In this first sermon in the Book of Amos, we will look at how God roared for justice and mercy from Israel's neighbors. God puts Israel in the crosshairs of his judgment, and in doing so reveals what He truly values by showing us clearly what He will not tolerate. The message culminates in an uncomfortable question: "Is America in the cross-hairs of God's judgment?"

1. Amos
God’s Roar
for Justice
and Mercy

2. Amos
God’s
Roar for
Justice
and
Mercy
Series Outline
•In the Crosshairs
•Redeemer’s
Remorse
•The Lion Roars
•Prepare to Meet
Your God
•Seek the Lord and
Live
•A Rude Awakening
•Living in the Big
Easy
•Plumb Line
•Basket of
Deplorables
•Shaken and
Rebuilt

3. Amos 1:1
The words of Amos, who was among
the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw
concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah
king of Judah and in the days
of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of
Israel, two years before the earthquake.

5. Timeline
Israel
Judah
800 BC 750 BC 700 BC
Amos
Jeroboam 2
Fall of Northern
Kingdom
(Samaria)

7. Amos
God’s
Roar for
Justice
and
Mercy
First Point
God Roars
from Zion

8. Amos 1:2
And he said: “The LORD roars
from Zion and utters his voice
from Jerusalem; the pastures of
the shepherds mourn, and
the top of Carmel withers.”

9. Jeroboam I
Dan
Bethel

10. Amos
God’s
Roar for
Justice
and
Mercy
Second Point
God Roars
Against Israel’s
Neighbors

11. Amos
God’s
Roar for
Justice
and
Mercy
Key Literary Feature
For three
transgressions of
and for four,
I will not revoke the
punishment…

12. Amos
God’s
Roar for
Justice
and
Mercy
Israel in the
Crosshairs

13. Amos
God’s
Roar for
Justice
and
Mercy
God roars against cruelty
3 For three transgressions
of Damascus, and for four, I will
not revoke the punishment,
because they have threshed
Gilead with threshing sledges of
iron.

14. Amos
God’s
Roar for
Justice
and
Mercy
God roars against slavery
6 For three transgressions
of Gaza, and for four, I will not
revoke the punishment,
because they carried into exile a
whole people to deliver them
up to Edom.

15. Amos
God’s
Roar for
Justice
and
Mercy
God roars against betrayal
9 For three transgressions
of Tyre, and for four, I will not
revoke the punishment,
because they delivered up a
whole people to Edom, and did
not remember the covenant of
brotherhood.

16. Amos
God’s
Roar for
Justice
and
Mercy
God roars against relentlessness
11 For three transgressions
of Edom, and for four, I will not
revoke the punishment,
because he pursued his brother
with the sword and cast off all
pity, and his anger tore
perpetually, and he kept his
wrath forever.

17. Amos
God’s
Roar for
Justice
and
Mercy
God roars against ethnic
cleansing
13 For three transgressions
of the Ammonites, and for
four, I will not revoke the
punishment,
because they have ripped open
pregnant women in Gilead,
that they might enlarge their
border.

18. Amos
God’s
Roar for
Justice
and
Mercy
God roars against desecration
2:1 For three transgressions
of Moab, and for four, I will
not revoke the punishment,
because he burned to lime
the bones of the king of
Edom.

19. Is America
in the
crosshairs
of God’s
wrath?

20. Amos
God’s Roar
for Justice
and Mercy