SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/10/2015
10:05 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Woe to the
Indifferent
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Amos 6:1-2
Message of the
verses: “1 Woe to those who are at
ease in Zion And to those who feel secure in the mountain of Samaria, The
distinguished men of the foremost of nations, To whom the house of Israel
comes. 2 Go over to Calneh and look, And go from there to Hamath the great, Then
go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms, Or is
their territory greater than yours?”
I think it best to go back to look at the outline that we
looked at when we began this section as I have missed doing some of these
Spiritual Diaries on Amos during the past weeks. I want to quote from Warren Wiersbe
here: “Amos is still lamenting the
impending doom of the nations of Israel.
In this section, he pronounces ‘woe’ upon four kinds of people in the
kingdom: the ignorant (5:18-27), the
indifferent (6:1-2), the indulgent (vv. 3-7), and the impudent (vv. 8-14). The circumstances are different, but we have
these same people in the professing church today? Do you recognize them?” Well I will have to leave it up to those who
read these Spiritual Diaries to determine if they anyone sees these kind of
people in their churches.
The indifferent here is referring to those who are
indifferent towards God’s Word and we can see that Amos here is speaking to
both Judah and also Israel as we see the words “Zion” meaning Judah, and “Samaria”
which refers to Israel. Now only are the
indifferent towards God’s Word, but also on the judgment that will soon come
upon them both, Israel in 722 BC, and Judah later on when the final judgment
comes in 586 BC.
Both kingdoms call themselves the “foremost nations”
believing that judgment will not come upon them because of the position they
thought they had with the Lord, but they will find out that they are wrong in
their thinking.
If one remembers how difficult it was for David to
conquer the city of Jerusalem when he did then they can understand why those
who lived there in the time of Amos would think that it would be difficult for
anyone to conquer Jerusalem at this time.
Dr. Wiersbe writes “But when God decided to deal with these cities,
nothing could stop the enemy.”
Another reason that these kingdoms though they would not
be destroyed by their enemies was because of their prosperity, governments and
their military strength, now as far as their prosperity we can look forward to
the time of Jesus Christ being on earth and even His disciples believed that
the richer you were the more that God was blessing you.
Amos mentions areas in Syria and also in Philistia who
had already fallen to the Assyrian armies and then he asks if they thought they
were better than these nations and is your territory larger than theirs?
Dr. Wiersbe concludes “Complacency is an insidious sin,
because it’s based on lies, motivated by pride, and leads to trusting something
other than God (Zeph. 1:12). Like the
people in the church of Laodicea, complacent people consider themselves ‘rich,
and increased with goods’ and in need of nothing (Rev. 3:17). In reality, however, they have lost
everything that important in the spiritual life. When the Lord sees His people becoming
complacent and self-satisfied, He sometimes sends trials to wake them up.” As I read all of the sins that the nation of
Israel was committing before God judged them I can’t help but see some of the
similar things going on in our country at this time in its history.
10/10/2015 10:27 PM
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