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Wednesday
First Lesson
Amos 8:4-12
4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the
poor of the land to fail,
5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn?
and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah
small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair
of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will
never forget any of their works.
8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that
dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and
it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD,
that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken
the earth in the clear day:
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs
into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins,
and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning
of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
11 Behold,
the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine
in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but
of hearing the words of the LORD:
12 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.
1st Lesson Questions -
What seems to have been the main motivation for the people in power during Amos' time? Is the same type of famine happening today in my country, as is spoken of in this passage? (V. 11) RESOLVE.
Second Lesson
Galatians 4:12-20
12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye
have not injured me at all.
13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the
gospel unto you at the first.
14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor
rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ
Jesus.
15 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you
record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked
out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
16 Am
I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude
you, that ye might affect them.
18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing,
and not only when I am present with you.
19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until
Christ be formed in you,
20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice;
for I stand in doubt of you.
2nd Lesson Questions -
Paul seems to have made the Galatians upset with him. (V. 16) Have I ever offended someone by telling them the truth "in Christ?" If not, why not? RESOLVE.