{"id":6298,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/jesus-the-incarnate-mercy-of-god\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:12","slug":"jesus-the-incarnate-mercy-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/jesus-the-incarnate-mercy-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus: The Incarnate Mercy of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How Christ\u2019s death on the cross satisfies God\u2019s justice and mercy.<\/p>\n<p>1. Jesus\u2019 death on the Cross provides the ultimate demonstration of God\u2019s mercy.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the prayer, \u201cshow me your glory\u201d brings us to the Lord Jesus.  For in Jesus we see the very same qualities that God proclaimed to Moses in dynamic human form.  In Jesus we also see wonderfully fulfilled the sovereign mercy of God, grace to the totally undeserving.<\/p>\n<p>2. The Cost of God\u2019s Mercy.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does the Lord Jesus Christ perfectly fulfill and reveal the mercy of God in His character and life, but He perfectly vindicates it in His death.  This dilemma is at the heart of our understanding of Jesus\u2019 death on the Cross, for that is where the justice and mercy of God meet.  Jesus\u2019 death is to be understood as a \u201csacrifice of atonement\u201d.  Jesus\u2019 death shows that God\u2019s mercy is not opposition to His justice, but is in harmony with it through Jesus\u2019 death.  Since God\u2019s mercy is so costly, let us value it, let us believe and embrace it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Christ\u2019s death on the cross satisfies God\u2019s justice and mercy. 1. Jesus\u2019 death on the Cross provides the ultimate demonstration of God\u2019s mercy. Ultimately, the prayer, \u201cshow me your glory\u201d brings us to the Lord Jesus. For in Jesus we see the very same qualities that God proclaimed to Moses in dynamic human form. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[244,1451,712,1098,297,1453,1452,1455,1454,1456],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}