Alpha Umc Sermons

Amos 8:1-12 (NIV)A Basket of Ripe Fruit8 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: a basket of ripe fruit. 2 “What do you see, Amos?” he asked.“A basket of ripe fruit,” I answered.Then the Lord said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.3 “In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.[a] Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!”4 Hear this, you who trample the needy    and do away with the poor of the land,5 saying,“When will the New Moon be over    that we may sell grain,and the Sabbath be ended    that we may market wheat?”—skimping on the measure,    boosting the price    and cheating with di