Stand For Something part 2 and 3

​II. We are to Love mercy. To love mercy we are to show mercy.

• Pslam 82:3-4 Defend the poor and fatherless;
 Do justice to the afflicted and needy. 4 Deliver the poor and needy;
 Free them from the hand of the wicked.    
• We are to free the poor and the fatherless, the poor, afflicted and the needy from the hand of the wicked. We must love people and deliver people we will never do this living on both sides of the fence. 
• Isaiah 58:10 If you extend your soul to the hungry 
And satisfy the afflicted soul,
 Then your light shall dawn in the darkness,
 And your darkness shall be as the noonday.
• I want you to meditate on this for a few minutes "EXTEND YOUR SOUL" to the hungry. What does this look like? How do we extend our soul? Satisfy the afflicted soul? Man this is not a fly right by scripture you have to pray and meditate here! Praise Jesus for the provision of His Word!!!
• “If Christ were on the other side of the street, or the city, or even the world, and He were hungry, thirsty, helpless, abused, or imprisoned for His faith would we care enough to go help him? 
• Matthew 25:40 And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’ 
• Who do you live for? Who are you serving? This scripture says that everything we do is for and to Jesus. You feed the hungry you feed Jesus. It also works the other way you refuse to love your brother you refuse to love Jesus!

How have you loved mercy this week? How does your life reflect the fact that you love mercy. If you were on trial for showing mercy, what would the evidence be?

III.  We are to walk humbly.

• Four men; a pilot, a professor, a preacher, and a hiker were on a plane and the plane begin to have engine trouble. The pilot instructed the men to gather the parachutes just in chase he continued to have problems. Shortly after the located the parachutes the engine failed and the men realized they only had three parachutes. The pilot quickly proclaimed look its my plane my chutes I am not going down and grbbed a parachute and jumped. The professor quickly grabbed a parachute and stated I have one of the most brilliant minds in the world my research is astounding and the world needs me. Sorry and he jumped. The preacher looked at the hiker and said look I am not going to take that parachute, there is only one left and you should take it. The hiker looked at the preacher and said relax preacher there are two parachutes, the professor grabbed my backpack.
• What do you think about yourself? You know you very well and you can fool a great many people but the man in the mirror knows. 

 

• 1 Peter 5:5 Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”
• Submission is a sign of Christlikeness. His Words in the garden were but not my will but your will be done. If you cannot submit to others then you have a hard time submitting to God. Too be in lack of submission is to be full of sin.

How are you humble in your life? Seriously this is not an easy question, just answering can cause us to build ourselves up. What do you do to keep you humble?