Amos D

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/amosdmp3/" target="_blank"><strong>website.</strong></a></p><p><i>This lesson explores Amos 3:1-15.</i></p><p><br /><strong>Introduction (vv.1-2)</strong></p><ul><li>Redemption, then mission.</li><li>With privilege comes responsibility!</li></ul><p><strong>Hearing the roar and responding accordingly (vv.3-8)</strong></p><ul><li>Stimulus and response<ul><li>Action and reaction</li><li>Cause and effect</li></ul></li><li>The lion has roared; we must respond!<ul><li>The true prophet cannot ignore the voice of Yahweh any more than a sensible person can ignore the roar of a lion.</li><li>Do I feel that I must speak, that I cannot keep quiet?<ul><li>“If I say, ‘I will not mention him or speak any more in his name, there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones; and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot” (Jeremiah 20:9).</li><li>“Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel” (1 Corinthians 9:16b).</li></ul></li><li>How about us?<ul><li>How's my evangelism?</li><li>Am I willing to engage in earnest discussion with Christians who have drifted from the Lord and need a word from him?</li><li>Am I having conversations at work? with family members? with neighbors?</li></ul></li><li>"To a person endowed with prophetic sight, everyone else appears blind; to a person whose ear perceives God's voice, everyone else appears deaf. No one is just; no knowing is strong enough, no trust complete enough. The prophet hates the approximate, he shuns the middle of the road. Man must live on the summit to avoid the abyss. There is nothing to hold to except God. Carried away by the challenge, the demand to straighten out man's ways, the prophet is strange, one-sided, an unbearable extremist." – Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, <i>The Prophets</i></li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>The boom will fall (vv.9-15)</strong></p><ul><li>The announcement is to be made in the hearing of Ashdod and Egypt, peoples south of Samaria, who could serve