature of god with him. He shares IT with us. Incredible, incredible.

And this is part of the call to, how do I live up to that god? And my own, I cannot, my own I cannot. But with you, all things are possible.

And so one of the things we do is we continue to pray and ask god for help, to help us to live up to this this call, help us to live up to what he's given us, help us to live up for back to m, and we need guys, Grace, to be able to do this. Ah, man, what do you do? An incredible gift.

Money is about the mike. I am praying for you. Please care for me. I said in the backwards I print for you, I really am. Please wave me mony's father, like I cannot wait to see tomorrow, gobs.