Compromise in America? Amos 5:18 - 6:14

If you watch the news even a little you can't help but see all the craziness going on here in America and around the world. Whenever I study the prophets and their prophesies it just amazes me at the similarities with our nation. God was warning Israel back then and of course we all know they didn't repent and so judgement was pronounced. Should we look at these prophesies of old and maybe take notice that God does not like it when a nation of people do wicked things and compromise our moral character. Pay close attention to the WOE warnings as you read today. Do any of them sound familiar to you? Do you see the same type of compromise happening here in our great nation? 

Come Back and Live - Amos 5:1-17

God is standing before you, "come back to me and live" He says.  Why is he asking you that?

As you read the passage today pause and answer that question. Search your heart and examine your lifestyle for anything that is impure. 

Pastor Patrick

Your Right to Choose - Amos 4:6-13

“The people of God had fallen asleep in the comfort of the privileges of salvation and needed to be jolted into the awareness that the only assured certainty of the possession of those privileges was the evidence of a life committed without reserve to being holy as their Saviour God is holy” (J. A. Motyer).

Warning after warning comes and you insist on doing life your way. I will catch myself saying "I have the rights". The truth is I do have the right to choose. You have the privilege to choose. According to scripture our choices are limited to God or Self. The choice of God leads to life, the choice of self to death. 

If you choose God then you have to pick up your cross or you haven't truly chosen God. In other words you have to die to your own selfish passions and desires to have them replaced with Gods passions and desires. This can only be accomplished by God in you through His Holy word in the secret place of prayer.

Pastor Patrick

Selfish Worship - Amos 4:4-5

God is addressing worshipers here in these two verses and their hypocritical worship, their apostate worship. Your offering of worship to The Uncreated Creator should never be one filled with worldly and selfish concerns or done in such a way that draws attention to yourself and how amazing you are. Your wasting your time if that's the case. Your worship should be Holy to God. 

Pastor Patrick