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Micah (COMPLETE) | NASB
Don't miss this point....
God not only forgives but also forgets as He casts “all our sins into the depths of the sea.” Other verses in God’s word confirm this sweeping quality of God’s forgiveness of our sins. We are told that God:
removes our sins as far as the east is from the west. (Psalm 103:12)
completely cleanses us from the stain of our sins. (Isaiah 1:18)
throws our sins behind His back. (Isaiah 38:17)
remembers our sins no more. (Jeremiah 31:34)
subdues or treads our sins underfoot. (Micah 7:19)
casts our sins into the depths of the sea. (Micah 7:19)
The Holy Spirit clearly doesn’t want us to miss how God responds to our sins when we confess and turn from them. [Ed Rea]
Beautiful qualities of our glorious God...
But as we remember who we were (guilty sinners) and where we came from (the domain of darkness), the good news of God’s salvation shines all the brighter to us! And these verses from Micah are most certainly good news!
The Lord is a God who pardons iniquity and transgression (terms that refer to sin in its differing forms).
He is a God who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in showing His steadfast love to His people!
He is a God who has wonderful compassion toward us!
When you consider these beautiful qualities of our glorious God, you realize that the following actions flow from His character in these amazing ways: (1) He treads our iniquities underfoot, and (2) He casts all of our sins into the depths of the sea. [Matt Cover]
All our sins -- every sinful thought, word, deed, desire, motivation -- have been taken away and are gone FOREVER because of the death and r
Never bring back...
And understand who cast our sins in the depths of the sea? They have been cast there by God Himself, and what He has cast out by His hand, His hand will never bring back.
If you and I had taken our sins and cast them into the sea, they would have been found again. It is like a murderer who tries to hide the dead body of his victim by casting it into the sea. But after a day or two the dead body will float to testify against the murderer.
Not so with God, when He cast out our sins into the depths of the sea, they will NEVER float again. They are forever buried in the depths of the sea of forgiveness to be recovered and remembered no more.
I believe the sea here has reference to the fountain filled with blood of Christ which cleanses us from all sins, which has washed away all iniquity, purged all transgression, cast all the sins of God's heritage behind His back, and drowned them in a sea unfathomable of grace, mercy, and love.
Satan may try to bring them up again and again, but if it is washed by the blood of Jesus Christ, he cannot do so. [Greg Hocson]
Micah 7 | NIV
Merciful...
On the one hand, he is a God of wrath and punishment to those who sin not trusting him and doing what he says not to do. Certainly we see this throughout the Scriptures. But is that what delights him? It doesn’t seem so. He’s always sparing humanity in one way or another.
He spared eight people through the flood. He spared Lot and his family from Sodom. He didn’t wipe all the Israelites when right after hearing his commandments from his mouth on the mountain and they went off and broke them as Moses went up the mountain. He left a remnant of Northern Israel from the hands of Assyrians and a remnant from Judah from the hands of the Babylonians when they rejected him and would not follow his ways.
He, the God of Israel, Yahweh, forgives sin and passes by the wrong of the remnant of his people. He does not stay angry forever because he delights in mercy. Did you read that right? The one true God delights in mercy. This is not new in the Old Testament, Ezek. 33:11, “As I live, says the Lord GOD, I don’t want the wicked man to die; I want him to turn from his way and live.”
We see in also in the New Testament, 2 Peter 3:9, “He is patient with you and doesn’t want any to perish but wants them all to come to repentance.”
The one true God isn’t up in clouds with a big stick who can’t wait to wop you over the head with it when you do wrong. He will though discipline us when we stray from his ways out of love for us knowing it is not good for us to live outside of his ways.
Micah tells us, “You will again be kind to us, and throw all our sins into the deep sea.” Such is the nature of the LORD. The devil wants us to believe God just wants to punish us and make us suffer. This is so far from the truth. It is a twisting of the nature of God. If anyone wants us to suffer and be punished it is the devil. Misery loves company and the devil is the most miserable creature of all. The devil wants us to join him in his misery.
What, then, is the proof that God wants to through all sins into the deep sea? Listen to Jesus in John 3:14-17,
“As Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up so that everyone who believes in Him has everlasting life. God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him would not perish but have everlasting life. You see, God didn’t send His Son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world through Him.”
God plunges all our sins into the deep sea of Jesus holes of Jesus’ hands, feet and sides. He cast them into the sea of Jesus’ soul as Paul writes in Galatians 3:13, “Christ paid the price to free us from the curse of the Law when He was cursed for us (it is written: ‘Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree’).”
So flee from your sins into the hands of the merciful God in Christ Jesus. [Guillaume J. S. Williams, Sr.]
Micah 7 - NKJV