Title: Judgement Pronounced (11)
Series: Hosea
Author: Robert Dawson
Text: Hosea 9:1-17
Richard Phillips, in his commentary on Hosea, shares how during the holiday season each year the entire community where he lived in Philadelphia would gather for a Christmas-carol festival in their park. He says, "I remember singing, with my mostly non-Christian neighbors, words of great majesty and beauty celebrating the birth of God's Son. 'Veiled in flesh the Godhead see; Hail the incarnate Deity.' 'Joy to the world! The Lord is come.'"
"I wondered what my fellow Philadelphians were thinking. My impression was that the words and their exalted doctrines...simply passed from their mouths without entering their minds. The incongruity of the situation was so striking that I asked myself why non-Christians would sing so heartily. The clear explanation was that while secular Americans are happy to give up Christ, giving up Christmas is another matter altogether."
When it came to some of the great festivals and feasts of the Jewish faith, the mindset seemed to be the same in ancient Israel, the Northern Kingdom, a kingdom on the precipice of judgment and destruction. "Although they had corrupted their religion through worship of Baal, like Americans who cling to Christmas, idolatrous Israel still clung" to their feasts and celebrations, like the celebration of booths.
They worshiped but in the wrong way, with the wrong heart and for the wrong reasons.
Hosea comes with a word of judgment from the Lord. Hosea 9 is a difficult chapter. To our ears it seems harsh, but it is a reminder for all of us not to trifle with a Holy God, our holy callingand that sin and disobedience come with a high price.
Hosea 9.1-17 - Do not rejoice, Israel, with jubilation like the nations! For you have been unfaithful, abandoning your God. You have loved the earnings of unfaithfulness on every threshing floor. 2 Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them, And the new wine ...
Series: Hosea
Author: Robert Dawson
Text: Hosea 9:1-17
Richard Phillips, in his commentary on Hosea, shares how during the holiday season each year the entire community where he lived in Philadelphia would gather for a Christmas-carol festival in their park. He says, "I remember singing, with my mostly non-Christian neighbors, words of great majesty and beauty celebrating the birth of God's Son. 'Veiled in flesh the Godhead see; Hail the incarnate Deity.' 'Joy to the world! The Lord is come.'"
"I wondered what my fellow Philadelphians were thinking. My impression was that the words and their exalted doctrines...simply passed from their mouths without entering their minds. The incongruity of the situation was so striking that I asked myself why non-Christians would sing so heartily. The clear explanation was that while secular Americans are happy to give up Christ, giving up Christmas is another matter altogether."
When it came to some of the great festivals and feasts of the Jewish faith, the mindset seemed to be the same in ancient Israel, the Northern Kingdom, a kingdom on the precipice of judgment and destruction. "Although they had corrupted their religion through worship of Baal, like Americans who cling to Christmas, idolatrous Israel still clung" to their feasts and celebrations, like the celebration of booths.
They worshiped but in the wrong way, with the wrong heart and for the wrong reasons.
Hosea comes with a word of judgment from the Lord. Hosea 9 is a difficult chapter. To our ears it seems harsh, but it is a reminder for all of us not to trifle with a Holy God, our holy callingand that sin and disobedience come with a high price.
Hosea 9.1-17 - Do not rejoice, Israel, with jubilation like the nations! For you have been unfaithful, abandoning your God. You have loved the earnings of unfaithfulness on every threshing floor. 2 Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them, And the new wine ...
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