Your Ministry of Mercy - Part 2
6/17/202628 min
Most people think mercy means forgiving people who don't deserve it or helping people who can't help themselves. Those are two definitions of mercy, but Pastor Rick wants you to understand through this message the many facets of mercy so that you can apply them to your relationships.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope with Rick Warren. We are so glad you're here with us today. We're going to continue our series called The Keys to a Blessed Life. Now, in these messages, Rick walks through Jesus's Sermon on the Mount and shows us how to live a truly hopeful and purpose-filled life. All right, now here's the final part of the message Your Ministry of Mercy.
Rick Warren· Host0:26
You know, there's a famous story about President Abraham Lincoln's mercy, that, uh, after the Southern states were defeated by the Northern states in the Civil War in America 150 years ago, President Lincoln, uh, spoke to a crowd, uh, in Washington, D.C. from the balcony of the White House, and he was laying out how, uh, his plan for reconstruction. And at the end of his speech, a very famous senator from Iowa, whose name was James Harlan, shouted out, "And what do we do with the rebels? What do we do with these Confederates who had started this whole war in the first place?" And the unmerciful crowd shouted back, "Hang them. Hang them. Hang them." And what was interesting in this famous story is that Lincoln's youngest son, Tad, who was 11 at the time, was standing next to him, and he said ... looked up at his daddy and he said, "No, Daddy.