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His maker and built palaces in Judah, his 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, your flocks, multiply in your silver and gold is multiplied all you have is

multiplied. That's the language here in Hosea 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 8 17, 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

and 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 cities and multiplied in great ways because of their own strength

instead of the reality that they have all these things because of the strength that God provides

and he can take away these things, these cities and strongholds in an instant.

There's so much we could talk about here but suffice to say it is possible for you and I to do

the same thing in our lives to forget our maker, to forget the Lord our God and not to remember

all the things he has done and is doing even right now to uphold us. How easily we can become

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