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Lesson Summary:

Amos declares what God really wants from His people and why they must face judgment.

Focus Passage: Amos 4.

Outline and Lesson Goal

Principles and Applications

I. God Prefers Compassion Over Sacrifice (Amos 4:1-5)

Principle: God Wants His People to Love Him and Others Authentically.
Application: Is your Christianity mainly built on external observances or is it fully controlled by the Holy Spirit?
Scripture Reference

For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice,And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Hosea 6:6 (NASB)

II. God Desires True Repentance (Amos 4:6-11)

Principle: God Wants His People to Truly Repent from their Sins.
Application: As you examine your life, are there any areas where you are resisting God’s call to repent?
Scripture Reference

For thus the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has said, “In repentance and rest you will be saved, In quietness and trust is your strength.” But you were not willing,
Isaiah 30:15 (NASB)

III. God Wants His People to be Ready for Him (Amos 4:12-13)

Principle: God Wants Everyone of His People to Prepare to Meet Him.
Application: How prepared are you to meet your God?
Scripture Reference

⁹Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.
¹⁰For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
2 Corinthians 5:9-10 (NASB)