[Biblemat] A) PUT ON BOWELS OF MERCY

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Brethren and Friends, Jim Sasser here.  A very good Tuesday
morning to each and everyone.  May God bless you and yours.
Here is an article from my recent files:

PUT ON BOWELS OF MERCY

     "Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved,
bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness,
longsuffering, forbearing one another, and forgiving another"
(Col. 3:12,13b).

     Christians should have the desire to administer mercy when necessary.  
God has certainly been merciful to us as 
sinners and we must learn to reciprocate mercy unto others.

     In Matt. 18:23-35 we have Jesus' parable of an unmerciful
servant.  One of the king's servants owed him a large sum of
money.  It was the day of reckoning and the servant was to
pay back what he now owed the king.  The servant did not
have the money so the king ordered that the servant's wife
and children be sold to pay the debt.  The situation was inten-
se and the servant about to lose all that he had threw himself
at the feet of the king and begging him to give him more time
to pay his bill.

     What happens next is what truly motivates mercy.  "Then
the Lord of the servant was moved with compassion..."  Com-
passion was necessary at this moment in time.  This man was
going to lose what was truly important if the king did not
intervene.  The compassion to forgive.

     Unfortunately the servant would not do the same when 
confronted with a similar situation in his own life.  Thus the
teaching of Jesus "Shouldest not thou also have had com-
passion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?"

     "So likewise My heavenly Father do also unto you if ye
from your heart forgive not every one his brother their tres-
passes."  This is a great challenge for us all.  ---- Stacy Crim
via Gospel Power, Vol. 14, No. 29, July 22, 2007.   </HTML>
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