How The Mighty Fall: The Complacency Trap

God cares more about your righteous living throughout the rest of the week than the religious actions that you take one hour a week. It matters how you treat people. It matters what you recognize that God has given to you and then what you do with the resources that you have, how you leverage that and recognize that it is not wrong to be wealthy. That is a misinterpretation of Scripture. It's okay to be wealthy. The Bible says it's it's difficult to follow Jesus and be wealthy, but you can do it. It's okay to be privileged. If if you woke up this morning and you turned on a spigot and water came out, you're privileged. [00:42:47] (37 seconds)  #RighteousLiving

God qualifies the called. He doesn't call necessarily call the qualified. Right? If you ever get the opportunity to be qualified, that's a good thing, but God can call you without your qualifications. In fact, all throughout scripture, who does God call? Abraham. None of us would hire Abraham if we saw his resume on our desk. None of us would hire Moses, his resume across your desk. A part of his job was public speaking, and he couldn't speak. None of us would hire the disciples to be disciples, to be followers of a rabbi, swearing like sailors. [00:31:09] (37 seconds)  #GodCallsUnqualified

Like, why why do we read the book of Amos? Why can't we just live in the New Testament? Because every dotted I and every t that's crossed is significant in scripture, the Old Testament and the New Testament. Second Timothy three sixteen, all scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. That includes Amos and Obadiah. We're gonna dive into this text, and the series title is How the Mighty Fall. [00:28:06] (41 seconds)  #AllScriptureMatters

If you're taking notes, just pay attention to this. This is all throughout scripture, but we need to pay attention to it today. The quartet of four, the most vulnerable people. This is back then, but this is also today. The widows, the orphans, or or the fatherless, the poor, and the foreigner. God calls and accuses the nation of Judah and Israel for neglecting. They they become so wealthy. They become so comfortable. They become so prosperous that they were treating the oppressed poorly. And heaven hears the cry of the poor. God's heart is bent toward the fatherless and the orphan. [00:41:08] (47 seconds)  #CareForTheVulnerable

Pay attention to this. This is to the people of God because they've rejected the law of the Lord. Everything flows out of that. When I sin, it's because I've stepped out from under the authority of God's word. As a people of God, as followers of Jesus, we live under the umbrella, under the authority of God's word. We submit to God's word. It's not what I have to think about God's word. It's what does God's word say, and I submit to that. Every day I wake up, as I go throughout my life, I'm submitting to the word of God. When we step out from under that, there's consequences. [00:37:12] (42 seconds)  #SubmitToGodsWord

He cares about how you treat people throughout the rest of the week. Worship services are really important. Corporate gatherings are really, really important. But how you treat people, the quartet that we're gonna see come up often. Amos reminds us that comfort often dulls conviction. You can attend church regularly and still drift far from the heart of God. This is a a call against religious activity. So for some of us, maybe it's just asking, hey. Why why do I do this on a regular basis? God doesn't want you just showing up for an hour, week, checking a box, looking good. [00:53:33] (41 seconds)  #WorshipBeyondSunday

If if all your friends are people that look just like you and can give you something in return, I would question the people that you're hanging around. You should have people in your life who can't do anything for you and you're still friends with them. Move toward them. There's opportunities here at Boulder Mountain. In fact, in your program this week, there's an opportunity to go serve Pas De Cristo, people you're not probably gonna rub shoulders with on a regular basis. You're intentionally choosing to go to serve the least of these. Why? Because it matters to God. The poor, the widow, the orphan, and the foreigner matters to God more than it matters to us. [00:56:19] (42 seconds)  #BefriendTheLeast

It's difficult to reject power. Right? As as Christians, we should we should be willing to reject power. Bible tells us clearly, do not seek greatness. Young young people in the room, you wanna chase greatness. You wanna chase going viral. You wanna make a name for yourself. The Bible warns against that. God can make that happen in your life, but do not chase greatness. Let let chase chase humility. So be willing to give up your rights and your preferences for the others in the room. Be willing to leverage your resources, whatever you have. And you may say, well, I don't have a whole lot. Everybody in this room has something. [00:51:26] (39 seconds)  #ChooseHumility