God Part 20 (Gracious)

INTRO: We have just finished the subject of God's attribute of love. After this message we will only be looking at two more attributes: God's faithfulness and truth. With regard to His love I defined it as rational, not emotional. And you may well say, “Well, if agapee love is rational; if it is a mind thing, is there no positive emotion in God?” Well, we have come to a word that is, as I understand it, based on emotion. It is God's mercy.

We had read for us this morning an incredible passage, Exodus 34:1-9. Let me reread verses 5-7 (read). “Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, ‘The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation.'”