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<div class="SSN_title">"BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL"</div>
<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: Further description of Christian. Disposition. These are probing tests, what is my reaction? Impatient - Talk about communist or something else.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">I. BEATITUDES SEARCHING.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Do I mind this?</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. The true Christian never minds being humbled.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Christianity places primary emphasis on being.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Attitude more important than actions.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. What I am more than way I do.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Disposition first - Later actions.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. I am something before I do anything.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. We are not meant to control our Christianity. It is meant to control us.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. I am not to try to apply Christian principles in order to be a Christian.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. "I live yet not I, but Christ."</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. He is in control.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Not a surface coating - sugar coated.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Born again.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. Our ordinary lives are declaring daily what we are.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. WE NEED TO ASK QUESTIONS.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Am I Merciful?</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. What is meant by this?</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Not easy going.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Danger of present age "non-involvement."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Look at law breaking and say "so what?"</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Natural temperament not considered at all.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Merciful trait attributed to God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. God is concerned with law breakers.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Compare mercy with grace.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Grace associated to man in his sin.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Mercy associated to man in his misery</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Mercy a sense of pity and desire to relieve suffering, pity plus action.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">d. Good Samaritan good example.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">e. Final example God's mercy.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">III. "FOR THEY SHALL OBTAIN MERCY."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. My obtaining mercy dependent upon my being merciful.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Lord's Prayer, "Forgive us."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Parable of unjust servant.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Does this teach I must forgive to be forgiven?</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. If we were judged strictly on these terms I would never see heaven.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Must cancel Doctrine of Grace.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. Order of Beatitudes.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. Christ on cross "Father Forgive."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Stephen.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">E. The man who has received mercy is the man who is merciful.</div>
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