Defined By Moments

1 “Hear this word, you cows of Bashan,    who are on the mountain of Samaria,who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,    who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’ 2  The Lord God has sworn by his holiness    that, behold, the days are coming upon you,when they shall take you away with hooks,    even the last of you with fishhooks. 3  And you shall go out through the breaches,    each...

Israel's Guilt and Punishment 3  Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt: 2  “You only have I known    of all the families of the earth;therefore I will punish you    for all your iniquities. 3  “Do two walk together,    unless they have agreed to meet? 4  Does a lion roar in the forest,    when he...

Judgment on Israel 6 Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Israel,    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,because they sell the righteous for silver,    and the needy for a pair of sandals—7 those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth    and turn aside the way of the afflicted;a man and his father go into the same girl,    so that my holy name is profane...

Amos 1:3-2:5 ESV 3  Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Damascus,    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,[ a ]because they have threshed Gilead    with threshing sledges of iron. 4  So I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael,    and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad. 5  I will break the gate-bar of Damascus,    and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of A...

1  The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds[ a ] of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years[ b ] before the earthquake. Judgment on Israel's Neighbors 2  And he said: “The Lord roars from Zion    and utters his voice from Jerusalem;the pastures of the shepherds mourn,    and the top of C...

Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus 23  And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. Thanks for listening to Defined By Moments! Subscribe now to never miss an episode! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.definedbymoments.org

Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus 23  And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. Thanks for listening to Defined By Moments! Subscribe now to never miss an episode! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.definedbymoments.org

Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus 23  And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. Thanks for listening to Defined By Moments! Subscribe now to never miss an episode! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.definedbymoments.org

Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus 23  And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. Thanks for listening to Defined By Moments! Subscribe now and never miss an episode! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.definedbymoments.org

Greeting 1  Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker 2  and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house: 3  Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Philemon's Love and Faith 4  I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers, 5  because I hear of your love and of the...

Greeting 1  Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker 2  and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house: 3  Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Philemon's Love and Faith 4  I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers, 5  because I hear of your love and of the...

Greeting 1  Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker 2  and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house: 3  Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Philemon's Love and Faith 4  I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers, 5  because I hear of your love and of the...

A Great Crowd Follows Jesus 7  Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea 8  and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. 9  And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they crush him, 10  for he had h...

Fear God and Keep His Commandments 9  Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs with great care. 10  The Preacher sought to find words of delight, and uprightly he wrote words of truth. 11  The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd. 12  My son...

Remember Your Creator in Your Youth 12  Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; 2  before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, 3  in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the gri...

Cast Your Bread upon the Waters 11  Cast your bread upon the waters,    for you will find it after many days. 2  Give a portion to seven, or even to eight,    for you know not what disaster may happen on earth. 3  If the clouds are full of rain,    they empty themselves on the earth,and if a tree falls to the south or to the north,    in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie. 4  He who...

16  Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child,    and your princes feast in the morning! 17  Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of the nobility,    and your princes feast at the proper time,    for strength, and not for drunkenness! 18  Through sloth the roof sinks in,    and through indolence the house leaks. 19  Bread is made for laughter,    and wine gladdens life,    and mone...

1  Dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off a stench;    so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor. 2  A wise man's heart inclines him to the right,    but a fool's heart to the left. 3  Even when the fool walks on the road, he lacks sense,    and he says to everyone that he is a fool. 4  If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place,    for calmness[ a ] will lay...

Wisdom Better Than Folly 11  Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all. 12  For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snar...

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Death Comes to All 9  But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him. 2  It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil,[ a ] to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does no...

Those Who Fear God Will Do Well 10  Then I saw the wicked buried. They used to go in and out of the holy place and were praised[ a ] in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity.[ b ] 11  Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil. 12  Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his lif...

Keep the King's Command 1  Who is like the wise?    And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine,    and the hardness of his face is changed. 2  I say:[ a ] Keep the king's command, because of God's oath to him.[ b ] 3  Be not hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand in an evil cause, for he does whatever he pleases. 4  For the word of the king is s...

15  In my vain[ a ] life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing. 16  Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself? 17  Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time? 18  It is good that you should take hold of th...

The Contrast of Wisdom and Folly 1  A good name is better than precious ointment,    and the day of death than the day of birth. 2  It is better to go to the house of mourning    than to go to the house of feasting,for this is the end of all mankind,    and the living will lay it to heart. 3  Sorrow is better than laughter,    for by sadness of face the heart is made glad. 4  The heart of the wise...