I Will Not Revoke Punishment

Sunday, June 7, 2015
Amos 2:4-8 KJV

4 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked: 5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. 6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; 7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name: 8 And they lay [themselves] down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned [in] the house of their god.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) For what reason(s) would the Lord judge His people? (v.4, 6-8)
2) What judgment(s) did the Lord declare over the people of God? (v.5)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
3) In what ways have you rebelled against the Lord?
4) What, if anything, will you do to right the error of your ways? 

LIFE LESSONS
5) When we refuse to obey the will (the word) of God, and do not confess and repent of our sin(s), the Lord will chasten us.