Amos – Upholding God’s Justice
Amos 1-9
Doctrine: Judgment of Believers and Unbelievers
Attribute: Righteous Judge
Big Idea: God is a just judge who offers life to those who repent.
We will use our Bibles today, make sure to have one handy, and go ahead and find Amos while the opening music plays.
Opening Music
“I Surrender All” stop at 1.00 (end of 1st verse)
Assurance of Pardon
Psalm 103:8-12 b
*”The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.
He will not always accuse us, nor will he harbor his anger forever;
he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.
*For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.”
Prayer
Gathering Time
Breakout Groups of 3 for 5 minutes
- Choose 1 word which describes something which brings you happiness, joy, peace in 2023 (family);
- Choose 1 word which describes something difficult for in in 2023 (family)
Lesson Questions
Second Day
Amos 1:1 “The words of Amos, one of the shepherds of Tekoa—the vision he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.”
Questions 3a, b, c
Questions 4 a, b
Third Day
Amos 3-6
Amos leveled charges against Israel.
Amos 3:1,2,7,10
*3:1 Hear this word, people of Israel, the word the Lord has spoken against you—against the whole family I brought up out of Egypt: “You only, have I chosen of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your sins.”
*7 Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets. They (the people) do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord…
Questions 5a, b, 6
Questions 7a, b, 8, 9
Amos 5 :21-24
*”I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me. Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them. Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!”
The Prophecy Amos 6;14
* For the Lord God Almighty declares, “I will stir up a nation against you, Israel, that will oppress you all the way from Lebo Hamath to the valley of the Arabah.” (From north to south)
Fourth Day
3 Breakout Groups
Questions10, 11 (interlude with priest), 12a, b
Fifth Day
Questions 13a, b
Questions 14a, b
*John 10:14-16 Jesus speaking to the Pharisees “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.”
Whiteboard: 1 Sentence to summarize Amos