TCN's Biblical Journey September 11th

Tell City Nazarene Church's Biblical Journey
With Pastor Charles Areson
Today's reading is Hosea 12-14 and Joel 1

I have never appreciated the spiritual leader who gets up points their finger at everyone and declares fire and brimstone because society has done wrong. My guess is that the result of knowing they ought to be doing it first.

Also, some of the “warning signs” of judgment aren’t really warning signs they are just natural phenomenon. Yes, hurricanes actually form on their own.

All this being said, there are times when what is happening to us is a result of our sins. Sometimes, it is our chickens coming home to roost.

We don’t like these words. We don’t want to hear the words Joel is saying: “Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God. Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.” Joel 1:13-14

Yes, this can have a national message as it did in Joel’s time, however, I want us not to look out at the world around us but to look in our own lives. What are we doing? Is this my fault in some way? Do I need to confess and repent? Not just when things are going wrong, but all of the time. Ask yourself, Am I living as Jesus would have me live? If you aren’t, then repent and do what is right.

Whatever the reason, when bad things happen we do need to cry out to the Lord.