The Great Error of God's People Amos 8: 11-14

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v.11            1.   Thinking they can live by bread alone.
                         (Behold, the days come,saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the
                          land, not a famine of bread, not a thirst for water, but of hearing the words
                          of the Lord:)

v.11            2.   Thinking they can live without God’s counsel.
                          People of God follow thinking of world.

v.11            3.   Thinking they can support their own conclusions and sustain their own lives; 
                         that it all comes from men.

v.12            4.   Thinking they can always come up with spiritual solutions if they really had
                         to.
                        (And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east,
                        they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.)

v.12            5.   Thinking the word of God is like commerce, available anywhere and 
                         everywhere, at the whim of man’s disposal.

                        (to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.)

v.13            6.   The young and unlearned shall faint because they know not and have not the

                        essentials to sustain life.

                        (In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.)

v.14            7.   All idols are powerless to give life, obvious when God removes His life
                         sustaining nourishment. No help in famine.

                        (They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan liveth;
                        and The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise
                        up again.)