THE PROPERTIES OF GOD’S MERCY
PSALM 33:18-22
PSALM 33:18-22
Introduction:
The properties or characteristics of God mercy are many. It is a great study that will humble the proud. It will encourage the Believer to continue faithfully for the Lord.
It causes us to see God’s greatness and His great love for man. In it we see just how much it took for the Lord to send His only begotten Son to save us from hell.
The study of His mercy will cause us to be ashamed of our unfaithfulness and wonder why He puts up with our failures. Let’s consider a few of the characteristics.
I. GOD’S MERCY IS FREE
A. God loves us freely, Hosea 14:4, “I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.”
1. The Lord did not love you because of who you are, Deuteronomy 7:7-8, “The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: 8- But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.”
2. He loved us because He is rich in mercy, Ephesians 2:4-5, “But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5- Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)”
B. His choosing us is free, Ephesians 1:4, “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:”
C. Justification is free, Romans 3:24, “Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:”
D. Salvation is free, Titus 3:5, “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;”
II. GOD’S MERCY IS OVERFLOWING
A. His mercy is infinite, Psalm 86:5, “For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.”
B. His mercies are a multitude, Psalm 51:1, “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.”
1. He has morning mercies, Lamentations 3:22-23, “It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23- They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”
2. He has night mercies, Psalm 42:8, “Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.”
3. God has mercies under heaven that we taste, Psalm 34:8, “O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.”
4. He has mercies in heaven which we hope for, Romans 8:24-25, “For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25- But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”
III. GOD’S MERCY IS ETERNAL
A. God’s mercy is everlasting, Psalm 103:17, “But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;”
B. “His mercy endureth for ever,” is repeated 26 times in Psalm 136.
1. We should sing of His mercies, Psalm 89:1, “I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.”
2. We should give thanks for His mercies, Psalm 118:1, “O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever.”
a. Because He has called us unto salvation, 2 Timothy 1:9, “Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,”
b. Because He has made known to us the mystery of His will, Ephesians 1:9, “Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:”
CONCLUSION:
Note our text in Psalm 34:22, “Let thy mercy, O LORD, be on us, according as we hope in Thee.”