1. WELCOME TO PINE GROVE CHURCH OF CHRIST Pine Grove Church of Christ – 05/16/10

2. WHAT DOES THE LORD REQUIRE OF YOU? Pine Grove Church of Christ – 05/16/10

3. What Does the Lord Require of You?  Micah 6:6-8  Some thought - Burnt offerings, calves a year old, thousands of rams, then thousand rivers of oil, firstborn, fruit of my body  God’s Answer - To Do Justly To Love Mercy To Walk Humbly with Your God

4. What Does the Lord Require of You  To Do Justly  To Love Mercy  To Walk Humbly with You God

5. To Do Justly  Definition:  Honorable and fair in one’s dealings and actions  Consistent with what is morally right  Lawful; valid within the law

6. To Do Justly  Micah 3:1-3 – “You who hate good and love evil”  Micah 3:9-12 – “and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice”  Zechariah 7:8-14 – “Execute true justice… but they refused to heed”  Zechariah 8:16-17 – “These are the things you shall do”

7. To Do Justly  Matthew 7:12 – “whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them”  James 1:27 – “Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this”  I John 3:17-18 – “sees his brother in need and shuts up his heart from him”

8. What Does the Lord Require of You  To Do Justly  To Love Mercy  To Walk Humbly with You God

9. To Love Mercy  Definition:  Compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward another  The disposition to be kind and forgiving  An act of kindness, compassion, or favor

10. To Love Mercy  Micah 7:18-19 – “Because He delights in mercy”  Luke 6:35-36 – “be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful”  Matthew 5:7 – “Blessed are the merciful”

11. To Love Mercy  Ephesians 4:28 – “Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need”  Ephesians 4:32 – “forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you”

12. What Does the Lord Require of You  To Do Justly  To Love Mercy  To Walk Humbly with You God

13. To Walk Humbly with You God  Definition:  Not proud or arrogant; lowly  Having a feeling of insignificance, inferiority, servitude  Meek and submissive respect

14. To Walk Humbly with Your God  Matthew 26:39 – “not a I will, but as You will”  Luke 18:13-14 – “he who humbles himself will be exalted”  I Peter 5:5-7 – “be clothed with humility”

15. Conclusion  What does the Lord require of You?  To Do Justly  To Love Mercy  To Walk Humbly with Your God

16. WELCOME TO PINE GROVE CHURCH OF CHRIST Pine Grove Church of Christ – 05/16/10