#1,197 – The Worst Kind of Famine (Amos 8:11–12)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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As horrible as a famine with no food is, a famine of God's Word is even more devastating.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical dot net.
0:04.8	Amos chapter 8 verses 11 and 12.
0:08.8	behold the days are coming declares the Lord God
0:12.3	when I will send a famine on the land not a famine of
0:15.8	bread nor thirst for water but of hearing the words of the Lord they shall wander from sea to sea and from north to east. They shall run to and
0:28.1	fro to seek the word of the Lord, but they shall not find it.
0:35.0	Whoa, what a sobering two verses of scripture for God to say to his people like I'm gonna send a famine
0:50.0	that is worse than not having food that is worse than not having water
0:58.9	not a famine of bread nor thirst for water I'm going to send a famine of bread nor thirst for water. I'm going to send a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.
1:08.0	People will run to and fro from sea to sea from north to east seeking the word of the Lord
1:17.0	but they shall not find it. That is the ultimate picture of God's judgment for God to be silent, for God's
1:35.0	to not speak to his people.
1:33.4	Like even, just think about it, we're reading God's word,
1:37.0	this revelation of who he is,
1:40.3	that we have this gift we have,
1:42.3	like 66 books in the Bible that are the revealed
1:46.0	word of God that you and I have that we get to hear from God that God speaks to us by his spirit through it. Were it not for
1:56.6	God's word, we would be totally lost. We would be totally in the dark, especially as sinners deserving of God's wrath.
2:08.2	We would be totally hopeless if we didn't have the word of God. Just think about this world with all of its
2:16.4	evil and wickedness and injustice and no word from God about who he is, how to know him, about hope that we have as we look to the future.
2:26.4	We would be hopeless, lost completely without God's word.
2:32.3	And yet even as I say that, like I think about these unreached people that we
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