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GOD'S PEOPLE ON TRIAL

by Collin Wimberly

Scripture: Micah 6:1-16


God's People on Trial
Colin Wimberly
Micah 6:1-16


CIT - God confronts Israel over their apostasy.
Proposition - America today needs to turn to God.

INTRODUCTION:
Movies about jury trials are often some of our favorite. Remember the John Grishom book, made into a movie, the runaway jury is one of my favorites. It is set in New Orleans and portrays how two very different people, with very different motivations, try to influence a jury. It is exciting.

I want to take us this morning into a very different jury scene. God is confronting his people Israel. He is filing a lawsuit against them.


- GOD'S INDICTMENT OF HIS PEOPLE - VS. 1-5, 9-16
The people of God are on trial. Vs. 5 - O my people. God loves his people, they are His. But they have turned from Him.

Vs. 1 - The hills and mountains are called as the jury.

- THEY HAD FORGOTTEN HIM - VS. 3-5
God reminded them of the exodus and how He thwarted Balaam's attempt to curse the people of Israel for Balack.
They had forgotten his care and his grace over them.

The US is not the covenant nation of God, but we have been blessed of the Lord. We were once a Godly nation and we have, like Israel, forgotten Him.
''We have been told repeatedly that Christopher Columbus, the pathfinder to the New World, discovered this new continent accidently and was only seeking Gold. But this is not the way Columbus told it. He confessed to a deep faith in Christ and believed that God himself had put it into his mind to convey the light of the Gospel to new lands.
The Puritans who settled New England have been portrayed by modern history as narrowminded and self-righteous fanatics. In fact, they were godly men and women who endured great hardship to establish a Christian society in America.
George Washington has been portrayed as little more than a deist, who struggle was for personal fame more than a moral or spiritual end. But Washington was a devout believer in Christ.
Our money says ''In God we ...

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