Blessing Others: Living Out the Gospel's Mercy
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"Bless for to this you were called that you may receive a blessing now before I raise some problems and flesh this out a little let's just see a couple more verses where this is said blessed are the merciful this is The Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5 7 blessed are the merciful blessed they're going to get a blessing why are the merciful blessed because they shall receive mercy so being merciful receives a mercy." [00:03:25]
"Judgment is without Mercy to the one who has shown no mercy so no mercy Gets You No Mercy Mercy gets you Mercy but Mercy triumphs over judgment and I've heard people say God's mercy triumphs over his judgment that's not what it means is it I mean look at the book judgment is without Mercy on those on the one who has shown no mercy but if that person shows Mercy then he triumphs over the Judgment against those who have shown no mercy." [00:04:42]
"You were called to bless and to show Mercy to those people who are treating you badly in order that you might have a blessing and so it is precisely your blessing that obtains this blessing blessed are the merciful they shall receive Mercy it's your showing Mercy that obtains this mercy and here those who show no mercy don't get any Mercy if you are a merciless person you go to hell right if if you were a merciless person if Jesus Christ has had zero effect on transfer transforming you from being a selfish unkind mean-spirited hostile person no effect on that nothing's changed in your life you don't have any disposition toward treating other people better than you did before your conversion you're not saved." [00:06:00]
"Mercy will be the path the means by which you Triumph in the last day in judgment now huh is that a contradiction to saying We Stand righteous and are accepted completely by God on the basis of the righteousness of Christ United to him by faith alone and of course my answer is no that's not a contradiction I don't think the Bible does contradict itself and therefore I love spending my life trying to put it together which is what I do just want to see how it fits because I think when you when you let text stand that seem somehow in tension with each other and push on them or push down into them you find a common route and you make discoveries that are rich and helpful." [00:10:00]
"Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ according to his great Mercy this is where it all starts for us according to God's Great Mercy he caused us to be born again once you were not in existence as a spiritually living believer and lover of Jesus once you did not exist that way you were not born you had no spiritual life you were dead in trespasses and sins you were a sinner and the the change the fundamental decisive change is owing to this Mercy arrived in your life came through many different avenues for all of you it arrived and with great power God's Great Mercy caused you to have life and that life is Manifest first in seeing Christ as beautiful attractive real true needed glorious satisfying and instantaneously in that seeing you're giving yourself to him it's called faith and you were made his once you were not a people now you are God's people once you had not received Mercy now you have received Mercy." [00:11:33]
"All of that is still true when he says and now you will inherit a blessing you will have a blessing if you bless people no no contradiction there there is a way that people walk who are born again but it's the new birth it's the union of a person with Jesus Christ that is the foundation of all their blessing of others they don't bless others in order to get saved they got saved by the new birth through great Mercy as as God United them to Christ and now in the spirit and with new inclinations they are prone to bless others and show mercy and thus give evidence that they are hes of God and my point is that evidence is necessary not optional which is why you can say you go to hell without it without saying you earned heaven with it you get that it's necessary but it's not the decisive cause the decisive cause brought it into being." [00:14:22]
"Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love love one another earnestly from a pure heart since you have been born again not of perishable seed but of imperishable through the living and abiding word of God this purification of souls by obedience to the truth is very risky language if we had time I'll just give you my sketch and you can think about it obedience to the truth here I think means faith in the gospel I don't think obedience here means blessing other people that you may have a blessing I think this was the first response to the truth of the gospel and what the gospel demands is that we trust Jesus believe in Jesus treasure Jesus fly to Jesus lean on Jesus hope in Jesus Jesus is the ground and we just hold to him fall on him that's OB obedience to what the gospel requires." [00:15:44]
"The gospel is Christ offers himself as complet speedly sufficient to establish your righteousness with God and to be your covering for all sin and you fly to that by faith alone cleave to him and then comes returning blessing for cursing and the fruit proves the truth of the root and the tree triumphs in judgment it's exactly the way The Sermon on the Mount ends you will know them by their fruit it's the it's the house built on Sand which is those who hear the word of God and don't do it and the house built on the Rock which is those who hear the word of God and do do it and the one will be wiped away in the Judgment those who hear the word of God and don't do it and one will stand in the Judgment those who hear the word of God and do do it but it isn't the doing that made the house firm it's the gospel that made the house firm Christ made the house firm." [00:18:27]
"Inheritances are not earned but they may be inheritances may be suitable reward for living a life that shows you are an heir chips off the old block God's the block Jesus is the block are you an heir well you have to give evidence that you're an heir heirs are children and children have the spirit of their father Romans 8:17 you are if you are children of God then you're heires yes you are heirs aren't earned I mean inheritances aren't earned they you get them because you that's my father we are Heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ provided this is why I just I'm so sad when all this talk about non conditionality there's conditions everywhere in the New Testament for Christians getting to Heaven provided we suffer with him with him in order that we may be glorified with him." [00:20:18]
"We are called to suffer with him when you when suffering comes to you which it will will you suffer with him will you stay with him will you hold on to him will you walk with him through your suffering or will you get mad and throw him away because if he treats his children like that I don't want anything to do with that father if you do that you're lost but if you suffer with him then you will be glorified with him just like if you bless those who curse you you will obtain a blessing or as Peter here in 22 puts it like newborn infants long for Pure spiritual milk that so that by it you may grow into salvation what an amazing way to put it you are already saved you are being saved you will be saved and what gives evidence that you will be saved is that you're drinking and tasting that the Lord is good and savoring it day by day and saying that's good enough I'll walk into any suffering with him because that's good what I just drank from the word about Jesus is good and that's you grow into salvation." [00:22:01]
"My answer is no it is not a contradiction to justification by faith alone but it is absolutely real that we must not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling but on the contrary bless because we were called to this not only by the fact that he died for us but by the fact that that's the way we will obtain the blessing so father as we take a little break now I pray that you would go to work on us very deeply and do your renewing hum humbling love producing work as we trust in Jesus I pray this in jesus' name amen." [00:23:56]
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"Judgment is without Mercy to the one who has shown no mercy so no mercy Gets You No Mercy Mercy gets you Mercy but Mercy triumphs over judgment and I've heard people say God's mercy triumphs over his judgment that's not what it means is it I mean look at the book judgment is without Mercy on those on the one who has shown no mercy but if that person shows Mercy then he triumphs over the Judgment against those who have shown no mercy." [00:04:42]
"You were called to bless and to show Mercy to those people who are treating you badly in order that you might have a blessing and so it is precisely your blessing that obtains this blessing blessed are the merciful they shall receive Mercy it's your showing Mercy that obtains this mercy and here those who show no mercy don't get any Mercy if you are a merciless person you go to hell right if if you were a merciless person if Jesus Christ has had zero effect on transfer transforming you from being a selfish unkind mean-spirited hostile person no effect on that nothing's changed in your life you don't have any disposition toward treating other people better than you did before your conversion you're not saved." [00:06:00]
"Mercy will be the path the means by which you Triumph in the last day in judgment now huh is that a contradiction to saying We Stand righteous and are accepted completely by God on the basis of the righteousness of Christ United to him by faith alone and of course my answer is no that's not a contradiction I don't think the Bible does contradict itself and therefore I love spending my life trying to put it together which is what I do just want to see how it fits because I think when you when you let text stand that seem somehow in tension with each other and push on them or push down into them you find a common route and you make discoveries that are rich and helpful." [00:10:00]
"Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ according to his great Mercy this is where it all starts for us according to God's Great Mercy he caused us to be born again once you were not in existence as a spiritually living believer and lover of Jesus once you did not exist that way you were not born you had no spiritual life you were dead in trespasses and sins you were a sinner and the the change the fundamental decisive change is owing to this Mercy arrived in your life came through many different avenues for all of you it arrived and with great power God's Great Mercy caused you to have life and that life is Manifest first in seeing Christ as beautiful attractive real true needed glorious satisfying and instantaneously in that seeing you're giving yourself to him it's called faith and you were made his once you were not a people now you are God's people once you had not received Mercy now you have received Mercy." [00:11:33]
"All of that is still true when he says and now you will inherit a blessing you will have a blessing if you bless people no no contradiction there there is a way that people walk who are born again but it's the new birth it's the union of a person with Jesus Christ that is the foundation of all their blessing of others they don't bless others in order to get saved they got saved by the new birth through great Mercy as as God United them to Christ and now in the spirit and with new inclinations they are prone to bless others and show mercy and thus give evidence that they are hes of God and my point is that evidence is necessary not optional which is why you can say you go to hell without it without saying you earned heaven with it you get that it's necessary but it's not the decisive cause the decisive cause brought it into being." [00:14:22]
"Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love love one another earnestly from a pure heart since you have been born again not of perishable seed but of imperishable through the living and abiding word of God this purification of souls by obedience to the truth is very risky language if we had time I'll just give you my sketch and you can think about it obedience to the truth here I think means faith in the gospel I don't think obedience here means blessing other people that you may have a blessing I think this was the first response to the truth of the gospel and what the gospel demands is that we trust Jesus believe in Jesus treasure Jesus fly to Jesus lean on Jesus hope in Jesus Jesus is the ground and we just hold to him fall on him that's OB obedience to what the gospel requires." [00:15:44]
"The gospel is Christ offers himself as complet speedly sufficient to establish your righteousness with God and to be your covering for all sin and you fly to that by faith alone cleave to him and then comes returning blessing for cursing and the fruit proves the truth of the root and the tree triumphs in judgment it's exactly the way The Sermon on the Mount ends you will know them by their fruit it's the it's the house built on Sand which is those who hear the word of God and don't do it and the house built on the Rock which is those who hear the word of God and do do it and the one will be wiped away in the Judgment those who hear the word of God and don't do it and one will stand in the Judgment those who hear the word of God and do do it but it isn't the doing that made the house firm it's the gospel that made the house firm Christ made the house firm." [00:18:27]
"Inheritances are not earned but they may be inheritances may be suitable reward for living a life that shows you are an heir chips off the old block God's the block Jesus is the block are you an heir well you have to give evidence that you're an heir heirs are children and children have the spirit of their father Romans 8:17 you are if you are children of God then you're heires yes you are heirs aren't earned I mean inheritances aren't earned they you get them because you that's my father we are Heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ provided this is why I just I'm so sad when all this talk about non conditionality there's conditions everywhere in the New Testament for Christians getting to Heaven provided we suffer with him with him in order that we may be glorified with him." [00:20:18]
"We are called to suffer with him when you when suffering comes to you which it will will you suffer with him will you stay with him will you hold on to him will you walk with him through your suffering or will you get mad and throw him away because if he treats his children like that I don't want anything to do with that father if you do that you're lost but if you suffer with him then you will be glorified with him just like if you bless those who curse you you will obtain a blessing or as Peter here in 22 puts it like newborn infants long for Pure spiritual milk that so that by it you may grow into salvation what an amazing way to put it you are already saved you are being saved you will be saved and what gives evidence that you will be saved is that you're drinking and tasting that the Lord is good and savoring it day by day and saying that's good enough I'll walk into any suffering with him because that's good what I just drank from the word about Jesus is good and that's you grow into salvation." [00:22:01]
"My answer is no it is not a contradiction to justification by faith alone but it is absolutely real that we must not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling but on the contrary bless because we were called to this not only by the fact that he died for us but by the fact that that's the way we will obtain the blessing so father as we take a little break now I pray that you would go to work on us very deeply and do your renewing hum humbling love producing work as we trust in Jesus I pray this in jesus' name amen." [00:23:56]
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