PREPARE TO MEET YOUR GOD

Prepare to Meet Your God

Amos 4:4-13

Rick Carmickle

July 17, 2022

1. Self-invented worship of false gods (4:4-5)

“Ignorance creates its own gods, enthusiasm and deceit promotes them, and human self‐deception worships them.”

2. Self-deluded rejection of warnings from God (4:6-11)

“Wise people allow themselves to be interrupted by God.”

 God’s warnings through:

o Famine (v. 6)

o Drought (v. 7‐8)

o Crop failure (v. 9)

o Pestilence (v. 10)

o War (v. 10)

o Destruction (v. 11)

3. Every choice you make has an end result (4:12-13)

 Self-reliance before the holiness of God “Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.” ― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

 Self-submission to the grace of God “Fear‐based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy‐based repentance makes us hate the sin.” – Tim Keller