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Seek what belongs to you according to your granted right

Nothing that we receive from God is by merits

23/02/2018

By: Bishop Amaury de Farias

In Matthew 12.9, Jesus is asked about human law for healing a man on a day that the Pharisees thought it was wrong as if it were a law breaking, a crime. Jesus answered them He performed it because it was human right to receive from God above human custom Lord Jesus always wished jus to have everything and no one, none of us have anything by merits. Everything we have is according to God`s mercy. We don`t have merits and we aren`t entitled to that. Merit is a conquest through your own condition or capacity. We don`t have merits, but we have the right. When a thief is shot we can`t celebrate because we can`t justify an immoral, illicit, and criminal act. We never know the reason why someone acts this way. Every citizen`s attitude must be sentenced according to the law.

The Lord`s law says that everyone who gets humiliated will be exalted. Therefore, when we do what God`s Word says and we humiliate ourselves, we will be exalted even though we don`t have moral or merit. We received the right of being blessed but not merits.

We cry out for God for what we have the right. None of us deserves being blessed, and mercy is the right. We have rights with God, which were given to us by Him before His Word. The Bible says that Rehoboam, David`s son, made the mistake of dividing the kingdom, and he didn`t get into a misery, difficult condition, or begging for a piece of bread because he still controlled a tribe and didn`t lose it because of God`s mercy, due to the right of the promise that God made David, his father. God`s Word provides us with rights and we require this right given by God. The scripture tells us if we believe in the Lord Jesus, we will be saved my home and I. According to the right given to us, relatives will be saved as well By Jesus’ side, a criminal asked Jesus to come into His Kingdom and Jesus told him he'd get into it even today. He had no merit and was a thief, just wasn't on active duty because he was nailed, condemned. Mary Magdalene was a prostitute when washed the feet of Jesus. None of them had merit; they received by right granted by the mercy of God through the word.