mercy – Nihilist to Christian

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy – now it’s personal.

Last week we considered what Jesus meant by the word “merciful”: both a willingness to forgive wrongs done to us and to show kindness to those in need. We also concluded that Jesus was not referring to people who forgive or show kindness on a handful of one-off occasions, but rather to people whose attitude …

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Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Let’s move on to the fifth pronouncement of good news which Jesus made to his early followers. We see a shift in focus from the first four of Jesus’ statements in this passage. Leon Morris in the Pillar NT Commentary explains it thus: The first four beatitudes express in one way or another our dependence …

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