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<div class="SSN_title">"BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL"</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">I. MEANING OF MERCIFUL "DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GRACE AND MERCY."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Greek word "eleemon."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Goes back to Hebrew "chesedh" untranslatable.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Get right inside another person so as to see with his eyes, hear, feel, think.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Much more than just pity.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. Good Samaritan.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Greek word sympathy "sun" together with "paschein" to experience, to suffer.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">d. We often feel sorry for.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. This is what incarnation is all about.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. God is merciful.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. This helps so much in forgiveness.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. "To know all is to forgive all."</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. DOES NOT TEACH SALVATION BY WORKS.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. "For He shall have judgment without mercy who showed no mercy."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. For if you will not forgive men their trespasses.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. If we were judged on these terms, none of us would ever be forgiven.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. We must cancel whole gospel of grace from Bible.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. This is a strong characteristic of the child of God, he is merciful.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">E. I am only forgiven as I am truly repentant.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. If I am truly repentant, I will be forgiving.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">III. PLACE IN BEATITUDES.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. First three seeing myself in the light of God and my reaction to same.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. 4th - my response to the revelation.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. My reaction to the response.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. HOW SEARCHING THIS IS.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Rather talk on evils of communism.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. This kind of examination hurts.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. It's good for me to be humbled before the Lord.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. The gospel places emphasis on being not doing.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Attitude more than actions.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. A Christian is something before he does anything.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Paul's epistle to the Ephesians.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. We must be a Christian before we can act like Christian.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. How much frustration this has brought to those in church.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. How wrong to exhort to actions.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. We are not told in scriptures to act like Christians.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">d. We are not to try to practice Christianity "I live yet not I, but Christ liveth in me."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. His Spirit must control my life.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">5. Our lives are declaring what we are.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Am I merciful?</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Jesus supreme example on cross.</div>
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