Hey guys, welcome to relatable. Today we are doing a most misused. If you don't know what

that is, that's where we take a popular verse that is used a lot. It's decontextualized

and we look at what it actually means. So Micah 6, 8 says, he has told you, oh 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. We've done a few of these in the past. We've done Jeremiah

29 11, plans to prosper you not to harm you. Psalm 37 4, he will give you the desires of your

heart, Matthew 7 1, don't judge, they'll see you be judged. And so what we do is we take

this popular verse that's typically placed on mugs or t-shirts or use in social media

captions and we dive into what it actually means based on the text and based on the

context because so often the most well-known verses are the most misused and abused verses.

Philippians 4 13 is another one like this. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens

me. It's a wonderful verse, but when it's decontextualized, we actually lose a lot of the

meaning. But what we see when we read these verses and we seek to understand them rather

than just apply them and I feel good way in whatever context we want is that the true

meaning of the text is so much better. It's so much better than the pithy applications

they have when they're just decontextualized. So today we are going to do Micah 6, 8 because

particularly in the past year, this verse has been used by many who may identify as let's

say social justice focused Christians to biblically support their pursuit in the, for example,

the abolition of what they might refer to as systemic racism in the United States. This

verse was used a lot after the George Floyd incident on social media as a way to say

as Christians we need to be talking about marching about etc. racialized police brutality.

We need to be doing the work of anti-racism. We need to be working toward so-called racial

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