SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/21/2015
9:10 PM
My Worship Time
Focus: Introduction
to Micah Chapters 3-5
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Micah Three
Message of
the verses: In Dr. Wiersbe’s commentary he entitles his
second chapter “A Ruler Is Coming,” and it covers chapters 3-5 of the book of
Micah and so we will look briefly at the introduction to this chapter and then
begin to look at chapter three of Micah in our next SD.
Now when we began to look at Micah we learned that
there are three messages that he gives in these seven chapters of the
book. We just finished looking at the
first message, “Judgment is Coming,” and the second message, “A Ruler Is Coming”
is the one we will be looking at for a while, and then in the last two chapters
we will look at “A Challenge Message: ‘Trust
the Lord Now.” Indecently the one we are
going to look at now is a Promise Message.
Dr. Wiersbe writes the following from in
introduction for this second message: “Micah’s
second message is at the heart of the book and focuses on Israel’s future. First, Micah rebuked the leaders of the
nation for their sinful conduct, which God would judge (3:1-12), and he outlined
the events that would usher in the promised kingdom (4:1-5:15). Knowing that God has such a glorious future
planned for their nation should have motivated the leaders to turn from their
sins and obey the Lord. ‘Everyone who
has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure’ (1 John 3:3
NIV). Alas, they didn’t even pay
attention to the sermon!”
These are some sad words that people hear the truth
and the truth can set them free, but they don’t want to be set free as they
love their sinful ways and thus they stay in them.
12/21/2015 9:21 PM
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