Talk

Moving Towards Mercy

Aynsley Younker

July, 6, 2021

As we continue in our study of the Beatitudes, Aynsley Younker teaches from Matthew 5:6-7.

Scripture References

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,

for they will be filled.

Blessed are the merciful,

for they will be shown mercy.

21But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.

22This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile,

23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

24and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

25God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—

26he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

21God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

3For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh,

4in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

1Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.

2Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Aynsley Younker

Aynsley Younker is a Jesus follower, lover of the word, wife to Brett, and mom of three to Anna Jeane, Shiloh, and Johnny. She graduated in 2020 from DTS with a Master's in Biblical Studies and is passionate about studying and teaching the Bible because it contains our truest reality in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and is the way we know God and his love for us. When she’s not nerding out, she loves to think about her next meal or outfit, go on a walk, and hang out with family and friends.