The King is Here: The King’s Desire

This last Sunday Chris Sharp gave a teaching on the heart of God and the difference between mercy and sacrifice. In Matthew 9v13 Jesus says, “But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” The people hearing this at the time, would’ve had an Old Testament understanding of the word sacrifice. Where you lose something or exchange one thing for another. Chris’ encouragement to us is that a New Covenant view of sacrifice, through the lens of mercy, counts every sacrifice as gain. Think about Jesus on the cross, did He do that out of obligation? Did He think He was losing something? Or was it from great mercy that He counted it as a gain to go to the cross. How incredible that the heart of God is and always has been, relationship. -- The great privilege of our life is to love Him and be loved by Him.