2.15.15 // Forgiveness Moves Us Forward

Be Blessed Attitudes – Part 5

Scott Young.com ~ Pastor of Hope

Matthew 5:7 - Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

• To be merciful is to show forgiveness and compassion to others.

Hebrews 2:17 - Therefore, it was necessary for him [Jesus] to be made in every respect like us, his brothers and sisters, so that he could be our merciful and faithful High Priest before God. (NLT)

Matthew 6:14 - For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. (NIV)

MERCY CHANGES LIVES

Matthew 9:9 - As Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” So he arose and followed Him.  

Matthew 9:13 - But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

WHEN YOU ARE FORGIVING & MERCIFUL …

1. You Will Have Friends

Matthew 9:10 - Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples.

2. You Will See People Healed 

Matthew 9:12 - When Jesus heard that, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.”

Matthew 9:35 - Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

3. You Will Value Relationships Over Rules

Matthew 9:11 - And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 

Luke 19:9 - And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham; [10] for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”