Peter Barnes | Micah 7:14-20
SERMON NOTES
FORGIVENESS FULL AND FREE
Micah 7:14-20
Samuel Davies’ ‘Great God of wonders!’:
Who is a pardoning God like Thee?
Or who has grace so rich and free?
1. Prayer for the Shepherd-Messiah.
– 7:14-15; see 5:2-4.
– Matt.9:35-36. The cause of Christ can …
Peter Barnes | Micah 7:8-13
SERMON NOTES
GOD’S PEOPLE WILL ARISE
Micah 7:8-13
– a strange principle which drives the whole Bible – 2 Cor.4:9-10. Calvin: ‘Though heaven and earth should collapse, we will remain unscathed.’ Micah is prophesying the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians, and then the restoration …
Peter Barnes | Micah 7:1-7
SERMON NOTES
HOPE IN THE MIDST OF DISINTEGRATION
Micah 7:1-7
Micah describes eighth century B.C. Israel as like a gleaned crop where there is nothing left (7:1).
1. Sin causes disintegration in society.
– there is violence and corruption (7:2-3).
– it is the law …
Peter Barnes | Micah 6:9-16
SERMON NOTES
INTERPRETING RUIN
Micah 6:9-16
– 6:9; to fear God is sound wisdom.
1. God chastens His wayward people.
– 6:9. The rod is surely Assyria – Isa.10:5. The God of the Bible chastens His people. Heb.12:5-11.
Calvin: ‘Don’t wait for God to strike.’…
Peter Barnes | Micah 6:8
SERMON NOTES
WHAT DOES THE LORD REQUIRE OF US?
Micah 6:8
– a memory verse. God is good, and we are to be good because that reflects His character (Mic.6:8a; Mark 10:18; 1 Pet.2:3).
1. We are to do justice.
– 6:8b. The NIV says …
Peter Barnes | Micah 6:1-7
SERMON NOTES
WE HAVE NO DEFENCE
Micah 6:1-7
– this is an indictment.
1. God calls us to account.
– 6:1-2. God is speaking to Micah as His prosecutor. See Deut. 4:26; 30:19; 32:1; Psalm 50:4-6; Isa.1:2-3. Even the mountains and hills can see that …
Peter Barnes | Micah 5:5-15
SERMON NOTES
GOD DELIVERS A REMNANT
Micah 5:5-15
– Micah has spoken of the coming of the Messiah (5:2). Now he writes of the Messianic people, the remnant whom God preserves.
1. God preserves a remnant.
– 5:5-6. This specifically refers to the events of …
Peter Barnes | Micah 5:1-5a
SERMON NOTES
THE COMING MESSIAH
Micah 5:1-5a
– Alec Motyer: ‘Old Testament history is one long cry for something better’. B. B. Warfield said that the Old Testament is a room ‘fully furnished but dimly lit’.
1. Affliction comes first.
– 5:1; like Job 16:10. …
Peter Barnes | Micah 4:1-5
SERMON NOTES
THE FUTURE KINGDOM
Micah 4:1-5
Micah has just told us that Jerusalem would be destroyed (3:12). In Micah 4:1-8 he looks to a wonderful future for Zion.
1. Zion is exalted.
– 4:1. The latter days arrive at the First Coming of Jesus …
Peter Barnes | Micah 3:1-12
SERMON NOTES
MORE LIGHT, MORE JUDGMENT
Micah 3:1-12
Leaders are judged more harshly because they can do more damage – James 3:1.
1. Confronting unjust leaders.
– 3:1; Deut.1:16-17.
– 3:2-3. They have carried on like cannibals.
– 3:4; Prov.21:13. Prayer is not automatic.
2. …
