Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

Josea chapter 8, verse 14, for Israel has forgotten his maker and built palaces, and Judah

has multiplied fortified cities, so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour

her strongholds.

Did you hear the indictment of Israel in the beginning of this verse?

Israel has forgotten his maker and built palaces in Judah has multiplied, fortified

cities.

This is what God had warned his people very specifically about. In the very

beginning, when they came into the promised land. In Deuteronomy chapter 8, verse 11, God said,

take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments and his rules and his statutes,

lest when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them and your herds and your flocks

multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied. All you have is multiplied. That's the language here in

Josea chapter 8. They've multiplied. But God said,

your heart will be lifted up and you'll forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land

of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, who led you through the wilderness and protected you and

guided you, who brought you to this place. Beware, God says, lest you say in your heart, this is

Deuteronomy 817, my power and the might of my hand have gotten me to this wealth.

Then in verse 18, he says, remember the Lord your God, for it's he who gives you power to get

wealth, that he may confirm the covenant that he swore to his fathers. And God said,

if you forget me and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, you will perish.

That's exactly what's happening now in Hosea. They're forgetting God. They're thinking that

they have done all these things, that they've fortified

...