Man Talk

Welcome to The Daily, where we study the Bible verse by verse, chapter by chapter, every day. Read more about Project23 and partner with us as we teach every verse of the Bible on video. Our text today is Judges 17:12. "And Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah." — Judges 17:12 Micah finally finishes building his fake religion. He's got a shrine, a priest, and now an "ordination." It sounds holy—but it's hollow. Micah "ordains" a Levite, believing that if he calls it spiritual, it becomes spiritual. He convinces himself it's from God simply because he said so. But that's not faith—that's fabrication. This is what happens when people stop grounding their beliefs in Scripture. They start declaring things "from God" that God never said. They replace divine revelation with human imagination—and then call it holy. It's the birth of self-made religion. Micah didn't reject God outright; he simply replaced God's authority with his own. And that's what makes fals