We looked last time how a priest tried to shut Amos the prophet from declaring God's message to His people and how dangerous that is,it has fearful consequences. In spite of this Amos continued to minister,but sad to say,the people did not listen,so Amos proclaims a message of judgement and one of the things included ,was a coming famine, not the usual famine,but a famine of hearing the word of God. Such a thing has terrible, terrible consequences, an absence of God's word, If the Word of God is withdrawn or even corrupted,how are people going to be saved,for faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.the word of God (Romans 10 v 17) It is Alec Motyer who writes,' Have we got a Bible still in our hands? Let us prize it,read it and commit its precious truths to heart and mind. It is not an inalienable possession; it may may not be ours for ever. Is the Bible still preached in our church? Let us love to hear the Word of God;let us be urgent to bring others within earshot of it. It is not our guaranteed privilege;the voice of the preacher could be silenced.The truth of God is our only fence against error. In this as in everything else the way of strength is to keep close to God and to fear much, much more the peril of falling out of His power and truth than of falling into the power and error of Satan'.
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