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5
Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed
the name of the LORD.
6
And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, ‘The
LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in
goodness and truth,
7
keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and
transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth
generation.”
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Exodus 34:5
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7
“
We have a domesticated view that, for all its doctrinal precision, has downsized
the glory of Christ in our hearts.”
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Dane C. Ortlund
.
“
All things have been delivered to Me by My Father and no one knows the Son
except the Father nor does anyone know the Father except the Son
...”
Matthew
“...no one knows except the Father and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal
him
.”
“
5
Now the LORD
descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed
the name of the LORD.
6
And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, ‘The
LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in
goodness and truth,
7
keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and
transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth
generation.”
Exodus 34:5
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7
mercy is God not giving me what I deserve (i.e. punishment) and grace is God
giving me what I do not deserve (i.e. blessings)
“
Who He is, is not the same as what He does. Often, when we seek to define or
relate to Jesus, we think of what He has done for us. This, however, is only a
partial glimpse of Him. What he does comes from who He is.”
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Dane C. Ortlund
“
It will be seen that mercy in God is not merely His pardon of offenders, but His
attitude to man and to the world genuinely, from which His pardoning mercy
proceeds
.”
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Bible H
ub App
“The LORD, the LORD God...”Exodus 34:6
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This name
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Yahweh (the LORD)
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was the same name for God that Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob knew; this was no new revelation of God. God presented Himself
as the
e
ternal, immutable God.”
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Enduring
Word App
Mt Moriah
:
Abraham and Isaac (Gen 22)
“
Take now your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love...and offer him there as
a burnt offering.” Genesis 22:2
.
“And Abraham said, ‘My son God will provide for Himself the lamb. So
,
the two
of them went together.” Genesis 22:8
God provided the sacrifice
for
Abraham
Forgiveness is on display
“Take now your son, your only son Isaac...” Genesis 22:2
God provided His own sacrifice
“you shall not give any of your children to offer them [by fire sacrifice] to Molech
[the god of the Ammonites]
.”
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Levitic
“[I] will provide for [myself] the lamb for the offering.” Genesis 22:8
It is a foreshadow of the mountain where God the Father would offer his only Son
and this time, the Son would die the Lambs death
Golgotha
: Jesus (Mark 15)
“Golgotha and the ancient site of mount Moriah may be the same area. In other
words, Jesus may have been crucified near Moriah or at its summit
.”
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Jon Coursin
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send
His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him
might be saved.”
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Joh
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17
The fact the He gave, is grace
.
That we do not perish, is mercy
“It embraces a profound sacrificial love that transcends and persist
s
regardless of
circumstance.”
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Wikipedia
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But God, who
is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by
grace you have been saved). And raised us up together and made us sit together in
the heavenly places in Christ
Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the
exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by
grace, you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift
of God, not of works, lest anyone should
boast. For we are His workmanship
created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we
should walk in them.”
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Ephesians 2:4
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10
The heart of God th
e
Father and God the Son is a heart of mercy and grace
“The fall not only gave way to sin...but introduced dark thoughts to us against the
heart of God. Perhaps Satan’s greatest victory in your life today is not the sin in
which you regularly indulge, but the dark thoughts that cause you to go there in the
first
place and keep you pulled from Him in the wake of it.”
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Dane C. Ortlund
“The evidence of His mercy is not your life. The evidence of mercy is His. He gave
His life for yours.”
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Dane C. Ortlund
“
If you knew
His heart, you would”
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Goodwin
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son (grace) that whoever
believes (our response) in Him, will not perish (mercy) but have everlasting life.”
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