Amos - The God Of Justice - Preach The Word

THE GOD OF JUSTICE
David Legge
praise God for it, in the higher echelons of the police force. But can I tell you: on a
weekly basis Gideon Bibles are being removed from hospitals in our nation, in our
land, even in our own towns, mine included. The revelation of God is being rejected -
and wait till I tell you something: that is disastrous for a nation! As an individual, if
you reject God's revelation you'll be lost forever - but there are consequences of
judgement for a nation that rejects God's revelation. Have you heard of 'biblical
higher criticism'? It questions the authenticity of the history of the Bible as the Bible
presents it. It had its rise in Germany from the mid-18th century to the early 20th
century. It's incredible when you think that it was from the land of Reformation, the
land that translated the Bible into the language of the people, the land of Luther, the
land that rediscovered these great truths of the Gospel - from that land came a
questioning of God's revelation. I heard Derek Prince on a recording say this,
remarkably: 'Also from that land that rejected God's revelation came two of the
greatest monsters the human race has ever seen, Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler'.
There are consequences for a nation when they reject God's revelation. Amos cries,
Amos whose name means 'burden', he cries: 'I am pressed under this burden of sin'.
My friend tonight, are we burdened, are we burdened about the presence of these
very sins in our nation? Perhaps in our businesses, in our professions, whatever they
may be, our careers? In our churches? In our homes? Maybe even cherished in our
hearts? Oh, do you hear the message of Amos? 'God is roaring!'. I hope this week, as
I preach to you from this prophet, that you will hear the roar of God who is crying:
'There is no longer any difference between My people in the world'. Or is the problem
that we are deafened because our ears are plugged, like the Israelites, by affluence,
by aimlessness, by apathy, by even our religious services? We think all is well, and
like Amaziah and Jeroboam at that Chapel, they're wondering what this boy is talking
about.
Amos was God's man under God's burden with God's message, and it is my prayer
that this week - for our nation, and for our homes, and for our individual lives - all of
you, all of us will get under the burden of God.
Let us all pray please, and just before I close this meeting in prayer I'm conscious that
God's roar might have come to you where you are in this meeting, in your
circumstances, in your sins perhaps. Maybe you're even one who calls yourself a child
of God, but you know there are things in your life that may be worse than those
whom you know who are unbelievers. There is grace if you will repent, confess your
sins, and renounce those things you have been involved in, and come to the foot of
the cross afresh - there is cleansing in the precious blood to cover all your sin, but you
must repent. This God is a God of justice. Believers in the meeting, will you come on
this journey with me this week, under the burden of God for our land, for our
churches?
Father, how we need You, how we yearn for You to come suddenly into Your Temple,
to come and possess and inhabit Your church again, and to fill the lives of Your
believing people so that we will be that shining light Israel failed, Lord, and we have
failed so often. If we do not put our light under a bushel, we allow our lights to be
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