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The lawyers Utah tapped to defend a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage are more than hired hands selected for their experience and expertise.
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They believe in the ethos of "traditional marriage." They support the rights of a state and its residents to have autonomy over legal unions. And they trust in Utah's claim that society will suffer should same-sex marriage be permanently legalized.
None of the three hired attorneys has spoken publicly about his motivations for defending Amendment 3 since each was appointed in January by Sean Reyes, Utah's new attorney general.
Lead counsel Gene Schaerr, former Michigan Solicitor General John Bursch and well-known Idaho attorney Monte Neil Stewart declined to comment for this article, citing Thursday's fast-approaching arguments before the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.
But through essays, letters and actions, all have left little question as to their commitment to the state's cause.
Schaerr is a Utah native and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He has been hired as a fellow by the Sutherland Institute and was recently criticized for his involvement in killing SB100, a statewide nondiscrimination bill, during Utah's legislative session.
Days after his appointment as Utah's lead attorney on the marriage lawsuit, an email Schaerr purportedly sent to his colleagues at a prestigious Washington, D.C., law firm was leaked detailing his reasons for taking the job.
"I have accepted that position so that I can fulfill what I have come to see as a religious and family duty: defending the constitutionality of traditional marriage in the state where my church is headquartered and where most of my family resides," Schaerr wrote in the Jan. 17 email to co-workers at Winston & Strawn.
Reyes has said Schaerr's Mormon faith was not a factor in the state's decision to hire the prominent attorney, citing Schaerr's 80 percent win rate at the 10th Circuit.
But others, including the Human Rights Campaign and Democratic state Sen. Jim Dabakis, have lambasted Schaerr for citing his religious views as motivation in this case and questioned his ability to represent the best interest of all Utahns.
Stewart, who, along with his Boise-based firm, Stewart Taylor & Morris, successfully defended Nevada's laws limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples in district court and has written academic papers, essays and arguments detailing why he believes it is essential for society that "marriage" remain between a man and a woman.
In these writings, Stewart does not refer to gay and lesbian unions as "same-sex marriage," but instead "genderless marriage," meaning the gender of those entering such marriages would be legally irrelevant.
In an essay titled "Marriage Facts," published in 2008 in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Stewart argues that marriage is a "vital social institution" that promotes "at least six valuable social goods."
Among those benefits to man-woman marriage, Stewart cites the "right of a child to know and be raised by her biological parents," society's "most effective means of bridging the male-female divide," the long-term benefits of turning men into husbands and fathers and women into wives and mothers and the "social and official endorsement" of heterosexual intercourse.
"When the social institution of marriage disappears, what remains is a motley crew of lifestyles," Stewart wrote. "A lifestyle without institutional context is like Monopoly money: It resembles true currency but lacks the essential shared meaning that provides its value."
Bursch wrote a legal opinion to the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of opposite-sex marriage that was considered in the hearing of Hollingsworth v. Perry — the case that essentially set aside California's Proposition 8 and allowed same-sex marriages to resume in the Golden State.
In his brief, Bursch asserted that "the traditional family is the ideal setting in which to raise children" and "other relationships do not share the unique characteristics of traditional marriage."
All three lawyers will appear before a panel of 10th Circuit judges Thursday to support the state's appeal of U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby's decision tossing out Utah's Amendment 3 ban on same-sex marriage. email@example.com
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An Arizona man has been arrested for allegedly having sexual relationships with several underage girls from the Chino Valley area.
The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office said the victims ranged in age from 13 to 16 and one of the girls had a child with the suspect, 23-year-old Robert Curry.
The victims claimed to be abused and stalked by Curry during their relationships with Curry. Victims also said Curry lied about his age when they met him.
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Curry was booked into the Camp Verde Detention Center on July 19 for five counts of sexual conduct with a minor and is being held on a $75,000 bond.
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If you purchased software, what is the license agreement for? Do you own the software because you paid for it?
What happens when you purchase a specific software application? And if you've purchased software, what is the license agreement for? Do you now own the software because you paid for it?*
Simply put, no. Though you may have paid for the software, what you have actually done is licensed the application, essentially paying for the rights to use the software according to guidelines determined by the owner. The owner of the software remains the person or entity that holds the copyright, giving them the sole legal authority power to sell, distribute, copy and/or change the content of the software. And unless the person or organization transfers ownership rights, the rights remain with the owner no matter how many times the owner legally distributes the software.
When a user either purchases software or freely downloads software from the Internet, the user is not buying the ownership rights to the software but a license to use the software according to the licensing agreement, or EULA (for end user licensing agreement). The EULA is a legal agreement between the two parties and is legally actionable if either party violates the terms of the agreement. While no two EULAs are exactly the same, a typical EULA, whether it comes in the boxed software from your local computer store or attached to an Internet download of an application, states that the person or organization licensing the software is granted permission to use the software and almost nothing else. This ensures that the software cannot be copied and sold by anyone, nor can the fundamental programming of the software be changed to alter the performance of the application. The licensing agreement also protects the end user from any legal liabilities incurred by the owner of the software's copyright. Typically, software that can be used by both individuals and organizations have different licensing agreements that cover different issues (e.g., the EULA for software being distributed to an enterprise will specify how many individual workstations the software can be deployed on).
It's a good idea to actually read all the way through the licensing agreements of software you buy or download. One way that spyware has been able to proliferate over the Internet is by individuals not paying attention to the licensing agreements that state that along with the intended software the program will also be installing spyware on your system.
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Roy Keane hates vibrating phones, terrifies Gerard PiqueBrooks Peck at Dirty Tackle8 hrs ago
Barcelona defender Gerard Pique has revealed that the scariest person he encountered during his time at Manchester United wasn't then manager Sir Alex Ferguson. It was one of his teammates: Roy Keane. A man who will fly into a rage when a phone vibrates in his presence.
Pique shares all of this in the latest issue of FourFourTwo magazine. Here's a taste:
A grown man hiding his face after spotting a former teammate in public might sound ridiculous, but this is a perfectly reasonable reaction to seeing Roy Keane. Looking directly at Keane, especially now that he has that grizzled hobo beard, is like watching the video in The Ring. Except so much worse.
Now assistant manager for both Ireland and Aston Villa, Keane has a new crop of players to terrify and vibrating phones to hunt down.
Previously: The Roy Keane faces that have inspired Aston Villa's impressive start
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Galatasaray fans momentarily stop Arsenal from scoring goals by throwing flares on the pitchBrooks Peck at Dirty Tackle9 hrs ago
Arsenal's Danny Welbeck took advantage of Galatasaray's shambolic defending in the first half of their Champions League match by scoring twice in the first half hour of play. Galatasaray supporters at the Emirates responded by throwing flares on the pitch, which proved to be better at defending than any of their players.
Here is a closer look as the Arsenal vs Galatasaray game was held up after flares were thrown on to the pitch. #UCL pic.twitter.com/ltmT6K7yak
The match was briefly halted while the flares in front of the away end were cleaned up and not long after they were, Arsenal went right back to scoring with Alexis Sanchez adding a third goal before halftime. Welbeck then completed his hat trick shortly after the break to put the score at 4-0 and make it clear that four well placed flares would've been better at defending than Galatasaray's actual defenders. Galatasaray got one back from the penalty spot after Arsenal keeper Wojciech Szczesny was sent off at the hour mark.
A punishment from UEFA for the impromptu flare show is likely on its way.
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Ronaldinho signs pitch invader's shirt during match, later scores with well placed free kickBrooks Peck at Dirty Tackle1 day ago
Ronaldinho has now played four matches for Mexican club Queretaro and the excitement over his presence is holding strong. So strong that some people can't even wait until the end of a match to ask for his autograph.
In the 51st minute of Queretaro's match against Atlas, a pitch invader in a Brazil shirt interrupted play when he sprinted up to Ronaldinho and handed him a pen. Ronaldinho, being the obliging fellow that he is, signed the man's shirt and sent him on his way, with a member of staff escorting him away. The match was then able to carry on, thankfully without everyone else in the stadium attempting to get Ronaldinho autographs of their own.
With Atlas up 2-0 in the final seconds of injury time, Ronaldinho denied the opposing keeper's clean sheet by converting a free kick from a position that would've been a gimme for him if this were some sort of weird golf football hybrid game.
The Brazilian now has two goals and an assist in his four matches with his new club.
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Mats Hummels on big money transfer rumors: 'Dortmund pay me enough'Brooks Peck at Dirty Tackle1 day ago
Borussia Dortmund defender Mats Hummels has confused top footballers and corporate executives everywhere by saying he makes "enough" money and ruling out a move just for the sake of a pay increase. The World Cup winner has reportedly become a transfer target for Manchester United, who have been shelling out big money in the transfer market this year in an attempt to quickly climb back to the top of the Premier League. But Hummels' latest comments would suggest that he won't be tempted with cash alone.
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After so many top players have left Dortmund for bigger clubs (namely Bayern Munich, where Hummels began his career) in recent years, Jurgen Klopp will likely interpret this as a cruel ruse intended to drive up Hummels' price in January. That or he will hug the defender forever and repeatedly thank him as he weeps tears of joy.
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David Beckham, Jay-Z and Beyonce have a splendid time together at the PSG-Barcelona matchBrooks Peck at Dirty Tackle1 day ago
Everyone who doesn't wear cargo shorts and Crocs on a daily basis is currently in Paris for Fashion Week. And since they can only look at so many models dressed in things that aren't actually clothing, David Beckham, Jay-Z and Beyonce decided to attend PSG's Champions League match against Barcelona together.
Beckham, who finished his career with PSG in 2013, served as the couple's host as they watched PSG mount a 3-2 victory in the company of former Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro and France manager Didier Deschamps. Jay-Z is on record as an Arsenal fan but he and Beyonce were surely just at the Parc des Princes to say that they were in the same building as true power couple Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Helena Seger.
Jay-Z: So If I invest in your MLS Miami team you'll call the club "JZ Alkmaar"? Like the Dutch club?
Beckham: Yes, I would be willing to do that.
Jay-Z: I don't know, man. That's pretty corny.
Francesco Totti becomes oldest scorer in Champions League history with goal against Man CityBrooks Peck at Dirty Tackle1 day ago
Francesco Totti became the Champions League's oldest scorer at 38 years and three days old with his 23rd-minute equalizer against Man City. Roma defender Maicon conceded an early penalty to gift City with a 1-0 lead in the fourth minute, but the immortal Roma captain showed his eternal brilliance with a signature chip as City's defenders turned to vapor in his midst.
With that goal, Totti overtakes Ryan Giggs' record (37 years 290 days) for being the oldest ever scorer in the Champions League. And just to prove that he can still accomplish new things 22 years into his legendary career, Totti's goal marked his first against an English club.
You're right, @MCFC. Our Capitano has never scored in England. But there's always a first time for everything... #CityvRoma
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Future News: Arsenal physio admits his fear of being alone is behind club's injury problemsBrooks Peck at Dirty Tackle1 day ago
Arsenal physio Terry Sminter has admitted that the club's ongoing injury crisis is down to his crippling fear of being alone. Aaron Ramsey, Mikel Arteta and Jack Wilshere all suffered injuries during Arsenal's 1-1 draw against Tottenham, continuing a problem that has plagued the club for years. And now Sminter has confessed to his part in the matter.
Kaka making MLS record $7.1 million while not playing for a club that hasn't joined the league yetBrooks Peck at Dirty Tackle2 days ago
The MLS Players Union has released an updated list of salaries for every player in the league and the top spot belongs to someone currently playing in Brazil.
Kaka joined incoming MLS club Orlando City from Milan at the end of June and was immediately sent out on loan to Sao Paulo, where he has two goals and one assist in 11 appearances. Though the 32-year-old Brazilian won't play for Orlando City until they join MLS in 2015, his guaranteed salary for 2014 is listed as $7,167,500 — a new MLS record.
To put that in perspective, Orlando City only have five players on the list and the combined guaranteed compensation for the four who aren't Kaka totals $251,837.50. Here's the league's top earners for 2014:
DTotD: Argentine player stands on opponent's leg, gets sent offBrooks Peck at Dirty Tackle2 days ago
Sunday's Argentine Primera Division match between Belgrano and Racing Club resulted in five goals, four yellow cards and two reds — at least one of which was truly deserved.
During the match, Belgrano tested their theory that the best way to get an opponent off the ground is to anger them. Defender Pier Barrios achieved this by intentionally standing on a Racing player's leg. It worked in that the Racing player immediately got up off the ground, but it also get Barrios sent off.
Later, Belgrano keeper Juan Carlos Olave attempted a more passive-aggressive way of angering an opponent receiving treatment, but all he got was a kick to the back of the leg from the injured party.
Racing won 4-1, helped in part by Belgrano finishing the match with just nine men.
This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events.
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic blames 'someone' (Pep Guardiola) for ruining his best chance at winning the Champions LeagueBrooks Peck at Dirty Tackle2 days ago
Zlatan Ibrahimovic's PSG will face former club Barcelona in the Champions League on Tuesday, giving him an opportunity to take yet another shot at Pep Guardiola. Ibrahimovic made it clear in his book, "I am Zlatan," that he did not get along with Guardiola during his one season at Barca. And now he's blaming "someone" for the team's 2009/10 Champions League failure. Of course, when Zlatan refers to "someone" it is always Pep Guardiola.
From the Guardian:
"It's nothing to complain about today, except for when I brought it up just now."
Though Guardiola won the Champions League twice with Barcelona in 2009 and 2011, Zlatan has famously never won it. He didn't explain what bad decisions he was referring to, but in both legs of Barcelona's doomed semifinal against Jose Mourinho's Inter that year, Zlatan was removed just after the hour mark. This, of course, is always a bad decision in Zlatan's mind.


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UPDATE, March 3:
Senate Bill 461 advanced from the House Judiciary Committee March 3 and now will go to the House Finance Committee for debate.
Senate President Jeff Kessler, D-Marshall, introduced the bill and said he was pleased with the House committee's diligence on passing the bill. He said having such a fund would not effect this year's budget, or next.
"We wouldn't (have to borrow from the Rainy Day Fund) had we had a Future Fund 25 years ago," Kessler said. "We could fix these roads, we could do the big things we need to do but we haven't had the good sense to."
During the committee meeting, Delegate Stephen Skinner, D-Jefferson, moved to amend the proposed legislation to include historical and cultural renovation and improvement.
"As we look into a diversified economy, historic and cultural resources are going to draw people in," he said. "We must look at all parts of a diversified economy."
Skinner's amendment was adopted by the committee.
Delegate Kelli Sobonya, R-Cabell, expressed concern about the bill, saying it would be subject to potential changes before 2020 if the resolution were to become law since it is not a constitutional statute.
Under the proposed legislation, no money may be spent or appropriated before 2020.
However, Skinner said Senate Joint Resolution 14 would constitutionally protect the Future Fund.
The resolution, if adopted, would essentially propose a constitutional amendment to the state constitution that would protect the principal of the West Virginia Future Fund and specify how the interest from the fund would be spent.
Delegate Mike Manypenny, D-Taylor, offered an amendment that would create an industrial water extraction fee. The amendment was rejected.
When it came time to speak to the bill, Delegate Justin Marcum, D-Mingo, said he thinks the proposed bill would do much to help the coal industry, which would greatly help the district he represents as a whole.
The bill is scheduled to be discussed in the House Finance Committee March 3 or 4. The 2014 regular legislative session ends March 8.
Original story, Jan. 31, 2014:
Senate President Jeffrey Kessler, D-Marshall, introduced a bill Friday he has been pushing for nearly a year — the Future Fund.
Senate Bill 461 would set up the statutory structure to create a future fund.
As the bill is written now, if it were to pass, 25 percent of anything more than $175 million made in oil and gas severance tax would be set aside for at least a period of six years.
The money would be unanticipated and would come in handy to improve roadways in the Mountain State as well as for increasing teacher salaries, Kessler said.
Several lawmakers have expressed their support for the bill, including Senate Majority Whip Bill Laird, D-Fayette; Sen. Bob Plymale, D-Wayne; Sen. Art Kirkendoll, D-Logan and Sen. Bob Beach, D-Monongalia.
Members of the West Virginia House of Delegates have also expressed interest in the bill, including Speak of the House Tim Miley, D-Harrison; Delegate Jason Barrett, D-Berkeley, and Delegate Bill Hamilton, R-Upshur.
The fund, according to the way the bill is written now, would be used as a way of conserving a portion of the state's revenue derived from the increased revenue proceeds received by the state as a result of any new oil and natural gas production as well as other funding sources as the Legislature may designate in order to meet future needs.
The bill also would keep the fund's principal untouched, with only interest income used.
The Future Fund will also would have to remain untouched for six years after the legislation is enacted.
Senate Majority Leader John Unger, D-Berkeley, introduced a bill Jan. 30 that he is passionate about as well. His bill would be a step to end childhood obesity.
Unger's bill, nicknamed "Move to Improve," would address physical activity and the importance of it in the state. He said it would address public health issues children face today.
"West Virginia ranks high in the area of obesity, also hypertension that comes from unhealthy lifestyles," Unger said. "What we're trying to do with the Move to Improve Act is to encourage moderate to vigorous physical activity."
The bill would require at least 30 minutes of physical activity to occur during the course of a school day for elementary and middle school students.
"The idea that integrating physical activity also stimulates the mind," he said. "At least 50 percent of physical education should be physical activity."
The bill has passed the Senate Health and Human Resources committee and will be heard in the Senate Education Committee before a first reading in the Senate next week.


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Turn with me to Matthew Chapter 5 and we'll continue our study in the Beatitudes. And let's read through the first 12 verses. "And seeing the multitudes, He went up into a mountain and when He was seated, His disciples came unto Him and He opened His mouth and taught them saying. Blessed are the poor in the spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God. Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad for great if your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the prophets who were before you."
If you've been with us for our study of Matthew, you know that this is the manifesto of the king. Matthew presents Jesus Christ as king and here we hear the king present the manifesto of His kingdom. Now we've been saying that this is a twofold presentation. Our Lord is telling the truth about how you enter His kingdom and how you live while you're in His kingdom. Only the poor in spirit enter. Only the mourners enter. Only the meek enter. Only those who hunger and thirst after righteousness enter. And once they enter, they continue to be poor in spirit, mournful, meek, and hungering and thirsting after even more righteousness.
And here we come to the fifth, verse 7, "Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy." Beloved, I would say again, it's the same twofold thing. In order to be in God's kingdom, you must be one who seeks mercy. And when you are in God's kingdom, you will be one who gives mercy to others. In other words, mercy is also a character, a characteristic of those in God's kingdom, being merciful.
Now the religion that Jesus faced in His day was shallow and superficial and external. And we learn that the Lord was looking at a kind of Judaism which was very, very much ritualistic and on the outside not the inside. The Jewish leaders thought they were secure and that they would surely be inhabiters of the kingdom. They thought they surely would be the leading ones in Messiah's rule because they had a certain formalized, external, self-righteous religion. They were proud, they were indifferent, they were selfish, they were self-seeking, and they believed that because of their superficial acts of "righteousness" they would surely be the choice ones. But the fact of the matter is there was nothing happening on the inside.
In fact, our Lord said to these same people "on the outside you're white and clean, but on the inside, you're full of dead men's bones." And that is why back in Chapter 3, if you'll note for a moment when John the Baptist arrived upon the scene. His message was very directed to this issue. In verse 7 of Chapter 3 when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come for baptism, he said to them, "Oh generation of vipers who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come. Bring forth therefore fruits be fitting repentance." In other words, they had the external, but they didn't have the stuff on the inside that indicates real repentance. "And think not say within yourselves, we have Abraham as our father."
In other words, don't count on your external racial identity to save you. "I say unto you, God is able out of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham, but now also the ax is laid to the root of the tree, therefore, every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the first. I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but he who cometh after me is mightier than I who's shoes I am not worthy to bear. He shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. Whose fan is in His hand and He will thoroughly purge His floor and gather His wheat into the grainery, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
Now John the Baptist was speaking of judgment. He was speaking of a tremendous judgment of fire that would come on those who had nothing more than an external religion. Who were going through the religious motions, but had none of the eternal reality. That was to be judged by God. The ax was falling. The fire was beginning to burn. And Jesus confronts this external self-righteous, selfish crowd of Jewish leaders and people as well and says to them, what really matters is what is on the inside. The poor in spirit, the mourners, the meek, those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, the merciful, the pure at heart, the peacemakers. Those are all internal qualities. He bypassed all of the supposed credits that they had mounted to their own cause on the outside and went right to the heart of the matter.
Jesus Christ always puts the emphasis on the inside. Oh He's not unconcerned with action. He is concerned with action, but only as it is produced by what's inside. The fruit of righteousness on the inside will produce the right action. But you can falsify the action without the reality, and that's legalism. What Christ wants is true action based on true attitude. Jesus wants action that springs from right character. And by the way, from the 6thChapter right through the 7thChapter of the Sermon on the Mount, it all deals with action. It all deals with things we do or say or things we think.
But the premise on which it's all built is the right kind of heart attitude and that's what He's talking about here. Martin Lloyd-Jones has well put it this way, "A Christian is something before he does something." "A Christian is something before he does something." To be a child of the king, to be a subject of the kingdom is first of all, to possess a certain kind of character. A character of brokenness, a character of mourning over sin, a character of meekness, a character of hunger and thirst for righteousness, a character of mercifulness, a character of purity of heart, a character of a peacemaker.
You see, we are not meant to control our Christianity. Our Christianity is meant to control us. And legalism is us controlling Christianity. The true spirituality is our Christianity controlling us and that's what Jesus was after. He didn't want us to control certain external activities. He wanted God in us to control those. And so the principles that Jesus gives here are not superficial, they're not on the edge of life, they're deep down inside.
And being a true Christian means there can be no veneer. There can be no fasad. Christianity is something that happens to us at the very center of our being and then it controls the very heart and from there it flows out to the activities of life. God has never been interested in superficiality. God has never been interested in only the blood of bulls and goats. God has never been interested in all of the meaningless spiritual activity unless the heart is right. And I go back to Amos Chapter 5 so often in my mind where God says, "Stop your worship and stop your sacrifices and stop your music, your hearts are not right." And that's what God is always after.
God is concerned with the motives, the insides that produce the right external acts. Now let's go back to Matthew 5 and see where we are. Jesus confronted a bunch of externalists with some devastating statements. He hits them right at the most vulnerable place in the first Beatitude when he says, "What you need to do is be spiritually bankrupt. You need to recognize that you are destitute and debauched beggars who have nothing good to bring to God you're only hope is that you would see the beggarliness of your condition and that you would cower in the darkness of a corner and reach out a hand as a beggar who couldn't do anything for himself." And boy that was really obtuse to those Jewish people.
And then He says further, "You must not be glad and satisfied about your self-righteousness. You must weep great tears about your sinfulness. You must be a mourner. Further, you must not be proud because you have kept certain laws. You must be meek before a holy God. Not only that, you must not be smug about your self-righteousness, but you must realize you are starving a lack of righteousness and you must hunger and thirst for that."
Now let me kind of connect this to number 5 in the Beatitudes. These first four Beatitudes were entirely inner principles. They dealt entirely with an inner attitude. They dealt entirely with what you see of yourself before God. But now as He comes to the fifth Beatitude, this while being also an inner attitude, begins to reach out and touch others. There is a manifestation in this that is the fruit of the other four. Where it is true of us that we are broken as beggars in our spirit, that we are mournful and meek and hungering and thirsting after righteousness we will find ourselves being merciful to others as a result of it.
Someone has said, "They who in their poverty of spirit acknowledge their need of mercy begin to show mercy to others. They who mourn their sin begin while they mourn to wash their hearts clean so they are also the pure in heart. And the meek are the ones who are always making peace. And they who hunger and thirst for righteousness are ever willing to be persecuted for righteousness sake." Do you see how the first four line up with the last four? The first four are the inner attitudes and the last four are the things they manifest. Where there is poverty of spirit, then you realize you're nothing but a beggar. You're going to be willing to give to somebody else who's nothing but a beggar and so you'll be merciful.
And where you are mourning over your sin, you will wash your heart pure with the tears of penitence and you will be the pure in heart. And where you are meek, you will always be a peacemaker, because meekness makes peace. And where you are hungering and thirsting for righteousness, you will be willing to be persecuted for righteousness sake. So we've made a transition now. Now we're going to talk about the character that is manifest when that inward attitude is there in the first four Beatitudes.
When you have those first four, there are going to be four characteristics of your character that will be made manifest, and we'll see them as we study these last four areas in this wonderful introduction. Now let's look at what it means to be merciful. Verse 7, Jesus said, "Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy." And as we look at this one simple statement, I want you to know people this is so profound that there's no way that I can begin to cover it all.
You know, it's very simple to preach when you just have a little bit of material, because you hit your point and hit your point and hit your point and expand it a little bit and you're okay. But when you've got just a Bible full of material, it's very difficult to pick out what's best. This concept of mercy runs from one end of the Scripture to the other. From one end of God's history since the fall of man to the time of the consummation. It is a gigantic reality, but I want to see if we can draw together at least four aspects of mercy for our study tonight.
Four aspects, the significance, the source, the substance, and the sequel; significance, source, substance, sequel. What is the significance? In other words, what does it mean to be merciful? It says in verse 7, happy or "Blessed are the merciful." What does it mean? Boy I'll tell you to begin with that was a literal jolt to the Jews of that day. They were merciless and the Romans of that day were merciless. They were very proud, egotistical, self-righteous, condemning, they look down on others. And what Jesus was saying really touched the inside need of their hearts.
Now, you know, there are a lot of people who've tried to use this Beatitude in kind of a humanistic way and you hear people say well, blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy and they use kind of like a human virtue. Well, if you're good to everybody else, then everybody else will be good to you. You know, Shakespeare in the Merchant Of Venice has a speech given by Porsche. I remember seeing this when I was in college. And Porsche says this, "The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the earth beneath. It is twice blessed. It blesses him that gives and him that takes. Tis mightiest in the mightiest it becomes the throned monarch better than his crown."
Shakespeare says it is the most becoming thing a king can wear to be merciful. Now even the Talmud recognizes that there's some sort of magnanimous human virtue in mercy. And the Talmud says that Gamaliel said this, "Whenever thou hast mercy, God will have mercy upon thee. And if thou hast not mercy, neither will God have mercy on thee." And it seems to be sort of built into human thinking that if you're just good to everybody, everybody will be good to you. Or if you are good toward God, God will be good toward you. Now that's more true. I'm not sure about the first one.
Now you hear people who want to raise money. You say well, if you'll send us money, I'll promise you you'll get it back. Many people see this is some kind of a give and take and even people who look at it theologically like Gamaliel did, apart from Shakespeare, who looked at it purely humanly, think well if I do this for God, God's going to do this for me. You know, it's like you're putting God on the spot. One writer paraphrase the verse by saying this, "This is the great truth of life. If people see us care, they will care." Want to bet?
Unfortunately, it's not that simple. It's far more than a human platitude. I agree with Gamaliel. If you bring God into it, there is a certain reciprocation. If we are honoring to God, God will care for us. But the world doesn't work that way believe me. In fact, the Roman world didn't know the meaning of mercy. In fact, if you want to hear what they thought of it, all you have to do is recall that the Roman philosopher said, "Mercy is 'the disease of the soul.'" In other words, mercy was a sign of weakness. Mercy was a sign that you didn't have what it takes to do what really should be done. The Romans glorified justice and the glorified courage and they glorified discipline and the glorified power and they looked down on mercy, because mercy was a sort of a weak thing to do to show somebody mercy.
When a child was born into the world, the father had the right of patria potestas. He could take the child and they could just...they would hold the child up and if you wanted the child to live he held his thumb up. If he wanted the child to die, he held it down. The child, if the thumb went down, was immediately drown. There was no mercy. If a Roman citizen didn't want his slave anymore, he could take out a knife and kill his slave and bury him and there was no recourse. So you see if you're talking about Roman society, that kind of platitude doesn't cut it.
It is simply the idea that if you're merciful to everybody then everybody's going to be merciful to you. That's wishful thinking in a Roman society and I'll tell you something else. It's wishful thinking in our selfish grasping competitive society. You know, in our society we could say you be merciful to somebody else and they'll step on your neck. That doesn't always work. But the best illustration of the fact that it's not just a human platitude is our Lord Jesus Christ. He proves once and for all that it isn't a human platitude. Jesus Christ came into the world and was the most merciful human being that ever lived.
Jesus Christ came into the world and never did anything to harm anybody, never. Jesus Christ came into the world, He reached out to the sick and He healed them. And He reached out to the crippled and He gave them legs to walk. And He reached to the eyes of the blind and they saw and to the ears of the deaf and they heard and to the mouths of the dumb and the spoke. And He found the prostitutes and the tax collectors and those that were debauched and He drew them into the circle of His love and He redeemed them and He set them on their feet. He picked up the sorrow and He wept with them and He took the lonely and He made them feel like they were loved. And He took little children and He gathered them into His arms and He loved them. Never was there a human being who ever lived in the face of the earth with the mercy of this one.
Once He was going along the streets and funeral procession came by and He saw a mother weeping because her son was dead, and who would care? No son, no husband. And Jesus reached out in the midst of the funeral procession, stopped the casket, put His hand on it, and raised the child from the dead and gave him back to his mother. In John Chapter 8 some men had caught a woman in adultery and they dragged that women into the presence of Jesus and He looked at that woman after He had talked with her and after He'd confronted her accusers and He forgave her and He said, "neither do I condemn thee, go and sin no more." What mercy.
He ate with tax collectors. He ate with sinners. And when the scribes and Pharisees saw Him eat with the tax collectors and the sinners in Mark Chapter 2, verse 16, they said to His disciples, "how is it that He eats and drinks with publicans and sinners?" He runs around with the rift-raft. From start to finish the life of the blessed Lord Jesus was one of constant mercy. He was merciful to everyone. Listen, I'm telling you something people, mercy given doesn't mean mercy returned. You can't work that human platitude in Jesus' case. You know what, He was the most merciful human being that ever lived and they screamed for His blood and they slammed Him to a cross and they nailed Him there.
That's not a human platitude. It doesn't make it. That's not what it's talking about. If mercy carried it's own reward, they wouldn't have nailed the most merciful being that ever lived to a cross and spit in His face and cursed Him. The most merciful one whoever lived received from the people to whom He gave mercy no mercy at all. Two merciless systems, the Roman system and the Judaistic system united to kill Him.
All you have to do is look at Rome and you can see how merciless they were. Look at the Caesar's, the totalitarianism of unmerciful Rome was joined by intolerance of a merciless religious system to which Jesus was a threat. And they took His life. No, mercy talked about here is not some human virtue that brings it's own reward. That's not the idea. It isn't that you'll be merciful to others and they'll be merciful to you. No, no, you say well what then does the Lord mean? What is the significance?
Well, beloved, just simply said, it's this. You be merciful to others and God will be merciful to you. That's what it's saying. God is the subject of the second phrase. God will give you mercy. We're not talking about something that's human. Now let's look at the word itself and we'll say more about that. Let's look at the word merciful. Eleēmones, the word is only used twice in the entire New Testament. Once it is used here and once it is used in Hebrews Chapter 2 and verse 17. And there it says, "Wherefore in all things in behooved him to be made like his brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful," what, "high priest." Christ is the great illustration of mercy.
He is our high priest who intercedes for us. And it is from Him that mercy comes. The verb form, however, is used many, many times in the Bible. It is very, very common. It is common in the Old Testament Septuagint, the Greek edition. The Hebrew synonym would be chesed and it is also very common. The word simply means to have mercy on, now listen, to succor the afflicted to give help to the wretched and to rescue the miserable. It's a very broad idea. Anything you do that is of benefit to someone in need, that's mercy. Very broad idea, we think of mercy so much in terms of its aspect of forgiveness in salvation, but it's a very broad term. It means compassion in action.
It goes beyond compassion. It goes beyond sympathy. It means compassion in action, sympathy in action towards anyone who has any need. And when our Lord talks about it here, the real eleemones, the real stuff, is not a weak sympathy which carnal selfishness feels, but never does anything to help. It is not that false mercy which really indulges its own flesh in salving of conscience by giving tokenism. It is not the silent passive pity which could be genuine but never seems to be able to help in a tangible way. It's not any of those superficial things. It is genuine compassion with a pure unselfish motive that reaches out to help somebody in need. That's what it is.
In other words, Jesus was saying to them, the people in my kingdom aren't takers, they're givers. The people in my kingdom aren't condemners, they're mercy givers. They people in my kingdom aren't the ones who set themselves above everybody, they're the people who stoop to help everybody. And by such words, Jesus was hitting them right where they were. They were elevating themselves, self-righteous, they wouldn't bother to give anything to anybody. In fact, there's one story Jesus tells about a man who wouldn't even give the necessary funds to care for the life of his mother and father because he said, oh, I've already devoted it to God in a religious act and I dare not break my vow to God. And our Lord said you are in deep trouble. You have exchanged the commandment of God to honor your father and mother for a tradition you've invented yourself, and they were good at it.
They were merciless even to their own parents. But our Lord says if you're a member of His kingdom, you're going to be merciful, full of mercy. It doesn't just mean to sympathize. It doesn't just mean to feel compassion. It means to actually get in the skin of another person. To actually get right in and think their thoughts and feel their emotions and then care for them in a very tangible way. Mercy is when I see a man without food and I give him food. Mercy is when I see a person begging for love and I give them love. Mercy is when I see someone lonely and I give them my presence. Mercy is meeting the need, not feeling it. It goes beyond that.
Now let me compare it with several words so you'll understand it's significance. First of all, mercy and forgiveness, I'd like to compare those two words. Would you think with me about that? Mercy and forgiveness, is mercy forgiveness, is forgiveness mercy, and how are the distinct? Now I want you to keep your hats on and think with me, okay? In Titus 3:5, it tells us that "by His mercy or according to His mercy He saved us." So that's important now. Mercy then is an element that is there at salvation. In Ephesians Chapter 2, it tells us that "God who is rich in mercy has redeemed us, made us alive." So mercy is behind the scenes in salvation. It is God's mercy that makes Him save us. It is God's mercy that allows Him to redeem us. So mercy is behind forgiveness. No question.
So we do want to talk about mercy and forgiveness together because they belong together. In Daniel Chapter 9, I think it's verse 9, I'm guessing, so I hope I'm right, but Daniel 9:9, "To thee," yes, "to the Lord our God," and I love this, "belongs," listen, "mercies and forgivenesses." Isn't that good? It links them together. So mercy and forgiveness do belong together. Psalm 130, by the way, also beautifully and wonderfully links those same things. "Out of the depths have I cried unto thee oh Lord. Lord, hear my voice, let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication if thou Lord shouldest mark iniquities oh Lord, who shall stand," this is a confession of sin, "but there is forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be feared. I wait for the Lord and my soul doeth wait. And in His word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning. I say more than they that watch for the morning. Let Israel hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy."
Now here's an individual confessing sin, seeking forgiveness and knowing that forgiveness comes from the fountain of mercy. So mercy and forgiveness are linked. We cannot think of mercy without its expression and forgiveness. We cannot think of forgiveness without its source mercy. But, listen people, forgiveness is not the only expression of mercy. Don't narrow down mercy to just a soteriological thought or a salvation reality. Mercy is infinitely bigger than just forgiveness. That's part of it. But listen Psalm 119:64 says, "The earth is full of thy mercy." Genesis 32:10, "I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies." 2 Samuel 24:4, "Thy mercies are great." Nehemiah 9:19, "Thy manifold mercies." Psalm 69:13, "The multitude of thy mercies. So mercies are far larger than just forgiveness.
Forgiveness is an act of mercy, yes. But there is much more. I can be merciful to someone when I forgive. But there are many other ways I can be merciful that don't necessarily involve forgiveness. In Lamentations, maybe the most beautiful of all the passages, it says this, "It is because of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed because His compassions fail not, they are new," how often, "every morning great is thy faithfulness." God's mercies are infinite. But what about mercy and love, how do they compare?
We're getting now a definition. We're dealing with the significance of mercy. That's point one. How do we compare it with love? Well, let's back up. Forgiveness flows out of mercy, mercy flows out of what? Love. Why has God been merciful? It is based on love. But God who is rich in mercy why? For His great love where with He loved us. You see the sequence? God loves and love is merciful and mercy is forgiving among many other things. And so love is behind mercy, but love is bigger than mercy.
You can imagine this. You say, now wait a minute you said mercy was bigger than forgiveness. That's right. Mercy is bigger than forgiveness and love is bigger than mercy. Because love can do a lot of things, a lot more than just show mercy. Because mercy presupposes a problem and love can act when there isn't a problem, right? The Father loves the Son, the Son doesn't need mercy. The Son loves the Father and the Father doesn't need mercy. The Father loves the angels and the angels love the Father and neither one of them need mercy. Love is bigger than mercy. Mercy is the physician. Love is the friend. Love acts out of affection, mercy acts out of need. Love is constant, mercy is reserved for times of trouble. But there's no mercy without love. But love is bigger than mercy.
It's a tremendous thought isn't it? You see how God's great love funnels down to our need under the category of mercy. There's a whole other category too when we're righteous and don't need mercy, he still loves us. He'll love us throughout all eternity, we don't need mercy anymore. But love funnels down to us in this life through mercy and mercy narrows down to that one thought of forgiveness, but it's much broader than that too.
Could I add one more thought or maybe two? What about mercy and grace? People say well is mercy like grace and is grace like mercy? Well, yes and no. Now listen, you're going to really get a theological exercise so hang on. The term mercy and all of its derivatives, listen, always deal with elements of pain and misery and distress. Always the result of sin. Whether it's individual sin or just the sin of the world, just the problem of being in a sinful world. You see, mercy always presupposes problems. It deals with the pain and the misery and the distress. But grace deals with the sin itself.
Mercy deals with the symptoms, grace deals with the problem. You see mercy offers relief from punishment. Grace offers pardon for the crime. You understand? First comes grace and grace removes the sin and then mercy eliminates the punishment. They're different. You know, in three of his letters and he never does it in a letter to a church, he only does it in letters to individuals, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus, Paul says, "Mercy and grace and peace." Mercy and grace are different. Mercy eliminates the pain and grace grants a better condition.
Let me give you an illustration. The Good Samaritan right, he's lying...the man's lying on the side of the road, he's been beaten to the point of the dying, he's been robbed and the priest goes by and walks along and doesn't want to get involved. And the Levite goes by, doesn't want to get involved. All of a sudden a half-breed Samaritan comes by and he sees this poor Jew all beaten and maimed and so forth and he goes over and he cares for him. You know what mercy does? Mercy relieves his pain. Mercy pours oil in his wombs and mercy binds up his wounds. And mercy relieves the suffering. And you know what grace does? Grace goes over and rents him a room so he can live in an inn.
You see, mercy deals with the negative and grace puts it in the positive. Mercy takes away the pain and grace gives a better condition. Mercy says no hell, grace says heaven. Mercy says I pity you. Grace says I pardon you. So mercy and grace are two sides of the same marvelous thing. And God offers mercy and grace. And then there's another comparison you have to make and that's between mercy and justice. People say well, if God is a God of justice, how can He be merciful? If you look at it that way, if God's a just, holy, righteous God, can He just negate justice? Can He say well, I know you're a sinner and I know you've done awful things, but oh I love you so much and I have so much mercy, I'm just going to forgive you? Can He do that? Yeah, He can. You know why? Because He came into the world in human form and died upon a cross and at the cross when Jesus died, don't ever forget it, justice was satisfied.
Did you get that? God said, "There would be no forgiveness of sin without the shedding of blood." And God said, "There had to be a perfect sacrifice to bear the sins of the world." And Jesus was that and justice was satisfied. And now mercy does no violation to justice. I'm not...when I talk about the mercy of God, it's not some foolish sentimentality that excuses sin. Listen, we got too much of that going on even in the church. The only time God ever extended mercy to anybody was when somebody paid the price for the sin involved.
There is a kind of a false and phony foolish sentimental mercy that wants to just cancel out justice and don't make people pay for anything. And don't let them think they're not being acceptable. Just sort of gloss it over. King Saul spared King Agag. That was a sentimental kind of mercy that violated God's holiness. David in a sentimental counterfeit mercy shown to Absalom let him off easy and sowed the seeds of rebellion in his heart that were ruinous. Don't you ever forget it and God will never violate the truth of His justice and His holiness to be merciful. He will be merciful, but only when truth has been dealt with.
If Absalom had repented and had accepted the truth of God, then the mercy would have been real, but it was nothing but sentimentalism, because he never acquiesced to the truth. And there are people in the church, you know, who sin and they do things that are evil and against God and they don't really ever acknowledge the sin and they don't ever really deal with the evil and yet they want the mercy. Look at James Chapter 2 for a minute would you. James Chapter 2, verse 10.
A very important word, James 2:10, "For whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point is guilty of all. For he that said do not commit adultery also said do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill thou art become a transgressor of the law." In other words, James says if you break any of God's laws, you're offending the whole thing. You're guilty of all of it. "So speak ye and so do ye as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty." Now listen to verse 13, "For he shall have judgment without mercy that hath shown no mercy and mercy rejoices against judgment." It's that first line. He will have judgment without mercy. Listen, there will be on God's part, a merciless judgment on people who do not accept the truth. And the truth, of course, is the sacrifice of Christ. We're not talking about sentimentality. I'm not telling you that if you sin your life away and never acknowledge Jesus Christ, God's going to be merciful and accept you.
That's not true. You will have judgment without mercy. And I believe that the only time God can really give mercy is when the truth has been accepted. Only when we accept the sacrifice of Christ or as Christians who've done that, if God is to be merciful to us then we must confess sin as sin and repent and turn from it and then we'll know His mercy.
So mercy is special. It is more than forgiveness. It is less than love. It is different than grace. And it is one with justice. It is more than forgiveness, less than love, different than grace, and one with justice. To sum the significance of being a merciful person, listen to this, The merciful not only hears the insults of evil men, but his heart reaches out to the very same evil men in compassion. The merciful one is sympathetic. He is forgiving. He is gracious. He is loving. He's no so sentimental that He will excuse evil. He's not so sentimental that He will allow for sin to go unpunished or unconfronted just because somebody is kind of sad or tragic. No, mercy means you reach out in sympathy and total forgiveness and love and grace when truth is accepted.
Psalm 37:21 says this, "The wicked borrows and pays not back, but the righteous shows mercy." We're going to be merciful to those who accept the truth. You know, if my son, and this has happened in our family, comes to me and says dad, I did something wrong and I'm sorry, I'll be merciful. But I've told my children since they were little, if I found out that you haven't told me the truth or you haven't admitted something that you've done, there won't be mercy, there will be punishment. You're dealing with the attitude to the truth, not some sentimentality. But where's there is a dealing with the truth, we are to be merciful and gracious and loving and forgiving.
It was mercy in Abraham after he had been wronged by his nephew Lot, which caused Abraham to go and secure Lot's deliverance. It was mercy on the part of Joseph after being treated so badly by his brothers that caused him to accept his brothers and meet their needs. It was mercy in Moses after Miriam had rebelled against him and the Lord had given her leprosy which made Moses cry, "Heal her now oh God, I beseech thee." It was mercy in David which caused him to spare the life of Saul. Mercy. That beautiful characteristic that says we reach out to forgive and to care and to help and to lift people up. We don't lord it over them. We don't step on their neck. We don't push them down. We don't we're something superior. In contrast to that in Psalm 109 we read about the person without mercy. He talks about the wicked who have no mercy. And he says down finally in verse 14 of Psalm 109, "Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. Let them be before the Lord continually that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth." Why? Oh God why would you be so judgmental? Why so condemning? "Because he remembered not to show mercy. He persecuted the poor and the needy that he might even slay the broken in heart."
I told you a few months ago that God is always identified with the poor and the needy. In fact, our Lord Jesus said in that great sermon on all of that, He said, "some day when the judgment comes I'm going to say to you, you know why you're going to be out of my kingdom? Do you know why you're not going to be a part, but because when I came to you, you didn't give me what I needed. When I was naked, you didn't clothe me. And when I was hungry, you didn't feed me. And when I was thirsty, you didn't give me the drink." And the people will say, "wait a minute, we never saw you." And the Lord is going to say them, "well, any of my people that you saw were representatives of me and when they came you didn't feed them and you didn't give them water and you didn't give them clothes. And if you done it unto the least of these, my children, you've done it unto me."
Listen, God identifies with destitute people. And the merciful are those who reach out. Not those who grasp and take. God help us somehow to be able to overrule the inundation of a corrupt society that tells us to get everything we can get and hear the voice of our God who tells us to give everything we can give. We are to be merciful. If somebody offends you, be merciful. If somebody does something against you, be merciful. Be compassionate, be benevolent, be sympathetic. If somebody makes a mistake or a misjudgment or if somebody fails to pay a debt or return something they've borrowed or something, be merciful.
Well, that's the character of the kingdom. And by the way in Proverbs 11:17 it says, "The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he that is cruel troubles his own flesh." You want to be really miserable, then be merciless. You want to be happy, be merciful. Proverbs Chapters 12, in verse 10 it says, "A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel." What he's saying here is a righteous people are even merciful to animals, and the wicked are cruel to everything.
Romans 1:31, I want you to see a characteristic of a godless society. This is the description, verse 29 says "they are filled with unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder strife, deceit, malignity, whispers, back biters, haters of God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents without understanding, covenant breakers without natural affection, implacable, and," what's the climax of the whole list, "unmerciful."
You say you mean that's the big sum of the whole thing? That's it. Unmerciful. But listen people, for those of us who have received mercy, how could we be anything but merciful? What did you deserve? How can you demand to be cruel to somebody when you needed mercy so desperately from God? And that takes us to our second point, very quickly. The source of mercy. Who is the source? Well, you know who it is, it's God. It's God. God is the source of mercy. It is a gift from God. Now let me tell you something. It's only for the people who've gone through the other four Beatitudes. It's only for the poor in spirit who mourn their sins and stand meek before a holy God and hunger and thirst for His righteousness. And when they receive His righteousness, when they receive His gift of mercy for them, then they can be merciful.
Listen people, mercy is not a normal human attribute. You'll never make it happen. It doesn't work. You be merciful to people and they'll be merciful to you. Don't believe it. Now and then some might, but that is not a normal human attribute. The only way to be a merciful person is to have within you the God given mercy. And the only way to have God given mercy is to have the righteousness of God that comes through Christ and that's what Jesus is saying. Unless you come by this path to the place of hungering and thirsting for righteousness and you be filled by God, you'll never know mercy because mercy is part of His filling.
There are lots of people who want the blessing, but they don't want the belonging, you know. They want the blessing not the blessor. They like Balaam. You know, Balaam the false prophet. He said...you remember his prayer, he said, "let me die the death of the righteous." And he said, "let my last end be like His." And an old puritan said he wanted to die like the righteous, he just didn't want to live like the righteous. And there may be some people who want mercy, but they don't want it on God's terms. And the only people who have mercy are the people who qualify under the first four Beatitudes. Those who have come with a broken and a beggarly spirit before a holy God and sought His righteousness that comes only in Christ. And when God gives us His righteousness with it comes a capacity for mercy.
Listen, God is merciful and we possess God. Ephesians 3 says, "we are filled with all the fullness of God and His mercy shows through us." God has two kinds of attributes. Did you know that? What we call absolute and relative, two kinds. For example, you say, what are His absolute attributes? God is love, God is truth, God is holiness. And if nobody ever lived He'd still be love, truth, and holiness.
If you were never born, He'd still be love, truth, and holiness. But when you and I came into the world, those absolutes took on a relative character. And His truth became faithfulness to us. His holiness became justice and His love became grace and mercy. Those are the relative attributes that spring from His absolute nature. His love became mercy and grace. Beloved God is the one rich in mercy and He is the one who gives it and the only one.
In Psalm 103:11, the Psalmist said "As the heavens are high above the earth so great is His mercy toward them that fear him." We fear God. We come to Christ and God gives us His mercy. And thus does our Lord say in Luke 6:36, "Be ye therefore merciful as your Father is merciful." So God is the source. God is the only one who can give us mercy. The supreme act, obviously, of God's mercy was the cross. There's no act that can rival that for mercy.
Jesus comes to the cross. He gets inside the skin of man. He's merciful and that's what made Him a merciful high priest. Dr. Barnhouse put it this way, "When Jesus Christ died on the cross, all the work of God for man's salvation passed out of the realm of prophecy and became historical fact." God has now had mercy upon us. For anyone to pray, "God have mercy on me," is the equivalent of asking Him to repeat the sacrifice of Christ. All the mercy that God ever will have on man, He has already had when Christ died. That is the totality of mercy. There couldn't be any more and God can now act toward us in grace because He has already had all mercy on us. The fountain is now open and it is flowing and it continues to flow freely.
And we speak of it, don't we, sometimes when we say, "He saw me ruined in the fall, He loved me notwithstanding all. He saved me from my lost estate, His mercy, oh how great." And we correctly sing, "Mercy there was great and grace was free, pardon there was multiplied to me there my burden so found liberty," where, "at Calvary." There was God's act of mercy. Did you know that Micah 7:18 says, "He delights in mercy." He was merciful to us on the cross and when we received Christ, He gives us His mercy. God is the source of mercy.
Third the substance of mercy, what does it mean to be merciful? And I'm just going to quickly tell you this. I'm going to skip some things I have. Just...but I want you to just get the simple thoughts. Substance of mercy, what do you mean by that John? Well, I mean, this, how do I make practical this thought? How does my life become a merciful life? Oh so many Scriptures, so many Romans 15, 2 Corinthians 1, Ephesians 4, Colossians 3, Galatians 6, Matthew 5, Matthew 6, call us to be merciful, call us to be merciful ever again and again and again.
You say, how can I be merciful? First of all, in a physical way. First of all, you can be merciful in a physical way. You say how? By giving a poor man money, a hungry man food, a naked man clothes, a man without a bed, a bed. By changing a grudge into forgiveness. Oh there's many ways. The Old Testament is loaded with them, loaded with them, ways that we can show mercy, bigger than just forgiveness, meeting needs of all kinds. You know in Deuteronomy 15:8, "But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him and surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he lacks. Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart saying the seventh year, the year of release is at hand and then I be evil against they poor brethren. Thou givest him nothing that he cry until the Lord against thee." Even when you know you're going to lose your slave in the next couple of months give him anything that he needs, give him anything that he needs. Even if it's the year of release, give him anything that he needs. Even if you know the debt will have to be removed because in the year of release, all debts were cancelled. Give him what he needs. That's mercy.
And when somebody wants something, I pray to God if they ever come to me I give it to them. I never ask anything of anybody because mercy gives to meet a need. So in the physical there are so many, many ways. Mercy never holds a grudge. It never retaliates. It never is vengeful. It never flaunts somebody's weakness. It never makes something of someone's failure. It never recites a sin. St. Augustine was so merciful to others that he had in his dining room a big beautiful table and he always invited people to come to his table who had no place to eat. And he fed them there and he had something engraved on the top of the table and this is what it said. "Whoever loves another's name to blast, this table's not for him so let him fast."
So we are to be merciful not only to the physical, but to the reputation. Surius a Jesuit and I'll never forget reading this, Surius the Jesuit reported that Luther, Martin Luther learned his theology from the devil and died drunk. Slanderous, people who have no mercy to others betray themselves. Listen people, if you're a Christian, if you've hungered and thirsted after righteousness, you'll be merciful. You will be merciful. Alien the Roman writer of natural history in his history writes about an interesting animal. He said that in India he heard about a griffin, g-r-i-f-f-i-n, and that was interesting because no one had ever heard of a griffin before and he described it this way. "It had four feet like a big beast and wings like an eagle." And said Alien, "it's hard to classify only the gods know." And I thought to myself it sounds to me like a lot of phony Christians. They claim to fly but their feet are fast to the earth.
They're griffins, professed sons of the kingdom, but never get out of the dirt. Listen, the vindictive, self-righteous, defensive person protecting only himself is like the priest and Levite who went on the other side of the road, phony religion. So there's a lot of ways you can show mercy to people physically. Well, what about spiritually? And this is the climax. What about spiritually?
Let me give you four suggestions, very quickly, first of all by pity, pity. St. Augustine said, "If I weep for the body from which the soul is departed should I not weep for the soul from which God is departed?" We cry a lot of tears about dead bodies. I wonder we'd do when it comes to souls. If I as a Christian, listen, if I as a Christian have seen and experienced mercy, and boy I have, I experience it every day as God continues to cleanse me and forgive me. If I who had no righteousness, but was poor in spirit, if I who stood mourning over my sin in a beggarly and hopeless condemnation, if I wretched and doomed and meek, if I hungering and thirsting for what I must have and couldn't get, if I who was given then mercy and pity from God's great heart, do not let that same mercy flow to others what kind of inconsistency is that?"
I hear Stephen in Acts 7:60 saying to God as they cast the stones and crushed his life out of his body, "Lord lay not this sin to their charge." Oh God don't hold them accountable for this. He was pitying their souls, you see. It's Jesus on the cross. "Father forgive them they don't know what they're doing." That's pity. And you and I must look at the lost with pity, not lording it over them or thinking ourselves better.
Secondly, I believe we can be merciful to men's souls not only by pity, but by what I'll calling prodding; by prodding. You say what do you mean by that? 2 Timothy 2:25 tell us, "In meekness instructing those that oppose Him if God perhaps will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth." In other words, prodding means to confront people about their sin in order that God might give them forgiveness. You see, they've got to hear the gospel.
You know it says in Titus 1:13, "Rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith." If you don't rebuke people, they won't be sound in the faith. You know, I can care for your soul by rebuking you. I can care for the soul of a sinner by rebuking that sinner to his face. That's not unloving. Cruelty says nothing, you see. In Jude 23 at the end of that marvelous book, it says, "there are some people that you have to save with fear, snatching them out of the fire, hating even the garment that is spotted by the flesh." Some people you've got to snatch out of the fire. That's not hatred, that's love. And I get accused of not having love a lot. I get criticized for a lack of love and somebody even said that to me this morning after my message. That's not uncommon. But beloved, it is not a lack of love, mercy prods. You see mercy prods because there's got to be the confrontation about sin before there can ever be a realization sinfulness.
Third thing, I think we care for the souls of people mercifully when we not only prod and pity, but when we pray. The sacrifice of prayer for the souls of those without God, for the souls of believers in sin is an act of mercy. How merciful you are can be indicated by how faithfully you pray for people. Do you pray for the lost? Do you pray for your neighbors? Do you pray for people without Christ? Do you pray for the people who are Christians who are walking in disobedience? Your prayer is an act of mercy for it releases God's blessing.
And lastly by preaching. I believe that when you preach the gospel that's the most merciful thing that you can possibly do for the soul of someone. And so I say you can be merciful to a person's soul by pity, by prodding, by prayer, by preaching. God wants merciful people. Finally, we've seen the significance, the source, the substance, finally the sequel. You say if I'm merciful, what happens? "Blessed, blessed said our Lord are the merciful for they shall obtain," what, "mercy." Oh what a beautiful thing. Do you see the cycle here? Do you see the cycle? God gives us mercy. We are merciful and God gives us more mercy. Fantastic.
They cycle of mercy. And by the way, it's the emphatic pronoun again, they only, they alone obtain mercy. They only, that's not a new truth in the Bible. 2 Samuel 22:26 says the same thing. "It is the merciful who will receive mercy." James 2 and verse 13 identically the very same thing. James 2:13, "For," it says, "he that hath shown no mercy shall have no mercy." It's the same truth in Matthew Chapter 6 in our future studies, we'll get to it. "Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors." And verse 14, "If you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will forgive you." It's the same thing.
It's there in Psalm 18. It's there in Proverbs 14. It is those who are merciful who get mercy. Now I want to warn you right here, and this is really critical, some people think this how you get saved. This is the error of the Catholic church, that you satisfy God and God gives you mercy when you do merciful deeds. And that's spawned a whole pile of monasteries and monks and the whole shooting match came out of a misrepresentation of this term. This is not the way you earn salvation. Many in the Catholic Church have missed that. And they think that if they just do deeds of mercy and deeds of beneficence and if they just give themselves to the poor and the needy they will then receive saving mercy. No, the point is not that. You do not get mercy for merits. Otherwise, mercy wouldn't be mercy, right?
Mercy can only apply where there is no merit or it isn't mercy. So you can't have mercy for merit. Where there's meritorious is deserving of reward not mercy. No, mercy is given because mercy is needed even by those who show it. The key is in Matthew 18 where the man brought his servant in and he said listen, "you pay me everything you owe me." And the man said, "oh I'll pay you everything." And then the master said "well, on second thought I'll forgive you, you're forgiven." And the man who had just been forgiven, something he couldn't pay in his entire lifetime, ran out and found a guy who owed him a little bit that could have been paid and he grabbed him by the neck and he said "pay me everything you owe me or I'll throw you in prison." Now what's the picture?
You see here you have the true master being God. He offers mercy to this servant, but that servant never really converted. He never really accepted the salvation offered him. He never really took that mercy, because he never confessed his sin. He never related it to the truth and so mercy and truth never kissed it each other. It was phony mercy. It never worked in his case, because he never admitted his sinfulness. And it's obvious, because when he turned around and had an opportunity to show mercy, what did he do? He strangled the guy and threw him in jail.
And what our Lord was saying in that parable in Matthew 18 is this, when somebody shows no mercy, they prove they've received none. On the contrary, this verse is saying if you are one who shows mercy, you give evidence of one who is receiving it. That's what he's saying. That man in Matthew 18 never had true mercy. That's why he couldn't give it, but the one who has received mercy gives it and receives more and receives more. Oh what a beautiful thought. He is saying the one who has received mercy will be merciful. The one who has received forgiveness will be forgiving. That's what he's saying.
And you know what's so wonderful about it? If you are a merciful person, you are because you've received mercy and God gives you more mercy, every time you sin He forgives. Every time you have a need, He meets the need. He takes care of your clothing, your food, we'll see that later in the Sermon on the Mount. He just pours mercy upon mercy upon mercy to those who show mercy, because they've received from the merciful God. I guess we could say what we've been saying all along. Look at your life. Are you merciful? If you're not, good possibility you're not a Christian, because those who show mercy are those who've received it and continue to receive it from the hand of God.
What about this? They shall obtain mercy. Some people think it just means the judgment in the future. I don't believe that for a minute. I think it's a now and a future. We receive it now. David cried over and over "be merciful to me oh God, be merciful to me oh God, be merciful to me oh God" and he wasn't talking about the future, he was talking about the present. In Psalm 86:3, he said, "Be merciful to me Oh God for I cry unto thee daily." And what did Psalm 23:6 say? "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me in the future." Is that what it said? "Goodness and mercy shall follow me," when, "all the days of my life."
And God's Son is a merciful high priest. And the mercy is for now, oh and for the future also. In 2 Timothy 1:16, we see the future, where the apostle Paul says and it's a beautiful prayer for Onesiphorus, "He often refreshed me and He was not ashamed of my chain. The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus." I think Paul there is perhaps looking ahead to a judgment, looking ahead to the salvation day, but there's more than just that. No wonder the Psalmist said "I will sing aloud of thy mercy." Let's pray.
Father, we thank You tonight for giving us time in Your word. It's been a full rich night and God I'm so grateful for the patience of these people. I share so many things in my heart and I just trust Your Spirit that they're purposeful and direct. Lord, I have such a deep love for your word, that I don't like to miss anything. I just pray, Lord, that You will have used it to the greatest extent in the lives of these people. Make us merciful oh God. May we not be corrupted to be selfish, but may we know that we of all people who ever lived were desperately in need of mercy. You gave it to us. May we not be like that man who took it from his master and never gave it to another. May we not be counterfeit Christians, but may we give evidence of being real, because we are merciful. And then in turn we know the constant benediction of Your continued mercy. And so Father, we give You ourselves, make us merciful in a world that is merciless for Jesus' glory. Amen.
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