In this sermon from Amos 5, Pastor Josh explores what it means when God says He actually hates His people’s worship—not because He’s against singing or gatherings, but because their rituals are divorced from justice, righteousness, and real repentance. Through Amos’ funeral lament over “Virgin Israel,” the repeated invitation to “seek Me and live,” and the warning that the Day of the Lord will be darkness for complacent religious people, we see a God who both mourns our rebellion and urgently calls us back to Himself. The message lands in the gospel: Jesus steps into the Day-of-the-Lord darkness on the cross so that compromised, churchy people like us can find forgiveness, new life, and Spirit-empowered lives where worship and justice finally flow together like a never-failing stream.
