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The message of Amos is pre-eminently a message of new life. The message, however, comes in the context of a nation under judgment. Israel hid the emptiness and godliness of a corrupt society behind an apathetic and nominal outward religion, like so many today. God’s view of our society is revealed in Amos in no uncertain terms. While no refuge is offered for those who reject or disregard God’s...

and even the odd morning service—make wonderful sops to the deeper, though suppressed, anxieties of the human conscience and to the disturbing eminence of a God whom a man knows he has disregarded in daily life and fears he must meet before too long. Empty ritual is the natural currency of man-made self-justifying religion and that is why God gives no place to it and calls for worship that is in spirit and truth (e.g. Psalm 51:16, 17; Amos 4:4, 5; 5:4–6; Matthew 23:23; John 4:24). Into this society,
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