Aug. 26, 2024

Amos 3:12 and Satan

Amos 3:12 and Satan

How does Satan show up in Amos 3:12?

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How does Satan show up in Amos 3:12?

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for those of you who've been listening to me for

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don't know, like an adult. He finally sounds like a man. Yes,

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I have hit puberty, ladies and gentlemen, my voice has changed.

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today I woke up like, oh, well, recording is not

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going to happen. But now here I am, and I

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think I think it sounds okay. I think it sounds

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decent enough. I think it does. For what we're going

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I get halfway through it and all of a sudden,

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want to help. I mean, look in any streaming service,

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the money from the broadcaster, right, So, but I still

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think for the user. Here's this amazing tool called the

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Sermonadio platform what can we do to help you discover

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more out there so that you will use the site more,

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and not only that it helps all the broadcasters. Look,

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I may completely disagree with some of the broadcasters, but

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I still want their messages heard because it offers perspective

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I may completely disagree with, but it's a different perspective,

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and then I can offer my perspective. So we're gonna

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come up with I'm constantly thinking of new ideas. So

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the Sermonadio Daily article of if you go to again

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Beta dot sermonadio dot com Theologycentral look for articles, you'll

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see me posting things. And one of the things I've

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been posting about recently is the what are they calling

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this this Stay by the Stuff twenty twenty four camp meeting.

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I guess they're referring to it as a camp meeting.

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I refer to it as a conference, So I think

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camp meeting maybe the actual term they're using. The Stay

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by the Stuff twenty twenty four camp meeting. There are

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ten sermons I think maybe up to thirteen sermons now

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in the series Stay by the Stuff twenty twenty four.

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There's either ten or thirteen messages and this it's from

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Calvary Baptist Church. Calvary Baptist Church, Stay by the Stuff

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twenty twenty four camp meeting. I have been posting some

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of the sermons from this there again at Beta dot

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sermonaudio dot com, Theology Central articles and what we're calling

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these articles Sermon Audio Daily, and I've been keeping up

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with what they're talking about in the camp meeting. Now,

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I'm just going to be honest. This type of preaching

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is definitely not my preference. However, I very much was

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trained in this world. This is a very independent kjav

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only world. I went to many of those types of

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schools and seminaries, so I'm very familiar with it. It's

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where I first really got the opportunity. My first Bible

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institute was in an independent fundamental Baptist church, where I

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first really got an opportunity to preach in any meaningful way,

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and a lot of things they do is how I

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was kind of first taught how to handle scripture. Over time,

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I began to challenge and question a lot of that

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way of handling scripture because I thought it was more

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or just kind of using scripture instead of actually teaching scripture.

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You just find a scripture and then you just kind

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of do whatever you want with it. And you know

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I it bothers me greatly. So I was listening to

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a message from the Stay by the Stuff twenty twenty

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four camp meeting today, and when I was listening, I'm like,

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wait a minute, Wait a minute, where did Satan come from?

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How did Satan get in this passage? Who invited Satan

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to this passage? So what we're going to do is,

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I'm not the goal here is not to review the

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entire sermon. The name of the sermon is Don't let

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the Devil Have It or don't let the Devil have

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it All? Okay, that's the correct title, Don't let the

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Devil have it All? So immediately the title tells you, well,

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this is about the devil. So I knew going in

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the devil was going to be a part of this sermon,

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but when they gave the text of scripture, I was

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somewhat baffled. So we'll listen to it, and we're not

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gonna again, We're not gonna review the entire sermon. I

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will be doing my typical sermon review, you know, you know, analyzing, critiquing,

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that type of thing. But we're only gonna get to

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a certain point, then I'm gonna just leave it and say, Okay,

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they invited Satan into this passage of scripture. What we're

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going to do now is look at the passage of

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scripture and see if we can get Satan back out

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of it. Okay, all right, but maybe you will agree.

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You may go no, that's the kind of preaching we need.

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That's the kind of preaching. And look to me. I understand.

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Sometimes preachers can take a text of scripture and they

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can make it sound interesting, and it can be it

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can connect with you emotional, and it can get you convicted,

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and it can get you excited. It can encourage you,

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it can do a lot of things. But at that point,

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it's not the text doing it. It's the preacher's creativity,

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his way of using the scripture, his communication skills, But

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it's not the actual text. So we always have to

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be care careful, at least from my vantage point. My

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perspective is what the text actually says matters more than

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the preacher's ability to make it interesting or to do

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something with it. Now, you may like this, you may

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you may disagree with my perspective, but that's the beautiful

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thing about doing this is you get to hear a

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different perspective. So the sermon is entitled Don't let the

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Devil Have It All? Calvary Baptist Church. This is one

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of the messages a part of the Stay by the

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Stuff twenty twenty four camp meeting. Go download all of

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the camp meeting. Listen to it all. It may it

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may be a philological stream that you've never been a

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part of. It may the independent Fundamental KJV only you

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may never, never, never been a part of that. So

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go listen to that perspective. It's it's there in Christianity,

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so go listen to it. You may love it, you

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may decide that's what you prefer. Go listen to all

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of it. By no means am I not telling you.

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I just well, I think you can tell. I just

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don't know if Satan belongs here, but maybe maybe they're right.

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You tell me. All right, here we go. This is

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from that message again. It is entitled Don't let the

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Devil Have it All? From the twenty twenty four Stay

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by the Stuff camp meeting, Calvary Baptist Church. Here we go.

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You can't find that, just find the Book of Joel.

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It'll be right beside, Joel, go backwards and you'll run

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in the jose in and Daniel. You can't find Daniel,

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see me after service. I don't know if you realize

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this or not, but sometimes when you go in these

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restaurants today, they got it set up where if they're

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crowded in there and there's a lot of folks, uh, feeding,

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then they play music and they and they and they

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play upbeat music.

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They do that so you'll eat fast and get out.

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And then and when they're slow and they just got

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two or three folks in there eating, they play a

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real slow song, you know, and try to get you

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to stay as long as you can. Amen. And I

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regret that the Brethren Pray played that slow song right

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there at the end, because we're gonna have to do

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this quick.

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Fast and in a hurry. Now, I do as much

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is maybe his style is not mine. There is there

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is something kind of just his kind of down to earth,

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you know approach. I don't know how to define the style, right,

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you know, definitely sounds like coming from the South, you know,

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down to earth kind of like, you know, just the

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everyday kind of person approach to it. There's in some

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parts it's kind of fun to hear. It's kind of interesting,

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different way of approaching it. Very personable, right, very relatable, right, funny.

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there's he does a lot of things from a communication

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point of view that I think kind of draws you

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in a little bit, kind of draws you in. And

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that's all good. I'm not criticizing that in any way,

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shape or form. I could learn to be better at

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those types of things. But the issue is going to be, right,

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where are we going? So now we're going to Amos.

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He didn't actually mention it. He just said it's next

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to Joel. Then he said if he goes backward, you

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run into Hoseah. Then Daniel, okay, all right. So then

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he told that little kind of joking thing. All right,

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all right, So they're gonna they're gonna get through this.

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to Amos chapter three.

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Here we go, Daniel, I mean, excuse me, Amos chapter

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number three. It's an honor to be here. Don't take

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it for granted. And I'm humbled God would consider me

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in Amos chapter three, Look with me, please, Verse number twelve. Yes,

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thus saith the Lord, as the shepherd taketh out the

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mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of

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in the ear, So shall the children of his will

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be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner

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of a bed, and the Damascus in the couch.

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Amos chapter three, verse twelve. Say, thus says the Lord,

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as a shepherd takes from the mouth of a lion

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two legs or a piece of an ear, So shall

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the children of Israel be taken out, who dwell in

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Samaria and the corner of a bed and on the

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edge of a couch. Now, I would ask you if

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someone is preaching Amos chapter three, verse twelve, after they

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read that, what do you think would be a minimal requirement.

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of a background. Well, what is the book of Amos about?

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Who is the the book of Amos, Who are the

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original recipients, What is going on in Amos chapter three,

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verse twelve, Who is being spoken to? Who is this

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being spoken about? I think I think that would to me,

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that's what you have to do. Now. Sometimes in this

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kind of preaching. It's not so much about that as like, well,

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Amos three twelve is what I'm going to use, and

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now I'm gonna use it for this. Amos is just

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being used for a purpose, And I don't think the

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text of scriptures to ever be used for our purpose.

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The text of scripture is to be studied and to

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be understood and what it is saying by the words

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that are being used within its textual and historical context.

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That's my approach, which is again very different than many others.

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But let's see how he's going to handle this.

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Obviously we know from the title Satan's going to show up.

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When you see that, where is Satan going to show up? Now?

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I know what some would do. Well, as a shepherd

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takes from the mouth of a lion, Oh, a lion, lion, lion,

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Satan rome's about like a roaring lion. There we go.

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But roaming about as a roaring lion has literally nothing

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to do with Amos chapter three, verse twelve. It has

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nothing to do with it. Just because you can cross

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reference something with the same word, that's where people need

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to learn how to cross reference. But I'm not saying

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that's what he's doing. But I could see how someone

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could try. But but let's let's just see what happens.

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I hope you get that picture. If you can't, let

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me draw it for you real quick. A lot of

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shepherds in that country, a lot of a lot of

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sheep in the fold, and every once in a while

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I want to get out.

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The Lord said, you.

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Leave the man in there, go after that one that's

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gone straight. Here's this shepherd and he's he's paying because

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he's lost his sheep.

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Now, immediately when I was listening to this, I'm did,

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how did we just like leave the ninety nine and

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go find the one? What? What is this? This is

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not talking about people. This is not talking about individuals

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who go astray in their Christian life. That's not what

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this text is about. This this has a specific situation here.

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So I so immediately I was like, okay, what where

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is this going? Like I was already getting a little

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like come on, now, where where could this be going? Where?

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But but I but you know, let's let's see where

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he takes it. Now. There's there's strong emotion here. You

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can hear the emotion. It's it's going to be driving

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home a very important point. Possibly could be very convicting,

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could be very challenging, could actually be very beneficial in

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many ways. Again, I'm going to raise the question, how

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do we judge that if the text? What about the text?

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What about the text of scripture?

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Right?

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So, here we go, he's looking all over the plot.

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He's trying to find that little sheep that's dollar struck.

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he's painting the picture? Is Amos three verse twelve about

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a shepherd who's like, I've lost my I've lost my sheep.

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And he's he's panicking, and he's he's he's looking around

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trying to find his sheep. Is that what Amos three

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twelve is about about? About a shepherd who has lost

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his sheep? Is that? What is that? What this is about?

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I'll let you answer that is Amos three as well?

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He said he's going to paint the picture if we

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didn't catch it. And he's like, he's got this picture.

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Is here's a shepherd.

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He's like, where's my sheep? Where's my sheep? I'm in painted,

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i gotta find my sheep. Well, then who's the shepherd

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in your analogy. Did God lose the sheep?

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Right? Like? What? What? How? How? What? What's going on here?

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Let let's let him continue to paint the picture.

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He's crying and he's as certain, and he's beating the

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bush and he's trying.

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That of sheep, little sheep. He just tops the heel.

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There's that lion. The Bible said the devil he walked about.

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There's a wrong line, right, Okay. Now, all of a sudden,

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Satan has shown up. So we have a shepherd. He's panicking,

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where's my sheep? Oh, little sheep, little sheep? And he

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comes up on the hilltop and there's the lion. And

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then he immediately now he's just brought Satan in. So

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we have a shepherd who's lost the sheep and Satan.

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So who is the shepherd? Who is the sheep? And

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how did Satan get involved in this? And does this

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have anything to do with Amos Chapter three. I'm presenting

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this to you for you to figure out. This is

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the beauty of listening to so many sermons as you

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hear so different. In fact, the more sermons you listen

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to it can be it can be fun because you

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hear all these different perspectives, and then you have to

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do the work to try to figure out how they're

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handling the text. Do you agree with their hermonutical approach?

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can be disheartening because sometimes you're like, how can we

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never agree on how to handle a scripture? Like you

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can listen to fifteen sermons on Amis three twelve, and

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you may think there's fifty different ways to handle the text.

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You would think that there would be more just universal

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agreement on how to handle text. But the more sermons

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you listen to, the more you realize that's not the case.

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But all right, So we've got a shepherd. He lost

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his sheep. He's yelling, sheep, sheep, sheep. He comes up

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on the hill. There's a lion. The lion has the sheep,

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and the lion is Satan. So we have sheep hasn't

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identified the sheep, the shepherd hasn't identified the shepherd. The

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lion has now been identified as Satan. All right, is

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the lion Satan? Well we'll take all this apart soon.

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Sakan whom he may divide?

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Right? Right, that shepherd looked and he solved that land

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and he saw that it had that little sheep and

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the clutches of his jaw.

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Right, I can kind of.

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See that not going to take the preacher's measure, but

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I can kind of see grabbing that beer that liar.

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I can't kind of seen maybe taking that old shepherd

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stand and beating that line and in uh, in taking

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out what was left of that sheep.

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Now, the people listening love it. I mean you're hearing amen, yes, sir,

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preach it. I mean, I mean the people they're loving this,

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all right, So I always feel bad when well, and

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everyone's loving it, and I'm kind of and I would

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be kind of sitting there going, uh. I would I

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try not. I would try not to do this because

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I always want to be respectful of whoever you're listening

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to in person, right, So, but I would I would

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be at least trying to just jot down on my note.

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I would put shepherd equals sheep equals lion equals how

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And I may have written how did Satan get here? Right?

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That's what I may. I may And I would try

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to just keep like and then I would just put

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my pencil down. I wouldn't start trying to look up

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in the Bible because you want to be respectful. You always,

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whoever you listen to, you want to be respectful, no

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matter how much you disagree with right, because the person

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is pouring their heart into this, they're preaching the word

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of God. They're doing what they feel is bad, and

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so praise God that the word of God is being preached.

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But I just I just oh, I just don't know

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how how like is this the way to go? But

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all right, let's see where he's going to take it.

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Let's see where he's going to take it.

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In other worlds.

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He just he sighed what was left?

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I want to say to that, I'm glad to be saved. Pallelujah,

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Thank God for shout nah.

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I believe with all the heart did my stars like

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maybe mining yours? Maybe that when the shepherd got to me,

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it was hardly anything left.

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Okay, So now the lion is so the lion is

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Satan the shepherd. It sounds like he's about to make

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the shepherd Jesus and he you me, we are the sheep.

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So how did you and me? How did us? How

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did we end up in Amos three twelve? How did

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Satan end up there? And how did Jesus end up

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in Amos three twelve. I've got questions here, I've got

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lots of questions because it seems hermoneutically this is how

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that's what he's done with the text. Hey, I'm going

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to take this text. I'm going to insert Satan, I'm

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going to insert Jesus, and I'm going to insert you.

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Is that what Amos three twelve? Is Amos three twelve

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about Jesus? Is it about Satan? Is it about you

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and me?

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Just reading the text? So shall the children of Israel

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be taken out? Who dwell in Samaria? Now? Immediately, immediately,

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I'm like, wait a minute, Clearly Israel is the focus here,

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not you or me. So so already I know something

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is going wrong here. But again, I know some of

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you love this kind of preaching. You would love it.

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You would you would pay money to go to this

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kind of camp meeting and you would walk out, go

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and praise God.

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This.

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I was convicted this was revival preaching. And I understand that.

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And and well, no, I can't say that. I don't

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understand it in the sense that I would I would

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walk out more like what just happened? So but I

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I so I don't. I can't say I understand it,

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but I do. I'm very aware that a lot of

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people love this kind of preaching. I've set in services

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like this and the people that was one of the

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best sermons I've ever heard. And I'm just going and

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I would leave just sitting at home, look at my

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Bible going. I don't think I understand how to preach.

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I literally don't think I understand how to preach. I've

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got to be able to take a text and just

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basically I got to kind of create something right. And

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so there was a period of time where I was

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very concerned about how to preach right. Well, then when

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I really started figuring out, how about exegetical? How about

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you take the text and you just preach the text.

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You worry about historical context, textual context, who was written to,

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who are the original recipients, and you just teach the text.

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Then you don't have to be all creative and poetic.

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You just teach the text. Now, some people say no,

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so and what I have been accused of is you

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don't preach, you teach. Preaching is to be different than teaching,

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and I've never quite understood that. I'm like no, I'm

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it's the word of God. You call it preaching, I'm

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gonna call it whatever you wanna call it. My job

462
00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:06.160
is to take the text and give it to the

463
00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:11.119
people and help them understand what it says. If preaching

464
00:28:11.240 --> 00:28:13.640
is I can just do anything I want to the text,

465
00:28:13.920 --> 00:28:17.000
then I don't want to be preaching. Preaching has to

466
00:28:17.039 --> 00:28:22.440
be you're expounding the text. I don't know you can.

467
00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:24.359
You can tell me if you think there's a disagreement,

468
00:28:24.359 --> 00:28:26.920
But I don't think you can just say. Preaching allows

469
00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:29.839
for you to just put whoever you want inside a text, right.

470
00:28:35.039 --> 00:28:38.319
Maybe just maybe just a couple of legs and a

471
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piece of a need, I said, I said.

472
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It wasn't much laugh.

473
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When he got to me, the devil had taken most

474
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everything ahead.

475
00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:58.480
See now he's inserted himself directly into this text. Satan

476
00:28:58.920 --> 00:29:02.599
is the lion who ripped him apart. Jesus is the

477
00:29:02.680 --> 00:29:07.720
shepherd who showed up and pulled what was left out. Now,

478
00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:09.799
I just don't know how you insert yourself here. I

479
00:29:09.799 --> 00:29:12.480
don't know how. I just don't know how you do

480
00:29:12.599 --> 00:29:19.119
this hermoneutically. I just I don't understand this taken.

481
00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:24.000
Oh my my family was ruined in my My faith

482
00:29:24.200 --> 00:29:34.319
was ruined, and my life was ruined. Heartbreaking, heartaching sorrow.

483
00:29:34.599 --> 00:29:36.119
I understand. Brother.

484
00:29:38.200 --> 00:29:41.759
I want to say tonight that there wasn't much laugh

485
00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:50.440
when when God came to me. Anybody can relate tonight, Hell,

486
00:29:50.559 --> 00:29:55.759
ha Loujah, thank God. Aren't you glad? God saves old sinners. Amen,

487
00:29:57.119 --> 00:29:58.599
I'm glad, thank God.

488
00:29:58.640 --> 00:29:59.640
When I wasn't.

489
00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:05.160
Looking for him, he was looking for me, amen, and

490
00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:06.079
they came.

491
00:30:05.880 --> 00:30:07.000
To where I was.

492
00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:08.759
How I lo you to gone?

493
00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:15.359
I mean, the people are loving this. The people are

494
00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:18.200
I mean he's got the crowd and the palm of

495
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his hands. I mean he is communicating in a way.

496
00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:25.119
He's pulled them in. There's excitement and on one end

497
00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:27.079
you want to be like, man, that's awesome. They're so

498
00:30:27.240 --> 00:30:32.079
excited about this. Everyone's praising God. This is great. But

499
00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:34.599
then there's another part of me that just I can't

500
00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:38.680
get past how did you get in this text? And

501
00:30:39.240 --> 00:30:43.519
how did Satan get here? Like I'm not following this

502
00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:46.799
in any way, shape or form, but let's see where

503
00:30:46.799 --> 00:30:47.200
he goes.

504
00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:59.039
I wouldn't much laugh when God came back. Ah, thank

505
00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:07.920
you understand. Yes, the talk of lads and the pace.

506
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Somewhere near.

507
00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:21.640
Did you hear the person there? Help us understand, preacher,

508
00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:25.920
help us understand. I love the crowd, man. I mean

509
00:31:26.119 --> 00:31:28.680
if I have ever ever had a crowd doing that,

510
00:31:28.839 --> 00:31:31.359
I'd probably die of a heart attack. I'd be like, Wow,

511
00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:34.160
they're actually interested. Okay, Mark, maybe that's not fair, but

512
00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:37.240
I mean sometimes you're like, is anybody even paying attention?

513
00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:40.640
Does anyone care? That kind of crowd will get a

514
00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:44.960
preacher to preach for fifteen hours because that encouragement. So

515
00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:49.519
anytime you can encourage, encourage because preachers need it. But

516
00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:52.279
at the same time, and like, help me understand, Well,

517
00:31:52.359 --> 00:31:54.319
I want to raise my hand and go, I'll help

518
00:31:54.319 --> 00:31:59.480
you understand. This is not what Amos three twelve is about.

519
00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:03.519
This is not no no. If I'm gonna help you understand,

520
00:32:03.640 --> 00:32:06.319
we need to stop the sermon now. We need to

521
00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:09.519
stop the sermon. We gotta move ourselves out, we gotta

522
00:32:09.559 --> 00:32:13.039
move Satan out, we need to move Israel back in. Right,

523
00:32:13.400 --> 00:32:16.079
we need to figure out what's going on here in Amos.

524
00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:17.960
Now we're gonna We're going to do that here in

525
00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:20.680
a minute. I'm gonna try to help you understand. Now.

526
00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:23.279
They may not they would disagree with me, and that's okay,

527
00:32:23.359 --> 00:32:25.200
that's fine. I want you to go listen to them.

528
00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:26.839
I want you to listen to this entire sermon. I

529
00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:28.880
want you to listen to the entire camp meeting. I

530
00:32:28.920 --> 00:32:30.880
want you to follow them on the sermon's two point

531
00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:33.319
zero app But I am gonna try to help us

532
00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:35.839
understand this. But let's go a little further, just so

533
00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:38.240
that you get a sense of exactly where he takes.

534
00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:44.279
This squandered my life rat is living.

535
00:32:45.559 --> 00:32:53.079
Yeah, get them babies, catch them sandwiches, mustard sandwiches.

536
00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:56.559
Wow, because get it.

537
00:32:56.720 --> 00:33:03.480
Blow that money on a pool table, hit it out

538
00:33:03.519 --> 00:33:04.960
of detalks?

539
00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:11.839
Are you hitting what I'm saying to that? I'm ashamed.

540
00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:18.000
Everything I ever did still a shame most of the time.

541
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But I don't ever ever regret that day when.

542
00:33:23.799 --> 00:33:27.119
Jesus wants my sins away. Amen.

543
00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:34.480
I said, it wasn't much left when God came by.

544
00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:35.920
Are you hearing me tonight?

545
00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:36.480
Church?

546
00:33:38.359 --> 00:33:40.960
I want to I got a newsflash for you.

547
00:33:41.920 --> 00:33:50.599
Hallelujah, Almighty God. He'll he'll take what's left and use

548
00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:52.279
it for the glory of God.

549
00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:52.920
Amen.

550
00:33:56.640 --> 00:33:59.880
That's just I just I have strong memories of thinking

551
00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:03.079
I can never preach this way. I just can't do this.

552
00:34:03.680 --> 00:34:07.160
It's like just creating a story. Like and I just

553
00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:09.679
I'm like, oh, I know what I know I can

554
00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:11.880
do is I think I'm very good at taking a

555
00:34:11.920 --> 00:34:17.199
text apart. I think I can look at it exegetically, hermoneutically, theologically.

556
00:34:17.239 --> 00:34:19.320
I think I can look at it from its historical context.

557
00:34:19.320 --> 00:34:22.199
It's textual context, the syntax. I think I can do it.

558
00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:24.079
I think I can take it apart. I think I

559
00:34:24.119 --> 00:34:28.199
can I can teach it right. Well, that's not preaching, brother,

560
00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:30.679
that you gotta learn to preach. You got to reach

561
00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:33.239
in and grab the people. You gotta get them there,

562
00:34:33.320 --> 00:34:38.519
you gotta move them, gotta tell stories, you gotta move them.

563
00:34:38.559 --> 00:34:43.119
You gotta be poetical, you gotta be creative. Oh I just,

564
00:34:43.239 --> 00:34:45.679
I just I was always thinking what am I going

565
00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:47.119
to do? So when I hear this, there's a part

566
00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:49.119
of me that's like, man, I so wanted to be

567
00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:53.159
like this. I so wanted to be like this, And

568
00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:55.280
now there's another part of me this like, I'm glad

569
00:34:55.360 --> 00:34:59.559
I didn't go this path because I feel like I

570
00:34:59.559 --> 00:35:02.679
would have I would have been disrespecting the word of God.

571
00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:07.559
Now you may disagree with me, but that's okay. But

572
00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:10.039
we still don't have an idea exactly where he's going,

573
00:35:10.079 --> 00:35:12.559
right if we don't have a full idea, But he's

574
00:35:12.639 --> 00:35:13.559
almost there.

575
00:35:18.280 --> 00:35:21.159
In just a few minutes. Denied, I want to preach.

576
00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:27.599
Tell you it's going on nine o'clock. Case you're interested, yes,

577
00:35:27.719 --> 00:35:30.280
for a few minutes. I want to preach on this storm.

578
00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:34.360
I know he gonna get some of it.

579
00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:38.000
I know he might.

580
00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:42.559
Get most of it, but don't let the devil have

581
00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:43.119
it all.

582
00:35:43.320 --> 00:35:47.800
Amen, don't give him all of it.

583
00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:53.239
Now, wait a minute, don't let the devil. So now

584
00:35:53.280 --> 00:35:56.840
I'm even more confused. So Ams three twelve. Satan is involved.

585
00:35:56.920 --> 00:36:01.280
I'm involved, the shepherd. But now it's up to me

586
00:36:01.480 --> 00:36:04.280
not to not let the devil have it all. So

587
00:36:04.440 --> 00:36:07.639
am I the shepherd pulling myself out of the mouth

588
00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:10.639
of the lion. Hey, the devil may get some of it,

589
00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:13.320
the devil may get most of it, but don't let

590
00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:15.920
the devil have all of it. Now that sounds really good.

591
00:36:16.039 --> 00:36:18.480
You can write that down in a journal that sound

592
00:36:18.519 --> 00:36:21.159
that preaches good. The devil may get some of it,

593
00:36:21.320 --> 00:36:23.760
the devil may get most of it, but don't let

594
00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:26.119
the devil have all of it. But what does that

595
00:36:26.199 --> 00:36:28.920
get to do with Amos Chapter three, verse twelve. That's

596
00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:32.679
where I'm totally completely confused. So now is it me?

597
00:36:33.199 --> 00:36:36.639
See Satan's got me. Oh, he's ripping me apart. I

598
00:36:36.679 --> 00:36:39.559
lost my arm. Oh no, I lost my leg? Oh no,

599
00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:41.599
I lost an ear. Okay, man, I got I got

600
00:36:41.679 --> 00:36:44.000
at least one arm, left one leg. Okay, all right,

601
00:36:44.199 --> 00:36:47.280
I'm gonna Satan, you can't have any more. You can't

602
00:36:47.320 --> 00:36:49.719
have anyone? Is it me telling Satan what he can

603
00:36:49.800 --> 00:36:54.880
or can't have? How does this? What is this got

604
00:36:54.920 --> 00:36:56.320
to do with Amos? Chapter three?

605
00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:05.840
Look around and I see the results, the product of

606
00:37:06.679 --> 00:37:09.840
what happens when you get the devil. Most of you laugh.

607
00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:15.000
I'm here to tell you or not, you can take

608
00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:20.480
what's left. You can take what's over a man and

609
00:37:20.679 --> 00:37:24.880
God use it for his glory, get glory out.

610
00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:25.559
Of it somehow.

611
00:37:27.679 --> 00:37:31.000
So I've got to take what's left and then I

612
00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:34.000
give it to God. So I don't so I don't

613
00:37:34.039 --> 00:37:36.800
know exactly how this works. Sorry, but let me let's

614
00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:38.800
just you can go listen to the rest. And I

615
00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:40.239
do want you to go listen to the rest. We

616
00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:42.159
get one. I want them to get the downloads and streams.

617
00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:44.800
I don't want you to follow them. I want you

618
00:37:44.840 --> 00:37:46.519
to listen to their preaching all the time because it

619
00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:51.760
is it is a stream in American Christianity. This fundamentalist

620
00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:54.960
is fundamentalist movement is a very much a stream in

621
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American Christianity, in American christian history. So you know, it's

622
00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:02.480
good to keep up with what's going on there, how

623
00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:04.719
the text is being handled. I like keeping up with

624
00:38:04.760 --> 00:38:07.800
what's going on and all the different streams of Christianity.

625
00:38:08.159 --> 00:38:10.840
So but let all I can do is say, all right,

626
00:38:10.920 --> 00:38:13.920
remember that person, yell help us understand. So all I

627
00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:16.920
can do is like, okay, I'm going to try to help, right,

628
00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:19.159
and maybe we'll play a little bit more at the end,

629
00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:21.159
but let's let's just work through this, all right. Amos

630
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Chapter three, verse twelve. I'm going to read it from

631
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a completely different translation. This is what the Lord says,

632
00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:29.519
as a shepherd rescues from the lion's mouth only two

633
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leg bones or a piece of an ear. So will

634
00:38:32.039 --> 00:38:35.639
the Israelites living in Samaria be rescued with only the

635
00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:39.039
head of a bed and a piece of fabric fabric

636
00:38:39.159 --> 00:38:43.960
from a couch. Now, that kind of that translation offers Hey,

637
00:38:43.960 --> 00:38:46.800
this is about who's going to be the Israelites living

638
00:38:46.840 --> 00:38:49.559
in Samaria. They're the ones who are going to be rescued.

639
00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:53.920
So this is not about you. It's not about you.

640
00:38:54.199 --> 00:39:00.119
It's about Israel and Samaria. Now here's some information. In

641
00:39:00.199 --> 00:39:04.920
Amos three twelve, Amos is using a metaphor to describe

642
00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:09.000
acoming judgment on Israel. I think we can all see that. Hey,

643
00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:13.000
he's describing a judgment coming upon Israel. The imagery of

644
00:39:13.039 --> 00:39:16.719
a shepherd rescuing only a small part of a sheep

645
00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:19.880
from a lion's mouth is a picture of utter devastation

646
00:39:20.199 --> 00:39:23.960
where only remnants remain. So he's giving a picture here.

647
00:39:24.519 --> 00:39:28.840
Judgment is coming, but some there's gonna be a rescue

648
00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:31.519
of some sort, a remnant of some sort. There's gonna

649
00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:35.000
be pieces left. God speaking through Amos's warning Israel that

650
00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:37.960
the judgment coming upon them will be so severe that

651
00:39:38.039 --> 00:39:41.960
only a small and significant remnant of their former wealth

652
00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:46.239
and power will be left. This is about Israel, and

653
00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:49.440
judgment is coming upon Israel. What does this have to

654
00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:51.760
do with Satan. I don't know what is haf to

655
00:39:51.800 --> 00:39:54.960
do with you? What is it about you trying to

656
00:39:55.159 --> 00:39:57.039
not let Satan have it all. I don't know what

657
00:39:57.119 --> 00:40:01.360
any of this is. I am complete perplexed. But let's

658
00:40:01.360 --> 00:40:04.559
get a little bit more here, all right. This verse

659
00:40:04.679 --> 00:40:07.119
Amus three twelve is using the image of a shepherd

660
00:40:07.119 --> 00:40:09.360
who can only recover pieces of a sheep that has

661
00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:12.079
been attacked by a lion. This implies that the destruction

662
00:40:12.159 --> 00:40:15.039
awaiting Israel will be overwhelming, with only a few largely

663
00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:19.960
insignificant remains of their previous state being saved. Samaria, the

664
00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:23.000
capital of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, is specifically mentioned.

665
00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:28.679
The Israelites there were enjoying luxury and complacency, will find

666
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that their wealth and security will be reduced to almost nothing,

667
00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:34.119
a mere head of a bed and a piece of

668
00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:37.000
fabric from a couch. So this is the idea of

669
00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:40.880
people just kicking back. They got everything. It's all nice.

670
00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:44.800
They're relax they have wealth, they have prosperity, they have peace,

671
00:40:45.119 --> 00:40:48.480
they have the ability just to spend time in luxury

672
00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:55.519
and entertainment. Everything is great, but judgment is coming. That's

673
00:40:55.800 --> 00:41:03.960
that's the warning here for Israel. Okay, the rescue you

674
00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:09.000
mentioned here is ironic. It doesn't apply a true deliverance,

675
00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:11.719
but rather the sparing of a few remnant as a

676
00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:15.079
sign of the devastation. So the idea here is like, hey,

677
00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:17.599
a little bit's going to be left, A little bit's

678
00:41:17.639 --> 00:41:22.519
going to be left. Amos three twelve then, is a

679
00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:25.159
prophetic warning. Are you ready for this?

680
00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:26.159
Okay?

681
00:41:27.199 --> 00:41:35.719
Amos three twelve is a prophetic warning to iss Rael,

682
00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:43.360
to Israel and a very specific historical context. It's not

683
00:41:43.400 --> 00:41:46.840
about Satan. It's not about you. It's not about your salvation.

684
00:41:47.679 --> 00:41:51.480
As much as that sounds good and it preaches great,

685
00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:56.079
now here's the key. He's talking of this beautiful picture

686
00:41:56.119 --> 00:41:59.239
of salvation and not letting Satan have it all. And

687
00:41:59.280 --> 00:42:02.320
you could talk about maybe some of the practical value

688
00:42:02.360 --> 00:42:05.280
in that, but what do we do if it's if

689
00:42:05.320 --> 00:42:08.159
it's not the text? Like, how do you? Does it

690
00:42:08.239 --> 00:42:10.719
bother you? Or do you not care? I don't. Everyone's

691
00:42:10.760 --> 00:42:14.679
going to have a different opinion. But Amos three twelve

692
00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:17.159
is a prophetic warning to Israel about the impending disaster

693
00:42:17.239 --> 00:42:20.320
that will strike due to their persistent disobedience and idolatry.

694
00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:23.440
The verse employees the metaphor of a shepherd retrieving only

695
00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:26.039
scraps from a lion to signify the complete and utter

696
00:42:26.079 --> 00:42:29.039
destruction that will be false Samaria. Despite their sense of

697
00:42:29.079 --> 00:42:32.199
security and luxury, the people of Israel will face overwhelming judgment,

698
00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:35.039
leaving behind only a few remnants of their former life.

699
00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:37.960
The verse underscores the seriousness of God's judgment, and the

700
00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:42.320
partial rescue is not a sign of salvation, but rather

701
00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:46.400
an indication of the thoroughness of the destruction. So it's

702
00:42:46.440 --> 00:42:50.679
not even about The emphasis here is not salvation. The

703
00:42:50.719 --> 00:42:53.960
emphasis is You're going to be so totally destroyed their

704
00:42:54.079 --> 00:42:56.880
only parts are going to remain. He turns it into

705
00:42:57.880 --> 00:43:00.639
praise God, Like I don't. He turns it. He turns

706
00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:03.400
it almost into something about salvation. But then he kind

707
00:43:03.440 --> 00:43:06.360
of reverses and goes to, hey, hey, don't let Satan

708
00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:08.880
have it all. Fight back and take what's left. And

709
00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:11.280
I don't even know none of that has anything to

710
00:43:11.320 --> 00:43:13.840
do with this actual passage of what it's actually saying,

711
00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:19.039
all right, This serves as a stark warning to the

712
00:43:19.079 --> 00:43:22.719
Israelites that their current way of life, characterized by complacency

713
00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:27.400
and injustice, will lead to severe consequences right now. The

714
00:43:27.400 --> 00:43:32.920
prophecy in Amos three twelve was fulfilled by you ready

715
00:43:33.719 --> 00:43:38.800
the Assyrian Empire, which conquered the Northern Kingdom of Israel,

716
00:43:39.119 --> 00:43:43.880
including its capital Samaria in seven twenty two b C.

717
00:43:45.400 --> 00:43:49.039
Now the people here listening to this sermon getting all excited.

718
00:43:49.760 --> 00:43:52.039
If you stop them in the parking lot, would they

719
00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:56.400
even know about the Assyrian captivity of the Northern Kingdom

720
00:43:56.719 --> 00:43:59.079
and that the capital of Samaria was destroyed in seven

721
00:43:59.159 --> 00:44:02.159
twenty twenty or the capital was taken in seven twenty

722
00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:05.199
two BC. Would they even know this even though they

723
00:44:05.280 --> 00:44:11.159
just heard a sermon on Amos three twelve. During the

724
00:44:11.280 --> 00:44:13.920
eighth century BC, the Northern Kingdom of Israel was in

725
00:44:13.960 --> 00:44:17.719
the state of moral and spiritual decline characterized by idolatry

726
00:44:18.079 --> 00:44:21.760
and disregard for God's covenant. The prophets, including Amos, warned

727
00:44:21.880 --> 00:44:26.400
Israel of impending judgment if they did not repent. The

728
00:44:26.440 --> 00:44:32.039
Assyrian Empire, under the leader of Tiglath Palliser the Third

729
00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:37.079
and Shalmaneser, was expanding its power in the region. After

730
00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:40.519
a series of invasions, the Assyrians laid siege to Samaria

731
00:44:40.559 --> 00:44:44.360
and the capital of Israel, and eventually captured it. The

732
00:44:44.360 --> 00:44:48.119
fall of Samaria and seven two BC marked the end

733
00:44:48.599 --> 00:44:53.760
of the Northern Kingdom. So this has a very this

734
00:44:53.800 --> 00:44:59.280
is real specific historical fulfillment. They were going to be

735
00:44:59.280 --> 00:45:05.679
sure remained, a remnant remained that was never going to

736
00:45:05.719 --> 00:45:07.800
be the same. The Northern Kingdom would never be that,

737
00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:10.599
the Northern Kingdom would never come back. As the Northern

738
00:45:10.639 --> 00:45:15.000
Kingdom gone, a remnant left. But the Northern Kingdom, now

739
00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:18.440
we could get into later historical. That's why it's interesting

740
00:45:18.440 --> 00:45:20.119
when the new covenants made with the House of Israel

741
00:45:20.119 --> 00:45:21.639
and the House of Jita. Wait a minute, how is

742
00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:23.280
that going to Okay, we can get into a whole

743
00:45:23.320 --> 00:45:27.639
discussion about all of that, but the point is that's

744
00:45:27.639 --> 00:45:31.920
what this is about. The destruction of Israel by the

745
00:45:31.920 --> 00:45:38.320
Assyrians was catastrophic, just as Amos three twelve predicted, Only

746
00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:45.119
a small, insignificant remnant of Israel's former wealth and power remained.

747
00:45:46.079 --> 00:45:50.639
The people were either killed, exiled, or scattered, and the

748
00:45:50.760 --> 00:45:55.400
kingdom never recovered. The imagery of a shepherd retrieving only

749
00:45:55.480 --> 00:45:59.119
a few remnants from the lion's mouth only aptly describes

750
00:45:59.159 --> 00:46:02.840
the situation. The nation was almost entirely consumed, with only

751
00:46:02.880 --> 00:46:06.559
a few fragments left. Thus, the Assyrian Empire was the

752
00:46:06.679 --> 00:46:09.400
nation that fulfilled the prophecy of Ams three twelve, bringing

753
00:46:09.480 --> 00:46:12.239
judgment upon Israel. So then here's the thing. So the

754
00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:20.159
lion is not Satan, the lion is the Assyrians. If

755
00:46:20.199 --> 00:46:22.639
you want to, if you really want to, now the candidate,

756
00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:25.559
the metaphor is not really supposed to be broken down

757
00:46:25.639 --> 00:46:27.679
like that. It's just like, hey, Israel, you're about to

758
00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:30.440
be ripped into pieces and nothing's going to be left.

759
00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:34.239
That's really the image there. Now you can try to

760
00:46:34.239 --> 00:46:36.360
take the image and push it further, and sometimes that's

761
00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:39.239
the danger with metaphors in the Bible, the metaphor, same

762
00:46:39.320 --> 00:46:41.920
with parables. It's not like, well, this represents this, this

763
00:46:41.960 --> 00:46:44.639
represents this, and this represents this. It's like the basic

764
00:46:44.719 --> 00:46:47.360
idea is judgment is coming upon Israel and you're going

765
00:46:47.400 --> 00:46:49.760
to be ripped into pieces and very little is going

766
00:46:49.800 --> 00:46:55.519
to be left. That's typically the way it is understood, right,

767
00:46:55.679 --> 00:46:59.159
Only a little bit's going to be left. So so,

768
00:46:59.480 --> 00:47:01.039
but even if you wanted to try to break the

769
00:47:01.079 --> 00:47:05.159
metaphor down, well, then the lion would be the Assyrians,

770
00:47:05.519 --> 00:47:08.440
the sheep would be Israel, and the shepherd would be

771
00:47:08.599 --> 00:47:14.199
God protecting or keeping a remnant there. If you really

772
00:47:14.199 --> 00:47:22.079
wanted to break it down, it would be and and

773
00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:25.920
I think it would be also important to note that,

774
00:47:26.960 --> 00:47:30.239
and I think this is important to remember even in

775
00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:33.519
that even in that situation, even in this situation, it's

776
00:47:33.599 --> 00:47:37.960
very important to understand this right, that it is God

777
00:47:38.239 --> 00:47:41.920
using the Assyrians. Right, So, even if you're going to

778
00:47:41.960 --> 00:47:44.280
try to push this metaphor, you got to remember the

779
00:47:44.320 --> 00:47:48.599
Assyrians are being used by God to bring judgment upon Israel.

780
00:47:48.719 --> 00:47:50.920
God is the one guiding and directing all of this.

781
00:47:52.119 --> 00:47:54.719
In fact, I looked up in one source, God used

782
00:47:54.719 --> 00:47:57.880
the Assyrians to bring judgment upon Israel. In the context

783
00:47:57.880 --> 00:48:00.440
of the Bible, God often uses foreign nations as instruments

784
00:48:00.480 --> 00:48:02.960
of his judgment against his people when they turn away

785
00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:06.199
from him and persist in a sin. Throughout the Old Testament,

786
00:48:06.280 --> 00:48:08.840
God's sovereignty is emphasized, meaning he has control over all

787
00:48:08.960 --> 00:48:11.039
nations and events. He can use any nation or power

788
00:48:11.039 --> 00:48:14.159
to fulfill his purpose, including bringing judgment on his own

789
00:48:14.199 --> 00:48:17.960
people while they stay astray from his covenant. So in

790
00:48:17.960 --> 00:48:22.000
this particular case, the lion is the Assyrians, but God

791
00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:25.360
is the one directing and using them to tear the

792
00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:28.880
sheep into pieces. God is the one guiding and directing it.

793
00:48:32.079 --> 00:48:34.599
There are numerous instances in the Bible where God raises

794
00:48:34.679 --> 00:48:36.880
up foreign nations to execute his judgment. For example, the

795
00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:39.519
Babylonians were used to bring judgment on Judah and the

796
00:48:39.519 --> 00:48:42.440
Assyrians were used to bring judgment on Israel. These events

797
00:48:42.440 --> 00:48:45.159
are often portrayed as God allowing these nations to act

798
00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:49.719
as his instruments of punishment. Profits like Amos warned Israel

799
00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:52.000
that if they did not repent, God would bring foreign

800
00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:54.599
invaders as a form of judgment at Amos three to twelve.

801
00:48:54.599 --> 00:48:57.880
While the immediate cause of Israel's downfall was the Assyrian invasion,

802
00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:02.079
the ultimate cause was God's descid to judge Israel for

803
00:49:02.280 --> 00:49:07.159
his sin, for its sins. So the reality here is

804
00:49:07.239 --> 00:49:13.079
Ams three twelve is about God bringing judgment upon Israel

805
00:49:13.400 --> 00:49:18.039
because of their sin and their idolatry. It's a warning

806
00:49:18.239 --> 00:49:22.280
of God's sovereignty and that God will bring judgment. This

807
00:49:22.320 --> 00:49:24.400
is not about Satan. This is not about you. It's

808
00:49:24.440 --> 00:49:27.679
not about me. It's not about say, I don't get

809
00:49:27.679 --> 00:49:29.920
where any of this comes from. That's what the text

810
00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:33.760
is about. Let's listen to a little bit more and

811
00:49:33.800 --> 00:49:34.679
see where he takes it.

812
00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:41.000
I'm just saying, hey, don't let the devil have it all, amen.

813
00:49:41.920 --> 00:49:45.920
He don't deserve it all, and for some of you,

814
00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:50.760
he got a lot. Come on, now we done yet,

815
00:49:50.760 --> 00:49:55.880
we'll be done to manage. I'm just saying, don't give

816
00:49:55.920 --> 00:49:58.880
it all to him. Amen, Can I help you just

817
00:49:58.960 --> 00:50:02.079
for a minute. I can see that old I can

818
00:50:02.119 --> 00:50:05.679
see that old prodigal son sitting there in that hole

819
00:50:05.800 --> 00:50:11.280
pin and maybe just he's just full of himself. He

820
00:50:11.400 --> 00:50:18.119
just ruined everything, everything he had. Yeah, couldn't even get

821
00:50:18.119 --> 00:50:24.800
a decent meal. The Bible said, he came to himself. Hallliah,

822
00:50:24.840 --> 00:50:28.239
what's that preacher that's called holy ghost conviction?

823
00:50:31.559 --> 00:50:33.639
He came to he came to himself.

824
00:50:36.199 --> 00:50:39.079
Now, how did the prodigal son show up in Amas

825
00:50:39.119 --> 00:50:44.880
three twelve? Well, so we got Satan the shepherd against

826
00:50:44.920 --> 00:50:49.119
his Jesus, and now the sheep is I guess the

827
00:50:49.159 --> 00:50:52.480
prodigal son the whole thing. I just I can't even

828
00:50:52.559 --> 00:50:53.159
follow this.

829
00:50:55.679 --> 00:50:57.559
I can kind of see him as he said there,

830
00:50:58.039 --> 00:51:03.719
talking to himself, maybe talking to the devil and saying,

831
00:51:03.760 --> 00:51:06.880
you know, you know what took everything I got?

832
00:51:09.760 --> 00:51:15.719
Now? Wait, so in the prodigal son, in the prodigal son,

833
00:51:16.599 --> 00:51:32.079
did the Satan take everything? Okay? Hang on, uh, okay,

834
00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:34.400
hang on? There was okay, hang on. A certain man

835
00:51:34.440 --> 00:51:36.440
had two sons, and the younger of them said to

836
00:51:36.440 --> 00:51:38.800
his father, give me the portion of goods falls to me.

837
00:51:39.039 --> 00:51:42.480
This is Luke fifteen. So he divided to them his livelihood.

838
00:51:42.519 --> 00:51:45.320
And how many days after the young son gathered altogether

839
00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:48.039
journey to a far country, and they're wasted his possessions

840
00:51:48.039 --> 00:51:52.239
with prodigal living? Did did Satan show up in Luke fifteen?

841
00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:55.079
Now he's got Satan showing up in Luke fifteen he

842
00:51:55.119 --> 00:51:59.119
put Satan, and Luke fifteen, he's put Satan in Amos

843
00:51:59.159 --> 00:52:01.840
chapter three, verse twelve. How does Satan keep showing up

844
00:52:01.840 --> 00:52:05.039
in all of these passages of scripture? Can we just

845
00:52:05.119 --> 00:52:09.280
insert Satan wherever we want? Hey, here's the pathoge of scripture. Boom,

846
00:52:09.320 --> 00:52:12.679
there's the devil. Wait, hey, here's a peasant. Boom, there's

847
00:52:12.719 --> 00:52:15.519
the devil. And then we can just and create imaginary

848
00:52:15.559 --> 00:52:21.519
conversations that the text doesn't record. That's my problem with

849
00:52:21.559 --> 00:52:25.960
the Chosen television show. It just creates dialogue that's nowhere

850
00:52:25.960 --> 00:52:28.159
in the Bible is supposedly telling the story of the

851
00:52:28.199 --> 00:52:31.960
Bible King James. Only people are the ones like, do

852
00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:35.400
not add to the word of God, do not subtract

853
00:52:35.400 --> 00:52:39.039
from it. Okay, well, then can we add or subtract

854
00:52:39.039 --> 00:52:40.159
in our preaching.

855
00:52:41.960 --> 00:52:44.320
How to scroier you all away a whine and women

856
00:52:44.400 --> 00:52:50.039
is sould ruined everything I have. Don't even know if

857
00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:52.639
I could be a son again.

858
00:52:56.400 --> 00:53:02.360
Everybody, and he shaid, you know, but.

859
00:53:05.400 --> 00:53:10.760
I got just a just a little tiny bit of hope.

860
00:53:12.280 --> 00:53:15.440
I know if if I could get back to the

861
00:53:15.519 --> 00:53:21.079
father's house, if I could just make it back home,

862
00:53:22.079 --> 00:53:24.119
I know things will work out.

863
00:53:25.360 --> 00:53:28.079
I'll just be a servant instead of a son.

864
00:53:32.599 --> 00:53:35.239
I'm just I'm trying to hurry.

865
00:53:35.239 --> 00:53:39.320
I'm running through them. Are listening to me. I'm just

866
00:53:39.440 --> 00:53:43.719
telling you night. He's gonna get some of it. He

867
00:53:43.800 --> 00:53:48.280
might get most of it. I look out here now,

868
00:53:49.880 --> 00:53:55.559
maybe some of you lost most everything. Are you listening

869
00:53:55.559 --> 00:54:00.719
to me? Look at my good eye, I said, Pennsylvania

870
00:54:00.719 --> 00:54:01.239
one pound.

871
00:54:04.960 --> 00:54:07.079
Well you can see what he does with the text.

872
00:54:07.639 --> 00:54:09.519
Now you can go listen to the rest we hear

873
00:54:09.559 --> 00:54:11.280
the story. Well, what happened one time? I guess when

874
00:54:11.280 --> 00:54:14.440
he's in Pennsylvania. I don't know what to do with that.

875
00:54:14.639 --> 00:54:16.960
I don't know. On one hand, yeah, I don't want

876
00:54:16.960 --> 00:54:19.440
the Yeah. On one hand, probably isn't good don't let

877
00:54:19.519 --> 00:54:21.360
the devil have it? Okay, all right? So now what

878
00:54:21.360 --> 00:54:22.960
do I do not to let the devil have it?

879
00:54:23.000 --> 00:54:24.719
What do I do? What do I have to do?

880
00:54:24.880 --> 00:54:26.719
Not let the devil have it? But is it really

881
00:54:26.800 --> 00:54:29.000
the devil that I got to worry about taking Is

882
00:54:29.039 --> 00:54:30.880
it the devil that's going to take part of me?

883
00:54:31.280 --> 00:54:34.400
Or is it me going? Are we not more? It's

884
00:54:34.559 --> 00:54:37.480
us who does it to ourselves? Or is it devil?

885
00:54:37.559 --> 00:54:40.840
Our go to Hey, if this happens, it's the devil,

886
00:54:41.239 --> 00:54:44.440
it's the devil. It's the devil. It's the devil. It's

887
00:54:44.519 --> 00:54:49.519
the devil. It's the devil. It's the devil. I'll never forget.

888
00:54:49.599 --> 00:54:53.239
I was in a text school Shepherd Air Force Base,

889
00:54:54.239 --> 00:54:55.800
and we had our week. We had to go live

890
00:54:55.840 --> 00:54:58.000
out in the middle of nowhere and play war and

891
00:54:58.079 --> 00:55:01.039
all the stuff we had to do. You know who. Yeah,

892
00:55:01.079 --> 00:55:02.960
it was not I mean, I had as much fun

893
00:55:02.960 --> 00:55:04.320
as I could have, but it was also by the

894
00:55:04.320 --> 00:55:05.960
time I was coming back, I was like, I want

895
00:55:05.960 --> 00:55:07.880
to get back to civilization, because you got us out

896
00:55:07.920 --> 00:55:10.519
here in the middle of nowhere. We've had fake bombs

897
00:55:10.559 --> 00:55:12.760
blowing up and we've had to do all these crazy things.

898
00:55:12.960 --> 00:55:16.400
But one of the female I guess, I guess she

899
00:55:16.440 --> 00:55:18.360
was the same rank, maybe maybe a higher rank. I

900
00:55:18.360 --> 00:55:20.559
don't know. Well, she was involved in all of it,

901
00:55:20.960 --> 00:55:24.440
and there was a conversation going on and she was arguing.

902
00:55:24.519 --> 00:55:28.119
She was clearly atheist or agnostic and arguing with these Christians,

903
00:55:28.119 --> 00:55:30.239
and I was just kind of like letting the conversation go.

904
00:55:30.599 --> 00:55:32.400
And she's like, it must be nice to be a

905
00:55:32.440 --> 00:55:36.320
Christian because you can blame everything that happens to you.

906
00:55:36.320 --> 00:55:40.039
You can blame everything you do wrong on this imaginary devil.

907
00:55:40.119 --> 00:55:43.119
It's always Satan's fault. It's always the Devil's fault. It's

908
00:55:43.199 --> 00:55:46.719
never your fault. Right, Why don't you take some responsibility

909
00:55:46.840 --> 00:55:50.239
and stop blaming an imaginary creature for causing you all

910
00:55:50.320 --> 00:55:53.320
your problems? Right? Hip for Christian like you? She was

911
00:55:53.400 --> 00:55:57.800
very antagonistic, she wasn't happy about any of it. And

912
00:55:58.119 --> 00:56:00.559
I never will forget that conversation because there is a

913
00:56:00.559 --> 00:56:03.480
little bit, you know, hey, what is hey the devil?

914
00:56:03.519 --> 00:56:05.840
The devil did he? Don't let the devil have it. Look,

915
00:56:05.840 --> 00:56:07.960
I don't need the devil to mess up my life.

916
00:56:08.079 --> 00:56:10.239
I am more than capable of doing it on my

917
00:56:10.360 --> 00:56:13.000
own because, in a sense, think about it this way.

918
00:56:13.119 --> 00:56:15.880
I know this is not completely philologically accurate, but just

919
00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:18.320
you'll get the idea. I kind of have the you know,

920
00:56:18.800 --> 00:56:21.880
quoting the Inexcess song, I have the devil inside right,

921
00:56:21.960 --> 00:56:24.880
The devil is inside of me. I have the and

922
00:56:25.079 --> 00:56:28.960
a fallen, depraved nature inside of me. It wants to

923
00:56:29.039 --> 00:56:32.280
take and rip me into shreds. It's me, it's inside

924
00:56:32.320 --> 00:56:35.559
of me, it's inside of me. That's the problem. An

925
00:56:35.679 --> 00:56:39.440
external devil. First, he's not omnipresent, so he can't always

926
00:56:39.519 --> 00:56:42.639
be showing up everywhere. And second, I think he's got

927
00:56:42.639 --> 00:56:45.840
a bigger concepts, but externally he doesn't need to do

928
00:56:45.920 --> 00:56:48.920
much because you've got an entire world system that will

929
00:56:48.960 --> 00:56:53.480
it can appeal to my inward desire. So the whole

930
00:56:53.519 --> 00:56:58.840
thing is, Yeah, I don't know. He puts Satan and amos.

931
00:56:58.880 --> 00:57:01.760
He puts Satan in lou fifteen. I guess he may

932
00:57:01.760 --> 00:57:04.119
put Satan in every text he's going to mention. But

933
00:57:04.159 --> 00:57:07.239
you go listen to the rest of it. Don't let

934
00:57:07.239 --> 00:57:10.599
the devil have it all. Don't let the devil have

935
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it all from the twenty twenty four stay by the

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stuff can't meet You go listen to all the messages

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I've already I think this is the third one I've

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listened to, fourth one i've listened to, and yeah, I

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mean there's a lot there that kind of like, yeah,

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so here's the question. What can we do. I'm gonna

941
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just leave this to you. With you, I want you

942
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to think of it theologically and biblically. What can the

943
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devil actually take from us? And how do we not

944
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let the devil have it all? He even ignits the

945
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devil's gonna take some or most, just don't let him

946
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have it all. Well, if the devil's gonna take some

947
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or most, what am I got left? It sounds like

948
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he's already kind of like, Hey, the devil's gonna take

949
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most of everything, just don't let him have it all.

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And I've got to be the one to do it.

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I'd love to get your thoughts, all right, you can

952
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let me know. All right, Thanks for listening. I'll stop

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right there. This was supposed to be about twenty minutes long.

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It's got an hour. Thanks for listening, everyone, have a

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great day. God bless