Introduction:
I Want to Repent... (Micah 6:1-16)
- Because God has been Good to me. (Micah 6:1-5)
- Redemption
- Leadership
- Protection
- Promise
- Because Holiness matters to me. (Micah 6:6-8)
- Because I'd rather not face God's Discipline . (Micah 6:9-16)
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Father, as we approach your Word today, I pray that this is a new day for many people here, many people who are watching, many people who will be listening to this later.
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I pray that this is a new day, that they can mark this as a day that their walk with Christ, The intentionality of pursuing you, of seeking after you, took a major turn.
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Father, we just ask that your name is glorified as we spend time in your word here today.
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We pray in Jesus' name.
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All of God's people said, amen.
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About a week ago, they had a community day out in the neighborhood where we're gonna be building the new church building.
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And one lady in particular that I met was telling me how corrupt everybody was out there, from the chief of police to the township supervisors to the current police to everybody, the chipmunks corrupt.
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And I kept trying to steer the situation back to spiritual things.
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And I said, "Do you have a church home?" She said, she didn't, she asked where our church was.
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And I said, "Well, currently we meet in Wexford, "but we are going to be building, "we bought some property, "we're gonna be putting a building." She goes, "Where's your building going to be?" And I said, "Well, it's gonna be in Newsewickley." And she said, "Why in the world would you wanna build "in New Swickley?" And I said, "Why wouldn't I?" She said, "Because they're all corrupt." And I said, "Well, then that sounds like "the perfect place for a church." Right?
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Right, you know what I mean?
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Right, doesn't that, doesn't a place of corruption sound like a good place for a church, doesn't it?
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Why?
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Why?
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So that we can give them some information?
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You know why.
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Because the gospel of Jesus Christ, when believed, changes people.
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That's what matters.
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Why? Because a foundational part of the gospel is repenting, turning from sin.
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And we've been going through the book of Micah. If you're visiting with us, we've been going through verse by verse through the book of Micah. And the question on the table is this, "What do you do when your nation is facing judgment?" We saw Israel was facing the judgment of God, and we spent some time in Gosworth seeing that right now the United States is under the abandonment wrath of God, according to Romans chapter one.
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We are living in the wrath of God right now.
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It's here and it's coming.
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So what do we do?
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What do we do?
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Well, Micah tells the nation what to do when your nation is facing the judgment of God.
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You need to mourn over sin.
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What do you do when your nation faces judgment?
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You have to discern because there's a lot of voices out there claiming to represent God.
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You have to discern.
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We also saw that you have to wake up.
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Can't just keep hitting the snooze button.
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What do you do?
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You have to hope.
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Things aren't always gonna be as they are now.
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And we saw last week, what do you do?
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You worship because God himself is the ruler that is going to set all things right.
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But there's something else that we have to do when our nation is facing judgment.
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Church, we need to repent.
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Like, well, what is repentance?
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It's like a churchy word, but what is it?
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Repentance just means change your mind.
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That's what it means, you change your mind.
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And when you really change your mind, I mean, when you really, really change your mind, your actions will follow.
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Because your actions always respond to the way that you think.
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Let me give you an example.
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In a previous ministry, part of what I would do is I went to a lot of senior citizen homes and had church services.
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And sometimes Aaron would go along with me, but for people that couldn't go out and go to church, we would kind of bring church to them.
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And I had like dozens and dozens and dozens of grandmas.
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Right, and one place in particular, the Lafayette building in Butler, where we had services, I remember it was a February.
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And this building in particular, they always brought a snack.
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And I told them we can do without the food, but that was a big thing for them, you know, because I was always, you know, growing boy, you gotta eat, all that stuff, right?
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So they would always bring a snack.
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But I remember it was February, don't forget that part, it was February.
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And one lady made some homemade peach cobbler.
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I'm like, oh, I do love me some peach cobbler.
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So, well, of course, you're a growing boy, Jeff.
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Pile it high and deep, right?
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So, I just remember Aaron and I were just about to take our first bite of the peach cobbler.
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We had it up to our mouth and the lady who made it said, yeah, I had to hurry up and find something to do with those peaches.
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I've had them since Thanksgiving and they were starting to rot.
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And I was like, do you know in that moment I thought differently about that peach cobbler?
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Do you know in that moment I lost my appetite for peach cobbler?
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And see, that's how repentance works.
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Do you see my mind changed about that?
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So my appetite changed for that.
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Like, no, I don't really want this the way that I thought that I did.
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I see it differently now.
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And you see, that's what the Bible calls you to do with your sin.
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Look at your sin differently.
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It's not fresh peach cobbler.
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Your sin is rotten since Thanksgiving peach cobbler.
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And you need to see that in your appetite will change. You need to think a new way about your sin. This idea of repentance, this message of repentance, it was on the mouth of every prophet in the Old Testament. It was on the mouth of John the Baptist. It was on the mouth of Jesus Christ Himself. Through the letters of the Apostle Paul. You need to change the way you think about your sin, and you need to turn from it. And we've seen through Micah, he spells out Israel's sins very specifically. You know, so for Micah to be like, "You need to repent," they couldn't have been like, "Well, I'm going to repent from what?" He's like, "I already told you what to repent from." Church, I'm telling you that you need to repent. Here's the thing, you You know what you need to repent from.
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I don't have to tell you, because you know and God knows what you need to repent from.
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Let me ask you, what is it that's hindering your fellowship with God?
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What is it that you know right now, "I'm really going to stop doing this because I know it's not pleasing to God.
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I need to stop that." is that for you? You know what it is. Or if Jesus walked in right now and sat down with you, and you said, "Lord, is there anything in my life that is displeasing to you?" Like, you know what He'd say. You know. So here's what I want you to do. I want you to write write down on the top of your outline, listen, just whatever that sin is, just write down the first letter.
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And the reason I say the first letter, is you write the whole thing, you might be worried during the whole sermon that somebody near you is gonna be rubbernecking, trying to see what it is that you wrote.
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You don't gotta do that, just write down the first letter.
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Because you know what it is, and God knows what it is.
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What is it in your life that isn't pleasing to Him?
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What is it in your life that you know you need to repent from?
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Just write down the first letter.
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You know and God knows.
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But what is it for you?
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Is it something to do with your mouth?
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Foul language, coarse joking?
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Is that you?
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Is it a lustful heart that manifests into other sins?
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What is it for you?
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Is it complaining?
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Instead of being thankful, you're just constantly eeyore all the time.
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Is that it?
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Is it worry?
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Like you're just so anxious.
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over things you have no control over.
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Is that your sin?
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Is it anger?
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Is it, man, I just got a short fuse and I just lose it at the drop of a hat?
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Is that you?
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Is it an addiction of some kind?
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Like, man, I swore I'd never pick that up again and I sure did.
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Just write down the first letter.
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Like, I don't have anything to write down.
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You're gonna be bored then for a while.
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You can leave.
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But my guess is you have something in your life, as do I, which you're like, "I know this is an area where I need to repent." Well, needing to repent, we're sold on that.
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But if we could just be brutally honest, our issue is want to.
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And you might say in a moment of absolute brutal honesty, "You know what, Jeff?
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What if, okay, I know I need to, but honestly, Jeff, I've tried and I haven't, and what if I just honestly don't want to repent?
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I just don't want to." Well, Micah chapter 6 helps Israel with that question, and it's my prayer today that it helps us answer that question too.
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So on your outline, I want you to write some things down.
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I want to repent.
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Number one, because God has been good to me.
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I want to repent because God has been good to me.
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Look at the first two verses.
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Hear what the Lord says, arise, please your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.
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Hear you mountains, the indictment of the Lord, and you enduring foundations of the earth, For the Lord has an indictment against his people and he will contend with Israel." Back to the courtroom scene that we saw earlier.
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It's like God is sort of like the district attorney here.
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And he says, "The mountains are the witnesses." Why the mountains?
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Well, metaphorically, he says, "They've been around a long time and they've seen it all." Look at verse three.
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He says, "Oh, my people, what have I done to you?
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How have I wearied you?
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Answer me." Here's the indictment that he mentioned.
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And I want you to notice here in verse 3, he says, "O my people." Who's this message being directed towards?
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Towards God's people.
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The reason I'm saying that is when we talk about repentance, our mind immediately goes "Yeah, those corrupt politicians need to repent, "and the drag queens need to repent, "and everybody else needs to repent." We start pointing fingers, and God says, "No, no, no, no, you need to repent.
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"It has to start here.
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"If repentance isn't starting in the church, "how is anybody else going to come to repentance?" He says, well, God, he was directing us towards Israel.
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God didn't say, "Assyrians, repent.
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"Babylonians, repent." say that. God says, "Israel, my problem is with you. You need to repent." Do you see God's questions? He's like, "Israel, what have I done to you? How have I wearied you?
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Israel, how have I been so bad? How have I worn you out? Israel, what did I do to you that you so disregard me.
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What did I do?
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Well, God defends Himself with a really quick history lesson.
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Look at verses 4 and 5.
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God's history lesson. A little reminder here.
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God says, "For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery.
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"And I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
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"Oh, my people, remember what Balak, king of Moab, devised, "and what Balaam, the son of Beor, answered him, "and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, "that you may know the saving acts of the Lord." God gives a quick history lesson, and it has four elements.
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Can we get those on the screen here?
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These are the four elements in God's history lesson.
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Okay, we're breaking it down here, but keep that in mind.
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Look at these four elements.
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God says, first of all, redemption.
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Israel, hey, remember Israel about 700 years or so ago?
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You were slaves in Egypt and I brought you out.
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Remember that?
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Remember how you were beaten and abused and enslaved and I brought you out of that?
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Oh, and then remember the leadership.
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I sent Moses and Aaron and Miriam.
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That's like a trifecta of amazing siblings.
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God says, "I sent you good people to take care of you." And then protection, He talked about Balak and Balam.
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That's from Numbers chapters 22 through 24.
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That's a long story, but Balak, who was the king of Moab, commissioned Balaam to curse Israel, and God intervened.
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So God says, "I protected you.
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Even when there were enemies after you, I protected you." God says, "Oh yeah, and how about fulfilling the promise?" That when it talks about Shittim to Gilgal, what's he talking about there?
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Well, Shittim was Israel's location before they crossed the Jordan into the promised land. That's Numbers 25.1. And then Gilgal was Israel's headquarters after they crossed the Jordan. You can read about that in Joshua 4.19. He's talking about entering the promised land. See what God's saying is, "You know I made a promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I delivered. I gave exactly what I promised." This is evidence of a grace that should motivate to repentance.
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And instead they abandoned him.
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It's a courtroom scene, yes, but you know what else comes to mind with this scene?
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It's almost like parents of a spoiled child.
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Now, parents, did you ever have a child say to you, "Well, probably no parents here because all your kids are Christians." But you can imagine.
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But did you ever have a child say to you, "You've never done anything for me." Don't amen, don't point.
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Do you know what I'm talking about?
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Your kid says, "You've never done anything for me." as a parent, you've given the speech, come on, I've given the speech.
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I feed you, I clothe you, I put a roof over your head, I take you to your sports practices and your games, I run you everywhere you need, I bought you the cell phone.
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Okay, so tell me how I've been so evil to you.
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How have I been so horrible?
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That's what God's saying to Israel.
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What have I done, how have I done you wrong?
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What have I done that's so bad?
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Like, "Shame on Israel.
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Shame on our kids." We get like that.
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We get like that.
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You know, we're going along and some hardship comes in our lives, and all of a sudden it's like, "Oh, God hates me.
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God won't answer my prayer.
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God doesn't care about me." We get like that.
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And we're just like the spoiled kid.
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"What have you done for me lately, God?
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on us. And I'd like to give you a little reminder that God has shown us His love in those same four ways. And I would suggest to you even greater than what Israel experienced, because we're on the other side of the cross. Right? Has God shown us redemption? Do you realize we're dead in our sin, we are heading for hell.
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And what God did was became a man, took on flesh and dwelt among us so he could die the most horrible, brutal, excruciating, humiliating death known to man.
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Why?
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Because he loves you.
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He came and died to pay the penalty for our sin.
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Has he redeemed us?
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Yeah, he's redeemed us.
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What about leadership?
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God provided Moses and Aaron and Miriam, and I would suggest to you, church, God has provided you some wonderful people.
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The pastors of this church, the small group leaders, your Harvest Academy leaders, your youth group leaders, just look around the room.
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Come on, God has put people in your life to love you and to encourage you and to provide for you.
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Look at the people that God's put in your life!
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What about protection?
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Like, well, I don't know if God's protected me from enemies.
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Well, here you are.
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I don't know who your enemies are, but you're sitting here today.
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They didn't get you this week.
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True or false?
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A show of hands, Who here has been defeated by their enemies this week?
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Oh, okay, none of you?
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What about promise?
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God delivered the promised land.
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Has God given you any promises?
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How about his indwelling presence?
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How about the promise to never leave you or forsake you?
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How about the promise of security that nothing you can do can separate you from the love of Christ?
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How about the promise of heaven?
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God has been so good to me.
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Can you recognize that?
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I mean, can you say it?
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I mean, can you say it from your heart with conviction and mean it?
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I'm not gonna ask you to say it now because you're like, I'm just gonna say the words because the preacher says to him, can you quietly before the Lord say, you've been so good to me, you have been so good to me.
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God has been good.
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Let me tell you something about God's goodness.
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Romans 2.4 tells us that it is God's kindness.
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that is meant to lead you to repentance. This is where repentance begins. I want to turn from my sin, and I want to turn to God because He has been so good to me. Number two, why do I want to repent? Not only because God's been so good to me. Number two, because because holiness matters to me.
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Listen, this statement, because holiness matters to me, that is true of every genuine follower of Jesus Christ without exception.
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Holiness matters.
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If you are a born-again believer, holiness matters to you.
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And if you're sitting here going, it doesn't really matter to me, listen.
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You need to really question yourself if you're a true follower of Christ.
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Because to every believer, holiness matters.
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It is the drive of your heart to know him and to be like him.
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And here we see the, Micah gives us sort of the response of the people, the response of the would-be worshipers.
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Look at these verses six and seven.
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With what shall I come before the Lord and by myself before God on high?
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Shall I come before him with burnt offerings?
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With calves a year old?
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Will he be pleased with thousands of rams?
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With 10,000s of rivers of oil?
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Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
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What you have here, you know, this response.
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Like, what can I do, God?
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What can I do?
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Okay, you've been good to me.
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How should I respond?
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You know what you see there?
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Is sacrifices with ascending scale of costliness.
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That's what you see.
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It's an ascending scale of costliness.
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What do you want, God?
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A burnt offering, a calf that I had to keep alive for a year and offer?
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What about all the, you know, what about all these rams, what about all this oil?
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I love this, it says, "Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, "the fruit of my body, for the sin of my soul?" In other words, what do you want, God?
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Do you want me to sacrifice my son for my sin?
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It's ironic, isn't it?
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No, God doesn't require that, but that's what God did for you.
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Okay, so God's been good, what should I do?
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What should I do?
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More religious acts?
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More?
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How much is gonna be enough?
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And Micah goes, "No, that is not what God wants from you." Like, okay, well, what does God want?
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Can you just tell me what he wants?
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Can you make it clear what God wants from me?
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And Micah says, "I am so glad you asked." Look at verse eight.
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"He has told you, O man, what is good.
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And what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God?
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There's the right response to grace.
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This is what repentance seeking holiness looks like.
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And I love this, there's no mystery in it.
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There's no guessing.
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What do you want from me, God?
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I just don't know what you want.
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It's clear, it's simple, it's social, it's reverence.
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Just a God honoring holy life.
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Breaking it down quickly.
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What does God want from you?
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What does he want?
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First of all, he wants you to do justice.
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In other words, we talked about this a few weeks ago, but people were ripping people off like crazy, stealing from them.
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God says, first of all, stop doing that.
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Stop stealing land, stop ripping people off.
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So write this down, repentance includes doing.
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Write that down, repentance includes doing.
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I want you to do some things.
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What do you want me to do, God?
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Justice, do the right thing.
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I can't help but remind you at this point of our missionary in Thailand.
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I think I told you this story before, but it sticks with me.
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I think about it all the time.
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But Barnabas had one of the guys in his villages that was having a, how you say, not so appropriate relationship with a young woman.
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And Barnabas says, "You need to repent from that right now." And the man said, "You're right, "I'm going to pray about this." And Barnabas says, "No, "There is nothing to pray about.
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"This is repent, this is do, not pray." He's right.
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There's nothing to pray about.
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Do it!
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That's what Micah said.
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What does God want me to do?
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Do justice, do the right thing.
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That's what he wants you to do.
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You know what's right.
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Do that.
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What else?
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Love kindness.
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Love kindness.
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This, I love this.
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It's doing good, but not out of obligation, right?
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It's being joyful.
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So write this down, repentance includes feeling.
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Repentance includes feeling.
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This isn't robotic.
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I can train my dog to do things.
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God wants you to do what you do because you wanna do it, because you care about people.
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That's why God wants you to do what you do, because you love people.
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And that's why he says, "Love kindness." You're not a robot.
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Just program in me what God wants me to do.
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No, God wants your heart.
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Write that down.
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God wants your heart.
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And then what else does God want me to do?
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Well, three things.
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This is like a good three-point Baptist sermon, Micah.
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He says to walk humbly with your God.
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Walk humbly.
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Wow, walk.
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What does that mean?
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It's ongoing communion.
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God wants a relationship with you.
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He wants a walk with you.
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That's why at Harvest Bible Chapel we talk about your walk with Christ.
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It's ongoing communion.
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That's what He wants.
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Well, what kind?
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Write this down.
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Repentance includes attitude.
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He wants a walk with you.
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What should be the nature of our disposition?
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It should be humility.
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What's humility?
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Well, it's not thinking less of yourself.
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It's thinking of yourself less.
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He wants a walk where you are totally dependent on God, and you are totally focused on His will.
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"God, look, I'm here for you.
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You created me, you saved me, I'm here for you." So repentance includes attitude.
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You see, this is all about your walk with Christ.
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It's a communion with Jesus Christ that results in wanting to do the right thing from the heart.
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That's what the Christian life is.
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Repentance means I'm done pretending to be something that I'm not.
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I'm done substituting religion for a genuine walk with Christ.
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Repentance means I want a fellowship with God that changes me from the inside out.
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And you're like, you know what, that's what I want.
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Then my question to you is then why are you letting that sin get in the way of that?
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That thing you wrote down at the top of your outline, why are you letting that get in the way?
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I want to repent because holiness matters to me.
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And finally, number three, I want to repent because I'd rather not face God's discipline.
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How about that? I'd rather repent because I'd rather not face God's discipline. Look And it is sound wisdom to fear your name.
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Hear of the rod, and of him who appointed it." God is speaking.
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Rod speaks to discipline, meaning God is the one that's disciplining.
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And I love Micah's statement here, like, he says, "It's wise to pay attention." When God speaks, it's wise to listen to what He has to say.
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What's He saying?
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Look at verses 10 through 12.
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God says, "Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the scant measure that is accursed?
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Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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Your rich men are full of violence, your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth." What's he saying?
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Well, you know, God had these requirements, right?
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Justice, mercy, humility.
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Remember that?
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God says, "You haven't been doing that.
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In fact, you've been ignoring all of that." God says, "So you think I should just forget?
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Is that your play here, Israel?
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You think I should just forget what you're doing?
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I've told you what I want and you persist in sin.
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What am I supposed to do?
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Oh, boys will be boys.
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Am I just supposed to forget about it?
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Am I supposed to forget how you cheat people?
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See, one of the things that they would do, you see in the text, They would make the scales weights marked heavier to rip people off.
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See, they would have like a, they had a seven pound weight, for example, and you mark a 10 on it, and you put it on the scale.
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You think you're getting 10 pounds of wheat, but guess what, you're getting only seven.
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They were ripping people off.
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That's dishonest scales.
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God takes that very serious.
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He talks about the violence, he talks about the lies, he talks about deceit, and here God's like, so you think I should just let that slide, right?
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That's what you think?
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I should be watching you treat each other so horribly and I should just, eh?
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So your sin, the one that you wrote down, the one that you wrote down on your outline, Do you think God doesn't know?
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Is that your play?
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God doesn't know.
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He's probably busy with other people.
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He doesn't really know what I'm up to.
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He most certainly does.
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Do you think God's just gonna let you keep doing it?
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Do you think God's like, you know what, I've been after her for years to turn from that, and she's not gone to, well, what can you do?
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I guess I'll just move on.
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Do you think that's God?
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Do you realize Jesus saved you from your sin, not in your sin?
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And refusal to repent brings discipline.
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Why?
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Because God's a loving parent, that's why.
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So if you refuse to repent, God will discipline you if you're one of His.
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Like, how?
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Here's some ways, look at verses 13 through 15.
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Therefore, I strike you with a grievous blow, making you desolate because of your sins.
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Look at this, you shall eat, but not be satisfied.
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And there shall be hunger within you.
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You shall put away, but not preserve.
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And what you preserve, I will give to the sword.
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Meaning, you're gonna save stuff up, and enemies are gonna come and take it.
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That's what he's saying.
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You shall sow but not reap, you shall tread olives but not anoint yourselves with oil, you shall tread grapes but not drink wine.
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What's he saying?
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Well, in a nutshell, God's saying, hey, you're going to be in want.
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You're going to be not satisfied.
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God says you're gonna do a lot of work and you're gonna have nothing to show for it.
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You know what it's like? It's like changing the oil in your car. And you do all the work, but you forget to put the drain plug back in, and the new oil just goes right out onto the floor. See that picture? God says, "I'm going to make sure that that happens to you.
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I'm going to guarantee that that happens to you if you're going to persist in your sin.
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God's discipline, mark this, God's discipline many times is manifest as futility, disappointment.
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Sometimes God's discipline just means this, church, He is not going to allow you to be He's not going to let you.
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You need some examples of that?
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Think of somebody, maybe it's you.
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Maybe your sin is of a sexual nature.
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People that are in, God's people in unrepentant sexual sin never feel fulfilled in that area of their lives.
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Never.
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Why is that?
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Because God's gonna make sure that you're not satisfied.
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What about somebody that has the sin of covetousness we've talked about before?
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God's going to make sure that you never feel like you have enough.
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No matter what you get, what you take, it is never going to satisfy you.
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God'll make sure.
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You know, there are people who maybe struggle with sins of their mouth like slander.
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People slander thinking that it makes friends, right?
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Like, let me tell you about so-and-so.
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Now you're on my side and you're my friend.
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You know what ends up happening?
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Is people that slander end up isolated and alone because they can't be trusted because they'll just slander the next person.
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What about like the sin of addiction?
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Can you think of an example of like an addict always wanting more and never being satisfied.
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That's like every addiction.
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It never satisfies.
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That's what God's telling Israel.
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I'll discipline you that way.
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You wanna persist in your sin?
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Get used to frustration.
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If you realize, listen, you're like, wow, that sounds harsh.
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No, it's not.
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This is grace.
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This is grace.
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because God's getting your attention.
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Listen, church, God loves you so much.
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God loves you too much to allow you to destroy yourself and to allow you to destroy your testimony through unrepentant sin.
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God's like, "I love you too much "to just let you go do that, "so I'll make sure that you're not content in your sin." One more verse.
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God says, "For you have kept the statutes of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you have walked in their councils, that I may make you a desolation and your inhabitants a hissing, so you shall bear the scorn of my people." Now, if you're a Bible student, you felt the burn there.
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And you were meant to.
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If you're not a Bible student, you're like, "Oh, what's that?" Do you realize who Omri and Ahab are?
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They were the two most corrupt kings in the Northern Kingdom.
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So this was a burn.
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This would be like me getting up saying, "You know who you're acting like?
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"Hitler and Saddam Hussein.
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"You're acting just like them." You'd be like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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"Coming in hot, aren't you?" That's what Mike is doing here.
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These kings were horrible people.
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Horrible, read about them.
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God says, "You're acting like the two most corrupt kings "Israel's ever had, and that's just goading me "to respond to you." So church, you got a couple of options on the table here.
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You can repent and discipline yourself.
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Or you can let God discipline you.
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Do you know what I think is the smart play here?
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I wanna repent because I'd rather not face God's discipline.
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That's the smart play.
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I'd like you to bow your heads, please.
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The worship team is going to come up.
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I just want you to just bow your heads.
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We're not looking around.
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With your heads bowed, I want you to think about that, whatever that sin is that you wrote that letter down, I want you to think about that.
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And I want you to think about, I want you to think about how that sin has hindered your fellowship.
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Now, if you're a true follower of Jesus Christ, nothing can separate you from that.
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We're not talking about losing your salvation, absolutely not.
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Nothing can take salvation away from you, but your sin will hinder your fellowship with God.
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And that is the most miserable thing in the world for a Christian.
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So I want you to keep your heads bowed because the worship team is going to sing this song over you.
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And I want you to listen to these words, and I want these words to echo in your heart and your mind, and I want these words to saturate your spirits as you consider God's call for you to repent.
Small Group Discussion
Read Micah 6:1-16
What was your big take-away from this passage / message?
What does it mean to ”repent”? Which of these reasons from Micah is the most motivating for you to repent (God’s goodness, my desire for holiness, avoiding discipline)?
Why do you think even some born-again believers struggle with repentance? What makes them put off repenting?
Read Matthew 3:8 and explain what exactly that verse means.
Breakout
Pray for one another. How are you doing with repentance?