Seek the Lord and Live

Friday, June 12, 2015
Amos 5:1-6 KJV

1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, [even] a lamentation, O house of Israel. 2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; [there is] none to raise her up. 3 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out [by] a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth [by] an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel. 4 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: 5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought. 6 Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour [it], and [there be] none to quench [it] in Bethel.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) What does the Lord implore His people to hear? (v1)
2) What will become of the Lord's people? (v.2-3)
3) How will the Lord's people continue to live? (v.4)
4) What does the Lord warn His people against? (v.5)
5) What does the Lord reiterate that His people do and why? (v.6)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
6) What, if anything, are you doing that has distanced you from the Lord?
7) How will you return to Him?

LIFE LESSONS
8) The Lord judges His people in righteousness, but He will relent when we turn from wickedness to seek His will for our lives and do it.