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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
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LOCATED IN CALIFORNIA,
ON THE WEST COAST OF THE
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
SACRAMENTO IS CALIFORNIA'S
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CAPITAL CITY AND WE ARE COMING
TO YOU, LIKE WE DO EVERY WEEK,
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READY TO SING YOUR FAVORITE
SONGS AND OPEN UP GOD'S WORD AND
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STUDY TOGETHER.
TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION.
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WE'RE SINGING A GREAT
SONG - 'GIVE ME THE BIBLE'.
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THIS IS A REQUEST FROM JIZELLE
AND PATRICK IN ANTIGUA AND
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BARBUDA, STEEN IN DENMARK, LES
IN FLORIDA, AVIGAIL IN GEORGIA,
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DUSTIN IN HONDURAS, DENEL AND
JOSE IN MASSACHUSETTS, TINA AND
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KATHARINE IN MONTANA, SELINA
AND JONATHAN IN THE NETHERLANDS,
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FABIAN IN NEW YORK, CLINT IN NEW
ZEALAND, JARED IN OKLAHOMA, JAEL
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IN OREGON, JUVY MAY IN
THE PHILIPPINES, KOFI IN SAINT
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LUCIA, KAIFITI IN THE SOLOMON
ISLANDS - IT'S EXCITING TO HEAR
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FROM THE SOLOMON ISLANDS - LEROY
IN SOUTH AFRICA, ANA, BJ AND
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AIZA IN SOUTH KOREA, JOHNNY
IN TEXAS, NICKEY IN VIRGINIA,
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MARTIN IN WASHINGTON, AND MILIMO
IN ZAMBIA AND THEN VIA OUR
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FACEBOOK PAGE THIS MORNING WE
GOT A COUPLE MESSAGES - ONE FROM
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TRACY - SHE SAYS, 'MY GIRLS ARE
SICK SO WE WON'T BE MAKING IT TO
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CHURCH TODAY SO WE'LL BE
WATCHING FROM KIMBERLY OREGON.'
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SO GUYS, GET WELL AND WELCOME.
AND THEN ALSO, CAROL SUE WILL
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ALSO BE WATCHING FROM OREGON SO
THAT'S EXCITING HEARING FROM OUR
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ONLINE FAMILY. SO GET
WELL AND WE'RE GOING TO
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SING 'GIVE ME THE BIBLE'
#272 - ALL THREE STANZAS.
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(MUSIC)
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>>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
SENDING IN YOUR REQUESTS.
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IF YOU HAVE ONE THAT WE HAVEN'T
SUNG YET, OR WE HAVE AND IT'S
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BEEN AWHILE AND YOU JUST LOVE
THE SONG, GO AHEAD, GO TO OUR
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WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG',
CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK
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AND SEND IN YOUR FAVORITE.
AND WE'RE WORKING OUR WAY
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THROUGH ALL THE FAVORITES
THAT HAVE COME IN OVER THE YEARS
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AND WE'RE DOING PRETTY GOOD.
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SO THAT IS ENCOURAGING NEWS
IF YOU'RE STILL WAITING FOR YOUR
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SONG, IT MIGHT NOT BE MUCH
LONGER AND WE WILL SING IT.
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OUR NEW SONG - WE HAVE TWO
BECAUSE THEY'RE BOTH REALLY
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SHORT SO IT'S KIND OF EQUAL TO
SINGING ONE NORMAL-LENGTH SONG.
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#52 - 'NOW THE DAY IS OVER' - I
HAVE LOVED THIS ONE SINCE I WAS
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A LITTLE GIRL.
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL MELODY.
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WE'RE GOING TO DO #52 AND
#53 SO LET'S START WITH #52.
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AND THIS IS FROM EMANUEL IN
MALAYSIA - HE REQUESTED THIS ONE
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- #52. (MUSIC)
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>>WASN'T THAT
BEAUTIFUL? WE'RE STILL IN THE
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'EVENING WORSHIP' SECTION. WE'LL
BE OUT OF THAT VERY SHORTLY.
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NOW, #53 - THE FOURTH STANZA MAY
BE VERY INTERESTING TO YOU IF
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YOU LOOK AT THE WORDS
OF THAT. IT'S THE DOXOLOGY.
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INTERESTING, HUH?
TOTALLY DIFFERENT TUNE.
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SO #53 IT'S A REQUEST BY
KENYON AND FELICIA IN AUSTRALIA,
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AMEIDI, ABELINO, VALENCIA
AND WILBERT IN BELIZE, ALEX IN
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HUNGARY, RAJESH IN INDIA, JANICE
IN JAMAICA, UNA IN NEW JERSEY,
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JOYANN IN NEW YORK, MELIVER IN
THE PHILIPPINES, AND CHATIM IN
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SUDAN. SO #53 - WE'LL
DO THE - ALL FOUR STANZAS.
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(MUSIC)
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>>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
SENDING IN YOUR REQUESTS AND
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I HOPE THAT YOU ARE ENJOYING
LEARNING THE NEW SONGS RIGHT
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ALONG WITH US. SO
KEEP SENDING THEM IN.
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AT THIS TIME LET'S
BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER.
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FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU
SO MUCH FOR THE THINGS THAT YOU
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GIVE US THAT WE
CAN BE THANKFUL FOR.
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THERE'S MANY THINGS IN THIS
WORLD THAT ARE NOT BEAUTIFUL -
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THEY'RE UGLY AND THEY'RE PAINFUL
BUT THERE'S SO MUCH BEAUTY THAT
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IS STILL HERE FOR US TO ENJOY
AND WE THANK YOU FOR LOVING US
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AND FOR CARING FOR US.
WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE
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SABBATH YOU HAVE BLESSED US WITH
WHERE WE CAN TAKE 24 HOURS TO
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FORGET ABOUT THE THINGS WE HAVE
TO DO AND JUST FOCUS ON EACH
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OTHER, ON YOU - THANK
YOU. I PRAY YOU'LL BE WITH OUR
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SPEAKER AS HE BRINGS US THE
LESSON STUDY AND THAT YOU'LL
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OPEN UP OUR HEARTS FOR
WHAT YOU WANT TO TELL US TODAY.
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IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. AT
THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY IS
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GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO
US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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HE IS OUR SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT
SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY
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ADVENTIST CHURCH.
>>THANK YOU DEBBIE AND OUR
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MUSICIANS AND I WANT TO WELCOME
OUR FRIENDS THAT ARE VISITING
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TODAY. ANY FROM THE AREA?
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SOMETIMES WE HAVE PEOPLE COME
IN AND VISIT FROM PARTS UNKNOWN.
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WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU'RE
HERE AT CENTRAL CHURCH.
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I ALWAYS WANT TO TAKE A MINUTE
AND MAKE SURE AND WELCOME THOSE
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WHO ARE WATCHING EITHER ONLINE
OR YOU'RE ONE OF OUR SATELLITE
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MEMBERS OF SACRAMENTO CENTRAL OR
ONE OF OUR REGULAR STUDENTS THAT
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STUDY WITH US EACH WEEK AND IT
ALWAYS SCARES ME - I MEET PEOPLE
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AS I TRAVEL AND THEY SAY, 'YES I
TEACH CLASS AND SO WE WATCH YOUR
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LESSON BEFORE I TEACH.' AND
SO I'M ALWAYS INTIMIDATED TO
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THINK TEACHERS ARE WATCHING,
SO WE WELCOME YOU AS WELL.
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AND WE'RE GOING TO BE GETTING
INTO OUR STUDY IN JUST A MOMENT,
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CONTINUING WITH MAJOR
LESSONS FROM THE MINOR PROPHETS.
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AS WE TYPICALLY DO, WE HAVE A
FREE OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH
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OUR STUDY TODAY AND IT'S ONE OF
THE AMAZING FACTS STUDY GUIDES.
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IT'S CALLED, 'IS
OBEDIENCE LEGALISM?'
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WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR ASKING
WHEN YOU CALL THE NUMBER AND
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THAT NUMBER - 866-STUDY-MORE
- THAT'S 866-788-3966 - ASK FOR
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OFFER #706 AND WE'LL SEND THIS
TO YOU FOR FREE - 'IS OBEDIENCE
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LEGALISM?' - IT'S
REALLY A VERY IMPORTANT
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QUESTION. TODAY
WE'RE DEALING WITH THE
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BOOK OF MICAH. WE'RE STUDYING
'MAJOR LESSONS FROM THE MINOR
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PROPHETS' AND BY THE
GRACE OF GOD WE'RE GOING TO
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COVER THE WHOLE LESSON
TODAY IN THE BOOK OF MICAH.
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MICAH'S A VERY INTERESTING BOOK.
HE'S ONE OF THE MOST ANCIENT OF
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THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS AND
THIS IS LESSON #7 IN YOUR STUDY
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AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE -
WELL THE NAME OF THE LESSON IS
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'GOD'S SPECIAL PEOPLE' -
STUDYING THE BOOK OF MICAH -
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'GOD'S SPECIAL PEOPLE'. AND
THE MEMORY VERSE COMES TO US
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FROM MICAH 6, VERSE
8 - MICAH 6, VERSE 8.
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IT SAYS - WHY DON'T - WELL,
YOU CAN SAY IT WITH ME NOW.
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OKAY, YOU READY? "HE
HAS SHOWN ME O MAN WHAT IS
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GOOD AND WHAT DOES THE LORD
REQUIRE OF THEE BUT TO DO JUSTLY
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AND TO LOVE MERCY AND TO
WALK HUMBLY WITH THY GOD."
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MICAH, OF COURSE, IS THE
AUTHOR. THE NAME MICAH MEANS
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'WHO IS AS GOD'. NOW
THERE'S TWO VERY IMPORTANT
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NAMES IN THE BIBLE
THAT ARE RELATED TO THAT.
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ONE OF THEM IS 'MICHAEL' AND
MICHAEL IS USING THE NAME OF GOD
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'ELOHIM'. WHENEVER
YOU SEE 'EL' IN A NAME
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IN THE BIBLE - ELIJAH, ELISHA,
RACHEL, DANIEL, MICHAEL, ELIEZER
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- 'EL' WAS A VERY COMMON PART OF
HEBREW NAMES BECAUSE IS WAS ONE
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OF THE NAMES OF GOD 'ELOHIM'
- IT'S COMING FROM THE NAME
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ELOHIM. THE OTHER
COMMON NAME OF GOD YOU
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FIND IN THE BIBLE IS THE
NAME - EITHER JEHOVAH OR YAHWEH.
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JEHOVAH, AS WE TALKED IN OUR
SERMON LAST WEEK, IS MORE THE
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LATINIZED VERSION OF YAHWEH AND
SO YOU'LL HEAR 'YAH' OR 'AH' IN
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A NAME. MICAH
MEANS 'WHO IS AS GOD'.
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IT COULD BE A STATEMENT,
IT COULD BE A QUESTION.
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MICHAEL MEANS 'WHO IS AS GOD'
TOO, IT'S USING THE 'ELOHIM'
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NAME OF GOD. SO THE
NAMES ARE VERY SIMILAR.
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NOW THERE IS ANOTHER OLD
TESTAMENT PROPHET YOU'RE GOING
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TO READ ABOUT, MICHAIAH
AND HE IS NOT THE SAME PROPHET.
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HE LIVED ABOUT
130 YEARS EARLIER.
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YOU REMEMBER WHEN KING AHAB AND
KING JEHOSHEPHAT WERE ON THEIR
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THRONES AND MICHAIAH COMES
ALONG AND HE SAYS, 'IF YOU GO TO
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BATTLE' - TO AHAB -
'YOU'RE GOING TO DIE.
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ISRAEL WILL BE SCATTERED ON
THE HILLS WITHOUT A SHEPHERD.'
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AND AHAB SAID, 'PUT HIM IN JAIL
AND FEED HIM WITH THE BREAD AND
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WATER OF AFFLICTION' AND
MICHAIAH WAS PUT IN JAIL.
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THAT'S ANOTHER
PROPHET WITH A SIMILAR NAME.
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THERE ARE ABOUT TEN MICAHS IN
THE BIBLE AND A COUPLE OF THEM
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ARE WOMEN. YOU
REMEMBER DAVID HAD A WIFE -
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THE DAUGHTER OF
SAUL - NAMED MICHAEL.
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THERE'S A MICAIAH, WHICH WAS THE
GRANDDAUGHTER OF ABSALOM THAT
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MARRIED REHABOAM, WHICH WOULD
HAVE BEEN HIS COUSIN, I GUESS.
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AND SO YOU'LL FIND THE NAME
IS VERY COMMON IN THE BIBLE.
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IT'S ASKING 'WHO IS LIKE GOD?'
AND IT'S REALLY - THE NAME IS
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THE HEBREW WAY OF BRAGGING ABOUT
THEIR GOD - 'THERE IS NO GOD
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LIKE OUR GOD.
WHO IS LIKE OUR GOD?'
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OR IT COULD BE A STATEMENT
LIKE IN THE NAME OF JESUS
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'WHO IS AS GOD, MICHAEL.
MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL MEANS
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'THE GREATEST
MESSENGER WHO IS AS GOD.'
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WELL, THAT'S PROBABLY TOO MUCH
ON THE NAME. ANYWAYS, SO THIS IS
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THE NAME OF THAT PROPHET AND
I JUST WANTED TO DELINEATE HIM
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FROM THE OTHER FAMOUS PROPHET BY
THE SAME NAME. HE LIVED DURING
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THE TIME OF THREE KINGS:
JOTHAM, AHAZ AND HEZEKIAH.
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MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU GO TO THE
BOOK OF MICAH AND YOU READ THERE
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IN THE FIRST VERSE, "THE WORD OF
THE LORD THAT CAME TO MICAH OF
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MORESHETH IN THE DAYS OF JOTHAM,
AHAZ, AND HEZEKIAH, KINGS OF
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JUDAH, WHICH HE SAW CONCERNING
SAMARIA AND JERUSALEM."
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NOW, IT TELLS US
THAT HE'S FROM MORESHETH.
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MORESHETH WAS A TOWN AND, MATTER
OF FACT, IN THE BOOK OF MICAH HE
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TALKS ABOUT MORESHETH-GATH.
IT WAS IN - YOU KNOW WHERE THERE
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WERE FIVE PHILISTINE CITIES
- EKRON, GATH, AND I CAN'T
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REMEMBER THE OTHER THREE RIGHT
NOW, BUT GATH - WHERE IS GOLIATH
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FROM? GATH. IT WAS
THE PLAIN ABOUT 40 MILES
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SOUTHWEST OF JERUSALEM.
IT WAS GOOD FARMING AREA AND
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FROM THAT PLAIN IT KIND OF
STRETCHED OFF UNTIL YOU HIT THE
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OCEAN, BUT IT
WAS GOOD FARM LAND.
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SO HE LIVED ON THE
BORDER OF THE PHILISTINES.
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HE WAS FROM THE FARM IS WHAT YOU
CAN SAY ABOUT MICAH AND THAT'S
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WHY HE SPEAKS UP
IN BEHALF OF THE POOR.
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NOW IT TELLS US THAT HE IS
SPEAKING DURING THE TIME OF
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JOTHAM, AHAZ AND HEZEKIAH. I
WANT TO - JUST TO GIVE YOU THE
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BACKGROUND TO UNDERSTAND HIS
MESSAGE, YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW A
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LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE
HISTORY OF THIS TIME.
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SO IN YOUR BIBLES I WANT YOU TO
GO TO 2 CHRONICLES, CHAPTER 29 -
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2 CHRONICLES, CHAPTER -
WELL, TELL YOU WHAT, LET'S GO TO
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2 CHRONICLES 27. LET'S
READ A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
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TWO OF THOSE KINGS. I
THINK MOST OF US KNOW ABOUT
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HEZEKIAH. WAS HEZEKIAH
A GOOD KING OR A BAD KING?
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HE WAS, FOR THE
MOST PART, A GOOD KING.
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HOW ABOUT JOTHAM?
GOOD KING OR BAD KING?
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HE'S CALLED A GOOD KING BUT
PEOPLE WERE DOING BAD THINGS
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DURING HIS REIGN. AHAZ -
GOOD KING OR BAD KING? BAD KING.
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NOW JOTHAM, YOU CAN READ HERE IN
CHAPTER 27 - 2 CHRONICLES 27:1,
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"JOTHAM WAS TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
OLD WHEN HE BECAME KING, AND HE
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REIGNED SIXTEEN
YEARS IN JERUSALEM.
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HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS JERUSHAH
THE DAUGHTER OF ZADOK" - ZADOK
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WAS A PRIEST - "AND HE DID WHAT
WAS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF THE
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LORD, ACCORDING TO ALL THAT HIS
FATHER UZZIAH HAD DONE (ALTHOUGH
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HE DID NOT ENTER THE
TEMPLE OF THE LORD)."
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NOW, DO YOU KNOW WHY HE
DIDN'T ENTER THE TEMPLE?
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WHAT HAPPENED WHEN KING UZZIAH
WENT INTO THE TEMPLE AND HE
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THOUGHT HE COULD BURN INCENSE?
BECAUSE ONLY THE PRIESTS WERE
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SUPPOSED TO DO THAT - THE SONS
OF AARON - HE BROKE OUT WITH
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LEPROSY EVEN THOUGH HE
WAS A GOOD KING. AND WHEN YOUR
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FATHER GOES INTO THE TEMPLE
AND HE'S STRUCK WITH LEPROSY IT
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COULD KIND OF SEND SHIVERS UP
YOUR SPINE AND SO HE DIDN'T GO
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INTO THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD. BUT
IT SAYS, "BUT" - NOTICE HERE,
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I'M IN VERSE 2 - "STILL
THE PEOPLE ACTED CORRUPTLY."
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SO MICAH IS PREACHING AGAINST
THE CORRUPTION OF THE PEOPLE
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DURING HIS DAY. IT
STARTS ALL THE WAY BACK
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DURING THE TIME OF JOTHAM.
GOOD KING, BUT HE WASN'T REALLY
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TEACHING THE PEOPLE AND SO THERE
WAS CORRUPTION AMONG THE PEOPLE
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DURING HIS TIME. BUT
THEN LOOK WHAT HAPPENS AFTER
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HE DIES. HE
DOESN'T REIGN VERY LONG, HE
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DIES AT ABOUT 40 AND
HE HAS A SON NAMED AHAZ.
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AHAZ WAS 20 YEARS OLD WHEN
HE BECAME KING AND HE REIGNED 16
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YEARS - ABOUT THE SAME LENGTH OF
TIME AS HIS FATHER IN JERUSALEM
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AND 'HE DID NOT DO WHAT WAS
RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF HIS LORD
00:18:01.20\00:18:04.53
AS HIS FATHER DAVID HAD DONE,
FOR HE WALKED IN THE WAYS OF THE
00:18:04.53\00:18:08.16
KINGS OF ISRAEL.' NOW
THE KINGS OF ISRAEL - THAT'S
00:18:08.16\00:18:10.96
IN SAMARIA IN THE NORTHERN
KINGDOM - THEY WERE JUST SOLD
00:18:10.96\00:18:13.30
OUT TO IDOLATRY. AND IT
SAYS, 'HE BURNED INCENSE
00:18:13.30\00:18:16.86
IN THE VALLEY OF
THE SON OF HINNOM.'
00:18:16.86\00:18:19.40
THAT LATER BECAME A DUMP KNOWN
AS GAHENUM AND JESUS SAID IT WAS
00:18:19.40\00:18:23.30
A PLACE WHERE 'THE FIRE IS NOT
QUENCHED AND THE WORM DOES NOT
00:18:23.30\00:18:26.26
DIE' AND SO YOU
DIDN'T WANT TO GO TO GAHENUM.
00:18:26.26\00:18:30.33
WELL HE'S BURNING - ONE REASON
THEY TURNED IT INTO A DUMP IS
00:18:30.33\00:18:33.20
BECAUSE MANASSEH AND AHAZ
HAD IDOLS TO PAGAN GODS IN THE
00:18:33.20\00:18:39.70
VALLEY OF GAHENUM AND SO
THEY TURNED IT INTO A DUMP WHEN
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HEZEKIAH CAME ALONG. THEY SAID,
'YOU KNOW, WE DON'T WANT TO
00:18:42.80\00:18:45.66
REVERE THIS PLACE THAT HAD
BEEN DEFILED BY PAGAN GODS.'
00:18:45.66\00:18:48.66
NOT ONLY THAT, BUT IT GOES ON TO
SAY, 'HE WALKED IN THE WAYS OF
00:18:48.66\00:18:55.50
THE KINGS OF ISRAEL, HE MADE
A MOLDED IMAGE FOR THE BAALS, HE
00:18:55.50\00:18:59.50
BURNED INCENSE IN THE VALLEY OF
HINNOM, HE BURNED HIS CHILDREN
00:18:59.50\00:19:02.20
IN THE FIRE ACCORDING TO THE
ABOMINATIONS OF THE NATIONS WHOM
00:19:02.20\00:19:06.73
THE LORD HAD CAST OUT BEFORE
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. AND HE
00:19:06.73\00:19:09.76
SACRIFICED AND BURNED
INCENSE ON ALL THE HIGH PLACES,
00:19:09.76\00:19:12.70
ON THE HILLS, AND UNDER EVERY
GREEN TREE.' SO A CURSE AND
00:19:12.70\00:19:16.93
JUDGEMENT FELL UPON THEM DURING
THAT TIME. WELL, THINGS BEGAN TO
00:19:16.93\00:19:19.86
TURN FOR THE BETTER DURING
THE TIME OF HEZEKIAH AND YOU'RE
00:19:19.86\00:19:23.16
GOING TO NOTICE, WHEN YOU GET
TO THE END OF THE BOOK OF MICAH,
00:19:23.16\00:19:26.46
HE STARTS PROPHESYING SOME HOPE
AND IT'S BECAUSE TOWARD THE END
00:19:26.46\00:19:30.26
OF HIS TIME THE PEOPLE BEGAN
TO TURN BACK TOWARDS THE LORD,
00:19:30.26\00:19:33.96
TO SOME EXTENT,
DURING THE TIME OF HEZEKIAH.
00:19:33.96\00:19:36.30
YOU CAN REALLY OUTLINE THE BOOK
OF MICAH IN THREE WAYS: YOU'VE
00:19:36.30\00:19:40.80
GOT FIRST PREDICTION OF JUDGMENT
- WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN A
00:19:40.80\00:19:44.03
MINUTE - THEN YOU'VE GOT
A PREDICTION OF RESTORATION.
00:19:44.03\00:19:48.90
MICAH TALKS ABOUT
THE MESSIAH COMING.
00:19:48.90\00:19:51.56
AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE THIRD
SECTION - AND THIS WOULD BE
00:19:51.56\00:19:53.60
CHAPTERS 6 AND 7 - IT TALKS
ABOUT A PLEA FOR REPENTANCE.
00:19:53.60\00:19:57.40
AND SO THERE'S A
STRUCTURE HERE TO THE BOOK.
00:19:57.40\00:19:59.83
WELL, GO RIGHT AWAY TO VERSE 2
- CHAPTER 1, VERSE 2, "HEAR ALL
00:19:59.83\00:20:05.23
YOU PEOPLES! LISTEN, O
EARTH, AND ALL THAT IS IN IT!
00:20:05.23\00:20:10.20
LET THE LORD GOD BE A WITNESS
AGAINST YOU, THE LORD FROM HIS
00:20:10.20\00:20:13.56
HOLY TEMPLE.' NOW WHEN
HE TALKS ABOUT THE LORD
00:20:13.56\00:20:15.96
IN HIS HOLY TEMPLE, IS HE
TALKING ABOUT THE TEMPLE OF
00:20:15.96\00:20:18.00
SOLOMON OR IS HE
THINKING HIGHER THAN THAT?
00:20:18.00\00:20:20.86
NOTICE, "FOR BEHOLD, THE LORD IS
COMING OUT OF HIS PLACE; HE WILL
00:20:20.86\00:20:24.40
COME DOWN" - WELL, HE DIDN'T
NEED TO COME DOWN OUT OF THE
00:20:24.40\00:20:28.00
TEMPLE TO JUDGE JERUSALEM,
THEY WERE ON THE SAME ELEVATION.
00:20:28.00\00:20:31.76
THEY RECOGNIZED THE
TEMPLE ON THE EARTH WAS JUST A
00:20:31.76\00:20:36.06
REPRESENTATION OF A GREATER
TEMPLE IN HEAVEN. WHAT'S THE
00:20:36.06\00:20:39.50
LORD GOING TO DO? NOTICE
RIGHT AWAY HE TALKS ABOUT
00:20:39.50\00:20:42.86
THE COMING OF THE LORD -
SO MICAH WAS AN ADVENTIST,
00:20:42.86\00:20:46.36
WASN'T HE? AN ADVENTIST IS
SOMEONE WHO BELIEVES IN THE
00:20:46.36\00:20:49.43
COMING OF THE LORD.
"BEHOLD THE LORD IS COMING" -
00:20:49.43\00:20:52.23
DOES THAT SOUND LIKE
IT COULD BE NEW TESTAMENT?
00:20:52.23\00:20:55.13
"THE LORD IS COMING OUT OF
HIS PLACE; HE WILL COME DOWN AND
00:20:55.13\00:20:57.76
TREAD ON THE HIGH
PLACES OF THE EARTH.
00:20:57.76\00:20:59.96
THE MOUNTAINS WILL MELT UNDER
HIM, AND THE VALLEYS WILL SPLIT
00:20:59.96\00:21:03.03
LIKE WAX BEFORE THE FIRE,
LIKE WATERS POURED DOWN A STEEP
00:21:03.03\00:21:06.43
PLACE. ALL THIS
FOR THE TRANSGRESSION
00:21:06.43\00:21:09.03
OF JACOB AND FOR THE
SINS OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
00:21:09.03\00:21:12.06
FOR WHAT IS THE TRANSGRESSION
OF JACOB? IS IT NOT SAMARIA?" -
00:21:12.06\00:21:15.10
THIS IS THE CAPITAL OF THE
NORTHERN KINGDOM - "AND WHAT ARE
00:21:15.10\00:21:17.50
THE HIGH PLACES OF
JUDAH? ARE THEY NOT JERUSALEM?"
00:21:17.50\00:21:19.96
SO HIS JUDGMENT IS A UNIVERSAL
JUDGMENT, EVEN THOUGH ISRAEL HAD
00:21:19.96\00:21:23.56
SPLIT AT THIS POINT - TEN TRIBES
IN THE NORTH - THEY'D KIND OF
00:21:23.56\00:21:27.16
GONE AFTER IDOLATRY.
YOU'VE GOT THE TRIBES OF
00:21:27.16\00:21:29.30
BENJAMIN, LEVI AND JUDAH IN
THE SOUTH, BUT HERE GOD IS NOW
00:21:29.30\00:21:33.16
GIVING THEM A MESSAGE
THROUGH MICAH TO BOTH.
00:21:33.16\00:21:35.43
HE WAS A PROPHET, REALLY, WITH A
MESSAGE TO THE ENTIRE PEOPLE OF
00:21:35.43\00:21:38.73
ISRAEL, WHICH TELLS US THAT IT
ALSO APPLIES TO US BECAUSE WE'RE
00:21:38.73\00:21:42.06
SPIRITUAL ISRAEL.
THIS IS A MESSAGE OF
00:21:42.06\00:21:44.96
IMPENDING JUDGMENT.
SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME
00:21:44.96\00:21:48.00
REVELATION 16:20. WHO HAS THAT?
00:21:48.00\00:21:50.66
WE GAVE OUT SOME
LITTLE SLIPS - RIGHT UP HERE.
00:21:50.66\00:21:52.73
AND WHILE WE'RE FINDING THAT,
I'M GOING TO GO TO REVELATION
00:21:52.73\00:21:56.50
CHAPTER 6. NOW
YOU'RE GOING TO READ
00:21:56.50\00:21:58.46
REVELATION 16:20, I'M GOING TO
REVELATION 6 AND WE'RE GOING TO
00:21:58.46\00:22:03.53
READ THE SIXTH SEAL
STARTING AT VERSE 12.
00:22:03.53\00:22:08.86
WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT MICAH COMING
DOWN - THE LORD - MICAH TALKS
00:22:08.86\00:22:12.20
ABOUT THE LORD COMING DOWN
AND THE MOUNTAINS MELTING BEFORE
00:22:12.20\00:22:14.70
HIM, HOW DOES IT DESCRIBE
THE COMING OF THE LORD HERE?
00:22:14.70\00:22:18.60
AND THIS IS IN REVELATION
CHAPTER 6, VERSE 12, "I LOOKED
00:22:18.60\00:22:22.33
AND WHEN HE OPENED THE SIXTH
SEAL, AND BEHOLD, THERE WAS A
00:22:22.33\00:22:24.96
GREAT EARTHQUAKE; AND THE
SUN BECAME BLACK AS SACKCLOTH OF
00:22:24.96\00:22:28.36
HAIR, AND THE
MOON BECAME LIKE BLOOD.
00:22:28.36\00:22:30.33
AND THE STARS OF HEAVEN FELL TO
EARTH, AS A FIG TREE DROPS ITS
00:22:30.33\00:22:33.96
LATE FIGS WHEN IT IS
SHAKEN BY A MIGHTY WIND.
00:22:33.96\00:22:36.63
AND THE SKY RECEDED AS A SCROLL
WHEN IT IS ROLLED UP, AND EVERY
00:22:36.63\00:22:40.06
MOUNTAIN AND ISLAND" - NOW SOME
OF THESE THINGS HAVE HAPPENED,
00:22:40.06\00:22:42.46
HISTORICALLY, HAVEN'T THEY?
THERE WAS A PROMINENT DAY WHEN
00:22:42.46\00:22:45.50
THE STARS FELL AND THE MOON
TURNED TO BLOOD AND THE SUN WENT
00:22:45.50\00:22:48.86
DARK, BUT ARE THESE THINGS
ALSO GOING TO HAPPEN IN QUICK
00:22:48.86\00:22:51.70
SUCCESSION WHEN
JESUS COMES? THEY ARE.
00:22:51.70\00:22:54.80
YOU SEE THAT FROM MATTHEW 24 -
"AND THE SKY RECEDED AS A SCROLL
00:22:54.80\00:22:59.26
WHEN IT IS ROLLED UP, AND EVERY
MOUNTAIN AND ISLAND WAS MOVED
00:22:59.26\00:23:01.70
OUT OF ITS PLACE."
00:23:01.70\00:23:03.00
- THAT HASN'T HAPPENED YET -
"AND THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, THE
00:23:03.00\00:23:05.20
GREAT MEN, THE RICH MEN,
THE COMMANDERS, THE MIGHTY MEN,
00:23:05.20\00:23:07.80
EVERY SLAVE AND EVERY FREE MAN,
HID THEMSELVES IN THE CAVES AND
00:23:07.80\00:23:11.80
IN THE ROCKS OF THE MOUNTAINS,
AND SAID TO THE MOUNTAINS AND
00:23:11.80\00:23:14.63
ROCKS, 'FALL ON US AND HIDE US
FROM THE FACE OF HIM WHO SITS ON
00:23:14.63\00:23:17.40
THE THRONE'" -
THIS IS GOD COMING.
00:23:17.40\00:23:19.43
THEY SEE HIM - "'AND
FROM THE WRATH OF THE LAMB!
00:23:19.43\00:23:22.10
FOR THE GREAT DAY OF HIS WRATH
HAS COME, AND WHO IS ABLE TO
00:23:22.10\00:23:24.80
STAND?'" SO YOU
CAN SEE THERE'S EVEN
00:23:24.80\00:23:27.73
APOCALYPTIC MESSAGE HERE IN THE
BOOK OF MICAH ABOUT THE LORD'S
00:23:27.73\00:23:30.43
COMING AND A JUDGMENT. AND
THIS IS STILL IN THE FUTURE.
00:23:30.43\00:23:34.16
THIS IS GOING
TO HAPPEN, FRIENDS.
00:23:34.16\00:23:35.80
AND YOU'RE GOING TO READ
FOR US NOW A SIMILAR VERSE IN
00:23:35.80\00:23:38.96
REVELATION 6 - I'M SORRY
REVELATION - YEAH, 16, VERSE 20.
00:23:38.96\00:23:45.83
>>REVELATION 16:20, "THEN
EVERY ISLAND FLED AWAY, AND THE
00:23:45.83\00:23:49.73
MOUNTAINS WERE NOT FOUND."
>>YOU KNOW, WE'RE SCHEDULED TO
00:23:49.73\00:23:54.90
DO A CAMP MEETING IN HAWAII THIS
FALL AND WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT AN
00:23:54.90\00:23:59.50
ISLAND PEOPLE LOVE TO GO
TO - NO ONE CAN DENY - I MEAN,
00:23:59.50\00:24:03.23
AUSTRALIA'S AN ISLAND, ISN'T IT?
BUT IT'S ALMOST - IT'S LIKE A
00:24:03.23\00:24:07.43
CONTINENT - BUT WHEN YOU THINK
OF AN ISLAND, YOU CAN'T DENY
00:24:07.43\00:24:11.03
THAT HAWAII IS AN ISLAND AND
SO WHENEVER I THINK ABOUT THIS
00:24:11.03\00:24:13.36
VERSE - IT'S ALSO ONE OF THE
TALLEST MOUNTAINS IN THE WORLD,
00:24:13.36\00:24:15.70
DID YOU KNOW THAT? IF
YOU MEASURE THE ISLAND OF
00:24:15.70\00:24:19.66
HAWAII FROM THE SEA FLOOR,
IT'S TALLER THAN MOUNT EVEREST.
00:24:19.66\00:24:25.96
IT JUST COMES RIGHT UP FROM THE
SEA FLOOR AND - IS IT MONA LOA,
00:24:25.96\00:24:30.16
MONA KEA - I DON'T KNOW WHICH IS
THE TALLER OF THE TWO - IT GOES
00:24:30.16\00:24:33.10
TO LIKE 13,000 FEET - AND YOU
ADD THAT ALL UP AND IT'S LIKE
00:24:33.10\00:24:37.36
30-SOMETHING THOUSAND
FEET ABOVE THE SEA FLOOR.
00:24:37.36\00:24:40.66
AND IT SAYS, EVERY ISLAND AND
EVERY MOUNTAIN WILL MELT AWAY
00:24:40.66\00:24:44.56
WHEN THE LORD COMES. THAT
HASN'T HAPPENED YET, HAS IT?
00:24:44.56\00:24:47.50
SO HERE, MICAH IS TALKING ABOUT
THE ISLANDS AND THE MOUNTAINS
00:24:47.50\00:24:51.20
MELTING AWAY UNDER THE LORD.
PSALM 112, VERSE 10, "THE WICKED
00:24:51.20\00:24:56.23
WILL SEE IT AND BE GRIEVED;
HE WILL GNASH HIS TEETH AND MELT
00:24:56.23\00:24:59.90
AWAY;" - THERE YOU'VE GOT THAT
AGAIN, DAVID TALKING ABOUT IT.
00:24:59.90\00:25:02.30
OF COURSE DAVID WROTE THIS
BEFORE MICAH - "AND MELT AWAY;
00:25:02.30\00:25:05.70
THE DESIRE OF THE WICKED SHALL
PERISH." YOU CAN ALSO JUMP TO
00:25:05.70\00:25:09.40
VERSE 5 OF MICAH CHAPTER
1, WHY? "ALL THIS IS FOR THE
00:25:09.40\00:25:13.10
TRANSGRESSION OF JACOB AND FOR
THE SINS OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
00:25:13.10\00:25:16.90
WHAT IS THE TRANSGRESSION
OF JACOB? IS IT NOT SAMARIA?
00:25:16.90\00:25:19.96
AND WHAT ARE THE
HIGH PLACES OF JUDAH?
00:25:19.96\00:25:21.50
ARE THEY NOT JERUSALEM?"
SO THE CAPITAL OF THE SOUTHERN
00:25:21.50\00:25:24.70
KINGDOM WAS
WHAT CITY? JERUSALEM.
00:25:24.70\00:25:28.76
THE CAPITAL OF THE
TEN TRIBES WAS SAMARIA.
00:25:28.76\00:25:32.63
AND SO HE'S SAYING, YOU KNOW,
IT'S BEING - IT'S COMING FROM
00:25:32.63\00:25:35.20
THE LEADERSHIP, THIS APOSTASY
IS HAPPENING AND IT'S TRICKLING
00:25:35.20\00:25:39.26
DOWN INTO THE PEOPLE.
BOTH CAPITALS WERE WORSHIPING
00:25:39.26\00:25:42.40
OTHER GODS AT THE TIME.
ALRIGHT, THEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE
00:25:42.40\00:25:45.53
AGONY OF THE PROPHET'S HEART.
IF YOU LOOK IN MICAH 1 - WAIT,
00:25:45.53\00:25:49.03
FIRST LET ME GET SOMEONE TO
LOOK UP - WHO HAS NUMBERS 11:11?
00:25:49.03\00:25:52.86
WE GAVE THAT TO
SOMEBODY - OVER HERE.
00:25:52.86\00:25:55.46
HOLD YOUR HAND UP KATHLEEN.
AND I THINK WE GAVE OUT ANOTHER
00:25:55.46\00:25:57.80
ONE - YEAH, SOMEONE'S GOT
1 KINGS 19:14 - OKAY, JOLYNE.
00:25:57.80\00:26:01.73
YOU KNOW IT'S
TOUGH TO BE A PROPHET.
00:26:01.73\00:26:07.06
GODLY PEOPLE WILL APPRECIATE IT
WHEN YOU PROPHECY, ESPECIALLY IF
00:26:07.06\00:26:10.86
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT JUDGMENT
- THEY WANT TO KNOW AND PREPARE,
00:26:10.86\00:26:13.36
BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL
RESENT IT AND THEY'LL CALL YOU
00:26:13.36\00:26:17.20
EVERYTHING FROM CRAZY TO DELUDED
AND WHEN YOU'RE A PROPHET AND
00:26:17.20\00:26:23.16
YOU SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING TO
GOD'S PEOPLE, IT CAN GRIEVE YOU.
00:26:23.16\00:26:26.90
WHAT DOES MICAH SAY?
"THEREFORE I WILL WAIL AND HOWL,
00:26:26.90\00:26:31.90
I WILL GO STRIPPED AND NAKED;"
- ANYONE WANT TO PUT IN YOUR
00:26:31.90\00:26:34.70
RESUME FOR PROPHET? WOULD
YOU LIKE TO GO TO 'JOBS.COM'
00:26:34.70\00:26:39.46
AND APPLY - SEE IF
YOU COULD BE A PROPHET?
00:26:39.46\00:26:41.83
WHAT'S THE JOB DESCRIPTION?
"I WILL WAIL AND HOWL, I WILL GO
00:26:41.83\00:26:45.10
STRIPPED AND NAKED; I WILL MAKE
A WAILING LIKE THE JACKALS AND A
00:26:45.10\00:26:48.16
MOURNING LIKE THE OSTRICHES,
FOR HER WOUNDS ARE INCURABLE.
00:26:48.16\00:26:52.20
FOR IT HAS COME TO JUDAH; IT HAS
COME TO THE GATE OF MY PEOPLE -
00:26:52.20\00:26:55.43
TO JERUSALEM." NOW
HERE HE'S FORETELLING THAT
00:26:55.43\00:26:57.00
JERUSALEM - MICAH'S THE FIRST
PROPHET THAT FORETELLS A GREAT
00:26:57.00\00:27:00.30
JUDGMENT IS COMING ON JERUSALEM
AND THIS IS NOT THE MAIN
00:27:00.30\00:27:03.23
PROPHECY ON THAT. ALRIGHT,
READ FOR US NUMBERS 11:11, OKAY?
00:27:03.23\00:27:10.03
>>NUMBERS 11:11, "SO MOSES
SAID TO THE LORD, 'WHY HAVE YOU
00:27:10.03\00:27:14.30
AFFLICTED YOUR SERVANT?
00:27:14.30\00:27:16.33
AND WHY HAVE I NOT
FOUND FAVOR IN YOUR SIGHT,
00:27:16.33\00:27:19.20
THAT YOU HAVE LAID THE BURDEN
OF ALL THESE PEOPLE ON ME?"
00:27:19.20\00:27:23.46
>>WOULD YOU WANT TO BE MOSES AND
BE RESPONSIBLE FOR 1.8 MILLION
00:27:23.46\00:27:28.56
CHILDREN? AND THEY
WERE THE CHILDREN OF
00:27:28.56\00:27:32.03
ISRAEL. BUT HERE
YOU HAD SLAVES AND YOU
00:27:32.03\00:27:34.03
HAD TO TURN THEM INTO AN ARMY
AND A NATION AND WHENEVER THEY
00:27:34.03\00:27:40.06
SINNED IT JUST
BROKE MOSES' HEART.
00:27:40.06\00:27:42.93
IN JEREMIAH 8:21,
HERE'S ANOTHER PROPHET.
00:27:42.93\00:27:46.83
"FOR THE HURT OF THE
DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE I AM HURT.
00:27:46.83\00:27:50.36
I AM MOURNING; ASTONISHMENT
HAS TAKEN HOLD OF ME.
00:27:50.36\00:27:54.10
IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD,
IS THERE NO PHYSICIAN THERE?
00:27:54.10\00:27:57.83
WHY THEN IS THERE NO RECOVERY
FOR THE HEALTH OF THE DAUGHTER
00:27:57.83\00:28:00.76
OF MY PEOPLE?"
JEREMIAH SOMETIMES IS CALLED
00:28:00.76\00:28:03.23
'THE WEEPING PROPHET'.
IS IT EASY TO BE A PROPHET?
00:28:03.23\00:28:07.33
ALRIGHT,
SOMEONE'S GOT 1 KINGS 19:14.
00:28:07.33\00:28:11.66
>>"AND HE SAID, 'I HAVE BEEN
VERY ZEALOUS FOR THE LORD GOD OF
00:28:11.66\00:28:14.93
HOSTS; BECAUSE THE CHILDREN
OF ISRAEL HAVE FORSAKEN YOUR
00:28:14.93\00:28:18.16
COVENANT, TORN DOWN YOUR ALTARS,
AND KILLED YOUR PROPHETS WITH
00:28:18.16\00:28:21.40
THE SWORD. I ALONE
AM LEFT; AND THEY SEEK
00:28:21.40\00:28:24.76
TO TAKE MY LIFE."
>>ALRIGHT, WHEN ELIJAH MAKES
00:28:24.76\00:28:27.16
THIS STATEMENT, WHERE IS
HE? HE'S BACK AT MOUNT SINAI.
00:28:27.16\00:28:32.03
HE'S IN A CAVE. WHY?
BECAUSE AFTER THIS BIG REVIVAL
00:28:32.03\00:28:36.86
ON MOUNT CARMEL, WHEN ALL THE
PROPHETS OF BAAL WERE SLAIN AND
00:28:36.86\00:28:42.00
THE FIRE CAME DOWN AND GOD DID
THIS WONDER AND THE RAIN CAME
00:28:42.00\00:28:46.20
DOWN, THE NEXT DAY THE QUEEN
JEZEBEL PUT A PRICE ON ELIJAH'S
00:28:46.20\00:28:51.30
HEAD AND HE HAD
TO RUN FOR HIS LIFE.
00:28:51.30\00:28:53.00
HE JUST WANTED TO BRING REVIVAL
AND HE THOUGHT, 'AS LONG AS
00:28:53.00\00:28:55.50
JEZEBEL'S STILL IN POWER
WILL THERE EVER BE REVIVAL?'
00:28:55.50\00:28:59.00
AND SO HE GOT DISCOURAGED AND
HE WENT OFF - RAN OUT INTO THE
00:28:59.00\00:29:03.76
DESERT, GOT UNDER A BROOM TREE
AND JUST SAID, 'LORD, I'M GOING
00:29:03.76\00:29:06.76
TO GO ON A HUNGER
STRIKE. JUST KILL ME.
00:29:06.76\00:29:09.26
IT'S NOT - I SHOULDN'T EVEN LIVE
ANYMORE.' AND AN ANGEL CAME TO
00:29:09.26\00:29:13.53
HIM AND BROUGHT HIM SOME
FOOD. YOU REMEMBER THAT STORY?
00:29:13.53\00:29:16.30
SO FINALLY HE PRAYS AND TELLS
THE LORD WHAT'S THE PROBLEM.
00:29:16.30\00:29:20.33
HE SAYS, 'I'M
THE ONLY ONE LEFT.'
00:29:20.33\00:29:22.36
A PROPHET -
SOMETIMES IT'S A LONELY LIFE.
00:29:22.36\00:29:24.66
NOW HE WASN'T THE ONLY
ONE BUT HE FELT IT, DIDN'T HE?
00:29:24.66\00:29:27.43
HE FELT - I MEAN YOU LIVE BY A
CREEK FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS AND
00:29:27.43\00:29:30.86
YOU'RE FED BY CROWS AND THEN YOU
HAVE TO LIVE IN THE ATTIC OF A
00:29:30.86\00:29:35.50
WIDOW AND HIDE FOR
ANOTHER YEAR AND A HALF?
00:29:35.50\00:29:38.90
I MEAN, HE FELT PRETTY LONELY.
AND SO, THE LIFE OF A PROPHET
00:29:38.90\00:29:42.63
CAN BE PRETTY
TOUGH. LISTEN TO EZEKIEL.
00:29:42.63\00:29:44.96
IT SAYS IN EZEKIEL 24:15, "ALSO
THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME
00:29:44.96\00:29:49.10
SAYING, 'SON OF MAN, BEHOLD,"
- NOW EZEKIEL WAS IN PERSIA WHEN
00:29:49.10\00:29:52.26
HE HAD THIS PROPHECY - "I TAKE
AWAY FROM YOU THE DESIRE OF YOUR
00:29:52.26\00:29:56.26
EYES WITH ONE STROKE; YET YOU
SHALL NEITHER MOURN NOR WEEP,
00:29:56.26\00:30:01.33
NOR SHALL YOUR TEARS RUN DOWN.
00:30:01.33\00:30:03.96
SIGH IN SILENCE," - IT DOESN'T
MEAN YOU WON'T SIGH, BUT DO IT
00:30:03.96\00:30:07.06
IN SILENCE - "MAKE NO MOURNING
FOR THE DEAD; BIND YOUR TURBAN
00:30:07.06\00:30:11.53
ON YOUR HEAD, AND PUT YOUR
SANDALS ON YOUR FEET; DO NOT
00:30:11.53\00:30:13.96
COVER YOUR LIPS, AND DO
NOT EAT MAN'S BREAD OF SORROW.
00:30:13.96\00:30:17.16
SO I SPOKE TO THE PEOPLE IN THE
MORNING, AND AT EVENING MY WIFE
00:30:17.16\00:30:22.63
DIED; AND THE NEXT MORNING
I DID AS I WAS COMMANDED."
00:30:22.63\00:30:26.56
GOD TOLD HIM, HE SAYS,
'YOUR WIFE IS GOING TO DIE.'
00:30:26.56\00:30:29.96
AND - NOW THIS IS A DIFFICULT
PASSAGE - I MEAN, HERE EZEKIEL'S
00:30:29.96\00:30:33.40
A PROPHET DOING WHAT GOD SAYS,
YOU THINK HE'S GOING TO BLESS
00:30:33.40\00:30:35.50
HIM. AND HE SAID, 'NO.' HE SAID
- JUST IN THE COURSE OF LIFE.
00:30:35.50\00:30:41.83
I DON'T KNOW IF THERE
WERE OTHER ISSUES INVOLVED.
00:30:41.83\00:30:44.26
IT'S NOT - IT MAY NOT BE THAT
GOD STRUCK HER TO MAKE A POINT.
00:30:44.26\00:30:49.36
IT COULD HAVE BEEN HEALTH, BUT
GOD TOLD HIM THIS IS GOING TO
00:30:49.36\00:30:54.06
HAPPEN. HE SAID, 'I'M GOING
TO USE IT FOR AN ILLUSTRATION.'
00:30:54.06\00:30:56.53
HE SAID, 'AS MUCH AS YOU LOVE
YOUR WIFE, I LOVE MY CHURCH.'
00:30:56.53\00:30:59.90
- I'M PARAPHRASING THE MESSAGE
OF EZEKIEL HERE - 'AND THE
00:30:59.90\00:31:03.93
PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE JUDGED
AND THEY'RE GOING TO LOSE THEIR
00:31:03.93\00:31:07.30
LOVED ONES.' DO YOU
REMEMBER WHEN AARON'S
00:31:07.30\00:31:09.93
SONS NADAB AND ABIHU WERE STRUCK
BECAUSE THEY WENT INTO THE
00:31:09.93\00:31:14.06
TEMPLE - THEY WERE INTOXICATED
AND THEY BROUGHT STRANGE FIRE?
00:31:14.06\00:31:16.93
AND WHEN THEY WERE STRUCK BY THE
LORD GOD SAID, 'DO NOT MOURN, DO
00:31:16.93\00:31:20.46
NOT REND YOUR ROBES,
YOU'RE THE HIGH PRIEST.'
00:31:20.46\00:31:23.13
BUT THIS IS - THERE'S GOING
TO BE MOURNING AMONG THE PEOPLE.
00:31:23.13\00:31:25.56
MOURN QUIETLY. SO
IT'S TOUGH TO BE A PROPHET,
00:31:25.56\00:31:29.16
ISN'T IT? 2 CORINTHIANS 11:23
- THIS IS PAUL NOW, I PICKED
00:31:29.16\00:31:35.33
ONE FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT.
PAUL SAYS - HE'S TALKING ABOUT
00:31:35.33\00:31:39.56
THE OTHER APOSTLES - HE SAYS,
"ARE THEY MINISTERS OF CHRIST?
00:31:39.56\00:31:43.70
- I SPEAK AS A FOOL - I AM
MORE: IN LABORS MORE ABUNDANT,
00:31:43.70\00:31:47.96
IN STRIPES ABOVE MEASURE,
IN PRISONS" - STRIPES, YOU KNOW
00:31:47.96\00:31:51.53
WHAT THAT MEANS. WHEN
YOU WERE WHIPPED IT LEFT
00:31:51.53\00:31:53.80
STRIPES ON YOUR BACK AND HE'S
SAYING, 'I WAS WHIPPED MORE.' -
00:31:53.80\00:31:58.90
"IN STRIPES ABOVE MEASURE," -
I CAN'T EVEN COUNT - IN PRISONS
00:31:58.90\00:32:02.33
MORE FREQUENTLY," - CAN
YOU IMAGINE PAUL'S RAP SHEET?
00:32:02.33\00:32:05.73
"IN DEATHS OFTEN.
FROM THE JEWS FIVE TIMES I
00:32:05.73\00:32:09.30
RECEIVED FORTY
STRIPES MINUS ONE." -
00:32:09.30\00:32:11.63
YOU WERE ALLOWED TO
WHIP A PERSON UP TO 39 TIMES.
00:32:11.63\00:32:13.83
YOU WEREN'T ALLOWED TO BE
WHIPPED 40 TIMES LEST YOU FEEL
00:32:13.83\00:32:17.43
CONTEMPT FOR THOSE
MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD. -
00:32:17.43\00:32:20.36
"THREE TIMES I WAS BEATEN WITH
RODS; ONCE I WAS STONED; THREE
00:32:20.36\00:32:24.30
TIMES I WAS SHIPWRECKED; A NIGHT
AND A DAY I HAVE BEEN IN THE
00:32:24.30\00:32:29.13
DEEP;" - YOU'D BE WATERLOGGED -
"IN JOURNEYS OFTEN, IN PERILS OF
00:32:29.13\00:32:33.16
WATERS, IN PERILS OF ROBBERS, IN
PERILS OF MY OWN COUNTRYMEN, IN
00:32:33.16\00:32:36.83
PERILS OF THE GENTILES, IN
PERILS IN THE CITY, IN PERILS IN
00:32:36.83\00:32:40.13
THE WILDERNESS," - IN THE
COUNTRY, IN THE CITY - "IN
00:32:40.13\00:32:43.20
PERILS IN THE SEA," - ON LAND
AND IN SEA - "IN PERILS AMONG
00:32:43.20\00:32:46.50
FALSE BRETHREN;" - SOME WHO I
THOUGHT WERE SAFE TURNED OUT TO
00:32:46.50\00:32:49.33
BE HYPOCRITES. HE SAID
- WHO WAS IT? 'DEMETRIUS
00:32:49.33\00:32:52.33
THE SILVERSMITH DID ME
MUCH HARM' - "IN WEARINESS AND
00:32:52.33\00:32:56.06
TOIL, IN SLEEPLESSNESS OFTEN, IN
HUNGER AND THIRST, IN FASTINGS
00:32:56.06\00:33:00.36
OFTEN, IN COLD AND NAKEDNESS
- BESIDES THE OTHER THINGS, WHAT
00:33:00.36\00:33:04.40
COMES UPON ME DAILY: MY DEEP
CONCERN FOR ALL THE CHURCHES."
00:33:04.40\00:33:08.90
IT COULD BE TOUGH TO
BE CALLED BY THE LORD.
00:33:08.90\00:33:13.23
PAUL SAW JESUS. WOULD
YOU LIKE TO SEE JESUS?
00:33:13.23\00:33:17.43
WOULD YOU LIKE EVERYTHING
ELSE THAT GOES WITH IT?
00:33:17.43\00:33:23.13
SAY, 'OH, I'D LIKE TO HAVE
A VISION.' JOHN HAD WONDERFUL
00:33:23.13\00:33:25.93
VISION AND HE WAS A PRISONER
WHEN HE HAD IT TOO, WASN'T HE?
00:33:25.93\00:33:29.86
AND SO, MICAH IS ONE OF THOSE
WHO REMINDS US IT CAN BE TOUGH
00:33:29.86\00:33:34.80
TO BE A PROPHET. NOW
THERE'S SOMETHING WE'RE
00:33:34.80\00:33:37.13
REMINDED ABOUT HERE IN 1 PETER.
THERE'S SUFFERING IN LIFE.
00:33:37.13\00:33:41.30
THERE'S SUFFERING IF YOU FOLLOW
THE LORD AND THERE'S SUFFERING
00:33:41.30\00:33:44.10
IF YOU DON'T. IT IS
BETTER TO FOLLOW THE LORD.
00:33:44.10\00:33:47.90
YOU KNOW, I GET ANNOYED AND
AGGRAVATED WHEN I HEAR PASTORS -
00:33:47.90\00:33:51.73
I TURNED ON SOME CHRISTIAN
PROGRAM LAST NIGHT AND I HEARD A
00:33:51.73\00:33:53.93
PASTOR PROMISING PROSPERITY
TO EVERYBODY AND KAREN AND I
00:33:53.93\00:33:58.10
SWITCHED THE CHANNEL PRETTY
QUICK, BUT HE WAS DOING THAT
00:33:58.10\00:34:00.26
'NAME IT AND CLAIM IT' - YOU
KNOW, EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE
00:34:00.26\00:34:03.03
WONDERFUL. AND IT IS
TRUE, GOD BLESSES HIS PEOPLE.
00:34:03.03\00:34:06.46
THERE ARE A LOT OF BLESSINGS YOU
CAN READ ABOUT IN DEUTERONOMY 28
00:34:06.46\00:34:09.16
AND OTHER PLACES. GOD
PROMISES FOR THOSE THAT LOVE
00:34:09.16\00:34:11.76
HIM AND THAT OBEY HIM
BUT THERE ARE ALSO TRIALS.
00:34:11.76\00:34:15.06
JOB WAS A GREATLY
BLESSED MAN, RIGHT?
00:34:15.06\00:34:18.70
BUT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT A
MAN WHO WENT THROUGH THE BIGGEST
00:34:18.70\00:34:20.46
STRUGGLES IN THE BIBLE, WHO
DO YOU MENTION? I MEAN, IT ONLY
00:34:20.46\00:34:24.00
LASTED A FEW WEEKS, BUT IT
WAS TOUGH. AND THEN HE BLESSED
00:34:24.00\00:34:27.66
THE LATTER END OF JOB
EVEN MORE THAN THE BEGINNING.
00:34:27.66\00:34:29.66
SO YES, IT IS BETTER TO SERVE
THE LORD, BUT THE IDEA THAT
00:34:29.66\00:34:32.16
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE
STRUGGLES - 'ALL THAT LIVE GODLY
00:34:32.16\00:34:34.96
IN CHRIST JESUS
WILL SUFFER PERSECUTION.'
00:34:34.96\00:34:39.73
AND JESUS SAID, 'IF THEY HAVE
PERSECUTED ME, IF YOU FOLLOW ME,
00:34:39.73\00:34:42.90
THEY'LL PERSECUTE YOU.' SO
THERE'S GOING TO BE TRIALS IN
00:34:42.90\00:34:45.83
LIFE, JUST ACCEPT IT.
00:34:45.83\00:34:49.20
IT'S A LOT EASIER ONCE YOU BRACE
YOURSELF AND YOU PREPARE FOR IT.
00:34:49.20\00:34:52.10
THE QUESTION IS, 'ARE YOU
SUFFERING BECAUSE OF DECISIONS
00:34:52.10\00:34:55.63
YOU'VE MADE - BECAUSE
YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING WRONG?
00:34:55.63\00:34:58.06
OR ARE YOU
SUFFERING FOR YOUR FAITH?
00:34:58.06\00:35:00.10
HAVE YOU MET PEOPLE BEFORE THAT
ARE GOING THROUGH TRIALS AND
00:35:00.10\00:35:02.60
THEY ACT LIKE IT'S BECAUSE
THEY'RE CHRISTIANS BUT YOU KNOW
00:35:02.60\00:35:04.76
VERY WELL IT'S BECAUSE OF
DECISIONS THEY'VE MADE THAT WERE
00:35:04.76\00:35:06.90
NOT VERY WISE. IT HAS
NOTHING TO DO WITH THEIR
00:35:06.90\00:35:09.26
CHRISTIANITY.
PETER TALKS ABOUT THAT.
00:35:09.26\00:35:12.00
1 PETER 4:14, "IF YOU ARE
REPROACHED FOR THE NAME OF
00:35:12.00\00:35:16.20
CHRIST, BLESSED ARE YOU, FOR THE
SPIRIT OF GLORY AND OF GOD RESTS
00:35:16.20\00:35:19.43
UPON YOU." DIDN'T
JESUS SAY, 'IF YOU'RE
00:35:19.43\00:35:21.00
PERSECUTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS
SAKE REJOICE AND BE EXCEEDING
00:35:21.00\00:35:23.93
GLAD'? RIGHT? "ON
THEIR PART HE IS BLASPHEMED,
00:35:23.93\00:35:27.46
BUT ON YOUR
PART HE IS GLORIFIED.
00:35:27.46\00:35:28.86
BUT LET NONE OF YOU SUFFER AS A
MURDERER, A THIEF, AN EVILDOER,
00:35:28.86\00:35:33.46
OR AS A BUSYBODY IN
OTHER PEOPLE'S MATTERS.
00:35:33.46\00:35:35.96
YET IF ANYONE SUFFERS AS
A CHRISTIAN, LET HIM NOT BE
00:35:35.96\00:35:39.16
ASHAMED, BUT LET HIM
GLORIFY GOD IN THIS MATTER."
00:35:39.16\00:35:45.86
SO HE'S SAYING, YOU KNOW,
'IF YOU'RE GOING TO SUFFER, MAKE
00:35:45.86\00:35:48.26
SURE IT'S FOR
RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE.'
00:35:48.26\00:35:50.63
HOW MUCH OF YOUR SUFFERING CAN
YOU SAY HAS COME BECAUSE OF YOUR
00:35:50.63\00:35:54.10
FAITHFULNESS OR IS IT
BECAUSE OF UNFAITHFULNESS?
00:35:54.10\00:35:58.56
THAT WAS IN THE LESSON
SO DON'T GET MAD AT ME.
00:35:58.56\00:36:01.96
ALRIGHT, NOW WE'RE GOING TO
GO TO MICAH 2 - WOW, WE'VE GOT A
00:36:01.96\00:36:04.96
LOT LEFT. WE'RE GOING
TO GO TO MICAH 2:1 AND 2.
00:36:04.96\00:36:08.26
AND SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME MICAH
3, VERSE 12 - MICAH 3, VERSE 12
00:36:08.26\00:36:14.63
WHO HAS THAT? DID I SEE A HAND?
00:36:14.63\00:36:18.13
WE GAVE OUT - YEAH,
YEAH? OH, IT'S WAY OVER HERE.
00:36:18.13\00:36:21.56
OKAY, YOU'LL GET
THAT IN JUST A MINUTE.
00:36:21.56\00:36:23.43
AND I'M GOING TO READ FOR YOU
MICAH 2, VERSES 1 AND 2, "WOE TO
00:36:23.43\00:36:27.83
THOSE WHO DEVISE INIQUITY,
AND WORK OUT EVIL ON THEIR BEDS!
00:36:27.83\00:36:31.20
AT MORNING LIGHT THEY PRACTICE
IT BECAUSE IT IS IN THE POWER OF
00:36:31.20\00:36:34.36
THEIR HAND. THEY
COVET FIELDS AND THEY TAKE
00:36:34.36\00:36:36.86
THEM BY VIOLENCE, ALSO
HOUSES, AND SEIZE THEM.
00:36:36.86\00:36:39.50
SO THEY OPPRESS A MAN
AND HIS HOUSE, A MAN AND HIS
00:36:39.50\00:36:41.50
INHERITANCE." WE
READ THERE IN 2 CHRONICLES
00:36:41.50\00:36:44.36
WHERE IT SAYS DURING THE TIME
OF JOTHAM, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS
00:36:44.36\00:36:47.10
A GOOD KING, THE
PEOPLE DID WICKEDLY.
00:36:47.10\00:36:49.60
THE LORD HAD BLESSED THE NATION
WITH PROSPERITY BUT THE PEOPLE
00:36:49.60\00:36:52.26
BEGAN TO WORSHIP MONEY AS A GOD
AND THEY WERE DEVISING NEW WAYS
00:36:52.26\00:36:56.66
TO GET MORE AND MORE AND THEY'D
LAY AWAKE ON THEIR BEDS AT NIGHT
00:36:56.66\00:37:00.93
AND THEY'D SAY, 'YOU KNOW, IF I
DO THIS AND THIS, AH, YOU KNOW,
00:37:00.93\00:37:03.26
I CAN TRICK THEM INTO SELLING
IT FOR A CHEAPER PRICE AND I CAN
00:37:03.26\00:37:07.00
SEIZE THIS OR I CAN SUE FOR IT.'
OR, YOU KNOW, WHO KNOWS WHAT
00:37:07.00\00:37:09.43
THEY WERE THINKING, BUT THEY
WERE USING EVIL MEANS TO GRASP
00:37:09.43\00:37:13.83
AND GAIN AND THERE WAS
GREED. AND MICAH SAYS, 'WOE!'
00:37:13.83\00:37:19.86
DOES JAMES ALSO SAY, 'WOE TO YOU
RICH PEOPLE WHO ARE STRIVING AND
00:37:19.86\00:37:26.13
CONNIVING TO GET' - AND HE'S
PRINCIPALLY SAYING, 'THOSE OF
00:37:26.13\00:37:30.16
YOU WHO ARE GRINDING
DOWN THE POOR TO GET IT'?
00:37:30.16\00:37:32.33
THERE WAS A LOT OF
THAT THAT WAS GOING ON THEN.
00:37:32.33\00:37:34.83
IN PSALMS - AND, OF COURSE,
THERE WAS A LOT OF IDOLATRY TOO
00:37:34.83\00:37:39.96
- IN PSALMS 115, VERSE 4 -
WE TALKED ABOUT THIS A COUPLE OF
00:37:39.96\00:37:43.36
WEEKS AGO WHEN WE WERE TALKING
ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS -
00:37:43.36\00:37:46.60
"THEIR IDOLS ARE SILVER AND
GOLD, THE WORK OF MEN'S HANDS.
00:37:46.60\00:37:50.43
THEY HAVE MOUTHS, BUT THEY DO
NOT SPEAK; EYES THEY HAVE, BUT
00:37:50.43\00:37:53.16
THEY DO NOT SEE; THEY HAVE EARS,
BUT THEY DO NOT HEAR; NOSES THEY
00:37:53.16\00:37:56.13
HAVE, BUT THEY DO NOT SMELL;
THEY HAVE HANDS, BUT THEY DO NOT
00:37:56.13\00:37:59.00
HANDLE; FEET THEY HAVE, BUT THEY
DO NOT WALK; NOR DO THEY MUTTER
00:37:59.00\00:38:02.36
THROUGH THEIR THROAT.
THOSE WHO MAKE THEM ARE LIKE
00:38:02.36\00:38:04.56
THEM; SO IS
EVERYONE WHO TRUSTS IN THEM."
00:38:04.56\00:38:06.96
HERE THE PEOPLE HAD GOTTEN INTO
IDOLATRY AND IT JUST TELLS YOU
00:38:06.96\00:38:10.56
HOW VAIN AND FUTILE THAT
IS. ALRIGHT, ARE WE READY?
00:38:10.56\00:38:14.40
YOU'RE GOING TO READ FOR US,
I THINK IT'S MICAH 3, VERSE 12.
00:38:14.40\00:38:18.03
>>MICAH 3:12, "THEREFORE BECAUSE
OF YOU ZION SHALL BE PLOWED LIKE
00:38:18.03\00:38:22.03
A FIELD, JERUSALEM SHALL BECOME
HEAPS OF RUINS, AND THE MOUNTAIN
00:38:22.03\00:38:26.70
OF THE TEMPLE LIKE THE
BARE HILLS OF THE FOREST."
00:38:26.70\00:38:29.86
>>WOW, CAN YOU
IMAGINE BEING A PROPHET?
00:38:29.86\00:38:32.60
ONE OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE
WORLD - IT'S NOT LISTED AMONG
00:38:32.60\00:38:35.46
THE TYPICAL WONDERS OF ANTIQUITY
- YOU'VE GOT THE COLOSSUS OF
00:38:35.46\00:38:39.80
RHODES AND THE PYRAMIDS AND
THERE WERE THE HANGING GARDENS
00:38:39.80\00:38:42.30
OF BABYLON, BUT IN REALITY, ONE
OF THE WONDERS OF ANTIQUITY WAS
00:38:42.30\00:38:45.76
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON.
00:38:45.76\00:38:48.20
HAVE YOU READ ABOUT THE
WEALTH THAT WAS IN THAT?
00:38:48.20\00:38:51.96
THE GOLD AND THE BRONZE AND THE
MARBLE AND IT JUST SHONE IN THE
00:38:51.96\00:38:54.63
SUN AND IT WAS JUST SO
MAGNIFICENT AND FOR YOU TO BE A
00:38:54.63\00:39:00.63
PROPHET AND SAY,
'SEE WHERE THIS TEMPLE IS?
00:39:00.63\00:39:03.50
THIS IS GOING TO BE A
FIELD THAT WILL BE PLOWED.'
00:39:03.50\00:39:08.30
NOW THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST
PROPHECIES THAT WAS MADE - IT IS
00:39:08.30\00:39:10.80
THE FIRST PROPHECY IN THE BIBLE
THAT WAS MADE BY A PROPHET THAT
00:39:10.80\00:39:14.23
SAID JERUSALEM
WOULD BE DESTROYED.
00:39:14.23\00:39:16.50
YOU REMEMBER WHEN JESUS -
THEY SHOWED JESUS ALL OF THE
00:39:16.50\00:39:20.53
BUILDINGS OF THE TEMPLE AND
CHRIST SAID, 'THERE WON'T BE ONE
00:39:20.53\00:39:22.26
STONE LEFT UPON ANOTHER HERE'?
MICAH IS SORT OF LIKE JESUS HERE
00:39:22.26\00:39:26.60
IN THAT MICAH FORETOLD THE
DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE - IT
00:39:26.60\00:39:30.43
WAS REBUILT - JESUS FORETOLD THE
DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE - AND
00:39:30.43\00:39:34.83
BOTH PROPHETS WERE PERSECUTED
- AND IT WAS REBUILT - IT WAS
00:39:34.83\00:39:38.16
REBUILT IN THAT YOU AND
I ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD.
00:39:38.16\00:39:40.20
THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, 'DESTROY
THIS TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS AND
00:39:40.20\00:39:42.63
IN THREE DAYS I'LL
MAKE ONE WITHOUT HANDS.'
00:39:42.63\00:39:44.13
AND HE SPOKE OF HIS
BODY, RIGHT? THE TEMPLE OF GOD.
00:39:44.13\00:39:48.00
DO WE KNOW THAT MICAH WAS
A PROPHET? YOU KNOW, HOW DO
00:39:48.00\00:39:53.26
THESE GUYS PICK THESE MINOR
PROPHETS AND BELIEVE IN THEM?
00:39:53.26\00:39:56.83
DO YOU BELIEVE
JEREMIAH WAS A PROPHET?
00:39:56.83\00:39:59.53
WELL, BECAUSE HIS
PROPHECIES CAME TRUE.
00:39:59.53\00:40:01.56
NOW WHAT DOES
JEREMIAH SAY ABOUT MICAH?
00:40:01.56\00:40:03.76
YOU KNOW, SOME OF THESE
PROPHETS TALK ABOUT EACH OTHER.
00:40:03.76\00:40:06.26
JEREMIAH 26:18, "MICAH THE
MORASTHITE" - YOU DON'T HAVE TO
00:40:06.26\00:40:11.80
GUESS WHICH ONE IT IS, IT'S THE
SAME MICAH, SAME NAME - FIRST
00:40:11.80\00:40:15.80
AND LAST NAME, YOU MIGHT SAY,
THAT YOU FIND IN THE BOOK OF
00:40:15.80\00:40:18.06
MICAH - "PROPHESIED IN THE DAYS
OF HEZEKIAH KING OF JUDAH, AND
00:40:18.06\00:40:22.30
SPAKE TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF
JUDAH, SAYING, 'THUS SAYETH THE
00:40:22.30\00:40:25.23
LORD OF HOSTS: 'ZION WILL
BE PLOWED LIKE A FIELD AND
00:40:25.23\00:40:28.70
JERUSALEM WILL BECOME HEAPS OF
RUINS, AND THE MOUNTAIN OF THE
00:40:28.70\00:40:31.60
HOUSE AS THE HIGH
PLACES OF A FOREST.'"
00:40:31.60\00:40:34.66
HIGH PLACE IN A FOREST -
SOMETIME - YOU EVER SEEN A
00:40:34.66\00:40:36.46
MOUNTAIN THAT'S GOT FOREST
AROUND IT BUT THE VERY TOP OF
00:40:36.46\00:40:38.26
THE MOUNTAIN IS BALD
BECAUSE THE WIND HITS IT?
00:40:38.26\00:40:41.96
AND HE'S TALKING ABOUT LIKE A
FOREST WHERE YOU'VE GOT THE HIGH
00:40:41.96\00:40:44.06
PLACE IN A FOREST -
THE MOUNTAIN IS BALD.
00:40:44.06\00:40:46.53
AND BACK IN BIBLE TIMES, A
LOT OF THE PAGAN NATIONS, THEY'D
00:40:46.53\00:40:49.36
FIND A HIGH MOUNTAIN, THEY'D CUT
DOWN THE TREES AND THEY'D PUT
00:40:49.36\00:40:51.70
THEIR SHRINES THERE.
IT WAS A BALD SPOT ON THE
00:40:51.70\00:40:53.90
MOUNTAIN. THERE
ARE A LOT OF MOUNTAINS
00:40:53.90\00:40:55.93
AROUND THAT ARE CALLED 'MOUNT
BALDY' AND YOU KNOW HOW MANY
00:40:55.93\00:40:59.90
MOUNT BALDIES THERE ARE?
BECAUSE THERE'S NO TREES ON IT.
00:40:59.90\00:41:04.10
WELL, WHAT HE WAS SAYING IS
THAT JERUSALEM IS GOING TO HAVE
00:41:04.10\00:41:06.80
BUSHES GOING AROUND THE EDGES
AND WHERE THE TEMPLE IS IS GOING
00:41:06.80\00:41:09.33
TO BE FLAT. DID THAT HAPPEN?
DID THAT PROPHECY COME TRUE?
00:41:09.33\00:41:13.66
PARTIALLY WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR
DESTROYED THE TEMPLE THEY DID
00:41:13.66\00:41:17.53
KNOCK IT ALL DOWN, BUT THERE
WERE - THERE WAS RUBBLE AND
00:41:17.53\00:41:21.56
STONE STILL LEFT, BUT WHAT DID
JESUS SAY WAS GOING TO HAPPEN?
00:41:21.56\00:41:25.10
'THERE WILL NOT BE LEFT HERE ONE
STONE UPON ANOTHER THAT WILL NOT
00:41:25.10\00:41:28.46
BE THROWN DOWN. NOW
LISTEN TO WHAT JOSEPHUS THE
00:41:28.46\00:41:31.13
HISTORIAN SAYS ABOUT WHEN TITUS,
THE ROMAN GENERAL, DESTROYED
00:41:31.13\00:41:34.26
JERUSALEM. DID
THAT PROPHECY COME TRUE?
00:41:34.26\00:41:37.56
"AFTER TITUS HAD TAKEN JERUSALEM
HE ORDERED HIS SOLDIERS TO
00:41:37.56\00:41:41.03
DEMOLISH IT EXCEPT THREE OF
THE LARGEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL
00:41:41.03\00:41:44.56
TOWERS AND THE WESTERN WALL OF
THE CITY" - WHICH IS STILL THERE
00:41:44.56\00:41:47.43
TODAY. WE CALL IT THE
WAILING WALL. BY THE WAY,
00:41:47.43\00:41:50.63
THE VALLEYS AROUND JERUSALEM
USED TO BE MUCH DEEPER.
00:41:50.63\00:41:54.90
JERUSALEM WAS A FORTRESS BECAUSE
IT HAD A CITY BUILT SURROUNDED
00:41:54.90\00:41:59.66
BY DEEP VALLEYS,
MAKING ATTACK VERY DIFFICULT.
00:41:59.66\00:42:02.40
WHEN YOU GO TO JERUSALEM TODAY,
MUCH OF THOSE VALLEYS ARE BUILT
00:42:02.40\00:42:05.10
UP. YOU KNOW WHY?
BECAUSE WHEN THE CITY WAS
00:42:05.10\00:42:08.90
DESTROYED, BOTH IN THE DAYS
OF NEHEMIAH - I'M SORRY, IN THE
00:42:08.90\00:42:13.13
DAYS OF JEREMIAH AND DURING
THE TIME, AGAIN, OF THE ROMANS.
00:42:13.13\00:42:16.96
WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY DID
WITH ALL THE STONES FROM ALL THE
00:42:16.96\00:42:19.20
HOUSES AND ALL THE TEMPLES
AND FORTRESSES IN THE CITY?
00:42:19.20\00:42:22.80
THEY JUST PUSHED THEM
OFF INTO THE LOWEST POINT.
00:42:22.80\00:42:25.10
THEY ALL ROLLED INTO THE VALLEYS
AND THESE DEEP VALLEYS THAT MADE
00:42:25.10\00:42:27.66
IT A FORTRESS CITY FILLED
IN. THEY USED TO BE MUCH, MUCH
00:42:27.66\00:42:31.66
DEEPER THAN THEY ARE NOW.
OH, I'M NOT DONE HERE TELLING
00:42:31.66\00:42:36.40
YOU WHAT JOSEPHUS SAID.
THE ONLY THING THAT WAS LEFT
00:42:36.40\00:42:39.10
WERE THOSE TOWERS AND
THE WESTERN WALL OF THE CITY.
00:42:39.10\00:42:42.63
"THE REST WAS LEVELED SO
THAT THEY WHO HAD NEVER SEEN IT
00:42:42.63\00:42:45.83
BEFORE COULD SCARCELY PERSUADE
THEMSELVES THAT IT HAD BEEN
00:42:45.83\00:42:49.60
INHABITED." THAT
BUSY CITY - THEY LOOKED AT
00:42:49.60\00:42:52.30
IT AND COULDN'T EVEN BELIEVE
THAT IT HAD BEEN INHABITED.
00:42:52.30\00:42:55.10
THE JEWISH WRITER ALSO INFORMS
US THAT TURNUS RUFUS, WHO TITUS
00:42:55.10\00:43:00.50
HAD LEFT IN COMMAND, "HE PLOWED
UP THE VERY FOUNDATIONS OF THE
00:43:00.50\00:43:03.80
TEMPLE." ISN'T THAT
WHAT MICAH SAID WOULD HAPPEN?
00:43:03.80\00:43:08.00
IT'D BE LIKE A FIELD THAT WAS
PLOWED. AND WHEN DR. RICHARDSON
00:43:08.00\00:43:13.03
VISITED THE SACRED SPOT IN 1818
- THAT'S NOT THAT LONG AGO -
00:43:13.03\00:43:17.26
"HE FOUND ONE PART OF MOUNT ZION
SUPPORTING A CROP OF BARLEY AND
00:43:17.26\00:43:21.23
ANOTHER UNDERGOING
THE LABOR OF THE PLOW.
00:43:21.23\00:43:24.13
EVEN AS RECENTLY AS 1818 -
YOU KNOW JERUSALEM WAS THE - THE
00:43:24.13\00:43:29.23
CITY WAS NOT WHAT YOU SEE TODAY,
EVEN IF YOU GO BACK 150 YEARS OR
00:43:29.23\00:43:33.63
200 YEARS - IT WAS
PRETTY MUCH STILL DEMOLISHED.
00:43:33.63\00:43:38.26
IT HAD STAYED
THAT WAY FOR YEARS.
00:43:38.26\00:43:39.66
AFTER ALL THE FIGHTING FROM THE
CRUSADES AND AFTER THE FIGHTING
00:43:39.66\00:43:42.26
FROM THE ROMANS AND THE FIGHTING
FROM THE BABYLONIANS, IT HAD
00:43:42.26\00:43:45.43
FALLEN INTO GREAT DISREPAIR AND
THEY WERE PLANTING CROPS ON THE
00:43:45.43\00:43:49.40
PLACE WHERE THE TEMPLE
WAS. ISN'T THAT SOMETHING?
00:43:49.40\00:43:52.60
JUST WHAT HE
FORETOLD WOULD HAPPEN.
00:43:52.60\00:43:55.30
THEN, MICAH ALSO PROPHESIED THAT
THERE WOULD BE A TIME WHEN THEY
00:43:55.30\00:44:00.80
WOULD CHANT PEACE. NOW
IF YOU CHANT SOMETHING,
00:44:00.80\00:44:03.86
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? SAY
IT MORE THAN ONCE, RIGHT?
00:44:03.86\00:44:07.53
IF I WERE TO TELL YOU TO CHANT
THE WORD 'HOLY', YOU'D SAY,
00:44:07.53\00:44:09.73
'HOLY, HOLY, HOLY.' IF I
WERE TO TELL YOU TO CHANT
00:44:09.73\00:44:12.16
'PEACE', YOU'D SAY
'PEACE, PEACE', RIGHT?
00:44:12.16\00:44:14.63
DO YOU FIND THAT PHRASE
OTHER PLACES IN THE BIBLE?
00:44:14.63\00:44:17.70
JEREMIAH CHAPTER - OH
WAIT, SOMEBODY LOOK UP FOR ME
00:44:17.70\00:44:21.10
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3 -
WHO GOT THAT SLIP? OVER HERE?
00:44:21.10\00:44:26.03
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3 -
WE'LL DO THAT IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:44:26.03\00:44:28.63
IF YOU READ IN JEREMIAH CHAPTER
6:14, "THEY'VE HEALED ALSO THE
00:44:28.63\00:44:34.06
HURT OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY
PEOPLE SLIGHTLY SAYING, 'PEACE,
00:44:34.06\00:44:37.70
PEACE' WHEN THERE IS NO PEACE."
AND THAT'S VERY FAMOUS FOR MANY
00:44:37.70\00:44:42.56
OF THE FALSE
PROPHETS TO PROPHECY PEACE.
00:44:42.56\00:44:45.33
NOW, IF YOU WERE THE DEVIL, AND
IF SOME JUDGMENT WAS COMING AND
00:44:45.33\00:44:49.26
YOU DIDN'T WANT PEOPLE TO REPENT
AND PREPARE, WOULDN'T YOU HAVE
00:44:49.26\00:44:52.63
THOSE FALSE PROPHETS SAYING,
'DON'T WORRY, IT'S GOING TO BE
00:44:52.63\00:44:56.10
OKAY. PEACE, PEACE -
PREACHING SMOOTH THINGS.
00:44:56.10\00:44:59.73
IT SAYS THE CHURCH, IN THE
LAST DAYS, WILL GATHER UNTO
00:44:59.73\00:45:01.96
THEMSELVES TEACHERS, THEY'LL
HAVE ITCHING EARS, PREACHING
00:45:01.96\00:45:06.26
SMOOTH THINGS UNTO THEM.
EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE ALL
00:45:06.26\00:45:08.90
RIGHT. 'WE'VE GOT
A MILLENNIUM OF PEACE
00:45:08.90\00:45:10.73
THAT'S GOING TO COME.
YOU'LL GET RAPTURED AWAY BEFORE
00:45:10.73\00:45:12.83
THERE'S ANY TRIALS.
DON'T WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING.'
00:45:12.83\00:45:15.46
ISN'T THAT KIND OF
WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? ALRIGHT,
00:45:15.46\00:45:18.50
GO AHEAD AND READ FOR US 1
THESSALONIANS 5:3. OVER HERE.
00:45:18.50\00:45:23.63
>>"FOR WHEN THEY SHALL SAY,
PEACE AND SAFETY; THEN SUDDEN
00:45:23.63\00:45:27.16
DESTRUCTION COMETH UPON THEM, AS
TRAVAIL UPON A WOMAN WITH CHILD;
00:45:27.16\00:45:31.53
AND THEY SHALL NOT ESCAPE."
00:45:31.53\00:45:33.63
>>NOW THAT HAPPENED BEFORE
THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM.
00:45:33.63\00:45:36.80
THERE WAS A PERIOD WHEN
THE ROMANS FIRST SURROUNDED
00:45:36.80\00:45:39.76
JERUSALEM AND IT LOOKED LIKE THE
CITY WAS GOING TO BE DESTROYED
00:45:39.76\00:45:42.70
AND THERE WAS A CHANGE IN
GOVERNMENT BACK IN ROME AND THE
00:45:42.70\00:45:47.50
FORCES WITHDREW AND THE PROPHETS
- THE FALSE PROPHETS AROUND
00:45:47.50\00:45:51.60
JERUSALEM BEGAN TO
SAY, 'PEACE, PEACE.
00:45:51.60\00:45:53.63
EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE
ALRIGHT. WE DON'T NEED TO WORRY.
00:45:53.63\00:45:55.23
JUST AS WE SAID, GOD'S
GOING TO FIGHT FOR US.'
00:45:55.23\00:45:57.20
AND THE CHRISTIANS KNEW
THAT WAS THEIR SIGNAL TO FLEE.
00:45:57.20\00:46:01.73
LATER, TITUS CAME BACK
WITH THE ARMY AND YOU CAN READ
00:46:01.73\00:46:05.46
'GREAT CONTROVERSY'. IT
WAS TERRIBLE WHAT HAPPENED.
00:46:05.46\00:46:09.76
SUDDEN DESTRUCTION CAME
UPON THEM BECAUSE THEY HAD BEEN
00:46:09.76\00:46:12.50
LISTENING TO THE
WARNINGS OF 'PEACE, PEACE'.
00:46:12.50\00:46:14.33
INSTEAD OF REPENTING, THEY
THOUGHT EVERYTHING WAS OKAY.
00:46:14.33\00:46:16.96
WILL THAT HAPPEN AGAIN
JUST BEFORE THE SECOND COMING?
00:46:16.96\00:46:20.73
WILL THE FALSE PROPHETS OF
THIS BEAST POWER BE PROCLAIMING
00:46:20.73\00:46:25.86
'FOLLOW WHAT WE'RE
SAYING AND WE'LL HAVE PEACE.
00:46:25.86\00:46:29.06
THERE'LL BE PEACE'? AND
IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.
00:46:29.06\00:46:32.80
SUDDEN DESTRUCTION WILL COME
AND IT GOES ON AND SAYS, 'LIKE A
00:46:32.80\00:46:36.03
WOMAN IN LABOR.' YOU
KNOW, SOMETIMES A WOMAN,
00:46:36.03\00:46:43.30
WHEN SHE FINALLY GOES INTO LABOR
SHE HAS SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT
00:46:43.30\00:46:47.30
WHETHER OR NOT SHE REALLY DOES
WANT TO HAVE A BABY, BUT AT THAT
00:46:47.30\00:46:50.96
POINT, YOU DON'T REALLY
HAVE A CHOICE, DO YOU? AND SO
00:46:50.96\00:46:54.86
THAT'S WHAT HE'S SAYING IS, YOU
KNOW, THERE'LL BE NO REPENTANCE
00:46:54.86\00:46:57.73
AT THAT POINT. THEY'VE WAITED
TOO LONG. AND AGAIN, IF YOU
00:46:57.73\00:47:03.40
READ IN MICAH 3:11,
"HER HEADS JUDGE FOR A BRIBE,
00:47:03.40\00:47:07.56
HER PRIESTS TEACH FOR PAY, AND
HER PROPHETS DIVINE FOR MONEY.
00:47:07.56\00:47:12.26
YET THEY LEAN ON THE LORD, AND
SAY, 'IS NOT THE LORD AMONG US?
00:47:12.26\00:47:16.86
NO HARM CAN COME UPON
US.'" AGAIN, DID JESUS DEAL WITH
00:47:16.86\00:47:21.30
THAT IN HIS TIME WHERE HE SAID
THAT 'YOU'LL PRAY LONG PRAYERS
00:47:21.30\00:47:24.93
AND THEN YOU
DEVOUR WIDOW'S HOUSES'?
00:47:24.93\00:47:27.60
AND THEY DEVELOPED ALL
THESE WAYS TO EXTORT THE PEOPLE
00:47:27.60\00:47:30.16
FOR MONEY - DECLARE
CORBIN OVER THEIR ESTATE.
00:47:30.16\00:47:33.10
'GIVE IT TO THE
CHURCH, WE'LL KEEP IT.'
00:47:33.10\00:47:34.66
NOW HERE'S ONE OF THE GREAT
VERSES IN MICAH WE'RE GOING TO
00:47:34.66\00:47:36.60
READ NEXT. THIS IS
IN MICAH 5, VERSE 2.
00:47:36.60\00:47:39.90
A NEW RULER FROM BETHLEHEM -
THIS IS A PROPHECY THAT'S HARD
00:47:39.90\00:47:42.76
TO MISS. SOMEBODY LOOK UP FOR
ME MATTHEW 2 - WHO GOT MATTHEW
00:47:42.76\00:47:45.73
2, VERSE 5? RIGHT UP
HERE. LET'S GET THE MICROPHONE.
00:47:45.73\00:47:49.06
HOLD YOUR HAND UP MIKE.
AND YOU'RE GOING TO BE DOING
00:47:49.06\00:47:51.16
MATTHEW CHAPTER
2, VERSES 5 AND 6.
00:47:51.16\00:47:55.13
I'M GOING TO READ A SIMILAR
PASSAGE. MATTHEW - I'M SORRY,
00:47:55.13\00:47:58.06
MICAH 2, VERSE - NO,
NO, MICAH 5, VERSE 2.
00:47:58.06\00:48:03.46
THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS
WHEN YOU'RE LYSDEXIC.
00:48:03.46\00:48:06.53
"BUT YOU, BETHLEHEM EPHRATHAH,
THOUGHT YOU ARE LITTLE AMONG THE
00:48:06.53\00:48:09.76
THOUSANDS OF JUDAH, YET OUT OF
YOU SHALL COME FORTH TO ME THE
00:48:09.76\00:48:13.70
ONE TO BE RULER IN ISRAEL, WHOSE
GOINGS FORTH ARE FROM OF OLD,
00:48:13.70\00:48:18.70
FROM EVERLASTING." HIS GOINGS
FORTH ARE FROM EVERLASTING. NOW,
00:48:18.70\00:48:24.33
DOES THE NEW TESTAMENT BELIEVE
THAT MICAH WAS A PROPHET?
00:48:24.33\00:48:28.03
GO AHEAD, READ THAT FOR US.
IT'S APPROPRIATE THAT MIKE IS
00:48:28.03\00:48:30.20
READING THIS.
>>MATTHEW 2, VERSES 5 AND 6, "SO
00:48:30.20\00:48:33.96
THEY SAID TO HIM IN BETHLEHEM OF
JUDEA, FOR THUS IT IS WRITTEN BY
00:48:33.96\00:48:38.00
THE PROPHET: 'BUT YOU,
BETHLEHEM, IN THE LAND OF JUDAH,
00:48:38.00\00:48:41.86
ARE NOT THE LEAST AMONG THE
RULERS OF JUDAH; FOR OUT OF YOU
00:48:41.86\00:48:45.83
SHALL COME A RULER WHO WILL
SHEPHERD MY PEOPLE ISRAEL.'"
00:48:45.83\00:48:50.50
>>ALRIGHT, SO CAN WE
BELIEVE THAT MICAH IS A PROPHET?
00:48:50.50\00:48:54.73
DOES JEREMIAH IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT ENDORSE MICAH AS A
00:48:54.73\00:48:57.56
PROPHET? DOES MATTHEW IN THE NEW
00:48:57.56\00:49:00.23
TESTAMENT ENDORSE
MICAH AS A PROPHET?
00:49:00.23\00:49:02.96
DOES MICAH THE PROPHET -
DID HIS PROPHECIES COME TRUE?
00:49:02.96\00:49:06.73
OH YEAH THEY DID, VERY CLEARLY.
DOES MICAH SAY THE LORD IS
00:49:06.73\00:49:09.26
COMING? WILL HE COME?
SO THAT ALWAYS KIND OF IS
00:49:09.26\00:49:14.30
ENCOURAGING TO ME THAT,
BOY, HERE YOU'VE GOT THIS MINOR
00:49:14.30\00:49:17.96
PROPHET BUT HE'S GOT A MAJOR
MESSAGE AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THE
00:49:17.96\00:49:21.53
OLD TESTAMENT
ENDORSED HIM AS A PROPHET.
00:49:21.53\00:49:23.86
THE NEW TESTAMENT
ENDORSED HIM AS A PROPHET.
00:49:23.86\00:49:25.96
EVERYTHING THAT
MICAH SAID HAPPENED.
00:49:25.96\00:49:28.70
WE CAN TRUST THE THINGS THAT HE
PROPHESIED THAT HAVEN'T HAPPENED
00:49:28.70\00:49:30.86
YET - THE LORD COMING AND
MOUNTAINS MELTING BEFORE HIM,
00:49:30.86\00:49:34.56
AND THAT THERE'S
GOING TO BE A JUDGMENT.
00:49:34.56\00:49:35.86
IS THAT GOING TO HAPPEN TOO?
HUH? AMEN? YOU KNOW SOMETHING
00:49:35.86\00:49:40.23
ELSE ABOUT THAT VERSE WHERE
IT SAID, IN MICAH, 5:2, SPEAKING
00:49:40.23\00:49:44.93
OF JESUS COMING, THAT HE'D COME
FROM BETHLEHEM, "WHOSE GOINGS
00:49:44.93\00:49:48.46
FORTH ARE FROM OLD,
EVEN FROM EVERLASTING."
00:49:48.46\00:49:51.50
BY THE WAY, WHEN THE WISE MEN
WENT TO HEROD AND HEROD INQUIRED
00:49:51.50\00:49:56.56
OF THE SCRIBES 'WHERE IS
THE MESSIAH COMING FROM?'
00:49:56.56\00:49:59.96
WHERE DID THE SCRIBES TELL? THEY
SAID, 'GO LOOKING IN BETHLEHEM.'
00:49:59.96\00:50:03.80
THEY KNEW THE MESSIAH
WAS COMING FROM BETHLEHEM.
00:50:03.80\00:50:06.43
THEY HAD PROBLEMS WITH JESUS
BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T TOO SURE
00:50:06.43\00:50:09.63
WHERE HE CAME FROM. THEY
THOUGHT, 'WELL DIDN'T HE COME
00:50:09.63\00:50:11.73
FROM NAZARETH? ISN'T HE UP IN
GALILEE? IT WASN'T UNTIL LATER
00:50:11.73\00:50:14.90
THEY FOUND OUT THAT ACTUALLY
HE WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM.
00:50:14.90\00:50:21.43
SON OF DAVID AND THE
FAMILY SUBSTANTIATED THAT.
00:50:21.43\00:50:24.73
HIS GOINGS FORTH
ARE FROM EVERLASTING.
00:50:24.73\00:50:26.80
DOES JESUS HAVE A BEGINNING?
DID JESUS' BEGINNING HAPPEN IN
00:50:26.80\00:50:31.10
BETHLEHEM? OR DID
HE EXIST BEFORE THAT?
00:50:31.10\00:50:34.80
SO MICAH IS TELLING ABOUT
THE MESSIAH WHO WOULD COME INTO
00:50:34.80\00:50:38.80
BETHLEHEM, WHO
EXISTED BEFORE HIS BIRTH.
00:50:38.80\00:50:42.96
THIS IS VERY CLEAR, TALKING
ABOUT THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST.
00:50:42.96\00:50:45.96
JESUS SAID,
'BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, I AM.'
00:50:45.96\00:50:49.93
HE USED THE SAME TITLE FOR GOD
THAT YOU FIND IN THE - IN BOOKS
00:50:49.93\00:50:54.90
OF MOSES THERE. MICAH
5, VERSES 4 TO 5, AND HE
00:50:54.90\00:51:01.20
SAID, "AND HE SHALL STAND
AND FEED HIS FLOCK" - ANOTHER
00:51:01.20\00:51:04.53
MESSIANIC PROPHECY - "IN
THE STRENGTH OF THE LORD, IN THE
00:51:04.53\00:51:07.56
MAJESTY OF THE NAME OF THE LORD
HIS GOD; AND THEY SHALL ABIDE,
00:51:07.56\00:51:12.20
FOR NOW HE SHALL BE GREAT TO THE
ENDS OF THE EARTH; AND THIS ONE
00:51:12.20\00:51:16.76
SHALL BE PEACE."
HE'S TALKING ABOUT ONE.
00:51:16.76\00:51:19.40
NOW IN MY BIBLE - I'VE GOT THE
NEW KING JAMES VERSION - THAT
00:51:19.40\00:51:21.80
WORD 'ONE' IS
CAPITALIZED BECAUSE IT'S A NAME.
00:51:21.80\00:51:24.53
HE IS THE ONE. SHALL BE PEACE.
00:51:24.53\00:51:28.13
HE'LL BE A
SHEPHERD FOR HIS PEOPLE.
00:51:28.13\00:51:30.13
SO THESE ARE - HE'LL STAND AND
FEED HIS FLOCK - DID JESUS FEED
00:51:30.13\00:51:33.43
THE FLOCK WITH THE WORD OF GOD?
AND AGAIN, YOU GO TO VERSE 7 -
00:51:33.43\00:51:36.70
JUST SHOWING YOU SOME OF
THE PROPHECIES HERE - "THEN THE
00:51:36.70\00:51:40.13
REMNANT OF JACOB SHALL BE IN THE
MIDST OF MANY PEOPLES," - THIS
00:51:40.13\00:51:45.53
IS ANOTHER GREAT PROPHECY
OF MICAH THAT CAME TRUE.
00:51:45.53\00:51:48.93
THE NATION OF ISRAEL ALWAYS
THOUGHT 'GOD PLANTED US IN THE
00:51:48.93\00:51:51.03
PROMISED LAND AND HERE WE
ARE AND HERE WE WILL STAY.'
00:51:51.03\00:51:54.16
AND GOD SAID, 'NO, JERUSALEM IS
GOING TO BE CONQUERED AND YOU'RE
00:51:54.16\00:51:57.06
GOING TO BE SCATTERED AND
YOU WILL BE IN THE MIDST OF MANY
00:51:57.06\00:51:59.96
PEOPLES. LIKE THE
DEW ON THE GROUND IS
00:51:59.96\00:52:02.66
EVENLY DISPERSED, I AM
GOING TO DISPERSE YOU ALL OVER
00:52:02.66\00:52:06.66
THE WORLD.' NOT ONLY
IS THIS SOMETHING THAT
00:52:06.66\00:52:09.00
HAPPENED TO THE JEWS - WERE
THE JEWS SCATTERED ALL OVER THE
00:52:09.00\00:52:11.03
ROMAN EMPIRE? HAVE
YOU READ IN ACTS CHAPTER 2
00:52:11.03\00:52:13.90
ON PENTECOST WHEN THE
HOLY SPIRIT'S POURED OUT?
00:52:13.90\00:52:16.20
IT SAYS, 'NOW THERE WERE
DWELLING IN JERUSALEM JEWS,
00:52:16.20\00:52:18.60
DEVOUT MEN FROM OUT OF
EVERY NATION UNDER HEAVEN.'
00:52:18.60\00:52:22.50
THEY CAME FROM
EVERY NATION UNDER HEAVEN.
00:52:22.50\00:52:24.76
EVEN AFTER THEY'D BEEN BROUGHT
BACK TO ISRAEL, THEY WERE STILL
00:52:24.76\00:52:28.36
SCATTERED EVERYWHERE.
BUT IT'S MORE THAN THAT.
00:52:28.36\00:52:31.23
I THINK IT'S ALSO
TALKING ABOUT SPIRITUAL ISRAEL.
00:52:31.23\00:52:34.93
THE SEED OF CHRIST - JESUS SAID,
'GO INTO ALL THE WORLD' AND HE
00:52:34.93\00:52:37.20
WANTS HIS PEOPLE
SCATTERED LIKE THE DEW.
00:52:37.20\00:52:40.10
THE SPIRITUAL ISRAELITES
ALL OVER THE WORLD. AMEN?
00:52:40.10\00:52:44.73
IN THE MIDST OF MANY PEOPLES
LIKE THE DEW FROM THE LORD.
00:52:44.73\00:52:47.60
DEW IS
SOMETHING THAT GIVES LIFE.
00:52:47.60\00:52:49.20
IT'S REFRESHING, RIGHT?
WE ARE TO BE SCATTERED LIKE
00:52:49.20\00:52:51.80
SALT, LIKE LIGHT, LIKE THAT
REFRESHING DEW ALL AROUND THE
00:52:51.80\00:52:55.63
WORLD TO HAVE THAT
POSITIVE INFLUENCE.
00:52:55.63\00:52:58.20
AND THEN MY FAVORITE VERSE THAT
WE SANG ABOUT A FEW MINUTES AGO,
00:52:58.20\00:53:02.60
MICAH 6, VERSES 6 THROUGH
8. YOU KNOW, I LIKE BOTTOM-LINE
00:53:02.60\00:53:06.20
SIMPLE VERSES IN THE BIBLE.
SOME THINGS IN THE BIBLE ARE,
00:53:06.20\00:53:08.73
YOU KNOW, THEY'RE COLLEGE LEVEL,
THEY'RE DEEP, PROFOUND TRUTHS IN
00:53:08.73\00:53:12.33
THE BIBLE THAT MAKE -
MIGHT GO OVER OUR HEADS.
00:53:12.33\00:53:15.53
AND SOME THINGS YOU THINK, 'I'M
GLAD THAT MICAH WAS A FARMER
00:53:15.53\00:53:18.73
BECAUSE I GET THIS.' AND
THIS IS ONE OF THOSE VERSES.
00:53:18.73\00:53:22.96
IT SAYS IN VERSE 6, "WITH WHAT
SHALL I COME BEFORE THE LORD,
00:53:22.96\00:53:26.10
AND BOW MYSELF
BEFORE THE HIGH GOD?
00:53:26.10\00:53:28.90
SHALL I COME BEFORE HIM WITH
BURNT OFFERINGS, WITH CALVES A
00:53:28.90\00:53:31.36
YEAR OLD?" - DO I BRING
SOMETHING FROM THE FLOCK? -
00:53:31.36\00:53:34.80
"WILL THE LORD BE PLEASED WITH
THOUSANDS OF RAMS," - SOLOMON
00:53:34.80\00:53:38.10
OFFERED THOUSANDS WHEN
THEY DEDICATED THE TEMPLE - "TEN
00:53:38.10\00:53:40.86
THOUSAND RIVERS OF OIL?"
- THESE WERE ALL THINGS THAT
00:53:40.86\00:53:43.40
THEY WOULD BRING. THEY
HAD OFFERINGS OF BREAD AND
00:53:43.40\00:53:45.43
OFFERINGS OF OIL - "WILL THE
LORD BE PLEASED" - OH, I'M SORRY
00:53:45.43\00:53:50.16
- "SHALL I GIVE MY FIRSTBORN FOR
MY TRANSGRESSION, THE FRUIT OF
00:53:50.16\00:53:53.46
MY BODY FOR THE SIN OF MY
SOUL?" - ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE,
00:53:53.46\00:53:56.50
ALL THE FIRSTBORN WERE
CONSECRATED TO THE LORD.
00:53:56.50\00:53:59.00
CHRIST WAS A TYPE OF
THAT, HE WAS THE FIRST OF MARY.
00:53:59.00\00:54:02.00
AND THEN HE SAYS,
LET ME SUM IT UP FOR YOU.
00:54:02.00\00:54:04.30
WHAT SACRIFICE ARE YOU GOING
TO GIVE THAT WILL PLEASE GOD?
00:54:04.30\00:54:08.36
THOUSANDS OF RAMS, AND
GOATS, RIVERS OF OIL, GIVING THE
00:54:08.36\00:54:13.53
FIRSTBORN FROM YOUR CHILDREN?
NOW THEY NEVER DID SACRIFICE
00:54:13.53\00:54:16.73
THEIR FIRSTBORN, BUT THEY WOULD
MAKE AN OFFERING TO COVER FOR
00:54:16.73\00:54:19.46
YOUR FIRSTBORN.
SO WHAT DO YOU GIVE?
00:54:19.46\00:54:22.43
WHAT'S GOING TO PLEASE THE LORD?
HOW DO YOU GET CREDIT AND MERIT
00:54:22.43\00:54:25.26
WITH GOD? WHAT
DOES HE WANT FROM YOU?
00:54:25.26\00:54:27.20
HE SUMS IT ALL UP AND HE SAYS
HERE, "HE HAS SHOWN YOU, O MAN,"
00:54:27.20\00:54:32.80
- AND THAT THERE MEANS HUMANITY
- MAN LIKE IN MANKIND - IT'S MEN
00:54:32.80\00:54:35.90
AND WOMEN - "HE HAS SHOWN YOU, O
MAN, WHAT IS GOOD; AND WHAT DOES
00:54:35.90\00:54:40.00
THE LORD REQUIRE OF
YOU" - WHAT DOES GOD WANT? -
00:54:40.00\00:54:44.06
"BUT TO DO JUSTLY," - BE
RIGHTEOUS, BE JUST - "TO LOVE
00:54:44.06\00:54:48.20
MERCY, AND TO WALK
HUMBLY WITH YOUR GOD?"
00:54:48.20\00:54:54.00
YOU'RE NEVER MORE LIKE THE
DEVIL THAN WHEN YOU'RE PROUD AND
00:54:54.00\00:54:56.16
YOU'RE NEVER MORE LIKE JESUS
THAN WHEN YOU ARE TRULY HUMBLE.
00:54:56.16\00:54:59.66
THE LORD BLESSES AND HE
GIVES MORE GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.
00:54:59.66\00:55:02.80
AND WHAT DOES THE LORD
SAY ABOUT THE MERCIFUL?
00:55:02.80\00:55:05.30
'BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL,
THEY WILL OBTAIN MERCY.'
00:55:05.30\00:55:09.16
AND HE WANTS US TO DO WHAT
IS JUST OR WHAT IS RIGHTEOUS.
00:55:09.16\00:55:13.56
SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM OF
GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:55:13.56\00:55:16.93
WHEN KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS IN
TROUBLE, AND HE HAD THAT DREAM
00:55:16.93\00:55:21.83
OF THE TREE AND THE TREE
WAS GOING TO BE CUT DOWN, DANIEL
00:55:21.83\00:55:24.76
SAID, 'YOU'RE THE TREE, KING,
BUT I'VE GOT SOME ADVICE FOR
00:55:24.76\00:55:26.76
YOU.' YOU KNOW
WHAT HE SAID TO HIM?
00:55:26.76\00:55:28.03
'THEREFORE, O KING, LET MY
ADVICE BE ACCEPTABLE TO YOU.
00:55:28.03\00:55:31.40
BREAK OFF YOUR SINS BY BEING
RIGHTEOUS AND YOUR INIQUITIES BY
00:55:31.40\00:55:36.83
SHOWING MERCY TO THE POOR.' -
RIGHTEOUSNESS, JUSTICE, MERCY -
00:55:36.83\00:55:41.56
'PERHAPS IT MIGHT BE A
LENGTHENING OF YOUR PROSPERITY.'
00:55:41.56\00:55:47.46
SO DO THESE THINGS
STILL MATTER WITH GOD?
00:55:47.46\00:55:49.86
DOES HE WANT US TO BE JUST
AND DOES HE WANT US TO BE HOLY?
00:55:49.86\00:55:52.66
AMEN? FINALLY,
I'LL GIVE YOU ONE MORE
00:55:52.66\00:55:55.73
VERSE AND THIS IS FROM MATTHEW
23:23, JESUS SAID, "WOE TO YOU,
00:55:55.73\00:56:00.36
SCRIBES AND
PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES!
00:56:00.36\00:56:03.33
FOR YOU PAY TITHE OF MINT AND
ANISE AND CUMMIN," - YOUR HERB
00:56:03.33\00:56:06.26
GARDENS - "AND HAVE NEGLECTED" -
YOU'VE OMITTED - "THE WEIGHTIER
00:56:06.26\00:56:09.36
MATTERS" - MICAH'S TALKING ABOUT
THE WEIGHTIER MATTERS -- "OF THE
00:56:09.36\00:56:13.36
LAW:" - AND WHAT DOES JESUS SAY?
- "JUSTICE AND MERCY AND" - HE
00:56:13.36\00:56:17.73
INCLUDES - "FAITH.
THESE YOU OUGHT TO HAVE DONE,
00:56:17.73\00:56:20.73
WITHOUT LEAVING THE OTHERS
UNDONE." - DON'T STOP PAYING
00:56:20.73\00:56:23.00
YOUR TITHE, BUT MAKE SURE
YOU GET THE PRIORITIES RIGHT.
00:56:23.00\00:56:26.80
AND THAT'S HAVING JUSTICE,
MERCY, AND FAITH IN YOUR LIFE.
00:56:26.80\00:56:30.76
ONE MORE - I WANT TO GO TO MICAH
7, VERSE 18, MICAH 7, VERSE 18,
00:56:30.76\00:56:36.20
THAT'S THE LAST CHAPTER. IT
SAYS, "WHO IS A GOD LIKE YOU,
00:56:36.20\00:56:40.13
PARDONING INIQUITY AND PASSING
OVER THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE
00:56:40.13\00:56:43.43
REMNANT OF HIS HERITAGE? HE DOES
NOT RETAIN HIS ANGER FOREVER,
00:56:43.43\00:56:47.63
BECAUSE HE DELIGHTS IN MERCY."
- HE WANTS US TO BE MERCIFUL.
00:56:47.63\00:56:51.36
GOD DELIGHTS IN MERCY - "HE WILL
AGAIN HAVE COMPASSION ON US," -
00:56:51.36\00:56:55.40
THIS IS THAT FAMOUS VERSE -
"AND WILL SUBDUE OUR INIQUITIES.
00:56:55.40\00:57:00.50
YOU WILL CAST ALL OUR
SINS" - HOW MANY SINS? -
00:57:00.50\00:57:05.00
"ALL OUR SINS INTO
THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA.
00:57:05.00\00:57:09.06
YOU WILL GIVE TRUTH TO JACOB AND
MERCY TO ABRAHAM, WHICH YOU HAVE
00:57:09.06\00:57:13.20
SWORN TO OUR
FATHERS FROM DAYS OF OLD."
00:57:13.20\00:57:15.53
IS GOD GOING TO FULFILL HIS PLAN
AND HIS WILL FOR HIS PEOPLE?
00:57:15.53\00:57:19.20
HE WILL. AND SO
MICAH TAKES US ALL THE
00:57:19.20\00:57:21.56
WAY FROM THE SIN TO REPENTANCE
TO RESTORATION, MERCY - IT'S ALL
00:57:21.56\00:57:27.03
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