AfterThoughts: December 8, 2019
December 8, 2019
SERMON SERIES: Long-Expected Jesus
SERMON TITLE: The Healer Of The World
This week, Pastor David continued the Advent Sermon Series with a look at Jesus as Healer.
- Pastor David shared that Amos preached a message of judgement. He continued, "Judgment is a word we hardly use in our Christian vocabulary". Why do you think this is true?
- God’s justice and judgement are places of assurance for the persecuted church around the world. What “injustice(s)” are you looking forward to seeing God rectify in eternity?
- Jesus didn’t bring judgment, but He bore the judgement on our behalf. How does that give you hope during this Advent season?
- Until God does return, how are we to wait?
To watch this week's sermon, please visit dawsonchurch.org/LongExpectedJesus.
View a digital copy of Dawson's 2019 Advent Prayer Guide at dawsonchurch.org/Advent2019.
To learn more about trusting Jesus as your Lord and Savior, please visit dawsonchurch.org/becoming-a-christian.
ADDITIONAL DISCOVERY:
Hear this, you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end, saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances, that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: “Surely I will never forget any of their deeds. Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who dwells in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”
“And on that day,” declares the Lord God, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight. I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
~ Amos 8:4-10
“Are you not like the Cushites to me, O people of Israel?” declares the Lord. “Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir? Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the Lord. “For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth. All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, ‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’
“In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old, that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name,” declares the Lord who does this. “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.
I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that I have given them,” says the Lord your God.
~ Amos 9:7-15