Mercy - Casting Crown HD video free download

Amazing Grace, and that It is. But, God has more for you...His mercy, forgiveness, healing, deliverance, unconditional love and His plan for your life. All of this is 'amazing'. In this video, the song and I dwell on His amazing Mercy.

God gives us what we do not deserve. A companion to His amazing grace is His mercy. Mercy is the act of God by which He withholds what we do deserve. We have sinned against God. We have violated His laws. We have earned the "wages of sin" which is death (Romans 6:23), and we are condemned already if we have not believed in the name of Jesus Christ as our Savior. We have rejected God's love and His Son, Who died for our sins. God has every right to judge us, find us guilty, sentence us to hell, and see to it that we suffer day and night forever.

Daniel, the prophet, declares, "To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him" (Daniel 9:9). The evidence is against us; we have rebelled. We deserve judgment. But, mercy prevails and God withholds the punishment called for by our sin. Jeremiah expresses the same idea by saying, "It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not" (Lamentations 3:22). By God's mercy He withholds His judgment upon our sin.

From whom does He withhold the judgment? From us. Does God get no satisfaction for the wrongs done to Him? He gets full satisfaction, but upon a Substitute. He meted out His judgment of our sin upon his only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, Who "was made sin for us" and Who "bore our sins in His own body on the tree". Christ has died for us, in our place, paying our penalty, so that God can withhold from us our deserved judgment. Mercy avails for us and we go free the very moment we trust Jesus Christ as our personal Savior. Of course, we need to consciously walk and live our lives for Him. You see, then, mercy delivers you only if you receive Christ as your Redeemer. You must believe that He died for your sins, that He died in your place, to pay your penalty. Trusting nothing of your own position or effort, you must receive Jesus Christ, by faith, as your own personal Savior. Rejecting God's mercy allows sin, when it is finished, to bring forth death and God will not temper His judgment.