This is “Great Mercy.” Grace is the Lord giving you something you don’t deserve. Mercy is God holding back what you do deserve. We don’t appreciate mercy until we need it. Mercy is one of the most powerful and profound gifts the Lord has ever given us. The law condemns, but mercy brings life! In this message with Jentezen Franklin, learn how your blessing is in more than just receiving God’s mercy … there’s a blessing in showing His mercy, too!
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connection you’re not gonna see eye to
eye on everything
so what a family has to do is see each
other
through mercy through blood you broke my
heart but you’re mine and I’m yours
entreat me not to leave you know we’re
not perfect people perfect families
perfect ministries but if we’ll see each
other through the blood his glory will
come on our imperfection thank him for
the mercy
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I want you to look with me to first
chronicles chapter 8 I’ll begin reading
with verse 10 I preached last Sunday on
great grace that’s a biblical phrase
great grace was upon them all from the
book of Acts and today I want to preach
part 2 and I want to call this message
great mercy because grace gives you what
you do not deserve but mercy holds back
what you do deserve and we need both we
need great grace that gives us what we
don’t deserve mercy forgiveness blessing
favor all those things that we can’t
earn he gives it to us but then mercy is
different
mercy holds back what we do deserve the
judgment the condemnation it holds it
back and I want to talk about great
mercy today verse 10 consider now for
the Lord has chosen you to build a house
for the sanctuary be strong and do it
then David gave his son Solomon the
plans for the vestibule its houses its
treasures its upper chambers its inner
chambers notice this and the place of
the mercy seat David told Solomon he
said I want you to build the house of
the Lord and here’s the perfect
blueprints there won’t be the sound of a
tool of iron or a hammer it’s going to
be so perfect the blueprints that I give
you that everything will be according to
the pattern there’s a pattern for the
porch there’s a pattern for the chambers
there’s a pattern for the vestibule and
listen there is a place and a pattern
for a place for the mercy seat the mercy
seat another name biblical name for it
is the Ark of the Covenant it was the
god box the top was the mercy seat but
inside of that box was three things
it was Aaron’s rod that budded it was a
dead stick that God brought in – back to
Supernatural restoration in life when it
when it got into
presence of God’s mercy and then there
was a pot of manna that would turn to
worms every 24 hours the man who
returned they couldn’t store it up but
they put some in a jar and they put it
inside under the mercy of God and under
the mercy of God that which would have
been corrupted it stayed fresh it stayed
alive and then there was the ten
commandments the Ten Commandments that
killed when it was given on the mountain
the Ten Commandments that when news a
lifted the mercy-seat on one occasion
accidentally the Bible said seventy
thousand people died with a plague
because the mercy was not covering the
law I’m saying to you today that if you
want restoration that dead-stick that
had no life when it spent the night
twenty-four hours inside of that box
near the mercy of God it came alive if
we want to see people restored we’ve got
to have a place of mercy in this church
if you want to see God’s provision the
manna you’ve got to have a house of
mercy if you want to see the the law
turn into something that gives life
instead of something that brings death
you’ve got to have a place of mercy I
want to give you a couple of thoughts
very quickly I I would like for just
just I just need nine volunteers to run
up here on the stage with me as quick as
you can
just this can give them a big hand as
they come this takes a lot nine quick it
doesn’t matter who you aren’t one two
three four five six seven eight nine now
I want to show you something about the
mercy of God the Beatitudes jesus said
blessed are the poor in spirit then he
said blessed are they he gives nine
blessings blessed are they that mourn
they’ll be comforted and then he says
blessed are the meek they’ll inherit the
earth and then he says blessed are they
that hunger and thirst for they shall be
filled he says something in verse 7 that
I’ll come back to then he says blessed
are the pure in heart they shall see God
blessings he says blessed are the
peacemakers for they will be called the
sons of God and then he says blessed are
those who are persecuted for
righteousness sake and then he says
blessed are those who are reviled and
put down for my sake falsely he puts for
blessings over here for blessings over
there and right dead in the middle he
says blessed are the merciful for they
shall obtain mercy he says whatever your
preaching
whatever kind of ministry whoever you’re
ministering to the broken the morning
those people who are being persecuted
those people who are going through it I
don’t care what kind of ministry you
have going on in my house make sure that
you put right in the middle of
everything that you’re doing everything
that you’re preaching everything that
you’re singing everything that you’re
saying Mercy Mercy Mercy blessed are the
merciful these don’t work if you don’t
have that in the middle blessed are the
merciful for they shall obtain mercy now
all of you leave but you three and give
them a big hand thank you so much then
there’s this verse in Micah chapter 6 it
says what does God want from me what
does God require of you but watch this
to do justly to walk humbly but right in
the middle what does it say to love
mercy he says if you want to please me
do justly live right live clean live
pure do what’s right
obey the word and don’t get proud about
it don’t get arrogant about it don’t get
self-righteous about it and look down on
everybody cuz you’re so holy walk humbly
do justice walk humbly but right in the
middle if you want to please me love
mercy love mercy mercy holds back what
people
deserve it says I’m a merciful person
and God says that’s the three things
that you do if you want to please me
give him a big hand thank you so much
God gives us balance he gives us that
balance that right in the middle not
just mercy but love to be merciful love
to be merciful one of the great miracles
in the New Testament happened at a place
called the Pool of Bethesda the Pool of
Bethesda is where a man for 38 years lay
paralyzed it’s interesting that it’s a
place that the Bible said had five
porches which represents the fivefold
ministry the office of the Apostle the
office of the Prophet the Office of the
Evangelist the office of the pastor the
office of the teacher and these fivefold
ministries they they cannot do anything
for the impotent for the crippled for
the broken person until somebody picks
him up and puts him in the water
and the pool was called Bethesda which
means House of mercy all we will produce
with our ministry is broken people who
are impotent who cannot get over the
breaking that they’ve been through and
they’ll lay in our house year after year
until we can get them into the mercy of
God somebody’s got to put them into
mercy we can’t be mean we can’t be
hateful we can’t be judgmental we’ve got
to be a house of mercy the church needs
to be baptized in mercy we’ve got a room
for treasures we’ve got a room for inner
chambers we’ve got a room for porches
and vestibules David said but you make
sure when you build God a temple that
you have a place for mercy it holds back
what people deserve hallelujah
he said make it out of pure gold where
did the blood go it went on the mercy
seat if there was no mercy seat there
was no splattering seven times of the
blood if we don’t have great mercy in
this church then there won’t be any of
the blood of Jesus Christ and the
overcoming power of the blood on this
ministry the more that we provide a
mercy seat the bigger our mercy seat
gets the more the blood of Jesus comes
to save that which is lost make a place
for it I have experienced it in my life
I want mercy I want it not to be left
out of the equation why did David get
mercy when he committed adultery I
believe it was because he had mercy on
one of Saul’s last living relatives who
was named massive a chef who was a
crippled boy who could not help himself
and and judgment said you kill all the
lineage of the previous king and that’s
his last seed it’s massive a chef he’s
kin to Saul you all to kill him David
but the Bible said that David brought
him into the palace and put him at his
table and fed him and took care of him
and I believe I can’t prove this but I
believe that the reason that judgment
did not hit David and wipe him out when
he messed up with Bathsheba and killed
her husband in an attempt to cover up
his sin the reason God gave him mercy
meaning holding back what we deserve is
because he showed mercy to a crippled
boy who couldn’t help himself and God
saw it and God said blessed are the
merciful for they shall obtain mercy
Tim come up here and help me just a
moment the mercy-seat had a one in a
cherubim stand right there and just hold
your arms up like this both of them the
Bible said that that Moses when he made
it was commanded to take gold and a
hammer and and and and beat that
cherubim to stand guard over the mercy
seat and then there was another angel
which I am on the other side and the
Bible said this is so important that
their wings touch but they did not look
eye to eye the Bible said that God
commanded Moses that their heads would
be looking down on the mercy seat in
other words I don’t have to see eye to
eye to get in agreement with you on
everything if I will see you through the
blood and through the mercy of God we
can see each other through the blood see
each other through the mercy and then we
touch and agree and God said I’ll dwell
above the Mirth mercy seat and the
cherubims wings wherever people get
together how good and how pleasant it is
for men and brothers to dwell together
in unity they’re not looking eye to eye
on everything they’re seeing each other
through mercy through the blood through
the good grace of God and because all
that God says I’ll dwell in that house
I’ll dwell in that marriage I’ll dwell
in that family they don’t want always
see eye to eye
they’ll have arguments and disagreements
but if they’ll see each other through
the mercy see each other through the
blood
I’ll bring unity I’ll bring healing and
my glory will feel that house somebody
give him praise if you believe it
somebody give him praise if you believe
and I say to the body of Christ I say to
my methodist friends we don’t have to
see eye-to-eye i’m Pentecostal i’m
spirit-filled i pray in the spirit i
shout i raised my hands i I rejoice out
loud even in public places but it’s okay
we don’t have to see eye to eye let’s
just see each other food mercy let’s see
each other through the blood and let’s
come together we need each other the
Baptist’s the Methodists the Catholic
anybody preaching Jesus preaching His
grace his blood the death the burial the
resurrection is my brother is my sister
and I’m not gonna fight you black and
white we don’t have to agree on
everything let’s see each other through
the mercy through the blood that’s what
America needs that’s what the world
needs God have mercy on us
some of you don’t understand what
marriage is all about not just gave you
what it’s all about you’re not gonna see
eye to eye on everything so what a
family has to do is see each other
through mercy through blood you hurt me
but I love you you disappointed me but I
forgive you you broke my heart but
you’re mine and I’m yours and treat me
not to leave you your people are my
people your God is my god no we’re not
perfect people perfect families perfect
ministries but if we’ll see each other
through the blood his glory will come on
our imperfection and make us something
beautiful for his glory and his namesake
everybody take a praise break it every
campus and thank him for the mercy its
own your house it’s own your marriage
its own your children
michael angelo the only bible he had to
read was the latin interpretation the
latin interpretation of the bible when
it talked about moses being on the
mountain and the glory of god coming on
him and having to cover his face with a
veil in the Latin Bible there was a
misinterpretation of the word glory and
instead of glory being on his face it
said they misinterpreted it in the Latin
Bible to say that Moses had horns two of
them coming out of his head well we know
what horns represent had two horns
coming out therefore when you see any of
Michelangelo’s paintings because of a
misinterpretation all of the classic
priceless paintings have Moses with
horns on them here’s my point sometimes
you hear something and you put it
through your Latin interpretation you
hear something about somebody all of a
sudden that person you’re talking about
you put horns on every time you think of
that person you have a picture painted
in your mind of that person with horns
because somebody said something about
them or you heard somebody say something
about it you heard a secondhand
third-hand or something somebody said
about them and so you just in your mind
paint horns on some on them and that
they’re the devil and it takes a lot of
dehorning to get the horns off of a
person that you painted horns on in your
mind I’ve come to preach to you that
Moses didn’t have horns and there’s a
lot of people that you’re painting horns
on because you’re not showing a mercy
and you’re not showing them grace and
you’re not showing them the love of God
and God is saying they don’t have horns
you just don’t have mercy
because what listen to this what what
one interpretation said was horns God’s
interpretation said it’s not horns
it’s my glory
my glories gonna come upon that area of
his life so you get your horns off of
him I close with this thong but in Greek
mythology xanthus invites Aesop over for
dinner these Greek gods and he says I
want you to bring for a present the most
wonderful thing in the world and that
night Aesop brought as a gift in a
package a tongue a tongue he said this
is the most wonderful thing in the world
he invited him back the next night he
said bring the worst thing in the world
the next night Aesop brought a tongue
because he knew that the tongue could be
the best thing in the world or the worst
thing in the world because death and
life are in the power of the tongue it’s
the most wonderful thing in your life or
it is the worst thing in your life and
it depends on how you use it what you
speak whether you show mercy and you
show love what you say your tongue will
either become the most wonderful thing
for your family to hear or the worst
thing and my prayer is touch my lips
with a coal from off the altars of
heaven I don’t know who I’m preaching to
today exactly but God has great mercy
for you there’s a place of mercy my body
is his temple and there’s a place of
Mercy that needs to be in all of our
temples for people who mess up
and I don’t know what you need today but
I feel led to tell you there’s not just
great grace
there is great mercy God can hold back
maybe and this is what I really felt
that it’s like the Egyptian army and
Pharaoh you you got out but now the
something from the past the chariots are
rumbling and it’s trying to come back
and get you something from your past
some shame some guilt some some mess up
some failure and it’s coming that
Pharaoh’s Army’s coming back to enslave
you but the Lord said to Moses look I
want you to see this and he turned
around and the Bible said that the Red
Sea swallowed them up that’s mercy
holding back what you deserve he’s been
once he got through God said I’m ready
I’m moving my hand and the enemy was
swallowed up and I love what God told
Moses he said these enemies you shall
see no more my mercy has forever held
back what you deserve the Red Sea the
blood of Jesus has swallowed up your
past and the mercy has held back what
you deserve and grace has given you what
you what you don’t deserve and you you
can be totally restored and renewed
there is in this house and at every
campus a place of mercy for you
during that summer of 2015 I was
diagnosed with pneumonia and then one
day they were just like you know it’s
not clear enough
let’s just go send you for a PET scan of
your chest we got a call on September
21st and I saw that it was my doctor and
hey do you think you and Rick could come
in today we’ve got your test results
Rick and I went in to the office and it
wasn’t a regular room it was actually
the doctors personal office they were
like we’ve discovered that you have
colon cancer your pet scan showed that
you have a tumor in your colon a tumor
on your liver and a tumor and your lung
and I was just like what are you people
talking about
when the doctor did the colonoscopy he
was like you’re 98% blocked this thing’s
gonna rupture I mean we’ve got to get
you in now
or you’re gonna die they ended up having
to do an emergency surgery so instead of
the small little holes in my stomach I
ended up with 36 staples so after that
healed I had to start my chemotherapy
and for me that was terrifying I hit
rock bottom I had lost 54 pounds I
couldn’t raise my hand to put food in my
mouth my hair was gone my second
chemotherapy session was during the fast
of 2016 when she was going through her
chemotherapy and you know the special
diet she was on she wasn’t really
enabled to participate in the fast like
she really wanted to so I took that upon
myself to kind of double up on the fast
for the both of us and what she wanted
to do was give to the people that she
was dealing with in the in the infusion
center and be an inspiration to them as
well God spoke to me too I’ve got to get
the focus off myself and focus on others
I asked him to take me to the Christian
bookstore and I bought some crosses and
i sat there and wrote out cards we would
walk around and ask them how they’re
doing and it just really helped me to
deal with what I was going through but
it helped them and encouraged them to
because we were all in this together it
gave me strength and it gave me courage
to get through that next treatment I
remember one time she walked up and a
guy he wasn’t having it she came in you
know said gave him his gift his card and
he says you don’t know what I’m going
through he I was standing back and
watching and she already took her vows
and pulled it right back to here where
you have her portal and she goes I was
sitting in this chair an hour ago so
we’re in this together and that man just
changed this whole attitude it’s not
just somebody trying to do a good deed
it’s somebody that’s going through it
and maybe that made him want to do the
same thing to December 15th 2017 I’m
officially nine months cancer-free
praise God would give him all the glory
and I thank him for their journey that I
went through because I know it helped me
figure out more Who I am but most of all
let’s put a fire in our heart to serve
others I can do real fast this year and
believe me I’m going to do it and stick
to it and so grateful and thankful that
I can 2018 I believe is going to be a
year you’re going to experience great
grace and grave help from the Lord and
that’s going to include your finances
every year I start the year off
personally by giving God a first fruit
offering there’s just something about it
that for me it sets my faith on the fact
that God is my source this year and what
I’m saying to you today is he’s the same
yesterday today and forever God doesn’t
want you to go into this new year with
fear he wants you to go in with
tremendous faith listen and expectation
that even greater things are coming in
2018 but if you’re received
a blessing from this Minister if you
enjoy this telecast let us start off the
new year strong and even dreaming for
greater days ahead thank you so much we
love you all god bless you I’m believing
for great grace on your life in 2018
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