Gods Concern for Justice
Amos 5:10-15 8:4-6 1. The close of Solomans reign of 160 years. The nation divided at the death of Soloman. (What caused it’s division?) 2. 922 BC Jeroboam introduced a new Priesthood – Two Golden Calves. Two Places of worship Dan and Bethel. 3. 786-746 BC. Jeroboam II and Uzziah 40 years of peace and prosperity. 4. The Nation’s became indifferent to spiritual and social obligations. 5. The Man Amos: Amos 1:1 “Herdsman from T-koa’ cultivated sycamores not the Son of a Prophet. A hayman with a special job to do.” 6. Preaching: 1:3-2:5 Condemned the neighboring nations. He finally came to their sins! (Now he is meddling)! 7. What were the sins of the Nation? a. They hated the Preacher’s rebuke. b. Oppressed the poor. c....
The Man That Wouldn’t Compromise
Exodus 8:25-27, Hebrews 11:24-26 The Christian life can not start with compromises, and can’t be sustained with compromise. “Be sure you are right then go ahead.” Moses was raised to be a leader of God’s people. His life was not a life of compromise. Exodus 8:25-27 – A man without a conviction is like a door swinging on its bottom hinge, (Napoleon’s Drummer Boys). I: Sacrifice To Your God in the Land 8:25. 1. Bloodless worship of Egypt: It’s alright to believe in God but don’t leave the world. 2. You can even join the church but don’t leave the world. 3. The Devil wants you to stay in the land. II: Exodus 8:28 – Don’t Go Too Far Away. 1. Don’t leave the things of the world too far behind....
Tithing
Stewardship occurs 39 times in the bible, 7 of these are in the New Testament. Tithing has an ancient origin: Persia, Egypt, Babylonia, Greece, Rome. and China. Wherever we find a trace of man worshipping a supreme being we find a tithe or more given to the gods. Both a religious practice and a political taxation. Abraham and Melchizedek. Jacob pledge the tithe to God and 20 yrs. later remembered. Old Testament tithe is hard to define! I: Deuteronomy lists 3 different tithe. 1. The annual tithe on the increase of crops. A feast at Jerusalem. This tithe wasn’t given, but eaten and shared with the Levites. 2. The 3rd yr. tithe, which was in the towns and used the Levites, the so journer, the fatherless, and the widow. 3. The tithe of the 1st fruits taken to...
You are not Your Own
Corinthians 1 6:15-20, John 12:25, and Luke 12:20 No man can truthfully say that his life is his own and he can do with it what he pleases. I: No man is self-made or self-created. 1. God formed man of the dust of the ground. 2. He took a rib from Adam and made woman. 3. When man fell in sin God made a way back to the throne.4. Every breath we breathe, comes from the hand of God. 5. We belong to something and can’t long kick it. When a man gives up thinking of himself as a child of Eternity, and begins thinking of himself as a creature of time, he has lost the highest motive for living. II: We are not free to do as we please. 1. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. 2. We are renters in God’s house. 3. The man that planned for bigger barns...