S4:216 Amos 6-9
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Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
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🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Why does Amos call out those who feel “secure on Mount Samaria”? What does this reveal about the cultural and political climate in Israel at the time? How should we understand the promise to “raise up the booth of David” in Amos 9:11-15? In today's episode, Director of Equipping, Chris Sherrod, and Watermark member Cassidy Webber answer these questions from Amos 6-9 and discuss the consequences that God's people were experiencing in this passage.
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| 0:00.0 | All right now, if we're honest, reading the Bible consistently can be a challenge, but it's never |
| 0:05.4 | too late to start, and we're in this together. |
| 0:08.6 | This is the Join the Journey podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | Thanks for joining. |
| 0:13.1 | My name is Chris Sherrod, and I am the Director of Equipping here at Watermark. |
| 0:17.3 | And just like yesterday, I'm submitting in for Emma as we cover Amos. |
| 0:21.4 | Today we're going to do the second half of the book. |
| 0:39.5 | And I am joined again in the studio back by popular demand. Cassidy Weber, welcome back. Thank you, Chris. Good to be here. Yeah, so glad you're here. So we're just going to jump right in because we got to know a lot about you yesterday. but picking up where we left off yesterday, we did Amos 1 through 5. We're going to jump in chapter 6. |
| 0:42.8 | And here's the question that I would like you to answer. In Chapter 6, you've got the prophet Amos calling out those who feel secure on Mount Samaria. |
| 0:51.0 | So tell us about that. What does that reveal about kind of the cultural political climate in |
| 0:55.5 | Israel at the time? And what do you think? Yes. So yesterday we talked a lot about Amos calling out |
| 1:02.1 | Israel for their sin, for their practice of unrighteousness, and in large part, their suppression of |
| 1:08.2 | the poor. And so when Amos calls out those who are secure on the mountain of |
| 1:15.3 | Samaria, I think he's kind of using the audience's understanding of the geography of Samaria and the |
| 1:24.0 | cultural understanding that those where kind of the wealthy would reside and that |
| 1:29.7 | they felt protected from kind of physical attack from other nations in that area. And so he's |
| 1:36.7 | kind of saying, hey, you all feel set apart. You feel righteous and you feel protected from |
| 1:42.7 | judgment. And yet he's kind of using their understanding |
| 1:46.8 | of that to say, you think you're righteous, but you're not practicing righteousness. You think |
| 1:52.1 | you're holy and you're following God's command by doing all of these religious practices. And yet, |
| 1:58.4 | you are not going to be free from God's impending judgment. Because of your |
| 2:03.9 | unrighteousness, you will face judgment for that. Yeah. It's always so interesting and sad, |
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