NO ONE LIKE OUR GOD (7 OF 7)
Scripture: Micah 7:1-20
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No One Like Our God (7 of 7)
Series: Micah
Robert Dawson
Micah 7
Have you ever lost something important our valuable like your wallet, keys, ring or TV remote? Did you look for it? Did you look high and low? Turn furniture upside down? Pull out couch cushions? Look under beds with flashlights? Check every room in the house? Sift through the garbage? Don’t look at me like that you’ve been there. We’ve all been there. We’ve all had personal or family search parties for things of value that we misplaced.
As we close out our study in Micah, we find Micah combing his city looking for something of value and importance, a godly and righteous person. He has already walked through his city, literally or figuratively, once and now he is sifting through the rubble of a crumbling society hoping to find some semblance of godliness.
Like Abram bargaining with God over Sodom and Gomorrah, hoping 5 righteous could be found in that cesspool of sin, Micah took one last look praying things weren’t as bad as they appeared. Unfortunately...they were.
Micah 7.1-2a - Woe is Me! For I am like the fruit pickers, like the grape gatherers. There is not a cluster of grapes to eat, or a first-ripe fig which I crave. The godly person has perished from the land, and there is no upright person among men.
Micah likens himself to someone going into the field to find food during harvest time only to discover the harvest does not exist. There is nothing to pick and nothing to gather. Several commentators have said the mental picture Micah taps into is of the poor who would go into the fields after the workers had already harvested hoping to find what they dropped or failed to gather. God, to make provisions for the poor, did not allow them to go into the fields a second time but to leave it for the poor and needy. (Ruth gleaning in Boaz’s field).
Micah, like a beggar or poor person desperate to find the fruit of righteousness in his society, goes to the field only to find it h ...
Series: Micah
Robert Dawson
Micah 7
Have you ever lost something important our valuable like your wallet, keys, ring or TV remote? Did you look for it? Did you look high and low? Turn furniture upside down? Pull out couch cushions? Look under beds with flashlights? Check every room in the house? Sift through the garbage? Don’t look at me like that you’ve been there. We’ve all been there. We’ve all had personal or family search parties for things of value that we misplaced.
As we close out our study in Micah, we find Micah combing his city looking for something of value and importance, a godly and righteous person. He has already walked through his city, literally or figuratively, once and now he is sifting through the rubble of a crumbling society hoping to find some semblance of godliness.
Like Abram bargaining with God over Sodom and Gomorrah, hoping 5 righteous could be found in that cesspool of sin, Micah took one last look praying things weren’t as bad as they appeared. Unfortunately...they were.
Micah 7.1-2a - Woe is Me! For I am like the fruit pickers, like the grape gatherers. There is not a cluster of grapes to eat, or a first-ripe fig which I crave. The godly person has perished from the land, and there is no upright person among men.
Micah likens himself to someone going into the field to find food during harvest time only to discover the harvest does not exist. There is nothing to pick and nothing to gather. Several commentators have said the mental picture Micah taps into is of the poor who would go into the fields after the workers had already harvested hoping to find what they dropped or failed to gather. God, to make provisions for the poor, did not allow them to go into the fields a second time but to leave it for the poor and needy. (Ruth gleaning in Boaz’s field).
Micah, like a beggar or poor person desperate to find the fruit of righteousness in his society, goes to the field only to find it h ...
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