Would you join me as we pray Lord we thank you so much.

There is strength in your name. There is power. Yes. And Lord, there's home. Thank you so much, Lord, for this place that

you have blessed us with beyond anything we deserve, Lord.

Would you bless the teaching this evening be your pastor J.D. Lord, give him strength.

And would you give us understanding, Lord?

Lord, would you give us energy that we might stay awake and hear and receive all that it is that you have for us this evening?

We thank you so much for your word. We pray these things in Jesus name.

Jesus name. Amen and amen. A good evening. I welcome. You can be seated. So glad you're

here tonight. I don't know about that prayer. I just, does that mean I put people to sleep?

Or those of you that are joining us online we're so glad that you are

we are going through the book of Micah and getting to know this prophet and tonight is chapter 2

we're just going to take one chapter at a time for now.

Chapter one was about sinning against God.

Chapter two is about sinning against other people.

And then next week, Lord willing, Chapter 3 is going to be the sins of leaders.

So I kind of want to, I think there are lessons within the chapter that warrant us just taking one chapter of time, even though

they're short chapters, I think that we would be grossly remiss to run through them.

How am I doing so far on the intro and explanation of why we're not rushing through

this book? We're going to take our time. As we're about to see, God is going to make it very clear

in no uncertain terms that he takes very seriously and even very

personally how it is that we treat people. That's what's in this chapter before us tonight.

God through the prophet Micah declares judgment on those who take advantage of people,

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