Wow!!!! Skinski apparrently you do not understand the Mercy of God. For Christ said it to the religous leaders of that day while here on earth exposing that we all have sinned and no way in and of yourself can anyone make it to heaven by thier own efforts to be righteous. Only God the Father can claim you,me or anyone else righteous and it has always through out time been by Faith in Him Hebrews 11 does well in the explanation
Exodus 33:19And the Lord said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have
mercy on whom I will have
mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
It takes begging and pleading, knowing you need God that the onlyother wayto heaven is as a torso:
Matthew 5:29 If your right eye causes you to stumble,
gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
Matthew 18:9
And if your eye causes you to stumble,
gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
Matthew 5:30 And if your right hand causes you to stumble,
cut it
off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.
Matthew 18:8 If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble,
cut it
off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.
Mark 9:43
If your hand causes you to stumble,
cut it
off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out.
Mark 9:45 And if your foot causes you to stumble,
cut it
off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.
Psalm 6:2
Have
mercy on me, Lord, for I am faint; heal me, Lord, for my bones are in agony.
Psalm 6:9The Lord has heard my cry for
mercy; the Lord accepts my prayer.
Psalm 9:13
Lord, see how my enemies persecute me! Have
mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,
Psalm 28:2Hear my cry for
mercy as I call to you for help, as I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
Psalm 28:6
Praise be to the Lord, for he has heard my cry for
mercy.
Psalm 30:8To you, Lord, I called; to the Lord I cried for
mercy:
Psalm 31:22
- In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from your sight!” Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help.
Psalm 31:21-23 (in Context) Psalm 31 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
- Psalm 40:11Do not withhold your mercy from me, Lord; may your love and faithfulness always protect me
Psalm 41:4I said, “Have mercy on me, Lord; heal me, for I have sinned against you.”
Micah 7:18Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.
Micah 6:8He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
Matthew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful,for they will be shown mercy.
Matthew 9:13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Matthew 9:27[ Jesus Heals the Blind and the Mute ] As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”
Matthew 12:7 If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.
Matthew 15:22A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.”
Matthew 17:15“Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water.
Matthew 18:33 Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’
Matthew 20:30Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
Matthew 20:31The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
Matthew 23:23 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
I hope you are listening Skinski, there are many more Scriptures concerning MERCY which is what God has had on all not only those that have sought it knowing they are not righteous and in need of the savior Jesus Christ
Be careful please that you have not become like the Pharisees kicking widows out of thier homes and as well telling others never mind taking care of your parents give tithe here first.
It is by Mercy that I have anbd am saved even if I sin, never wanting to though, therefore I cast all my cares on Christ through the Holy Ghost, and Father takes care of me showing methe way in him towalk by him wothout Law for he is the Law giverand is why he put the Law in pace to the first chosen so they cpould see thier need that they need God. Was never actually given to te Gentile tha Law that is! Faith in God was given tous the Gentile us without the law naturallly do the Law by trust in God by the Love of God.
I am sorry that you yourself claiming to be born again are not showing it by preaching the letterr of the Law. I hope you go to God knowing you need God and do see yourself who are under the Law that you can't obey before saved after saved saved
Ex: for you put ten ping pong balls in a tub of water and hold all ten down under water at the same time with just your hands! impossible yes? that it what God is trying to show by the Law of Moses oh and there are 613 commandments. Also without you showing Mercy suffer a witch and kill her
I Love you Skinski and am not condemning you I have been shown Mercy for that is what I needed and love Mercy doing my bestand trusting God the Fatrher of Christ to keepme humble and not LEGALISTIC
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The last sacrifice for sin was and is back at the cross, there is no more shedding of blood and there is no forgiveness without the shedding of blood it is wise to read it in Hebrews start at chapter 9 see the new covennan t we are under through the cross through chapter 10 the whole world has been foirgiven at the cross reconciled read romans 5:10 where it states we are saved by the life not the deathand this by MERCY from God and is a free gift