Heb 4: 16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
The final product of every covenant with God is the delivery of help we seek from him. Mercy is that door that leads to that help of God.
Without mercy it would be difficult for humans to sustain covenant responsibilities.
Sacrifice and offerings alone cannot guarantee our covenant dreams, but the mercy of God can complete the assignment. (Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.)
God’s covenant with man is rooted on mercy and not human perfection.
Psalms 89: 28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. Without mercy covenant will collapse under human weakness and failure. (Psalms 39:5….. verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity.)
- Mercy covers covenant failures: because every covenant has conditions, when there’s failure, mercy provides restoration when those conditions are broken.
- Mercy opens the doors that obedience alone cannot open.
Roms 9:15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
- Mercy opens the door of grace and favor
In Gen 6:8. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Though that whole generation was guilty of corruption and wickedness which condemned them, but one and his household out of mercy of God escape.
2Peter 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; 7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
Noah and Lot were treated differently not because they were righteous, though they were perfect but because mercy was added to their righteousness (Isaiah 64: 6 But we are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags;)
- Keeping of Covenant is not by power: It takes grace; therefore, mercy helps us to fine that grace to help in time of need. (Heb 4:16,)
Mercy governs human response in covenant
God expect those covenant practitioner to show mercy because that’s the way it works. Mtt 5:7
Luk 6:36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. 37
Forgive those who offend you as your show of mercy.
Conclusion: Try to live free minded towards everyone regardless of what they did or what they are doing.