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Sunday Jun 26, 2022
The Story of God: Obadiah and Micah
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
Listen along as we explore two more minor prophets and see some pressing questions and a promised King.
Notes/Quotes:
Obadiah. 1-4,
Micah 5:2-5a
Deut 2:4-5
Obadiah 1
Obadiah 13-15
“Hope is taking in your real-life situation and finding God smack-dab in the midst of it.” - AJ Swoboda
Micah 2:1-3
“In Micah’s time, as in our own, this development led to a few rich people getting richer, not simply at the same time as the poor becoming poorer, but at the expense of the poor. It has been, and will continue to be, a major political and economic debate whether increasing affluence necessarily produces these disparities. For Micah there was no debate, only denunciation. His book, in common with most Old Testament prophets, makes it plain that in both Judah and Israel the fabric and foundation of national life were being systematically threatened.” John Marsh
“No system that carries oppression, silencing, dehumanizing, violence, abuse, and corruption within is healthy, no matter how godly the goals of that system may be. Tolerance of such things, out of fear, disbelief, or self-deception, will not protect the system from the disease that will kill it if left untreated.” - Diane Langberg
Micah 5:4
“God’s Kingdom of justice and peace is not wrought by the love of power, but by the power of love.” - C. René Padilla
Micah 6:6-8
“If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshiping an idealized version of yourself.” Tim Keller
Micah 7:18-20
The incarnation took all that properly belongs to our humanity and delivered it back to us, redeemed. All of our inclinations and appetites and capacities and yearnings are purified and gathered up and glorified by Christ. He did not come to thin out human life; He came to set it free. All the dancing and feasting and processing and singing and building and sculpting and baking and merrymaking that belong to us, and that were stolen away into the service of false gods, are returned to us in the gospel."
-Thomas Howard
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