Micah 5-6 - He Comes Forth from Bethlehem
Micah names a village. Bethlehem Ephrathah — little among the thousands of
Judah — and out of it comes a Ruler "whose goings forth are from of old,
From everlasting" (Micah 5:2). Seven hundred years later, Herod's scholars
found that verse in one reading. It was never hidden. It was ignored.
Chapter five tells you what this Ruler does. He stands and feeds His flock
in the strength of the Lord, and they abide — literally, they sit down. He
does not bring peace; He is peace, while the Assyrian is still in the land.
And then He goes to work on His own people, cutting off the horses, the
chariots, the strongholds, the sorceries, the carved images — every
substitute they had for trusting Him.
Chapter six opens a courtroom, and the jury is the mountains. God does not
begin with a list of their crimes. He begins with a question: "O My people,
what have I done to you? And how have I wearied you? Testify against Me"
(Micah 6:3). Israel answers by bidding — calves, thousands of rams, ten
thousand rivers of oil, a firstborn son — offering everything except
themselves. And then the verse that has outlived every other line in the
book: "He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require
of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?"
(Micah 6:8)
Part of "Who Is Like the Lord?" — a verse-by-verse walk through Micah at
Calvary Life Brooklyn.
IN THIS MESSAGE
- The Ruler from the little town — God's arithmetic, and a claim of eternity
attached to a birth certificate (Micah 5:1–3)
- He stands and feeds His flock — shepherding in the strength of the Lord,
and a flock that is seated, not braced (Micah 5:4)
- "And this One shall be peace" — peace in the invasion, not instead of it
(Micah 5:5–6)
- Dew and a lion — what the remnant looks like among the nations
(Micah 5:7–9)
- The purge — what God cuts off from His own, and why it is preparation and
not punishment (Micah 5:10–15)
- The Lord's complaint — "What have I done to you?" (Micah 6:1–5)
- The bidding war — everything but themselves (Micah 6:6–7)
- "He has shown you, O man" — do justly, love mercy, walk humbly with your
God (Micah 6:8)
- "Hear the rod!" — wicked scales, short measures, and empty barns
(Micah 6:9–16)
FULL SERIES — Who Is Like the Lord? (Micah)
https://calvary.nyc/media/series/5pq2bh2/micah
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