What does First B Jackson teach about book of amos?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At First Baptist Jackson, the book of Amos is taught as a mirror held up to God's people, not a relic of ancient history. Pastor Ray, Pastor Brian, and Pastor Chris have each worked through the whole book, and they all start in the same place: Amos was an outsider, a sheep herder and sycamore fig farmer from Tekoa in the Southern Kingdom, sent north to a prosperous Israel that had no interest in what he had to say. That setup matters. The Northern Kingdom was militarily strong and financially comfortable under Jeroboam II, and comfort, the teaching consistently notes, has a way of turning people away from God.
The structure of the book is part of the message. Amos opens with oracles of judgment against the nations surrounding Israel, each following the same pattern: a threshold of offense already crossed, specific charges, and coming punishment. An Israelite crowd would have cheered along at every one. Then the eighth oracle, the longest and most detailed by far, falls on Israel itself. The charges include selling the poor for money, corrupting justice with bribes, and covering it all with the appearance of religious observance. God says plainly that their festivals and their songs mean nothing to Him when justice is absent from their daily lives. The teaching draws a consistent line between empty worship and genuine seeking.
Chapter five is where each of these messages slows down the most. God sings a lament over Israel and then extends what the preachers call an olive branch: 'Seek me so that you may live.' That phrase carries the whole book. It is paired with the famous call to let justice roll down as waters and righteousness as an ever-flowing stream, a verse the teaching connects to Micah 6:8 and to the New Testament grounding in Romans 15, which says everything written in the former days was written for our encouragement and hope. The book does not end in judgment. Amos closes with a promise of restoration through the house of David, which is where the teaching ultimately lands.
Taught from Amos 5:1-24 · Amos 2:6-16 · Romans 15 · 1 Corinthians 10:11 · Micah 6:8
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 10:1-10
1 Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3 and all ate the same spiritual food;
4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
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Messages that go deeper
- October 26, 2025 Seek Me So That You May Live Pastor Ray walks through the book of Amos, showing how God's call to seek justice and turn from sin speaks as clearly to us today as it did to ancient Israel.
- April 24, 2022 Victory in Jesus, Hard Slog to Get There A verse-by-verse walk through the book of Amos, exploring God's judgment on social injustice and the silver lining of restoration that points forward to Christ.
- April 24, 2022 Seek Me and You Will Live A verse-by-verse walk through the book of Amos, exploring God's judgment on social injustice, the call to seek Him above empty religion, and His promise of restoration.