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Sunday, 18 September 2016

'DO WE SILENCE THE GOD WHO SPEAKS?'

Rev. Canon George Sinclair

by Rev. Canon George Sinclair

Pastor of the Church of the Messiah, Ottawa, ON.
www.messiahchurch.ca

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(Podcast of CFRA broadcast on Sunday, September 18th, 2016)

http://accm.ncf.ca/images/16.09.18.mp3

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Broadcast Notes:

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A Thank You…

I want to give a shout out to Sandy Davidson who made a generous donation today to be able to put this show on the sir.

And he’s doing it in honour of the great work done by Christian Counseling Ottawa for the past forty years.

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I also want to say that if you’re interested in meeting some of the speakers and supporting this Ministry, we’re going to be having Ernie Cox lead a time singing gospel music at Sunnyside Wesleyan Church, 58 Grosvenor Avenue in old Ottawa South, on Friday, September 30^th at 7:00 PM, and there are refreshments afterward. There’s no cost.

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Do We Silence The God Who Speaks?

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!

Amos 7 (ESV):

Warning Visions

7 This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. ²When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,

“O Lord God, please forgive!
    How can Jacob stand?
    He is so small!”
³The Lord relented concerning this:
    “It shall not be,” said the Lord.

⁴This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, the Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land. ⁵Then I said,

“O Lord God, please cease!
    How can Jacob stand?
    He is so small!”
⁶The Lord relented concerning this:
    “This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.

⁷This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. ⁸And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,

“Behold, I am setting a plumb line
    in the midst of my people Israel;
    I will never again pass by them;
⁹the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate,
    and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste,
    and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

Amos Accused

¹⁰Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words. ¹¹For thus Amos has said,

“‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
and Israel must go into exile
away from his land.’”

¹²And Amaziah said to Amos, “O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there, ¹³but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”

¹⁴Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, “I was^[a] no prophet, nor a prophet's son, but I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs. ¹⁵But the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’ ¹⁶Now therefore hear the word of the Lord.

“You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel,
and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’

¹⁷Therefore thus says the Lord:

“‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city,
    and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,
    and your land shall be divided up with a measuring line;
you yourself shall die in an unclean land,
    and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.’”

Footnotes:

1. Amos 7:14 Or am; twice in this verse

English Standard Version (ESV)

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Notes:

1. The Lord is omnipotent, omnipresent, sovereign, holy and active in His creation.

2. The Lord desires His people to intercede for their city and their nation.

3. The Lord is big and people are small.

4. When god is small and People are big, evil grows, injustice flourishes, and people suffer.

5. The Lord cannot make straight what does not bow.

6. When the Lord speaks, will I "silence" Him or will I call out to Him in repentance and intercession?

7. The Lord God is sovereign, omnipresent, omnipotent, holy and active in His creation and meeting Him is inevitable. So when He speaks, do not "silence" Him, but listen and call out to Him in repentance and intercession.

Rev. Canon George Sinclair

Church of the Messiah

www.messiahchurch.ca
613-235-0596
messiahchurch.office@gmail.com

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To listen to the above broadcast, click on the following link:

http://accm.ncf.ca/images/16.09.18.mp3

Sunday, 2 March 2014

'PRAYING THE BOOK OF REVELATION'

Rev. Canon George Sinclair

by Rev. Canon George Sinclair

Pastor of the Church of the Messiah, Ottawa, ON.
www.messiahchurch.ca

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(Podcast of CFRA broadcast on Sunday, March 2nd, 2014)

http://proxy.autopod.ca/podcasts/chum/6/20004/good_news_094_mar02.mp3

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Broadcast Notes:

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‘Praying The Book Of Revelation’

It is an honour to be able to spend time with you this morning opening the Bible and talking about Jesus.

Please get your Bible and turn to Revelation chapter 10. I will be reading from the ESV, the English Standard Version.

Read chapter 10.

Revelation10

English Standard Version (ESV)

The Angel and the Little Scroll

1Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire. ²He had a little scroll open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land, ³and called out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring. When he called out, the seven thunders sounded. ⁴And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down.” ⁵And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven ⁶and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there would be no more delay, ⁷but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants^[a] the prophets.

⁸Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.” ⁹So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, “Take and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.” ¹⁰And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it. It was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter. ¹¹And I was told, “You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and languages and kings.”

Footnotes:

a. Revelation 10:7 Greek bondservants

Note verses 1-2.

Pray! Living God, please grow in me a humble, trusting knowledge of how incomparably immense and sovereign You truly are.

Read 10: 3-7.

Pray! Eternal God, who alone has created all things, please grow in me a humble, trusting knowledge that You alone speak with finality, authority and power.

Read 10: 7

Pray! Dear God, please grow in me a humble, trusting knowledge that the person and work of Jesus is central to the end You unfailingly will.

Read 10: 8-11.

Pray! Dear God, please grow in me a humble, trusting knowledge of Your written word, the Bible, as I read it and memorize it.

You need to pray one or more of these prayers today and many days. Start today!