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8 illustrations for sermon preparation
Against this apostasy, the prophet confronted those who declared, "It is vain to serve God." The nature of God's demanded service comprises five essential marks.
God does not pronounce judgment until men have first abused His benevolence and provoked His intervention.
This image captures Amos's declaration: "Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves." God does not speak in literal terms—the Almighty cannot be physically oppressed—but rather as a great father addresses his...
In the prophet's day, the Jewish leaders had cast off their wives for heathen women, then taught their followers this transgression was no sin.
Observers at Abeih noted that as evening air cooled, locusts literally "camped in the hedges and loose stone walls, covering them over like a swarm of bees settled on a bush." They remained stationary until the sun warmed the next...
"Then shall ye return," the prophet declares, speaking of a conversion to full recognition of neglected duty and past transgressions.
The oozing stream from a bursting reservoir becomes a torrent; the torrent becomes a deluge.
First, the *object* of true worship: "Men shall worship Him"—that is, Jehovah.
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