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Lesson Summary:

Micah condemns the people of Judah for their seared conscience and promises hope for the believing remnant.

Focus Passage: Micah 2.

Outline and Lesson Goal

Principles and Applications

I. The Result of a Seared Conscience (Micah 2:1-5)

Principle: A Seared Conscience will only lead to Destruction.
Application: What is the focus of your daily thinking? Are you focused on plotting evil or is your mind focused on that which is good and honorable and worthy of praise?
Scripture Reference

⁴The wicked are not so,But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
⁵Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
⁶For the Lord knows the way of the righteous,But the way of the wicked will perish.
Psalms 1:4-6 (NASB)

II. The Cause of a Seared Conscience (Micah 2:6-11)

Principle: Rejecting God’s Truth will only lead to a Seared Conscience.
Application: How are you responding to the Word of God? Are you receiving it humbly and letting it dwell in you richly? Or is your heart hardening against it?
Scripture Reference

¹²Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.
¹³But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
¹⁴For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end,
Hebrews 3:12-14 (NASB)

III. The Cause of a Seared Conscience (Micah 2:12-13)

Principle: God’s People have a Sure and firm Hope for the Future.
Application: How does the hope and promise of God’s restoration encourage you today?
Scripture Reference

²²let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
²³Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;
²⁴and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds,
Hebrews 10:22-24 (NASB)