Micah was a prophet at the same time as Isaiah.

Micah 7 – speaking to Judah specifically, but is also speaking to us prophetically today.

Verse 1 – There’s a drought, not for food, but for the Word of God

Verse2

  1. Godly people have disappeared
  2. Not an honest person is left
  3. Murderers
  4. Greed is consuming the nation

Verse 3

  • Leaders are twisting justice

Verse 4

  • A lot of talk about judgement coming – a time of reckoning, we don’t know when, but it will come

Verse 5-6

  • Enemies in your own household
  • Matthew 10 – division in your family between those who will serve God and those who will not

Verse 7

  • I look to the Lord for help
  • I wait confidently to God to come and save me
  • God I will seek You like I have never sought You before
  • Not just going to church on Sunday
  • Diligently seeking God
    • Jacob wrestled all night
    • Israel was in a war with Benjamin – civil war – spent a whole day fasting and praying
    • Jesus was God almighty, but before He chose His disciples, he prayed all night
    • the woman who knocked and knocked
    • more than 2 minutes a day

Verse 8 – 10

  • When we set our hearts to know God we will raise up the forces of hell against us
    • temptations
      • David & Bathsheba
      • Peter denying Jesus
    • Satanic attack
    • Frustration of unanswered prayer
      • Your enemies will ask you where is your God?

Uziah 2 Chronicles 26

  • He loved God and was strong in the Lord
  • He became prideful
  • Bypassed the priest and tried to enter the Holy of Holies
  • He raged at the priest and leprosy formed on his forehead

Two types of people

  1. Those setting their hearts to know God
  2. People standing in their own righteousness, Uziahs – those who have served God for so long and begin to think that they have a “reservoir” with God
    1. try to bypass Jesus
    2. begin to ignore “small” sins

Isaiah 6

  • We all have leprosy
  • None of us can stand in God’s presence in our own righteousness
  • God touched Isaiah’s lips with a coal from the altar
  • We can’t do it – only His covenant

Verse 11

  • He is building a wall around our heart
  • He is refining us
  • When a precious metal is put in the fire, the junk comes to the top.  Allow Him to skim it off

Verse 14

  • Shepherd us – prophetically speaking of Jesus Christ

Verse 15

  • He rescued them from slavery in Egypt
  • The Red Sea
    • He opened it up and swallowed the enemy
    • Isaiah 43:17
      • If the enemy is attacking you, He is calling them forth to destroy them in your presence
    • Isaiah 43:18
      • forget all that, it’s nothing compared to what I will do for you

Verse 16

  • All the demonic powers will stand amazed at what the Lord will do for you
  • The enemy will be embarrassed at their feeble power
    • Uziahs are running straight in to leprosy
    • This is a promise for those who say “I can’t do this on my own”
      • God says I am going to shepherd you
      • God says I am going to destroy the enemy
      • You will be set free from strongholds
    • Zecheriah 2 – a wall of fire around you and the glory in the midst of you

Verse 19

  • Trample our sins under Your feet
  • Throw our sins in the depths of the ocean

Hebrews 10:26-39

  • We cannot try to come before Him in our own power
  • We have to come through Jesus, set our hearts to know Him

He is faithful to complete the good work that He began.