Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021320
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00:46 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 00:50 LOCATED IN CALIFORNIA, ON THE WEST COAST OF THE 00:53 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. SACRAMENTO IS CALIFORNIA'S 00:56 CAPITAL CITY AND WE ARE COMING TO YOU, LIKE WE DO EVERY WEEK, 01:00 READY TO SING YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AND OPEN UP GOD'S WORD AND 01:04 STUDY TOGETHER. TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION. 01:07 WE'RE SINGING A GREAT SONG - 'GIVE ME THE BIBLE'. 01:11 THIS IS A REQUEST FROM JIZELLE AND PATRICK IN ANTIGUA AND 01:14 BARBUDA, STEEN IN DENMARK, LES IN FLORIDA, AVIGAIL IN GEORGIA, 01:20 DUSTIN IN HONDURAS, DENEL AND JOSE IN MASSACHUSETTS, TINA AND 01:24 KATHARINE IN MONTANA, SELINA AND JONATHAN IN THE NETHERLANDS, 01:27 FABIAN IN NEW YORK, CLINT IN NEW ZEALAND, JARED IN OKLAHOMA, JAEL 01:31 IN OREGON, JUVY MAY IN THE PHILIPPINES, KOFI IN SAINT 01:35 LUCIA, KAIFITI IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS - IT'S EXCITING TO HEAR 01:38 FROM THE SOLOMON ISLANDS - LEROY IN SOUTH AFRICA, ANA, BJ AND 01:42 AIZA IN SOUTH KOREA, JOHNNY IN TEXAS, NICKEY IN VIRGINIA, 01:46 MARTIN IN WASHINGTON, AND MILIMO IN ZAMBIA AND THEN VIA OUR 01:50 FACEBOOK PAGE THIS MORNING WE GOT A COUPLE MESSAGES - ONE FROM 01:54 TRACY - SHE SAYS, 'MY GIRLS ARE SICK SO WE WON'T BE MAKING IT TO 01:57 CHURCH TODAY SO WE'LL BE WATCHING FROM KIMBERLY OREGON.' 02:00 SO GUYS, GET WELL AND WELCOME. AND THEN ALSO, CAROL SUE WILL 02:04 ALSO BE WATCHING FROM OREGON SO THAT'S EXCITING HEARING FROM OUR 02:07 ONLINE FAMILY. SO GET WELL AND WE'RE GOING TO 02:10 SING 'GIVE ME THE BIBLE' #272 - ALL THREE STANZAS. 02:15 (MUSIC) 04:33 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SENDING IN YOUR REQUESTS. 04:36 IF YOU HAVE ONE THAT WE HAVEN'T SUNG YET, OR WE HAVE AND IT'S 04:40 BEEN AWHILE AND YOU JUST LOVE THE SONG, GO AHEAD, GO TO OUR 04:43 WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG', CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK 04:47 AND SEND IN YOUR FAVORITE. AND WE'RE WORKING OUR WAY 04:49 THROUGH ALL THE FAVORITES THAT HAVE COME IN OVER THE YEARS 04:52 AND WE'RE DOING PRETTY GOOD. 04:54 SO THAT IS ENCOURAGING NEWS IF YOU'RE STILL WAITING FOR YOUR 04:57 SONG, IT MIGHT NOT BE MUCH LONGER AND WE WILL SING IT. 05:01 OUR NEW SONG - WE HAVE TWO BECAUSE THEY'RE BOTH REALLY 05:04 SHORT SO IT'S KIND OF EQUAL TO SINGING ONE NORMAL-LENGTH SONG. 05:08 #52 - 'NOW THE DAY IS OVER' - I HAVE LOVED THIS ONE SINCE I WAS 05:13 A LITTLE GIRL. IT'S A BEAUTIFUL MELODY. 05:15 WE'RE GOING TO DO #52 AND #53 SO LET'S START WITH #52. 05:21 AND THIS IS FROM EMANUEL IN MALAYSIA - HE REQUESTED THIS ONE 05:26 - #52. (MUSIC) 06:40 >>WASN'T THAT BEAUTIFUL? WE'RE STILL IN THE 06:42 'EVENING WORSHIP' SECTION. WE'LL BE OUT OF THAT VERY SHORTLY. 06:45 NOW, #53 - THE FOURTH STANZA MAY BE VERY INTERESTING TO YOU IF 06:51 YOU LOOK AT THE WORDS OF THAT. IT'S THE DOXOLOGY. 06:55 INTERESTING, HUH? TOTALLY DIFFERENT TUNE. 06:58 SO #53 IT'S A REQUEST BY KENYON AND FELICIA IN AUSTRALIA, 07:02 AMEIDI, ABELINO, VALENCIA AND WILBERT IN BELIZE, ALEX IN 07:06 HUNGARY, RAJESH IN INDIA, JANICE IN JAMAICA, UNA IN NEW JERSEY, 07:10 JOYANN IN NEW YORK, MELIVER IN THE PHILIPPINES, AND CHATIM IN 07:15 SUDAN. SO #53 - WE'LL DO THE - ALL FOUR STANZAS. 07:19 (MUSIC) 08:56 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SENDING IN YOUR REQUESTS AND 08:59 I HOPE THAT YOU ARE ENJOYING LEARNING THE NEW SONGS RIGHT 09:02 ALONG WITH US. SO KEEP SENDING THEM IN. 09:04 AT THIS TIME LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 09:08 FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE THINGS THAT YOU 09:12 GIVE US THAT WE CAN BE THANKFUL FOR. 09:15 THERE'S MANY THINGS IN THIS WORLD THAT ARE NOT BEAUTIFUL - 09:20 THEY'RE UGLY AND THEY'RE PAINFUL BUT THERE'S SO MUCH BEAUTY THAT 09:23 IS STILL HERE FOR US TO ENJOY AND WE THANK YOU FOR LOVING US 09:27 AND FOR CARING FOR US. WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE 09:33 SABBATH YOU HAVE BLESSED US WITH WHERE WE CAN TAKE 24 HOURS TO 09:38 FORGET ABOUT THE THINGS WE HAVE TO DO AND JUST FOCUS ON EACH 09:43 OTHER, ON YOU - THANK YOU. I PRAY YOU'LL BE WITH OUR 09:48 SPEAKER AS HE BRINGS US THE LESSON STUDY AND THAT YOU'LL 09:52 OPEN UP OUR HEARTS FOR WHAT YOU WANT TO TELL US TODAY. 09:54 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY IS 09:59 GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 10:02 HE IS OUR SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY 10:06 ADVENTIST CHURCH. >>THANK YOU DEBBIE AND OUR 10:11 MUSICIANS AND I WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS THAT ARE VISITING 10:18 TODAY. ANY FROM THE AREA? 10:21 SOMETIMES WE HAVE PEOPLE COME IN AND VISIT FROM PARTS UNKNOWN. 10:24 WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU'RE HERE AT CENTRAL CHURCH. 10:26 I ALWAYS WANT TO TAKE A MINUTE AND MAKE SURE AND WELCOME THOSE 10:28 WHO ARE WATCHING EITHER ONLINE OR YOU'RE ONE OF OUR SATELLITE 10:32 MEMBERS OF SACRAMENTO CENTRAL OR ONE OF OUR REGULAR STUDENTS THAT 10:36 STUDY WITH US EACH WEEK AND IT ALWAYS SCARES ME - I MEET PEOPLE 10:40 AS I TRAVEL AND THEY SAY, 'YES I TEACH CLASS AND SO WE WATCH YOUR 10:43 LESSON BEFORE I TEACH.' AND SO I'M ALWAYS INTIMIDATED TO 10:47 THINK TEACHERS ARE WATCHING, SO WE WELCOME YOU AS WELL. 10:50 AND WE'RE GOING TO BE GETTING INTO OUR STUDY IN JUST A MOMENT, 10:53 CONTINUING WITH MAJOR LESSONS FROM THE MINOR PROPHETS. 10:56 AS WE TYPICALLY DO, WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH 11:00 OUR STUDY TODAY AND IT'S ONE OF THE AMAZING FACTS STUDY GUIDES. 11:03 IT'S CALLED, 'IS OBEDIENCE LEGALISM?' 11:06 WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR ASKING WHEN YOU CALL THE NUMBER AND 11:09 THAT NUMBER - 866-STUDY-MORE - THAT'S 866-788-3966 - ASK FOR 11:15 OFFER #706 AND WE'LL SEND THIS TO YOU FOR FREE - 'IS OBEDIENCE 11:19 LEGALISM?' - IT'S REALLY A VERY IMPORTANT 11:20 QUESTION. TODAY WE'RE DEALING WITH THE 11:23 BOOK OF MICAH. WE'RE STUDYING 'MAJOR LESSONS FROM THE MINOR 11:26 PROPHETS' AND BY THE GRACE OF GOD WE'RE GOING TO 11:29 COVER THE WHOLE LESSON TODAY IN THE BOOK OF MICAH. 11:33 MICAH'S A VERY INTERESTING BOOK. HE'S ONE OF THE MOST ANCIENT OF 11:38 THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS AND THIS IS LESSON #7 IN YOUR STUDY 11:42 AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE - WELL THE NAME OF THE LESSON IS 11:47 'GOD'S SPECIAL PEOPLE' - STUDYING THE BOOK OF MICAH - 11:50 'GOD'S SPECIAL PEOPLE'. AND THE MEMORY VERSE COMES TO US 11:53 FROM MICAH 6, VERSE 8 - MICAH 6, VERSE 8. 11:57 IT SAYS - WHY DON'T - WELL, YOU CAN SAY IT WITH ME NOW. 12:01 OKAY, YOU READY? "HE HAS SHOWN ME O MAN WHAT IS 12:05 GOOD AND WHAT DOES THE LORD REQUIRE OF THEE BUT TO DO JUSTLY 12:11 AND TO LOVE MERCY AND TO WALK HUMBLY WITH THY GOD." 12:16 MICAH, OF COURSE, IS THE AUTHOR. THE NAME MICAH MEANS 12:22 'WHO IS AS GOD'. NOW THERE'S TWO VERY IMPORTANT 12:24 NAMES IN THE BIBLE THAT ARE RELATED TO THAT. 12:28 ONE OF THEM IS 'MICHAEL' AND MICHAEL IS USING THE NAME OF GOD 12:33 'ELOHIM'. WHENEVER YOU SEE 'EL' IN A NAME 12:37 IN THE BIBLE - ELIJAH, ELISHA, RACHEL, DANIEL, MICHAEL, ELIEZER 12:45 - 'EL' WAS A VERY COMMON PART OF HEBREW NAMES BECAUSE IS WAS ONE 12:49 OF THE NAMES OF GOD 'ELOHIM' - IT'S COMING FROM THE NAME 12:51 ELOHIM. THE OTHER COMMON NAME OF GOD YOU 12:53 FIND IN THE BIBLE IS THE NAME - EITHER JEHOVAH OR YAHWEH. 12:58 JEHOVAH, AS WE TALKED IN OUR SERMON LAST WEEK, IS MORE THE 13:01 LATINIZED VERSION OF YAHWEH AND SO YOU'LL HEAR 'YAH' OR 'AH' IN 13:07 A NAME. MICAH MEANS 'WHO IS AS GOD'. 13:11 IT COULD BE A STATEMENT, IT COULD BE A QUESTION. 13:13 MICHAEL MEANS 'WHO IS AS GOD' TOO, IT'S USING THE 'ELOHIM' 13:17 NAME OF GOD. SO THE NAMES ARE VERY SIMILAR. 13:20 NOW THERE IS ANOTHER OLD TESTAMENT PROPHET YOU'RE GOING 13:22 TO READ ABOUT, MICHAIAH AND HE IS NOT THE SAME PROPHET. 13:28 HE LIVED ABOUT 130 YEARS EARLIER. 13:30 YOU REMEMBER WHEN KING AHAB AND KING JEHOSHEPHAT WERE ON THEIR 13:33 THRONES AND MICHAIAH COMES ALONG AND HE SAYS, 'IF YOU GO TO 13:36 BATTLE' - TO AHAB - 'YOU'RE GOING TO DIE. 13:39 ISRAEL WILL BE SCATTERED ON THE HILLS WITHOUT A SHEPHERD.' 13:43 AND AHAB SAID, 'PUT HIM IN JAIL AND FEED HIM WITH THE BREAD AND 13:47 WATER OF AFFLICTION' AND MICHAIAH WAS PUT IN JAIL. 13:49 THAT'S ANOTHER PROPHET WITH A SIMILAR NAME. 13:52 THERE ARE ABOUT TEN MICAHS IN THE BIBLE AND A COUPLE OF THEM 13:57 ARE WOMEN. YOU REMEMBER DAVID HAD A WIFE - 14:00 THE DAUGHTER OF SAUL - NAMED MICHAEL. 14:02 THERE'S A MICAIAH, WHICH WAS THE GRANDDAUGHTER OF ABSALOM THAT 14:07 MARRIED REHABOAM, WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN HIS COUSIN, I GUESS. 14:12 AND SO YOU'LL FIND THE NAME IS VERY COMMON IN THE BIBLE. 14:14 IT'S ASKING 'WHO IS LIKE GOD?' AND IT'S REALLY - THE NAME IS 14:18 THE HEBREW WAY OF BRAGGING ABOUT THEIR GOD - 'THERE IS NO GOD 14:21 LIKE OUR GOD. WHO IS LIKE OUR GOD?' 14:24 OR IT COULD BE A STATEMENT LIKE IN THE NAME OF JESUS 14:26 'WHO IS AS GOD, MICHAEL. MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL MEANS 14:31 'THE GREATEST MESSENGER WHO IS AS GOD.' 14:34 WELL, THAT'S PROBABLY TOO MUCH ON THE NAME. ANYWAYS, SO THIS IS 14:37 THE NAME OF THAT PROPHET AND I JUST WANTED TO DELINEATE HIM 14:40 FROM THE OTHER FAMOUS PROPHET BY THE SAME NAME. HE LIVED DURING 14:44 THE TIME OF THREE KINGS: JOTHAM, AHAZ AND HEZEKIAH. 14:49 MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU GO TO THE BOOK OF MICAH AND YOU READ THERE 14:52 IN THE FIRST VERSE, "THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME TO MICAH OF 14:57 MORESHETH IN THE DAYS OF JOTHAM, AHAZ, AND HEZEKIAH, KINGS OF 15:00 JUDAH, WHICH HE SAW CONCERNING SAMARIA AND JERUSALEM." 15:06 NOW, IT TELLS US THAT HE'S FROM MORESHETH. 15:09 MORESHETH WAS A TOWN AND, MATTER OF FACT, IN THE BOOK OF MICAH HE 15:13 TALKS ABOUT MORESHETH-GATH. IT WAS IN - YOU KNOW WHERE THERE 15:18 WERE FIVE PHILISTINE CITIES - EKRON, GATH, AND I CAN'T 15:24 REMEMBER THE OTHER THREE RIGHT NOW, BUT GATH - WHERE IS GOLIATH 15:27 FROM? GATH. IT WAS THE PLAIN ABOUT 40 MILES 15:35 SOUTHWEST OF JERUSALEM. IT WAS GOOD FARMING AREA AND 15:38 FROM THAT PLAIN IT KIND OF STRETCHED OFF UNTIL YOU HIT THE 15:41 OCEAN, BUT IT WAS GOOD FARM LAND. 15:42 SO HE LIVED ON THE BORDER OF THE PHILISTINES. 15:45 HE WAS FROM THE FARM IS WHAT YOU CAN SAY ABOUT MICAH AND THAT'S 15:49 WHY HE SPEAKS UP IN BEHALF OF THE POOR. 15:51 NOW IT TELLS US THAT HE IS SPEAKING DURING THE TIME OF 15:55 JOTHAM, AHAZ AND HEZEKIAH. I WANT TO - JUST TO GIVE YOU THE 15:58 BACKGROUND TO UNDERSTAND HIS MESSAGE, YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW A 16:01 LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THIS TIME. 16:03 SO IN YOUR BIBLES I WANT YOU TO GO TO 2 CHRONICLES, CHAPTER 29 - 16:08 2 CHRONICLES, CHAPTER - WELL, TELL YOU WHAT, LET'S GO TO 16:11 2 CHRONICLES 27. LET'S READ A LITTLE BIT ABOUT 16:16 TWO OF THOSE KINGS. I THINK MOST OF US KNOW ABOUT 16:18 HEZEKIAH. WAS HEZEKIAH A GOOD KING OR A BAD KING? 16:23 HE WAS, FOR THE MOST PART, A GOOD KING. 16:25 HOW ABOUT JOTHAM? GOOD KING OR BAD KING? 16:28 HE'S CALLED A GOOD KING BUT PEOPLE WERE DOING BAD THINGS 16:31 DURING HIS REIGN. AHAZ - GOOD KING OR BAD KING? BAD KING. 16:37 NOW JOTHAM, YOU CAN READ HERE IN CHAPTER 27 - 2 CHRONICLES 27:1, 16:43 "JOTHAM WAS TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OLD WHEN HE BECAME KING, AND HE 16:46 REIGNED SIXTEEN YEARS IN JERUSALEM. 16:48 HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS JERUSHAH THE DAUGHTER OF ZADOK" - ZADOK 16:51 WAS A PRIEST - "AND HE DID WHAT WAS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF THE 16:53 LORD, ACCORDING TO ALL THAT HIS FATHER UZZIAH HAD DONE (ALTHOUGH 16:57 HE DID NOT ENTER THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD)." 16:59 NOW, DO YOU KNOW WHY HE DIDN'T ENTER THE TEMPLE? 17:02 WHAT HAPPENED WHEN KING UZZIAH WENT INTO THE TEMPLE AND HE 17:05 THOUGHT HE COULD BURN INCENSE? BECAUSE ONLY THE PRIESTS WERE 17:09 SUPPOSED TO DO THAT - THE SONS OF AARON - HE BROKE OUT WITH 17:13 LEPROSY EVEN THOUGH HE WAS A GOOD KING. AND WHEN YOUR 17:17 FATHER GOES INTO THE TEMPLE AND HE'S STRUCK WITH LEPROSY IT 17:19 COULD KIND OF SEND SHIVERS UP YOUR SPINE AND SO HE DIDN'T GO 17:23 INTO THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD. BUT IT SAYS, "BUT" - NOTICE HERE, 17:27 I'M IN VERSE 2 - "STILL THE PEOPLE ACTED CORRUPTLY." 17:31 SO MICAH IS PREACHING AGAINST THE CORRUPTION OF THE PEOPLE 17:35 DURING HIS DAY. IT STARTS ALL THE WAY BACK 17:37 DURING THE TIME OF JOTHAM. GOOD KING, BUT HE WASN'T REALLY 17:40 TEACHING THE PEOPLE AND SO THERE WAS CORRUPTION AMONG THE PEOPLE 17:45 DURING HIS TIME. BUT THEN LOOK WHAT HAPPENS AFTER 17:47 HE DIES. HE DOESN'T REIGN VERY LONG, HE 17:48 DIES AT ABOUT 40 AND HE HAS A SON NAMED AHAZ. 17:52 AHAZ WAS 20 YEARS OLD WHEN HE BECAME KING AND HE REIGNED 16 17:58 YEARS - ABOUT THE SAME LENGTH OF TIME AS HIS FATHER IN JERUSALEM 18:01 AND 'HE DID NOT DO WHAT WAS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF HIS LORD 18:04 AS HIS FATHER DAVID HAD DONE, FOR HE WALKED IN THE WAYS OF THE 18:08 KINGS OF ISRAEL.' NOW THE KINGS OF ISRAEL - THAT'S 18:10 IN SAMARIA IN THE NORTHERN KINGDOM - THEY WERE JUST SOLD 18:13 OUT TO IDOLATRY. AND IT SAYS, 'HE BURNED INCENSE 18:16 IN THE VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM.' 18:19 THAT LATER BECAME A DUMP KNOWN AS GAHENUM AND JESUS SAID IT WAS 18:23 A PLACE WHERE 'THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED AND THE WORM DOES NOT 18:26 DIE' AND SO YOU DIDN'T WANT TO GO TO GAHENUM. 18:30 WELL HE'S BURNING - ONE REASON THEY TURNED IT INTO A DUMP IS 18:33 BECAUSE MANASSEH AND AHAZ HAD IDOLS TO PAGAN GODS IN THE 18:39 VALLEY OF GAHENUM AND SO THEY TURNED IT INTO A DUMP WHEN 18:42 HEZEKIAH CAME ALONG. THEY SAID, 'YOU KNOW, WE DON'T WANT TO 18:45 REVERE THIS PLACE THAT HAD BEEN DEFILED BY PAGAN GODS.' 18:48 NOT ONLY THAT, BUT IT GOES ON TO SAY, 'HE WALKED IN THE WAYS OF 18:55 THE KINGS OF ISRAEL, HE MADE A MOLDED IMAGE FOR THE BAALS, HE 18:59 BURNED INCENSE IN THE VALLEY OF HINNOM, HE BURNED HIS CHILDREN 19:02 IN THE FIRE ACCORDING TO THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE NATIONS WHOM 19:06 THE LORD HAD CAST OUT BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. AND HE 19:09 SACRIFICED AND BURNED INCENSE ON ALL THE HIGH PLACES, 19:12 ON THE HILLS, AND UNDER EVERY GREEN TREE.' SO A CURSE AND 19:16 JUDGEMENT FELL UPON THEM DURING THAT TIME. WELL, THINGS BEGAN TO 19:19 TURN FOR THE BETTER DURING THE TIME OF HEZEKIAH AND YOU'RE 19:23 GOING TO NOTICE, WHEN YOU GET TO THE END OF THE BOOK OF MICAH, 19:26 HE STARTS PROPHESYING SOME HOPE AND IT'S BECAUSE TOWARD THE END 19:30 OF HIS TIME THE PEOPLE BEGAN TO TURN BACK TOWARDS THE LORD, 19:33 TO SOME EXTENT, DURING THE TIME OF HEZEKIAH. 19:36 YOU CAN REALLY OUTLINE THE BOOK OF MICAH IN THREE WAYS: YOU'VE 19:40 GOT FIRST PREDICTION OF JUDGMENT - WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN A 19:44 MINUTE - THEN YOU'VE GOT A PREDICTION OF RESTORATION. 19:48 MICAH TALKS ABOUT THE MESSIAH COMING. 19:51 AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE THIRD SECTION - AND THIS WOULD BE 19:53 CHAPTERS 6 AND 7 - IT TALKS ABOUT A PLEA FOR REPENTANCE. 19:57 AND SO THERE'S A STRUCTURE HERE TO THE BOOK. 19:59 WELL, GO RIGHT AWAY TO VERSE 2 - CHAPTER 1, VERSE 2, "HEAR ALL 20:05 YOU PEOPLES! LISTEN, O EARTH, AND ALL THAT IS IN IT! 20:10 LET THE LORD GOD BE A WITNESS AGAINST YOU, THE LORD FROM HIS 20:13 HOLY TEMPLE.' NOW WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT THE LORD 20:15 IN HIS HOLY TEMPLE, IS HE TALKING ABOUT THE TEMPLE OF 20:18 SOLOMON OR IS HE THINKING HIGHER THAN THAT? 20:20 NOTICE, "FOR BEHOLD, THE LORD IS COMING OUT OF HIS PLACE; HE WILL 20:24 COME DOWN" - WELL, HE DIDN'T NEED TO COME DOWN OUT OF THE 20:28 TEMPLE TO JUDGE JERUSALEM, THEY WERE ON THE SAME ELEVATION. 20:31 THEY RECOGNIZED THE TEMPLE ON THE EARTH WAS JUST A 20:36 REPRESENTATION OF A GREATER TEMPLE IN HEAVEN. WHAT'S THE 20:39 LORD GOING TO DO? NOTICE RIGHT AWAY HE TALKS ABOUT 20:42 THE COMING OF THE LORD - SO MICAH WAS AN ADVENTIST, 20:46 WASN'T HE? AN ADVENTIST IS SOMEONE WHO BELIEVES IN THE 20:49 COMING OF THE LORD. "BEHOLD THE LORD IS COMING" - 20:52 DOES THAT SOUND LIKE IT COULD BE NEW TESTAMENT? 20:55 "THE LORD IS COMING OUT OF HIS PLACE; HE WILL COME DOWN AND 20:57 TREAD ON THE HIGH PLACES OF THE EARTH. 20:59 THE MOUNTAINS WILL MELT UNDER HIM, AND THE VALLEYS WILL SPLIT 21:03 LIKE WAX BEFORE THE FIRE, LIKE WATERS POURED DOWN A STEEP 21:06 PLACE. ALL THIS FOR THE TRANSGRESSION 21:09 OF JACOB AND FOR THE SINS OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. 21:12 FOR WHAT IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF JACOB? IS IT NOT SAMARIA?" - 21:15 THIS IS THE CAPITAL OF THE NORTHERN KINGDOM - "AND WHAT ARE 21:17 THE HIGH PLACES OF JUDAH? ARE THEY NOT JERUSALEM?" 21:19 SO HIS JUDGMENT IS A UNIVERSAL JUDGMENT, EVEN THOUGH ISRAEL HAD 21:23 SPLIT AT THIS POINT - TEN TRIBES IN THE NORTH - THEY'D KIND OF 21:27 GONE AFTER IDOLATRY. YOU'VE GOT THE TRIBES OF 21:29 BENJAMIN, LEVI AND JUDAH IN THE SOUTH, BUT HERE GOD IS NOW 21:33 GIVING THEM A MESSAGE THROUGH MICAH TO BOTH. 21:35 HE WAS A PROPHET, REALLY, WITH A MESSAGE TO THE ENTIRE PEOPLE OF 21:38 ISRAEL, WHICH TELLS US THAT IT ALSO APPLIES TO US BECAUSE WE'RE 21:42 SPIRITUAL ISRAEL. THIS IS A MESSAGE OF 21:44 IMPENDING JUDGMENT. SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME 21:48 REVELATION 16:20. WHO HAS THAT? 21:50 WE GAVE OUT SOME LITTLE SLIPS - RIGHT UP HERE. 21:52 AND WHILE WE'RE FINDING THAT, I'M GOING TO GO TO REVELATION 21:56 CHAPTER 6. NOW YOU'RE GOING TO READ 21:58 REVELATION 16:20, I'M GOING TO REVELATION 6 AND WE'RE GOING TO 22:03 READ THE SIXTH SEAL STARTING AT VERSE 12. 22:08 WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT MICAH COMING DOWN - THE LORD - MICAH TALKS 22:12 ABOUT THE LORD COMING DOWN AND THE MOUNTAINS MELTING BEFORE 22:14 HIM, HOW DOES IT DESCRIBE THE COMING OF THE LORD HERE? 22:18 AND THIS IS IN REVELATION CHAPTER 6, VERSE 12, "I LOOKED 22:22 AND WHEN HE OPENED THE SIXTH SEAL, AND BEHOLD, THERE WAS A 22:24 GREAT EARTHQUAKE; AND THE SUN BECAME BLACK AS SACKCLOTH OF 22:28 HAIR, AND THE MOON BECAME LIKE BLOOD. 22:30 AND THE STARS OF HEAVEN FELL TO EARTH, AS A FIG TREE DROPS ITS 22:33 LATE FIGS WHEN IT IS SHAKEN BY A MIGHTY WIND. 22:36 AND THE SKY RECEDED AS A SCROLL WHEN IT IS ROLLED UP, AND EVERY 22:40 MOUNTAIN AND ISLAND" - NOW SOME OF THESE THINGS HAVE HAPPENED, 22:42 HISTORICALLY, HAVEN'T THEY? THERE WAS A PROMINENT DAY WHEN 22:45 THE STARS FELL AND THE MOON TURNED TO BLOOD AND THE SUN WENT 22:48 DARK, BUT ARE THESE THINGS ALSO GOING TO HAPPEN IN QUICK 22:51 SUCCESSION WHEN JESUS COMES? THEY ARE. 22:54 YOU SEE THAT FROM MATTHEW 24 - "AND THE SKY RECEDED AS A SCROLL 22:59 WHEN IT IS ROLLED UP, AND EVERY MOUNTAIN AND ISLAND WAS MOVED 23:01 OUT OF ITS PLACE." 23:03 - THAT HASN'T HAPPENED YET - "AND THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, THE 23:05 GREAT MEN, THE RICH MEN, THE COMMANDERS, THE MIGHTY MEN, 23:07 EVERY SLAVE AND EVERY FREE MAN, HID THEMSELVES IN THE CAVES AND 23:11 IN THE ROCKS OF THE MOUNTAINS, AND SAID TO THE MOUNTAINS AND 23:14 ROCKS, 'FALL ON US AND HIDE US FROM THE FACE OF HIM WHO SITS ON 23:17 THE THRONE'" - THIS IS GOD COMING. 23:19 THEY SEE HIM - "'AND FROM THE WRATH OF THE LAMB! 23:22 FOR THE GREAT DAY OF HIS WRATH HAS COME, AND WHO IS ABLE TO 23:24 STAND?'" SO YOU CAN SEE THERE'S EVEN 23:27 APOCALYPTIC MESSAGE HERE IN THE BOOK OF MICAH ABOUT THE LORD'S 23:30 COMING AND A JUDGMENT. AND THIS IS STILL IN THE FUTURE. 23:34 THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN, FRIENDS. 23:35 AND YOU'RE GOING TO READ FOR US NOW A SIMILAR VERSE IN 23:38 REVELATION 6 - I'M SORRY REVELATION - YEAH, 16, VERSE 20. 23:45 >>REVELATION 16:20, "THEN EVERY ISLAND FLED AWAY, AND THE 23:49 MOUNTAINS WERE NOT FOUND." >>YOU KNOW, WE'RE SCHEDULED TO 23:54 DO A CAMP MEETING IN HAWAII THIS FALL AND WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT AN 23:59 ISLAND PEOPLE LOVE TO GO TO - NO ONE CAN DENY - I MEAN, 24:03 AUSTRALIA'S AN ISLAND, ISN'T IT? BUT IT'S ALMOST - IT'S LIKE A 24:07 CONTINENT - BUT WHEN YOU THINK OF AN ISLAND, YOU CAN'T DENY 24:11 THAT HAWAII IS AN ISLAND AND SO WHENEVER I THINK ABOUT THIS 24:13 VERSE - IT'S ALSO ONE OF THE TALLEST MOUNTAINS IN THE WORLD, 24:15 DID YOU KNOW THAT? IF YOU MEASURE THE ISLAND OF 24:19 HAWAII FROM THE SEA FLOOR, IT'S TALLER THAN MOUNT EVEREST. 24:25 IT JUST COMES RIGHT UP FROM THE SEA FLOOR AND - IS IT MONA LOA, 24:30 MONA KEA - I DON'T KNOW WHICH IS THE TALLER OF THE TWO - IT GOES 24:33 TO LIKE 13,000 FEET - AND YOU ADD THAT ALL UP AND IT'S LIKE 24:37 30-SOMETHING THOUSAND FEET ABOVE THE SEA FLOOR. 24:40 AND IT SAYS, EVERY ISLAND AND EVERY MOUNTAIN WILL MELT AWAY 24:44 WHEN THE LORD COMES. THAT HASN'T HAPPENED YET, HAS IT? 24:47 SO HERE, MICAH IS TALKING ABOUT THE ISLANDS AND THE MOUNTAINS 24:51 MELTING AWAY UNDER THE LORD. PSALM 112, VERSE 10, "THE WICKED 24:56 WILL SEE IT AND BE GRIEVED; HE WILL GNASH HIS TEETH AND MELT 24:59 AWAY;" - THERE YOU'VE GOT THAT AGAIN, DAVID TALKING ABOUT IT. 25:02 OF COURSE DAVID WROTE THIS BEFORE MICAH - "AND MELT AWAY; 25:05 THE DESIRE OF THE WICKED SHALL PERISH." YOU CAN ALSO JUMP TO 25:09 VERSE 5 OF MICAH CHAPTER 1, WHY? "ALL THIS IS FOR THE 25:13 TRANSGRESSION OF JACOB AND FOR THE SINS OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. 25:16 WHAT IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF JACOB? IS IT NOT SAMARIA? 25:19 AND WHAT ARE THE HIGH PLACES OF JUDAH? 25:21 ARE THEY NOT JERUSALEM?" SO THE CAPITAL OF THE SOUTHERN 25:24 KINGDOM WAS WHAT CITY? JERUSALEM. 25:28 THE CAPITAL OF THE TEN TRIBES WAS SAMARIA. 25:32 AND SO HE'S SAYING, YOU KNOW, IT'S BEING - IT'S COMING FROM 25:35 THE LEADERSHIP, THIS APOSTASY IS HAPPENING AND IT'S TRICKLING 25:39 DOWN INTO THE PEOPLE. BOTH CAPITALS WERE WORSHIPING 25:42 OTHER GODS AT THE TIME. ALRIGHT, THEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE 25:45 AGONY OF THE PROPHET'S HEART. IF YOU LOOK IN MICAH 1 - WAIT, 25:49 FIRST LET ME GET SOMEONE TO LOOK UP - WHO HAS NUMBERS 11:11? 25:52 WE GAVE THAT TO SOMEBODY - OVER HERE. 25:55 HOLD YOUR HAND UP KATHLEEN. AND I THINK WE GAVE OUT ANOTHER 25:57 ONE - YEAH, SOMEONE'S GOT 1 KINGS 19:14 - OKAY, JOLYNE. 26:01 YOU KNOW IT'S TOUGH TO BE A PROPHET. 26:07 GODLY PEOPLE WILL APPRECIATE IT WHEN YOU PROPHECY, ESPECIALLY IF 26:10 YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT JUDGMENT - THEY WANT TO KNOW AND PREPARE, 26:13 BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL RESENT IT AND THEY'LL CALL YOU 26:17 EVERYTHING FROM CRAZY TO DELUDED AND WHEN YOU'RE A PROPHET AND 26:23 YOU SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING TO GOD'S PEOPLE, IT CAN GRIEVE YOU. 26:26 WHAT DOES MICAH SAY? "THEREFORE I WILL WAIL AND HOWL, 26:31 I WILL GO STRIPPED AND NAKED;" - ANYONE WANT TO PUT IN YOUR 26:34 RESUME FOR PROPHET? WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO TO 'JOBS.COM' 26:39 AND APPLY - SEE IF YOU COULD BE A PROPHET? 26:41 WHAT'S THE JOB DESCRIPTION? "I WILL WAIL AND HOWL, I WILL GO 26:45 STRIPPED AND NAKED; I WILL MAKE A WAILING LIKE THE JACKALS AND A 26:48 MOURNING LIKE THE OSTRICHES, FOR HER WOUNDS ARE INCURABLE. 26:52 FOR IT HAS COME TO JUDAH; IT HAS COME TO THE GATE OF MY PEOPLE - 26:55 TO JERUSALEM." NOW HERE HE'S FORETELLING THAT 26:57 JERUSALEM - MICAH'S THE FIRST PROPHET THAT FORETELLS A GREAT 27:00 JUDGMENT IS COMING ON JERUSALEM AND THIS IS NOT THE MAIN 27:03 PROPHECY ON THAT. ALRIGHT, READ FOR US NUMBERS 11:11, OKAY? 27:10 >>NUMBERS 11:11, "SO MOSES SAID TO THE LORD, 'WHY HAVE YOU 27:14 AFFLICTED YOUR SERVANT? 27:16 AND WHY HAVE I NOT FOUND FAVOR IN YOUR SIGHT, 27:19 THAT YOU HAVE LAID THE BURDEN OF ALL THESE PEOPLE ON ME?" 27:23 >>WOULD YOU WANT TO BE MOSES AND BE RESPONSIBLE FOR 1.8 MILLION 27:28 CHILDREN? AND THEY WERE THE CHILDREN OF 27:32 ISRAEL. BUT HERE YOU HAD SLAVES AND YOU 27:34 HAD TO TURN THEM INTO AN ARMY AND A NATION AND WHENEVER THEY 27:40 SINNED IT JUST BROKE MOSES' HEART. 27:42 IN JEREMIAH 8:21, HERE'S ANOTHER PROPHET. 27:46 "FOR THE HURT OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE I AM HURT. 27:50 I AM MOURNING; ASTONISHMENT HAS TAKEN HOLD OF ME. 27:54 IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD, IS THERE NO PHYSICIAN THERE? 27:57 WHY THEN IS THERE NO RECOVERY FOR THE HEALTH OF THE DAUGHTER 28:00 OF MY PEOPLE?" JEREMIAH SOMETIMES IS CALLED 28:03 'THE WEEPING PROPHET'. IS IT EASY TO BE A PROPHET? 28:07 ALRIGHT, SOMEONE'S GOT 1 KINGS 19:14. 28:11 >>"AND HE SAID, 'I HAVE BEEN VERY ZEALOUS FOR THE LORD GOD OF 28:14 HOSTS; BECAUSE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAVE FORSAKEN YOUR 28:18 COVENANT, TORN DOWN YOUR ALTARS, AND KILLED YOUR PROPHETS WITH 28:21 THE SWORD. I ALONE AM LEFT; AND THEY SEEK 28:24 TO TAKE MY LIFE." >>ALRIGHT, WHEN ELIJAH MAKES 28:27 THIS STATEMENT, WHERE IS HE? HE'S BACK AT MOUNT SINAI. 28:32 HE'S IN A CAVE. WHY? BECAUSE AFTER THIS BIG REVIVAL 28:36 ON MOUNT CARMEL, WHEN ALL THE PROPHETS OF BAAL WERE SLAIN AND 28:42 THE FIRE CAME DOWN AND GOD DID THIS WONDER AND THE RAIN CAME 28:46 DOWN, THE NEXT DAY THE QUEEN JEZEBEL PUT A PRICE ON ELIJAH'S 28:51 HEAD AND HE HAD TO RUN FOR HIS LIFE. 28:53 HE JUST WANTED TO BRING REVIVAL AND HE THOUGHT, 'AS LONG AS 28:55 JEZEBEL'S STILL IN POWER WILL THERE EVER BE REVIVAL?' 28:59 AND SO HE GOT DISCOURAGED AND HE WENT OFF - RAN OUT INTO THE 29:03 DESERT, GOT UNDER A BROOM TREE AND JUST SAID, 'LORD, I'M GOING 29:06 TO GO ON A HUNGER STRIKE. JUST KILL ME. 29:09 IT'S NOT - I SHOULDN'T EVEN LIVE ANYMORE.' AND AN ANGEL CAME TO 29:13 HIM AND BROUGHT HIM SOME FOOD. YOU REMEMBER THAT STORY? 29:16 SO FINALLY HE PRAYS AND TELLS THE LORD WHAT'S THE PROBLEM. 29:20 HE SAYS, 'I'M THE ONLY ONE LEFT.' 29:22 A PROPHET - SOMETIMES IT'S A LONELY LIFE. 29:24 NOW HE WASN'T THE ONLY ONE BUT HE FELT IT, DIDN'T HE? 29:27 HE FELT - I MEAN YOU LIVE BY A CREEK FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS AND 29:30 YOU'RE FED BY CROWS AND THEN YOU HAVE TO LIVE IN THE ATTIC OF A 29:35 WIDOW AND HIDE FOR ANOTHER YEAR AND A HALF? 29:38 I MEAN, HE FELT PRETTY LONELY. AND SO, THE LIFE OF A PROPHET 29:42 CAN BE PRETTY TOUGH. LISTEN TO EZEKIEL. 29:44 IT SAYS IN EZEKIEL 24:15, "ALSO THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME 29:49 SAYING, 'SON OF MAN, BEHOLD," - NOW EZEKIEL WAS IN PERSIA WHEN 29:52 HE HAD THIS PROPHECY - "I TAKE AWAY FROM YOU THE DESIRE OF YOUR 29:56 EYES WITH ONE STROKE; YET YOU SHALL NEITHER MOURN NOR WEEP, 30:01 NOR SHALL YOUR TEARS RUN DOWN. 30:03 SIGH IN SILENCE," - IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU WON'T SIGH, BUT DO IT 30:07 IN SILENCE - "MAKE NO MOURNING FOR THE DEAD; BIND YOUR TURBAN 30:11 ON YOUR HEAD, AND PUT YOUR SANDALS ON YOUR FEET; DO NOT 30:13 COVER YOUR LIPS, AND DO NOT EAT MAN'S BREAD OF SORROW. 30:17 SO I SPOKE TO THE PEOPLE IN THE MORNING, AND AT EVENING MY WIFE 30:22 DIED; AND THE NEXT MORNING I DID AS I WAS COMMANDED." 30:26 GOD TOLD HIM, HE SAYS, 'YOUR WIFE IS GOING TO DIE.' 30:29 AND - NOW THIS IS A DIFFICULT PASSAGE - I MEAN, HERE EZEKIEL'S 30:33 A PROPHET DOING WHAT GOD SAYS, YOU THINK HE'S GOING TO BLESS 30:35 HIM. AND HE SAID, 'NO.' HE SAID - JUST IN THE COURSE OF LIFE. 30:41 I DON'T KNOW IF THERE WERE OTHER ISSUES INVOLVED. 30:44 IT'S NOT - IT MAY NOT BE THAT GOD STRUCK HER TO MAKE A POINT. 30:49 IT COULD HAVE BEEN HEALTH, BUT GOD TOLD HIM THIS IS GOING TO 30:54 HAPPEN. HE SAID, 'I'M GOING TO USE IT FOR AN ILLUSTRATION.' 30:56 HE SAID, 'AS MUCH AS YOU LOVE YOUR WIFE, I LOVE MY CHURCH.' 30:59 - I'M PARAPHRASING THE MESSAGE OF EZEKIEL HERE - 'AND THE 31:03 PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE JUDGED AND THEY'RE GOING TO LOSE THEIR 31:07 LOVED ONES.' DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN AARON'S 31:09 SONS NADAB AND ABIHU WERE STRUCK BECAUSE THEY WENT INTO THE 31:14 TEMPLE - THEY WERE INTOXICATED AND THEY BROUGHT STRANGE FIRE? 31:16 AND WHEN THEY WERE STRUCK BY THE LORD GOD SAID, 'DO NOT MOURN, DO 31:20 NOT REND YOUR ROBES, YOU'RE THE HIGH PRIEST.' 31:23 BUT THIS IS - THERE'S GOING TO BE MOURNING AMONG THE PEOPLE. 31:25 MOURN QUIETLY. SO IT'S TOUGH TO BE A PROPHET, 31:29 ISN'T IT? 2 CORINTHIANS 11:23 - THIS IS PAUL NOW, I PICKED 31:35 ONE FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT. PAUL SAYS - HE'S TALKING ABOUT 31:39 THE OTHER APOSTLES - HE SAYS, "ARE THEY MINISTERS OF CHRIST? 31:43 - I SPEAK AS A FOOL - I AM MORE: IN LABORS MORE ABUNDANT, 31:47 IN STRIPES ABOVE MEASURE, IN PRISONS" - STRIPES, YOU KNOW 31:51 WHAT THAT MEANS. WHEN YOU WERE WHIPPED IT LEFT 31:53 STRIPES ON YOUR BACK AND HE'S SAYING, 'I WAS WHIPPED MORE.' - 31:58 "IN STRIPES ABOVE MEASURE," - I CAN'T EVEN COUNT - IN PRISONS 32:02 MORE FREQUENTLY," - CAN YOU IMAGINE PAUL'S RAP SHEET? 32:05 "IN DEATHS OFTEN. FROM THE JEWS FIVE TIMES I 32:09 RECEIVED FORTY STRIPES MINUS ONE." - 32:11 YOU WERE ALLOWED TO WHIP A PERSON UP TO 39 TIMES. 32:13 YOU WEREN'T ALLOWED TO BE WHIPPED 40 TIMES LEST YOU FEEL 32:17 CONTEMPT FOR THOSE MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD. - 32:20 "THREE TIMES I WAS BEATEN WITH RODS; ONCE I WAS STONED; THREE 32:24 TIMES I WAS SHIPWRECKED; A NIGHT AND A DAY I HAVE BEEN IN THE 32:29 DEEP;" - YOU'D BE WATERLOGGED - "IN JOURNEYS OFTEN, IN PERILS OF 32:33 WATERS, IN PERILS OF ROBBERS, IN PERILS OF MY OWN COUNTRYMEN, IN 32:36 PERILS OF THE GENTILES, IN PERILS IN THE CITY, IN PERILS IN 32:40 THE WILDERNESS," - IN THE COUNTRY, IN THE CITY - "IN 32:43 PERILS IN THE SEA," - ON LAND AND IN SEA - "IN PERILS AMONG 32:46 FALSE BRETHREN;" - SOME WHO I THOUGHT WERE SAFE TURNED OUT TO 32:49 BE HYPOCRITES. HE SAID - WHO WAS IT? 'DEMETRIUS 32:52 THE SILVERSMITH DID ME MUCH HARM' - "IN WEARINESS AND 32:56 TOIL, IN SLEEPLESSNESS OFTEN, IN HUNGER AND THIRST, IN FASTINGS 33:00 OFTEN, IN COLD AND NAKEDNESS - BESIDES THE OTHER THINGS, WHAT 33:04 COMES UPON ME DAILY: MY DEEP CONCERN FOR ALL THE CHURCHES." 33:08 IT COULD BE TOUGH TO BE CALLED BY THE LORD. 33:13 PAUL SAW JESUS. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE JESUS? 33:17 WOULD YOU LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE THAT GOES WITH IT? 33:23 SAY, 'OH, I'D LIKE TO HAVE A VISION.' JOHN HAD WONDERFUL 33:25 VISION AND HE WAS A PRISONER WHEN HE HAD IT TOO, WASN'T HE? 33:29 AND SO, MICAH IS ONE OF THOSE WHO REMINDS US IT CAN BE TOUGH 33:34 TO BE A PROPHET. NOW THERE'S SOMETHING WE'RE 33:37 REMINDED ABOUT HERE IN 1 PETER. THERE'S SUFFERING IN LIFE. 33:41 THERE'S SUFFERING IF YOU FOLLOW THE LORD AND THERE'S SUFFERING 33:44 IF YOU DON'T. IT IS BETTER TO FOLLOW THE LORD. 33:47 YOU KNOW, I GET ANNOYED AND AGGRAVATED WHEN I HEAR PASTORS - 33:51 I TURNED ON SOME CHRISTIAN PROGRAM LAST NIGHT AND I HEARD A 33:53 PASTOR PROMISING PROSPERITY TO EVERYBODY AND KAREN AND I 33:58 SWITCHED THE CHANNEL PRETTY QUICK, BUT HE WAS DOING THAT 34:00 'NAME IT AND CLAIM IT' - YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE 34:03 WONDERFUL. AND IT IS TRUE, GOD BLESSES HIS PEOPLE. 34:06 THERE ARE A LOT OF BLESSINGS YOU CAN READ ABOUT IN DEUTERONOMY 28 34:09 AND OTHER PLACES. GOD PROMISES FOR THOSE THAT LOVE 34:11 HIM AND THAT OBEY HIM BUT THERE ARE ALSO TRIALS. 34:15 JOB WAS A GREATLY BLESSED MAN, RIGHT? 34:18 BUT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT A MAN WHO WENT THROUGH THE BIGGEST 34:20 STRUGGLES IN THE BIBLE, WHO DO YOU MENTION? I MEAN, IT ONLY 34:24 LASTED A FEW WEEKS, BUT IT WAS TOUGH. AND THEN HE BLESSED 34:27 THE LATTER END OF JOB EVEN MORE THAN THE BEGINNING. 34:29 SO YES, IT IS BETTER TO SERVE THE LORD, BUT THE IDEA THAT 34:32 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE STRUGGLES - 'ALL THAT LIVE GODLY 34:34 IN CHRIST JESUS WILL SUFFER PERSECUTION.' 34:39 AND JESUS SAID, 'IF THEY HAVE PERSECUTED ME, IF YOU FOLLOW ME, 34:42 THEY'LL PERSECUTE YOU.' SO THERE'S GOING TO BE TRIALS IN 34:45 LIFE, JUST ACCEPT IT. 34:49 IT'S A LOT EASIER ONCE YOU BRACE YOURSELF AND YOU PREPARE FOR IT. 34:52 THE QUESTION IS, 'ARE YOU SUFFERING BECAUSE OF DECISIONS 34:55 YOU'VE MADE - BECAUSE YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING WRONG? 34:58 OR ARE YOU SUFFERING FOR YOUR FAITH? 35:00 HAVE YOU MET PEOPLE BEFORE THAT ARE GOING THROUGH TRIALS AND 35:02 THEY ACT LIKE IT'S BECAUSE THEY'RE CHRISTIANS BUT YOU KNOW 35:04 VERY WELL IT'S BECAUSE OF DECISIONS THEY'VE MADE THAT WERE 35:06 NOT VERY WISE. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THEIR 35:09 CHRISTIANITY. PETER TALKS ABOUT THAT. 35:12 1 PETER 4:14, "IF YOU ARE REPROACHED FOR THE NAME OF 35:16 CHRIST, BLESSED ARE YOU, FOR THE SPIRIT OF GLORY AND OF GOD RESTS 35:19 UPON YOU." DIDN'T JESUS SAY, 'IF YOU'RE 35:21 PERSECUTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE REJOICE AND BE EXCEEDING 35:23 GLAD'? RIGHT? "ON THEIR PART HE IS BLASPHEMED, 35:27 BUT ON YOUR PART HE IS GLORIFIED. 35:28 BUT LET NONE OF YOU SUFFER AS A MURDERER, A THIEF, AN EVILDOER, 35:33 OR AS A BUSYBODY IN OTHER PEOPLE'S MATTERS. 35:35 YET IF ANYONE SUFFERS AS A CHRISTIAN, LET HIM NOT BE 35:39 ASHAMED, BUT LET HIM GLORIFY GOD IN THIS MATTER." 35:45 SO HE'S SAYING, YOU KNOW, 'IF YOU'RE GOING TO SUFFER, MAKE 35:48 SURE IT'S FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE.' 35:50 HOW MUCH OF YOUR SUFFERING CAN YOU SAY HAS COME BECAUSE OF YOUR 35:54 FAITHFULNESS OR IS IT BECAUSE OF UNFAITHFULNESS? 35:58 THAT WAS IN THE LESSON SO DON'T GET MAD AT ME. 36:01 ALRIGHT, NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO TO MICAH 2 - WOW, WE'VE GOT A 36:04 LOT LEFT. WE'RE GOING TO GO TO MICAH 2:1 AND 2. 36:08 AND SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME MICAH 3, VERSE 12 - MICAH 3, VERSE 12 36:14 WHO HAS THAT? DID I SEE A HAND? 36:18 WE GAVE OUT - YEAH, YEAH? OH, IT'S WAY OVER HERE. 36:21 OKAY, YOU'LL GET THAT IN JUST A MINUTE. 36:23 AND I'M GOING TO READ FOR YOU MICAH 2, VERSES 1 AND 2, "WOE TO 36:27 THOSE WHO DEVISE INIQUITY, AND WORK OUT EVIL ON THEIR BEDS! 36:31 AT MORNING LIGHT THEY PRACTICE IT BECAUSE IT IS IN THE POWER OF 36:34 THEIR HAND. THEY COVET FIELDS AND THEY TAKE 36:36 THEM BY VIOLENCE, ALSO HOUSES, AND SEIZE THEM. 36:39 SO THEY OPPRESS A MAN AND HIS HOUSE, A MAN AND HIS 36:41 INHERITANCE." WE READ THERE IN 2 CHRONICLES 36:44 WHERE IT SAYS DURING THE TIME OF JOTHAM, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS 36:47 A GOOD KING, THE PEOPLE DID WICKEDLY. 36:49 THE LORD HAD BLESSED THE NATION WITH PROSPERITY BUT THE PEOPLE 36:52 BEGAN TO WORSHIP MONEY AS A GOD AND THEY WERE DEVISING NEW WAYS 36:56 TO GET MORE AND MORE AND THEY'D LAY AWAKE ON THEIR BEDS AT NIGHT 37:00 AND THEY'D SAY, 'YOU KNOW, IF I DO THIS AND THIS, AH, YOU KNOW, 37:03 I CAN TRICK THEM INTO SELLING IT FOR A CHEAPER PRICE AND I CAN 37:07 SEIZE THIS OR I CAN SUE FOR IT.' OR, YOU KNOW, WHO KNOWS WHAT 37:09 THEY WERE THINKING, BUT THEY WERE USING EVIL MEANS TO GRASP 37:13 AND GAIN AND THERE WAS GREED. AND MICAH SAYS, 'WOE!' 37:19 DOES JAMES ALSO SAY, 'WOE TO YOU RICH PEOPLE WHO ARE STRIVING AND 37:26 CONNIVING TO GET' - AND HE'S PRINCIPALLY SAYING, 'THOSE OF 37:30 YOU WHO ARE GRINDING DOWN THE POOR TO GET IT'? 37:32 THERE WAS A LOT OF THAT THAT WAS GOING ON THEN. 37:34 IN PSALMS - AND, OF COURSE, THERE WAS A LOT OF IDOLATRY TOO 37:39 - IN PSALMS 115, VERSE 4 - WE TALKED ABOUT THIS A COUPLE OF 37:43 WEEKS AGO WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - 37:46 "THEIR IDOLS ARE SILVER AND GOLD, THE WORK OF MEN'S HANDS. 37:50 THEY HAVE MOUTHS, BUT THEY DO NOT SPEAK; EYES THEY HAVE, BUT 37:53 THEY DO NOT SEE; THEY HAVE EARS, BUT THEY DO NOT HEAR; NOSES THEY 37:56 HAVE, BUT THEY DO NOT SMELL; THEY HAVE HANDS, BUT THEY DO NOT 37:59 HANDLE; FEET THEY HAVE, BUT THEY DO NOT WALK; NOR DO THEY MUTTER 38:02 THROUGH THEIR THROAT. THOSE WHO MAKE THEM ARE LIKE 38:04 THEM; SO IS EVERYONE WHO TRUSTS IN THEM." 38:06 HERE THE PEOPLE HAD GOTTEN INTO IDOLATRY AND IT JUST TELLS YOU 38:10 HOW VAIN AND FUTILE THAT IS. ALRIGHT, ARE WE READY? 38:14 YOU'RE GOING TO READ FOR US, I THINK IT'S MICAH 3, VERSE 12. 38:18 >>MICAH 3:12, "THEREFORE BECAUSE OF YOU ZION SHALL BE PLOWED LIKE 38:22 A FIELD, JERUSALEM SHALL BECOME HEAPS OF RUINS, AND THE MOUNTAIN 38:26 OF THE TEMPLE LIKE THE BARE HILLS OF THE FOREST." 38:29 >>WOW, CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING A PROPHET? 38:32 ONE OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD - IT'S NOT LISTED AMONG 38:35 THE TYPICAL WONDERS OF ANTIQUITY - YOU'VE GOT THE COLOSSUS OF 38:39 RHODES AND THE PYRAMIDS AND THERE WERE THE HANGING GARDENS 38:42 OF BABYLON, BUT IN REALITY, ONE OF THE WONDERS OF ANTIQUITY WAS 38:45 THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON. 38:48 HAVE YOU READ ABOUT THE WEALTH THAT WAS IN THAT? 38:51 THE GOLD AND THE BRONZE AND THE MARBLE AND IT JUST SHONE IN THE 38:54 SUN AND IT WAS JUST SO MAGNIFICENT AND FOR YOU TO BE A 39:00 PROPHET AND SAY, 'SEE WHERE THIS TEMPLE IS? 39:03 THIS IS GOING TO BE A FIELD THAT WILL BE PLOWED.' 39:08 NOW THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST PROPHECIES THAT WAS MADE - IT IS 39:10 THE FIRST PROPHECY IN THE BIBLE THAT WAS MADE BY A PROPHET THAT 39:14 SAID JERUSALEM WOULD BE DESTROYED. 39:16 YOU REMEMBER WHEN JESUS - THEY SHOWED JESUS ALL OF THE 39:20 BUILDINGS OF THE TEMPLE AND CHRIST SAID, 'THERE WON'T BE ONE 39:22 STONE LEFT UPON ANOTHER HERE'? MICAH IS SORT OF LIKE JESUS HERE 39:26 IN THAT MICAH FORETOLD THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE - IT 39:30 WAS REBUILT - JESUS FORETOLD THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE - AND 39:34 BOTH PROPHETS WERE PERSECUTED - AND IT WAS REBUILT - IT WAS 39:38 REBUILT IN THAT YOU AND I ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD. 39:40 THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS AND 39:42 IN THREE DAYS I'LL MAKE ONE WITHOUT HANDS.' 39:44 AND HE SPOKE OF HIS BODY, RIGHT? THE TEMPLE OF GOD. 39:48 DO WE KNOW THAT MICAH WAS A PROPHET? YOU KNOW, HOW DO 39:53 THESE GUYS PICK THESE MINOR PROPHETS AND BELIEVE IN THEM? 39:56 DO YOU BELIEVE JEREMIAH WAS A PROPHET? 39:59 WELL, BECAUSE HIS PROPHECIES CAME TRUE. 40:01 NOW WHAT DOES JEREMIAH SAY ABOUT MICAH? 40:03 YOU KNOW, SOME OF THESE PROPHETS TALK ABOUT EACH OTHER. 40:06 JEREMIAH 26:18, "MICAH THE MORASTHITE" - YOU DON'T HAVE TO 40:11 GUESS WHICH ONE IT IS, IT'S THE SAME MICAH, SAME NAME - FIRST 40:15 AND LAST NAME, YOU MIGHT SAY, THAT YOU FIND IN THE BOOK OF 40:18 MICAH - "PROPHESIED IN THE DAYS OF HEZEKIAH KING OF JUDAH, AND 40:22 SPAKE TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH, SAYING, 'THUS SAYETH THE 40:25 LORD OF HOSTS: 'ZION WILL BE PLOWED LIKE A FIELD AND 40:28 JERUSALEM WILL BECOME HEAPS OF RUINS, AND THE MOUNTAIN OF THE 40:31 HOUSE AS THE HIGH PLACES OF A FOREST.'" 40:34 HIGH PLACE IN A FOREST - SOMETIME - YOU EVER SEEN A 40:36 MOUNTAIN THAT'S GOT FOREST AROUND IT BUT THE VERY TOP OF 40:38 THE MOUNTAIN IS BALD BECAUSE THE WIND HITS IT? 40:41 AND HE'S TALKING ABOUT LIKE A FOREST WHERE YOU'VE GOT THE HIGH 40:44 PLACE IN A FOREST - THE MOUNTAIN IS BALD. 40:46 AND BACK IN BIBLE TIMES, A LOT OF THE PAGAN NATIONS, THEY'D 40:49 FIND A HIGH MOUNTAIN, THEY'D CUT DOWN THE TREES AND THEY'D PUT 40:51 THEIR SHRINES THERE. IT WAS A BALD SPOT ON THE 40:53 MOUNTAIN. THERE ARE A LOT OF MOUNTAINS 40:55 AROUND THAT ARE CALLED 'MOUNT BALDY' AND YOU KNOW HOW MANY 40:59 MOUNT BALDIES THERE ARE? BECAUSE THERE'S NO TREES ON IT. 41:04 WELL, WHAT HE WAS SAYING IS THAT JERUSALEM IS GOING TO HAVE 41:06 BUSHES GOING AROUND THE EDGES AND WHERE THE TEMPLE IS IS GOING 41:09 TO BE FLAT. DID THAT HAPPEN? DID THAT PROPHECY COME TRUE? 41:13 PARTIALLY WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR DESTROYED THE TEMPLE THEY DID 41:17 KNOCK IT ALL DOWN, BUT THERE WERE - THERE WAS RUBBLE AND 41:21 STONE STILL LEFT, BUT WHAT DID JESUS SAY WAS GOING TO HAPPEN? 41:25 'THERE WILL NOT BE LEFT HERE ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER THAT WILL NOT 41:28 BE THROWN DOWN. NOW LISTEN TO WHAT JOSEPHUS THE 41:31 HISTORIAN SAYS ABOUT WHEN TITUS, THE ROMAN GENERAL, DESTROYED 41:34 JERUSALEM. DID THAT PROPHECY COME TRUE? 41:37 "AFTER TITUS HAD TAKEN JERUSALEM HE ORDERED HIS SOLDIERS TO 41:41 DEMOLISH IT EXCEPT THREE OF THE LARGEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL 41:44 TOWERS AND THE WESTERN WALL OF THE CITY" - WHICH IS STILL THERE 41:47 TODAY. WE CALL IT THE WAILING WALL. BY THE WAY, 41:50 THE VALLEYS AROUND JERUSALEM USED TO BE MUCH DEEPER. 41:54 JERUSALEM WAS A FORTRESS BECAUSE IT HAD A CITY BUILT SURROUNDED 41:59 BY DEEP VALLEYS, MAKING ATTACK VERY DIFFICULT. 42:02 WHEN YOU GO TO JERUSALEM TODAY, MUCH OF THOSE VALLEYS ARE BUILT 42:05 UP. YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE WHEN THE CITY WAS 42:08 DESTROYED, BOTH IN THE DAYS OF NEHEMIAH - I'M SORRY, IN THE 42:13 DAYS OF JEREMIAH AND DURING THE TIME, AGAIN, OF THE ROMANS. 42:16 WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY DID WITH ALL THE STONES FROM ALL THE 42:19 HOUSES AND ALL THE TEMPLES AND FORTRESSES IN THE CITY? 42:22 THEY JUST PUSHED THEM OFF INTO THE LOWEST POINT. 42:25 THEY ALL ROLLED INTO THE VALLEYS AND THESE DEEP VALLEYS THAT MADE 42:27 IT A FORTRESS CITY FILLED IN. THEY USED TO BE MUCH, MUCH 42:31 DEEPER THAN THEY ARE NOW. OH, I'M NOT DONE HERE TELLING 42:36 YOU WHAT JOSEPHUS SAID. THE ONLY THING THAT WAS LEFT 42:39 WERE THOSE TOWERS AND THE WESTERN WALL OF THE CITY. 42:42 "THE REST WAS LEVELED SO THAT THEY WHO HAD NEVER SEEN IT 42:45 BEFORE COULD SCARCELY PERSUADE THEMSELVES THAT IT HAD BEEN 42:49 INHABITED." THAT BUSY CITY - THEY LOOKED AT 42:52 IT AND COULDN'T EVEN BELIEVE THAT IT HAD BEEN INHABITED. 42:55 THE JEWISH WRITER ALSO INFORMS US THAT TURNUS RUFUS, WHO TITUS 43:00 HAD LEFT IN COMMAND, "HE PLOWED UP THE VERY FOUNDATIONS OF THE 43:03 TEMPLE." ISN'T THAT WHAT MICAH SAID WOULD HAPPEN? 43:08 IT'D BE LIKE A FIELD THAT WAS PLOWED. AND WHEN DR. RICHARDSON 43:13 VISITED THE SACRED SPOT IN 1818 - THAT'S NOT THAT LONG AGO - 43:17 "HE FOUND ONE PART OF MOUNT ZION SUPPORTING A CROP OF BARLEY AND 43:21 ANOTHER UNDERGOING THE LABOR OF THE PLOW. 43:24 EVEN AS RECENTLY AS 1818 - YOU KNOW JERUSALEM WAS THE - THE 43:29 CITY WAS NOT WHAT YOU SEE TODAY, EVEN IF YOU GO BACK 150 YEARS OR 43:33 200 YEARS - IT WAS PRETTY MUCH STILL DEMOLISHED. 43:38 IT HAD STAYED THAT WAY FOR YEARS. 43:39 AFTER ALL THE FIGHTING FROM THE CRUSADES AND AFTER THE FIGHTING 43:42 FROM THE ROMANS AND THE FIGHTING FROM THE BABYLONIANS, IT HAD 43:45 FALLEN INTO GREAT DISREPAIR AND THEY WERE PLANTING CROPS ON THE 43:49 PLACE WHERE THE TEMPLE WAS. ISN'T THAT SOMETHING? 43:52 JUST WHAT HE FORETOLD WOULD HAPPEN. 43:55 THEN, MICAH ALSO PROPHESIED THAT THERE WOULD BE A TIME WHEN THEY 44:00 WOULD CHANT PEACE. NOW IF YOU CHANT SOMETHING, 44:03 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? SAY IT MORE THAN ONCE, RIGHT? 44:07 IF I WERE TO TELL YOU TO CHANT THE WORD 'HOLY', YOU'D SAY, 44:09 'HOLY, HOLY, HOLY.' IF I WERE TO TELL YOU TO CHANT 44:12 'PEACE', YOU'D SAY 'PEACE, PEACE', RIGHT? 44:14 DO YOU FIND THAT PHRASE OTHER PLACES IN THE BIBLE? 44:17 JEREMIAH CHAPTER - OH WAIT, SOMEBODY LOOK UP FOR ME 44:21 1 THESSALONIANS 5:3 - WHO GOT THAT SLIP? OVER HERE? 44:26 1 THESSALONIANS 5:3 - WE'LL DO THAT IN JUST A MOMENT. 44:28 IF YOU READ IN JEREMIAH CHAPTER 6:14, "THEY'VE HEALED ALSO THE 44:34 HURT OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE SLIGHTLY SAYING, 'PEACE, 44:37 PEACE' WHEN THERE IS NO PEACE." AND THAT'S VERY FAMOUS FOR MANY 44:42 OF THE FALSE PROPHETS TO PROPHECY PEACE. 44:45 NOW, IF YOU WERE THE DEVIL, AND IF SOME JUDGMENT WAS COMING AND 44:49 YOU DIDN'T WANT PEOPLE TO REPENT AND PREPARE, WOULDN'T YOU HAVE 44:52 THOSE FALSE PROPHETS SAYING, 'DON'T WORRY, IT'S GOING TO BE 44:56 OKAY. PEACE, PEACE - PREACHING SMOOTH THINGS. 44:59 IT SAYS THE CHURCH, IN THE LAST DAYS, WILL GATHER UNTO 45:01 THEMSELVES TEACHERS, THEY'LL HAVE ITCHING EARS, PREACHING 45:06 SMOOTH THINGS UNTO THEM. EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE ALL 45:08 RIGHT. 'WE'VE GOT A MILLENNIUM OF PEACE 45:10 THAT'S GOING TO COME. YOU'LL GET RAPTURED AWAY BEFORE 45:12 THERE'S ANY TRIALS. DON'T WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING.' 45:15 ISN'T THAT KIND OF WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? ALRIGHT, 45:18 GO AHEAD AND READ FOR US 1 THESSALONIANS 5:3. OVER HERE. 45:23 >>"FOR WHEN THEY SHALL SAY, PEACE AND SAFETY; THEN SUDDEN 45:27 DESTRUCTION COMETH UPON THEM, AS TRAVAIL UPON A WOMAN WITH CHILD; 45:31 AND THEY SHALL NOT ESCAPE." 45:33 >>NOW THAT HAPPENED BEFORE THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM. 45:36 THERE WAS A PERIOD WHEN THE ROMANS FIRST SURROUNDED 45:39 JERUSALEM AND IT LOOKED LIKE THE CITY WAS GOING TO BE DESTROYED 45:42 AND THERE WAS A CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT BACK IN ROME AND THE 45:47 FORCES WITHDREW AND THE PROPHETS - THE FALSE PROPHETS AROUND 45:51 JERUSALEM BEGAN TO SAY, 'PEACE, PEACE. 45:53 EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE ALRIGHT. WE DON'T NEED TO WORRY. 45:55 JUST AS WE SAID, GOD'S GOING TO FIGHT FOR US.' 45:57 AND THE CHRISTIANS KNEW THAT WAS THEIR SIGNAL TO FLEE. 46:01 LATER, TITUS CAME BACK WITH THE ARMY AND YOU CAN READ 46:05 'GREAT CONTROVERSY'. IT WAS TERRIBLE WHAT HAPPENED. 46:09 SUDDEN DESTRUCTION CAME UPON THEM BECAUSE THEY HAD BEEN 46:12 LISTENING TO THE WARNINGS OF 'PEACE, PEACE'. 46:14 INSTEAD OF REPENTING, THEY THOUGHT EVERYTHING WAS OKAY. 46:16 WILL THAT HAPPEN AGAIN JUST BEFORE THE SECOND COMING? 46:20 WILL THE FALSE PROPHETS OF THIS BEAST POWER BE PROCLAIMING 46:25 'FOLLOW WHAT WE'RE SAYING AND WE'LL HAVE PEACE. 46:29 THERE'LL BE PEACE'? AND IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. 46:32 SUDDEN DESTRUCTION WILL COME AND IT GOES ON AND SAYS, 'LIKE A 46:36 WOMAN IN LABOR.' YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES A WOMAN, 46:43 WHEN SHE FINALLY GOES INTO LABOR SHE HAS SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT 46:47 WHETHER OR NOT SHE REALLY DOES WANT TO HAVE A BABY, BUT AT THAT 46:50 POINT, YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE A CHOICE, DO YOU? AND SO 46:54 THAT'S WHAT HE'S SAYING IS, YOU KNOW, THERE'LL BE NO REPENTANCE 46:57 AT THAT POINT. THEY'VE WAITED TOO LONG. AND AGAIN, IF YOU 47:03 READ IN MICAH 3:11, "HER HEADS JUDGE FOR A BRIBE, 47:07 HER PRIESTS TEACH FOR PAY, AND HER PROPHETS DIVINE FOR MONEY. 47:12 YET THEY LEAN ON THE LORD, AND SAY, 'IS NOT THE LORD AMONG US? 47:16 NO HARM CAN COME UPON US.'" AGAIN, DID JESUS DEAL WITH 47:21 THAT IN HIS TIME WHERE HE SAID THAT 'YOU'LL PRAY LONG PRAYERS 47:24 AND THEN YOU DEVOUR WIDOW'S HOUSES'? 47:27 AND THEY DEVELOPED ALL THESE WAYS TO EXTORT THE PEOPLE 47:30 FOR MONEY - DECLARE CORBIN OVER THEIR ESTATE. 47:33 'GIVE IT TO THE CHURCH, WE'LL KEEP IT.' 47:34 NOW HERE'S ONE OF THE GREAT VERSES IN MICAH WE'RE GOING TO 47:36 READ NEXT. THIS IS IN MICAH 5, VERSE 2. 47:39 A NEW RULER FROM BETHLEHEM - THIS IS A PROPHECY THAT'S HARD 47:42 TO MISS. SOMEBODY LOOK UP FOR ME MATTHEW 2 - WHO GOT MATTHEW 47:45 2, VERSE 5? RIGHT UP HERE. LET'S GET THE MICROPHONE. 47:49 HOLD YOUR HAND UP MIKE. AND YOU'RE GOING TO BE DOING 47:51 MATTHEW CHAPTER 2, VERSES 5 AND 6. 47:55 I'M GOING TO READ A SIMILAR PASSAGE. MATTHEW - I'M SORRY, 47:58 MICAH 2, VERSE - NO, NO, MICAH 5, VERSE 2. 48:03 THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU'RE LYSDEXIC. 48:06 "BUT YOU, BETHLEHEM EPHRATHAH, THOUGHT YOU ARE LITTLE AMONG THE 48:09 THOUSANDS OF JUDAH, YET OUT OF YOU SHALL COME FORTH TO ME THE 48:13 ONE TO BE RULER IN ISRAEL, WHOSE GOINGS FORTH ARE FROM OF OLD, 48:18 FROM EVERLASTING." HIS GOINGS FORTH ARE FROM EVERLASTING. NOW, 48:24 DOES THE NEW TESTAMENT BELIEVE THAT MICAH WAS A PROPHET? 48:28 GO AHEAD, READ THAT FOR US. IT'S APPROPRIATE THAT MIKE IS 48:30 READING THIS. >>MATTHEW 2, VERSES 5 AND 6, "SO 48:33 THEY SAID TO HIM IN BETHLEHEM OF JUDEA, FOR THUS IT IS WRITTEN BY 48:38 THE PROPHET: 'BUT YOU, BETHLEHEM, IN THE LAND OF JUDAH, 48:41 ARE NOT THE LEAST AMONG THE RULERS OF JUDAH; FOR OUT OF YOU 48:45 SHALL COME A RULER WHO WILL SHEPHERD MY PEOPLE ISRAEL.'" 48:50 >>ALRIGHT, SO CAN WE BELIEVE THAT MICAH IS A PROPHET? 48:54 DOES JEREMIAH IN THE OLD TESTAMENT ENDORSE MICAH AS A 48:57 PROPHET? DOES MATTHEW IN THE NEW 49:00 TESTAMENT ENDORSE MICAH AS A PROPHET? 49:02 DOES MICAH THE PROPHET - DID HIS PROPHECIES COME TRUE? 49:06 OH YEAH THEY DID, VERY CLEARLY. DOES MICAH SAY THE LORD IS 49:09 COMING? WILL HE COME? SO THAT ALWAYS KIND OF IS 49:14 ENCOURAGING TO ME THAT, BOY, HERE YOU'VE GOT THIS MINOR 49:17 PROPHET BUT HE'S GOT A MAJOR MESSAGE AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THE 49:21 OLD TESTAMENT ENDORSED HIM AS A PROPHET. 49:23 THE NEW TESTAMENT ENDORSED HIM AS A PROPHET. 49:25 EVERYTHING THAT MICAH SAID HAPPENED. 49:28 WE CAN TRUST THE THINGS THAT HE PROPHESIED THAT HAVEN'T HAPPENED 49:30 YET - THE LORD COMING AND MOUNTAINS MELTING BEFORE HIM, 49:34 AND THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE A JUDGMENT. 49:35 IS THAT GOING TO HAPPEN TOO? HUH? AMEN? YOU KNOW SOMETHING 49:40 ELSE ABOUT THAT VERSE WHERE IT SAID, IN MICAH, 5:2, SPEAKING 49:44 OF JESUS COMING, THAT HE'D COME FROM BETHLEHEM, "WHOSE GOINGS 49:48 FORTH ARE FROM OLD, EVEN FROM EVERLASTING." 49:51 BY THE WAY, WHEN THE WISE MEN WENT TO HEROD AND HEROD INQUIRED 49:56 OF THE SCRIBES 'WHERE IS THE MESSIAH COMING FROM?' 49:59 WHERE DID THE SCRIBES TELL? THEY SAID, 'GO LOOKING IN BETHLEHEM.' 50:03 THEY KNEW THE MESSIAH WAS COMING FROM BETHLEHEM. 50:06 THEY HAD PROBLEMS WITH JESUS BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T TOO SURE 50:09 WHERE HE CAME FROM. THEY THOUGHT, 'WELL DIDN'T HE COME 50:11 FROM NAZARETH? ISN'T HE UP IN GALILEE? IT WASN'T UNTIL LATER 50:14 THEY FOUND OUT THAT ACTUALLY HE WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM. 50:21 SON OF DAVID AND THE FAMILY SUBSTANTIATED THAT. 50:24 HIS GOINGS FORTH ARE FROM EVERLASTING. 50:26 DOES JESUS HAVE A BEGINNING? DID JESUS' BEGINNING HAPPEN IN 50:31 BETHLEHEM? OR DID HE EXIST BEFORE THAT? 50:34 SO MICAH IS TELLING ABOUT THE MESSIAH WHO WOULD COME INTO 50:38 BETHLEHEM, WHO EXISTED BEFORE HIS BIRTH. 50:42 THIS IS VERY CLEAR, TALKING ABOUT THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST. 50:45 JESUS SAID, 'BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, I AM.' 50:49 HE USED THE SAME TITLE FOR GOD THAT YOU FIND IN THE - IN BOOKS 50:54 OF MOSES THERE. MICAH 5, VERSES 4 TO 5, AND HE 51:01 SAID, "AND HE SHALL STAND AND FEED HIS FLOCK" - ANOTHER 51:04 MESSIANIC PROPHECY - "IN THE STRENGTH OF THE LORD, IN THE 51:07 MAJESTY OF THE NAME OF THE LORD HIS GOD; AND THEY SHALL ABIDE, 51:12 FOR NOW HE SHALL BE GREAT TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH; AND THIS ONE 51:16 SHALL BE PEACE." HE'S TALKING ABOUT ONE. 51:19 NOW IN MY BIBLE - I'VE GOT THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION - THAT 51:21 WORD 'ONE' IS CAPITALIZED BECAUSE IT'S A NAME. 51:24 HE IS THE ONE. SHALL BE PEACE. 51:28 HE'LL BE A SHEPHERD FOR HIS PEOPLE. 51:30 SO THESE ARE - HE'LL STAND AND FEED HIS FLOCK - DID JESUS FEED 51:33 THE FLOCK WITH THE WORD OF GOD? AND AGAIN, YOU GO TO VERSE 7 - 51:36 JUST SHOWING YOU SOME OF THE PROPHECIES HERE - "THEN THE 51:40 REMNANT OF JACOB SHALL BE IN THE MIDST OF MANY PEOPLES," - THIS 51:45 IS ANOTHER GREAT PROPHECY OF MICAH THAT CAME TRUE. 51:48 THE NATION OF ISRAEL ALWAYS THOUGHT 'GOD PLANTED US IN THE 51:51 PROMISED LAND AND HERE WE ARE AND HERE WE WILL STAY.' 51:54 AND GOD SAID, 'NO, JERUSALEM IS GOING TO BE CONQUERED AND YOU'RE 51:57 GOING TO BE SCATTERED AND YOU WILL BE IN THE MIDST OF MANY 51:59 PEOPLES. LIKE THE DEW ON THE GROUND IS 52:02 EVENLY DISPERSED, I AM GOING TO DISPERSE YOU ALL OVER 52:06 THE WORLD.' NOT ONLY IS THIS SOMETHING THAT 52:09 HAPPENED TO THE JEWS - WERE THE JEWS SCATTERED ALL OVER THE 52:11 ROMAN EMPIRE? HAVE YOU READ IN ACTS CHAPTER 2 52:13 ON PENTECOST WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT'S POURED OUT? 52:16 IT SAYS, 'NOW THERE WERE DWELLING IN JERUSALEM JEWS, 52:18 DEVOUT MEN FROM OUT OF EVERY NATION UNDER HEAVEN.' 52:22 THEY CAME FROM EVERY NATION UNDER HEAVEN. 52:24 EVEN AFTER THEY'D BEEN BROUGHT BACK TO ISRAEL, THEY WERE STILL 52:28 SCATTERED EVERYWHERE. BUT IT'S MORE THAN THAT. 52:31 I THINK IT'S ALSO TALKING ABOUT SPIRITUAL ISRAEL. 52:34 THE SEED OF CHRIST - JESUS SAID, 'GO INTO ALL THE WORLD' AND HE 52:37 WANTS HIS PEOPLE SCATTERED LIKE THE DEW. 52:40 THE SPIRITUAL ISRAELITES ALL OVER THE WORLD. AMEN? 52:44 IN THE MIDST OF MANY PEOPLES LIKE THE DEW FROM THE LORD. 52:47 DEW IS SOMETHING THAT GIVES LIFE. 52:49 IT'S REFRESHING, RIGHT? WE ARE TO BE SCATTERED LIKE 52:51 SALT, LIKE LIGHT, LIKE THAT REFRESHING DEW ALL AROUND THE 52:55 WORLD TO HAVE THAT POSITIVE INFLUENCE. 52:58 AND THEN MY FAVORITE VERSE THAT WE SANG ABOUT A FEW MINUTES AGO, 53:02 MICAH 6, VERSES 6 THROUGH 8. YOU KNOW, I LIKE BOTTOM-LINE 53:06 SIMPLE VERSES IN THE BIBLE. SOME THINGS IN THE BIBLE ARE, 53:08 YOU KNOW, THEY'RE COLLEGE LEVEL, THEY'RE DEEP, PROFOUND TRUTHS IN 53:12 THE BIBLE THAT MAKE - MIGHT GO OVER OUR HEADS. 53:15 AND SOME THINGS YOU THINK, 'I'M GLAD THAT MICAH WAS A FARMER 53:18 BECAUSE I GET THIS.' AND THIS IS ONE OF THOSE VERSES. 53:22 IT SAYS IN VERSE 6, "WITH WHAT SHALL I COME BEFORE THE LORD, 53:26 AND BOW MYSELF BEFORE THE HIGH GOD? 53:28 SHALL I COME BEFORE HIM WITH BURNT OFFERINGS, WITH CALVES A 53:31 YEAR OLD?" - DO I BRING SOMETHING FROM THE FLOCK? - 53:34 "WILL THE LORD BE PLEASED WITH THOUSANDS OF RAMS," - SOLOMON 53:38 OFFERED THOUSANDS WHEN THEY DEDICATED THE TEMPLE - "TEN 53:40 THOUSAND RIVERS OF OIL?" - THESE WERE ALL THINGS THAT 53:43 THEY WOULD BRING. THEY HAD OFFERINGS OF BREAD AND 53:45 OFFERINGS OF OIL - "WILL THE LORD BE PLEASED" - OH, I'M SORRY 53:50 - "SHALL I GIVE MY FIRSTBORN FOR MY TRANSGRESSION, THE FRUIT OF 53:53 MY BODY FOR THE SIN OF MY SOUL?" - ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, 53:56 ALL THE FIRSTBORN WERE CONSECRATED TO THE LORD. 53:59 CHRIST WAS A TYPE OF THAT, HE WAS THE FIRST OF MARY. 54:02 AND THEN HE SAYS, LET ME SUM IT UP FOR YOU. 54:04 WHAT SACRIFICE ARE YOU GOING TO GIVE THAT WILL PLEASE GOD? 54:08 THOUSANDS OF RAMS, AND GOATS, RIVERS OF OIL, GIVING THE 54:13 FIRSTBORN FROM YOUR CHILDREN? NOW THEY NEVER DID SACRIFICE 54:16 THEIR FIRSTBORN, BUT THEY WOULD MAKE AN OFFERING TO COVER FOR 54:19 YOUR FIRSTBORN. SO WHAT DO YOU GIVE? 54:22 WHAT'S GOING TO PLEASE THE LORD? HOW DO YOU GET CREDIT AND MERIT 54:25 WITH GOD? WHAT DOES HE WANT FROM YOU? 54:27 HE SUMS IT ALL UP AND HE SAYS HERE, "HE HAS SHOWN YOU, O MAN," 54:32 - AND THAT THERE MEANS HUMANITY - MAN LIKE IN MANKIND - IT'S MEN 54:35 AND WOMEN - "HE HAS SHOWN YOU, O MAN, WHAT IS GOOD; AND WHAT DOES 54:40 THE LORD REQUIRE OF YOU" - WHAT DOES GOD WANT? - 54:44 "BUT TO DO JUSTLY," - BE RIGHTEOUS, BE JUST - "TO LOVE 54:48 MERCY, AND TO WALK HUMBLY WITH YOUR GOD?" 54:54 YOU'RE NEVER MORE LIKE THE DEVIL THAN WHEN YOU'RE PROUD AND 54:56 YOU'RE NEVER MORE LIKE JESUS THAN WHEN YOU ARE TRULY HUMBLE. 54:59 THE LORD BLESSES AND HE GIVES MORE GRACE TO THE HUMBLE. 55:02 AND WHAT DOES THE LORD SAY ABOUT THE MERCIFUL? 55:05 'BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL, THEY WILL OBTAIN MERCY.' 55:09 AND HE WANTS US TO DO WHAT IS JUST OR WHAT IS RIGHTEOUS. 55:13 SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. 55:16 WHEN KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS IN TROUBLE, AND HE HAD THAT DREAM 55:21 OF THE TREE AND THE TREE WAS GOING TO BE CUT DOWN, DANIEL 55:24 SAID, 'YOU'RE THE TREE, KING, BUT I'VE GOT SOME ADVICE FOR 55:26 YOU.' YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAID TO HIM? 55:28 'THEREFORE, O KING, LET MY ADVICE BE ACCEPTABLE TO YOU. 55:31 BREAK OFF YOUR SINS BY BEING RIGHTEOUS AND YOUR INIQUITIES BY 55:36 SHOWING MERCY TO THE POOR.' - RIGHTEOUSNESS, JUSTICE, MERCY - 55:41 'PERHAPS IT MIGHT BE A LENGTHENING OF YOUR PROSPERITY.' 55:47 SO DO THESE THINGS STILL MATTER WITH GOD? 55:49 DOES HE WANT US TO BE JUST AND DOES HE WANT US TO BE HOLY? 55:52 AMEN? FINALLY, I'LL GIVE YOU ONE MORE 55:55 VERSE AND THIS IS FROM MATTHEW 23:23, JESUS SAID, "WOE TO YOU, 56:00 SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES! 56:03 FOR YOU PAY TITHE OF MINT AND ANISE AND CUMMIN," - YOUR HERB 56:06 GARDENS - "AND HAVE NEGLECTED" - YOU'VE OMITTED - "THE WEIGHTIER 56:09 MATTERS" - MICAH'S TALKING ABOUT THE WEIGHTIER MATTERS -- "OF THE 56:13 LAW:" - AND WHAT DOES JESUS SAY? - "JUSTICE AND MERCY AND" - HE 56:17 INCLUDES - "FAITH. THESE YOU OUGHT TO HAVE DONE, 56:20 WITHOUT LEAVING THE OTHERS UNDONE." - DON'T STOP PAYING 56:23 YOUR TITHE, BUT MAKE SURE YOU GET THE PRIORITIES RIGHT. 56:26 AND THAT'S HAVING JUSTICE, MERCY, AND FAITH IN YOUR LIFE. 56:30 ONE MORE - I WANT TO GO TO MICAH 7, VERSE 18, MICAH 7, VERSE 18, 56:36 THAT'S THE LAST CHAPTER. IT SAYS, "WHO IS A GOD LIKE YOU, 56:40 PARDONING INIQUITY AND PASSING OVER THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE 56:43 REMNANT OF HIS HERITAGE? HE DOES NOT RETAIN HIS ANGER FOREVER, 56:47 BECAUSE HE DELIGHTS IN MERCY." - HE WANTS US TO BE MERCIFUL. 56:51 GOD DELIGHTS IN MERCY - "HE WILL AGAIN HAVE COMPASSION ON US," - 56:55 THIS IS THAT FAMOUS VERSE - "AND WILL SUBDUE OUR INIQUITIES. 57:00 YOU WILL CAST ALL OUR SINS" - HOW MANY SINS? - 57:05 "ALL OUR SINS INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. 57:09 YOU WILL GIVE TRUTH TO JACOB AND MERCY TO ABRAHAM, WHICH YOU HAVE 57:13 SWORN TO OUR FATHERS FROM DAYS OF OLD." 57:15 IS GOD GOING TO FULFILL HIS PLAN AND HIS WILL FOR HIS PEOPLE? 57:19 HE WILL. 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