Micah 1:5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?

From this passage we can glean that if we commit any sin, we ought to correct it immediately. Otherwise, it lingers before God, requiring his ultimate vengeance. In truth, we rarely give it much thought. For whoever commits a scandalous sin, so grave as to lead people astray, thinks himself acquitted before God the moment he wiped his mouth, having confessed his sin with a single word, while countless souls tumble into perdition because of the evil that we have committed. Do you think that God forgets this?

Consequently, we stand admonished by the prophet’s words here. For whenever we cause our neighbours to go astray, we ought to strive to redirect them to God, in order that our sins might be forgiven, and thereby they might be won over to the knowledge of the truth. That is the least we can do, seeing that we are the cause of their trouble. That, briefly, is what we ought to glean from this passage.

Sermon 3 on the book of Micah Preached Friday, November 14, 1550