Amos - Week 3
Part 3: What God Wants
Israel was still devoutly religious, but God wasn’t impressed. Here’s why: He demands both justice and righteousness from His people. This means He wants both outward religious loyalty and morality and love for those on the bottom of society’s totem pole. All of us have a tendency to lean toward one or the other: Straight-laced, doctrinally correct moral living or self-sacrificial compassion toward the least of these. But God wants both.
Amos is a hard book to read (and preach), but there is also grace in this message. In chapter 9, God promised to…
The visions God gives to Amos help us better understand how God’s judgment works. It’s not the result of God “losing His temper” or us getting on His last nerve. He gives us…
Israel was still devoutly religious, but God wasn’t impressed. Here’s why: He demands both justice and righteousness…
Amos preached against the “cows of Bashan,” wealthy women who perpetuated injustice in that society. What are the…
We rarely read the prophetic books of the Old Testament, or if we do read them, we read only the “hopeful” portions. The majority of them just seem irrelevant…