Friday, May 24 | Destroyed for a Lack of Knowledge (Hosea 4:1-8)

Everyday Truth with Kurt Skelly

Kurt Skelly

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

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🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Hosea 4:1-8 It is not a knowledge about God that prevents the destruction of a life or an institution; it is a knowledge of God that secures us. The people of Israel had rejected their relationship with God, refusing to know Him in any real and relational way. Without a knowledge of God, the people acted in the most selfish ways with a total lack of regard for their fellow man. God placed a special accountability on the priests because they were not teaching the Word of God. Instead, they were imitating and benefiting from the sinful behaviors of the people. What a mess!

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0:00.0	So what if the Lord were to bring you into a courtroom and sit you down in the defendant's seat?
0:08.2	And then he were to stand at the other podium as the prosecutor and point out the sins of your life.
0:17.5	That would be awkward. And that is what we're going to learn about today.
0:23.2	Welcome to Everyday Truth with Kurt Skelly.
0:26.1	We believe the Bible is true and relevant to everyone, everywhere, every day.
0:32.8	Thanks for listening, and let's join Kurt for today's episode.
0:36.7	Welcome back, friends. We're in a brand new chapter today, Josea chapter number four.
0:42.5	And wow, what a passage. This is really sobering. I think about walking into a courtroom,
0:52.0	sitting in the defense seat, and then watching the prosecuting
0:57.3	attorney get up and realizing that it's the Lord. Because that's what's going on in Josea
1:03.8	chapter 4. It's the Lord that is bringing charges against a guilty people. How does he do it? What does he say? In what ways does God try to
1:14.6	shake them and show them who they are? Look at verse number one, Josea chapter four. Hear the
1:22.8	word of the Lord, ye children of Israel. For the Lord hath a controversy. In other words, a case, a lawsuit.
1:32.6	He's making charges with the inhabitants of the land because there is no truth nor mercy,
1:40.7	nor knowledge of God in the land. So what is the indictment? What is the case that the Lord is making?
1:48.4	He's making the case that people are not being guided by truth. They're not being guided by
1:55.7	mercy. And the reason why there's no truth and mercy is because there's no knowledge of God.
2:02.5	Because to know the Lord, to have a relationship with him, to know him in an experiential way,
2:09.9	is to know the God of truth and the God of mercy.
2:13.1	I like what it says about the Lord Jesus in John chapter 1.
2:16.9	He was full of grace and truth.
2:20.5	That's a great juxtaposition, that God can be at once all truth, all right, and yet be gracious
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