Summary: To show that it's all GOD's Divine effort to cleanse us by using His Mercy and Truth - the LORD JESUS CHRIST and the Fear of the LORD enables us to turn away from evil.

I. EXORDIUM:

Do you have reverential fear of the LORD? Do you trust and depend on GOD's Mercy and God's Truth alone?

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To show that it's all GOD's Divine effort to cleanse us by using His Mercy and Truth - the LORD JESUS CHRIST and the Fear of the LORD enables us to turn away from evil.

IV. TEXT:

Proverbs 16:6 (Amplified Bible)

16:6 By mercy and love, truth and fidelity [to God and man—not by sacrificial offerings], iniquity is purged out of the heart, and by the reverent, worshipful fear of the Lord men depart from and avoid evil.

V. THESIS:

Praise, worship and thank You very much LORD JESUS because of You, You are Mercy, Truth and Fear of the LORD in us that cleanses evil away from us and we depart from evil because You are the One doing it through us.

VI. TITLE:

Mercy, Truth and Fear of the LORD

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Authors: Credited generally to King Solomon before his character downfall/decline.

B. Date written: from 931 to 686 B.C.

C. Purpose: To give moral instruction

D. Main Theme: Fear of the LORD

VIII. MAIN BODY:

A. By Mercy and Truth, iniquity is purged

"By mercy and love, truth and fidelity [to God and man—not by sacrificial offerings], iniquity is purged out of the heart,"

Mercy or "chesed" in Hebrew means:

1. kindness

2. piety - is a compound of veneration or reverence of the Supreme Being and love of his character, or veneration accompanied with love; and piety in practice, is the exercise of these affections in obedience to his will and devotion to his service.

3. reproof or beauty

4. favor, good deed, kindness, merciful, mercy, pity, reproach

Truth or "emeth" in Hebrew means:

1. stability

2. certainty, truth, trustworthiness, faithful, right, sure, verity.

Our LORD JESUS CHRIST is Mercy and Truth Personified.

John 14:6 (Amplified Bible)

14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me.

2 John 1:3 (Amplified Bible)

1:3 Grace (spiritual blessing), mercy, and [soul] peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ (the Messiah), the Father’s Son, in all sincerity (truth) and love.

Jude 1:21 (Amplified Bible)

1:21 Guard and keep yourselves in the love of God; expect and patiently wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah)—[which will bring you] unto life eternal.

Only JESUS has the real mercy, because He Himself is Mercy. This CHRISTmas don't be deceived by another jesus bringing a gospel of hope and mercy to the world, and we have even count down on his arrival. Only JESUS is the Real Mercy.

2 Corinthians 11:4 (Amplified Bible)

11:4 For [you seem readily to endure it] if a man comes and preaches another Jesus than the One we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the [Spirit] you [once] received or a different gospel from the one you [then] received and welcomed; you tolerate [all that] well enough!

CHRIST is the Mercy Seat in the Old Testament.

Exodus 25:17-22 (Amplified Bible)

25:17 And you shall make a mercy seat (a covering) of pure gold, two cubits and a half long and a cubit and a half wide.

25:18 And you shall make two cherubim (winged angelic figures) of [solid] hammered gold on the two ends of the mercy seat.

25:19 Make one cherub on each end, making the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat, on the two ends of it.

25:20 And the cherubim shall spread out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, facing each other and looking down toward the mercy seat.

25:21 You shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony [the Ten Commandments] that I will give you.

25:22 There I will meet with you and, from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are upon the ark of the Testimony, I will speak intimately with you of all which I will give you in commandment to the Israelites.

All Divine effort and zero human effort on us. We are cleansed by the body and blood of the LORD JESUS CHRIST. Don't be deceived by some unmarried old man dressed in white trying to deceive you that he can hear your whispers and turn them to prayers to GOD. It's a deception. It's only by GOD's Mercy and Truth we are cleansed only by the name of JESUS and no other name, no other mercy, no other truth, there's only One Truth - the LORD JESUS CHRIST. He is not some old man dressed in robe of white fully guarded and riding in a cab with bullet-proof glass and paraded in front of the people that raised his hands to blessed them.

John 15:2 (Amplified Bible)

15:2 Any branch in Me that does not bear fruit [that stops bearing] He cuts away (trims off, takes away); and He cleanses and repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more and richer and more excellent fruit.

B. By the Fear of the LORD, men depart from evil

"and by the reverent, worshipful fear of the Lord men depart from and avoid evil"

Fear or "yirah" in Hebrew means:

1. fear

2. morally reverence

Depart or "soor soor" in Hebrew means:

1. to turn off

2. bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew - to flee from; to shun; to avoid

1 John 1:7-8 (Amplified Bible)

1:7 But if we [really] are living and walking in the Light, as He [Himself] is in the Light, we have [true, unbroken] fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses (removes) us from all sin and guilt [keeps us cleansed from sin in all its forms and manifestations].

1:8 If we say we have no sin [refusing to admit that we are sinners], we delude and lead ourselves astray, and the Truth [which the Gospel presents] is not in us [does not dwell in our hearts].

If you claim you know CHRIST personally and have relationship with the LORD JESUS CHRIST then you will turn off evil in you and turn on the LORD JESUS CHRIST - the Light of this world. The correct declaration is "I'm a sinner, but I obtained Grace, Mercy and Truth from GOD and I'm saved by His Grace.

What does the "Fear of the LORD" does to us?

1. Hatred of evil, pride, arrogance, evil way, perverted and twisted speech

Proverbs 8:13 (Amplified Bible)

8:13 The reverent fear and worshipful awe of the Lord [includes] the hatred of evil; pride, arrogance, the evil way, and perverted and twisted speech I hate.

2. Avoids snares of death

Proverbs 14:27 (Amplified Bible)

14:27 Reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, that one may avoid the snares of death.

3. Example of Governor Nehemiah: He never stole from GOD's people.

Nehemiah 5:15 (Amplified Bible)

5:15 But the former governors lived at the expense of the people and took from them food and wine, besides forty shekels of silver [a large monthly official salary]; yes, even their servants assumed authority over the people. But I did not so because of my [reverent] fear of God.

How many governors can say that now? That he never stole from the people?

4. Gave us Wisdom

Job 28:28 (Amplified Bible)

28:28 But to man He said, Behold, the reverential and worshipful fear of the Lord—that is Wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

5. Enables us to cleanse ourselves from all dirt that contaminates and defiles body and spirit. Brings us complete consecration.

2 Corinthians 7:1 (Amplified Bible)

7:1 THEREFORE, SINCE these [great] promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates and defiles body and spirit, and bring [our] consecration to completeness in the [reverential] fear of God.

6. Subjection to one another

Ephesians 5:21 (Amplified Bible)

5:21 Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

IX. CONCLUSION:

Praise, worship and thank You very much LORD JESUS because of You, You are Mercy, Truth and Fear of the LORD in us that cleanses evil away from us and we depart from evil because You are the One doing it through us.

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