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
Hey there, welcome to Thursday.
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back for another episode
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to have you back ecstatic.
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excited, euphoric.
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all 27 minutes yesterday.
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you know if anything, so.
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into the dealership?
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I don't think they would buck.
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dollars vehicle, which is the
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one that's going to win, that
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I can fix the market.
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shouldn't brace for lower interest
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Trump being elected for some time.
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what they're talking about.
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to get elected and raise.
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that they're exporting and we're importing
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going to cause China to raise the prices.
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which means that everybody that we buy
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going to raise the prices of everything
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at least initially.
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that if we raise prices on them,
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a couple of years to correct
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to what it used to be.
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$20,000 though, in the future,
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custom paint jobs now or raps.
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down and I look at a GOC.
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we're doing we're obliging, right?
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of it when he said that exact same thing.
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driving around and everybody's holding
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day, though, with a barbecue,
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using that as a truck.
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loaded cyber truck and let it.
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it would be the cyber truck.
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Hey, that's a church too.
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gateways downfall though, we
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the extravagant expenditures.
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know neighbors or they've
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location right down the street, by
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from out of the year, gateways.
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name of a church that preaches a false
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resigned under charges of, of doing the
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and they've got multiple campuses
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to shut down because it's, it's
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our neighbors though in our
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yeah, I've been going to the gateway.
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talked about this briefly.
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to use here, what should our response be?
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sense of apology and apologizing
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but offering an apologetic.
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there's, there's parts of the church.
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the church to say, yes, this is bad.
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needs to be dealt with.
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much as you want justice.
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with this young, this young lady.
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wasn't a believer to begin with.
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since he's kept his nose clean.
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out as, as time goes on.
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and people that know about church and say,
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things just start breaking down.
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Church ought to expect from
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function like a business.
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where the guy at the top.
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and even then for companies.
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board of executives that
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pastors are qualified men, according
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chapter three, if they're not,
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yourself that I don't know, I would say.
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pastor PG, but I think there are
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I'm never going to pass your again.
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the men that we want in the pulpit
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qualified, they shouldn't be there.
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want accountability.
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accountability are going to be two
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you should, you should seek after.
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apologize for the church.
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you know, Hey, gateway is
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fruit produces bad things.
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you're following someone that
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on his part, but also in the elders part.
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been on faithful to his wife and
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unfaithful to his wife.
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been on faithful to my wife to your point.
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removes him from office.
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office for a few years, at least.
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within two or three years,
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as any, any time, uh, a leader.
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at large goes down in this way.
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helpful, but it's, it's helpful
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look, there's a difference here.
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broad brush and say, see, this
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that has qualified leaders that,
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accountability with, uh, with one another.
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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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was a prophet from the, from the time he
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sheep and he's called out of that.
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going to say, Hey, come be a prophet.
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Jonah Hosea and Isaiah.
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going on around at the same time.
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chronological reading, we're jumping
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these guys were going at the same.
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reigns of down in Judah.
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thing that makes him unique.
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I'm mainly to the Northern kingdom.
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experiencing just a rapid moral decay
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there on the Northern kingdom.
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Opens up here before he gets
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through Amos pronounced judgment
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the instrument for the majority of this
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side of many nations at this time.
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come and deal with them.
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to exile the Syrians to cure.
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second Kings 16, nine.
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Amos is prophesying about
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the Philistines, guess what?
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to go down as well versus.
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remnant of the Philistines shell.
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tire, uh, Amos, one 11 through 12 Edam.
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being descendants of Esau.
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going to go down verse 11 because
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sword and cast off all pity.
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Israel, but even cast off Israel's.
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and, and turned against them.
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going to come against them.
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upon that nation as well.
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Ammonites are going to be judged.
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verses one through three, the Moabites
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turning against Israel, right?
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verses 11, speaks to what we read.
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that a different situation?
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probably the same one here.
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the same, but I think it is, seems to be
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the fact that there are multiple
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good with their brothers.
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verse four, the Lord turns to Judah.
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book has to do with Israel, but he
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going to indict Judah for in verse four.
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have not kept his statutes and verse five.
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but Babylon who's ultimately going to
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against Judah, even his own people.
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out completely, but Hey, you know what?
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to be taken to exile themselves.
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Babylon, the Babylonians that are
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then now we're focused on, on
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idolatry was just running rampant
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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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indicting Israel for saying, Hey, you
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you are and all that the Lord had done
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only took for granted the gifts
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holiness that they desired verse
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drink wine and commanded the prophet
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that are zealous for his
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them, but they're actively opposing them.
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you had this great privilege of
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listening, but you're opposing them.
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have come with a great responsibility
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greatly suffer because you did this.
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through 10, we get the sovereignty of God.
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here, he says in verse two, you only have
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that God had with his people.
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you for all your iniquities.
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position and you've done all of this.
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in all of these ways.
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going to come against you.
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verse six, does disaster come to a city?
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secrets to his servants, the prophets.
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Hey, you were warned about this.
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your wickedness and your evil.
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judgment to, to the nation of Israel
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the one who sends calamity.
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to a city unless the Lord has done it.
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Lord is not saying I'm responsible for it.
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center who's committing it.
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whom the sin is coming through.
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I would recognize that as Christians, we
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kinds of God, which we should.
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forget about the severity of God.
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know, we just make it small in our
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say, well, God's going to overlook it.
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grace, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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is a consuming fire.
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people, especially those.
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going to be a condemned atory
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I would be concerned not to get
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verse five, then the Lord is going to put
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kingdom, which is apropos given Bethel
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on up there in Northern California.
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the idolatrous people are going to
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walls by the Assyrians this year,
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to invite them though, to continue to
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your game, keep playing your game
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he's turned them over, but Romans two,
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themselves on the day of judgment.
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to come when the Assyrians come
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and go in and take the people into
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moved by what he says here.
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your transgressions.
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you offer a sacrifice of Thanksgiving.
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:Do you proclaim free will offerings.
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all people of Israel declares the Lord.
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of our worship does not guarantee
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frequent to or fateful to do ABC or D.
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of worship that is genuine, real.
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wants is not our sacrifices.
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see in the next several verses.
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a broken spirit and a contract
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that he desires out of that.
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details, the judgments that he had
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not returned to him after any of them.
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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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saying you can't plead, Hey,
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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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:What he's saying is you
didn't give me your heart.
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:I don't want your stuff.
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:Doesn't want our stuff.
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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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: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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there's still time there for them.
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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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:And the prophet is holding that
out to the people to say, Hey,
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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'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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of the call for repentance and also
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:Oh, I, I, you know, I think,
uh, the second half of chapter
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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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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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: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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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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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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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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I just show up at church on Sundays,
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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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you bring me sacrifices and offerings
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:So house of Israel and the answer's.
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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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: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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: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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:Saying, Hey, okay.
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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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