Beyond The Invisible - Enigma

The God Beyond Compare (Micah 7:18–20)

I suggest three things that Micah points out to us in these last three verses of the book:

God is Incomparable because of His Unfailing Love,

In verse eighteen, Micah extols the greatness and uniqueness of God for His unfailing love for His people.

Micah 7:18 Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.

This may be a little hard to understand in light of what we have read in this book. God’s people left Him, they rebelled against Him, they broke His law and sinned. Therefore, God was angry with them and punished them by exiling them from the land He had promised them. Where’s the love in that? When parents punish a child for some wrongdoing, the child may think that they do not love him. Mom and dad may seem like the worst people in the world, but the child forgets what brought on the punishment. Mom and dad only want to cause pain and suffering. I remember my parents told me that the punishment I was going to receive was going to hurt them more than me. I thought to myself, “Yeah, right!” I bet you are going to be hurt while my rear end is on fire. But, true parental punishment is not done out of anger. It is done out of love.

We can tolerate many things, some things more than others – traffic, a dirty house, crooked pictures on the wall, even certain mistreatment from others. There are things we will not tolerate, though – not being paid for our work, speaking harshly about our spouse, mistreating our children. Well, God cannot tolerate sin.

Romans 5:8 God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

God is Incomparable because of His Redeeming,

Micah 7:19 He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Psalm 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

Jeremiah 31:34 …For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

God casts all our sin away, not just some of it, but all of it. God’s pardon to His people is complete and it is accomplished in Jesus Christ. Our redemption is beyond compare.


God is Incomparable because of His Never-ending Faithfulness.

Micah 7:20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

God’s character (His steadfast love and mercy) moves him to keep His word thus demonstrating His faithfulness. What God promised to our fathers of the faith, Abraham and Jacob, still stand. When God says He will do something, you can take that to the bank – He will! Is that true for us? Do we sometimes break promises? I know I have. The incredible thing is that the Israelite's were not faithful to God. They broke faith with their God and committed adultery by whoring after other gods. But that is not just the Israelite's. Lest you believe that this was something unique to the Israelite's, we each have left God. We each have been unfaithful to Him. But not so with God. He is always faithful to a people. He will never leave His people or forsake His people. Even when His people left Him, God pursued them. He still pursues us in never-ending faithfulness.

Justice and Mercy Come Together in Christ --Michael Macray

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Enigma - Beyond The Invisible

Uploaded on Mar 10, 2009

Music video by Enigma performing Beyond The Invisible.






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