Life can be draining, so we share energizing faith content that helps you make the biblical connections between the positives and negatives of everyday life.  • 1 Timothy 5:21 

Jon L. Groves

God keeps His promises. While that should be abundantly positive, it is a sorrow to some. Nothing in this passage will be new or shocking, even though Israelites will respond as if they've never heard it before. The consequences rise to meet the level of the trespass. 
 
1. What are you all about? 
2. Are you happy or sad about God's promises made and promises kept?

God keeps His promises.  While that should be abundantly positive,  it is a sorrow to some.  Nothing in this passage will be new or shocking, even though Israelites will respond as if they've never heard it before.  The consequences rise to meet the level of the trespass.  

1.  What are you all about?
2. Are you happy or sad about God's promises made and promises kept?

The Promises of God • Micah 6:9-16

Step into the courtroom as God testifies on His own behalf. The cause for judgment stands. From Balak to Balaam, from Shittim to Gilgal, God testifies of his faithfulness to His people. 
 
1. Have you repented? 
2. What has God done? 
3. Time for Gilgal?

Step into the courtroom as God testifies on His own behalf.  The cause for judgment stands.  From Balak to Balaam, from Shittim to Gilgal, God testifies of his faithfulness to His people.

1. Have you repented?
2. What has God done?
3. Time for Gilgal?

God On Trial • Micah 6:1-5

Do you feel safe? What are you trusting? Where's your faith? 
 
3 Questions that might sound near identical, but each of them calls to deep, specific aspects of our life. In Micah 5:10-15, Pastor Jon continues our verse by verse study as we discover what brings the wrath of God and how to know if you are safe from it.

Do you feel safe?  What are you trusting? Where's your faith?

3 Questions that might sound near identical, but each of them calls to deep, specific aspects of our life.  In Micah 5:10-15,  Pastor Jon continues our verse by verse study as we discover what brings the wrath of God and how to know if you are safe from it.

What Brings God's Wrath? • Micah 5:10-15

When God raises his hand, He isn't asking to be called on or hoping to be recognized. No, God's hand is raised in ultimate victory. 
 
Journal Questions: 
 
1. What joy has God born on the other side of your labor pains? 
 
2. Are you in good standing with peace? 
 
3. Do you see where God's hand is?

When God raises his hand, He isn't asking to be called on or hoping to be recognized.  No,  God's hand is raised in ultimate victory.  

Journal Questions:

1. What joy has God born on the other side of your labor pains?

2. Are you in good standing with peace?

3. Do you see where God's hand is?

Pains In Life | Peace In Israel | Micah 5:3-9

Israel is always the center of controversy, but let's see what God has to say about the land we call Israel as we study verse by verse through Micah 4:6-13.

Israel & The United Nations || Micah 4:6-13

Loyalty to God VS Loyalty to the preacher can often appear, at surface level to be synonymous. In Micah 3, the prophet demonstrates what sets a true minister from God apart from a false teacher of the people. Israel though rituals would save them, but God lists His indictment against the leaders and teachers of the day. 
 
Journal Questions: 
 
1. Do you only embrace those who embrace you? (Or those you hope will embrace you?) 
 
2. Litmus Test For True Preachers: 
A. Foundation 
B. For 
C. Fruit 
 
3. Is Jesus your logo or your LORD?

Loyalty to God VS Loyalty to the preacher can often appear, at surface level to be synonymous.  In Micah 3,  the prophet demonstrates what sets a true minister from God apart from a false teacher of the people.  Israel though rituals would save them, but God lists His indictment against the leaders and teachers of the day.

Journal Questions:

1.  Do you only embrace those who embrace you? (Or those you hope will embrace you?)

2.  Litmus Test For True Preachers:
A. Foundation
B. For
C. Fruit

3.  Is Jesus your logo or your LORD?

Micah 3:5-12 | Prophets and Profits, Truth Preachers & Ritualistic Religion

Gospel preaching is not all bad news, nor is it all good news.  False teaching happens when one only presents half of the truth.  In Micah 2:12-13, we'll discover the purpose for prophecy, Micah's message of hope,  the Millennial fulfillment and a most unique Messianic title.

Micah 2:12-13 | The Purpose of Prophecy | The Breaker

How do false prophets operate? 
Who are you listening to? 
And when is it time to question God? 
 
All this, and more as we study the Scriptures in Micah 2. 
Open your Bible...

How do false prophets operate?
Who are you listening to?
And when is it time to question God?

All this, and more as we study the Scriptures in Micah 2.  
Open your Bible...

Micah 2:6-11 | False Prophets, Questioning God, Christians In Name Only

God hates sin, but he especially hates premeditated oppression through greed and covetousness. In Micah's day, there was economic prosperity and peace on a macro scale, but people's hearts were far from God as they openly practiced sin in the daylight. Where you find distressed people, you will always find oppressive leadership, and God has something to say about those whose relationship is not right with Him. 
 
Micah 2:1 Woe to those who devise wickedness, Who work out evil on their beds! When the light of the morning comes, they do it, For it is in the power of their hands. 2 And they covet fields and then tear them away, And houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his house, A man and his inheritance. 3 Therefore thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I am devising against this family an evil demise From which you cannot remove your necks; And you will not walk haughtily, For it will be an evil time. 4 On that day they will take up against you a taunt And utter a bitter wailing and say, ‘We are completely devastated! He exchanges the portion of my people; How He removes it from me! To the faithless one, He apportions our fields.’ 5 Therefore you will have no one stretching a measuring line For you by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.

God hates sin, but he especially hates premeditated oppression through greed and covetousness. In Micah's day, there was economic prosperity and peace on a macro scale, but people's hearts were far from God as they openly practiced sin in the daylight. Where you find distressed people, you will always find oppressive leadership, and God has something to say about those whose relationship is not right with Him.   

Micah 2:1 Woe to those who devise wickedness, Who work out evil on their beds! When the light of the morning comes, they do it, For it is in the power of their hands. 2  And they covet fields and then tear them away, And houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his house, A man and his inheritance. 3  Therefore thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I am devising against this family an evil demise From which you cannot remove your necks; And you will not walk haughtily, For it will be an evil time. 4  On that day they will take up against you a taunt And utter a bitter wail

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