What Does the Lord Require? (Micah 6:1-8) - 8/23/23

Intro

• Chapters 6 & 7 – A call for repentance

• Court room setting

• The charges against God’s people

• The expectations of the Lord
  

The People on Trial – vv. 1-5

Court room setting

God – Judge

Micah – Prosecutor

Creation – Witnesses

Charges brought – vv. 1-2

• Plead your case before

• For the Lord has an indictment against his people

  • Sin is against God

The Evidence of God’s Faithfulness – vv.3-5

• What have I done to you?

• How have I wearied you?

• God has blessed and prospered, yet they have rebelled and disobeyed.

• FOR

  • Brought you up

  • Redeemed you

  • I sent before you

• Remember

  • Balak & Balaam. Cursing Israel

  • Shittim. Parting the Jordan

GOD HAS KEPT HIS PROMISES

The Expectations of the Lord – vv. 6-8

The expectations… based on His faithfulness

• With what shall I come before the Lord?

  • External worship

  • Religious acts
    

What does the Lord require of you

• Deuteronomy 10:12-13

• To do justice

• Love kindness

• Walk humbly before the Lord

  • Devotion to the things of the Lord

  • Devotion to God

  • A WHOLE LIFE OFFERED TO GOD