God’s Attribute of Mercy

Andrew Rappaport's Rapp Report Daily

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Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Now as we continue looking at the attribute of God's love, we see it expressed in grace, mercy, long -suffering, kindness, and forgiveness.

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We looked at grace, and now we look at mercy, which is the flip side of it. Where we saw that grace was

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God's expression in giving to man what he does not deserve that unmerited favor, we see that mercy is

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God's love expressed in withholding what man does deserve.

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So mercy is the withholding of merited punishment. God's love is expressed in withholding that which we rightly deserve.

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And the greatest expression of this is seen in the fact that God does not give to us the full consequences of sin for those who put faith in Christ because it was paid fully on Christ at the cross.

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So mercy is that withholding of punishment properly deserved and merited.

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Now we would see that Romans 6, 23, for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is life in our

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Lord Jesus Christ. So there is a right consequence for that. Wages of sin, the earning of sin is death.

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That would be what we rightly deserve. But God does not give that to us.

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Where the grace is Him giving us what we don't deserve, here He's withholding from us what we do deserve.

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We deserve eternal punishment. God has not given us that. Instead, He has given us grace.

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These work together. This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org