Come Follow Me 47
Introduction:
Genesis 12:2–3 Are we allowing ourselves to live up to the Lord’s desire for us to be a blessing to all the families of the world?
Amos 3:7 Why is it so important for us to listen to and follow our prophet?
Personal Study: The Lord reveals truth through His prophets.
Amos 3:3–6 Cause an effect scenarios.
verses 7–8 Furthermore this applies to the Lord and his prophets!
Why you are grateful that the Lord still “revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets?”
Doctrine and Covenants 1:38; 21:4–8; 35:13–14. Why is it a good thing for us to hearken to the prophets?
Family Study: Amos 3:7.
What revelations have you received by listening to President Nelson? Why is it important to you that we have a prophet today? How do you know that he is God’s chosen prophet?
https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/amos/1?lang=eng
Amos shows the Lord’s judgments upon Syria, the Philistines, Tyre, Edom, and Ammon.
Vs 9 What is the brotherly covenant?
https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/amos/2?lang=eng
The Lord will pour out judgments upon Moab, Judah, and Israel for their unrighteousness.
Vs 6 Judas sold Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. What have we sold Him for when we willfully transgress?
Vs 10-12 Judas sold Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. What have we sold Him for when we willfully transgress?
https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/amos/3?lang=eng
The Lord reveals His secrets unto His servants the prophets—Because Israel rejects the prophets and follows evil, the nation is overwhelmed by an adversary.
Vs 2 God chose Israel above all the families of the earth. Should we not also choose Him?
Vs 7 Listen to the words of the prophets. When the prophet speaks to us, it is because God has spoken to Him. (Pay attention to the meaning of the surrounding verses.)
Vs 15 If the Lord does not build a house, in vain do the builders labor.
Personal Study: “Seek the Lord, and ye shall live.”
Helaman 12:3 What does it take for us to remember the Lord?
How have the trials in your life helped you to remember the Lord? How have your trials provided opportunities for you to seek Him?
Family Study: Amos 5:4.
What does it mean to seek the Lord? How do you seek Him?
Matthew 7:7–8 Ask, seek, knock
Ether 12:41 Seek Jesus, of whom prophets and apostles have written.
Doctrine and Covenants 88:63 Draw near to the Lord and you will find Him.
https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/amos/4?lang=eng
The Lord withholds rain, sends famine and pestilence, and destroys gardens and vineyards as judgments upon His people, yet they do not return unto the Lord.
Amos 4:6–13 What are the judgments the Lord sent upon His people? What was the Lord’s hope in all of this? He wanted the people to return to Him.
He wants us to return.
We have seen all of these same things in our day, and we have been given mulitple chances to accept God. Will we still reject Him?
Prepare to meet God. He will come again. He is the Lord of Hosts. He loves us, and that is why He chastises us, to give us an opportunity to repent, change, and be healed by Him; and have all of our blessings restored.
https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/amos/5?lang=eng
The people of Israel are exhorted to seek the Lord and do good so that they may live—Their sacrifices to false gods are abhorrent.
Vs 4 If we seek the Lord, we will live.
Amos 5:4, 14–15 How has the Lord been gracious to you?
Vs 14-15 Put God first, love the things that are righteous, and forsake those things that are not. If you do this, the Lord will be merciful unto you. You are a remnant of Joseph. You know this is true; it has happened in your own life.
Vs 25 What do we do when we are given more privileges and freedoms? Do we forget the Lord so quickly?
https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/amos/6?lang=eng
Woe to them who are at ease in Zion—Israel will be plagued with desolation.
https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/amos/7?lang=eng
Amos relates how he was called of God to be a prophet—He prophesies the captivity of Israel.
Prophets are called of God.
Amos 7:10–15 What else do you learn about prophets from these verses?
People cannot really tell them not to prophesy. Those who reject and murder prophets will be condemned.
Personal Study: The word of the Lord can satisfy spiritual hunger and thirst.
Amos 8:12 When you are hungry and thirsty for the Spirit of the Lord, where do you turn? You shouldn’t be running from sea to sea, or across the entire land to find refreshment. You know what you should do and where you should look.
Amos 8:11–12 How are you helping others to find the Spiritual nourishment and refreshment that their souls need? Do you feed yourself and let those around you starve?
Matthew 5:6 What should you hunger for? How will you be blessed?
John 6:26–35 Jesus is he Bread of Life.
2 Nephi 9:50–51 Jesus invites us to come to Him. We shouldn’t spend our time, money, and efforts on those things that will never satisfy our souls.
32:3 Feast upon the words of Christ. Angels speak by the power of the Holy Ghost.
He Hath Filled the Hungry with Good Things
Family Study: Amos 8:11–12
Video: “The Great Apostasy”
The Restoration of the gospel can satisfy our spiritual hunger. Jesus is actually the One who satisfies our hunger.
Wow, wow, wow. Robert Mason helped to prepared Wilford Woodruff, a prophet of God. And Wilford was baptized on his behalf. These are the stories we need to read, hear, see, feel, and know. The testimony of the Restoration needs to pulse through our veins. We need to believe in Jesus Christ and that He has all power to the fulfilling of all His words; we need to prepare to meet Him and help prepare the world to do the same.
https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/amos/8?lang=eng
Amos prophesies the downfall of Israel—There will be a famine of hearing the word of the Lord.
Vs 11-12 We need to be more concerned about the souls of men than we are about usury and gaining undeserved wealth.
Make sure that you choose God first and His will and His glory. Don't allow the famine to suck you in, and never deprive anyone of spiritual nourishment.
Be part of the solution. Invite others to Come to Christ. (Look at notes in study sections as well.
https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/amos/9?lang=eng
Israel will be sifted among all nations—In the last days, the people of Israel will be gathered again into their own land, and it will become productive.
Vs 9 There is a great sifting going on. Be good grain.
Vs 14-15 Israel will be restored to the lands of their inheritance and will have their blessings restored to them.
Personal and Family Study: Who are the “saviours … on mount Zion”? Obadiah 1:21
President Gordon B. Hinckley gave one possible interpretation of the phrase “saviours on mount Zion,” connecting the phrase to temple and family history work: “[In the temple] we literally become saviors on Mount Zion. What does this mean? Just as our Redeemer gave His life as a vicarious sacrifice for all men, and in so doing became our Savior, even so we, in a small measure, when we engage in proxy work in the temple, become as saviors to those on the other side who have no means of advancing unless something is done in their behalf by those on earth” (“Closing Remarks,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2004, 105).
Which of our ancestors need saving ordinances? What will we do to help them?
https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/obad/1?lang=eng
Obadiah prophesies the downfall of Edom—Saviors will stand upon Mount Zion.
Vs 15 Care for all your family, close and extended. Care for your friends and your enemies. Love you neighbor as yourself. The Lord will reward you good for good.
Vs 17 There is safety in the stakes of Zion; there is deliverance in the waters of Judea, and there is power bestowed in in the holy temples.
Vs 21 Holy Temples on Mount Zion will make available the Lord's salvation both physically and spiritually in our day.
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