Study From The Book Of Amos, 2

                      Study From The Book of Amos 2*

First, Amos gives us a good life example of an ordinary Shepherd who  obeys God’s command of travelling to a foreign land to deliver a message of judgment to the disobedient people  of Israel. He obeyed and did the job, overcoming all the odds, and he got the best reward one can get which is his book is among the Scripture, besides his reward in heaven.

1. Biblical Principle one (2:4): “Their lies led them astray, lies which their fathers followed.”

Lesson 1: if we do not immerse ourselves in the truth of God’s Word, the lies that flourish all around us can easily take hold in our minds and lead us astray to our destruction.

2. Biblical Principle Two(2:10): “Also it was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.”

Lesson 2: It is good regularly remind ourselves how the Lord has helped us in the past, otherwise we tend to either forget His goodness to us or we begin to imagine that we have blessed ourselves.

• Adopted from Charles Stanley Life Principles Bible, Thomas Nelson Publication, 2005.