Murph
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Micah
May 11, 2009 7:44:09 GMT -6
Post by Murph on May 11, 2009 7:44:09 GMT -6
Was one of the Minor Prophets who was seeing visions pretainning to Jerusalem and Samaria just before Assyria took Samaria and Israel fell. There are so many parallels to what the people were doing and thinking then and today. Micah was calling for repentance...saying the Lord's judgment was coming but the people "poo pooed" him preferring to listen to false prophets whom were giving the ole feel good and fluff message. I started to feel like the people of that day thinking..."but I am living a righteous life, obeying the Lord...what else can I do." Then asking..."or am I living a righteous life and obeying the Lord?...there is always room for improvement." What else can I do? Same questions could be asked today. What else can we do...or are we like Samaria...and the wound is incurable? Has it gone too far? You see quotes like the one Obama made... "I believe my next hundred days will be so successful that I will be able to complete them in 72 days," he said to a roar of laughter. "And on my 73rd day, I will rest." www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22312.htmland think maybe it has just gone too far...and the wound is incurrable. just wonderin'
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Micah
May 11, 2009 8:55:59 GMT -6
Post by Keith on May 11, 2009 8:55:59 GMT -6
You see quotes like the one Obama made... "I believe my next hundred days will be so successful that I will be able to complete them in 72 days," he said to a roar of laughter. "And on my 73rd day, I will rest." www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22312.htmlNo thanks Mr. President, I already have a Savior. His Name is Jesus. You need to meet him...
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Murph
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Micah
May 11, 2009 9:42:13 GMT -6
Post by Murph on May 11, 2009 9:42:13 GMT -6
That is what I think...
but, it has gone too far. He said it as a joke...to me it is not a joking matter. Besides Lord only took 6 days and rested on the seventh...Obama ain't even close any way you look at it.
I think it is too late and the sounds we hear in the distance, are the modern day equalivant of the feet of Assyrians or maybe Babylonians marching...
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Micah
May 11, 2009 12:05:20 GMT -6
Post by veterinarian on May 11, 2009 12:05:20 GMT -6
You see quotes like the one Obama made... "I believe my next hundred days will be so successful that I will be able to complete them in 72 days," he said to a roar of laughter. "And on my 73rd day, I will rest." www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22312.html
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Micah
May 16, 2009 8:33:42 GMT -6
Post by charlescameron on May 16, 2009 8:33:42 GMT -6
Here's some more notes on "Micah." 1:1-2:13- Micah was a fearless preacher of God’s Word. His message was not popular: ‘Let the Lord God be a witness against you’. He was a forthright preacher of God’s Word. He knew that the people wouldn’t want to hear what he had to say to them. He demanded that they listen to him. This wasn’t only Micah’s word. It was the Word of the Lord. That’s why Micah said, ‘Hear, O peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth and all who are in it’(2:2). We cannot afford to ignore the Word of the Lord. We must listen to His Word. He speaks His Word against us. He says, ‘You cannot save yourselves’(2:3). He speaks His Word against us so that we might learn to rejoice in His Word of salvation: ‘I will bring you together like sheep returning to the fold’(2:12). 3:1-5:1- Micah speaks to those ‘who hate good and love evil’(3:2). He calls upon them to change their way of living. He calls upon them to worshipthe Lord - ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord’- and walkwith Him - ‘We will walk in the Name of the Lord our God for ever and ever’. How do we learn to ‘walk in His paths’? We come to His ‘House’. We listen to His ‘Word’. We pray that His Word will come to us ‘with power’. We ask Him to ‘teach us His ways’. We pray that we will be ‘filled with the Spirit of the Lord’(4:2,5; 3:8). We worship the Lord in His House. Gathered in His House for worship, we ‘receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on us’. Through His power, we are equipped for witness: ‘you will be My witnesses...’(Acts 1:8). 5:2-6:16- In 5:2, we have a prophecy concerning the birth of Jesus at ‘Bethlehem’. This prophecy invites us to ‘go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about’. At ‘Bethlehem’, we see ‘shepherds, glorifying and praising God’(Luke 2:15,20). We also see Jesus our Shepherd. He is the One whom the shepherds worshipped. He is the One who ‘will stand and shepherd His flock in the strength of the Lord...’. He is ‘the Good Shepherd’. He ‘laid down His life’for us. He is ‘the Great Shepherd’. He ‘was raised from the dead’for us. He is ‘the Chief Shepherd’. He will ‘come’again for us (5:4; John 10:14; Hebrews 13:20; 1 Peter 5:4). Jesus our ‘Shepherd’gives us ‘strength’to ‘do justice, love kindness and walk humbly with our God’(6:8). 7:1-20- ‘Who is a God like You? You forgive sin... You love to be merciful.You will again have compassion on us... You will throw all our sins into the depths of the ocean!... You will bless us... You will set Your love upon us...’(7:18-20) - ‘I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene and wonder how He could love me, a sinner, condemned, unclean. He took my sins and my sorrows. He made them His very own. He bore the burden to Calvary, and suffered and died alone. When with the ransomed in glory His face I at last shall see, ‘twill be my joy through the ages to sing of His love for me. How marvellous, how wonderful, and my song shall ever be: How marvellous, how wonderful is my Saviour’s love for me!’(Mission Praise, 296).
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