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Please remain standing as we turn to
hear God's Word from Mica Chapter Seven,
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excuse me, which you'll find in
these verses, Mike a seven, verses
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eight through thirteen, is something remarkably
similar to Psalm thirty one. A.
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Many of the same themes coming out
here, but in a different way,
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and so let's hear them and be
sensitive to the what the Lord says and
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the way in which he says it. Mica seven, verse eight. Rejoice
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not over me, Oh my enemy. When I fall, I shall rise.
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When I sit in darkness, the
Lord will be a light to me.
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I will bear the indignation of the
Lord because I have sinned against him,
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until he pleads my cause and executes
just or judgment for me. He
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will bring me out to the light. I shall look upon his vindication.
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Then my enemy will see and shame
will cover her, who said to me,
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where is the Lord, your God? Mys will look upon her.
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Now she will be trampled down like
mire of the streets. A day for
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the building of your walls. In
that day the boundary shall be far extended.
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In that day they will come to
you from Assyria and the cities of
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Egypt, and from Egypt to the
river, from sea, to see from
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mountain to mountain, but the earth
will be desolate because of its inhabitants,
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for the fruit of their deeds.
Since the reading of God's word me His
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blessing be upon it, you may
be seated. Was, I hope you
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remember from Mica. We are going
over this passage, or perhaps reading this
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in the past. On Your own
God's people, on God's city, is
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coming under his judgment and, as
we considered last time, Mica expressed a
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very confident attitude in light of this
judgment, which is a remarkable thing,
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isn't it to have the judgment of
God coming upon you and yet having confidence
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towards God in the middle of that
judgment? How does that work? How
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do you be confident and have peace
before God, knowing that you are safe
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and secure, even as his judgment
is about to reign down upon your city?
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You remember why the judgment was coming, why these enemies were going to
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come in and overtake the city?
Was We're going to destroy it. It
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was because of their sins, because
God's people had repeatedly disobeyed his word and
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disobeyed his law, and therefore we're
coming under the curse laws which they promised
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to keep, laws which God command
them, good laws, holy laws,
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and now they were about to see
the disintegration of their society. God pronounced
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his verdict guilty, and now was
about to come his judgment. And yet
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mica expresses and says on versus in
verse seven, right before the passage we
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read first, we looked at last
time. But as for me, I
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will look to the Lord, I
will wait for the God of my salvation.
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My God will hear me. Why
does Mica think, and why do
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all of the faithful of the Lord
believe that that they can look to God
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and be saved even from his own
judgment? Is it because they have not
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sinned like everyone else? Well,
we know that's not the case because in
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verse nine that we just read,
we read I will bear the indignation of
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the Lord because I have sinned against
him. All right, so MICA is
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not standing up and saying, well, God's angry at all those other people,
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but not me, so I know
that I'm going to be okay.
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No, Michael looks to the Lord
for a different reason, and that reason
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is that he knows God is going
to save him from his sins, that
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God is going to rescue him through
this time of judgment in such a way
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that he and all those who call
out to the Lord for Rescue and salvation
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and safety will arrive on the other
side of that temporal judgment safe, eternally
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safe. It's a confidence that even
if he should die, even if a
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whole, even if he should lose
his his mortal life, God will still
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protect him, God will still keep
him, that he will participate in life,
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and we know, of course,
that that is because of the resurrection
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of the dead. This good news
is what Mica has great confidence in.
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It is this news that we now
come with this sense of confidence, more
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than a sense, a confident confidence, a assurance of the Lord and his
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protection that now mica, in and
and the city in a way speaks to
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the enemy and gives them a word
to hear and to pay attention to.
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David's prayer that we read and sang
in Psalm thirty one is a prayer that
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look to the Lord and said Save
me from this. But what what might
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be God's word to the enemies?
What might God's word be to the people
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that are coming to destroy and hurt
God's people? And we have two things
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in our passage tonight, a warning
and a promise of hope. Warning and
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a promise of hope. The warning
comes in verses eight through ten. We
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can let the word of God here
be are outlined for this evening, versus
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eight through ten. The warning comes
out in this way. Rejoice, not
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over me, Oh my enemy,
don't be happy. Don't be celebrating my
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downfall. Don't don't gloat over this. Why? Why is that? Because,
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well, there are several reasons.
Let's go through them. One,
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it won't last. The fall of
God's people is only temporary, though it
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be so complete that God describes it
in a way that the land will sort
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of return to wilderness. Yet nevertheless, we read, when I fall,
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I shall rise, when I sit
in darkness, the Lord will be a
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light to me. This is going
to come a to an end. The
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problem that people often have in this
world as they think in a very limited
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way. This is true of all
of us. It's true of the Lord's
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friends and the Lord's enemies. In
our sinfulness, we think of everything it's
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like as right here, right now, and that this is everything that matters.
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But even very dramatic things, even
very terrible and and things that have
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great repercussions, like a big stone
being dropped in the water with lots of
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ripples going out. Eventually those ripples
smooth out. Things happen, things change,
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and the particular things that's going to
change here is that when God's people
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fall, they shall rise. It's
a temporary thing. Why is that?
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What is the message to God's enemies
here and the peat enemies of God's Church?
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Well, the answer is that the
Lord is on their side, which
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may not seem to be that way
because he's bringing judgment against them, but
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nevertheless he has made promises to keep
them, to protect them. The Lord
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is on their side. Well,
this is important because there's a something of
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a theological battle going on here,
and it's not merely up in the head.
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Remember that, Paul says. Our
battle is against spiritual powers of darkness.
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It's always been this way. And
so when the enemies of the Lord
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attack the Lord's people, they say
what we have their words given in verse
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ten. Where is the Lord your
God, or, more accurately precisely put,
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where is Yah Way, your God? Is what the text says.
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Where is your way? This,
this one who gives you his name,
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this great I am, this Great
Covenant Keeper, this one who supposedly brought
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you out of the land of Egypt, the one who supposedly took you through
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the Wilderness and conquered these kings Sion
and og and the kings of Jericho and
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other nations. Where is he?
Where is your way? Where is your
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God, as I bubble you to
death? Where is he? Where is
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he? Where is he right?
But the Lord is on their side.
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And because that is the case,
those who once felt victorious and strong and
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powerful, both over the Lord and
his anointed people and his anointed kings an
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ultimately King Jesus, they will be
ashamed. At one point Jesus was put
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to death. The Great King of
Israel will hung on a cross and over
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his head they mocked him. King
of the Jews. The powers that be
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felt very powerful, arrested him.
They finally did it, put him to
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death. They finally did it stop
the mouths of his people and his disciple
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scattered. We won, but did
they? Of course they didn't. They
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were all put as Paul a rights
of Jesus, resurrection, to open shame,
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even of on the cross, Paul
Rights. There was glory there in
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which Christ overcame these powers of darkness. God is on our side, God
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is on the side of his people. And so don't rejoice, don't have
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confidence in yourself when you find that
you have success, or seeming success,
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over the Lord or and over his
people, because ultimately that gloating, that
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rejoicing, that self confidence, will
lead to your own shame and your own
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destruction. Verse Ten then my enemy
will see and shame will cover her.
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Who said to me, where is
Yahweh your God. My eyes will look
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upon her and now she will be
trampled down like the mire of the streets.
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This is why the Lord's people have
great confidence. This is why we,
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in the difficult times of our lives, when we are under either the
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Lord's discipline or we are simply,
by his Providence, on being trained and
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sanctified through the hardships of this life, and people might mock us and say
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where is your God, we can
answer confidently and say I will look to
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the Lord, I will wait for
the God of my salvation. My God
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will hear me, he will,
and we know that because God has said
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so, because the very God who
brings this judgment is also the God who
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says call unto me and I will
hear you. It is the God who
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sent his son into the world to
accomplish, through his death, by taking
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judgment on himself, our salvation,
so that all who believe on him would
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raise with him all that would go
would would all, all of us who
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rightfully come under God's judgment, would
pass through judgment as he takes it on
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for us. Well, it comes
to as this message of hope, or
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this warning, I should say,
a comes to the Lord's enemies. You
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can see how quickly it transfers,
or transforms I should say, into a
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message of hope. So listen to
verses eight through thirteen, again, hope
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and warning mixed together. It begins
with this strong note of hope, a
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day for the building of your walls. Now, and this the way he
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puts us here. This doesn't mean
quick build up your walls, oh Jerusalem,
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to protect yourselves against the enemy.
It's saying that on that day,
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on this grade and final day,
these walls will be these are like enclosing
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walls, like the walls of a
sheepfold because, and we understand that,
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because of partly because of this next
phrase, in that day the boundary shall
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be far extended. These walls are
more about building out than B building up,
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extending the walls of God's kingdom.
In that day they will come to
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you, to Jerusalem, where from
all the enemies, from a Syria,
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the cities of Egypt, from Egypt, the river, see to see mountain
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to mountain. Mica does not speak
something new here, all the way back
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the very beginning of God's covenant promises, when God established this people as the
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people, when he called Abraham out
of the world and made a covenant of
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Grace with him. Do you remember
what he did? Well, first of
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all, his name was Abram,
which means exalted father. God, change
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that Abraham to or Nay, change
that name Abram to Abraham, which means
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father of multitudes. He went from
Exalted Father, which Pretty Great, to
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father of multitudes. Why? Because
of this covenant that God was making with
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him. In genesis seventeen five,
he says, no longer shall your name
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be called Abram, but your name
shall be Abraham, for I have made
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you the father of a multitude of
nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful,
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I will make you into nations,
and kings shall come from you.
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And then when we read in Galatians, there are many, many places we
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could go to. But GALACIANS,
chapter three, Paul makes this point that
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we've been hearing from Micah. Seven
glaciers three, verse ten. All who
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rely on the works of the law
are under a curse for his written cursed
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be everyone who does not abide by
all the things written in the book of
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the Law and do them. That's
why they were coming under this judgment.
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Now it is evident that no one
is justified before God by the law,
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for the righteous live by faith.
How does Mica know that he's going to
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be okay, that he's going to
live? Because he knows that the righteous
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live by faith. If he were
to go and he were to transfer himself
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unto the law and say, look
at all these things I've done, I
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don't deserve this punishment, he'd be
a he and that the other faithful would
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be under God's wrath just like everyone
else, because right, justness doesn't come
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from the law, but knowing that
righteousness comes from faith, from believing in
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the promises of God's that God had
made to Abraham and to David many others.
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Mike a stands on that and knows
that God will hear him, that
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God is he says, will vindicate
him on the basis of God's own righteousness.
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Continue on in glaciers three, verse
twelve. But the law is not
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of faith. Rather, the one
who does them shall live by them.
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Christ redeemed us from the curse of
the law by becoming a curse, from
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a for us, for, as
it is written, curse it is everyone
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who hang is hanged on a tree. Now listen to this, verse fourteen.
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So that, in Christ Jesus,
the blessing of of Abraham might come
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to the gentiles, so that we
might receive the promised spirit through faith.
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You see what the great promises?
The great promise isn't that Israel's law and
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a covenant of Obedience is going to
be established throughout all the world and then
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all the people will obey the law
and God will be pleased and God will
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justify them. No, the promise
is that this this this Gospel, this
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good news about righteousness coming through faith, that that news was going to go
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out into all the world and the
gentiles would pour in and this kingdom would
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go would be established beyond anything that
they had ever seen before. Talk about
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rise or falling and rising again.
You the you know you cut me down
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and I will rise stronger than ever
before. That's the idea here. You
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cut down God's people here at this
moment, you, nation of the world,
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just watch what happens. God will
work through this to bring about this
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promise of faith, and through that
these walls will be extended and all the
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world will be brought in to a
kingdom that certainly loves the law, seeks
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the law, but from the heart, a law which God himself health has
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written there. So, turning back
to Mike a seven, this is the
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hope for the world, the good
news for both Jews. At that time,
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we're about to come under judgment,
and for the gentiles who, in
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God's Providence, were being used to
judge them all. People, Jew and
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gentle were called, at this moment
in history, in this particular work of
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God's Providence, to look at it
for what it was, to see it
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for what it was and to turn
to Yah way, not bail, not
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the father false gods, but to
turn to Yah way, to the god
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of the God of Gods, the
king of kings and him alone, because
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in for as verse thirteen says,
the Earth will be desolate because because of
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its inhabitants, for the fruit of
its deeds. But somewhere God was going
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to establish something new, something beyond
what anyone could really fully articulate. But
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nevertheless, here it is, and
one of the ways we see it is
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we understand this kingdom that would be
established, is the boundaries of the kingdom
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being extended, and we are proof
of that ourselves. No reason to pat
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ourselves on the back, but a
reason to raise our hands and give praise
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to God. People very, very
far away from these original events are sitting
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here Sunday night, on the day
of the Lord's Resurrection, praising God that
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we can belong to Abraham and his
family, as Paul put it in Galatians
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three, that we might receive the
promised spirit through faith, that the blessing
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of Abraham might come to the gentiles, and has come to the gentiles,
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which means that this prophetic word and
Mike a seven is being fulfilled right here,
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right now among you, when we
put our faith in the God who
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hears, when we put on the
our faith in the God of our salvation,
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when we confess our sins rather than
hide them, when we openly say
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I deserve judgment for my iniquities.
Yet nevertheless I will look to the Lord
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for my salvation. We can know
for certain that God hears us and that
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this great kingdom which he promised to
Abraham, a great eternal kingdom which was
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promised to David, this Kingdom of
Heaven, as Jesus describes it, is
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a kingdom we are now citizens of. And so that means that when we
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likewise are persecuted, when the church
comes under attack, which it does and
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will and has, we can speak
with these same words, the same note
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of confidence. We can speak to
our enemies and say, don't think that
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because you find yourself successful in this
moment, that this will be a victory
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for yours forever. Yes, I
am hypocritical sometimes. Yes, we have
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sins in our midst. Yes,
we do things we ought not to do,
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but we believe that the righteous will
live by faith and we are turning
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daily away from our sins and into
the arms of our Savior, who always
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saves us, who always brings us
out of darkness into light. Let's go
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to the Lord now and asked that
he would put this assurance, in this
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confidence, in this Gospel in our
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