SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/14/2015
10:42 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
Accusation: The sins of the People
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Micah 2:1-11
Message of the verses: “1 Woe to those who scheme iniquity, Who work
out evil on their beds! When morning comes, they do it, For it is in the power of their hands.
2 They covet fields and
then seize them, And houses, and take them away. They rob a man and his house, A
man and his inheritance. 3 Therefore
thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am planning against this family a calamity
From which you cannot remove your necks; And you will not walk haughtily, For
it will be an evil time. 4 “On that day they will take up against you a taunt
And utter a bitter lamentation and say, ’We are completely destroyed! He
exchanges the portion of my people; How He removes it from me! To the apostate
He apportions our fields.’ 5 “Therefore you will have no one stretching a measuring line For
you by lot in the assembly of the LORD.
“6 ’Do not
speak out,’ so they speak out. But if they do not speak out concerning these
things, Reproaches will not be turned back. 7 “Is it being said, O house of
Jacob: ’Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these His doings?’ Do not My
words do good To the one walking uprightly? 8 “Recently My people have arisen
as an enemy-You strip the robe off the garment From unsuspecting passers-by,
From those returned from war. 9 “The women of My people you evict, Each one
from her pleasant house. From her children you take My splendor forever. 10 “Arise
and go, For this is no place of rest Because of the uncleanness that brings on
destruction, A painful destruction. 11 “If a man walking after wind and
falsehood Had told lies and said, ’I will speak out to you concerning wine and
liquor,’ He would be spokesman to this people.”
We
are only going to look at a quote from Dr. Warren Wiersbe on his introduction
to these verses as we begin to look at this second chapter in the book of
Micah, and then we will continue to look at these verses in our next SD.
“How
could the Lord Jehovah permit such suffering and shame to come to His covenant
people? Were they not His special
heritage? Was not the land His love gift
to them? That was why He was punishing
them! ‘You only have chosen of all the
families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your sins’ (Amos 3:2
NIV).” Privilege brings responsibility,
and responsibility brings accountability.
The prophet held them accountable for two particular sins: covetousness (Micah 2:1-5) and listening to
false prophets (vv. 6-11).”
Just
a short not on covetousness and that is that it is the last of the Ten
Commandments given to Moses and recorded in Exodus chapter 20. It was also mentioned by Paul in the seventh
chapter of Romans as he says in Ro 7:7 “What shall we say then? Is the Law sin?
May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except
through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not
said, "YOU SHALL NOT COVET."”
12/14/2015 10:55 PM
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