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Who is like Yahweh!?

Who is like Yahweh!?. Micah 6-7. “What’s in a name?”. Mi | c | ah Who | (is) like | Ya(hweh) “Who is a God like you” (7.18a α ). “Who is a God like you”!? (Micah 7.18a α ).

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Who is like Yahweh!?

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  1. Who is like Yahweh!? Micah 6-7

  2. “What’s in a name?” • Mi |c |ah Who | (is) like | Ya(hweh) • “Who is a God like you” (7.18aα)

  3. “Who is a God like you”!? (Micah 7.18aα) • Psalm 35.10 My whole being will exclaim, ‘Who is like you, O LORD? You rescue the poor from those too strong for them, the poor and needy from those who rob them.’ • Psalm 71.19 Your righteousness reaches to the skies, O God, you who have done great things. Who, O God, is like you?”

  4. “Who is a God like you”!? (Micah 7.18aα) • Psalm 89.8 O LORD God Almighty, who is like you? You are mighty, O LORD, and your faithfulness surrounds you. • Psalm 113.5 Who is like the LORD our God, the One who sits enthroned on high

  5. “Who is a God like you”!? (Micah 7.18aα) • Exodus 15.11, 16b ‘Who among the gods is like you, O LORD? Who is like you—majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders? … By the power of your arm they [the Egyptians] will be as still as a stone—until your people pass by, O LORD, until the people you bought pass by”

  6. An Erroneous Perspective • “the Lord has a case against his people; he is lodging a charge against Israel” (6.2b). • “‘My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me. I brought you up out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery” (6.3-4a). • “This must have sounded to Israel something like: ‘I am said to have overburdened you? I have rather unburdened you!’” (Wolff 1990: 175).

  7. The incomparability of God • “[You] who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy. You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea” (7.18b-19).

  8. The incomparability of God • God “forgives [‘br] the transgression” (7.18b) • The Passover • “When the LORD goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over [‘br] that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down” (Ex 12.23). • The Red Sea crossing • “By the power of your arm they [the Egyptians] will be as still as a stone—until your people pass by, O LORD, until the people you bought pass by [‘br]” (Ex 15.16b).

  9. The incomparability of God • God “will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea” (7.19b). • “The deep waters have covered them [the Egyptians]; they sank to the depths like a stone” (Ex 15.5)

  10. Proposed Responses • “With what shall I come before the LORD and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?” (6.6-7).

  11. How Sins are Atoned

  12. Redemption • God: “Redeem every firstborn among your sons” (Ex 13.13b; cf. 34.20b). • God: “Israel is my firstborn son” (Ex 4.22b) • God: “I brought you up out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery” (6.4). • “thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness” (Rom 6.17-18).

  13. A Proper Response • “To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6.8b; cf. Deut 10.12; Isa 56.1; Hos 6.6). • “So at a profound level the answer does call for a sacrifice, but a kind quite different from that proposed by the question. It is not a sacrifice of something outside a person…rather a yielding of life itself to God and his way” (Mays 1976: 142). • “in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship” (Rom 12.1).

  14. Application • “Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your might to all who are to come. Your righteousness reaches to the skies, O God, you who have done great things. Who, O God, is like you?” (Ps 71.18-19).

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