WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:16.440 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to Friday. Everybody's favorite day. 4 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:17.760 Everybody's favorite day. 5 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:20.879 Well, people love it in general because usually people are 6 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:21.559 for the weekends. 7 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:25.000 Well, and our listeners know there's a good chance it's 8 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:26.440 going to be what made Chris mad this week? 9 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:28.079 Oh well, if they care about that. 10 00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:31.640 Yes, So we were talking beforehand because we knew it. 11 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:34.320 Says here what made Chris mad this week? Yes, we're 12 00:00:34.359 --> 00:00:36.920 doing it, but both you and I have spent an 13 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:40.920 extended amount of time telling our stories today, yes, about 14 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:43.439 our life, and so instead of having it be what 15 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:46.399 made Chris mad this week, let's just say what irritated 16 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:50.439 Chris this week? Because our listeners, if you're in Michigan, 17 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:54.719 you know, but our other listeners would not. We're in 18 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:58.280 studio today and last night we got like eight inches 19 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:01.039 of snow, yes, right, So we got an of snow, yes, 20 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:05.560 and so just the headache and the irritation of that, 21 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:07.640 So both of us had many catastrophes today. 22 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:09.040 Yeah, And by the time they listened to this, it 23 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:12.040 have been weeks ago, right, but but yeah, so what 24 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:14.319 made It's not necessarily what made me mad this week, 25 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:16.480 because I did that last week. 26 00:01:16.879 --> 00:01:18.879 But yeah, what made Chris irritated this week? 27 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:22.200 Which there is a different we're going to differentiate. We 28 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:24.480 know it seems like splitting hairs, but it's a big difference. 29 00:01:24.599 --> 00:01:26.439 Yeah, so I got five This is not on. 30 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:29.439 Behalf of everybody else in the world. This is literally 31 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:30.400 it irritated you. 32 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:33.599 Yes, yes, so so, So I got five cars in 33 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:37.040 my driveway because my son just bought because he's rich. 34 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:40.439 He's rich. He's got his Lambeau, he's got some Mercedes. 35 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:42.840 Yeah, how about a two thousand and eight Ford Focus. 36 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:45.120 That's right, and one of those, and then and then 37 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:47.200 twenty twelve Ford Focus. 38 00:01:47.519 --> 00:01:49.239 These all things, these things all have like two hundred 39 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:49.920 thousand miles on it. 40 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:52.319 It's not rich, it's just you got a bunch of 41 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:53.400 kids still living yeh, yeah, I. 42 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:55.719 Got kids living home. So there's five cars in the driveway. 43 00:01:55.799 --> 00:01:59.560 My son just bought his truck yesterday, literally yesterday. So 44 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:01.920 he wakes this morning, it's all snowy, and he has 45 00:02:01.959 --> 00:02:05.239 to transfer the tools that he was using from my 46 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:08.080 truck that he was borrowing because he was using the 47 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:10.599 Ford Focus that broke. So I literally just got it 48 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:15.039 from from mechanic yesterday. So big long thing. But basically, 49 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:17.240 you can't have the cars on the road because they're 50 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:19.280 gonna plow, so they all gotta be stacking the driveway. 51 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:21.240 So they got to be in order, in the order 52 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:23.960 in which people leave. Okay, So my son has to 53 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:26.000 get up this morning and he transfers all his tools 54 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:30.599 and he leaves his my truck key in his pocket, 55 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:33.000 goes to work at like four five in the morning 56 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:37.719 and text me and says, hey, Dad, I've I'm so sorry, 57 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:41.080 but my truck, which by the way, has four wheel drive, right, 58 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:44.319 and now you have to drive this nasty Ford Focus. 59 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:47.159 They can't even move in the snow, right, and so 60 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:50.800 I'm literally on the way here. But it's just terrible. 61 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:54.039 So but but here's what's worse on the on the 62 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:57.960 bad roads. But what's worse by far is that that 63 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:00.960 was the car that we had shifted last night and 64 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:03.240 it was in the front, so my truck was behind it. 65 00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:04.960 So literally I don't. 66 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:06.879 Have the keys to move my truck because he has 67 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:09.159 them in his pocket. But it's the only thing I 68 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:12.240 can use because everybody else is going somewhere today. 69 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:14.520 So I literally have to get up this morning. 70 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:19.199 I have to clean clear off the snow of three 71 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:21.879 out of the four cars, and then I have to 72 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:24.159 move them all into the street, which by the way, 73 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:26.719 is horrible in itself because it's like it's like you 74 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:28.319 ever try to move a forward focus in a foot 75 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:28.680 of snow. 76 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:29.599 It doesn't move. 77 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:32.400 Very well, and so I'm literally fighting that. Then I 78 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:36.159 get in my car, my forward focus, and I literally 79 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:39.960 have to go eat and I have to literally move 80 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:42.879 up two inches, move back two inches, move up two inches. 81 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:46.639 I have to slowly turn it in the snow, which 82 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:48.599 is like a foot of snow, which means like it 83 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:51.520 doesn't work very well. And so it took me forever. 84 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:56.039 I bet you literally it took me forty five minutes. 85 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:56.759 Wow. 86 00:03:56.919 --> 00:03:58.280 And then I had to back up. 87 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:00.439 And then after I move that into the street, I 88 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:01.599 had to get then and get in all the other 89 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:05.000 cars and move them back into the driveway just before 90 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:09.280 I can come here. So that very much irritated. 91 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:10.080 Irritated you today. 92 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:12.280 And oh and here's my son. Here's my son didn't 93 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:14.240 even realize any of this. He's at work right now 94 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:15.960 and he's like, oh, hey, sorry dad. 95 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:16.920 Oops. 96 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:20.959 Oops, the car oops and and and unfortunately I didn't 97 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:21.879 have a spirit set of keys. 98 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:22.839 So there you. 99 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:23.600 Go, There you go. 100 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:26.519 That's what irritated me, that irritated you today. Yeah, yeah, 101 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:28.079 there was a lot of snow. There was a lot 102 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:30.319 of It was a lot of snow. And yeah, you're right, 103 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:32.040 Ford focuses are light little cars. 104 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:35.279 So your story my story. 105 00:04:35.439 --> 00:04:39.519 Yes, okay, So I'm We're in a new house and 106 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:40.279 so out on myself. 107 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:42.680 Sorry, hang on, let me introduce it properly. What irritated 108 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:43.480 Jeff this week? 109 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:47.839 Yeah, yeah, yeah, So we are in the process of moving, 110 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:50.079 so we we didn't sell our old house. We're going 111 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:52.839 to rent that to our son, and so we're just 112 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:55.480 slowly moving out. And I didn't have my snowblower over 113 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:58.240 at the house. Yeah, so finally I got it over, 114 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:00.319 but it was all gummed up last year. We forgot 115 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:01.839 to run the gas out of it, and I didn't 116 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:02.800 put any stay bill. 117 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:05.319 In it, and so it wound up gumbing up the carburetor. 118 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:06.879 So I had to go get it fixed and the 119 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:08.439 guy got it back to me right away. But then 120 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:11.879 it was leaking gas somehow from the carpetor so I 121 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:13.759 was trying to figure out how to fix that and 122 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:18.240 tinkering around with it. Long story short, it seemed like 123 00:05:18.279 --> 00:05:20.360 everything was going to be fine. It started it up yesterday. 124 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:21.920 It was going fine. So then we get this big 125 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:24.519 snowstorm last night. I go out there this morning, I 126 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:27.360 run one pass with my snowblower and it's out of gas. 127 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:28.120 Yeah. 128 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:30.680 Right, So all that gas had leaked out the gas tank. 129 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:33.000 So now I don't have a gas can because my 130 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:34.720 gas cans are at the other house. So I run 131 00:05:34.759 --> 00:05:36.160 down the gas station trying to find a gas can. 132 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:37.319 They don't have much. I have to go to another 133 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:39.879 gas station, all in the deep snow, you know, and 134 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:43.959 it's like, you know, six thirty in the morning, the morning. Yeah, 135 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:46.360 So I go to the next gas station. I finally 136 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:49.040 find one. I pay an insane amount of money for 137 00:05:49.079 --> 00:05:52.000 a gas can in the gas station and then get 138 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:53.639 a gallon and half a gas I come racing back, 139 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:54.439 I pour the gas in. 140 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:56.079 I'm out there and I'm snowblowing. 141 00:05:56.120 --> 00:05:57.879 I did it the wrong way, which means I basically 142 00:05:57.879 --> 00:06:00.639 had to snowblow my my driveway twice. And while I 143 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:02.639 was out there. We live on a cull de sack 144 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:05.360 that's not part of the homeowners association. And the snowplow 145 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:08.199 had come through, and one of the guys had left 146 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:11.000 his truck on the street, and so we have this 147 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:14.600 massive drift of snow in the middle of our street 148 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:17.240 now because of how the snowplow guy had plowed on 149 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:21.360 our street. So then while I'm snowplowing or while I'm snowblowing, 150 00:06:22.439 --> 00:06:25.040 this lady across the street starts to back out. Her 151 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:28.120 brother had blocked her in, so she gets in his car, 152 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:30.199 she backs out, and she backs right into that snow drift. 153 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:32.199 So now she's stuck with that car and can't get 154 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:35.240 her car out either. So then she pushes past, and 155 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:37.360 she gets her car stuck in the snow drift. So 156 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:39.759 I'm out there pushing her car, pushing her brother's car, 157 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:43.480 digging them out, all that kind of stuff. And yeah, 158 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:46.680 so that irritated me. It's just the what should have 159 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:49.079 been twenty five minutes turned into an hour and a 160 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:49.959 half and. 161 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:52.079 A sore back, yeah, for sure. 162 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:54.360 And then I decided, you know what, I'm just gonna 163 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:56.600 go ahead and use my snowblower and snowblow the street 164 00:06:57.319 --> 00:07:00.360 because this guy left this giant truck you know, well 165 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:04.199 he left this giant drift in the road. So yeah, 166 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:06.519 and I got done just in time to make. 167 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:07.480 It to the studio today. 168 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:10.519 Yeah, and so that so it's just the irritating What 169 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:12.160 should have been twenty minutes is an hour and a half. 170 00:07:12.199 --> 00:07:14.079 There are some listeners keep this in mind. There are 171 00:07:14.079 --> 00:07:15.519 some listeners who live in other countries. 172 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:16.720 Right, I don't know what a snowblower is. 173 00:07:16.759 --> 00:07:18.160 They don't even know the. 174 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:21.879 Experience of what it means, right, and so so just 175 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:26.120 imagine they're thinking themselves, why would anybody choose to live. 176 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:28.519 In Michigan, because this is where God made us go. 177 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:35.279 It's got sick joke. It's the tundra of Detroit. Yeah, actually, 178 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:37.079 you know what this happens like once a year, a 179 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:39.519 big snowstorm once or twice a year is really all 180 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:41.560 we get where we're at. We're kind of blessed we 181 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:44.040 don't get a ton of snow. It happens once or twice. 182 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:47.920 You go further north, and it's feet of snow a year, right, right, 183 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:50.240 or meters of snow if you're listening overseas, right. 184 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:51.319 Yeah, that's hilarious. 185 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:53.959 So anyways, that was it was just what should have 186 00:07:53.959 --> 00:07:56.160 been twenty minutes turned into an hour and a half 187 00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:56.959 and a sore back. 188 00:07:57.639 --> 00:08:02.680 Yeah, so not necessarily relatable to all mankind, but it irritated. 189 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:05.399 Definitely irritating to talk it out. 190 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:08.480 Yes, yes, yeah, And so my son's gonna come home 191 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:11.079 and be like, oh, here's keys. I'm gonna be like thanks, thanks, 192 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:13.199 thanks a lot. 193 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:18.720 Well, I don't know, I don't have a transition for 194 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:19.160 this one. 195 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:22.360 Oh you know what, speaking of being deep in it, 196 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:27.560 yeah right, people of Israel, people of Israel were in 197 00:08:27.639 --> 00:08:28.120 it deep. 198 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:31.199 That's right, And Amos is having visions about how deep 199 00:08:31.240 --> 00:08:31.519 they are. 200 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:33.200 Yes, okay, there it is. 201 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:37.960 Yes, we're actually gonna dig down deep, says in this passage. 202 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:40.840 Oh there it is, okay, Amos. Chapter nine, This is it. 203 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:43.799 We're on the home stretch, is nine, the last one, yep. 204 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:45.679 And we're going to finish up and eventually get to 205 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:48.600 some good news. Hang on, because we've had some couple 206 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:49.840 of days of bad news. 207 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:52.240 Yeah, well a lot of days. 208 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:54.600 Yes, But it's gonna start off with bad news, okay, 209 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:56.440 and it's going to transition. Have to have bad news 210 00:08:56.440 --> 00:08:59.519 before you have good news, otherwise it's just news, correct, right, 211 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:04.200 So here we go, Amos chapter nine, It says, then 212 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:07.039 I saw a vision of the Lord standing beside the altar. 213 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:10.519 This is in the temple, right, he said, Strike the 214 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:13.039 tops of the temple column, so that the foundation will shake, 215 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:15.639 bring down the roof on the heads of the people below. 216 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:18.519 I will kill with the sword those who survive. No 217 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:19.360 one will escape. 218 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:21.759 Even if they dig down to the place of the dead. 219 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:23.879 I will reach down and pull them up. Even if 220 00:09:23.879 --> 00:09:26.039 they climb up into the heavens, I will bring them down. 221 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:28.639 Even if they hide at the very top of Mount Carmel, 222 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:31.159 I will search them out and capture them. Even if 223 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:32.720 they hide at the bottom of the ocean, I will 224 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:35.120 send the sea serpent after them to bite them. Even 225 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:37.840 if their enemies drive them into exile, I will command 226 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:40.200 the sword to kill them there. I am determined to 227 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:42.360 bring disaster upon them, and not. 228 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:43.720 To help them. Who. 229 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:48.000 Well, let's get to the good news. We got a 230 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:51.759 few more minutes here. The Lord, the Lord of Heaven's armies, 231 00:09:51.799 --> 00:09:55.519 touches the land, and it melts, and all its people mourn. 232 00:09:55.919 --> 00:09:58.320 The ground rises like the Nile River at flood time, 233 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:01.240 and then it sinks again. The Lord's home reaches up 234 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:03.759 to the heavens while its foundation is on the earth. 235 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:06.240 He draws up water from the oceans and pours it 236 00:10:06.279 --> 00:10:08.720 down his rain on the land. The Lord is his name. 237 00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:11.679 Are you Israelites more important to me than the Ethiopians? 238 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:12.360 Ask the Lord. 239 00:10:12.519 --> 00:10:14.440 I brought Israel out of Egypt, but I also brought 240 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:17.559 the Philistines from Crete, and I led the Aramaeans out 241 00:10:17.559 --> 00:10:21.080 of care. I, the Sovereign Lord, am watching this sinful 242 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:23.399 nation of Israel. I will destroy it from the face 243 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:25.440 of the earth. But I will never completely destroy the 244 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:27.559 family of Israel, says the Lord. For I will give 245 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:29.840 the command and will shake Israel along with the other 246 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:33.080 nations as grain is shaken in the sieve. Yet not 247 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:36.600 one true colonel will be lost, but all the sinners 248 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:39.000 will die by the sword, all those who say nothing 249 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:39.919 bad will happen. 250 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:43.799 To us in that day. Finally we're going to get 251 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:44.279 to the good news. 252 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:47.080 Here it is in that day I will restore the 253 00:10:47.080 --> 00:10:50.559 fallen House of David. I will repair its damaged walls 254 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:53.200 from the ruins. I will rebuild it and restore its 255 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:56.559 former glory. And Israel will possess what is left of 256 00:10:56.759 --> 00:10:59.600 Edom and all the nations I have called to be mine. 257 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:02.120 The Lord has spoken, and he will do these things. 258 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:04.440 The time will come, says the Lord, when the grain 259 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:07.000 and grapes will grow faster than they can be harvested. 260 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:09.679 Then the terraced vineyards on the hills of Israel will 261 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:12.720 drip with sweet wine. I will bring my exiled people 262 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:16.399 of Israel back from distant lands, and they will rebuild 263 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:18.720 their ruined cities and live in them again. They will 264 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:21.320 plant vineyards and gardens. They will eat their crops and 265 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:24.200 drink their wine. I will firmly plant them there in 266 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:26.720 their own land, and they will never again be uprooted 267 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:28.759 from the land I have given them, says the Lord, 268 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:29.200 your God. 269 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:32.240 Wow, well there you go. 270 00:11:32.519 --> 00:11:36.399 Yeah, well there you go. And I love the promise 271 00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:41.440 of restoration. It's great. I was trying to read ahead 272 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:45.440 and the notes from the Life Application Study Bible. 273 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:47.720 There's always like these really great study notes on the bottom, 274 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:50.000 which we very much encourage people, by the way. 275 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:52.240 To get one. Why you're waiting, Why are you waiting 276 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:53.720 the twenty bucks? Go get one online? 277 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:57.600 And this is not the only study Bible that you 278 00:11:57.679 --> 00:11:59.799 can get that's great, but we like this one. 279 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:02.639 I think it's super functional for a person who says 280 00:12:02.639 --> 00:12:04.879 I'm not a Bible scholar for sure. 281 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:06.320 Right, that's why it works so well. 282 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:08.399 Yeah, and so there's a note here that says the 283 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:11.279 Jews of Amos's day had lost sight of God's love 284 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:15.159 for them and his purpose for calling them the rich. 285 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:18.559 Were care free and comfortable refusing to help others in need. 286 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:21.399 They observe the religious rituals and hopes of appeasing God, 287 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:23.879 and they did not truly love him. Amos announced that 288 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:27.200 God's warnings against destruction and evil ways we must not assume. 289 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:29.120 That is not what I was trying to read. I 290 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:34.080 was trying to read the restoration piece. Sorry, that's just 291 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:38.120 more of the same, right there. There's not a note 292 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:44.440 on the restoration piece eleven through fifteen. Yeah, okay, sorry, but. 293 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:46.360 I like it. That was a good note. 294 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:49.240 Sure, it's a good note. Yeah, but it's about the warnings. 295 00:12:49.320 --> 00:12:52.200 But in that funny hot it's a listed under thirteen 296 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:55.240 to fifteen, and yet it's talking really more about the 297 00:12:56.120 --> 00:13:01.519 bad stuff anyway. The restoration is a promise that God 298 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:05.440 will definitely show his mercy. So even after that, you know, 299 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:07.799 there's a there's a judgment, there's a punishment for sin, 300 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:11.559 there's a there's definitely a very clear vision about how 301 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:15.279 God hates sin, he says, but yet I will never 302 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:18.279 destroy the House of Israel completely, he says, I will 303 00:13:18.279 --> 00:13:21.519 restore them. And I love how he says the grapes 304 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:24.720 will grow faster than they could be harvested. 305 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:28.639 How's it impossible? How's it impossible? You know how long it. 306 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:31.080 Takes to grow grapes before you harvest them. It takes 307 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:32.039 a very long time. 308 00:13:32.159 --> 00:13:34.519 And the grain, both the grain and the grapes. 309 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:38.120 Yeah. Yeah, So God's going to supernaturally just bless them. 310 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:40.360 Beyond me, to give them more than they can handle. 311 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:43.399 More than they can handle the blessings. Right, So there's 312 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:45.279 going to be a time where God restores and so 313 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:47.799 once again it's just a it's more of a statement, 314 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:50.519 not necessarily about hows it related to you. Well, you know, 315 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:52.600 maybe you don't go grapes. I'm not saying that that's 316 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:57.559 the lesson here. The lesson is is that God wants 317 00:13:57.600 --> 00:14:00.399 what's best for you. That God, even though that God 318 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:02.639 hates sin, and that God's going to correct his children, 319 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:06.480 God wants to bless you. He wants to bring you 320 00:14:06.519 --> 00:14:08.879 to a place where he wants to give you all 321 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:10.399 the great things that he has in store for you. 322 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:13.120 So what he's doing is he's predicting. 323 00:14:12.679 --> 00:14:15.759 A time that the nation of Israel is going to repent. 324 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:19.000 They're going to have to go through hardship, unfortunately, and 325 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:20.399 they do by the way. 326 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:21.200 They go through. 327 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:25.080 Hardship and things, you know, get destroyed, and then the 328 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:28.279 people of Israel look to God. Unfortunately, it takes all 329 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:30.120 of that for them to look to God. But then 330 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:31.440 they do, and then what does God do? 331 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:31.759 God? 332 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:34.039 God says, well, now that you've looked to me, now 333 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:36.799 I'm gonna bless you. And so the lesson there is, 334 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:38.960 don't wait until you have to get punished to look 335 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:42.480 to God. Don't wait until your life goes bad to 336 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:45.840 look to God, because you know, there's definitely times in 337 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:49.279 our lives where, you know, when things are bad, it's like, Okay, God, 338 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:51.720 now I'm going to run to you help. You know, 339 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:54.759 things have gotten out of my control. The things that 340 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:57.080 I'm looking to you are the things that I cannot 341 00:14:57.120 --> 00:14:57.919 control anymore. 342 00:14:58.320 --> 00:14:59.799 But when we're still in control, and. 343 00:14:59.720 --> 00:15:01.960 When we when we're you know, trying to manage your 344 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:03.679 own lives and things are going great, we have a 345 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:06.919 tendency to forget God. And by the way, that's not 346 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:11.320 a surprise. God predicted that back in Deuteronomy, right back 347 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:13.600 when he delivered the children out of Israel and he 348 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:16.360 sent them into the Promised Land. He said, okay, I've 349 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:18.960 finally I've finally given you the Promised Land. 350 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:20.759 And he said, let me just give you a warning. 351 00:15:21.159 --> 00:15:24.320 When things go great, you will have a tendency to 352 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:27.279 forget the Lord that got Yeah and so and so. 353 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:31.080 God knows when things go well, don't forget them. When 354 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:34.559 things when God is blessing you, then we should be 355 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:38.440 motivated to serve God even more because of our blessings. 356 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:41.559 This is why David was such almost a superhero in 357 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:46.000 the Bible. Why God always celebrates David is David is 358 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:48.840 one of those few people that when things got great, 359 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:53.960 he kept making God the center. Yeah right, it's so rare. 360 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:55.799 This is what God wanted. So if you ever want 361 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:58.720 to see what God really is hoping for you and 362 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:01.759 your family, it's not that once the prosperity comes you 363 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:06.559 forget him, but rather, as you know that your generosity increases, 364 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:10.559 your commitment to God's ways, increases, your commitment to holiness, 365 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:14.120 increases your celebration of everything that God is doing good 366 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:17.679 in your life, your testimony, you sharing with other people 367 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:18.879 what God is doing. 368 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:22.080 Pointing all the glory in your life to God. 369 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:24.639 Like David, and God says, man, I'm going to establish 370 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:27.559 David's kingdom forever, right forever. 371 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:28.639 This is what he want to do. 372 00:16:28.840 --> 00:16:31.799 He gave him peace, he gave him prosperity, you know 373 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:34.639 there towards the end of his end of his reign. 374 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:37.360 Of course, you know, there was a struggle with his 375 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:40.600 family when he started sinning. Right, So even then David 376 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:42.679 allowed his own flesh to get in the way, but 377 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:45.360 he never let God get out of place. God was 378 00:16:45.399 --> 00:16:47.759 always God in his life. He's always leading the people 379 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:50.000 to do these things. In God pours out this incredible 380 00:16:50.039 --> 00:16:52.440 blessing on him. And so that's what God wants, and 381 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:54.759 that's why he celebrates. Even here it talks about I'll 382 00:16:54.759 --> 00:16:57.320 restore the fallen house of David. He's still This is 383 00:16:57.559 --> 00:16:59.960 hundreds of years later and he's still talking about Dave. 384 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:02.919 It right, the promise I made to David hundreds of 385 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:06.359 years ago. Why because David was a man chasing after 386 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:09.359 God right, literally says, a man after God's own heart. 387 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:13.640 He's chasing after God's heart. He's pursuing God and God goes. 388 00:17:13.799 --> 00:17:14.519 That's what I love. 389 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:17.480 I'm gonna bless him where he's still even with all 390 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:18.960 these curses on Israel. 391 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:20.319 He said, I'm still gonna bless David. 392 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:22.480 I'm going to restore this fallen house and I'm going 393 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:24.599 to repair his damaged walls. The other thing I love 394 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:26.880 about it is, you know, I've had people tell me 395 00:17:28.519 --> 00:17:31.559 that I know God judged me, right, I know that 396 00:17:31.839 --> 00:17:36.119 this situation is in my life because God is getting 397 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:40.720 my attention, right, Yeah, I know people that have sinned 398 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:45.240 significantly and lost so much. Yeah, and say, I know 399 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:47.359 that this is a consequence, you know, God's consequence for 400 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:51.240 my sins, and I will usually then, you know, and 401 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:55.119