INTRO: Our study is of the word "mercy." Read through the Bible and mark the word mercy and you will find it used several hundred times. The word merciful or mercy occurs 304 times in the KJV. Grace or favor occur 233 times, and love 323 times. That may not be quite the same in the original language but still you see some of the importance of these words. The usual thought that is given in the definition of mercy is that mercy is when you don't get what you deserve to get. It is sometimes said like this: Grace is when you get what you don't deserve and mercy is when you don't get what you deserve. I have defined the Biblical concept of mercy like this: Mercy is an action caused by feelings of compassion in one who sees another in a need that person cannot take care of, and the one who sees it can and does provide for that need. The act of mercy satisfies the feelings of compassion in the provider and alleviates the need in the one provided for. If we had a puzzle, and it had a picture of mercy with its related words you would have an event that triggered feelings of compassion through the bowels of the soul. Then you would have this person who has these feelings sitting down and pondering how he or she might rightly take care of those feelings and thus the need. Then, having figured out what to do based on truth, he or she sets about doing that. When it is done, the feelings of compassion are satisfied and the need of the one in trouble is filled.
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