Jan. 18, 2026

Saints & Sinners

Micah – Walk Humbly

January 17 & 18, 2026 

Primary Text: Micah 6:6-8                  

1)  The Remnant

Micah 2:12-13:  “I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel.  I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will throng with people.  One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate and go out.  Their king will pass through before them, the Lord at their head.”  

DQ 1) Why were prophetic messages of judgment often coupled with declarations of deliverance and restoration?

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2)  O Bethlehem 

Matthew 2:3-6:  When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.  When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.  “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written: ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.’”

Micah 5:2:  “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”

1 Samuel 17:12-15:  Now David was the son of an Ephrathite named Jesse, who was from Bethlehem in Judah.  Jesse had eight sons….  David was the youngest.  The three oldest followed Saul, but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep at Bethlehem. 

John 6:35:  Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life.  He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.”

John 6:44-51:  “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day….  I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life.  I am the bread of life.  Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died.  But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die.  I am the living bread that came down from heaven.  If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.  This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” 

DQ 2) What is the significance of Bethlehem as the birthplace of Christ?

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3)  Swords Into Plowshares

Micah 4:1-4:  In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and peoples will stream to it.  Many nations will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob.  He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.”  The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.  He will judge between many peoples and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide.  They will beat their swords into plowshares 

and their spears into pruning hooks.  Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.  Every man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, 

and no one will make them afraid, for the Lord Almighty has spoken. 

Isaiah 2:4:  They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.  Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.  

DQ 3) What does it mean to “beat swords into plowshares”? When will it take place?  

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4)  What is Good?

Micah 6:6-8:  With what shall I come before the Lord and bow down before the exalted God?  Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?  Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil?  Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?  He has showed you, O man, what is good.  And what does the Lord require of you?  To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.  

DQ 4) What does it mean to “act justly and to love mercy”?  

DQ 5) What does it mean to “walk humbly with your God”?

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