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🗓️ 21 July 2022
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:13.2 | Today we finished our 21st Book of the Bible. |
0:16.3 | Hosea continues today to prophesy to God's people, and he reminds them that there are consequences |
0:21.4 | for their sins. |
0:22.4 | Their hearts have wandered far from God and it doesn't just show up in their religious |
0:26.3 | practices. |
0:27.3 | It shows up in their autonomous choice of leaders and how they don't consult God about |
0:31.6 | those decisions. |
0:33.1 | It shows up in the way they look to other nations for help and pay tribute to pagans instead |
0:37.3 | of trusting in God for their needs. |
0:40.0 | Our relationship with God isn't isolated to where we spend our Sunday mornings. |
0:44.7 | Nearness to God impacts every area of our lives, and so does turning away from Him. |
0:51.4 | They tried to solve the problem by becoming more religious, but they were just adding false |
0:55.7 | gods and pagan altars into the mix instead of turning to Yahweh. |
1:00.3 | He compares their actions to another tragic event we've read about. |
1:04.0 | Remember back in Judges 19, when a man and his concubine were traveling home and stopped |
1:08.3 | to spend the night in the town of Gidea in the tribe of Benjamin? |
1:11.6 | Then a bunch of the leaders of Gidea kidnapped her, raped her, beat her, and left her for |
1:16.7 | dead. |
1:18.2 | God is saying that Israel as a whole has acted that way. |
1:22.2 | Imagine a whole nation of people who just do whatever they want to please themselves, |
1:26.6 | harm others in the process, and feel no remorse. |
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