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July 11, 2024 - Amos 1-5
11th July 2024 • Daily Bible Podcast • Compass Bible Church North Texas
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00:00 Welcome and Introduction

00:27 Technical Difficulties and Humor

01:11 Economic Discussion and Predictions

01:59 Cybertruck and Church Marketing

03:28 Gateway Church Controversy

05:11 Biblical Accountability and Leadership

07:24 Introduction to the Book of Amos

08:28 Judgment on Surrounding Nations

10:32 Judgment on Judah and Israel

16:26 Call for Repentance and True Worship

20:00 Conclusion and Encouragement

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Hey there, welcome to Thursday.

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And we're glad that you're

back for another episode

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of the daily Bible podcast.

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We are thrilled, thrilled

to have you back ecstatic.

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That's too far.

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No, I keep going sending names.

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I don't want to do it over the moon.

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I know.

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Jumping with joy.

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That excited.

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We're we're we're normal,

excited, euphoric.

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Okay.

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This is on you.

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I'm going to trembling with the lights.

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I'm gonna let you do it, bro.

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Anyways, we're back.

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Yeah.

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If you made it through

all 27 minutes yesterday.

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Sorry.

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Congrats.

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We got carried away.

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But pass rods, right?

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Mike was working.

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I think.

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It sounded like it was working there.

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Checked it here, we checked it.

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We're going to we'll let

you know if anything, so.

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If it wasn't working on your end, that's.

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That's your responsibility.

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A new car, new earphones.

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New phone.

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Can you imagine pulling

into the dealership?

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Why are you getting a new car?

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Because my radio doesn't work and

I don't think they would buck.

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Great.

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This is a good reason.

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Let's get you a new code.

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The best radio that we had.

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Here's a a hundred thousand

dollars vehicle, which is the

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price of most used cars these days.

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So it's crazy.

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It's an unreal, like this is the

one that's going to win, that

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this is going to win the election.

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Whoever could say, look,

I can fix the market.

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They're going to win.

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Yeah.

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I heard though from somebody that we

shouldn't brace for lower interest

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rates and inflation to go down with

Trump being elected for some time.

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Right.

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Because the.

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And this person who knows

what they're talking about.

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They're there in the financial world.

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They said, look, Trump's going

to get elected and raise.

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Taxes and tariffs on China on everything

that they're exporting and we're importing

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well, what's that going to cause that's

going to cause China to raise the prices.

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To overcome the increased tariffs,

which means that everybody that we buy

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from and buy Chinese goods from here is

going to raise the prices of everything

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that we're buying on a regular basis.

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Anyways.

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That's how he explained it to me.

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It made sense, I guess,

at least initially.

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Yeah.

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I mean, it seems pretty, pretty obvious

that if we raise prices on them,

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they're going to return the favor.

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That that makes sense.

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It seems like it's going to take

a couple of years to correct

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whatever we're experiencing.

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Yeah.

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Inflation.

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They never go back down

to what it used to be.

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That's what I keep hearing.

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Well, when the cyber truck is

$20,000 though, in the future,

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then I hope to purchase one.

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It's grown on me.

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I actually went to a.

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You mean?

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Yup.

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Yep.

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But I'm seeing more and more around there.

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In fact, I'm seeing ones with

custom paint jobs now or raps.

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I'm not sure if they're paint.

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I think that could be wrapped jobs.

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I've seen.

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Yeah.

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I've seen several of them.

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And.

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Yeah, I do.

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I still, I still slow

down and I look at a GOC.

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Oh yeah, for sure.

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Like a weirdo.

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And I'm sure they're used to that by now.

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You.

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You buy, you buy a cyber truck.

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That's what you're asking for.

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You want people to look at you and

we're doing we're obliging, right?

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To fulfill your, your favor.

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Well, mark has Brownlee had that review

of it when he said that exact same thing.

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He said, this is dangerous because you're

driving around and everybody's holding

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up their phones and slowing down traffic.

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Yeah.

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Picture of you in it.

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Yeah.

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That's okay.

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I did see one driving the other

day, though, with a barbecue,

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with a grill in its truck bed.

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I'm like.

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Oh, somebody is actually

using that as a truck.

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That's interesting.

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Well, hear me out.

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We get one for the church.

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Okay.

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Uh, that a pulls the trailer on Sunday.

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And B, we wrap it with our logo.

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Boom.

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So it's a tax write off.

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Hey, Ricky T if you're listening to this.

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Oh, you need is a fully

loaded cyber truck and let it.

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He said, let it be so all right.

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Yeah.

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It meant people would pay attention.

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They would, they would just because

it would be the cyber truck.

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And then they would see, oh,

Hey, that's a church too.

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Great marketing.

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If you ask me.

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Yeah.

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Why stewardships?

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I might say, yeah.

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Uh, maybe in light of, of

gateways downfall though, we

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should wait on a little bit on

the extravagant expenditures.

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Give it a month.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Hey.

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That's something.

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I'm sure people in our congregation

know neighbors or they've

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encountered people in our community.

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Because we've got a gateway location

location right down the street, by

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the way, gateway, if you're listening

from out of the year, gateways.

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Very large.

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Uh, very large institution under the

name of a church that preaches a false

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gospel health, wealth, and prosperity.

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And their senior pastor recently

resigned under charges of, of doing the

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various things they knew about that.

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That's national.

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Yeah, Robert Morris.

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Yeah.

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Robert Morris is the guy's name

and they've got multiple campuses

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around and we'll be transparent.

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We're praying for those campuses

to shut down because it's, it's

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not preaching of a biblical gospel.

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It's it's not doing good things.

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How might you suggest we engage

our neighbors though in our

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neighborhood who maybe would say,

yeah, I've been going to the gateway.

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Campus down the street.

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In fact, I think we

talked about this briefly.

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You did a Memorial for somebody who.

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Attends gateway.

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Yeah.

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How do we help them work through this?

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What should we do?

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How do we comfort them?

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And if that's the right even terminology

to use here, what should our response be?

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I can't help, but feel a certain

sense of apology and apologizing

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in the sense of saying I'm sorry,

but offering an apologetic.

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That's the one I'm looking for.

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For the church at large and saying, yeah,

there's, there's parts of the church.

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Uh, whether you can even call it

the church to say, yes, this is bad.

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It's bad fruit that

needs to be dealt with.

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And we want justice as

much as you want justice.

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The unspeakable things that he did

with this young, this young lady.

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Give strong evidence that he

wasn't a believer to begin with.

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No granted.

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He says he hasn't done anything

since he's kept his nose clean.

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We don't know.

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I'm sure things will come

out as, as time goes on.

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But what we should say to our neighbors

and people that know about church and say,

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Z, this is what's wrong with Christians.

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This is exactly.

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They get to a certain level and

things just start breaking down.

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Well, I think every Christian

Church ought to expect from

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their pastors accountability.

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It's beyond it's beyond the scope.

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Uh, we as a church, we don't

function like a business.

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We're not a for-profit organization

where the guy at the top.

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You know, calling all the shots

and even then for companies.

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A board of directors, a

board of executives that

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help with those situations.

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The church is not that way.

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Churches led by pastors and those

pastors are qualified men, according

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to Titus chapter one first Timothy

chapter three, if they're not,

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they shouldn't be pastoring period.

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And there is such a sin as disqualifying

yourself that I don't know, I would say.

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It could be a lifetime disqualification.

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I don't know where you stand on that

pastor PG, but I think there are

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some sins that are so egregious.

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That.

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It pastor would effectively say

I'm never going to pass your again.

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Probably that said, I would say

the men that we want in the pulpit

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are qualified and if they're not

qualified, they shouldn't be there.

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We want justice to, we

want accountability.

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Um, and humility, humility and

accountability are going to be two

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big criteria when you're saying who.

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Uh, who can you trust in the pulpit?

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Right?

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We'll find men that are accountable.

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Find men that are humble.

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Find men that are godly.

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Those are the kinds of people that

you should, you should seek after.

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So we're not going to

apologize for the church.

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We're not going to say that,

you know, Hey, gateway is

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actually a really great church.

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We're going to say bad

fruit produces bad things.

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And this is to be expected when

you're following someone that

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teaches the things that he does.

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Right.

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Right.

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And honestly, it was a failure, not only

on his part, but also in the elders part.

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Because the elders knew that he had

been on faithful to his wife and

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that's, that's how they termed it.

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We knew that he had been

unfaithful to his wife.

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They didn't know.

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How old she was and things like that.

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And as soon as he had said, Hey, I've

been on faithful to my wife to your point.

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Th this is a sin that

removes him from office.

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And they restored him.

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They did, they did remove for

office for a few years, at least.

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And they restored him, I think

within two or three years,

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at least that's what I read.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So it's a mess.

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It's one that should break our hearts

as any, any time, uh, a leader.

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Uh, a well-known leader in the church

at large goes down in this way.

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It's, it's a black eye.

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Uh, that is, is not, is not

helpful, but it's, it's helpful

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for us to be able to clarify, Hey,

look, there's a difference here.

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This is not don't paint with a

broad brush and say, see, this

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is what churches are all like.

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Um, there's a difference here.

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And, and you should be in a church

that has qualified leaders that,

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uh, Is don't isolate themselves.

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Yeah.

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Th that have that transparency and that

accountability with, uh, with one another.

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So right.

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Let's turn to our DVR for today.

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Amos Amos one through five.

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Which is.

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Famous Amos.

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Yeah, this one's more

famous than the cookie guy.

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More famous than the cookie.

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The cookies are good.

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We talked about that, but yeah.

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He's good too.

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Amos is the shepherd prophet.

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And so he was not a, uh, Uh, a man who

was a prophet from the, from the time he

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was a weed lab, but he grew up tending

sheep and he's called out of that.

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And he was also a fig farmer.

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So shepherd and a pig farmer, and God's

going to say, Hey, come be a prophet.

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He's a contemporary of

Jonah Hosea and Isaiah.

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And so we've got those three guys

going on around at the same time.

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So hopefully you've seen why with the

chronological reading, we're jumping

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from Isaiah now over to Amos because

these guys were going at the same.

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Timeframe.

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He prophesied during the

reigns of down in Judah.

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And Jeroboam the second up in Israel.

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Uh, he's from Judah in another

thing that makes him unique.

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He's from Judah, but he's going to promise

I'm mainly to the Northern kingdom.

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Uh, which under Jeroboam the second was

experiencing just a rapid moral decay

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peace, but just rapid moral decay.

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And so Amos is really focused up

there on the Northern kingdom.

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Um, with, uh, with his prophecy here.

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Amos shepherd one as he, uh,

Opens up here before he gets

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to Judah and Israel at large.

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Uh, the Lord is going to

through Amos pronounced judgment

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on the surrounding nations.

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And so the Assyrians are going to be

the instrument for the majority of this

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judgment that he's going to list off here.

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Uh, and so verses three through five.

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Uh, you've got judgment on Syria.

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Syria has been a thorn in the

side of many nations at this time.

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Will the Assyrians are gonna

come and deal with them.

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Amos one five.

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Uh, the Assyrians are going

to exile the Syrians to cure.

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K I R that shows up in

second Kings 16, nine.

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So we see the historical account.

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Second Kings 16, nine of what

Amos is prophesying about

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here in Amos chapter one.

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So the series they're going to go down.

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Uh, verses six through eight,

the Philistines, guess what?

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Philistines, they're going

to go down as well versus.

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Amos chapter one, verse eight, the

remnant of the Philistines shell.

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Perish.

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So they're going to be wiped out.

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They miss one nine through 10, uh,

tire, uh, Amos, one 11 through 12 Edam.

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The Edomites remember the Edomites

being descendants of Esau.

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So they were brothers.

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So to speak of Israel, they're

going to go down verse 11 because

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he pursued his brother with the

sword and cast off all pity.

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So was the Edomites have not supported

Israel, but even cast off Israel's.

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Uh, governance of them and,

and, and turned against them.

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Militaristically Hey, God's

going to come against them.

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Verse 11.

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He's going to bring judgment

upon that nation as well.

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Uh, verses 13 through 15, the

Ammonites are going to be judged.

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And then finally in chapter two,

verses one through three, the Moabites

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are going to be judged as well.

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We read about the Edomites

turning against Israel, right?

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Uh, first, uh, Amos chapter one

verses 11, speaks to what we read.

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Read about an Obadiah, or is

that a different situation?

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I think it's, it's

probably the same one here.

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There's a debate there.

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There's a toss up on whether or not that's

the same, but I think it is, seems to be

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the magically connected at the very least.

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So we'd say the probably connected.

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And it's chronologically.

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Into the point there that even

the fact that there are multiple

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instances, we could choose.

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Choose from.

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Eat them had a long history of, of not.

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Uh, not treating Israel.

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Well, yeah.

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Probably well denying access to you.

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Can't walk through here.

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I.

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The Edomites were not

good with their brothers.

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There.

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It's a bummer.

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Alright, Amos chapter two.

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Then once we jump in, in starting in

verse four, the Lord turns to Judah.

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So again, the main thrust of the

book has to do with Israel, but he

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is going to talk to Judah as well.

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And so verses four through five, he is

going to indict Judah for in verse four.

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They have rejected the law of the Lord and

have not kept his statutes and verse five.

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Listen, it's not going to be this serious,

but Babylon who's ultimately going to

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carry out this judgment for the Lord.

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So the Lord is going to come

against Judah, even his own people.

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And yes, he's not going to wipe them

out completely, but Hey, you know what?

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The, the, the, the people are going

to be taken to exile themselves.

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And that's going to be the

Babylon, the Babylonians that are

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going to come and carry that out.

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Uh, verses six through 16,

then now we're focused on, on

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Israel, on the Northern kingdom.

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And in this section, sexual sin and

idolatry was just running rampant

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in Israel who had forgotten that it

was the Lord's kindness to deliver

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them from Egypt and to protect them

to this point and to provide profits

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and spiritual guidance to them.

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So in this section, he's really

indicting Israel for saying, Hey, you

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guys have forgotten why you are, where

you are and all that the Lord had done

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to provide for them to this point.

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Yeah, it seems like they not

only took for granted the gifts

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that he gave them, but also in.

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Encourage people to violate the

holiness that they desired verse

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12, but you made the Nazarite to

drink wine and commanded the prophet

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saying you shall not prophesize.

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So God's sending them people

that are zealous for his

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name that want to do right.

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And to do good.

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And they're, they're not only disregarding

them, but they're actively opposing them.

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So God is saying, look, you, you,

you had this great privilege of

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having these people that I gave you.

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And you're, you're not only not

listening, but you're opposing them.

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So the, the great privileges that you

have come with a great responsibility

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and consequently, you're going to

greatly suffer because you did this.

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Yup.

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Well, chapter three, then verses one

through 10, we get the sovereignty of God.

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As, as a reminder to the people of Israel

here, he says in verse two, you only have

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I known of all the families of the earth.

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In other words, that special relationship

that God had with his people.

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Therefore, I will punish

you for all your iniquities.

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In other words, you had a privileged

position and you've done all of this.

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You rebelled against me

in all of these ways.

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Therefore.

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I'm punishing you, I'm

going to come against you.

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And then he goes on and he says in

verse six, does disaster come to a city?

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Unless the Lord has done it for the Lord.

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God does nothing without revealing his

secrets to his servants, the prophets.

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And so there, the indictment is,

Hey, you were warned about this.

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You had time.

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To repent.

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You had time to turn back.

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This is from the Lord.

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This is from me.

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And this is coming upon you for

your wickedness and your evil.

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And so he's, uh, pronouncing this

judgment to, to the nation of Israel

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here, at least in these first 10 verses.

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You'll notice that God is

the one who sends calamity.

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He's also the one who sends good.

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God is responsible for, but he takes it.

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He takes ownership of it in verse six.

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Does disaster not come?

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You quoted this does disaster not come

to a city unless the Lord has done it.

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There's nothing that can happen that the

Lord is not saying I'm responsible for it.

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Ultimately you might be the

center who's committing it.

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You might be the one, but through

whom the sin is coming through.

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But ultimately it's all from his hand,

I would recognize that as Christians, we

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can so easily disregard God's severity.

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Uh, we, we, we often remember the

kinds of God, which we should.

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So scripture calls us to do, but we

forget about the severity of God.

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God hates sin.

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He is passionately opposed to sin.

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And so many times we can, I don't

know, we just make it small in our

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lives, make it small in our minds and

say, well, God's going to overlook it.

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I'm a Christian, you know, I'm under

grace, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

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We need to realize God

is a consuming fire.

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He hates sin.

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He will judge his

people, especially those.

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He loves there's going to be not

going to be a condemned atory

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judgment that lasts for eternity.

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There is a disciplinary judgment though.

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And I would be afraid of that and

I would be concerned not to get

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on God's bad side for that reason.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, verses 11 through chapter four,

verse five, then the Lord is going to put

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an end to the idolatry and judge Bethel.

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And why Bethel Bethel is the heart of.

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Uh, dollar tree there in the Northern

kingdom, which is apropos given Bethel

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church and everything that's going

on up there in Northern California.

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Uh, yeah.

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Yeah.

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That was an unfortunate name.

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Uh, anyways, in this section that

the idolatrous people are going to

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be carried away through their broken

walls by the Assyrians this year,

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it's going to break down the walls.

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They're going to carry people out.

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And in the meantime, the Lord is going

to invite them though, to continue to

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multiply their sins, which is interesting.

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He's going to say, Hey, keep playing

your game, keep playing your game

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for that's what you love to do.

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Oh.

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People of Israel.

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And so it's, it's that Romans one

he's turned them over, but Romans two,

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five, they're storing up wrath for

themselves on the day of judgment.

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Well, their day of judgment is going

to come when the Assyrians come

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against the city, break down the walls

and go in and take the people into

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exile and kill so many of the others.

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I really, I was touched by

moved by what he says here.

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You go to gilgel to multiply

your transgressions.

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You tied every three days.

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You bring your sacrifices every morning

you offer a sacrifice of Thanksgiving.

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Uh, of that, which is 11.

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Do you proclaim free will offerings.

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You publish them for, so you love to do

all people of Israel declares the Lord.

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And remind you that the frequency

of our worship does not guarantee

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the quality of our worship.

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God doesn't want us just to be

frequent to or fateful to do ABC or D.

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He wants us to have the quality

of worship that is genuine, real.

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Because ultimately what God

wants is not our sacrifices.

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He wants our heart, which you can

see in the next several verses.

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Right, right.

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Even.

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David in the Psalms, when he says

a broken spirit and a contract

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heart Lord, you will not despise.

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Those are the two sacrifices

that he desires out of that.

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Yeah.

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Amos for then the rest of this chapter.

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Uh, verse six and on the, the Lord

details, the judgments that he had

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brought against Israel and how Israel had

not returned to him after any of them.

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And so that's the repeated refrain.

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You'll see there yet.

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You did not return to me

for six verse eight yet.

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You did not return to me verse

nine yet you did not return to me.

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10, same thing, 11, same thing.

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And so the Lord again is

saying you can't plead, Hey,

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we didn't know you can't plead.

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Why, why didn't you warn us?

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Because I did.

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And you ignored me.

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And again, he's not saying

you didn't do the offerings.

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He's not saying you didn't

bring the sacrifices.

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They did that.

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What he's saying is you

didn't give me your heart.

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You didn't give me your whole self.

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You get me.

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Things you gave me stuff.

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I don't want your stuff.

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I want you God.

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Doesn't want our stuff.

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He wants you.

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Yup.

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Yup.

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Well in chapter five, we get some

encouragement from the prophet that

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it's, it's not so late as to remove

the possibility that some could

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still repent and seek the Lord.

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And that's why the invitation is there.

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Here are the word that I take up over you.

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Uh, verse four, seek me and live

verse six, seek the Lord and live.

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So in this section, the prophets

calling for Israel to repent, if they

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wish to avoid the impending judgment,

there's still time there for them.

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Uh, which is amazing.

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It's it's not that the Assyrians

are gonna be turned away for the

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Lord is bringing them, but there

are some that, that he is going to

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spare because they will truly repent.

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And the prophet is holding that

out to the people to say, Hey,

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do this, and you will live.

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Um, but the, the, the wicked won't,

the wicked are going to be judged.

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Those that have verse 11, you've

built houses of human stone, but

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you're not going to dwell on them.

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You've planted pleasant vineyards, but

you're not going to drink their wine for,

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I know how many of your transgressions

and how great are your sins.

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And so it's again, that the balance

of the call for repentance and also

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the warning of the impending judgment.

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Yeah.

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Oh, I, I, you know, I think,

uh, the second half of chapter

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five, or at least as we get into

the end of it is, is powerful.

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Because he says woe to you who

desire the day of the Lord?

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We've talked about this before.

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Let's remind ourselves again, what

the day of the Lord refers to.

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There is a near and a far fulfillment

of the day, the Lord near fulfillment,

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where God deals with his enemies.

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Judges them typically death is

involved the far day of the Lord.

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The ultimate fulfillment of the day.

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The Lord is the day of Jesus Christ

when he will establish his kingdom once.

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And for all destroying his

enemies, vanquishing the foe and

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establishing righteousness and

justice forever, which is the call of.

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Amos here in this particular chapter, he

says, let justice roll down like waters.

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And righteousness like

an ever flowing stream.

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What God wants from his people

is justice and righteousness.

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That is evident in their

lives and in their actions.

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Yeah, because just like you

mentioned earlier, Verse 21.

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I hate, I despise your feasts.

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I take no delight in

your solemn assemblies.

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Your worship is not.

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You're going through the motions.

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That's not what I want.

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That's not doing it.

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That's not fooling anybody.

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You're trusting in a facade

that you're putting out there.

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Uh, to use our vernacular of the day

on Sunday mornings, thinking that if I

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go to church, if I appease my wife and

I just show up at church on Sundays,

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or if I, you know, just show up.

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To get this person off my back.

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Right.

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If you're a student, if you're going

well, I go to, I go to student ministry

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on Wednesday nights and so I'm good.

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That's not it.

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I mean, that's, that's

going through the motions.

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God's not impressed by you showing up.

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He wants more, he wants that relationship.

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And even he says in verse 25, did

you bring me sacrifices and offerings

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during the 40 years in the wilderness?

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So house of Israel and the answer's.

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No.

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They didn't have a sacrificial system

set up during that, that period of time.

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Um, and so there's.

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There's an indictment there

on the people garnets.

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It's not about the system.

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It's about the relationship that

they were to have with the Lord.

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And that is powerful because I

sense that a lot of Christians.

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And I can even send it to my own soul.

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There are times that I'm just, I'm

just going through the motions.

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I need to get the thing done

because I need to do the thing.

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But it's a good reminder that God

doesn't want me to do the thing.

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The thing is the medium.

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That draws me to himself.

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It's not the importance is not in

the thing, although it's important

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to read your Bible and important

to pray important, go to church.

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It's because of what it does to

us and how it draws us to him.

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And that's ultimately the goal of

all the practices of our disciplines.

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That we encounter.

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We want to be close to God.

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And that's the goal.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, by the way, just real

quick, verse 26, you may have

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a wonder who is sick of in Q1?

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Oh, they don't know.

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You don't think, I mean, I mean,

it's pretty basic, but in case.

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For some people who don't know, go ahead.

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Uh, they are, uh, they were, we

believe Mesopotamian deities, um,

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DDS having to do with, uh, the

stars, astrology, things like that.

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And so he's calling them out on

some of their false gods that

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they were worshiping there.

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Saying, Hey, okay.

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Have them take them up.

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See, what's going to happen to you.

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Uh, if you turn to them,

Well, there you go.

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Thanks for joining us for another

episode of the daily Bible podcast

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and keep reading your Bibles

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