merciful – Victoria Fellowship Church https://victoriafellowshipchurch.org International And Interdenominational! Sat, 19 Feb 2022 21:51:49 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://victoriafellowshipchurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo-vfc_nigeria-1-32x32.png merciful – Victoria Fellowship Church https://victoriafellowshipchurch.org 32 32 Blessed Are The Merciful https://victoriafellowshipchurch.org/blessed-are-the-merciful/ https://victoriafellowshipchurch.org/blessed-are-the-merciful/#respond Sun, 20 Feb 2022 05:00:28 +0000 http://www.victoriafellowshipchurch.org/?p=1135 Read more…]]> Topic: The Beatitudes

Brethren,

This week we come to the fifth beatitude as contained in the Sermon on the Mount – This blessedness of the merciful. And when you think of Peter’s question which triggered Jesus’ story in Matthew 18:21-35, you realize how much we need this beatitude.


Key Learning Points:
1. To be merciful is to be God-like because mercy is an attribute of God and pervades everything He does to and for us.
2. Mercy consists of treating people better than they deserve from us. It shows itself in many ways such as forgiveness, compassion to the needy, patience to those who deserve to be punished. Forgiveness is a type of mercy. So is aiding someone whom we have no obligation to help, or abstaining from exploiting someone’s vulnerability.
3. Anyone who has tasted God’s mercy and then refuses to be merciful to others is short sighted and denies who God is

The outline is attached for your reference and advance preparation.

1 Timothy 1:13-17

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This Sunday, we shall be looking at what could easily be man’s most favorite attributes of God: merciful and gracious. See outline attached.

Key Learning Points include:

  1.  God wants us to know that it is only on the basis of His grace and mercy that man can relate with Him.
  2. God’s mercy and grace are mighty, great, unending, and inexhaustible. Along with these attributes of God, we also enjoy His patience (longsuffering), abounding goodness and truth, forgiveness.
  3. In Jesus Christ, God reveals His mercy and grace to all men. Jesus through His death and resurrection has become the epitome of God’s mercy and grace.

Psalm 103:2

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