Holiday Season with Jesus or Judgment

Micah 6:8 (NKJV)

8He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?

What parties, gatherings do you anticipate this coming 2 months?

Some, none? Some of us are booked, others don’t have anything.

Trumpets, Day of Atonement, Tabernacles , Dedications (hanukah)

Isaiah 1:12–20 (ESV)

12“When you come to appear before me, who has required of you this trampling of my courts? 

13Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations— I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly. 

14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. 

15When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood. 

16Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, 

17learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause. 

18“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. 

19If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; 

20but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

he corrects us because he longs for relationship with us.

Hosea 6:6 (ESV)

6For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Stop Evil

Do Good

Seek Justice

Correct Oppression

Justice to the Fatherless

Widow’s Cause.

It is not sacrifice I desire but obedience.

Jesus Justice, Mercy, Humility

Justice = מִשְׁפָּט‎ mishpat

Act justly

Dt 27:19

Dt 1:17

Lev 24:22

Dt 21:17

Often referencing acting justly to the widow and the orphan, widow,

Mercy = חֶסֶד‎ chesed

Exodus 34:6–7 (ESV)

6The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 

7keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

Humble = צָנַע‎ tsana

JESUS AND THE SABBATH

Matthew 12:6–8 (ESV)

6I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. 

7And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. 

8For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”

2 tim 2:14

Matthew 9:11–13 (ESV)

11And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 

12But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 

13Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Where do you see yourself judging yourself and others?

Politically?

Socially?

Personally?

Micah 6:8 (ESV)

8He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Comfort in Judgment and Self Righteousness

Amos 5:21–24 (ESV)

21“I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. 

22Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them. 

23Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen. 

24But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

John 4:21–24 (ESV)

21Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 

22You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 

23But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 

24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Romans 14:5–6 (ESV)

5One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. 

6The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.

Galatians 2:16 (ESV)

16yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

This Holiday season, remember Who it is that deeply loves you, the one who has committed His life for you.

Black Friday. Spending 100 on a 200 item is not saving it is capitalistic pressure to spend on yourself your loved ones,

We spend money we don't have on things we don't like for people we are upset at.