week 48 - Amos 4 and Joel Review
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GENEROSITY
THANK YOU…for your generosity!
SCRIPTURE:
35 I’ve left you an example of how you should serve and take care of those who are weak. For we must always cherish the words of our Lord Jesus, who taught, ‘Giving brings a far greater blessing than receiving.’ ”
Bringing your tithes and offerings is more than a command it also brings a greater blessing than receiving— but a blessing in giving!!
UPDATE
Cafe Hope at 10am on Sundays, isn’t about unlocking the doors.
Free cup of coffee
Friendly people and
a place to find HOPE
Hispanic Church Today at 2pm and Prayer each Monday evening at 6:30pm
Finance Small Group WILL NOT MEET these next two Wednesday.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING.
We will reconvene in two weeks on Dec. 11th with a shared light meal, video, and discussion to find God’s passion and heartbeat for us.
Parade of Lights!
Do you want to have a float? Do you want to put the time in to build it?
Current Bible Series: Unqualified: Still Loved
This is the Finale of our series today as we are just around the corner from HOLIDAY: the Joys of Christmas.
JOKE
Who
LESSON: INTRO
What are our take aways from Amos?
Hopefully today we find reassurance that God is for us and not against us… He keeps providing even when we seem far from God.
#1: God hates sin.
Israel’s neglect of the poor and her alignment with false deities must end.
The wages of sin is Death
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
But God will also remain true to his promises and commitments.
God told Abraham and Jacob that Israel would bless the world.
3 I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you.”
14 Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will spread out in all directions—to the west and the east, to the north and the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.
God didn’t choose Israel because she was great— but because she was small.
7 “The Lord did not set his heart on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other nations, for you were the smallest of all nations!
He promised David
13 He is the one who will build a house—a temple—for my name. And I will secure his royal throne forever.
Terrifyingly, Amos warns us that God’s justice must be carried out. But mercifully, so will God’s promises.
Jesus, a descendent of Jacob and David, was to come and judge oppression.
But he will also fulfill God’s promises, he will bless and renew and restore all that Israel lost.
On the cross Jesus was measured against the crooked plumbline of Israel’s justice
19 “All right,” Jesus replied. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
Israel’s idolatry and injustice were ripe. Filled with pride and arrogance, but Jesus—as a representative for Israel—died for them.
Because of Jesus, God’s mercy can now flow from Israel and bless the whole world.
Just as God relented from disaster for Israel, God will relent for any repentant nation despite its injustice.
1 Peter 2:24 (NLT)
24 He personally carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. By his wounds you are healed.
I know we quote this for healing in our bodies, but it is also demonstrating what Jesus did for us to bring us to righteousness.
This leads us to point #2
PLUMB LINE!!!
#2: The Bible is our Guide
Psalm 119:105 (NLT)
105 Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.
John 1:1 (NLT)
1 In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
The Word became flesh and blood,
and moved into the neighborhood.
We saw the glory with our own eyes,
the one-of-a-kind glory,
like Father, like Son,
Generous inside and out,
true from start to finish.
JESUS IS OUR PLUMB LINE!!!
Amos saw God’s Plumb Line
Then he showed me another vision. I saw the Lord standing beside a wall that had been built using a plumb line. He was using a plumb line to see if it was still straight. And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”
I answered, “A plumb line.”
And the Lord replied, “I will test my people with this plumb line. I will no longer ignore all their sins.
When God said He was setting a plumb line among His people, He was declaring an end to their attempts to justify their crooked ways.
The Lord was setting the standard.
God does not negotiate His laws. He does not change with the whims of culture (Numbers 23:19).
Num. 23.19
God is not a man, so he does not lie.
He is not human, so he does not change his mind.
Has he ever spoken and failed to act?
Has he ever promised and not carried it through?
God’s moral law is the plumb line against which we determine right and wrong (John 17:17).
Make them holy by your truth; teach them your word, which is truth.
Just as a carpenter’s plumb line is not subject to the opinions or the frustration of the worker, so God’s moral standards are not subject to the opinions of man.
We in Proverbs that Wise people are those who line up their lives according to God’s plumb line rather than trying to move it to satisfy their own agendas.
We are saved by grace through faith!
11 We believe that we are all saved the same way, by the undeserved grace of the Lord Jesus.”
There has always been arguments over what results in salvation.
In Acts Peter and James clarify the way.
18 he who made these things known so long ago.’
19 “And so my judgment is that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God.
Take Away #3: God’s Promises
Jesus promises that he will make all things new.
Everything lost will be restored and renewed.
5 And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!” And then he said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.”
And one day, Because of Jesus, the faithful son of Jacob and David, God will be true to his promises, and we will live in a Kingdom of peace and prosperity forever.
So, I pray.....
that the Holy Spirit would open your eyes to see the God who hates injustice.
And that you may see Jesus who mercifully fulfills all of God’s promises.
