The Beatitudes
Blessed are the Merciful
Matthew 5:7
Humility in our hearts will lead to compassion in our attitudes, which will result in mercy in our actions.
Matthew 9:36- When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them.
Matthew 14:14—He had compassion on the crowd.
Matthew 15:32- He had compassion on the crowd because they had nothing to eat.
Matthew 20:34- Jesus in pity touched their eyes.
Mark 1- Jesus is moved with compassion and heals the leper.
The Good Samaritan- Luke 10:30-33- “30 Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. 31 Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. 32 So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion.”
Luke 10:36-37- “Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?” 37 He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” And Jesus said to him, “You go, and do likewise.”
The greatest expression of mercy is God’s forgiveness of our sins and bringing us into His kingdom.
Ephesians 2:1-4- “And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy…”