Project 119: Micah 4:1-5

October 11, 2018 |  Project 119  |  Dr. Wayne Splawn

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Micah’s prophecy takes a dramatic turn in chapter 4. Rather than focusing on the present condition of God’s people, Micah casts an eye toward a day in the future on which the false worship, unjust living, and poor spiritual leadership will be a thing of the past. On the day Micah foresees here in chapter 4, the people will once again worship the Lord rightly and the result of this renewed worship will be that God’s people will live in right relationship with Him and one another and that other nations will be drawn to the temple of the Lord to learn to walk in God’s ways.

This is a beautiful picture of what it looks like when God’s people worship him rightly and live in right relationship with one another. When this happens, unbelievers are often drawn to the Lord through the witness of God’s people. I recently heard a pastor say that the church ought to be a model home of the kingdom God will one day establish fully on this earth. Pray that God would increasingly conform you and others at MBBC more into the image of Jesus Christ so that we would bear witness to God’s kingdom in a way that would draw others to the Lord.

Micah 4:1-5 (ESV):

The Mountain of the LORD

1 It shall come to pass in the latter days

that the mountain of the house of the LORD

shall be established as the highest of the mountains,

and it shall be lifted up above the hills;

and peoples shall flow to it,

2 and many nations shall come, and say:

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,

to the house of the God of Jacob,

that he may teach us his ways

and that we may walk in his paths.”

For out of Zion shall go forth the law,

and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

3 He shall judge between many peoples,

and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away;

and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,

and their spears into pruning hooks;

nation shall not lift up sword against nation,

neither shall they learn war anymore;

4 but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree,

and no one shall make them afraid,

for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken.

5 For all the peoples walk

each in the name of its god,

but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God

forever and ever.