2022

THEME:
WALKING IN
UNITY
COCIN YOUTH CHURCH
GARKI
AMOS: THE PROPHET
OF JUSTICE

THE BOOK OF AMOS

ORDER OF SERVICE

1. CALL TO WORSHIP + CONGREGATIONAL HYMN

2. INTERCESSORY PRAYERS

3. SONG MINISTRATION/SPOKEN WORDS

/TESTIMONIES/SHARE LESSONS FROM BIBLE STUDY

4. VISITORS WELCOME/ANNOUNCEMENTS

5. DISCUSSIONS

6. PASTORAL GREETINGS

7. SERMON

8. OFFERING/TITHES/BENEDICTION
HYMN

P R E S E N TAT I O N T I T L E
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

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VERSE 1

Come Thou Fount of every blessing,

Tune my heart to sing Thy grace,
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.

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VERSE 1
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it,
Mount of God's redeeming love.

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VERSE 2

Here I find my greatest treasure,

Hither by Thy help I come.
And I hope by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.

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VERSE 2
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wand'ring from the fold of God;
He to rescue me from danger,
Bought me with His precious blood.

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VERSE 3

O, to grace how great a debtor,

I'm constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness like a fetter,
Bind my wand'ring heart to thee;

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VERSE 3
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love.
Here's my heart, O take and seal it.
Seal it for Thy courts above.

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ORDER OF SERVICE

1. CALL TO WORSHIP + CONGREGATIONAL HYMN

2. INTERCESSORY PRAYERS

3. SONG MINISTRATION/SPOKEN WORDS

/TESTIMONIES/SHARE LESSONS FROM BIBLE STUDY

4. VISITORS WELCOME/ANNOUNCEMENTS

5. DISCUSSIONS

6. PASTORAL GREETINGS

7. SERMON

8. OFFERING/TITHES/BENEDICTION
ORDER OF SERVICE

1. CALL TO WORSHIP + CONGREGATIONAL HYMN

2. INTERCESSORY PRAYERS

3. SONG MINISTRATION/SPOKEN WORDS

/TESTIMONIES/SHARE LESSONS FROM BIBLE STUDY

4. VISITORS WELCOME/ANNOUNCEMENTS

5. DISCUSSIONS

6. PASTORAL GREETINGS

7. SERMON

8. OFFERING/TITHES/BENEDICTION
ANNOUNCEMENT

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DISCUSSIONS:

LISTEN TO THIS…
DISCUSSIONS
• What comes to your mind when you see someone well
dressed to church?
• Do you feel jealous? Do you feel challenged?
• Imagine working for wealthy family, how would you like to
be treated and why?

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• Do you think it is fair to criticise someone’s dressing to
church? Share your thoughts.
• How would you feel when a preacher is addressing an issue
that literally affects someone you know?

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DISCUSSIONS
• How about if the preacher is addressing a matter that you
are guilty of? How would you feel?
• How would you define justice in your words?
• Listen to the story of Lami and some well to do family
• What do you think the members of the congregation said to

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each other as they left the church?

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ORDER OF SERVICE

1. CALL TO WORSHIP + CONGREGATIONAL HYMN

2. INTERCESSORY PRAYERS

3. SONG MINISTRATION/SPOKEN WORDS

/TESTIMONIES/SHARE LESSONS FROM BIBLE STUDY

4. VISITORS WELCOME/ANNOUNCEMENTS

5. DISCUSSIONS

6. PASTORAL GREETINGS

7. SERMON

8. OFFERING/TITHES/BENEDICTION
AMOS: THE PROPHET
OF JUSTICE

THE BOOK OF AMOS

INTRODUCTION

• The name Amos means “bearer of burdens”.

• Amos was among the Shepherds of Tekoa, somewhere
in the southern kingdom of Judah.
• His experience working the fields might have prepared
him for the task ahead.

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• The prophet travelled North to the wool markets in
Israel and saw the life of the people there.

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INTRODUCTION

• It was a time of peace and prosperity in Israel, but also

a time of social problems as the rich became richer at
the expense of the poor.
• He was not an educated man, but he was one of the
first prophets to write down his sermons.

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• He had great courage as an uneducated visitor from
the south to speak out his message of judgment to the
people in the north. (v.7:14-25)

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INTRODUCTION

• He obeyed God’s call to carry this unwelcome

message to the people of Israel.
• Chapter 1 and 2 are filled with judgment for

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INJUSTICE
• Read Amos 5:7, 10 - 13
• Justice - the quality of being just, impartial, or fair
• The prophet was calling the nation out.
• “turn justice into bitterness”
• “cast righteousness to the ground”

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• “hate the one who upholds justice in court”
• “detest the one who tells the truth”
• “oppress the innocent and take bribes”
• “deprive the poor of justice in the courts”

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INJUSTICE
• “Therefore the prudent keep quiet in such times, for the
times are evil.” (v.13)
• There are times in life that it is best to keep quiet.
• And there are times you ought to speak out against
injustice.

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CARE-FREE ENJOYMENT
• Read: Amos 6:1-7
• The prophet warns against complacency.
• “Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who
feel secure on Mount Samaria,”
• Those who put their trust in the wealth have this tendency

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to believe that’s all there is.
• God was warning his people not to look at their wealth as
security.
• Compare with the nations already destroyed.

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CARE-FREE ENJOYMENT
• Is the prophet saying that it is wrong to have wealth and
possession?
• “9 But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and
are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that
plunge them into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of

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money is the root of all kinds of evil. And some people,
craving money, have wandered from the true faith and
pierced themselves with many sorrows.”

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CARE-FREE ENJOYMENT
• “17 Teach those who are rich in this world not to be proud
and not to trust in their money, which is so unreliable.
Their trust should be in God, who richly gives us all we
need for our enjoyment. 18 Tell them to use their money
to do good. They should be rich in good works and

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generous to those in need, always being ready to share
with others. 19 By doing this they will be storing up their
treasure as a good foundation for the future so that they
may experience true life.”

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CARE-FREE ENJOYMENT
• What is more important? To have wealth or to walk
faithfully with God.
• People with wealth in the nations have neglected those
who are need.

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SPIRITUAL EMPTINESS
• Read Amos 5:4-8, 14-15, 21-24
• A people in so much wealth and prosperity and yet
spiritually poor.
• “There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast
righteousness to the ground.”

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• In their state, the prophet reminded them about the
character of God

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SPIRITUAL EMPTINESS
• “He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns
midnight into dawn and darkens day into night, who calls
for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face
of the land— the Lord is his name.
9 With a blinding flash he destroys the stronghold and

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brings the fortified city to ruin.”

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SPIRITUAL EMPTINESS
• With the warning of pending danger, there was a solution.
• Read Amos 5:4-6; 14-15 (must read)
• God is saying, “seek me and not places of worship”
• Seek the God that can destroy even the place of worship
and it means nothing to Him.

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• The people love going to those place for spiritual
celebration but they were spiritually bankrupt.

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SPIRITUAL EMPTINESS
• Read Amos 5:21-23
• “I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a
stench to me.”
• “I will not accept the burnt offerings and grain offerings
you bring”

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• “bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard
for them”
• “Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the
music of your harps.”

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SPIRITUAL EMPTINESS
• “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a
never-failing stream!”
• Worship without righteousness in heart is empty and
without value.
• Read Romans 12:1-2

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• We must present ourselves as living sacrifice.
• God desires us more than our gifts or acts of worship.
• Our hearts first.

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 P R AY E R S

• Pray for a willingness to repent truly

for your own sin and that your
friends and family
• Pray for a knowledge of God’s
presence and protection in your life

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through the work of the Holy Spirit
• Pray for the grace to live daily ready
for the Lord’s return.

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