Mercy Beggars

Q: What does the Bible say about mercy and grace?

Mercy is God's withholding of what we deserve, while grace is His giving us what we do not deserve. In the sermon, it is emphasized that mercy and grace are foundational concepts in understanding our relationship with God. Mercy is specifically described as receiving something good that we do not deserve, while grace is having God's favor bestowed upon us, as illustrated by Noah's experience in Genesis 6:8. Understanding both allows believers to appreciate the depth of salvation—mercy not giving us the punishment we deserve for sin, and grace granting us the blessings we do not deserve.

Q: How do we know Christ saves sinners?

Christ is always willing to save sinners who genuinely seek Him in need of mercy. The sermon underscores that Christ never turns away those who come to Him pleading for mercy, as seen in the healing of the leper in Mark 1:40-45. The preacher illustrates that the leper, in his desperate state, recognized his need for cleansing and approached Christ with faith. This demonstrates that salvation is a matter of divine mercy and grace, and it is the recognition of our helplessness that draws us to the Savior. Scripture teaches that only through Christ can we be cleansed from our sins and restored to God.

Q: Why is it important to understand our sinfulness?

Understanding our sinfulness is crucial for recognizing our need for Christ's saving grace. The sermon portrays sin as a disease akin to leprosy, which utterly corrupts and separates us from God (Isaiah 59:2). This understanding is essential because it drives us toward Christ for healing and redemption. The acknowledgment of our sinful nature allows us to comprehend the depth of Christ's grace. We are reminded that our best efforts are as 'filthy rags' (Isaiah 64:6) in God's sight, highlighting the necessity for a Savior who can cleanse us and provide the righteousness required for acceptance with God. Thus, accepting our true condition is a starting point for genuine faith and salvation.

Q: What does it mean to be a 'mercy beggar'?

'Mercy beggars' refer to those who humbly approach God acknowledging their need for His mercy. In the message, the term 'mercy beggars' aptly describes believers who recognize their absolute need for God's mercy and grace in their lives. Just as the leper cried out to Jesus for cleansing, all who come to faith do so by understanding their unworthiness and pleading for mercy. This humility before God signifies a total reliance on Christ's work and affirms that salvation is not earned but freely given. The essence of being a mercy beggar is the understanding that without Christ, we have no hope, and acknowledging this state is crucial to experiencing true redemption.

Q: How does Christ's healing of the leper illustrate spiritual truths?

Christ's healing of the leper symbolizes the spiritual cleansing from sin offered to all who come to Him. The healing of the leper in Mark 1 serves as a profound illustration of Christ's ability to cleanse sinners of their spiritual disease. The sermon explains that just as the leper faced isolation and despair due to an incurable illness, so too are we affected by the sinful condition that separates us from God. The immediate healing of the leper upon Christ's touch symbolizes the instantaneous and complete nature of spiritual salvation. In essence, Jesus shows that He is willing and able to touch the 'unclean' and transform lives, affirming that His death and resurrection provide the ultimate solution to our spiritual ailment.

We're back to Mark chapter 1. Mark chapter 1. The title of this message is this, Mercy Beggars, Mercy Beggars. When I read this story, and it says He beseeched Him, He begged Him, beseeching, begging. And I thought of this. This is exactly what we are. This describes us. All those whom the Lord saves, it describes them. They are mercy beggars.

That is, we are asking the Lord for something we don't deserve. That's what mercy is. getting something you don't deserve. Grace is having God's favor, you have found favor in God's sight. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord, he found favor in God's sight and mercy is God not giving you what you deserve and giving you what you don't deserve, giving you what you don't deserve.

Now a great deal has already taken place in Mark chapter 1. We have seen the appearance of the forerunner, John the Baptist. We have seen the baptism of Christ and the Holy Spirit coming down in the form of a dove and lighting on his shoulder. We have seen the temptation of the Lord Jesus Christ in the wilderness by Satan. We have Christ preaching in Galilee. He went through Galilee and preached the gospel.

We have the calling of His first disciples when He said to them, come follow me, and they jumped out of the boat and followed Him. No argument, they just jumped out of the boat and followed Him. You know, when Christ calls, when He calls in power, when the call goes out in power, you're going to follow Christ. you're going to respond to that call when it comes in power because he said, my word will not return to me void. It'll accomplish what I have sent it to accomplish. It won't return void. And if God has sent his word this morning to call you, you're going to answer. You're going to answer.

And we see in the calling of his first disciples, we see him preaching in the synagogue. And He cast out the unclean spirit from that man in the synagogue. The healing of Peter's mother-in-law. She had a great fever, it says. And He just took her by the hand and lifted her up. And immediately she went and started serving them. And then we see the healing of many diseases and the casting out of devils.

And now here we see another miracle and these miracles now we let's not lose sight of this these miracles they all have spiritual implications because you know the lord said in one place what does a prophet man if you if you if you heal the body and you end up perishing what what good is that what good is that it's the healing of the soul It's giving spiritual sight. It's giving spiritual ears that you can hear Him when the gospel is preached. You don't just hear me when the gospel is preached.

If the Holy Spirit is in this, here's how you know. The Lord Jesus Christ will be preached. That's how you know. When the Holy Spirit is in it, Christ is getting the glory. He's getting the honor. He said, He'll take the things of mine, the Holy Spirit will take the things of mine and show them, reveal them to you. That's how you know the Holy Spirit is present, is when Jesus Christ is being glorified, when He's being preached. That's how you know it. And now we come to this healing and cleansing of this leper.

I looked up this matter of leprosy on the internet. First of all, I looked up what does leprosy look like in its advanced stages. It's repulsive. And yet at the same time, when I was looking at this person who was in the advanced stages of leprosy, I felt for them. I thought, this is a real person. This is a person who feels. This is a person who's had a family. This could be a person who's been married and have children. And I thought, how devastating. I just looked at that picture and it was just, it's a devastating picture to look at in its advanced stages.

But this matter of leprosy is used as a picture of sin, what we are by nature in the scriptures. And I'll show you this as we go along. But leprosy is known today as Hanson's disease. I looked this up. And leprosy is a chronic infection that attacks the skin, the nerves, the eyes, and tissues of the body.

In its advanced stages, it causes severe deformity. Look it up on the internet when you go home. When you have time, look it up in its advanced stages. It's devastating. It causes nerve damage, blindness, and isolation, and it slowly consumes the whole person. and then death.

But leprosy is a picture of sin, it's a picture of what the soul without Christ looks like before God. You know, we look in the mirror, we don't see that, we see, you know, dressed up fine, but oh, what God sees, what God sees. And when God saves a sinner, He, in a measure, in a measure because we can't see that we couldn't handle the full-blown sight of ourselves but in a measure he lets us see something of what we are in his sight in a measure we couldn't we couldn't handle the full sight couldn't handle it now leprosy listen spreads through the whole man leprosy may begin small A little white spot, if you go over to Leviticus 13 and 14, it speaks of leprosy. And you have the law of leprosy and cleansing. How it's cleansed and how the priest handles it and how the person who has leprosy handles it and the offerings. It's over in Leviticus.

But it begins small, sometimes a little white spot. It can just be a little white spot on the arm, the hand, the forehead. It can just be a little white spot. But over time, left alone, and in that day there was no human cure for it. But over time, it affects the entire body. And sin works the same way, doesn't it? It works the same way. What appears small in the beginning. And when I thought of that, I wrote that down. Sin appears small in the beginning, and I thought of an infant. It looks so innocent, doesn't it? Is there anything that looks more innocent than a baby? But as it grows up, that sin comes out. That nature comes out. That nature that's there comes out.

The scripture says they are born with a poison of asp under their tongue. It's there in its beginning, but as time goes on, my, It eventually reveals itself throughout the whole person. Luke says of this man that he was full of leprosy. This man was leprosy from head to toe. He was in the advanced stages is what he was.

And sin does not, listen, sin does not merely affect us outwardly, just our bodies. We are sinners by nature. And therefore it affects us inwardly. Are we not full of sin? Does that not what the scripture teach? We're full of sin. And here's the painful reality of sin. We feel our uncleanness. Everyone that's a leper, especially in its advanced stages, they feel their uncleanness. They feel it. David said this in Psalm 51, My sin is ever before me. It's ever before me.

Thank God through the blood of Christ my sins put away and it's never before God anymore. We can't comprehend that can we? But when Christ put away our sins God said our sins were cast behind His back. Our sins are not before God. They are before me. I know my sins. I know when I sin. The Holy Spirit makes us know when we sin.

But God has put them away. Everyone whom He saves, their sins are gone. They've been dealt with at Calvary. God dealt with my sins. I believe the Lord has saved me. If not, you're in trouble. And all of you who believe, When Christ died on that cross, your sins are gone. There's nothing on the books against you.

But my sin, David's here talking about his sin with Bathsheba and having her husband killed. Nathan the prophet came and he said, to make the long story short, he said, Thou art the man. You know what he said? But thou shalt not die. God, He said, has put away your sin. How did He do that? Jesus Christ is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Why do you think when Adam fell, when Adam fell in the garden, he rebelled against God? Why was there not thunder and lightning like there was on Mount Sinai? I'll tell you why there was not thunder and lightning and immediate death. It says that Adam heard the voice of God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. It sounds like peace and tranquility, doesn't it? I'll tell you why.

God already took care of the matter. Before He created the heavens and the earth, this matter of sin had been taken care of in eternity past in the covenant of grace. In time, it was taken care of at the cross. And then we experience it when we are born of God.

We experience that. But we feel our uncleanness and we feel the pain of it. It affects the mind. Oh, I wish I had my mind. Do you realize what a marvelous thing the mind is? And yet we have very little use of it because of sin. Think about when this life is over and we have, it says, the mind of Christ, we have perfect use of the mind.

Adam was a genius before he fell. I know we have people they call geniuses today. Adam was a true genius. He named all the animals. God brought them all in front of him, and whatever Adam named them, that's their name to this day. But the sin has affected the mind, the body, the sickness we have, the aging, that's because of sin. We age because of sin. The soul, and that's what, it's me, I am a soul, I'm not, I don't have one, I am one. Adam became a living soul and got breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.

Our affections, my, the things we love we ought not to love. You talking about those ding-dongs at your house, all those chocolate cakes. I mean, I could eat a box of them. I love them. It's like death in a box, but I love them. We ought not to love.

Our affections, our sin has affected our minds, our bodies, our soul, our affections. Why don't we love God with all our heart, all our mind, all our soul? Nobody ever has but one person, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ loved God like I ought to have loved God. He obeyed every law of God and He went to the cross to die for my sins. And you know what? He's my righteousness. Jesus Christ is my righteousness before God. It's not my doing good. It's He did it in my place. He kept God's law in my place. He did it. And that's my righteousness before God.

I can't do anything without sin. I can't do it. You and I cannot even get through this service without sin. Your mind will wonder. Your mind will not be completely on what I'm saying. You will not be on the Word of God. You'll be thinking, where are we going for lunch? That's sin. and sin. We can't give our complete attention one time and for 35-40 minutes we cannot give complete attention to the Word of God. This is God's Word I read to you, it's God speaking.

And yet our minds just wonder, thoughts come into our mind, I'm so glad for Jesus Christ. I'm glad that salvation is all of grace. He's all my salvation. He's all my righteousness. He's all my hope. Jesus Christ. It's not me and Him. It's Him. It's not me cooperating with Him. It's Him. I did the sinning. He did the saving. I'm so glad God saved me without asking me. Aren't you? I'm glad He saved me one day and didn't say, John, would you accept me as your personal He didn't say that. He just saved me, and then I asked Him to save me.

That's amazing. My pastor said one time, when grace quits being amazing grace, it quits being grace. It's not grace no more, if it's not amazing grace. And the older I get, the more amazing it is. Listen, we feel our uncleanness, we feel the pain of it, we know our inability, as Isaiah said in Isaiah 64, verse 6, all our righteousnesses, the best you can do, he said, are as filthy rags in God's sight. And we see sin for the first time when God saves us, we see sin for what it truly is, it's a disgrace, It's a danger and it's a disgust before God. That's what sin is.

And this leprosy had no human cure. At that time there was no cure for leprosy. The law, listen, the leper had to go before the law, before the priest, high priest or priest. And the law could only declare a man clean or unclean. The law can't cleanse anybody, can it? If you commit a crime and you go down to the courthouse, the law is not going to cleanse you from that crime. It's going to say guilty or not guilty. And if you're not guilty, it's because you didn't do it. You're not guilty. But it can't heal you. The law cannot heal you.

Now Leviticus chapter 13 verse 44 and 46 describes the leper. His clothes were to be rent. His clothes, he couldn't be dressed up like this and try to hide. You know, he might have some leprosy on his skin here. And he could put a shirt on or put the clothes on like this and you'd never know it. You'd never know he's a leper. We can dress up pretty good, can't we? There's a lot of things we can hide. BUT HE IS TO RENT HIS CLOTHES, HE'S TO UNCOVER HIS HEAD, AND HE'S TO COVER HIS LIP, AND HE'S TO GO DOWN THE STREET, WHEN HE GOES DOWN THE STREET, HE'S TO CRY UNCLEAN, UNCLEAN! HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO THAT?

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO TO THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE, AND HE SAYS YOU HAVE LEPROSY, AND YOU HAVE TO CRY Unclean unclean to everybody that's coming your way and everybody it's like everybody parts You don't want to be around you didn't want to You don't want to be touched because if a leper touched anybody they were called unclean considered unclean for a certain amount of time Then he lived outside the camp separated from others separated from his family this could be a man Who has a wife he has children and He's got to be separated from them.

He can never touch them. He can never hug them. He has to go outside to camp. See how devastating this is? But what a picture of a sinner, separated from worship, separated from God's people, and separated from fellowship with God. Separated! Listen to Isaiah 59 verse 2. Your sins have separated between you and your God. And the only way this sin issue can be taken care of is at the cross, at Calvary. Sin takes away everything good from us.

Jeremiah 5.25 Your iniquities have withholden good things from you. your iniquities and withholding good things, good things from God, from you. And just as only God could remove leprosy, as in the case of Naaman, only Christ can cleanse and save a sinner. Only Christ can do that. Now leprosy, this was interesting, I got on to this and started searching the scriptures.

I said there was no cure for it in that day. Among the Jews, they wouldn't even try because they considered it as a judgment of God. That's how they looked at it. So they wouldn't even try. Do you remember Miriam, Moses' sister? They complained to Moses and said, we could talk for God as well as you can. And God said, HERD THEM! There's one statement that's in the Old Testament back there, I think it's in Exodus. Anytime I start complaining, I remember this scripture. It says, God heareth your murmuring, and God heard him. You know what he did?

He turned Miriam into a leper. And then Moses, Aaron went to Moses and then Moses prayed to God not to leave her that way. And so he said she had to be separated for seven days and then she came back into the camp and she was clean. But God put leprosy on her. He turned her into a leper.

God did. What about Gehazi? Remember the servant of Elisha? Remember how Naaman was healed and then Naaman wanted to give Elisha all this. He wanted to give him treasures, I mean money. But Elisha, unlike most of the preachers today, would not make gain on the ministry. He wouldn't do it. He wouldn't take it. But old Gehazi, he went after Nehemiah and he said, I'm gonna paraphrase, he said, some people have come by, my master sent me to you to get some of the goods that you were gonna give him. And so he gave him some silver and some clothes and he came back and Elijah said, my spirit went with you. What? Why did you do that? You know what the Lord did? He took the leprosy that was on Naaman and put it on Gehazi the rest of his life.

What about Uzziah the king? He went into the temple to offer incense and the priest stopped him. He's the king and they stopped him because there's only one king priest, Jesus Christ. There's only one that held all three offices, prophet, priest, and king, the Lord Jesus Christ. No one else ever held all three offices. That belongs to Him. But King Uzziah went in and he went to offer incense. And they tried to stop him and he got angry. And you know what happened? The Lord turned him into a leper. He lived in a separate house the rest of his life. So they wouldn't touch it back then. No, no, no. If you'll remember, I just kept tracing these out and it just became more and more interesting.

But the king of Syria sent the king of Israel a letter, it was about Naaman. Remember the maid that told Naaman's wife about there's a prophet in Israel that could heal him of his leprosy. So the king of Syria wrote to the king of Israel and he said, would you come and heal him? And he rent his clothes, the king of Israel rent his clothes, he said, am I God? Am I God? I can't heal him. I can't heal him of leprosy. So they wouldn't even touch leprosy because they thought it was a judgment of God. Now, after I've said all that, I'm going to look at these verses and I'm going to try to be brief. In Mark chapter 1 verse 40 through 45, let's just look down through here and see what we can glean from this spiritually. And there came a leper to him. This leper, he came because of a desperate need. This man was driven to Christ by misery and necessity. That's how those who come to Christ truly, that's how they come. Someone wrote this, ALL THE FITNESS HE REQUIRETH IS TO FILL YOUR NEED OF HIM.

Do you really need Him? I need Jesus Christ. I need Him to save me. I need Him to cleanse me. I need Him to represent me before God. I need Him to be my mediator. I need Him to be my all in all. I need Him. That's what brought me to Him. I need Him. I can't stand before God by myself. this leper he believed the lord could cleanse him and i believe when you come to christ those of you who have come to christ you believed he could save you didn't you you believed that you believed he could cleanse and make you whole and his faith was proven by the fact that he came he came he didn't talk about it he didn't talk he didn't say i'm with some other leper said i believe he could cleanse me Do you realize what he did when he left that colony outside the camp and he came to the Lord? He's not supposed to do that, but he did it anyway. You know, when Mike Bartram's here, I have him to sing this song all the time. I love it.

Give me Christ or else I die. It's Christ or death. Those who never come to Christ are those who have no need of Him. They have no need of Him. Only the sick need a physician. Only the sick. When the Lord makes you sin sick, you'll come to Him. He's the physician of souls. And for this leper, not coming meant certain death. He's going to die. He knew he was going to die. I knew that when I came to Christ, I knew if He didn't save me, I was going to perish. The Lord did this, but for the first time in my life, I became scared to death of dying.

Before that, I never thought about it. I was young. You know what it's like when you're young. Well, if you can remember what it's like when you were young. I was so full of life and energy, and then the Lord crossed my path. And I, boy, all of a sudden, death became very real to me. It became very real. You see, salvation is an urgent matter. Not like Felix who said to Paul, I'll call you again in a more convenient season. That convenient season will never come again. Today is the day of salvation, now is the accepted time. Who said you had tomorrow? Who said you had tomorrow?

Salvation is urgent and until a man or woman sees their true condition, they'll never flee to Christ. But boy, if you see it, you will flee to Christ. You will flee to Him. And then He submitted to the Lord's sovereign will. That's the second thing I learned. You know, everybody was telling me, the Lord wants to save you. Oh, He wants to save you. The Lord wants to save you. Won't you let Him save you? That's what I was told. You know what I found out? Lord, if you will, you can save me. If you will. It's a matter of your will.

He says here, He BOWED TO THE SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY OF JESUS CHRIST. As A.W. Pink said, No man or woman will worship Christ as they bow at His sovereign throne, all others they will bargain with. You see, SALVATION IS OF THE LORD and that's the first thing we have to acknowledge. And this is something If you really realize and understand this, the Lord brought you to this place. The Lord can save me or leave me alone. Can He? He can save me or leave me alone. It's His royal prerogative. He's the King. He's the Sovereign. I'm the subject.

But you'll never read, you'll never read in the Word of God where He ever turned away a sinner in need of mercy, never, never. This leper knew Christ had cleansed others, so why not him? Christ died for sinners, why not this sinner? Christ heals sinners, why not this one? Why not this sinner? Oh my soul, He saves sinners, He doesn't save good people. God said there's not any. And what God said? I didn't write the Bible, He did. He said there's none good, no not one.

I'm one of those no not good. I'm a sinner. Christ died for sinners and He's going to save every sinner He died for. You a sinner? There's a whole lot of people who would not call themselves Christians if they really understood what sinner means. If they really understood BIBLICALLY what it means. They would say, well, I'm not that bad. I'm going to tell you something, however bad you think you are, you're a lot worse. You're a lot worse.

He knew the Lord could save him, and if he was going to be refused, he would be refused by Christ Himself and nobody else. If you'll notice as we go through the Gospels, every one of those whom the Lord saved, He healed, they pushed people out of the way.

Remember that one that was crying after Him, and the disciples said, Make him shut up. You ain't gonna make a sinner, shut up. You do not have to beg a sinner to come down an aisle. You just preach Christ and the Holy Spirit will bring him to Christ. He'll bring him to Christ. Submission to the Lord's will is the beginning of true coming to Christ. Then he believed in Christ's power.

He said, Thou canst make me clean. You can make me clean. You can save me. You can do that. HE KNEW HIS OWN HELPLESSNESS! HE KNOWS I CANNOT DO IT! OTHERS CANNOT DO IT, BUT LORD YOU CAN DO IT! All others had to leave. Just like when the Lord saved that woman at the well. You know what He did? He sent His disciples away. Everybody's got to get out of the way. And it's you and Christ. That's who it is when it comes to salvation. This leper raised no arguments and offered no excuses.

He simply came and worshipped. He fell down at his feet. He knelt down where he belonged, at the feet of Christ. He placed himself entirely in the sovereign hands of the Lord Jesus Christ. He came as a mercy beggar, beseeching Him. Have you ever really begged the Lord for mercy? Have you ever really begged Him to save you? Well, if you have, it's evident he already has. Or you wouldn't be begging at all. You'd be begging for a better job, a bigger house, you know, better all that stuff. But I don't need that. I don't need it. I need Christ.

Because in a little while, I'm going to die. I'm going to die. It says a man's glory will not descend after him. And I'm gonna die and I'm gonna see God for the first time. I don't have to, you know, there's eight billion people on this earth. And I've, very few people I will ever come in contact, compared to eight billion. Everybody's gonna meet God. All judgment's been turned over to the Son. Everybody that has ever lived, that's living, ever shall live, will stand before that man, Jesus Christ.

I wanna deal with him now. I want to deal with him now. And you'll notice what he asks here, he says, Make me clean. Make me clean. Here's what we see, MISERY in the presence of MERCY, HUMILITY PLEADING WITH GRACE, FAITH APPEALING TO FAITHFULNESS, HELPLESSNESS BOWING BEFORE POWER. Then he says here, listen, in verse 41, And Jesus moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him.

Now nobody is going to touch that man, that leper, but the Lord did. The Lord did. The Lord was not repulsed by that leper. Others avoided him, but Christ touched him. Oh, the power of His touch. If the Lord touch you this morning, You're going to know it. You're going to know it. What mercy toward the outcast sinner.

He touched me. Don't we sing a song like that? He touched me. Yeah, he does. He touched me. He did. He touched me nearly 50 years ago. And he's kept his hand on me ever since. A lot of power in a touch. You know, if someone's brokenhearted, You don't always have to say something. You just put your hand on him. And the power of that touch. The power of a hug. Oh, it says a lot. It transmits a lot.

There was power in his touch. You know, throughout the scriptures we see the power of Christ. He touched Peter's mother-in-law. lifted her up and she was made whole. He touched the blind eyes and he gave sight. He touched deaf ears and loosened tongues. And here he touches the leper and it says immediately.

Can you imagine this? I mean, if you go home and look at an advanced stage of leprosy, AND AS THE LORD TOUCHED HIM, AND HE SAID, I WILL BE THOU CLEAN, AND RIGHT BEFORE HIS EYES HE TRANSFORMED INTO A COMPLETELY HEALTHY PERSON. THAT'S WHAT WE ARE SPIRITUALLY. IN CHRIST WE ARE MADE WHOLE. IN CHRIST HE HAS SAVED US. IMMEDIATELY THE LEPROSY DEPARTED FROM HIM. SALVATION IS IMMEDIATE. And when Christ saves, He truly, listen, He truly cleanses. What does that mean? He truly sanctifies. We are justified and sanctified in Christ.

And the Lord told him, and I'm closing, the Lord said to him, go thy way, show thyself to the priest. Why did He say that? Because the ceremonial law was still in effect. He hadn't gone to Calvary yet and died and fulfilled the law. So it's still in effect. So if you go to Leviticus 14, you see what this man had to do. But he did it because Christ hadn't died yet.

The law declared him unclean, and therefore the same law must now declare him clean. Same law. So now when he goes before that priest, he's going to look at him. He'll look at him all over, examine him all over. And he says, you're clean. That's what he'll do.

The law can expose sin, but Christ is the only one who can cleanse it, and then the law has to pronounce us clean. Christ has never turned away a sinner who came to Him seeking mercy, cleansing, and salvation. I'm going to read you two scriptures, I've got them written down here. In Isaiah 118, Come now and let us reason together, saith the Lord, though your sins be as scarlet, THEY SHALL BE WHITE AS SNOW, THOUGH THEY BE RED LIKE CRIMSON, THEY SHALL BE WOOL.

Zechariah 13.1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for cleansing. And we're going to close singing, There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins, where sinners plunge beneath that flood, lose all their guilty states.

Mercy Beggars

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What does the Bible say about mercy and grace?

How do we know Christ saves sinners?

Why is it important to understand our sinfulness?

What does it mean to be a 'mercy beggar'?

How does Christ's healing of the leper illustrate spiritual truths?

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Key Quotes

What does the Bible say about mercy and grace?

How do we know Christ saves sinners?

Why is it important to understand our sinfulness?

What does it mean to be a 'mercy beggar'?

How does Christ's healing of the leper illustrate spiritual truths?

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