Passage
Amos 8:1-14 (ESV)
Peter Reports to the Church
Acts 11:1-18
Key Verse: 11:14
Spiritual Consequences for Sin
Date: Aug. 25, 2014
Daily Bread
Key Verse: 8:11
First, the time was ripe for judgment (1-6). "Ripe" here means ripe for the harvest of judgment. The people were so ripe they were rotten and falling from the tree. They had become so materialistic that they were impatient for worship to end so they could oppress the poor. Money had become their god. God's judgment would come in the form of an earthquake, confirmed by an eclipse.
Second, the judgment was more than physical (7-14). The people would suffer on a spiritual level because of their sin. Their attempts at worship will become times of weeping. They will be in perpetual mourning. They will not be able to hear the word of the Lord and thus grow faith. They will spiritually thirst and stagger in life. Those who should be lovely will appear gaunt and on death's door. Such is the fate of any who ignore God's grace and mercy. We need the Lord. He is our life and our all.
Prayer: Lord, I repent of my sins that cut me off from you. Without you I would surely stagger and fall. Help us to hold onto you and share your word with a people staggering in a spiritual famine.
One Word: The Lord saves from spiritual famine
