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Rick Warren - Your Ministry of Mercy (Part 1)

June 21, 2026 | 27:29

Rick Warren - Your Ministry of Mercy (Part 1)
Pastor Rick shares biblical truth and practical tools for living the full life God desires for everyone.
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Rick Warren | Rick Warren - Your Ministry of Mercy (Part 1) | June 21, 2026
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Pastor rick warren: the bible says, "every believer
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  • Is a minister."
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  • Now, we all minister in different ways, but any time you
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  • Help somebody else in jesus's name, that is called ministry.
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  • And as i said, the bible says there are different kinds of
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  • Service, different kinds of ministries, but there is one
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  • Ministry that we all have in common, and that's what i want
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  • Us to look at this weekend.
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  • I call it your ministry of mercy.
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  • God wants you to be an agent of mercy in the world.
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  • There's not enough mercy in this world, and god wants you to be a
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  • Provider, he wants you to be an agent, he wants you to be a
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  • Purveyor of mercy in the world.
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  • Now, in the fifth key to a blessed life, jesus says this,
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  • Matthew 5 verse 7: "god blesses those who are merciful, for they
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  • Will be shown mercy."
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  • In other words, what you give out, you're gonna get back.
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  • What you give, you're going to get.
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  • "god blesses those who are merciful, for they will be
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  • Shown mercy."
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  • This is the fifth key to a blessed life.
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  • You gotta learn to be a minister of mercy.
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  • Now, what is mercy?
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  • Well, usually we think of two things.
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  • Usually we think of forgiving people who don't deserve it, or
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  • We think of helping people who can't help themselves.
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  • And those are two definitions of mercy that we typically
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  • Think of.
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  • But mercy, which by the way is a part of god's character, has so
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  • Much more to say and to do in your life than simply those
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  • Two things.
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  • Mercy is really like a--it's like a diamond,
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  • It's multifaceted.
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  • And this weekend i want us to look at seven facets of mercy,
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  • Seven ways that you can transform your relationships,
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  • Because i guarantee you, if you'll learn how to be an agent
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  • Of mercy, it's gonna change your work relationships, your
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  • Marriage, your friendships, family relationships, any other
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  • Relationship you've got, if you learn how to be an agent
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  • Of mercy.
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  • But before we look at how to practice mercy in a
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  • Relationship, i wanna just ask the question, why?
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  • Why in the world should i be merciful?
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  • So just write these four down.
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  • This is just kind of a little introduction here.
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  • And the first reason that we need to show mercy is because
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  • God has shown me mercy.
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  • The bible says that god is merciful.
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  • It's emphasized all through the bible.
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  • There are literally hundreds and hundreds of scripture that talk
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  • About god's mercy and his love, his compassion, and his grace.
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  • Let me show you a couple verses.
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  • One is up here on the screen.
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  • Ephesians chapter 2, verse 4 or 5 says this: "god's mercy is so
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  • Abundant, and his love for us is so great, that while we were
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  • Spiritually dead in our disobedience, he brought us to
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  • Life with christ.
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  • It is by god's grace you have been saved."
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  • God has shown mercy to us.
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  • Now, the point is this: god wants me to act in the same way
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  • To other people.
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  • He wants me to pass on--the mercy that i have received from
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  • God, he wants me to pass on.
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  • Look at the next verse, it's there on your outline,
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  • Matthew 18.
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  • "shouldn't you have mercy on others, just as i had mercy
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  • On you?"
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  • Jesus is telling a story here about an unmerciful employee,
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  • And he owes his boss some money.
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  • And the boss says, "well, i'm gonna show mercy on you.
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  • Let's just clear your debt, and we'll just wipe it off and just
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  • Say we're even."
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  • And the guy can't believe it, because he's been shown such
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  • Great mercy.
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  • But then he goes out to some people who owe him some money,
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  • Far less money, and he starts grabbing them by the throat.
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  • He's like, "pay me or i'm going to have you thrown in prison."
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  • When the boss hears about it, he goes, "what are you doing?
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  • I was merciful to you and you're not merciful to the people
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  • Around you?
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  • You're a wicked guy," and he throws him in prison.
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  • God says, "if i show mercy to you, i expect you to show it
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  • To others."
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  • God has shown me mercy.
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  • Second reason, god commands me to be merciful.
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  • God commands me to be merciful.
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  • There's a verse in the bible, in micah, and i'm gonna show it to
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  • You up here on the screen.
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  • It's, again, one of many verses.
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  • "god has told you what is good and what he requires from you."
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  • Okay, so whatever comes next is what god says is good and is
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  • Required of you.
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  • Here's what's required of you, three things.
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  • "to do what is right with others, to love being merciful
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  • To others, and to live humbly in fellowship with god."
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  • Now, leave that up there for a minute.
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  • That's--if you wanna summarize what life's all about, god says,
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  • "this is what's required of you if you're gonna be in my family,
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  • If you're gonna be my child.
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  • You gotta do what's right with others.
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  • You gotta love being merciful to others.
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  • And you gotta live humbly in fellowship with god."
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  • Let me shock you with this next statement.
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  • God says that being merciful is more important than worship.
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  • Did you hear that?
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  • God says that you being merciful to other people is actually more
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  • Important than worship.
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  • Hosea 6, verse 6, god says this: "i don't want your sacrifices!
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  • I want you to be merciful!"
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  • Now, what is he saying here?
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  • He's saying, "i don't want your acts of worship.
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  • I want you to be merciful."
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  • This is much more important.
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  • In fact, this verse, hosea chapter 6, verse 6, is so
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  • Important, jesus quotes it two times in his ministry, in two
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  • Totally unrelated situations, in debates with the pharisees.
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  • This is one of the most important verses in the bible.
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  • So look at it again.
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  • "i don't want your sacrifices.
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  • I want you to be merciful."
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  • God is saying, "i prefer a flexible heart over an
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  • Inflexible ritual.
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  • I don't care if you come in saying, 'i praise you, i love
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  • You, you're great,' and all of that, and then you go out and
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  • You treat people like dirt."
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  • You treat your wife or your husband or your children or your
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  • Friends or the people you work with or people who are working
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  • At fast food joints, whatever.
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  • He says, "if you don't treat people with mercy, you've missed
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  • The whole point."
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  • God's shown me mercy, and he commands me to be merciful.
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  • There's a third reason i need to learn what we're gonna look at
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  • This weekend, and it's because i'm gonna need more mercy in
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  • The future.
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  • I'm gonna need more mercy in the future.
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  • You're not going to be perfect between now and when you get to
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  • Heaven, and the bible tells us that we cannot receive what we
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  • Are unwilling to give.
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  • And so in james chapter 2, james 2, verse 13, the bible says
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  • This: "you must," circle that word "must."
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  • "you must show mercy to others, or god won't show mercy to you.
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  • But," here's the good news, "the person who shows mercy can stand
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  • Without fear at the judgment."
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  • Don't you wanna be able to do that on judgment day, to be able
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  • To stand without fear on judgment day?
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  • It says, "the person who shows mercy can stand without fear on
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  • The judgment day."
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  • Now there's a fourth reason, and that is, showing mercy brings or
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  • Causes happiness.
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  • Showing mercy brings happiness.
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  • It's really the source of happiness.
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  • The bible teaches over and over in scripture that the more
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  • Merciful i am, the happier i'm gonna be.
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  • Remember the beatitudes?
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  • The word "blessed" also means "happy," makarios.
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  • He's saying, "happy are the merciful."
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  • If you wanna be happy, you need to learn this quality.
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  • And the more you learn this quality, the happier you're
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  • Gonna be.
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  • Look at this verse on the screen.
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  • The bible says, "if you wanna be happy," proverbs 14:21, "be kind
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  • To those in need."
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  • And then he says, "it is a sin to despise anyone."
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  • And let me show you another one, proverbs 11:17 says this: "a
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  • Merciful person helps himself, but a cruel person
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  • Hurts himself."
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  • So you actually help yourself when you are merciful.
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  • I love this verse, proverbs 11:17.
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  • In the living bible, it says, "your own soul is nourished when
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  • You show mercy."
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  • Your own soul is nourished when you show mercy.
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  • So, these four reasons--god's shown me mercy, he commands me
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  • To be merciful, i'll need mercy in the future, and it's the key
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  • To happiness--tell me that this is an important quality that i
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  • Need to build into my life.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Pastor rick: today, i wanna invite you to join me in
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  • Something that's very close to my heart, fulfilling the great
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  • Commission of jesus christ.
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  • Sharing the good news is the most important thing we do.
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  • When we work together, there's nothing that god cannot do to us
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  • When we're unified.
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  • Through "daily hope," the message of jesus christ is now
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  • Reaching nearly every country in the world.
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  • That's 197 nations.
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  • We're going to even places where it's difficult or dangerous or
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  • Illegal to talk about christ openly.
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  • We're sharing the certain hope of jesus, and it's changing
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  • Lives every single day.
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  • Right now, we have an incredible opportunity.
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  • That's why i'm saying this to you personally.
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  • There are some very generous friends that have offered to
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  • Match every single gift given to "daily hope," dollar for dollar.
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  • That means whatever you give today is gonna be doubled
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  • In impact.
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  • So i'm asking you, i want to encourage you, to give as god
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  • Leads you today.
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  • And i want you to pray this prayer.
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  • God, what do you want to give through me?
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  • Don't say, "god, what should i give?"
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  • Say, "god, what do you want to give through me?"
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  • That's called giving by faith, giving by revelation.
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  • And your gift will go twice as far to share the certain hope of
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  • Jesus christ and make disciples all around the world.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Pastor rick: all right, let's look at how can i learn this
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  • Quality of mercy in a world that's not very merciful?
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  • It's pretty unmerciful.
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  • How do i fulfill what god calls my ministry of mercy?
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  • Some of these ways you're quite familiar with, but i guarantee
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  • You there's a few of them that you probably have never even
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  • Thought of.
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  • "oh, that's a part of mercy?"
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  • And yes, it is too.
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  • Let's look at them.
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  • Number one, be patient with people's quirks.
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  • Be patient with people's quirks.
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  • I'm talking about--don't look at them right now.
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  • The idiosyncrasies, their peculiarities, their mannerisms,
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  • Their odd behavior, their irritating habits.
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  • You know what i'm talking about, right?
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  • Okay.
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  • You show mercy, you show mercy when you don't get irritated and
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  • You don't get angry and you don't get uptight with people's
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  • Personal quirks.
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  • And we've all got them.
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  • You've got them.
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  • I've got them.
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  • And we've all got these little mannerisms and irritating
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  • Habits, a way of speaking and thinking and talking and acting.
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  • When you control your anger, and when you refuse to get upset by
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  • People's quirks, you are showing mercy.
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  • It's a very practical way.
  • 00:12:52.721 --> 00:12:54.857
  • Now, i've been married 38 years.
  • 00:12:54.857 --> 00:12:57.293
  • I will have been married 39 years before this month is over.
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  • I wanna give you maybe the most important marriage advice you'll
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  • Ever get in your life.
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  • It's the next verse.
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  • Ephesians 4:2.
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  • "be patient with each other, making allowances for each
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  • Other's faults."
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  • Why?
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  • "because of your love."
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  • Circle the phrase "making allowance."
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  • Making allowance for each other's faults.
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  • You see, you married a sinner, guys.
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  • And she married a bigger one.
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  • Two imperfect people cannot make a perfect marriage.
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  • You have faults, your spouse has faults, and marriage is--a great
  • 00:13:41.370 --> 00:13:47.376
  • Marriage is the union of two great forgivers.
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  • That's what makes a great marriage.
  • 00:13:52.181 --> 00:13:53.649
  • It's the union of two great forgivers.
  • 00:13:53.649 --> 00:13:56.752
  • Now, it says here, "make allowance for each other's
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  • Faults because of your love."
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  • The number one place you need to learn to show mercy is at home.
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  • It's at home.
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  • Why?
  • 00:14:08.264 --> 00:14:09.632
  • Because you see each other's faults far more than anybody
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  • Else does, and you're up close and personal with those faults,
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  • And you've got to live with them the rest of your life.
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  • So show mercy.
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  • Show mercy.
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  • You know, and when i used to do marriage counseling, i
  • 00:14:23.712 --> 00:14:25.581
  • Discovered that marriages don't die usually because of one
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  • Big catastrophe.
  • 00:14:28.517 --> 00:14:30.486
  • Marriages are buried because of a lot of little digs.
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  • And they're just little nagging and digging and nagging
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  • And digging.
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  • It says, "make allowance for each other's faults because of
  • 00:14:40.663 --> 00:14:43.666
  • Your love."
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  • Look at this verse on the screen.
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  • James 2:13 says, "the man who makes no allowances for others
  • 00:14:46.368 --> 00:14:50.572
  • Will find none made for him."
  • 00:14:50.572 --> 00:14:53.909
  • None may--show mercy.
  • 00:14:53.909 --> 00:14:56.912
  • The bible says we show mercy by being patient with each other's
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  • Quirks, our foibles, our weaknesses, our mistakes, all of
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  • The things that make us human.
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  • See, i really wanna do that.
  • 00:15:06.755 --> 00:15:09.325
  • How do i get more patient, with my kids, with my spouse, with
  • 00:15:09.325 --> 00:15:13.362
  • My friends?
  • 00:15:13.362 --> 00:15:14.730
  • How do i get more patient?
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  • One word, wisdom.
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  • The wiser you get, the more patient you will be.
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  • The bible says this in james chapter 3: "the wisdom that
  • 00:15:22.137 --> 00:15:25.541
  • Comes from heaven is pure, and peace loving, and gentle at all
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  • Times," circle "all," "gentle at all times, and is willing to
  • 00:15:32.815 --> 00:15:36.986
  • Yield to others.
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  • Wisdom is full of mercy."
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  • So the wiser you get, the more merciful you get.
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  • A lot of people who think they're wise aren't.
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  • They're pompous--pompous.
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  • [congregation laughs]
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  • You thought i was gonna say that word.
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  • Wisdom is full of mercy.
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  • Now, notice it says there, "wisdom from heaven is
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  • Peace loving."
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  • If you're not peace-loving, you're not wise.
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  • It says it's gentle at all times.
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  • If you're easily irritated, you're not wise.
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  • It says, "it's willing to yield."
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  • If you're unwilling to yield, you're not wise.
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  • The wiser i become, the more patient and merciful i become.
  • 00:16:19.661 --> 00:16:25.968
  • The more unbending, the more irritating, the more angry, the
  • 00:16:25.968 --> 00:16:32.441
  • More i get upset, the more foolish the bible says i am.
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  • If you're easily irritated, you're not wise.
  • 00:16:37.813 --> 00:16:39.448
  • So be patient with people's quirks.
  • 00:16:39.448 --> 00:16:41.450
  • Number two, the second way to practice mercy this week, help
  • 00:16:41.450 --> 00:16:45.187
  • Anyone hurting around me.
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  • Help anyone hurting around me.
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  • There are hurting people all around you, but too often we're
  • 00:16:49.892 --> 00:16:52.928
  • Too busy to notice it.
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  • If you care, you'll be aware.
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  • Jesus told the story of the good samaritan to teach this very
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  • Point, about helping the hurting around us is the meaning
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  • Of mercy.
  • 00:17:03.872 --> 00:17:06.275
  • A guy came to jesus one day and he said, "jesus, what's the most
  • 00:17:06.275 --> 00:17:09.778
  • Important command in the bible?"
  • 00:17:09.778 --> 00:17:12.114
  • Okay, "give me the bottom line here.
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  • I don't have time to read the whole bible."
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  • So, what is it that matters most?
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  • And jesus said, "oh, that's really easy.
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  • It's two things.
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  • Love god with all your heart, and love your neighbor
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  • As yourself."
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  • That's the whole bible in a nutshell.
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  • Love god with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself.
  • 00:17:26.995 --> 00:17:29.398
  • Now the guy wants to get out of this, and he's kind of a
  • 00:17:29.398 --> 00:17:31.667
  • Weaseling out of it, he says, "so, love your neighbor
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  • As yourself?
  • 00:17:33.969 --> 00:17:35.304
  • Yeah, who's my neighbor?"
  • 00:17:35.304 --> 00:17:37.072
  • And jesus says, "well, let me tell you a story."
  • 00:17:37.072 --> 00:17:39.875
  • And he tells the story, the famous story of the good
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  • Samaritan, of the man who was going down the road to jericho,
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  • And he's robbed, and he's beaten, and he's abused, and
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  • He's left for dead at the side of the road.
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  • And three guys pass by him, and two of them do nothing.
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  • And the third guy, of another race and culture, stops and
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  • Helps him, nurses him back to health, puts him on his donkey,
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  • Takes him to a hotel, a motel, checks in, pays the bill for the
  • 00:18:05.767 --> 00:18:10.739
  • Guy, and says that if he has any other bills, "when i come back
  • 00:18:10.739 --> 00:18:14.810
  • By, i'll pay for it."
  • 00:18:14.810 --> 00:18:16.411
  • And jesus looks at the guy who says, "who's my neighbor?"
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  • And says, "who do you think was the neighbor?"
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  • And the man says, "the guy who showed the most mercy."
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  • The guy who showed the most mercy.
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  • You cannot love your neighbor as yourself without being merciful,
  • 00:18:29.758 --> 00:18:34.296
  • And we help those around us.
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  • Look at some verses here.
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  • Proverbs 3:27, "whenever you possibly can, do good to those
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  • Who need it."
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  • You gotta look for it.
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  • Now, by the way, when you are helping people in need, and
  • 00:18:46.341 --> 00:18:49.778
  • There are gonna be people in your area of life this week that
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  • God intentionally puts in your life to allow you to
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  • Practice mercy.
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  • They're gonna have an emotional need, they're gonna have a
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  • Physical need, a financial need.
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  • They may just need an assistance.
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  • They may need, you know, help, you to care for them in
  • 00:19:06.595 --> 00:19:09.698
  • Some way.
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  • God, when he's watching you, is not simply watching what you do,
  • 00:19:11.266 --> 00:19:14.670
  • He's watching your attitude.
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  • Look at this verse, romans 12:8.
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  • "when you do acts of mercy, show mercy with," what?
  • 00:19:19.041 --> 00:19:25.781
  • "cheerfulness," yeah, circle that.
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  • With cheerfulness.
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  • He says, "you don't do it grinning and bearing it.
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  • You don't do it with a grudging attitude."
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  • I love this verse, romans 12:8, in "the message" paraphrase.
  • 00:19:34.289 --> 00:19:37.559
  • Look up here on the screen, it says this.
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  • "if you work with the disadvantaged, don't let
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  • Yourself get irritated with them or depressed by them.
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  • Keep a smile on your face."
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  • Mercy is being patient with people's quirks, and it's being
  • 00:19:49.905 --> 00:19:54.076
  • Helpful with people's hurts.
  • 00:19:54.076 --> 00:19:56.511
  • Number three, third way you can show mercy this week.
  • 00:19:56.511 --> 00:20:00.549
  • Give people a second chance, and everybody needs that.
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  • Give people a second chance.
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  • We forgive the fallen.
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  • Especially those who have hurt you, you need to forgive.
  • 00:20:10.392 --> 00:20:13.929
  • Now, that's not normal, is it?
  • 00:20:13.929 --> 00:20:16.231
  • Normally when somebody hurts us, we want to do one of two things,
  • 00:20:16.231 --> 00:20:19.601
  • Either a, get even, or b, write them off.
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  • Somebody hurts you, you don't want to be giving them a
  • 00:20:24.339 --> 00:20:27.409
  • Second chance.
  • 00:20:27.409 --> 00:20:28.744
  • Your natural inclination, "that guy hurt me at work, you know,
  • 00:20:28.744 --> 00:20:31.346
  • He messed me up, you know, he put me down in front of somebody
  • 00:20:31.346 --> 00:20:34.583
  • Else," whatever.
  • 00:20:34.583 --> 00:20:35.951
  • You either want to get back, or you want to write them off.
  • 00:20:35.951 --> 00:20:39.087
  • But here's what the bible says, ephesians 4. "don't get bitter
  • 00:20:39.087 --> 00:20:45.060
  • Or angry or use harsh words that hurt each other.
  • 00:20:45.060 --> 00:20:50.465
  • Don't yell at one another or curse or ever be rude.
  • 00:20:50.465 --> 00:20:56.938
  • Instead, be kind and merciful, and forgive others, just as god
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  • Forgave you."
  • 00:21:02.344 --> 00:21:03.712
  • Now notice in that verse, jesus contrasts, or the bible
  • 00:21:03.712 --> 00:21:07.182
  • Contrasts mercy with six negative responses.
  • 00:21:07.182 --> 00:21:11.320
  • You might circle those, okay?
  • 00:21:11.320 --> 00:21:13.922
  • Because he says, if you wanna help, if you wanna be merciful,
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  • He says, "don't get bitter."
  • 00:21:17.726 --> 00:21:19.061
  • That's number one.
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  • "don't get angry, don't use harsh words.
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  • Don't yell, don't curse, and don't be rude."
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  • Do you see why mercy is so important today?
  • 00:21:27.669 --> 00:21:30.672
  • Because that's the way the world acts today.
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  • That's the way it responds, with bitterness, harsh words, hurt.
  • 00:21:33.308 --> 00:21:36.778
  • If you don't believe it, just go on the internet, and you'll see
  • 00:21:36.778 --> 00:21:40.882
  • That there's very, very little mercy on the internet.
  • 00:21:40.882 --> 00:21:45.520
  • How would you rate yourself on mercy?
  • 00:21:45.520 --> 00:21:48.256
  • How would you rate yourself?
  • 00:21:48.256 --> 00:21:49.591
  • Bitter, angry, harsh words?
  • 00:21:49.591 --> 00:21:51.526
  • Do you yell, you curse, do you get rude?
  • 00:21:51.526 --> 00:21:53.562
  • Or are you always kind and merciful, forgiving others just
  • 00:21:53.562 --> 00:21:56.198
  • As god forgave you?
  • 00:21:56.198 --> 00:21:58.100
  • How would you rate yourself on this?
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  • Number four, another way to show mercy.
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  • Do good to those who hurt me.
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  • I am to do good to those who hurt me.
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  • See, if you really boil it down, mercy is giving people what they
  • 00:22:12.114 --> 00:22:16.518
  • Need, not what they deserve.
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  • That's mercy.
  • 00:22:20.288 --> 00:22:22.157
  • Giving people what they need, not what they deserve.
  • 00:22:22.157 --> 00:22:23.759
  • Why?
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  • Because that's what god does with you.
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  • God gives you what you need, not what you deserve.
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  • If i got what i deserved from god, i wouldn't be
  • 00:22:28.563 --> 00:22:30.298
  • Standing here.
  • 00:22:30.298 --> 00:22:31.833
  • I wouldn't be alive.
  • 00:22:31.833 --> 00:22:33.935
  • The bible says, "we give people what they need, not what they
  • 00:22:33.935 --> 00:22:36.772
  • Deserve, and we do good to those who hurt."
  • 00:22:36.772 --> 00:22:38.940
  • Why should i do good to those who hurt me?
  • 00:22:38.940 --> 00:22:42.677
  • How many times have you heard me say "hurt people hurt people"?
  • 00:22:42.677 --> 00:22:48.250
  • Yeah, hurt people hurt people.
  • 00:22:48.250 --> 00:22:51.052
  • And the people who you want to love the least are those who
  • 00:22:51.052 --> 00:22:57.025
  • Need it the most.
  • 00:22:57.025 --> 00:22:59.428
  • The most hurtful people are those who need massive doses of
  • 00:22:59.428 --> 00:23:03.999
  • Love and mercy.
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  • Let me ask you, just think in your mind, who's hurt you the
  • 00:23:07.702 --> 00:23:10.138
  • Most in life?
  • 00:23:10.138 --> 00:23:12.140
  • Think about that.
  • 00:23:12.140 --> 00:23:13.475
  • Who's hurt you the most in life?
  • 00:23:13.475 --> 00:23:15.177
  • They need your mercy.
  • 00:23:15.177 --> 00:23:17.145
  • Let me ask you this: who's hurt you the most recently in life?
  • 00:23:17.145 --> 00:23:21.216
  • They need your mercy.
  • 00:23:23.885 --> 00:23:25.987
  • The bible says this in luke chapter 6, jesus says, "love
  • 00:23:25.987 --> 00:23:30.058
  • Your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without
  • 00:23:30.058 --> 00:23:34.863
  • Expecting anything back."
  • 00:23:34.863 --> 00:23:37.065
  • You say, "wait a minute, wait a minute, why would i wanna
  • 00:23:37.065 --> 00:23:38.733
  • Do that?"
  • 00:23:38.733 --> 00:23:40.068
  • Well, remember those four reasons we went over?
  • 00:23:40.068 --> 00:23:41.403
  • God's shown me mercy.
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  • He commands me to be merciful.
  • 00:23:42.771 --> 00:23:45.040
  • I'm gonna need mercy in the future, and it's the key
  • 00:23:45.040 --> 00:23:47.175
  • To happiness.
  • 00:23:47.175 --> 00:23:49.211
  • Any time you hold on to hurt, you're making
  • 00:23:49.211 --> 00:23:50.779
  • Yourself miserable.
  • 00:23:50.779 --> 00:23:52.147
  • You're not hurting them.
  • 00:23:52.147 --> 00:23:53.748
  • "love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without
  • 00:23:53.748 --> 00:23:57.452
  • Expecting to get anything back."
  • 00:23:57.452 --> 00:23:58.787
  • See, if somebody hurts you, that puts you above them, if you
  • 00:23:58.787 --> 00:24:04.226
  • Forgive them.
  • 00:24:04.226 --> 00:24:05.560
  • If you get even, you're just on the same level.
  • 00:24:05.560 --> 00:24:07.395
  • You're no better than they are if you get even.
  • 00:24:07.395 --> 00:24:09.898
  • If you do a hurt, you're beneath them.
  • 00:24:09.898 --> 00:24:11.266
  • If you get even, you're even.
  • 00:24:11.266 --> 00:24:12.667
  • But if you forgive them, you're above them morally.
  • 00:24:12.667 --> 00:24:15.136
  • "love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without
  • 00:24:15.136 --> 00:24:18.340
  • Expecting anything back.
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  • Then your reward will be great," there's the motivation, "and you
  • 00:24:19.975 --> 00:24:24.613
  • Will be the children of the most high," in other words, you get
  • 00:24:24.613 --> 00:24:27.883
  • The identity, "because god is kind to the ungrateful
  • 00:24:27.883 --> 00:24:31.386
  • And wicked."
  • 00:24:31.386 --> 00:24:32.721
  • Is god kind to the ungrateful and wicked?
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  • Just look at the world.
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  • God is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
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  • And so he says, "so, be merciful, just as your father
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  • Is merciful."
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  • You know there's a famous story about president abraham
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  • Lincoln's mercy, that after the southern states were defeated by
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  • The northern states in the civil war in america 150 years ago,
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  • President lincoln spoke to a crowd in washington dc from the
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  • Balcony of the white house, and he was laying out his plan
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  • For reconstruction.
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  • And at the end of his speech, a very famous senator from iowa,
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  • Whose name was james harlan, shouted out, "and what do we do
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  • With the rebels?
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  • What do we do with these confederates," who had started
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  • This whole war in the first place.
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  • And the unmerciful crowd shouted back, "hang them!
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  • Hang them!
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  • Hang them!"
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  • And what was interesting in this famous story is that lincoln's
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  • Youngest son, tad, who was 11 at the time, was standing next to
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  • Him, and he looked up at his daddy and he said, "no, daddy.
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  • No, papa, no.
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  • Not hang them, hang on to them.
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  • Hang on to them."
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  • And lincoln grinned at his 11-year-old son, and he said,
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  • "that's it.
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  • Tad's got the answer.
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  • We're not going to hang them.
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  • We're going to hang on to them."
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  • And that is mercy.
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  • Number five, a fifth way to show mercy is to be kind, the bible
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  • Says, to those who offend me.
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  • Be kind to those who offend me.
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  • You have probably noticed that the verbal attacks on christians
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  • Are going up in our society.
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  • Have you noticed this?
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  • And it's increasing, and people are taking slurs at christians
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  • And potshots at christians and being attacked like never before
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  • In america.
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  • And there are a lot of groups pushing anti-christian agendas
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  • Today because we represent a barrier, and the barrier is we
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  • Hold on to what god's truth is, and we say, "sorry, god's truth
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  • Is god's truth, and we just have to follow god's truth."
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  • As peter said, "we must obey god rather than men."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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