Text: Micah 6:1-8
1) DO
• To live with a sense of
• to act with God’s
• Someone worded it like this: putting your understanding of right and wrong in the backseat and allowing God’s definition of right and wrong to do the driving.
• To Do Justice means to do the right thing because it’s the right thing. In all of your ways honor GOD.
2)
• Show mercy to others because God has shown
• Loving mercy means loving the
• What does the opportunity of loving mercy look like?
• When people annoy you, frustrate you, hurt you, mistreat you and disregard you. That is what it looks like.
• Sound a lot like Matthew 5:46 What reward will it get you if you love those who love you? Even the tax collectors do that…
• To love mercy is to love the unlovable- Love them like
3) WALK
• This is the best part…God wants us to remember who is in
• Without Him we would be lost in our human nature, consumed by our own flesh, twisted in our relationships and drowning in our sin.
• You see, it is GOD alone who deserves the
• It is God who poured out His Grace and mercy upon us through the blood of Jesus Christ.
• To walk humbly is a description of the heart’s
• Another way to put it is for God’s people depending on Him rather than their own abilities.
What God wants is your heart and mind. He wants your love and obedience. He’s a personal God and expects a personal relationship. He also expects you to love your neighbor by doing good and ministering to their needs. The answer to what it is that the Lord requires is simple… Every person is to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with…God.
Dr. Tony Evans said in looking at chapter 6 of Micah… Religion becomes authentic when it demonstrates itself in the equitable application of biblical truth in order to meet the needs of people in God’s name.
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