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Opening & Intro
Have you ever experienced a power trip?
Either someone going on one or having one yourself?
I have been in both shoes.
We all have to learn how to be leaders and one major part of that is also learning to be led.
Talk about power trip at Wildwood...
Talk about lack of power at Piankatank...
But it was through those failures in my life that I learned how to lead more effectivly.
That’s the key.
We can fail but it is what we do with those failure that matters.
Do we learn from it or keep doing the same thing until we burn out?
Do we know how to listen?
DO we know who is in Charge.
Last week we talked about turning to God for help and looking to Him for answers.
This week.
We need to ask ourselves
Main Point
Do we have a health understand of Who God is? IS God ours or are we His?
Why Does it Matter
It is a big difference.
Because if we think God belongs to us to do our bidding… we are in for a rude awakening.
This was a big probelm for the Israelites in this time period.
They forgot just whose they were and who God was.
They thought He existed for their pleasure and to make THEIR lives easier.
But sadly as we will see.
It is the other way around.
Scripture
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The Lord's lion like roar can call for return or threaten judgement.
This case is judgement.
He rebukes northern shrines of worship stating that God in the ordained temple in the Davidic capital.
2. This is the "messenger Formula" - 1) Thus says YHWH 2) General accusation 3) Specific accusation 4) Announcment of judgment 5) Eleboration of Judgement 6) CLosing "YHWH said" (AMEN)
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This is theologically important because:
1) It is evidence of Amos' authority
2) People outside of God's chosen people are also under His authority
Ignorance of the law is no excuse but what is more, there is law wirtten on our hearts that we know it is wrong.
Moral law.
Don’t kill, Don’t steal, don’t sell people, stuff like that.
All people are held to account especially when they are treating thse around them like they aren’t even people.
We are going to pick up in Chapter 2 verse 6.
3) The wrongs up to 2:4-5 are all acts of inhumanity then it switches to being judged by the standards of the day Cruelty of civilians, sellng people into slavery, treaty violations...
God cares about how we conduct ourselves.
We have no rights as visiters in this land but we also do not have the right to remove rights from anyone else.
4) Judgement: Their walls will no longer protect them.
What made you safe will soon become useless.
Application
5) We belong to God not the other way around.
We have a tendancy to treat God like a genie.
Then when he doesn’t give us what we want, we sulk or get mad.
We call him out and we act like he owes us something.
The truth is, He DOES owe us something, Death.
And look at this:
You see?
We forget ourselves and want more.
We forget we are here for God.
The fact that we are alive today and able to experience life with God is a blessing.
Then we get an afterlife.
This is MORE than we deserve.
THAT IS WHAT GRACE IS.
Let’s not tell God where he can and can be.
We need to be consistent.
We need to meet Him and give our live over to him.
Maybe we hid a little bit behind God…
“God wants me to do this… God told me to do this.”
God will never tell you to do something against his character and expect you to go through with it.
EVER!
He is not here to get us our own way.
Closing
We need to know our role.
which is:
That’s our role.
Teach people to hear God and respond.
How can we do that if we don’t do that ourselves.
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