THE REQUIREMENTS

MICAH 6:8

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

So, what does God require of us in order to for us to be acceptable or approved by Him? Micah 6:8 has the answer, but what does it mean?

 

I. DO JUSTLY

1. A Bible Question [Job 25:4, Dt. 10:12]

- How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

- And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul

2. A Bible Answer [Ps. 143:1-4, Lk. 12:48]

- Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead. Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

-But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

3. A Bible Solution [Hab. 2:4, Rom. 1:17, Gal. 3:11, Heb. 10:38]

-Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

-For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written , The just shall live by faith.

-But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

-Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

 

II. LOVE MERCY (in loving it we must…)

1. Embrace it Personally [Titus 3:5-7]

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

2. Rejoice in the Saviour [Luke 1:46-47]

And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord. And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.

3. Share the Message [2 Cor. 4:1-7]

- Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

 

III. WALK HUMBLY WITH THY GOD

1. Walk to Him (salvation) [2 Cor. 5:7, 17, 21]

-For we walk by faith, not by sight

-Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

-For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

2. Walk with Him (submission)

[1 Cor. 4:2; Rm. 6:4, 1 Jn. 1:6-7]

-It is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

- Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

- If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

3. Walk for Him (service) [Eph. 2:8-10, 4:1]

- For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

- I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,