Amos 5:1-27, NIV
Hgs: Seek me and live…vs 4.
Description of God vs 8..made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns blackness into dawn…
For I know how many offences and how great your sins. You oppress the righteous and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts vs 12
Seek good, not evil that you may live. Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts..vs 14-15...Th: teach us how to live..
I hate, I despise your religious feasts;…Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them vs 22. Th: the Lord is more interested in genuine worship and righteous living than tithes and offerings from evil hearts.
…will send you into exile beyond Damacus..vs 27.
Amos 6:1-14, NIV
You dine on choice lambs and fattened calves. You strum away on your harps like David…vs 3-6.
You will be the first to go into exile, your feasting and lounging will end vs 7.
But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness…I will stir up a nation against you, O house of Israel, that will oppress you all the way…vs 11-14.
Luke 5:27-38, NIV
Levi..tax collector…”Follow me”…Levi got up, left everything and followed him.
Th: I wonder how many can do that?
…held a great banquet…..”Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners’?”
“It is not thechealthy who need a doctor, but the sick, I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance-vs 29-31.
Observations: availability when called, Hospitability. Jesus mission on earth…to call sunners to repentance.
Bridegroom vs fasting…old cloth patch to the new garment…will tear the new garment….new wine must be poured into new wineskins…the old wine is better..vs 33-39.