"Walk This Way" - Doug Rehberg

This Sunday we begin a new series entitled “Walk This Way”. It will be a relatively short series. It will roughly parallel the Children’s Ministry Orange curriculum used this summer for VBS and children’s small groups that profile the Apostle Paul’s walk with Jesus.

But this week we begin back in a familiar text – Micah 6:6-8.

“With what shall I come before the Lord,
    and bow myself before God on high?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
    with calves a year old?
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
    with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
    the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”
He has told you, O man, what is good;
    and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
    and to walk humbly with your God?”

It’s about walking humbly with the Lord that is our focus this Sunday.

In August 2006 Dave Chilcoat, a distant friend and mentor to many, died of Lou Gehrig’s disease – ALS. He was 58 years old when he died. He had been diagnosed just three years earlier. In the view of most he died a young man, but in terms of spiritual maturity he died an old, wise sage. He knew what God’s answer in Micah 6:8 was all about, because he lived it; especially in those final three years. He knew what it meant to humble himself before the Lord and walk with him. Near the end of my message on Sunday I will refer to the journal he wrote throughout his ALS years. His wife published it a few years after his death under the title – Nobody Tells a Dying Guy to Shut Up. In preparation for Sunday’s message, I would encourage you to Google: “Dave Chilcoat God’s Man” and listen to his own words. They were recorded in the final months of his life. They’re not long – only 8 minutes and 24 seconds. After you watch and listen you may wish to consider the following:

1. What is the nature of the scene in Micah 6?
2. What is God’s problem with His people Israel?
3. What does the Hebrew translation of verse 8 mean? “Humble yourselves and walk with your God?”
4. How are we to humble ourselves?
5. In what way does humbling yourself correspond to Jesus’ first “blessed” in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5)?
6. What does Paul mean in Romans 3:10-12? Who is he talking about?
7. What does the Lord mean in II Corinthians 12:9 when He answers Paul’s plea?
8. What does Paul mean in I Corinthians 8:2 when he speaks of our lack of understanding?
9. How well does what Jesus says to Peter in John 13:7 apply to what He says to you and me?
10. How is a humble walk an exciting walk?

See you Sunday around the table.