The Same God Will Do It Again

As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things. Church, there is one truth the enemy cannot erase, one testimony hell cannot silence, it is this:

The God who brought you out before—will bring you out again.

Somebody say: The same God Will do it again.

The book of Micah is a prophetic text from the 8th century B.C., during the days of kings Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah of Judah. Micah prophesied to a nation drowning in corruption, political corruption, social injustice, and moral decay. The elite were oppressing the poor, the prophets were preaching for profit, and the people had drifted from God.

Because of their rebellion, God announced coming judgment, specifically at the hands of the Assyrian and later Babylonian empires. But woven into the warnings, God kept dropping these glimmers of grace and promises that judgment would not be the end of the story.

Even while God was calling them out and warning them, He kept sliding in these flashes of hope these little reminders that the consequences wouldn’t be the final chapter, and that He still had a comeback story waiting for them.

Micah 7 is the prophet's final chapter, and by the end he breaks into a prayer, a declaration, and a worship-filled prophecy.

Micah 7 is the prophet Micah is pouring out his heart about the spiritual and moral collapse of the nation. It reads like a man looking around at his society and saying, what has happened to us?

Verses 1–14 paint the scene that leads to God’s promise in verse 15 (I will show them marvelous things).

In versus 1–6: The world is falling apart (and everybody knows it)

Micah 7:1 Woe is me.

Micah opens with deep grief. He says he feels like a person going out to harvest grapes only to find the vines empty.

In other words, I’m living in a world where goodness and godliness are hard to find. The spiritual fruits are missing. Godly people are rare. Integrity is scarce. Righteousness is not normal anymore.

Micah gets to verse 2 and teaches us that the faithful man has vanished. Micah says there aren’t many faithful people left. Loyalty is gone. People can’t be trusted.

And today we live in a time where fake loyalty, inconsistency, and broken trust are everywhere. We are in a time when relationships, leadership, friendships, even church circles and all mess up, jacked up and tore up.

Micah says in versus 3 that Corruption is normal

Leaders, judges, politicians, and influencers are all taking bribes. People scheming with both hands, meaning:

They work hard at doing wrong.

And today it seems like nothing has changed Corruption isn’t the exception anymore, it’s the headline. People work overtime to get ahead, even if it costs their integrity.

Micah says in versus 4 the best of them is like a brier. In other words, even the good ones aren’t good.

Micah had something to say here because in versus 5 and 6 he said don’t trust even close relationships:

Don’t trust a neighbor

Don’t rely on a friend

Be careful with your own family

Even households are divided

He is describing a society where relationships collapse from the inside out.

He’s saying: people don’t know how to treat people anymore. They don’t know how to talk to one another anymore, they lie, cheat, and steal, in my hood they would just call them low-down.

In versus 7–10 he describes that hope is not in people, but our hope is in God.

Micah 7:7 says, But as for me.

Here it is Micah takes a spiritual turn: Everybody else may be acting wild—but as for me, I’m looking to God.

The world may be losing its mind, but I’m keeping my eyes on the One who never loses control. Culture might be drifting, people might be shifting, but my focus is fixed on God.

In fact, chaos can roar all it wants, but my confidence is anchored in the Lord.

He says: I will look to the Lord

I will wait for God to answer. My God will hear me

I might have to remind somebody this morning, that even in chaotic moments, faith still works. Prayer still works, and God is still listening.

Micah 7:8 say rejoice not over me, my enemy.

He is saying, don’t celebrate too soon. I may fall, but I will rise again. I may be in darkness now, but the Lord will be my light.

And somebody here ought to preach to whatever you are dealing with.

This is a comeback language.

This is restoration of faith.

May I tell you that this is what it sounds like when a believer refuses to stay down.

Micah admits Israel messed up. They sinned. They caused some of their own pain.