God is Coming
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Introduction
Who is Micah?
Why should we preach from Micah?
1 The word of the Lord which came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
I. Declaration
I. Declaration
:God is coming
2 Hear, O peoples, all of you; Listen, O earth and all it contains, And let the Lord God be a witness against you, The Lord from His holy temple.
3 For behold, the Lord is coming forth from His place. He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.
4 The mountains will melt under Him And the valleys will be split, Like wax before the fire, Like water poured down a steep place.
5 All this is for the rebellion of Jacob And for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the rebellion of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? What is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?
6 For I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the open country, Planting places for a vineyard. I will pour her stones down into the valley And will lay bare her foundations.
7 All of her idols will be smashed, All of her earnings will be burned with fire And all of her images I will make desolate, For she collected them from a harlot’s earnings, And to the earnings of a harlot they will return.
We are told to “hear”
All people must hear the word of God
This is important
The Word of God is important for your life and must be heard
This coming of God is what is called a Theophany (3-4)
Jud 5; Is 64; Hab 3; all include Theophanies
Theophanies declare the arrival of God, the affect upon nature, and the action of God
But in verse 5 of Micah we find a shock, he is not coming to save, but to declare judgement upon sin
The message of Michah begins in with the declaration that “the Lord is coming.” (v. 3)
This message of His coming was not good news for the people
Yet we have a message that is good news of the Lords coming in the New Testament
The Lord is coming.
First, He came to save us from judgment
15 It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all.
Soon, He will come to judge the world
This will be a time of Joy for all Christians
For those who are awaiting his appearing
8 in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing.
This is why the Early church Cried out Marantatha
22 If anyone does not love the Lord, he is to be accursed. Maranatha.
We have a great hope laid up for us in Glory
II. Lamentation
II. Lamentation
: For Sin and The Lost
8 Because of this I must lament and wail, I must go barefoot and naked; I must make a lament like the jackals And a mourning like the ostriches.
9 For her wound is incurable, For it has come to Judah; It has reached the gate of my people, Even to Jerusalem.
10 Tell it not in Gath, Weep not at all. At Beth-le-aphrah roll yourself in the dust.
11 Go on your way, inhabitant of Shaphir, in shameful nakedness. The inhabitant of Zaanan does not escape. The lamentation of Beth-ezel: “He will take from you its support.”
12 For the inhabitant of Maroth Becomes weak waiting for good, Because a calamity has come down from the Lord To the gate of Jerusalem.
13 Harness the chariot to the team of horses, O inhabitant of Lachish— She was the beginning of sin To the daughter of Zion— Because in you were found The rebellious acts of Israel.
14 Therefore you will give parting gifts On behalf of Moresheth-gath; The houses of Achzib will become a deception To the kings of Israel.
15 Moreover, I will bring on you The one who takes possession, O inhabitant of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will enter Adullam.
16 Make yourself bald and cut off your hair, Because of the children of your delight; Extend your baldness like the eagle, For they will go from you into exile.
Micah Mourned and Lamented the coming of the Judgment of the Lord upon his people
He is showing the heart of God
9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
Every Believer should mourn for the Lost
They will perish
You should love people enough to tell them that
Every Person who does not truly know Jesus should mourn the coming of the Lord.
Christs coming is only bad for those who do not know him
If you are “in” Christ, you should be happily awaiting his coming
TO be in Christ is to have faith IN Christ and walk in that Faith
6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth;
7 but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;
Remember, we are a joyful people, because we possess a hope in Glory
III. Accusation
III. Accusation
:The sins of the people
1 Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.
2 They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
3 Therefore thus says the Lord: behold, against this family I am devising disaster, from which you cannot remove your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be a time of disaster.
4 In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, “We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! To an apostate he allots our fields.”
5 Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the Lord.
6 “Do not preach”—thus they preach— “one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us.”
7 Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Has the Lord grown impatient? Are these his deeds? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?
8 But lately my people have risen up as an enemy; you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.
9 The women of my people you drive out from their delightful houses; from their young children you take away my splendor forever.
10 Arise and go, for this is no place to rest, because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.
11 If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be the preacher for this people!
The sins of the people are from a place of corruption of power
These people were thinking about evil so much they would stay up at night then do it the next day! (1)
They took land, and houses from families (2)
they would take the robe off of the back from people who were simply passing through the land (7)
They were mistreating single mothers (9)
Therefore the Lord says e will bring it back to them. (3-4)
This place, Israel, was soon to be a place of destruction (10-11)
THIS WAS NOT the way the people of God were supposed to act
Michah preached even when they did not want him to preach! (6)
IV. Restoration
IV. Restoration
:God’s Hope for His people
12 I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob; I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men.
13 He who opens the breach goes up before them; they break through and pass the gate, going out by it. Their king passes on before them, the Lord at their head.
Although Judgment has been declared to the people, God promises to the people of Israel hope
He promises the people of God hope in the midst of this World
Conclusion