SERMONS ON MERCY
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Getting a Second Chance at Life (3 of 4)
by Kerry Shook
''Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: 'Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.' Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh…'' Jonah 3:1-2 (NIV) I. He gave Jonah a second chance ''Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time.'' (Vs. 1) ''Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.'' (Vs. 2) ''Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh.'' (Vs. 3a) II. He gave Nineveh a second chance ''Now Nineveh was a very important city--a visit required three days. On the first day, Jonah started into the...
God Remembers His Mercy (9 of 9)
by Ernest Easley
We come to the final five verses of the book of Amos! And what promising words they are! Amos has been painting a picture of doom, but suddenly, this prophet of doom becomes a prophet of delight. The victims become victors and for one reason: God remembers his mercy! That's what I want to talk to you about as we conclude our study of the book of Amos: As Amos concludes his book with a note of victory, I want you to briefly notice five precious promises that he declares to the people of God. God Promises to, (1) To Raise Up The Ruins. v.11, ''On that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David, which as fallen down...
A Stroll through Mercy Hospital
by Ken Trivette
In the 2003 Hospital Honor Roll of U.S. News & World Report, the following hospitals were ranked as the top five in the United States: 5) The Cleveland Clinic, 4) Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 3) UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, 2) Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, and the number one hospital in America; John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. 1 Today, I want us to visit a hospital. I once read or heard someone refer to Mark chapter 5 as a hospital for incurables. I think that is an excellent description of the chapter. I am going to borrow that description and call this hospital of incurables...
Who Wants to Be a… Mercy- Giver? (6 of 9)
by Rick Ferguson
“Blessed are the merciful for they shall receive mercy.” Opening Exercise: Have a scaled line in the congregation’s sermon notes that moves from “Disgust... Anger... Frustration... Apathy... Sympathy... Compassion... Mercy.” Put images in front of the congregation and ask them to mark their immediate emotional response to those images on this scale of emotions. Homeless man with sign asking for money Drug addict shooting-up Prostitute walking the street Gay-rights parade Pro-abortion demonstrator Bill Clinton Elderly person in nursing home Introduction:Jesus Christ will turn your life...
The Gift of Mercy (13 of 18)
by Stan Coffey
Let's look at what Paul says again about spiritual gifts as far as the motivational gifts are concerned. Verse 6 "Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith: Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness." That's what we want to look at tonight - he that showeth mercy with cheerfulness. It may be tonight that you have the supernatural...
Need Some Mercy? (9 of 12)
by Jerry Vines
We continue in our studies of people who met Jesus in the New Testament—people who had particular problems, particular needs and they brought these needs to Jesus. When they met Jesus those needs were satisfied. This morning it’s Need Some Mercy—Meet Jesus. Along the way in the ministry of our Lord, His journeys carried Him to the city of Jericho. Jericho, in the day of our Lord, is a far cry from Jericho in our day. The last time I went Old Testament Jericho was 1989. I was president of the SBC at that time and when we got to Jericho, I heard that Arafat was there. He has a compound there. I said to a couple...
Second Chance God (2 of 4)
by James Merritt
In government circles it is known as "WITSEC." That stands for "Witness Security" program or what you and I would know as the "Witness Protection Program." It was established in 1970 and allows for the United States Attorney General to provide for the relocation and protection of a witness of a federal or state government against any organized crime. The witness is given a new name, a new location, $60,000 a year for the first year and opportunities to find new work when they are relocated in their new home. Witnesses are never allowed to travel back to their home towns or contact unprotected family members...
Happiness Is Mercy
by Dr. Ed Young
I believe if we took a poll as to which Beatitude was the most popular one - the 5th Beatitude would win, hands down. Now we have trouble understanding the poor in spirit. It's hard to perceive how the meek will inherit the earth and to think about mourning, agony, sorrow, we have some difficulty. We look at these early...
Hope for a Prodigal Planet (4 of 4)
by Joe Alain
Thus far, in Romans chapter one we have seen clearly that man needs God because there is moral order in the world and because of man's fatal attraction to God-substitutes. Romans 1:26-32 shows us our need for God because of sin's enslaving power. In seeking to be free, man apart from God becomes enslaved. Only in Christ are we truly free persons. In this passage, Paul describes the inevitable downward sinful progression that follows a person who has suppressed the truth about God. Life Application: Abandoning God leads to being enslaved to sin. Our only hope for true freedom is to abandon ourselves...
Blessed Are the Merciful (5 of 8)
by Daniel Rodgers
INTRODUCTION: As we pick up our study of the Beatitudes, we come to lesson number four, or the 5th blessing: "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy." With that, let us consider our main two points: I. "BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL" To have mercy means "to have compassion on someone" or "to have pity on someone." Particularly in the South, it is not unusual to still hear someone say, "Lord, have mercy!" I refer to the South because the southern states are traditionally known as that states that make up the "Bible Belt." People there, even today, still have a little respect for the things of God...
God on Trial: The Incomprehensible Justice and Mercy of God (27 of 48)
by Patrick Edwards
Introduction: Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people? Why does He allow the innocent to suffer? If God really is all-powerful then He must not be good, otherwise He would protect the helpless. Either that or He must not be all-powerful and therefore not really God. If God really does exist then He must not be a just God, for evil prospers while good and innocence suffers. These are the accusations of the world of unbelief against God. Those outside the faith are often quick to point out the existence of evil, natural and moral, as evidence against the existence of God, saying that the absence of justice across...
The Magnificence of Mercy
by Adrian Rogers
Would you find again the beatitudes? Matthew Chapter 5, we're calling these the keys to the kingdom. And these are statements that Jesus Christ has made, and He begins each one of them with the word blessed. The word blessed is almost hard to translate. We could say happy, but it means more than happy. It means fulfilled. It means with joy. It means complete. It may mean to be congratulated. All of those things and more are wrapped up in that Greek word Macarios. Listen as the Lord Jesus Christ gives these beatitudes. We've said almost every Sunday, the attitudes that ought to be. ''And seeing the...
The Mercy Seat
by Tony Nester
I know a story about an old cattle rancher who discovered a young cowhand who had been caught in the act of rustling (stealing) a cow. When the thief was dragged before the rancher, he looked down at the frightened youth and said: "Hang him. Nothing personal, son. I like you a lot, you understand. But we have rules here in the West. Besides, it will teach you a lesson." One day, the old rancher died and appeared before the judgment seat of God. As he stood there, he remembered all the mean, horrible things he had done on Earth. He particularly recalled hanging that young cowboy he liked so much...
A Miracle of Mercy
by Lenny Ports
John 5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. 3In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had.5 Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in...
The Cycle of Mercy: Have Mercy! (5 of 8)
by Jeff Lynn
We're moving into the second half of the eight beatitudes, which are so-called because beatitude is from a Latin word which means blessed or blissful, and these 8 verses start with the word "blessed". Again, these are characteristics of those who have chosen to follow Christ. These are not things you do to "become" a Christian. These are things that are indicative of you "because" you are a Christian. You have been born "again". As a disciple of Christ, you have a new nature. And because of that you start manifesting evidence of a new birth so that you won't have an experience like this: ILLUSTRATION The light turned yellow...
In The Mercy Place (4 of 8)
by Jerry Vines
I am in a series which I am calling, Where Psalms are Written. I'm drawing from the life of David some of these historical circumstances which God used to bring these psalms to pass. God uses these psalms to speak to us out of David's experiences because the experiences David had are oftentimes the experiences you and I also have. I just couldn't pass over Psalm 51 and I'm calling this psalm ''In the Mercy Place.'' If ever a man needed to be in the mercy place it was David. All of us need to be in the mercy place. This is where David finds himself. Maybe you are in a particular point in your life where you need God's...
A Moment of Mercy (15 of 40)
by Ernest Easley
As we continue making our way through GOD'S SPECIAL BOOK OF BLESSING, we come this morning to chapter 7. So take God's word and turn to Revelation 7. Now in chapter 6, we saw the removal of the first six seals from the title-deed of earth. Every time a seal will be removed, it will unleashed another judgment upon this Christ-rejecting world. As another seal falls to the ground, the intensity of the judgments will increase. When this takes place on earth, the church won't be here. The born-again, the saved, the Jesus followers will have already been raptured and the dead in Christ will have been resurrected. And after...
Maneuvering for Mercy (6 of 32)
by Robert Dawson
I would imagine that most of us have seen posters for pets that have been lost or. Years ago I ran across a poster for a lost dog in an office and hope for the dog’s sake that it was a fictitious dog and was intended to be funny. The Poster read, ‘Lost Dog: Has 3 legs, 1 eye, 1 ear, ½ a tail and has been neutered. Answers to the name Lucky.’ In order to find what you are looking for it helps immensely to know what it looks like and to know exactly what you are looking for - that way when you’ve found something you’ll know that what you have found is it. I would imagine that most of us have seen posters for pets that have been lost or...
