Third lesson in this 10-part series explores forgiveness and mercy.

1. Lesson 3: April 1, 2015

2. Thank you for
being here tonight!

3. Jesus
Becoming like Him

4. The Ten Week Challenge
Pray daily for the eyes of our hearts
to be enlightened.
14 days in/
56 days to go

5. Ephesians 1:17 – 18
17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the
Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you
may know him better.
18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart
may be enlightened in order that you may
know the hope to which he has called you,
the riches of his glorious inheritance in the
saints, and His incomparably great power for
us who believe.

6. The Ten Week Challenge
Pray daily for the eyes of our hearts to be
enlightened.
Pray daily for God to search our hearts
and transform them into the heart of
Christ.
14 days in/
56 days to go

7. Romans 8:27
And he who searches our hearts knows
the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit
intercedes for the saints in
accordance with God’s will.

8. The Ten Week Challenge
Pray daily for the eyes of our hearts to be
enlightened.
Monitor our hearts daily by monitoring
what is coming out of our mouths.
Pray daily for God to search our hearts
and transform them into the heart of
Christ.
14 days in/
56 days to go

9. Matt. 15:18-19…But the things that
come out of a person’s mouth come
from the heart, and these make a
man unclean. For out of the heart
come evil thoughts—murder,
adultery, sexual immorality, theft,
false testimony, slander.

10. The Ten Week Challenge
Identify the source of impurity in our
lives.
Expose them to God.
Prayerfully develop a plan to
eliminate these sources.
14 days in/
56 days to go

11. of the heart…

13. Matt. 5:7 -
Blessed are
the merciful
for they will
be shown
mercy.

14. We must understand the word “mercy”
 It cannot be translated by one word.
 It’s not an act.
 It’s an attitude of the heart that displays:
• sympathy
• empathy
• freedom

15. When this attitude is in us,
we are blessed because we…
1. Understand how merciful God has
been to us.
Luke 1:76—79
We serve a tender, merciful
and loving God.

16. Luke 1:76-79
…And you, my child, will be called a
prophet of the Most High; for you will go
on before the Lord to prepare the way for
him, to give his people the knowledge of
salvation through the forgiveness of their
sins, because of the tender mercy of our
God, by which the rising sun will come to
us from heaven to shine on those living in
darkness and in the shadow of death, to
guide our feet into the path of peace.”

17. When this attitude is in us,
we are blessed because we…
1.Understand how merciful God has been
to us.
Luke 1:76—79
We serve a tender, merciful and
loving God.
We know that God’s mercy
has saved our lives. Eph. 2:1-5

18. Eph. 2:1-5… As for you, you were
dead in your transgressions and
sins, in which you used to live
when you followed the ways of
this world and of the ruler of the
kingdom of the air, the spirit
who is now at work in those
who are disobedient. All of us
also lived among them at one
time, gratifying the cravings of
our flesh and following its
desires and thoughts. Like the
rest, we were by nature
deserving of wrath….
But…

19. …But because of his
great love for us,
God, who is rich in
mercy, made us alive
with Christ even
when we were dead
in transgressions—it
is by grace you have
been saved.

20. When this attitude is in us,
we are blessed because we…
1.Understand how merciful God has been
to us.
Luke 1:76—79
We serve a tender, merciful and
loving God.
We know that God’s mercy
has saved our lives. Eph. 2:1-5

21. When this attitude is in us,
we are blessed because we…
2. Reflect the mercy of God to those
around us.
We reflect God’s love by being merciful
to others. Romans 15:6-7

22. Romans 15:6-7… May the God who
gives endurance and encouragement
give you the same attitude of mind
toward each other
that Christ Jesus had, so that with one
mind and one voice you may glorify
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ.

23. When this attitude is in us,
we are blessed because we…
2. Reflect the mercy of God to those
around us.
We reflect God’s love by being merciful to
others. Romans 15:6-7
The mercy of God motivates us to live
differently. I Peter 2:9-11

24. I Peter 2:9-11
…But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a
holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may
declare the praises of him who called you out of
darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were
not a people, but now you are the people of God;
once you had not received mercy, but now you
have received mercy. Dear friends, I urge you, as
foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires,
which wage war against your soul. Live such good
lives among the pagans that, though they accuse
you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds
and glorify God on the day he visits us.

25. When this attitude is in us,
we are blessed because we…
2. Reflect the mercy of God to those
around us.
We reflect God’s love by being merciful
to others. Romans 15:6-7
The mercy of God motivates us to live
differently. I Peter 2:9-11

26. When this attitude is in us,
we are blessed because we…
3. Will be judged with mercy.
Mercy given is mercy received.
Matthew 7:1-2

27. Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For
in the same way you judge others, you will
be judged, and with the measure you use, it
will be measured to you.
Matt. 7:1-2

28. Matt. 7:1-2 Do not judge, or you
too will be judged. For
in the same way you
judge others, you will
be judged, and with
the measure you use,
it will be measured to
you.
This promise is either
a blessing or a curse…it’s up to us.

29. When this attitude is in us,
we are blessed because we…
3. Will be judged with mercy.
Matt. 18:32-34
We have the peace of knowing that
mercy triumphs over judgment.
James 2:12-13
Mercy given is mercy received.

30. James 2:12-13…Speak and act as those who
are going to be judged by the law that gives
freedom, because judgment without mercy
will be shown to anyone who has not been
merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

31. We understand
how merciful
God has
been to us.
We reflect the
mercy of God
to those
around us.
We will be
judged
with
mercy.
Matt. 5:7 -
Blessed are
the merciful
for they will
be shown
mercy.

32. of the heart…

33. The Ten Week Challenge
Pray daily for the eyes of our hearts to
be enlightened.
Monitor our hearts daily by monitoring
what is coming out of our mouths.
Pray daily for God to search our hearts
and transform them into the heart of
Christ.
14 days in/
56 days to go

34. The Ten Week Challenge
Identify the source of impurity in our
lives.
Expose them to God.
Prayerfully develop a plan to
eliminate these sources.
14 days in/
56 days to go

35. The Ten Week Challenge
Monitor the attitude of our hearts.
How merciful are we?
14 days in/
56 days to go