“And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty’s sake.”
Abraham asks again — what about forty? God says: 'For the sake of forty, I will not do it.' The progression continues: the threshold moves from 45 to 40, and God's answer is the same. The repeated 'I will not do it' is the repeated declaration of God's mercy in search of the basis to express it. God is not being dragged toward mercy; he is revealing how much mercy he wants to show and what it needs to rest on. Romans 5:20 states that where sin increased, grace increased all the more — the measure of God's mercy is always greater than the measure of human sin can reach. The application: push into the mercy of God through persistent intercession. Each threshold Abraham reaches is met with affirmation, not refusal. The God you are interceding before wants to say yes.
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