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Not An Insignificant Peace

This morning we are going to walk thru the Passage in Micah that has already been read this morning.

This season of Advent is a season of waiting.

Patiently waiting for the promise.

Enduring until the fulfillment.

We wait.

And as we do I want you to think about some questions, perhaps this week you can ponder these questions during your Bible reading

What specific attribute of God can we depend on as we wait for Christ?

How can our discipline of waiting be a witness to the world around us?

What specific area in your life is God teaching you about how you should wait?

So lets dig in.

Micah 5:1-3

What's so significant about such an insignificant place?

God had promised to do something great in that little town.

Perhaps this morning you wrestle with the question, what's so significant about you.

Perhaps this morning you wrestle with the question, what's so significant about this church.

Perhaps this morning you wrestle with the question, what's so significant about this moment in my life.

I believe the significance lie not in you, or this church, or this moment, the significance lies within the Promise that God has given to you, placed in you, long ago, that He is using the insignificance of the right now to produce and grow in you a mighty, significant work.

Even in this our seemingly insignificance God has promised to do something significant.

Luke 2:1-7

Matthew 2:1-12

The magi, or wise men, understood the prophecy.

They didn't question why God chose Bethlehem.

Perhaps they understood that it pointed back to the home of David and recognized that the ruler who would come wold be the fulfillment of the promise God made with David about his everlasting Kingdom.

Perhaps they didn't.

But they knew that from this insignificant, small, little region, would come Now who would be the Ruler in Israel.

You may feel worthless, empty, wondering if anything of significance will ever come.

You may wonder, beg God for answers, question everything you've every believed.

But the promise made to a small, insignificant village, was actually the fulfillment of a promise made to a mighty nation.

That all the world would be blessed because of the One who comes as the eternal King and Ruler.

And just like that small town of Bethlehem brought Light to the whole world, even you in what you feel like right now as small and insignificant God is using and will use to bring Light.

God will not leave us in darkness.

God will not leave you in darkness.

God will not leave me in darkness.

Light is coming.

Light has come.

The promise was fulfilled.

God will fulfill has promise to you.

We may not understand the when or the how.

We may not understand the trial and the waiting.

We may not understand why it feels like death is all around us at the moment, but here is the promise...

1-He will stand and shepherd us

2-He will be our peace

3-He will be our Deliverer

He Will Stand And Shepherd Us

Micah 5:4

The imagery of Micah takes us back to the fields of Bethlehem as shepherd-boy David pictured the LORD as his perfect Shepherd.

Psalm 23

When we don't understand the when or the how.

When we don't understand the trial and the waiting.

When we don't understand why it feels like death is all around us at the moment...

The Lord is our Shepherd.

PREACH THAT.

He Will Be Our Peace

Micah 5:5

Peace.

Shalom.

Wholeness, completeness, harmony, welfare, peace.

Not nearly an absence of conflict, but a stability, a wholeness, a peace within.

John 14:26-27

When we don't understand the when or the how.

When we don't understand the trial and the waiting.

When we don't understand why it feels like death is all around us at the moment...

He is our Peace.

PREACH THAT.

He Will Be Our Rescuer

Micah 5:5-6

Galatians 1:3-5

Jesus came into our land, within our border to deliver us.

And when the enemy comes now into our land, within our border, Jesus delivers us form the enemy.

Even in this present evil age, we have been and are being delivered because of Jesus.

The joy, the hope, the peace promised has come and he will come.

When we don't understand the when or the how.

When we don't understand the trial and the waiting.

When we don't understand why it feels like death is all around us at the moment...

He is our Deliverer.

PREACH THAT.

You may feel insignificant, but Jesus sees value in you.

You may wonder when this storm will pass, but in the fullness of time, when God's perfect will in this season has been accomplished, the storm will pass.

Jesus is your Shepherd.

Jesus is your Peace.

Jesus is your Deliverer.