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What am I preaching tonight? 
I, I forgot to look it up, but 

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I'm not preaching tonight, Alex.
Anyway, I was sitting over here 

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looking at this thing. 
This thing's about 10° warmer. 

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If anybody wants to do over, we 
can give you a shot at it if you

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want to. 
But anyway, it's, it's always 

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good to have our young men 
preach and give them an 

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opportunity to, to study the 
Bible for themselves and to come

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up with a message. 
And Alex has done that. 

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So he's going to come up here 
and preach for us tonight. 

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Chapter 30 Psalm 30 look, look 
at me in verse 10 it says, hear 

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O Lord, and have mercy upon me. 
Lord, be thou my helper. 

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The topic of my message tonight 
is, is mercy. 

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What is mercy? 
Webster's Dictionary of the 

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English Language says 1 Show of 
pity or leniency 2 Divine 

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blessing The American Heritage 
Dictionary says compassionate 

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treatment of an offender, enemy,
etcetera to a disposition to be 

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kind of forgiving. 
Webster's The source for 

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students gives the examples of 
charity, clemency, grace, 

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commiseration, capacity, 
compassion, pity, and sympathy. 

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The conclusion someone would 
come to by looking at these 

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examples is that a merciful 
person forgives when they're 

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wrong, is willing to let a 
grudge go and one be someone to 

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avoid another person for 
something that they've that has 

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been that they've been offended 
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Let's pray and we'll get the 
message today. 

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Dear Father, thank you for this 
day. 

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I thank you for the opportunity 
that I have to preach. 

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I pray that you talk the message
to come across well and that 

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we'll be able to get something 
out of the message today. 

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I pray that you tell the rest of
the week to go well and that you

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tell all the services that will 
go on this week. 

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I pray that you tell them to go 
well and Jesus name, Psalm 3010 

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says here, O Lord, and have 
mercy upon me, Lord, be thou NI 

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helper. 
So the first thing we'll talk 

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about today is God's mercy. 
The Bible has much to say about 

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the mercy of God. 
The first thing we need to know 

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about God's mercy is that we 
need it for salvation. 

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If God had never sent His Son 
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then we'd never be able to go to
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But another thing we need to 
know about God is that he's full

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of mercy. 
Psalm 8615 says that directly. 

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But thou, O Lord, are to God 
full of compassion and gracious,

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long-suffering and plenteous and
mercy and truth. 

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God will never run out of mercy,
and he's always had mercy. 

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The last thing we need to see 
about God's mercy is that it 

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lasts forever. 
Psalm one, O 317 says, But the 

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mercy of the Lord is from 
everlasting to everlasting. 

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God's mercy has been and always 
will be, even from from the 

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moment he created man. 
Even before that, he's always 

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had mercy. 
We were talking about this 

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earlier and my dad mentioned 
this this morning that we're 

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going to reading through the 
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And earlier this week where I 
had a question. 

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She said God said that if Adam 
and Eve ate of the tree, that 

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they would surely die. 
And she said why? 

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Why didn't they die as soon as 
as they ate of it? 

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And dad said, he said that he 
could have, I don't know. 

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He said that he, they, they 
wouldn't have died, but that 

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they ended up having to die 
because they ate of the tree. 

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But that shows God's mercy 
because he could have made them 

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die as soon as they had 
disobeyed him, but he had mercy 

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and spread them and they could 
live longer. 

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But in Psalm 136, usually we 
read this around the pie and 

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praise service in thanks at 
Thanksgiving. 

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But in Psalm 136, all 26 verses 
of that chapter in the phrase 

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for his mercy and earth forever.
Now that we've looked at God's 

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mercy, let's look at some 
examples from the Bible, that of

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people that have fed mercy. 
Turn to first Samuel 24, 1st 

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Psalm 24. 
And that that chapter is the 

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story of when David was being 
pursued by Saul who was trying 

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to kill him. 
And then they were David and his

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men were hiding in a cave. 
And then Saul came to the same 

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cave and was hiding there. 
And some of the some of the men 

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told him that he should kill 
Saul so he wouldn't have to run 

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anymore. 
But in verse 10 it says David 

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says somebody may kill thee, but
my knife spared thee. 

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And I said, I will not put forth
my hand against my Lord, for he 

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is the Lord's anointed. 
David could have had revenge on 

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the man who was trying to kill 
him, and he could have been the 

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king right then, but he had 
mercy like God, and he spared 

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Saul's life. 
Another example is Eben Milek, 

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one of the words that Webster's 
Thesaurus gave us compassion in 

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Jeremiah 38. 
Eben Milek was in the court of 

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the king and many of Oh no, no, 
the people. 

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So it, it was in Jeremiah. 
And what they had done to 

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Jeremiah was they put him in the
pit for preaching God's word. 

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But even Melik saw that what the
people had done to Jeremiah was 

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wrong, and he had compassion as 
well as the courage to tell the 

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king that what they had done was
wrong. 

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At verse 9 says My Lord the 
king, these men have done evil 

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and all that they have done to 
Jeremiah the prophet, whom they 

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have cast into the dungeon, and 
he is like to die for hunger in 

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the place where he is. 
Even Melik didn't know Jeremiah,

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but he knew that what he had 
done, what the what the people 

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had done to him was wrong and he
had compassion and told he came 

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about it. 
The last, the last example is 

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Abraham in Genesis 18. 
That's the story that Lot had 

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gone to Sodom and Gomorrah 
because the grass was better 

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over there. 
But Abraham knew that what Lot 

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had done was wrong, but he 
risked God's angry to save his 

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nephew's life. 
In verse 32, he said, let not 

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the Lord's, oh, let not the Lord
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But this once he kept asking God
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the city that he would spare the
city. 

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Even though Lot had gone against
what God has said he had. 

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He had mercy and asked God to 
save his life. 

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Now that we've now that we've 
looked at some examples in the 

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Bible, the application will be 
how we can have mercy. 

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When we look at all the examples
in the Bible, it becomes clear. 

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So the first example of God, he 
also, he has had the most mercy 

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that anyone's ever had and so he
sent his son to die for us so 

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that we could go to heaven. 
The other example, the other 

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examples were David. 
He could have had revenge on his

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enemy but showed compassion 
instead. 

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Even Melix saw that what had 
been done to Jeremiah was wrong 

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and he showed compassion even 
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The Bible doesn't tell us even 
if he believed what Jeremiah 

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believed but about the Bible but
he still had compassion on 

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Jeremiah because he knew what 
stuntin was wrong. 

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And then the other example was 
Abraham who knew that Sodom will

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be destroyed and not with it. 
But he had the mercy to look 

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past lots of mistakes and ask 
God to spare him. 

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In conclusion, the way to have 
mercy is to follow the examples 

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God has given us in the Bible. 
This requires a change of 

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mindset. 
We can't just think about it 

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once and automatically be a 
merciful person the rest of our 

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life. 
It takes it takes a change of 

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mindset and we have to work at 
it a lot in order to have it. 

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Instead of laughing or making 
fun of someone for the trouble 

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there, and we should have 
compassion and try to help them.

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Instead of punishing people for 
doing wrong against us. 

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We must see that we would want 
mercy, so we should give it to 

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them instead. 
The best example is God, who 

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could never run out of mercy and
who's had mercy forever. 

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He is. 
He's always willing to forgive 

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people who come to Him and ask 
for forgiveness. 

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So I hope this message has been 
an encouragement and a challenge

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to you tonight. 
And let's pray and we'll be 

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done. 
Dear Father, thank you for this 

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day. 
I thank you that you for all, 

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for all the things that we were 
able to get done this week and 

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that we were able to do this 
week. 

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I pray that you'd help us to all
work on having mercy and that we

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be all the merciful people. 
I pray that you'd help us to 

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have a good rest of the week and
just Amen. 

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Amen. 
Hey man, let's stand with our 

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heads about an ice clothes.