In this episode, Cherry Campbell delves deep into the incredibly generous concepts of grace and mercy, illustrating their significance in our spiritual journey. We learn that grace is an unearned, lavishly poured-out gift that brings abundance into our lives, while mercy offers compassion and forgiveness even when undeserved. This episode doesn’t only teach about receiving these gifts; it also inspires us to extend kindness and forgiveness to others, reflecting divine love in our own actions.
00:00:00 Introduction to the Spiritual Law of Love
Good morning. Welcome to Victorious Faith. I’m Cherri Campbell. This morning, I’m going to continue sharing with you lesson number 11 that I taught in a class called The Kingdom of God. And in this lesson number 11, we are giving a summary of the spiritual law of love. So join me now in our live class for the continuation of lesson number 11, a summary of the spiritual law of love. It is his grace that gives undeservingly. We don’t earn it. It is free. Free. Free means you don’t pay for it. You don’t earn it. You don’t work for it. It’s all of his benefits and blessings just poured out and lavished. lavished abundantly. That’s part of the definition of grace. It means to lavish abundantly. He lavishes abundantly His grace, His favors, His benefits on us that we can’t earn one of them. So all we do is we say, Lord, I ask for Your grace and I receive Your free grace, Your free abundant provision of grace in my life. And then He just abundantly supplies abundantly All that we need. Hallelujah. Amen. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Amen. Then 2 Corinthians 9, verse 8 says, God is able to make all grace abound. Grace abound to you. This isn’t after you get to heaven. It’s here on the earth. We don’t have to wait until we go to heaven to get all grace abounding to us. As we’ve already talked about, the kingdom of God is on earth. Jesus came and Jesus said, the kingdom of God has come. And he said, Father, let your will be done on earth. as it is in heaven. Jesus said, the kingdom of God has come to you. It has arrived. It’s here. And that is all that’s available. That means all that’s available in the kingdom of God is now available to us right here on earth. In this life, we can receive it. And he has made all grace abound to us. Hallelujah. Amen. Verse 14 and 15 say, this is 2 Corinthians 9, verse 14 and 15. And in their prayers for you, their hearts will go out to you because of the surpassing grace. The surpassing grace God has given you. You know, surpassing, that means to go above and beyond. Surpassing means to go beyond something else. Go over and above anything else. That is God’s grace. It is surpassing. He says, because of the surpassing grace God has given you, thanks be to God for his indescribable gift. This is a free gift. Everybody say free. Free. Free. It’s free. Everybody say free again. Free. Say it again. Free. We don’t earn this. This is a free gift. It is by grace. Grace means that everything God gives to us is free. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Amen. Then Ephesians chapter 1 verses 6, 7, and 8. Ephesians 1, 6-8, to the praise of his glorious grace, his glorious grace, which he has freely given us. This grace is glorious. It is magnificent, but it is glorious. He has freely given us in the one he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood. The forgiveness of sins in accordance with the riches of God’s grace. So God’s grace supplies riches, benefits, blessings, favors. Verse 7 says the riches of God’s grace. Verse 8 that he lavished. On us. With all wisdom and understanding. He didn’t lavish on us foolishly. You know some people say. Oh you’re foolish to lavish those things. On your children. But God has lavished on us. With wisdom and understanding. Hallelujah. Amen. So the riches of his grace, and the definition in the Greek of this word riches is wealth, money, and possessions. If you look it up in the Greek dictionary, this word riches means wealth, money, and possessions. So the riches of his grace, the wealth and the money and the provisions and the supply of his grace, he lavishes on us with wisdom and understanding. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Amen. Praise the Lord. So we want to establish that this grace is not of works. It cannot be earned. You don’t earn it. You don’t pay for it. It is a free, free gift. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. So when we operate by love, we also operate by grace. Grace means what we do for others, they don’t earn. They don’t merit. They don’t work for. You say, well, I’m not doing that for them. They’ve never been nice to me. Well, grace does it anyway because they don’t have to merit or earn your favor. That’s what God did. We didn’t earn his favor. And so for us to operate in grace, we do kind acts, benevolent acts, good deeds, blessing other people, even when they don’t deserve it. Even when they haven’t earned it, when they haven’t been nice to us, if they haven’t been kind to us. That is when we act in grace towards others. That’s okay. I’m just going to give it to you anyway. I’m just going to bless you with this gift. And that’s when we are operating in grace. Hallelujah. Amen. Now also love shows mercy. Mercy is a fruit of love. Now, what is mercy? Mercy is the inward feeling of compassion, compassion in the heart to do kindness and goodwill, especially towards those who are miserable or afflicted with a desire to relieve them. of their misery or their affliction or their pain so it is humanitarian what the world calls today humanitarian even the world and I thank God for our nation that is doing a lot of humanitarian aid to other nations it is the compassion in the heart toward those who are in misery or pain or affliction with the desire to relieve them of their pain and affliction, to help bring them out and to meet their needs. So we would call that humanitarian aid, but the Bible calls that mercy. These are actually mercy ministries. And so it is relieving the distress of other people. It also includes forgiveness. Mercy on a person also extends forgiveness. For example, when a court or a judge shows mercy on someone who is actually guilty of doing something and the judge pardons his crime, that is mercy. It is forgiving what that person was actually found guilty of doing wrong. And so mercy also shows forgiveness. So let’s look first of all at the Lord’s mercy and his great, his enormous mercy. mercy toward us I just had a picture in my mind of how big God is and how small the earth is when you think of the whole universe and all the stars and all the planets and all the galaxies all the galaxies in the universe and you pin it down to our galaxy and then in our galaxy you come down to our little planet our planet is like a little speck of dust in all the universe And yet God has focused his attention on our planet, on this planet, planet Earth. God has focused his attention. And here we are, mankind on the Earth, made of dust, made from the dirt of the ground. Over 6.5 billion, about 6.7 or 6.8 billion people in the world And God sees everyone. God sees every person from the poorest nation to the richest, from the bush in the islands to the jungles of Africa to the cities of the developed countries. God sees every person. His mercy is extending to everyone. Psalm 103 verse 8 says, The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and plenteous in mercy. Plenteous in mercy. Now this is the King James Version. He is merciful, gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. Verse 11 says, For as high as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. And verse 17 says, but the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him. Now, his mercy is available to everybody. But only those who receive his mercy by repentance receive. receive his forgiveness. In Micah chapter 7 verse 18, this is Micah, the little prophet Micah, chapter 7 verse 18, says, “…who 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.” God is eager to show mercy. And in another place it says His mercies are new every morning. Every morning. Every day, you know, when we wake up in the morning, God has a brand new mercy. It doesn’t matter how much we failed the day before. When we wake up in the morning and the sun is shining, God has brand new, I think of it like a brand new store of mercy to pour all over us again. His mercies are new every morning. And he delights to show mercy. To delight in something means you take joy. It gives you joy to do it. So it gives God joy to show mercy. His great mercy. Hallelujah. So we also are called to show mercy. In Matthew 5, verse 7, it says, Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. You know, the word of God says if you are not merciful to others, God cannot show mercy to you. If we are unmerciful, if we hold other people in a strict judgment, condemning them for their faults and their failures, then we will also be judged with the same judgment that we will not be able to receive mercy. So blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy. So this reminds me that whenever I see other people’s failures or shortcomings, I say, Lord, have mercy on them because I also need mercy. Amen. Amen. Luke chapter 6, verse 36. Luke 6, 36 says, Be merciful just as your Father is merciful. We are called and commanded to be merciful. Now, mercy forgives, as we already said, and God forgives us. He forgives us liberally of all of our sins and transgressions. Isaiah 43, verse 25. Isaiah 43, verse 25 says, I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions. blots out your transgressions for my own sake and remembers your sins no more. I remember your sins no more. What you just heard was a continuation of lesson number 11 that I taught in a class called the kingdom of God. And this lesson number 11 is a summary of the spiritual law of love. And we will continue this lesson again tomorrow. So join me again tomorrow and remember God loves you. You are blessed and highly favored by the Lord.
