Lectionary: Series A (59)
  1. We receive everything we need for our life and salvation from our Messiah Jesus. Think about how much He takes on just to have us.
  2. How does God meet you in unexpected ways today? How does God meet you with unexpected grace?
  3. There is a hiddenness to the splendor of the Messianic reign and rule of God for now that will only be seen fully on the final day.
  4. There is a hiddenness to this revelation of God’s reign and rule. It appears first like a shoot and ends with the reign of this Davidic messiah over a peaceable kingdom of opposites.
  5. We are all waiting eagerly for the Christmas Manger in Advent, but we must see the Word made flesh’s (strange the think about) final destination.
  6. A good shepherd takes the little lamb from the flock and holds it in their arms.
  7. The Day of the Lord will be the “day of the Lord’s sacrifice.” That is how He will handle wrath and sin, by bloodshed and sacrifice.
  8. The surprising thing about our text is just how devoid it really is of gospel. Amos makes it quite clear that the “Day of the Lord” is a day of darkness and NO LIGHT!
  9. The best way to get at preaching the Gospel in our text is to compare the prophets and rulers Micah holds before us to Christ, who is not only a better prophet but the prophet’s hope and the prophet “par excellence.”
  10. We need the Son of God, Jesus, to set us free. Not by the Law, not by a social gospel, but by the blood-mark of the Lamb and a sacred eating and passing through the sea of baptismal regeneration.
  11. God is delivering His people by means of a King who will break down the bars that hold us in. It was strange but it was a real deliverance.
  12. God does not simply dismiss death. Instead, He actually takes it upon Himself and into Himself. He ingests, digests, and passes death so we might be spared from even tasting it.
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