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I advise your attention this 
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Testament and the Book of Amos. 
This is one of the Twelve Minor 

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Prophets that we that we see 
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Testament. 
But there are some interesting 

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things that I like to point out 
here at the beginning of a of 

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the Book of Amos this morning. 
But by way of introduction in 

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Amos 5 beginning there in verse 
21, the Lord speaks through his 

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Prophet Amos as he is talking to
the to the northern, the 

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Northern Kingdom of Israel. 
As Israel is divided that this 

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time it says their Amos 5. 
Beginning in verse 21. 

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I hate I despise your feast days
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sacred assemblies though. 
You offer me? 

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We burnt offerings and your 
grain offerings. 

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I will not accept them nor will 
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offerings take away from me, the
noise of your songs. 

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Well, I will not hear The Melody
of your string instruments. 

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This is quite an interesting 
passage and you may think, well,

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these are quite harsh words. 
For the Lord, to be telling the 

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divided Kingdom, divided Kingdom
of the northern, northern 

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kingdom of Israel to be telling 
them this. 

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But the question arises, which 
we're going to answer this 

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morning. 
What makes God's say this 

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through his prophet? 
Isaiah to the Northern Kingdom 

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of Israel? 
And so we're going to answer 

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that question and along the way 
we're going to start making some

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applications that may be. 
We may be included in these 

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verses as well. 
Depending on upon our attitudes 

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this morning. 
And so, before we go into these 

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things this morning, what a 
great privilege and great Duty 

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that we have, as children of 
God, to go to God, an order 

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prayer. 
Let's do so at this time, The 

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Book of Amos says, we are 
studying from this morning is 

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one of the 12 books that we 
classify as a Minor Prophets. 

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And there are three books, which
are actually called the Major 

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Prophets, which include Isaiah 
Jeremiah and Ezekiel. 

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Now, you may be wondering, why 
are they classified as a major 

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and minor prophets was not 
because the Minor Prophets are 

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less important than the Major 
Prophets because that's simply 

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not the case. 
The only difference is the Minor

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Prophets are just shorter books 
That's all the difference and it

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is to but, but let it be known 
but they each contain the same 

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amount of divinity. 
Since these individuals were 

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prophets of the almighty God, 
they spoke as God spoke to them.

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Now, a prophet has a great Duty 
God, used him as the means by 

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which God would speak to the 
people, and also to the nation 

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as well. 
And we see, this is just the 

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case. 
In Hebrews chapter 1, beginning 

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in verse 1, where it says God, 
who, at various times and in 

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various ways spoke in times past
to the father's, by the 

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prophets. 
And so this was a huge 

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responsibility for these 
individuals who were chosen to 

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be prophets. 
They were to speak to the people

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get, this is how God spoke to 
them now, because of that, 

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though, a profit cannot just say
anything that he wanted to, as 

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he was relaying a Divine message
but rather First Peter chapter 

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are actually second Peter, 
chapter 1 tells us of how this 

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was done. 
Second, Peter 1, beginning in 

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verse 20 says this about how 
this was all done and said 

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knowing this first that no 
prophecy of scripture is of any 

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private interpretation for 
prophecy. 

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Never came by the will of man, 
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Spoke as hell as they were moved
by the Holy Spirit and so we 

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have the Holy Spirit here that 
help these prophets of old talk 

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as God would have them talk unto
the peoples and to the nation as

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well. 
Well since the profits are to 

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prophesy then by direction of 
the Holy Spirit then we find and

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Deuteronomy chapter 18 that they
are simply speaking. 

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The words of God are not simply 
their own words, and listen to 

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the principle that Deuteronomy 
18 gives hear about. 

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What about prophecy here? 
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beginning in verse number. 18 
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them a prophet, like, you from 
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Now, this particular verse here,
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prophecy about Christ, but the 
principle is still the same. 

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I will raise up for them. 
A prophet, like, you from among 

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their Brethren. 
I will put my words in his mouth

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and he shall speak to them all 
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Command him. 
That's the principal there. 

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And verse 19 says and it shall 
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my words, which he speaks, in my
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but the prophet who presumes to 
speak a word in my name, which I

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have not commanded him to speak 
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other gods that Prophet shall 
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And if you say in your heart how
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Lord has not spoken when a 
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the Lord, if the thing does not 
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That is the thing which the Lord
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spoken it presumptuously, and 
you shall not be afraid of him. 

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So, the principle is this 
Whatever God demanded that 

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Prophet to speak that Prophet, 
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every time. 
Unless there was repentance 

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involved, which God calls for 
repentance. 

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Every time he says there's going
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He said you guys need to change 
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going to happen and he said that
time and time again. 

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But there were prophets of old 
back then who were false 

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prophets? 
Just as there are false profits 

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today that make all sorts of 
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But yet, none of these things 
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profits back then. 
And we see people making claims 

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today, that don't even come to 
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They are not words of the Lord, 
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that is a false prophets. 
And so these are the principles 

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by which a prophet speaks of 
when he's relaying these things 

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to the nation. 
They are not merely his words 

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but they are words of the Lord. 
Well, Amos was one of these men 

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who spoke the words of the Lord.
He was a Prophet by God and had 

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been given a command by God, to 
prophesy to Israel, but we're 

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going to get to that message in 
just a few moments this morning,

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but to serve as a background to 
our book, this morning, we find 

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that the nation of Israel was in
a very dangerous, dangerous 

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State when Amos became a prophet
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Now, from the eyes of Israel, 
though, they thought things were

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going great for them. 
They were wealthy, business was 

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booming and they lived a life of
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He called me, economy was pretty
good for Israel, but in the eyes

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of God, though, Israel was 
heading for punishment their 

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wealth had led them to an 
attitude of smug complacency and

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they thought they did not need 
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They had become a nation that 
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had become morally, they had 
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And they had become politically 
corrupt in their ways, but they 

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thought everything was going 
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but God thought different. 
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what Israel is in right now, as 
he's relaying, these words from 

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God to this, Northern Kingdom, 
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And so, understanding the 
background here, we now turn our

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attention to the message, which 
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And so, So as this first as this
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encourage you to turn over to 
chapter 1 of Amos as we go along

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through here. 
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opens, we find that God has a 
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And it's not a message to just 
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But God has a message and once 
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Israel to listen, in fact, I 
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In the verse in chapter verse 2 
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Listen to listen to the picture 
that it gives your and he said 

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the Lord Wars from Zion. 
He Roars from Zion and utters 

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his voice from Jerusalem. 
The pastor's of the shepherd's 

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mourn at the top of caramel and 
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Withers and so he's got this 
great message and he says, the 

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Lord Roars this out, meaning 
everyone is to listen to what 

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Amos has to say as he is 
speaking, the words of the Lord.

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And so he then begins to speak 
judgment upon surrounding 

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Nations that outline the nation 
of Israel and I have this 

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outline on you at to my best 
ability on the board here of 

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what the land was during this 
time where Israel was divided 

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here and we have all these 
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Israel and I want you to listen 
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That is brought upon the 
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It says, first of all All he 
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There is at the top right and he
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the entire nation of of Syria. 
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that, he opens every message to 
these nations by saying this, he

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says four for three 
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says it's over and over and over
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nations. 
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Me for three transgressions and 
for, for, well, this is not a 

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literal term, but a misused, it 
in a figurative way of showing a

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complete amount. 
Well, what's that? 

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Complete amount? 
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judged by God because of their 
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That it was as if a cup were 
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He had had enough, it was 
excessive and judgment was to be

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upon these nations because of 
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getting back. 
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he mentions Damascus here, they 
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had thresh head God's people by 
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the homeland of the half tribe 
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Now because of this great 
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would include God, bringing fire
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ruling family and would send 
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And I'm just going to briefly 
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And so that is the that is what 
they were doing and that is the 

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punishment that God has for the 
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But the second one that he 
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here is out of Gaza which is a 
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here at the bottom left. 
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On the Mediterranean Sea, they 
were being punished by God 

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because they had captured 
Hebrews and had sold them as 

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slaves to eat them. 
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cause philistia The parish as a 
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Not only that we met he mentions
tired and this is the capital of

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Phoenicia. 
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tire, is there along the 
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tired. 
There was a chief city of see 

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traffic and had been involved 
with slave traffic as well and 

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because of tires and difference 
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says, did not remember the 
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That's what they were guilty of.
And because of this, the Lord 

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promised destruction to her 
walls and also to her palaces as

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well. 
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fourth Nation that's mentioned, 
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And Edom is a descendants of, 
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And you remember the story about
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were, will he came in from the 
field one day and he sold his 

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Birthright to Jacob for just one
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Because of that they they resist
there was a well, there was 

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tension between the two and so 
Edom are the descendants of that

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man. 
Esau but though getting back to 

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this nation, they're being 
punished because of their 

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cruelty to their brethren. 
They're being punished because 

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of that who are the Israelites 
and because of this, God 

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promised a destroying fire 
against the chief cities of that

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Nation. 
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of amand, am in along with the 
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They had committed the same sin 
of Oppression God's people over 

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there in Gilead, and as they had
done this with such cruelty as 

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well. 
And they were so cruel. 

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As Amos is Are these words from 
God? 

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It says there, in verse number 
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that it is said in verse 13. 
They ripped open the women with 

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child. 
Now, this is very, very 

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unnecessary in an act of War. 
You just don't do that in an act

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of War. 
But this goes to show how cruel 

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these people were in that 
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And so what was their 
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Well, their punishment was that 
rather than the capital of Ammon

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would be destroyed and the King 
The princes will be taken 

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captive because of all that. 
Not only that, we get to Moab 

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which is, which is mixing, which
is just south of Israel there 

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and just like the brother and 
the ammonites, the moabites were

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also guilty of being cruel 
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They had us as chapter 2 verse 1
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of the king of Edom to Lime They
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They had done this in an act of 
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they were guilty of. 
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carry off is mentioned to 
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its palaces would be destroyed 
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slain because of all this. 
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dimensions to things that they 
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deserve punishment. 
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despise the law of the Lord. 
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they did not keep God's 
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This is what Judah was was 
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punished and it was promised 
that a fire will be sent to them

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and the Palaces of Jerusalem 
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Because they simply did not obey
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Now, before we continue on, 
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I don't want you to notice. 
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this of why would Amos mentioned
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northern kingdom. 
So why mention all these other 

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surrounding Nations about their 
punishment? 

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When really they're putting his 
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of these other nations have 
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this. 

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The message as Amos is 
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proclaiming through Amos to of 
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is this. 
He said you see all these other 

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nations around you and you see 
what they've done and you see 

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the punishment that they're in 
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And the nation of Israel saying,
yeah, we see it. 

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Let him have his job, they 
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the things that they've done to 
other nations and all the things

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that they've done to us. 
Let him have it. 

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But then the coin turns because 
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says geared toward Israel. 
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nations have been guilty of all 
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to come upon them. 
But you is real, you followed 

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the punishment as well because 
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done. 
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Amos list, several reasons, 
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judged, just like these other 
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He says a number of things for 
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They were guilty of social 
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righteous for silver and for 
selling the poor for just a pair

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of sandals. 
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have done. 
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guilty of is that they were 
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And it is more detailed about 
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statement of how immoral these 
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They were guilty of is that they
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worshipping other gods. 
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worship those carved images. 
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guilty of was simply because 
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As Amos says here is what is why
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At throughout the prophet and 
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told Israel, all that he had 
done for them. 

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In fact, they were guilty of all
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look, I've done so many things 
for you. 

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How can you turn away from me? 
He's mentioned several things. 

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He said he cast out the amorites
before them. 

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He had delivered them from the 
land of Egypt, he had gave them 

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prophets and mazarites, which 
they had even corrupted, you 

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see, they gave wine to 
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against the Nazarite practice, 
they corrupted them and in 

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reference to the prophets, when 
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simply told the prophets do not 
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keep them quiet even though God 
provided them prophets. 

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So that they would hear the 
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men. 
And after listing all these 

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things that they were guilty of 
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them. 
I want you to listen to what God

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says to them next in 2:13. 2:13 
says this behold, I am weighed 

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down by you. 
As a cart full of sees, is way 

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down. 
God said, I have had enough of 

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all this. 
I am put up with it. 

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You guys have gone too far. 
And now punishment is coming. 

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Punishment is coming. 
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God promised that they would not
be able to flee when destruction

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comes upon them and that is the 
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That's the judgment. 
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book, we find a more detail of 
Israel since and even more 

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detail of God's promise to 
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Israel. 
But there is something I want 

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you to notice over in chapter 4,
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text in chapter 5. 
There is something interesting 

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to note here, Amos pensions Time
After Time, where God had 

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punished them already yet. 
They simply did not repent 

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because of their punishment. 
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Verse 6, God speaks to, to 
Israel through Amos about the 

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fact that they have been 
punished before. 

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But they had simply not learned 
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In fact, he mentioned several 
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what the punishment was for. 
He says, that God sent a famine 

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to Israel and they still did not
learn their lesson. 

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The second thing that happened 
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them, but they still did not 
learn their lesson. 

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The third thing is that God sent
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The fourth thing is that God had
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Israel. 
Do you think that change their 

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minds? 
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It did not. 
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overthrown various Cities in his
room and then after all these 

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things that Israel face, do the 
traditional obedience to God. 

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He says these after each one of 
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in verse 6, in verse 8, in verse
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After all these phrases of what 
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says and I quote yet you have 
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You have not learned your 
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You did not repent after those 
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Lord says, in chapter 4, verse 
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you o? 
Israel? 

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Because I will do this to you. 
Prepare to meet your God, o 

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Israel. 
Today, those some scary words. 

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Prepare to meet your God. 
Meaning judgment is coming. 

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Be ready for it. 
I've give you guys plenty of 

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opportunities. 
Be ready for punishment. 

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Well, I've said all that to help
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Israel was in and how God 
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And this all brings us to 
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something that is a bit closer 
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And yet the Israelites were 
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it says, once again, chapter 5 
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of all these things that Israel 
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God. 
Responds by saying I hate I 

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despise your feast days and I do
not save your sacred assemblies.

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Do you offer? 
Me burn off rings and your grain

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offerings? 
I will not accept them, nor will

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I regard your fat piece for your
fat and peace offerings, take 

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away from me, the noise of your 
songs for I will not hear The 

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Melody of your string 
instruments. 

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Now, what primary reason why God
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because they had worshipped 
other gods as well. 

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But even with that aside, their 
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anyway, due to their lifestyle 
and do their attitude during 

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worship now, even though they 
went through the motions of 

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worship, God, still not accept 
their worship. 

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Hearing he just rejected it, 
they offered burnt offerings and

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grain offerings, which they Had 
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God still did not accept them. 
They're even there. 

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Peace, offerings. 
We're still not acceptable, to 

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God, either the songs that they 
sing and worship, or as Lads 

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noise to God as he says, and 
this was not because they were 

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using instrumental music. 
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use instrumental music. 
There are some that would even 

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use this verse in the Lord's 
Church to say that God 

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disapproved of instrumental 
music under the old law but 

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that's not why that's not what 
it's teaching here. 

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It was acceptable under the old 
law but it's not acceptable 

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today. 
Simply because we do not have 

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any implicit or explicit 
authority to have instrumental 

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music in the Lord's Church were 
just told to sing and make 

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melody in our hearts. 
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But that's beside the fact but 
even though they were going 

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through these things, God still 
did not accept these things. 

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Their their songs were as Noise 
unto him. 

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Now. 
This is the same situation as we

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come over to Judah. 
Now Judah was in the same 

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situation that when they worship
God, they did so in truth but 

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their heart simply were not in 
it and because of that God 

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rejected their forms of worship 
and this is found over in Isaiah

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chapter 1, speaking of Judah, 
when they worship God, beginning

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of verse 11, Isaiah 1 verse 11 
says, to what purpose is the 

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multitude of your sacrifices 
Spices to me. 

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Says the Lord. 
I have had enough of burnt 

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offerings of rams and the fat of
fed camel. 

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I do not Delight in the blood of
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When you come to appear before 
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your hand to trample. 
My cords, bring no more futile. 

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Sacrifices incense is an 
Abomination to me the new moons,

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the sabbats and the calling of 
assemblies I cannot endure 

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iniquity in the sacred meeting. 
Your new moons and your 

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appointed feasts. 
My soul hates. 

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They are a trouble to me, I am 
weary of bearing them when he 

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spread out your hands, I will 
hide my eyes from you. 

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Even though you make many 
prayers, I will not hear your 

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hands are full of blood. 
And so you see, even with the 

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practice of the name of Judah 
here, even their worship was 

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unacceptable, but God, simply 
because they were not their 

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hearts were not, Not in it. 
And they did not have the 

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correct lifestyle as well just 
as a comparative to the nation 

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of Israel during this time. 
And so what is the application 

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today? 
Can God hate our worship today. 

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Just as he did to Israel and to 
Judah. 

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Can he I believe he can. 
We don't want that to happen, 

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but I think it could happen. 
It can happen through various 

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ways from a certain from an 
individual. 

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For example, you remember how 
Israel claim to serve God yet 

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their ways and hearts were far 
from him and because of that, 

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their worship was in vain. 
This is similar situation to 

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what Jesus, addresses over a 
Matthew chapter 15, when he is 

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talking to the Pharisees, into 
the scribes there, and this is 

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just one occasion where Jesus is
speaking to the Pharisees that 

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he really gets on to them for 
their, for their traditions. 

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Because their Traditions, he'll 
have override of The 

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Commandments of God. 
But I want you to listen to, in 

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this particular occasion, where 
Jesus is talking to the 

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Pharisees into the scribes over 
here. in a chapter 15 of Matthew

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beginning there in verse number 
one, Says in the scribes and 

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Pharisees who were from 
Jerusalem, came to Jesus saying 

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and they presented this 
question. 

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Why do your disciples transgress
the tradition of the elders for?

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They did not wash their hands 
when they eat bread. 

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So upon this question verse 3 
says, he answered and said to 

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them, why do you also transgress
the Commandment of God because 

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of your tradition for God 
commanded saying, honour, your 

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father, and your mother. 
And he who curses father or 

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mother, let him be put to death.
But you say whoever says to his 

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father or mother, whatever Papa 
you have might be received. 

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From me has been dedicated to 
the apple is released from 

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honoring his father or mother. 
Thus, you have made the 

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Commandment of God of no effect 
by your tradition Hypocrites. 

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Well, did Isaiah prophesy about 
you saying these people draw 

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near to me with their mouth and 
honor me with their lips, but 

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their heart is far from me. 
And in vain, they worship me 

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teaching as doctrines, the 
Commandments of men. 

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In vain, they worship me. 
Now, the Bible teaches here is 

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Jesus is relaying these to the 
Pharisees into the scribes here 

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that we are to honor our father 
and mother and if we disregard 

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them, we have sinned. 
And people were put to death 

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because of that. 
But these Pharisees had the 

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tradition is that the child gave
their money as a gift, to the 

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temple. 
Then they are free in regard to 

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any obligation to his father or 
to his mother. 

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And so, that is how they were 
disobeyed, the Commandment of 

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God, because their tradition had
overwrote, had a have become 

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more important than the 
Commandment of God through that 

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various act. 
Now they claim to be followers 

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of the followers of God, these 
Pharisees did, but their hearts 

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were far from God. 
And because of that, their 

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worship to God was in vain, as 
well. 

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You see, after all, why go 
worship God, if you are not, if 

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you were going to, if you're not
Plea going to devote your life 

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to the Lord. 
Why worship Him? 

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If you have no care outside the 
assembly, why worship Him? 

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It is hypocritical and it makes 
no sense when you come down to 

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it, why go worship God for an 
hour or two or even three a week

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and yet live a life outside of 
worship in the way that does not

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even glorify. 
God. 

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You're just a different person 
outside of worship services. 

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Does it make any sense? 
No, it does not. 

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Well, the question is, how do 
you think God's going to react 

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to that when you live your life 
in such sin throughout this 

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week? 
And yet come to worship Him? 

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Do you think he's going to 
accept that worship? 

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Well, I believe the answer is 
no, he's going to have the same 

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attitude as he did to Israel and
ever reject that individuals 

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worship, just as he had ejected 
rejected, Israel's worship as 

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well, they claim to serve God, 
but their hearts were far from 

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him. 
Just as these Pharisees were in 

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vain, they worship God and so it
is vital that we live a life 

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devoted to God at all times 
those. 

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We fall into the same kind of 
judgment, that Israel fell into 

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do their disobedience, And we 
must live the life of a 

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Christian every day and not just
when we come to worship, but is 

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an everyday is a habitual 
practice. 

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Well, what is another way that 
God can reject our worship? 

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Well, you'll remember that 
Israel worship God and the way 

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that God had designed it and 
aside from the fact that they 

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worshipped Gods other gods from 
that they took they they 

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worshiped him in truth though. 
But he rejected their worship, 

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simply because their hearts were
not in it, they were simply 

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going through the motions of 
worship. 

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They were going through the 
motions even though it may have 

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been in truth aside from the 
fact that they were simply a 

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worshiping other gods as well. 
And so are we guilty of the same

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thing that Israel was in? 
We may we may not be involved in

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idolatry today. 
But could we be found guilty of 

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those people of Israel? 
But simply going through the 

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motions of worship. 
Let me ask you a few questions 

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this morning. 
To self-examine your life. 

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What was the message of the 
songs that we sang this morning?

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Can we remember? 
Did we understand what we were 

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singing? 
Where we paying attention? 

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Or will we simply just going 
through the motion of just 

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singing? 
Let me ask you this. 

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What was prayed in the prayer 
this morning, that Shaw 

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headshot, he led where we 
listening to his prayer as he 

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prayed on behalf of the entire 
congregation to God. 

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It makes you think. 
It makes you think. 

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Has your mind been on other 
things during worship. 

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Well. 
Leading to the Lord's Supper. 

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when we approached the Lord's 
Supper this morning, What are 

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our minds going to be thinking 
about at that time? 

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Are we going to be focused upon 
the Lord? 

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Or are our minds going to be 
focused upon what we're going to

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do this afternoon or what big 
plans we have for the week. 

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Makes you think. 
We need to have our minds 

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focused upon the Lord at all 
times during the worship. 

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After all. 
God is here in our presence. 

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This very hour. 
He is here. 

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And we come together to give him
the glory. 

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We come to give him the honor, 
and we come to give him the 

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praise. 
And to do so without a whole 

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heart, how is he going to react 
to that type of worship? 

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I'll let you make the judgment 
to that question. 

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But it just makes it thank you. 
No, I'm not. 

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I'm guilty of the same things. 
I mean, there have been times 

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where I'd sing a song in and I 
just don't know what I just 

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saying or I may find myself 
wondering sometimes. 

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So I'm talking to myself this 
morning as I'm relaying, these 

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things to you so that we do not 
fall guilty. 

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Israel's punishment and Israel's
judgment back then. 

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Now, it is a serious thing to 
fall into the Judgment of God, 

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and I hope that we do not find 
ourselves, just going through 

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the motions of worship. 
Well, our minds are somewhere 

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else. 
Less we Fallen best less. 

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We find that God will not accept
our worship. 

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And that's being here has been 
in vain Well. 

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As we wrap these things up this 
morning, you'll remember that 

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Amos related to Israel that God 
had done so much for them. 

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He had delivered them from the 
Egyptian bondage. 

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He had given them victory over 
other nations. 

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And because of these things, 
Israel should have worshipped 

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God and he should have had been 
praised. 

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Well, the same is true about us 
today, you know, God has been so

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good to us. 
He really has. 

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He has been so good to us. 
He has offered us salvation when

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we didn't even deserve 
salvation, but Christ died on 

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that cross anyway. 
So that we can be free from our 

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sins and that's just one thing 
that God has been so good to us.

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He has been he has been good to 
us and throughout the rest of 

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our lives. 
After we have obeyed that gospel

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by giving us peace, he has given
us, hope he has given us joy in 

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our lives. 
He has blessed us with so many 

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things in this life. 
And so because of that, he 

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deserves our utmost, praise and 
our devotion to him. 

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And he deserves great worship 
from us with our whole heart. 

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And so let us never find 
ourselves living a life. 

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That is hypocritical that we 
come to worship and yet live a 

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different life outside of 
worship services. 

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And let us never come to 
worship. 

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In a way that with an attitude 
that our minds just wondered 

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throughout the throughout the 
worship services. 

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Let us worship him with the 
whole heart. 

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Why? 
Because he deserves it. 

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That's why he's the father of 
all he is. 

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Lord Jehovah. 
And he deserves Our Praise. 

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So let us give that to him. 
every day, and every time we 

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