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Series: Amos: Let Justice Roll
Tim Badal
Amos 2:4-16
Turn to the book of Amos. Last Sunday we started a series looking at this Bible book that's filled with doom and gloom. I hope you're having a great summer morning, because this is one of the saddest passages of Scripture in the entire Bible. Yet we here at Village Bible Church believe it is important that we hear from God in both the good passages and the difficult ones.
Chapter one through about half of chapter eight in Amos are filled with doom and gloom. The final verses of the book remind us that God is faithful and caring, that He is a God Who loves His people and has an awesome plan for their lives. We just have to go through the first eight chapters of doom and gloom to get to that wonderful picture. I want to remind you that in the middle of the storm clouds we'll be encountering over these next five weeks, we will get to a glorious ending where once again we'll see how great and awesome our God is in His love for us as His people.
If you weren't here last week as we opened the book, we learned that Amos was a man who seemed totally unqualified to serve as a prophet of God. He was an uneducated shepherd and caretaker of fig trees. There was nothing in his lineage that would suggest he would become a prophet who would proclaim the oracles of God. Yet God called him out of his work to go and preach to the two kingdoms of God's people, Judah and Israel, about their sin.
In chapter one, we see that Amos didn't first address either Judah or Israel, but rather he preached to the six people groups that surrounded Judah and Israel. In many ways, scholars believe God was creating target-like rings around His people until He got to the bull's eye of Israel and Judah regarding their sin and unwillingness to follow Him. Then Amos spoke to the enemies of God. We have to wonder if Judah and Israel heard these words and if they were cheering him on. ''Yeah, God, they're evil. ...
Series: Amos: Let Justice Roll
Tim Badal
Amos 2:4-16
Turn to the book of Amos. Last Sunday we started a series looking at this Bible book that's filled with doom and gloom. I hope you're having a great summer morning, because this is one of the saddest passages of Scripture in the entire Bible. Yet we here at Village Bible Church believe it is important that we hear from God in both the good passages and the difficult ones.
Chapter one through about half of chapter eight in Amos are filled with doom and gloom. The final verses of the book remind us that God is faithful and caring, that He is a God Who loves His people and has an awesome plan for their lives. We just have to go through the first eight chapters of doom and gloom to get to that wonderful picture. I want to remind you that in the middle of the storm clouds we'll be encountering over these next five weeks, we will get to a glorious ending where once again we'll see how great and awesome our God is in His love for us as His people.
If you weren't here last week as we opened the book, we learned that Amos was a man who seemed totally unqualified to serve as a prophet of God. He was an uneducated shepherd and caretaker of fig trees. There was nothing in his lineage that would suggest he would become a prophet who would proclaim the oracles of God. Yet God called him out of his work to go and preach to the two kingdoms of God's people, Judah and Israel, about their sin.
In chapter one, we see that Amos didn't first address either Judah or Israel, but rather he preached to the six people groups that surrounded Judah and Israel. In many ways, scholars believe God was creating target-like rings around His people until He got to the bull's eye of Israel and Judah regarding their sin and unwillingness to follow Him. Then Amos spoke to the enemies of God. We have to wonder if Judah and Israel heard these words and if they were cheering him on. ''Yeah, God, they're evil. ...
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