WAIT TILL YOUR FATHER GETS HOME (1 OF 6)
by Tim Badal
Scripture: Amos 1:1-15
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Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1 of 6)
Series: Amos: Let Justice Roll
Tim Badal
Amos 1
Turn to the Old Testament book of Amos. For many here, the book of Amos is completely unknown to you. The only thing you can connect Amos to is he makes great cookies, right? But long before Amos the cookie maker came along, this Amos was a prophet whom God used in mighty ways to speak both to the people of God and to the unbelieving world of his day. In both cases, he warned them to turn from their sin, pursue God and follow His commands.
One thing I love about our church is that we have an appetite for all of God's Word. If you were to look up ''Amos sermon series'' through Google, you would find very few churches that have done a verse-by-verse study of this book. They're out there, but they are few and far between. We believe all of Scripture is God-breathed. The popular passages, the passages that get preached over and over again, are God-breathed and ''profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man and woman of God may be competent, equipped for every good work'' (2 Timothy 3:17).
But that is also true of all 66 books of the Bible, including the ones we may never have opened up or taken time to read. As a church, it's going to be good to remember this as we look at an obscure minor prophet. The reason he's called a minor prophet isn't because what he has to say is small, but because the length of his writings is smaller than that of prophets like Isaiah and Jeremiah, whom we call ''major prophets.''
What Amos will tell us today, however, is critical and timely for us, even though he wrote eight centuries before the coming of Jesus Christ. Now, almost 30 centuries later, it's still very relevant for us in America today. This morning I'm going to give you an introduction, then we'll get into the first prophetic words Amos gave to the unbelieving people around him. Then next week, we'll see Amos turni ...
Series: Amos: Let Justice Roll
Tim Badal
Amos 1
Turn to the Old Testament book of Amos. For many here, the book of Amos is completely unknown to you. The only thing you can connect Amos to is he makes great cookies, right? But long before Amos the cookie maker came along, this Amos was a prophet whom God used in mighty ways to speak both to the people of God and to the unbelieving world of his day. In both cases, he warned them to turn from their sin, pursue God and follow His commands.
One thing I love about our church is that we have an appetite for all of God's Word. If you were to look up ''Amos sermon series'' through Google, you would find very few churches that have done a verse-by-verse study of this book. They're out there, but they are few and far between. We believe all of Scripture is God-breathed. The popular passages, the passages that get preached over and over again, are God-breathed and ''profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man and woman of God may be competent, equipped for every good work'' (2 Timothy 3:17).
But that is also true of all 66 books of the Bible, including the ones we may never have opened up or taken time to read. As a church, it's going to be good to remember this as we look at an obscure minor prophet. The reason he's called a minor prophet isn't because what he has to say is small, but because the length of his writings is smaller than that of prophets like Isaiah and Jeremiah, whom we call ''major prophets.''
What Amos will tell us today, however, is critical and timely for us, even though he wrote eight centuries before the coming of Jesus Christ. Now, almost 30 centuries later, it's still very relevant for us in America today. This morning I'm going to give you an introduction, then we'll get into the first prophetic words Amos gave to the unbelieving people around him. Then next week, we'll see Amos turni ...
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