July 10, 2022 Trinity 4 The Sunday of Mercy
Trinity 4
Luke 6:36-42
July 10, 2022
“How to Treat Your Fellow Man”
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
The Scripture I’ll be expounding today is the Gospel reading, Luke 6:36-42, so you may want it in front of you. Jesus says, “Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. Judge not.”
In Pride and Prejudice, the novel by Jane Austen, the word prejudice in the title is for the character Elizabeth Bennet who is always pre-judging people. That’s what prejudice is—judging and specifically judging before one has the ability to make an accurate judgment. So Elizabeth judges one man good who turns out quite bad and another bad who turns out quite good. In contrast to Elizabeth is her older sister, Jane, who is always refusing to judge ill of others, is merciful and forgiving, puts the best construction on others, and explains everything in the kindest way.
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