“Assemble, Remember, Do: Mercy That Trains”

Episode Focus Before God sends a sword, He sends a sermon. Micah’s closing mercy and Moses’ seven-year assembly teach a discipline of prophetic memory: assemble → hear → learn → revere → do.

Scripture Set

• Psalm 103:8–13 — Compassion that outlasts anger.
• Micah 7:18–20 — God casts sins into the sea; truth to Jacob, ḥesed to Abraham.
• Deuteronomy 31:10–13 — The septennial public reading: gather everyone (men, women, children, converts) to hear and keep Torah.

Mercy isn’t leniency; it’s apprenticeship. Forgiveness clears the ledger so grace can train us (Titus 2): from assembled hearing to embodied doing.

Key Moves (160-IQ, but plain)

1. Prophetic Memory: In Jeremiah 26 the elders remember Micah and de-escalate death; in our house, elders’ memory guards the future.
2. Five Verbs of Covenant Practice (Deut 31): Assemble (qāhāl) → Hear (shema: listen to obey) → Learn (internalize pattern) → Revere (Godward posture) → Do (public fruit).
3. Mercy’s Architecture: Ḥesed (loyal love) + ’emet (reliable truth) = stable community. AME Zion application: men model loving-kindness; the body practices reliable truth.
4. Wrath Reframed: In Hebrew, wrath = hot breath that refines, not obliterates; God’s “heat” protects mercy and restores order.
5. Inclusion Is Commanded: Children and converts are not spectators; they are formed by the same hearing and doing. (BUDS and children’s church aren’t childcare; they’re covenant compliance.)

Practice This Week

• Write a 5-sentence “What I Must Remember” card (one Scripture, one testimony, one action). Read it daily.
• Invite one elder to tell a memory that protects our future.
• Replace a taped-over “check engine” light: name one avoided truth; act one small obedience.

Discussion Starters

1. Where do your “courtyard collisions” (worship vs. profit) occur, and what would not omitting a word look like there?
2. Which verb do you skip most—assemble, hear, learn, revere, or do—and why?
3. When have you felt God cast a chain into the sea—and how did you walk differently?