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*Our world is wrong but one day all will be made right!*
*Can you imagine the word of hope that is to many people in the world today?
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*A beloved family raises a precious young daughter.
They love her, nurture her, raise her and teach her to love God.*
*She grows and grows into the brightest, most beautiful young lady – last year she was voted on the campus of Baylor University as class beauty.
Many commented on her award and said, “Caitlin Creed was beautiful.
She was even more beautiful on the inside than on the outside.”*
*Caitlin traveled from Waco to Tyler to stay the weekend last May her Grandparents – she needed some TLC and she needed to study for finals.
All weekend her “Poppy” and “Granny” waited on her “hand and foot”.
They pulled out all the stops.
Whatever Caitlin wanted, Caitlin got.
She studied herself full and then readied herself for the journey back to Waco to actually take the tests.
With plenty of hugs and kisses and love from Grandparents, Caitlin loaded her car and left.
On the way to Waco, a lady whose blood alcohol level was three times more than the law allows – made the poor choice of getting behind the wheel and drive her car.
Are you with me?
She fell asleep, totally relaxed she crossed four lanes, went over two embankments and her car hit Caitlin Creed’s car head-on.
Caitlin Creed probably never knew what hit her.*
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*Our World is WRONG and needs to be made right!*
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*Did you ever wonder, Oh, God, will it ever be made right?*
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*God when will the wars stop?
God when will people stop fighting and begin listening to YOU and to one another?*
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*God when will people stop hating and start loving?*
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*God when will the rich stop being so greedy and when will the needy begin to have enough?*
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*Did you ever wonder, “How in the world did things get so BAD?”
The Bible gives us a strong clue…*
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The end of the Book of Judges may be the low point of the OT.
It plums the depths of depravity in the national life of the covenant people to the time it occurs, to be sure.
No central leadership of worth, no local leadership of note; so every man just goes home and looks out for himself and his own.
Judges 21:24 and 25-“And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.
In those days there was no king in Israel:
“*/Every man did/* */that which was right in his own eyes/*.”
From that day until this day men and women have been doing just that – we have been doing “which is right in our own eyes…”
This causes problems because we keep on breaking God’s laws.
You will remember that God gave us some laws to follow.
To be in a right relationship with God (VERTICAL) and a right relationship with fellow man (horizontal) God gave us 10 Commandments.
God did not give us 10 SUGGESTIONS.
God did not give us 10 OPTIONS.
God gave us 10 COMMANDMENTS.
People are so funny.
No sooner had Moses come down from that Mountain than he had taken the black and white 10 Commandments and added their own twist, their “spin” on God’s basic laws.
633 laws later and everybody confused about what really was the right thing to do – “every man did what was right in own eyes…”
LAWS that should lead us so often blind us, confuse us.
Have you ever had trouble obeying the law?
Let me follow you down the highway and see if you drive over the speed limit and then I’ll tell you if you always OBEY the law.
But some laws on the books are old and out of date.
*• In Massachusetts, you can be put in jail for one year if you are caught whistling underwater.*
*• In Tennessee, a woman can be sentenced to five years in jail if she calls a man on a telephone.*
*• In Texas, you’ll pay a $500 fine if you are caught drinking milk from any other cow than your own.*
*• In West Virginia, it is illegal for a preacher to tell a funny story from the pulpit.*
*We come to a place in our lives and we ask – “God what can I do?
God what do you expect from me? God what do you require of us, each and every person?*
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*If you’ve ever asked God those kinds of questions, then today is your day.
We are going to dust off one of the far reaches of the Old Testament and read about a man – God called him a PROPHET – not a PROFIT.
A Prophet had one basic message: “Thus saith the Lord…”*
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*Isn’t that a needed message today?
Don’t we need today to hear someone stand from among us and say, “God has given me a burden so great…” “God is tired of the way you are living life – you who claim to know God – but all you really do is know about God.”*
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*Micah was God’s man for the hour.
The nation of Judah had declined and decayed and detoured.
Micah pointed the people toward God.
Micah said that apart from a Holy God who alone is able to come in and he will not tiptoe…friend, Our God will TREAD, will TROUNCE upon this land and this people – and our only HOPE is in the ONE TRUE GOD.
Look to Him. Listen to Him. Place your Trust in Him.
Give your life to Him.
If you do this, you will live.
If you do not do this you will be destroyed.*
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1. God wants us to do justice.
Micah highlights three things that everyone can do, and he starts with a command to "do justice."
Think for a moment about how mad you get when somebody treats you unfairly.
Every one of us in here could tell stories of injustice, and our blood will boil pretty quickly.
Dave Hagler, a former referee and umpire, has the ultimate story of justice.
"I was driving too fast in the snow in Boulder, Colorado," he writes in an /LA Times/ story, "and a policeman pulled me over and gave me a speeding ticket.
I tried to talk him out of it, telling him how worried I was about insurance, what a good driver I am, and so on.
He told me if I didn't like it, I could go to court.
First game of the next baseball season, I'm umpiring behind home plate, and the first batter up is the same policeman.
I recognize him; he recognizes me.
He asks me, 'How did the thing with the ticket go?' I tell him, 'Swing at everything.'"
We hate it when somebody treats us unfairly.
If it happens in my work, with my friends, or even in my family, we tell those stories.
We dream about how to get revenge.
Most of the movies we go to see are about somebody getting hurt and wronged, and then trying to get revenge.
God is telling you, through Micah, to get at least as energized about someone else being the victim of injustice as you are when you're the victim.
In particular, be concerned about injustice to those you might be inclined to overlook.
It goes on everyday in our world.
*/To do justly simply means to do what’s right./*
A UCLA professor posed this question to his Medical Ethics class: How would you advise the following patient concerning pregnancy and the possibility of abortion?
The father has syphilis.
The mother has tuberculosis.
Their first child was born blind.
Their second child died at childbirth.
The third child was born deaf.
The fourth child contracted tuberculosis.
Now the mother is pregnant again.
Seventy percent of the students said, “Abort the child.”
“Congratulations,” said the professor.
“You just aborted Beethoven, for that was his family history.”
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*One day God will make EVERY WRONG – RIGHT!*
*Until that day God says – “I’m depending on you – YOU are MY people, You are called by MY name – DO JUSTICE!”*
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2. God wants us to love kindness.
And then, love kindness.
*/The word Micah uses is hesed/*.
In the Old Testament, it is the word most closely associated with God's lovingkindness expressed in the covenant, which is the basis of his relationship with human beings.
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