Pastor David Balla

What does the Lord really require of you?In this sermon on Micah 6:1–8, preached for the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, we are drawn into God’s courtroom where the Lord brings His charge against His redeemed people. This is not moral self-improvement or religious bargaining. This is Law and Gospel.The Law exposes our attempts to justify ourselves before God—through works, sacrifice, or outward religion—while the Gospel proclaims what God Himself has given: His Firstborn Son for the sin of the world. What Micah’s people could never offer, God freely provides in Jesus Christ, who fulfills the Law perfectly and bears its curse for us.This sermon proclaims Christ crucified and risen as the fulfillment of Micah 6:8, showing that doing justice, loving kindness, and walking humbly with God flow only from forgiveness, not toward it. From Baptism to the Lord’s Supper, Christ continues to deliver His saving verdict: forgiven, redeemed, justified.This sermon is preached from a confessional Lutheran (LCMS) perspective