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| Rev. Canon George Sinclair |
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(Podcast of CFRA broadcast on Sunday, September 25th, 2016)
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Broadcast Notes:
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(Below ANNOUNCEMENT)
SPECIAL
EVENT - Friday, September 30/16 – 7:00 P.M.
Linda & Ernie Cox, with the
London Trio Plus
One of the most beloved Christian music
entertainers in the Ottawa area is going to be in Concert at Sunnyside Wesleyan
Church. Admission is free, but we will be taking up an offering in support of
Good News in the Morning. Mark it on your calendars Friday, September 30th at
7 p.m. at Sunnyside Wesleyan Church. (More…
http://www.gncm.ca/news-and-events )
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This week’s broadcast
talk is a shortened version of a sermon I gave at Church of the Messiah. At
Messiah, we preached through the Book of Amos. The Sermon Series was called, Amos: Let Justice Roll Down!
‘An Intimation of Hell’
Amos
8 (ESV)
The Coming Day of
Bitter Mourning
8 This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of
summer fruit. 2 And he said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I
said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord
said to me,
“The end[a] has come upon my people Israel;
I will never again pass by them.
3 The songs of the temple[b] shall become wailings[c] in that day,”
declares the Lord God.
“So many dead bodies!”
“They are thrown everywhere!”
“Silence!”
I will never again pass by them.
3 The songs of the temple[b] shall become wailings[c] in that day,”
declares the Lord God.
“So many dead bodies!”
“They are thrown everywhere!”
“Silence!”
4 Hear
this, you who trample on the needy
and bring the poor of the land to an end,
5 saying, “When will the new moon be over,
that we may sell grain?
And the Sabbath,
that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make the ephah small and the shekel[d] great
and deal deceitfully with false balances,
6 that we may buy the poor for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
and bring the poor of the land to an end,
5 saying, “When will the new moon be over,
that we may sell grain?
And the Sabbath,
that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make the ephah small and the shekel[d] great
and deal deceitfully with false balances,
6 that we may buy the poor for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
7 The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
“Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
8 Shall not the land tremble on this account,
and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
and all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”
“Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
8 Shall not the land tremble on this account,
and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
and all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”
9 “And
on that day,” declares the Lord God,
“I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.
10 I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
I will bring sackcloth on every waist
and baldness on every head;
I will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
“I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.
10 I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
I will bring sackcloth on every waist
and baldness on every head;
I will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
11 “Behold,
the days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
“when I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 They shall wander from sea to sea,
and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,
but they shall not find it.
“when I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 They shall wander from sea to sea,
and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,
but they shall not find it.
13 “In
that day the lovely virgins and the young men
shall faint for thirst.
14 Those who swear by the Guilt of Samaria,
and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
and, ‘As the Way of Beersheba lives,’
they shall fall, and never rise again.”
shall faint for thirst.
14 Those who swear by the Guilt of Samaria,
and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
and, ‘As the Way of Beersheba lives,’
they shall fall, and never rise again.”
Footnotes:
1.
Amos 8:2 The Hebrew words for end and summer
fruit sound alike
2.
Amos 8:3 Or palace
3.
Amos 8:3 Or The singing women of the palace
shall wail
4.
Amos 8:5 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or
22 liters; a shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
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1. The Bible reports
and interprets.
2. Meeting God is
inevitable.
3. I am a creature
living in creation with a Creator.
4. If I keep on
silencing God, a time will come when I cannot hear Him.
5. God confronts to
connect.
6. God does not offer
to forget, He offers to forgive.
7. I can listen to
another person without agreeing with them. I cannot listen to God without
agreeing with Him
8. Dear Lord, please
make me a disciple of Jesus gripped by the Gospel who listens to Your word and
lives a just and honest life for Your glory.
Rev. Canon George Sinclair
Church of the Messiah
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