Title: The Compounding Cost of Sin (15)
Series: Hosea
Author: Robert Dawson
Text: Hosea 13
Most of us are familiar with the concept of compounding interest. It's the principle that your money doesn't just grow, it grows on itself. The money you invest earns interest and then that interest starts earning interest on itself over time. The longer it goes, the bigger it gets like a snowball running downhill. At first, it's small but as it keeps rolling, it grows bigger, faster and more dangerous! Albert Einstein is said to have referred to compounding interest as "the 8th wonder of the world."
What happens when the thing compounding, building interest on itself, and growing larger is not wealth but sin? We have seen Israel's sin throughout Hosea's prophecy but here in Hosea 13 we reach the climax, not of the book, but Israel's rebellion.
-Israel's rebellion wasn't just a series of bad choices. It was a compounding disaster.
-The weight of guilt grew heavier and heavier, and the severity of judgment only intensified.
Today, we see the compounding nature of sin and its deadly consequences. The only escape is repentance.
Hosea 13.1-14 - When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but through Baal he incurred guilt and died. (2) And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves cast metal images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. They say of them, "Let the people who sacrifice kiss the calves!" (3) Therefore, they will be like the morning cloud and like dew that soon disappears, like chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor, and like smoke from a chimney.
(4) Yet I have been the Lord your God since the land of Egypt, and you were not to know any god except Me, for there is no savior besides Me. (5) I cared for you in the wilderness, in the land of drought. (6) As they had their pasture, they became satisfied, and as they became satisfied, their heart became proud; ther ...
Series: Hosea
Author: Robert Dawson
Text: Hosea 13
Most of us are familiar with the concept of compounding interest. It's the principle that your money doesn't just grow, it grows on itself. The money you invest earns interest and then that interest starts earning interest on itself over time. The longer it goes, the bigger it gets like a snowball running downhill. At first, it's small but as it keeps rolling, it grows bigger, faster and more dangerous! Albert Einstein is said to have referred to compounding interest as "the 8th wonder of the world."
What happens when the thing compounding, building interest on itself, and growing larger is not wealth but sin? We have seen Israel's sin throughout Hosea's prophecy but here in Hosea 13 we reach the climax, not of the book, but Israel's rebellion.
-Israel's rebellion wasn't just a series of bad choices. It was a compounding disaster.
-The weight of guilt grew heavier and heavier, and the severity of judgment only intensified.
Today, we see the compounding nature of sin and its deadly consequences. The only escape is repentance.
Hosea 13.1-14 - When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but through Baal he incurred guilt and died. (2) And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves cast metal images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. They say of them, "Let the people who sacrifice kiss the calves!" (3) Therefore, they will be like the morning cloud and like dew that soon disappears, like chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor, and like smoke from a chimney.
(4) Yet I have been the Lord your God since the land of Egypt, and you were not to know any god except Me, for there is no savior besides Me. (5) I cared for you in the wilderness, in the land of drought. (6) As they had their pasture, they became satisfied, and as they became satisfied, their heart became proud; ther ...
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