audio_api/topic/sensuality.json

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    "name": "Sensuality",
    "description": "",
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        {
            "title": "\t Ivory Houses & Fat Cows: The Excessive Nonsense of the Modern Christian Church",
            "url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID24328",
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            "scripture": "Amos 3:13-15, Amos 4:1-5",
            "topic": "Sensuality",
            "description": "Israel in the 8th century B.C. was self-satisfied; her churches were full; her people were religious; there was a great deal of activity in her midst; and she believed her material prosperity was evidence of God's favor. But God and His Word had been forgotten, His law forsaken, and His loving grace taken for granted. Instead of the name of the Lord, Israel ran into two towers \u2013 their homes and their temples \u2013 prosperity and religion \u2013 and God promised to destroy both. Once any people begin to amass expensive homes, power over other people, and large incomes, it is easy for them to find their identity in these things. There is a natural tendency for people to consider their security to be in their stuff. They will go to great extremes to protect that which they imagine themselves to have gained by right \u2013 and anything that would threaten their power or their status or their revenue \u2013 they will act even in immoral ways to maintain what they presume to be rightfully their own.  Are we not falling into the same trap? Why should God not sweep away our western materialistic churches?",
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            "speaker_name": "Joseph LoSardo",
            "_scripture": [
                {
                    "book": "Amos",
                    "chapter": "4"
                },
                {
                    "book": "Amos",
                    "chapter": "3"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}