From “In the Beginning” to Amen // Fresh Mercies – Every Morning
Discipline/Punishment/Correction
Almost Always Unpleasant
No Matter the Degree of The Punishment
Why Does God Put This Kind of Stuff in His Word?
1 Corinthians 10:11 (ESV)
“These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.”
Laminations 3:31-33 (NLT)
“For no one is cast off by the Lord forever. Though He brings grief…He will show compassion, so great is His unfailing love. For He does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone.”
“The Lord sent word to them through his messengers (prophets) again and again, because He had pity on His people and on His dwelling place.”
“They mocked God's messengers, despised His words and scoffed at His prophets until the wrath of the Lord was aroused against His people and there was no remedy.”
God Was and Is
Long Suffering and Patient
With Us When We Sin
Because Of His Love
Because He Wants Us to See What
A Covenant of Love Looks Like
What Godly Discipline
God’s Discipline
Isn’t For the Purposes of Destruction
Where We Are Unfaithful, God Remains Faithful Still!!
“Mercy”
רַחֲמִים(raḥămîm) / חֶסֶד(ḥesed)
Isaiah 54:7-8 (NIV)
"For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion (rahamim gedolim). I will bring you back. In a surge of anger, I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness (hesed olam) (or forever loving kindness) I will have compassion (rahamim) on you,” says the Lord your Redeemer.”
God’s Reversals
Aka – “Restoration”