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Big Idea: Jesus brings forever peace and invites us to join Him.
Big Idea: Jesus brings forever peace and invites us to join Him.
Longing for Shalom
Pageant contestants always name what as their grand dream?
– world peace.
We long for the day when there will be no more war.
when people will stop killing each other.
When drug overdoses and suicide are gone.
When husbands and wives get along and stay together.
When the nagging desires of sin are gone forever.
We hope for the day when there are no more orphans, no more homeless, no more jails, no more hunger, no more crisis pregnancies or abortion.
Big Idea:
We long for peace.
settled minds that don’t worry.
Settled hearts that are free of the sorrows of life.
Bodies that don’t ache.
Good memories and good dreams.
Ancient Israel also longed for that day.
The word they used was shalom.
What About You?
Shalom – completeness, soundness, welfare, health, prosperity, peace
God’s shalom meant more than just an end to war.
Shalom meant inner peace, spiritual peace, wholeness, completeness throughout all of creation.
The end of injustice in the world.
Brokenness healed and made whole.
The prophet Micah served around the same time period as Isaiah, roughly 700 years before Jesus.
Northern Kingdom fell during this time.
Southern Kingdom Judah fell a little over 100 years later.
Isaiah’s prophecies seem directed to the kings, Micah’s more to the people themselves.
Micah observed the violence and injustice going on.
God gave Micah prophecies delivered as three sermons he preached to the people.
Judgment, Deliverer, Trust the Lord today
First few chapters talk about the coming judgment.
Micah begins by warning against the injustices that are taking place.
Wealthy taking advantage of the poor.
Idol worship and all the horror that accompanied it.
People planning evil, robbing others.
Interesting play on the names of the cities and the judgments against them.
God’s warnings of judgment for sins – idolatry, desire for more,
Chapter 4 talks about the great day when there is peace on earth, armies are dismissed, weapons destroyed.
True peace.
Chapter 5 talks about the reason for that peace, the better days ahead, the coming of the promised Deliverer.
The rest of the book gives warning to Judah and ends with a promise of forgiveness and restoration.
The hope of Israel and Judah was the promise of the coming Messiah who would bring shalom.
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The Messiah Comes Quietly
Micah 5:1
Begins with the warning of Israel’s coming defeat.
Begins with the warning of Israel’s coming defeat.
City of troops – gather your troops to the city that has a long history of war.
Speaking first to Jerusalem.
Well known, strongly fortified, used to war and siege.
Micah 5:2
But you, Bethlehem – contrast.
The smallest of villages at that time.
A small and quiet, out of the way place
But you, Bethlehem – contrast.
The smallest of villages at that time.
A small and quiet, out of the way place
Actually, though, Birthplace of David.
Promise in Isaiah 11:1-2 From the stump – cut off but new growth.
Reference Matthew 2:6
Ruler over Israel
Origin from antiquity – from ancient times.
Before Abraham was, I Am.
Micah 5:3 when she who is in labor gives birth.
when she who is in labor gives birth.
Reference
We know from the New Testament that the Messiah came as a baby to a normal young lady who loved God, and a normal working carpenter step-father.
We know from the New Testament that the Messiah came as a baby to a normal young lady who loved God, and a normal working carpenter step-father.
The only fanfare we know of was when angels announced to shepherds in their fields that the Messiah was born.
And magi from the east came to visit Jesus and honored Him as a king.
Matthew 2
The rest of the world, including Israel, seems to be ignorant of their promised Messiah’s birth.
The messiah comes quietly.
Jesus Is the Peace Giver
Micah 5:4
Shepherd them, greatness extends to ends of earth
Shepherd them, greatness extends to ends of earth
Shepherd them, greatness extends to ends of earth
Shepherd them, greatness extends to ends of earth
As David – the shepherd king
Live securely because he will rule the whole earth
Micah 5:5a
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He will be our peace!
Referring back to Micah 4
Isaiah 9:6 Prince of Peace
Prince of Peace
beyond our key verse - lion w/ lamb, etc.
lion w/ lamb, etc.
Shalom – the peace we long for can only come through one Person.
One holy man sent by God the Father.
The promised Messiah.
Jesus.
Much of the world celebrates this week.
The promised Prince of Peace who brings peace has come.
Romans 5:1 Jesus brings us peace with God
Ephesians 2:11-18 Christ brings peace, unites Jews and Gentiles into one people.
Colossians 1:19-20 reconcile by making peace through His blood.
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