BIG POWER IN A LITTLE PLACE
Micah 5.1-4
What “O Little Town of Bethlehem” Teaches – Part 3 of 4
v. 1 “… siege is laid against us …” (esv)
CHRISTMAS REMINDS US THAT GOD’S DELIVERING POWER …
BEGAN IN AN Unexpected Place
v. 2 “But you, O Bethlehem … are too little to be among the clans of Judah …” (esv)
v. 3 “… Israel will be abandoned until the time when she who is in labor gives birth and … his brothers return …” (niv)
v. 2 “… from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancientdays.” (esv)
Colossians 1.15 “He is the image of the invisible God …” (esv)
John 1.46 “‘Can anything good come out of Nazareth?’ Philip said to him, ‘Come and see.’” (esv)
WILL EXTEND TO Unexpecting People
v. 4 “And he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God.” (esv)
1 Samuel 17.42 “When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him because he was just a youth …”(csb)
1 Samuel 17.45–46 “You come against me with sword … but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty … and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.” (niv)
v. 4 “… his greatness will reach to the ends of the earth.” (niv)
1 John 3.8 “The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.” (esv)
Philippians 2.7–8 “And when he had come as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death—even to death on a cross.” (csb)
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