Sermon On The Mount: Part 5

Blessed (happy, to be envied, and spiritually prosperous—with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions) are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy! Matthew 5:7

Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy [that is, readiness to help those in trouble] and not sacrifice and sacrificial victims. For I came not to call and invite [to repentance] the righteous (those who are upright and in right standing with God), but sinners (the erring ones and all those not free from sin). Matthew 9:13

But we believe that we are saved through the grace (the undeserved favor and mercy) of the Lord Jesus, just as they [are]. Acts 15:11

For sin shall not [any longer] exert dominion over you, since now you are not under Law [as slaves], but under grace [as subjects of God’s favor and mercy]. Roans 6:14

So then [God’s gift] is not a question of human will and human effort, but of God’s mercy. [It depends not on one’s own willingness nor on his strenuous exertion as in running a race, but on God’s having mercy on him.] Romans 9:16

For God has consigned (penned up) all men to disobedience, only that He may have mercy on them all [alike]. Romans 11:32

But God—so rich is He in His mercy! Because of and in order to satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us, Even when we were dead (slain) by [our own] shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; [He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him, for] it is by grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation). Ephesians 2:4-5

We cannot help but be blessed because we are the recipients of God’s Mercy. Jesus is now greater in us than anything and everything that is in this world and we now have His very Love dwelling within us. So that means that He will cause us to be merciful, even towards those who hate us and despitefully use us.

I have made Your Name known to them and revealed Your character and Your very Self, and I will continue to make [You] known, that the love which You have bestowed upon Me may be in them [felt in their hearts] and that I [Myself] may be in them. John 17:26

We have freely received mercy. We did no works to earn it. It was just freely and graciously given to us. We did not even believe on our own to receive it. We were empowered by the Holy Spirit to acknowledge Jesus and mercy now abounds in us, 1 Corinthians 12:3. The Fruit of the Holy spirit causes us to be as Jesus is, even though we are still in this world, 1 John 4:17. I hope you are seeing that Jesus tells in this sermon us the things that will cause us to be blessed and in the rest of the Bible we are told that we cannot help but do the things that Jesus teaches. We are blessed, because Jesus causes us to blessed.