Two Kingdoms: Week 5

Have you ever got to actually experience one of your

living nightmares. I'm talking like something that you always feared

would happen, but it actually happens. I actually experienced that

years ago. It's one of the most embarrassing moments in

my life. Some of you, a few of you probably

know about it. But it happened at it was the

second week of the pandemic. Now you got to remember

that all the churches were shut down in America. The

world was chaotic. People were just all over the place mentally,

and the church was quickly shifting online. And so this

is gonna be my first ever sermon where I would

come into a sanctuary that was empty and preach to

a camera. I've never done that before. It is quite

nerve wracking. And again, I had never preached to just

a camera. And I've been told over and over again

that know, my face is more for radio, not for

and so I just had no reason to get good

at it. Well, we were in the lobby and on

the way in Andrew had preached the week before, and

the guys who were recording it said to me, you

do know that Andrew did it in one take. I'm

like my home man that's not happening, guys. And I said,

as a joke, well, don't expect that from me. Andrew

does everything better than I do. And so I made

that little joke, and they said, well, here's one thing

you could do better than Andrew. You can look at

that one camera and keep your eyes on that one

camera that will be looking right at the people at home.

I said, okay, I'll try to do that. So I

get up, I'm preaching. It's going well, and I'm hitting

my points, and all of a sudden, I feel like

a coughing fit is going to hit me. And so

what I do is I say, hey, can we stop

for a moment? And I thought we stopped, but of

filming kept going on. So let me show you what

when this premiered on Thursday night, Let me show you

what the people saw you guys, give me a minute. Ah,

I feel like I'm going anyways, guys, how am I doing?

Am I doing? Okay? Just look good? Okay, because you

know what we can't. You know, we gotta do a

good job. You gotta let me know if it gets boring,

because you know people are home. It's harder than to

pay attention while I watching TV at home. We gotta

do a good job, guys, so let me know if

I need to do better or whatever. And then somebody

says something like what they could not hear off the

camera was hey, at least you're looking at the right camera.

And then I said, without any context on the camera,

I said, well, at least there are some things I

am better at than Andrew. And and so I go

on to talk about some things, and then the people

at home noticed that the whole service just shuts down.

All right, now, let me take you to my kitchen

the night that this happened in a premiere life this

is me. Okay, I'm watching it, and the first thing

I'm thinking, watching myself for the first time on camera.

My first thought was I thought they said the camera

ad it twenty it looks like forty pounds. And then

I'm watching it, and then all of a sudden, I

know that the you know, I know, when I went

off to the side, I didn't expect to see that

that was supposed to be edited out. It wasn't edited out.

So I'm watching it, and then I watched myself go

off to the side, and I'm like, and then I

hear myself. I'm better, and Andrew with this, I'm like, oh,

and I'm in my kitchen and I'm going stop, stop, stop, stop.

You can ask my wife. My wife has no idea

what's going on. She runs to me. I don't remember

what I said. I think I blacked out. And here's

the big thing. I was yelling at my epad to quit,

like it could somehow magically shut down the whole thing,

and what I knew what was happening, and thank god

it did shut off. I was just about ready to

talk about how I needed to use the restroom and

I was about ready to talk about my body break

to the whole audience. So it shut off right before that.

And let me tell you, after a shut off, I

felt every emotion. Have you ever felt every emotion? I

felt embarrassment, frustration, shame. People had tuned in life is

in chaos. Can they at least count on their church,

you know? And I felt like we failed them. And

so this was the first couple of weeks of the pandemic,

so people were actually signing in those first couple of weeks.

So we actually saw the pastors who watched it, so

we said, hey, we need to call all these people

up and apologize, and so we would call the first

people up and I'd be like, hey, did you watch

the Thursday's service And they were like and at first

they're like, yeah, that was weird. I'm like yeah, and

they're like, our family hasn't stopped laughing, and I'm like oh,

and they just like, you know what, things happened. They

were just so graceful. Then I called the next family,

same thing, next family, same thing, and then they started

encouraging me, like pastor, things are gonna happen, but you

know what, nobody's perfect. Don't worry about we love you.

And let me tell you, I had a huge shift

in my heart. And by the time I called the

last person I had, I didn't have that pain. I

just said, hey, do you see that mess. Don't worry,

We'll have a better Saturday. All right, have a good one,

you know, because I was fine. And let me tell

you something, Uh, I expect a judgment, but I received mercy.

And I remember after that going to bed that night

and thinking to myself, I don't know, Oh, it's possible

for me to love this congregation more, but I love

them more. You see. I experienced mercy upon mercy, and

I walked around expecting that pain that night. Instead, Here's

what stuck with me about that moment. Mercy changes how

you feel about people. When you expect judgment and you

receive mercy, it doesn't just relieve you, It reshaped you.

It draws you in, and it makes you actually want

to be that kind of person. This is exactly what

Jesus is talking about in Matthew five seven, where he says,

blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy. Now

here's where we're going today. Okay, we're gonna talk about

how Jesus is inviting all of us, every one of

us in this room, to become the kind of person

who gives others what we ourselves have received. Now I

will explain this, okay, But Jesus is inviting us to

become the kind of person who gives others what we

ourselves have already received. Now, when we look at the Bible,

in the Old Testament and Second Semen, we see one

of the most beautiful pictures of mercy in history. And

as we turn to that, we see that David's on

the throne. But David hasn't done what most kings did

when they came to the throne. He did not wipe

out the preceding king's face, probably because simply his best friend,

Jonathan was the king's son, and he loved Jonathan. And

one day, as David is thinking about how his life

is good and God has blessed him, he asked a

question to his servants. He says this. He says, is

there anyone still left in the house of Saul, the

former king to whom I can show kindness? Everybody say

kindness for Jonathan's sake. My best friend David wasn't asking

if there was enemies to eliminate. He was want to

know if there was someone he could show mercy to.

And so someone came alo and said, yeah, there's a

guy named Mamhibis Chef. He's Jonathan's son. But here's what

you need to know about Mamphibia Chef. I mean, he's

not from around here. He lives out Loadobar. Lodobar in

the Hebrew describes a barren desert, a place where nothing grows.

It's the pit. It's the place you go if you

have nothing, very different than the palace life. And then

they give us second piece of detail to David said, Oh, yeah,

he's crippled, and that's kind of code for I don't

know if he's gonna fit in with us palace people.

I don't know if he's gonna look good amongst all

of us, and you know, especially at our balls and

our dances and all that. I love. How David responded

when David heard this information about him, that he was poor, destitute, crippled,

What did David say? Where is he? Where is he? See?

He doesn't even entertain the notion that he might not

fit in around the palace. See, because true mercy does

not see inconvenience, It sees a person. So here's a

little background on how this happened. In the mapifis cheph

whenever his father was killed in this battle, he was

swooped up by the handmating and she was this nurse

was taking them off. She fell, He broke his ankles.

They didn't take care of his ankles. As a result

of that, since his ankles were never fixed, he grew

up a crippled man. And here's the worst part of

the story. For years he dreaded the day that King

David would find him, because the day that King David

found him was the day of his execution, because that

was tradition. So when David finds him, he's a little

freaked out, and David says to him, don't be afraid.

Here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna show you kindness

for the sake of your father. Jonathan. David does something extraordinary.

He then restores all the land of his grandfather to

in other words, instantly Maphiba Cheff is rich. Then he

gives him a permanent seat at the king's table. And

so we see this picture in the Bible of Mephibis

Chef with David's sons and daughters at the king's table.

It was like basically, he adopted him. He took in

his best friend's child, made him one of his own sons,

made him rich, and then loved on him. Think about

this image every time Mamphibia Chef said at the king's table,

here was a man who expected judgment that receive mercy,

someone who had nothing. But now he is at the

king's table. And here's a shocking thing that this story

of mercy was not a story that people appreciated back

then because mercy was not a part of that culture.

We'll get it. More on that later, But this shocking

story of mercy prepares us for what Jesus says on

a sermont amount. Jesus says something again that would have

been shocking to the world. He says, blessed with merciful,

for they will receive mercy. Now again, we gotta remind ourself,

where did we get to this first? How do we

get to mercy? Let me backtrack. Okay, let's go back

to the beginning of the sermon on the Mount. Jesus,

as King of the Kingdom of God, says, here's what

it's like to be one of my kingdom. People. If

you're gonna be in my kingdom, this is what you're

gonna look like. This is what you're gonna act like.

This is gonna be the characteristics of who you are.

First of all, to even get into My kingdom, you

have to be a person who is poor in the spirit.

In other words, you're a person who humbly goes before

God and says, I have nothing to offer you. I

desperately need you. And then we move from being poortant

as spirit to those who mourn. They mourn want their sins.

They realize that they are a sinner who desperately needs God.

And so once they move from being humbled and regretting

and mourning their sins, now they've come into a relationship

of God, and as a result of that, they become meek.

There's starting to be a transformation in them. And as

a result of this transformation, we see that they start

to seek out what. They start to hunger and thirst

for righteousness. They want more of God, they want to

be more like God. So what do we see here?

We see a sinner who has nothing to offer God,

who is saved, transformed, becomes a different person, is seeking

the Lord. And then boom right and half right in

the middle of the Beatitudes, Jesus flips the script and

he turns the page. The first part of the Beatitudes

is about inner transformation, is what happens to someone when

they come in a kingdom. And then he flips it

and says, but this is what my kingdom people do.

And the very first thing that a kingdom person is

known for, because they've received mercy, they give mercy. See

the way you treat other people reveals whether or not

the kingdom has taken root. You let me tell you

something I could tell if somebody as a Kingdom person,

by the way they respond to those who are poor,

those who are maybe a little bit annoying, those who frustrate,

By the way someone treats other people, I can tell

you whether or not the kingdom is taking a hold

of their life. The people who the Kingdom of Hole

has taken hold of are taken root in their life.

They are merciful people. And where we arrive here where

Jesus says blessed or merciful, Jesus is describing those who

have been shaped by the mercy of God, so they

extend the mercy of God, not occasionally, not at church events,

not at just serve days, but consistently throughout their life.

Jesus is talking about a person of mercy, a church

of mercy, blessed and mercy. Well, they will receive mercy.

Now this is a very short verse, but it has

tremendous depth. This Greek word here for mercy is eileman,

and this word eleman means to be moved with compassion.

So you see somebody who's in need, you see somebody

who's heard, and you see someone who is struggling, and

you're moved by compassion. But this Greek word is a

little complex. It doesn't leave you at compassion. It means

that you're moved by compassion so much that you do

something about it. It's compassion plus action. So when Jesus

says that Kingdom people are people of mercy, he's saying

that our hearts break for other people and we do

something about it. Are you a Kingdom person when you

see somebody in need? Do you just see them in need?

Or do you do something about it? Jesus says, the

Kingdom people this mercy. It's a compassion that takes ashen.

It's the type of mercy that sees suffering and moves

toward it. It's the type of mercy that forgives when

revenge would be easier. It's a type of mercy when

ignoring would be convenien. It's a type of mercy that

lifts people up a stead of tearing him down. It's

a type of mercy that gives people dignity, especially to

those who've lost it. Now, Jesus doesn't just define mercy.

He actually gives us a picture of mercy. Some people

come to him one day and he said, a teacher,

who's my neighbor, and Jesus says, well, let me tell

you a story, and he tells the story about this

Jewish man who has beat badly on the road from

Jerusalem to Jericho. He's beaten, they think he's dead. They

leave him there, and then a priest, a man of

the word, a preacher of God, walks on by. He

was the guy who's supposed to stop, everybody would think.

And then a levi it's a staff member at a church.

He sees him and walks on by. And then Jesus

specifically calls the next man a Samaritan century old enemy

of the jew. He sees the guy, his heart breaks

for him, and then he does something about it. He

leans down, lifts his head up, gives him some water,

says you are you okay, You're gonna be okay, You're

gonna be okay, to comforts him, let's him know somebody's here,

somebody's gonna take care of him. Banaches him up a

little bit, picks him up, puts him on his horse,

walks him into town instead of him riding his horse,

goes to the end, pays for it and says, I'll

be back. Have the doctor look at him. If there's

any more money needed, Eye will pay you. So then

Jesus looks at his people and says, all right, we

got some of our religious officials, and we got the

Samaritan out there. You know which one was a neighbor.

And the people said, well, the one who showed the

other one mercy. And then what does Jesus say? He

doesn't see, good job, student, lets and learn. Go. No,

he says, go and you do likewise, Go and do likewise.

See that's mercy. Mercy isn't just seeing the pain and

stepping into it, and it's not just feeling compassion. It's

taking responsibility. And here's what you need to know about mercy.

It's inconvenient mercy. I promise you. As a faster I

know this mercy is inconvenient. I have never put on

my schedule three o'clock mercy two forty five. Go show

us some mercy. Mercy never schedules an appointment. It comes

to you. It's God sending someone your way. That's when

mercy arrives. It interrupts our schedule across to some of

our boundaries, and it's almost always someone that can't pay

us back. And that's exactly what Jesus teaching blessed or

the merciful, for they will receive mercy. Now you might

ask this question. Here's a question you might be asking

right now, James. Why is mercy such a big deal

that Jesus would make it the first thing we need

to do after our transformation. You know what, I love

it when you guys ask astute theological questions. Okay, so

let me answer that for you here. It is very simple.

The reason Jesus makes a big deal about mercy, it's

because mercy is a part of who God is. Throughout

the Bible, we see God reveal himself through compassion and mercy,

and matter of fact, in the Old Testament, there's this

word in Hebrew that describes the mercy of God, the

love of God, the grace of God is the word

has said, and he said is a little bit different.

It doesn't just mean love. It means faithful love, a

committed love, a love that is strong, that does not

fall apart, a love that does not say, well, I'm

done with you. It's not a love that says, well

I've had enough. It's not a love that says, oh,

you're exhausting. It's a love of commitment to the end.

And when the Bible describes the type of love that

God has for you is it has said the love

of God is the faithful love of God, and so

for us, mercy is the appropriate outflow to this. This

has said love because of God's faithful love, has said,

we show mercy. And here's the thing. God shows us

mercy not because we deserve it, because it flows out

of His character. And by the way, this was not

normal when Jesus taught this. This culture that Jesus spoke into,

I still don't know why, but they were a culture

that did not appreciate mercy. Mercy was not considered a virtue.

It was actually considered a weakness in the Roman culture.

And the best way that I can describe, the philosophers

said that you know you were a weak person if

you could be moved by someone else's emotions or if

someone can emotionally move you. And so this is a

period where being a stoic or or a lot of

people would describe it as a man A manly man

is not moved by other people's emotions, so a manly

man would not have shown mercy. And so their culture

lived this out matter of fact, they were a slave culture.

So when a slaver in a way, what do they do.

They would capture them, they'd bring it back in, they

would beat them. Oftentimes they would tattoo slave across their forehead,

and if they wanted to, they would execute him. Guess what,

the city did nothing, because that was life. They were

not a culture of mercy. When you add a child

too much, you didn't want this last child, or if

it was a girl, a lot of times they didn't

want the girls and they would take the girl outside

of the city and let the girl die to exposure.

You know. The people would walk on by and they

went and go, oh my gosh, and then pick the

baby up. They just walked on by because they're like, well,

that family can't afford that baby. That's just the way

it is. That was the culture that Jesus was speaking into.

But Jesus is here trying to turn their worldview upside down.

Now here's what I get. I'm gonna bring us home

to Indianapolis, Indiana. We live in Indianapolis, Indiana. We do

not have slaves around here. If we ran across somebody

who left the child outside to be exposed and died,

they would be in jail tonight, and boy, we'd have

some very strong opinions about that person. They would not

be the hero of the story. There's a good chance

that this week you're not gonna walk across somebody who

has been beaten half to death. All right, So this

culture that Jesus told about, how do we bring this

home to our lives. Well, here's what I need you

to understand. Okay, that Jesus when he was talking about mercy,

he's not talking about just these big, dramatic moments. He's

talking about everyday mercy in our life. So here's what

I'm wanna do. Just hang with me for a few moments.

I want to talk about how we live this mercy

out in the different domains of our life. First one,

let's look at work. You know you're in a meeting.

We've all been there. Someone messes up, they miss something,

they dropped the ball. I don't know about you guys,

but especially when I was younger, if one of my

associates dropped the ball, like, one of my first thoughts was,

how do I let my boss know that I didn't

drop the ball. Because it's a natural thing right to

defend ourselves, and so and seth wondering about, like, how

can we make sure we look good? Well? We see

if we can help, see if we can cover. We

speak gently to them about like, all right, let's fix this.

See Mercy helps people recover instead of exposing them. What

about conversations. We hear something about somebody a mistake, somebody

made a failure, and the conversation starts to turn towards gossip.

We have an opportunity here. We can say nah and

shift the conversation, or we could dig into the gossip.

But see, Mercy refuses to tear someone down when they're

not in the room. What about our friends groups? We

know this, there's always someone on the outside, someone who

doesn't quite fit in, someone who doesn't get invited. And

it's easy for us to stay comfortable in our own

little circle. But Mercy notices those who are not included.

Mercy pulls up a chair, Mercy sends an invite. See

Mercy makes space. What about parenting, boy, we can get

judgmental when we're parenting. We can look at other people.

There's a lot of pressure in parenting. It's easy to compare,

easy to judge, easy to think, well, why are they

doing that? This is not what our family would do.

We don't know what they're carrying. See, Mercy encourages in

stead of critiques. Mercy supports the step of competing. Mercy

shows grace in a world full of pressure? Can I

take a quick drink before I talk about marriage? All right,

let's talk about marriage. I know you couldn't imagine this,

but what if your spouse says something wrong, handle something poorly?

You have a choice. You can keep score, you can

bring it back up later. You can use it as leverage,

or you can extinct grace. You could choose to let

it go. See, Mercy doesn't weaponize someone's weakness. Years ago,

I was having one of those weeks that was extremely stressful.

I was overwhelmed, and I went to the mailbox. By

the way, don't go to the mailbox when you're stressed.

And I went to the mailbox and open up this letter.

And basically, Gina had kind of let me think that

she had taken care of something, and she didn't take

care of it. And now there's consequences in this letter,

financial consequences, and so I'm pretty upset. She can tell

I'm upset and then Gina doesn't want to cost her

family any money. So I see her and we're starting

to talk about this, and then she says to me,

I feel like you think this is all my fault.

And here in this moment, she is looking for grace,

she's looking for mercy, she's looking just And I mean,

if you know me, and if you're around our house,

you know that my Probably one of my least favorite

words in the English vocabulary is fault. When somebody says,

who follows this at our house? Or who did this?

I go, who cares? Let's just fix it. But I

had this moment, this opportunity to say, well, who cares,

whose fault it is? Let's fix it. So Gina look

to me and she says, I feel like you think

this is all my fault. And then I looked at

her and I said, that's because it is all your fault.

I don't remember exactly what was said next, but you

can fill in whatever you think what said. And that

was probably what was said. I knew immediately I've messed up.

But really interestingly, what I knew was that I had sinned,

and so I said I'm sorry. I went downstairs to

my office. I got down on my knees. I asked

God to forgive me, because I knew she was looking

for mercy and I did not give her mercy. I

went back upstairs and said, hey, I prayed about it

and I asked her to forgive me. She did not,

and she wasn't ready. She wasn't ready. The next morning

I cooked her breakfast. We debriefed and got on the

same page, and we worked on the paperwork. Why is

mercy so hard for us to give in our marriages?

But Kingdom people, we curate a marriage of mercy a

couple more. Okay, just give me a couple more. What

about for kids? They make a mistake and it's not

the first time they made that mistake, so we're feelab

with frustration. But here's what Mercy does. Mercy disciplines with

love instead of anger. Or what about online? Man, what

about the temptations online to be harsh, to criticize the

pall on Why because we don't have to see them

face to face. Mercy pauses and Mercy remembers that there's

actually a real person on the other side of that screen.

What about when someone hurts you? We don't want to forgive.

We want to get even and make sure they feel it.

But mercy chooses a different path because we've been shown mercy.

What about when we see someone struggling. They're not having

a hard time in life, but church, at work, and

maybe it's in our neighborhood. It's so easy to walk

on by, but Mercy stops and says, are you okay?

Mercy doesn't just see people. It moves towards people and

again again most of the time. Okay. When it comes

to mercy, we're not looking for something big or dramatic. No, no, no, mercy.

It looks like giving grace and mercy in a moment

where judgment would be easier. A few weeks ago, we

had the Anderson Corral here and it was during the

first service. And here's what I do behind the stage

before I come out and preach. I'm mostly just praying,

and I'm praying for you, and I'm praying that God

has exalted. So I'm just covering the service in prayer.

And I don't if you've ever walked back here, other

people have seen it. I have a weird prayer face.

I'll show you my prayer face. It's like this, I

don't know. This is how I look when I think

this woman who was here for the first time didn't

know I was a senior pastor. She walks by me,

and she's the lady who plays piano for the group.

She walks past me, she stops, She turns around and says,

are you okay? I said no, I'm the pastor at

Church of the Crossing. I'm not okay. No, I didn't

say that I'm sorry. I said yeah, I'm just praying.

And she's like, oh, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.

Let me tell you something. After that service, I couldn't

wait to go find her. She was willing to embarrass

herself and be late inconvenience herself, embarrass herself in front

of an audience to make sure someone she didn't even

know was okay. Let me tell you something. I wholeheartedly

believe that woman is blessed. Why because Jesus promised blessed

are those who are merciful, for they will receive mercy.

And again, this does not mean that we get God's

mercy if we're merciful. No, No, Jesus is describing a

pattern here. People who truly experience God's mercy they extend

it to others. Mercy receed becomes mercy given. And that's

why the story of David mcfibishef is so awesome. See,

he had nothing to offer David. He wasn't treated as

a threat. But David chose mercy. He restored what had

been lost, gave him dignity, gave him belonging and a

seen at the King's table. Think about you and me

and how much that story mirrors the gospel. We were

not living in a palace of greatness when Christ found us.

We were living in our own load of bar We

were living in our own sin, broken, spiritually crippled, unable

to restore ourselves. But a keen call for us restored

us and gave us a seed at his table. See,

mercy is not meant to be theoretical. It is meant

to be lived out. And again, we think about the

call that God has for us to be merciful, and

you think about the hospitals and the orphanages. Why are

they here? Christians? We think about why I'm not talking

about how to treat your slave today, or about hey,

please don't please don't expose your child that you don't

want to keep outside until it dies. You know, while

I don't have to preach any of those sermons because

the mercy of Christ that was taught, the Christians grabbed

ahold of it, and two thousand years later we live

in a different society. And here in Indiana, I could

talk to you about having mercy to somebody at work

as stead of saying, all right, you know, let's be

a little nicer to our slaves. Jesus changed the world significantly,

but this work continues. If you want to see mercy

around here, come here on Tuesday night to celebrate recovery.

You see people who have been transformed by mercy, loving

on people who are you hurting deeply for whatever reason.

And you see these people start to be transformed. And

then you see these people bring people. And let me

tell you something. Just this past week, just this past week. Here,

here's what was awarded at just a random week. One

person got a blue chip that means I've committed to

make the change. Person got a thirty day chip, another

person a sixty day chip. These people are being transformed

by Christ. Two people finish their twelve steps, And I

think about, like, what does Christ think about whenever he

sees church ships, the crossing, living out the mercy ministries

and celebrate recovery or the market. I feel like Jesus

looks at those he goes, Nah, That's what I'm talking about.

We are called to be people of mercy and we

live it out. It's not theoretical around here. And let

me tell you, this is a big shift in our

church will last six or seven years. And I'm so

proud of the way our churches respond to Mercy ministry

has been popping up like crazy. We who have been transformed.

We don't just sit there and put a hat on

and get a little certificate that says transform. No. No,

we take our transformation and we go out and love others.

That's what we do. And let me tell you it

was just a few years ago the staff when we

were hanging out and we found out that if people

needed or if they need help with this or this

or this, they had to drive past our church fifty

streets up to another church to get help. Ma'am. When

we start thinking about how if you need help, you

gotta drive past this church that's been here for over

one hundred years and drive fifty streets north just to

get some help. We as a staff had like a

holy and holy anger and said, never again, never again,

we are gonna live out the Gospel. And you, I'm

so proud of the church, the way you've grabbed a

hold of it, the way you've supported it, the way

you've served. But God still has a work to continue

to shape us into the people of mercy. I want

us someday to be a church that if something were

to happen and we had to shut down, this community

would go to our mayor and say, what are you

gonna do? Now? Who's gonna help us? Now? That it's

the type of church that I see as becoming a

people of mercy together, a church of mercy. So in

order for us to continue to curate this mercy in

our life, here's what I want to do. We're gonna

take a couple of minutes of prey and let God

in the Holy Spirit do the work in your soul

that needs to be done. I want you to look

at the everyday mercy areas and I want you to

ask God to show you where you need to be

showing more mercy some of you or maybe into it

with a coworker, Maybe it's at home, maybe it's with

your children or whatever. Maybe you're a person who jumps

online and says nasty things. Let God speak to you, now,

how can I become a person of mercy. So we're

gonna take a couple of minutes and we're gonna allow

the Holy Spirit to deal work and us just pray

through that list and where God says stop right here,

This is where I want you to think about and

concentrate and make a shift. Oh by