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    College & Career: 3rd Quarter 2015
    College & Career: 3rd Quarter 2015
    College & Career: 3rd Quarter 2015
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    College & Career: 3rd Quarter 2015

    By Michael A. Jolla

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    College and Career is the young adult quarterly directed toward students ages 18–24. The lessons are designed to address the unique experiences of African- American young adults as they venture into the world of higher education and work.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation
    Release dateMar 1, 2015
    ISBN9781681670089
    College & Career: 3rd Quarter 2015

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      College & Career - Michael A. Jolla

      YOU’VE GOT TO CHANGE YOUR EVIL WAYS

      Unifying Topic: No Rest for the Wicked

      MICAH 2:4–11

      BACKGROUND SCRIPTURE: MICAH 2

      Micah 2:4–11

      INTRODUCTION

      Today’s lesson begins a four-lesson study of the book of Micah. In these lessons, we will see how the people’s social injustice and unfaithfulness to God would result in judgment. The people had placed stock in the wrong areas: they had false assurance in their covenant relationship with God, they listened to false prophets who had been bribed, and they relished their wealth at the expense of the poor. As a result, the prophet Micah was sent to try to turn the people away from their sinful ways and back to God.

      Micah’s ministry took place during the latter part of the eighth century and possibly the early part of the seventh century B.C. His prophecies concerned the coming destruction of Israel, and he worked to turn the people back to following the Lord faithfully. Most of Micah’s prophecies were directed at those people in positions of power. They were the ones who had greater responsibility in leading the nation, whether in following the Lord’s commands or not. He was also aware that the wealthiest and most powerful were abusing the poor, and the Lord would no longer tolerate these actions. In depriving others of basic necessities in favor of their own comfort, the wealthy were depriving the entire community of the wholeness that the Lord had promised.

      EXPOSITION

      I. MOCKING LAMENT (Micah 2:4–5)

      Reversal of fortune is a frequent theme in prophetic literature. For example, the exodus from slavery was one of the most important stories in Israel’s history. All of Israel remembered this story, but some assumed that God’s favor would be shown automatically to His people. Although Moses had given the Ten Commandments to God’s people, the people in Micah’s day acted as though God’s favor came regardless of their following the Ten Commandments. The wealthy in Israel were convinced that their material blessings were an indication of God’s continuing favor, and they persisted in their unethical practices despite the warnings of the prophets.

      The prophets, however, sensed that something was wrong with these times of rest that the people were supposed to be experiencing. Amos had previously noted how the people were treating the Sabbath and the New Moon—times that were meant to be set aside for rest—as times to plot ways to scam others (see Amos 8:4–6). On these joyous occasions, the wealthy in society had begun scheming ways to deal unfairly with the least in society. Likewise, the prophet Micah condemned those who lay in their beds at night plotting ways to take the land of others (see Mic. 2:1).

      Life.Point

      The God of love is also the God of justice.

      Lesson.Point

      The people in Micah’s day were listening to false prophets, those who would tell them just what they wanted to hear.

      Section I

      What kind of friends or associates do you maintain?

      Section II

      How do you pick your friends? Do you only want those who tell you what you want to hear rather than the truth?

      God was not pleased with those who sought to take advantage of the poor. The reference to lying in bed and devising ways to steal from the less fortunate is reminiscent of Solomon’s list of things the Lord hates: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that hurry to run to evil, a lying witness who testifies falsely, and one who sows discord in a family (Prov. 6:17–19, NRSV). The wealthy in Israel were doing these things to the poor in society, and God was very angry.

      Micah 2:1–3 is a prophecy against those who had oppressed the poor by taking away their lands. The Lord assured these wealthy schemers that He would bring judgment against them: Therefore thus says the LORD: Now, I am devising against this family an evil from which you cannot remove your necks; and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be an evil time (v. 3, NRSV). Verses 4–5 tell of a future time when the wealthy would be mocked by oppressors and lament: ‘We are utterly ruined; the LORD alters the inheritance of my people; how he removes it from me! Among our captors he parcels out our fields’ (v. 4, NRSV). They would feel as though the Lord had turned His back on them unfairly, and would cry out, but there would be no answer from the Lord. They would only hear their cries called back to them in mockery. The tables would be

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