Hosea chapters 6 & 7 Bible Study

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us now join pastor clarence for today's bible study lesson well god bless you saints citizens and soldiers of the most high god my name is clarence and i'm pastor of united body of christ church which is an online ministry and on behalf of my family and myself i'd like to take this opportunity to welcome you and to welcome you back to another broadcast another bible study uh we didn't record uh last week or we didn't we didn't upload one last week sunday uh i was actually down in kentucky uh an immediate family member of mine uh we were doing some ministry work down there uh concerning our family members so well i should say i was the one down there uh so i bless god sometime god takes you uh you ever have a job to where you come to work and then the work your job needs to send you to another location to to take care of that and you didn't plan on it but you know your job will send you so god is god that's how god operates you know that he'll send you on certain missions from time to time so to god be the glory for even uh using me uh to to to be there and to to speak with the family and to uh you know to bring forth his word amen and his counsel so to god be the glory today uh we're looking at uh hosea chapter six and hosea chapter seven and a lot of meat on the bones for those two chapters there and i'm really looking forward to getting into it amen as always before we get into our lesson uh we like to go before the lord in prayer there's a lot going on today in our world uh whether you look at the the weather the climate the weather hurricanes earthquakes we look at what's happening throughout the world concerning uh war and rumors of war we look at what's happening in afghanistan and not just what's happening there but what's been happening all over in the middle east we look at the plagues viruses or what have you uh we look at famine you know various things of that happening inflation to where people don't have the money people are living in fear so many things that are happening uh in our world today a lot of hate uh very little love or or love me the way that i decide to be loved you know not you you better love me this way you know that's not that that's that's not that's this is not the way things ought to be we can't we can't define how somebody you know it's how they're to love us you know but um all i'm saying is when you take everything that i just said when you take that into consideration god has got to be a shelter he's got to be more than a backdrop for you he's got to be he's got to be what you lean on he's got to be who you lean on he's got to be he's got to be your pillar do you understand and if you haven't taken that time to get to know him because if you're not walking with him and if you if you're not spending time you know learning about god the closer you get to him he's going to begin that light of his is going to permeate and show you those things that are broken about you and it's okay because he's showing you what it is that he intends to fix about you amen and that's your start to transition from fear to faith and as you begin to as you draw more closer to him and as you begin to transition to walking by faith and not by sight you look at all these things that are happening in the world and you know what is that that god can't god can handle that there ain't nothing that god can't do and so you know that things are in his hands and you begin to pray but we don't begin to live in fear by what we see we pray about it and what we pray is that people will repent and and humble themselves turn from their wicked ways and then pray to god so that he can hear them from where he is in heaven and that's what we pray for amen not so that god can bless this country now i i would much rather people begin to seek the lord's counsel and adhere to his ways so i just want to be i just wanted to specify those things as we begin to go in prayer because you don't have to receive you don't have to i can't say agree with me but as i'm praying you can actually have your own prayer to god before this bible study start and if you go off into your own prayer be mindful of where we are so that we are living according to faith and not in fear and that we are mindful of those that need to be saved amen eternal god our father that art in heaven halloweth be thy name thine kingdom comes thine will be done upon this earth as your will is done in heaven give us this day our daily bread father forgive us of our sins forgive us of our trespasses forgive us of our transgressions forgive us of our depths as we forgive those who are our adapters lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the hands of the evil one lead us not into temptation but deliver us from all evil for thine is the kingdom the power and the glory now and forevermore in jesus name we pray father in heaven we come before you with bowed down heads and with humbled hearts thanking you for the works that you have performed and that you continue to do thanking you lord god for the lord jesus christ your only begotten son jesus we thank you for coming down to earth for being born in this world and bringing forth the gospel becoming that that lamb of god sacrificing yourself and allowing yourself to be risen from the dead giving us power and allowing us to be sons and daughters of the most high god by faith jesus thank you for what you've done and what you continue to do thank you for bestowing your father's spirit upon us and the angels gathering around us allowing us and to to enter into the chambers of the lord where our petitions are heard and answered father in heaven here we are this day we give thanks to you for the bounty of your goodness and that of your blessings you have been mindful of our comings in and our goings out you have been mindful of us individually and collectively you have visited us as we are at our workplace even when we slumber at night you look in on us allowing us to rest in the gift and the blessing of the rest so father i thank you i thank you for how good you are always you are always providing for us physically and spiritually you are that counsel that keeps us fortified in that and that directs our path you are our mercy our grace you are our peace you are our strength you are our long-suffering you giveth us that salvation you restore and renew our hope thank you for the gift of faith lord we're mindful of the storms and the trials which have appeared unto us this day and those which are in the days to come weather-related calamities wrath of men and anger and murder and violence father we see famine we see pestilence but in all of these things we see an opportunity for god to be glorified therefore we pray to be encouraged and a good cheer that father you will continue to call many out of darkness and into the light of the lord jesus christ we pray for and those which are the children of the most high god keep us from being distracted keep us in your strength and in your stead that we're always able to endure sound doctrine and lord when man begins to come against our faith when they begin to come against our livelihood remind us that you are our bread remind us oh god that greater is he that is within us then he that is within this world keep our countenance up father remind us continually that we are the sons and daughters of the king of the universe you are mighty in all of your ways and you are everlasting let us not turn from your ways but let us go to them let us apply your ways to our walk to our living to our faith we thank you for this bread that we're about to receive the bread of your word of god help us to receive it in its simplest form help us to be spiritually nourished by it father help it help us to plant the seed of the word into the ground and the soil of our heart and regardless of whatever situation and circumstance we find ourselves in let us remember to thank you and to praise you because you are always good you keep our marriages our families our dwelling place even our well-being it's all in your hands if we would submit to you so i thank you for always being there if we would just let you in thank you for knocking and letting us know that you're there knocking on the door of our hearts thank you for being abundantly good and being consumingly mindful of us loving us god and doing helping us to endure we pray for courage we pray that we will learn how to allow you to help us we pray that we don't find ourselves in your way we pray that your counsel will never be against us but will always be for us because we are always for you it's our desire god more than gold or silver we desire the presence the power of god working in our lives we desire eternity with you more than the gold and silver of this life so father i thank you i thank you for the fellowship of my brothers and sisters giving us power to turn away from sin and strengthening us to abide in the righteousness of jesus who was christ that we don't have to be in bondage to destruction and corruption but that we abide in the holiness and in the counsel of god you are life-saving you are a healing god you are a life-giving god you give us longevity you save us from our sins and you give us a victory to triumph over evil we say thank you thank you always for what you always do on our behalf and even those things that are found in your will concerning your glory and your kingdom we say thank you so father help us to have courage and a good cheer help us pry open our hands when the time comes that we're not holding tight to this world but open our heads that we embrace the world to come the kingdom of god and all of his righteousness father help us to let go of things we need not hold on to help our eyes to not be filled with distractions but that we would behold the coming of our lord jesus christ this is our desire keep us upon that path of righteousness for the sake of our salvation help us to not go to the left or to the right but to stay on that straight and narrow path that we would enter into the narrow gate thank you for your messengers which are at home and abroad we pray for their protection we pray for their safety and their peace father we thank you for being mindful again of us individually and collectively help us to endure until the end even not loving our lives until the end this is our petition this is our prayer unto you lord thank you for a better version of ourselves because of jesus who was christ because of yeshua god i thank you it's in jesus name that we pray again folks interesting days and times that we are living in but god has it under control god is in control and i don't want to see you living according to fear but according to faith and if we let god in and get out of his way he will keep us he will deliver us and he will see us through amen so today again today we are uh going forth in hosea chapter six as always god is the chef the bread that god has prepared for us all of us those those of you that are listening uh and watching by way of the broadcast even my family and myself the bread that god has prepared for all of us to break and to receive it's that word of god that bread of life the lord jesus christ it's the holy spirit that has invited your family and yourselves my family and myself that we can come together at this moment that we can sup commune and fellowship amen my wife and myself our job is to serve what god himself has prepared for all of us to receive so any understanding that you receive any strength any fullness any contentment um any instruction it's not because of me nor my wife but it's because god intended for you to have it so to god be the glory that's our way of glorifying the father the son and the holy ghost man may not eat by breath man must not live by bread alone rather but by every word which proceedeth out of the mouth of the lord without any further ado let's begin uh before we get into hosea i want to read our the the theme the scripture for today i don't have a theme title but i have a theme scripture and i want to read it for today this is going to come from romans chapter 13 and let's take a look at verses 10 through 14. romans chapter 13 verses 10 through 14. love worketh no ill to his neighbor therefore love is the fulfilling of the law and and that knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep for now was our salvation nearer than when we believed and let me reread that that is a powerful verse and that knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed the night is far spent the day is at hand let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and in drunkenness not in chambering and wanting us not in strife and entering but put ye on the lord jesus christ and make not provisions for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof amen so it's understanding that we have to walk in love and we have to turn from our wicked ways and and seek the counsel of the lord because as we as our salvation draws near so does the wrath of god for those who have not accepted the salvation that god is offering amen so if we know that our salvation is getting nearer so is this wrath and we have to either choose life or death and as we begin to read in hosea you'll see the same thing is happening god is pleading with him he wants to save them the the the the the jews as far as the northern tribes god's wrath is going to come in the form of the assyrians and then the southern tribe you have judah in the southern tribe god's wrath come in the form of the babylonians some years down the road later amen so uh that's our theme today and and real powerful let's get right into hosea hosea chapter six uh verse one hosea chapter six verse one come let us return unto the lord for he has torn and he will heal us he has smitten and he will bind us up sometime god will call you and he will try to get your attention even if you've never walked with him he's always had his eye set on you and he's tried and tried to get your attention and the time will come that god will turn up some pressure around you because he loves you and he wants you to i if he tried the peaceful way to get you and to love you and to to have you accept him and you refuse that then god will allow some things around you to heat up and hope that that through that heat through that torment that you're going to cry out to him before it's too late and this is kind of what's happening here come let us return unto the lord for he has torn he has healed us he has smitten and he has bound he has bind us up god would allow some especially those that that know him and you've turned you you've turned away from him and you went after mischief and all that other stuff god would allow some things to light you up and it's the chastisement of the lord but it's his way of trying to bring you back because he loves you and he hopes that through that you will also say come let us return unto the lord when you see things begin to happen in your life relationships begin to devour your finances begin to crumble and to dry up things begin to break down your peace has been assaulted you know you the things that you used to have a handle on you no longer find yourself in control of those things you are being consumed by little things and they have become magnitude and its cause against you those things right there when when they begin to happen what god is hoping will be the result of those things caving in and collapsing upon you is that you will cry out to god because he's cried out to you when you refuse to hear and acknowledge so god will allow certain things to collapse around you and he's hoping for you to say come let us return unto the lord he's not giving up on you he's not he's just not giving up on you but god is a respectable god because if you keep shutting him out he's not going to kick the door in it's free will he's not going to kick the door in but he's still there trying to gain your attention why because he's trying to save you he his there is an appointed time of his wrath and it comes and he's trying to reason in this example he's trying to reason with israel and hosea is is the prophet that's that's kind of like speaking through his people come let us return back to the lord and hosea has foresight of what's to come against israel because god he's god's prophet and so we're kind of in the same situation because as we read revelation we know that god's wrath is going to come as we read all of the things that were happening in the old testament we know that god wrath was appointed to them and it came what would make us be exempt if we have the knowledge that if we don't turn from our wicked ways god's wrath why wouldn't we want to turn we have the knowledge that they that they have but again free will i don't know but that's pretty powerful come let us return unto the lord and they acknowledge how god is how heavy his hand was against him for he has torn but he was healed he had smitten and he will bind us up after two days and this is real powerful here this is something powerful i believe the prophet begins to prophesy about the lord jesus christ that's just the way i look at it but look at what this says after two days will he revive us and in the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight then shall we know that if we follow on to know the lord his going forth is prepared as the morning and he shall come unto us as the rain as the latter and the former rain upon the earth hold your place there and go with me to the gospel of john chapter 2 and let's look at verses 19 through 22 the gospel of john chapter 2 verses 19 through 22. and i want to take a look at what something here the the the conversation or the altercation however you want to look at it that jesus had but let's let's start at verse 19. um actually let's let's start at verse forgive me let's start at verse 13 just so we'll make sure we're in the context of the scripture here so let's start at verse 13. the jews passover was at hand jesus went up to jerusalem he found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves and the changers of money so what they did is they defiled the temple of the lord and they brought the carnal things not the spiritual things but the carnal things filled the temple of the lord filled his sanctuary they defiled it and they turned it out and jesus came in there and and took an observation of what had become uh what has become of the temple and when he had made a scourge of small cords he drove them out of the temple and the sheep and the oxen and he poured out he poured out the changers money and overthrew the tables when christ wants to save us when god wants to save us and we allow christ to come into our heart see this our vessel was going to become the temple of the lord amen so when christ comes in he sees all the carnal things that are happening inside of us all the things that we've been defiled with and christ begins to kick that stuff out he begins to disrupt the the the the business that had the carnal business at hand inside of us this is his way of cleaning us out but we get a depiction of that as he was cleaning out his father's temple so is the way he cleans out our temple he goes through there once we let him in he goes through there and he gets rid of all the carnal things that have defiled and polluted and robbed us of of the glory of god amen and said unto them that so doves take these things hence make not my father's house a house of merchandise and his disciples remembered that it was written the zeal of thine house has eaten me up then answered the jews and said unto him what sign show was thou unto us seeing that thou does these things what authority do you have that you can come in and try to run rough shot up in here then answer verse 19 jesus answered and said unto them destroy this temple and in three days i will raise it up then said the jews forty and six years was his temple in building and will thou rear it up in three days it took us 46 years to build this temple see the carnal man receiveth not the things of the lord neither can he understand them for to him they are foolishness somebody that's colonel they don't unders they don't have that spiritual insight as to what's being said unto them so you can see these people even though they were in the temple they were carnal okay so they couldn't understand what jesus was saying so their response was it took 46 years to build this template you talked about that that you can build and you can raise it up here they was like yeah right but he spake of the temple of his body when therefore he was risen from the dead his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them and they believed the scripture and the word which jesus said now when we go back here to hosea and read verse two after two days will he revive us and in the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in the sight i believe the prophet is also prophesying that there will be a restoration with israel once and for all and that's when jesus christ will be risen from the dead and then when israel becomes a nation and then israel accepts jesus as the only begotten son of god then will israel be truly redeemed and truly restored that is also one to us once that we accept jesus as lord as jesus was risen so are we resurrected in jesus christ if we let him in he is going to come through and purge as i said he poured out you can also look at he purged the temple of all that which defiled it that's what he's going to do with us and then when he when we let him in and he began to do his work inside of us he he makes it so that as he was resurrected so are we resurrected with him and we're able to live forever with him amen and that's a powerful thing god wants you have to look at the work that god has started in you all the chiseling it hurts look at what they're saying here it hurts come let us return unto the lord for he has torn when god is trying to rebuild you that stuff hurts he's trying to chisel some things off of you that stuff hurts look at what it says he will heal us he has smitten us he was because our rebellion and we went astray and and we didn't do what he told us to do he lit us up and it hurt so guess what he's going to heal our wounds the wounds that the wounds that were inflicted upon us he is going to heal our wounds he's trying to save us but we have to allow him to do it those of you that have not accepted jesus those of you that have not accepted the salvation that god is offering through jesus christ now is the time amen and look at what god is he's pleading with israel right and go let's go on then shall we know that if we follow one to know the lord his going forth is prepared as the morning and he shall come unto us as the rain and the light has to rain as the latter and the former rain upon the earth if we accept the lord and we begin to continue on with him he is going to help us to understand the workings of his hands and through him if we learn to lean and depend on him he is going to come through at our time of need he'll be like the latter and the former rain and if you think about that we need rain not only for for our consumption as far as drinking water and stuff but we also need the the we need the rain for the harvest amen we need the rain for the harvest for the for the seeds and stuff that we plant so god is going to be our need he is going to meet our needs if we allow his work to begin and to maintain inside of us because look at what it says if we continue on look at what this says it says um then shall we know if we follow on to know the lord see you're going to come into the understanding that if you continue on with the lord no matter how hard it gets if you hang in there and you continue on you will not only begin to understand what was being done on your behalf but you will also begin to see the blessings how he is there now he is taking care of your needs individually and collectively but that's god pleading with israel too through his prophet give him a chance hang in there with him and quit running away from him and running into every everything that offers you some kind of pleasure right ephraim verse 4 oh ephraim what shall i do unto thee oh judah what shall i do unto thee for your goodness is as a morning cloud and as early do with goeth away you're not faithful what what can i i've tried to chastise you and you just don't want to adhere i did what i could to get your attention and you just disregarded it what are you where is this going why are you provoking me he was like your goodness you the the righteousness about you just as to do in the morning how it leaves that's how yours is it leaves you're like a clown that floats away your your love your faithfulness your acknowledgement of me it it's here one minute and going the next what shall i do to you therefore have i healed them by the prophets i've slain them by the words of my mouth and thy judgment are as the light that goeth forth god said that's why i set my prophets there to let you know you know that that i haven't i take issue with you i've sent my words to chastise you i've done what i could you know and that's kind of where we are now i don't call myself god's prophet that's far from that what i am saying is that here we are god uses his messengers to try to reach his people the same thing that god was doing then with israel in the time of hosea he does now with his messengers he there are people that i listen to you know that if i find myself uh taking the wrong step god is there to make sure that that that don't don't set your feet down off that path he'll have somebody say something to me you know god is using his messengers to speak to us to chastise us to correct us or to keep us on that path amen and he hopes his desire is that we would hearken but it wasn't the case with israel therefore have i healed them by the prophets i've slain them by my word by the words of my mouth and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth for this is heavy i desireth i desired mercy and not sacrifice and the knowledge of god more than burnt offerings god would send us prophets to speak to the children of israel to let them know how to get back on path and israel would get to the point that before there was jesus christ before jesus came is through the priests through the levitical priesthood israel would sin and the levites would always you know bring forth a sacrificial offering okay and so it it almost was a permission slip for israel to sin if you know that your sins would be atoned for oh well god is going to forgive me so they would go astray and then they would just go and give an offering you know to atone and it became a system you know to where let me give an offer i'm a mess up but let me give an offering i'm a mess up let me give an offering and to think that that's okay but god had an issue with it look at what he said i desire at the mercy and not sacrifice and what that that word here mercy is is he's looking at the faithfulness if you will the the the love the faithfulness and not sacrifice so basically let's put it in modern day people will are quicker to pay their tithes than they are to obey the lord our god and that's just the bottom line i i don't want to pray i don't want to obey but let me do the right thing and at least pay the tithes lord let me give an offering i'm gonna do what i want to do anyway but let me give an offering you know it take off and and fornicate on friday saturday night fornicate you know living in sin or whatever it is that you do but then on sunday let me let me give an offering you know and that's not how the kingdom of god works amen look at what he says here i desireth mercies and not sacrifice the knowledge of god more than burnt offerings god would prefer for you to be obedient to be holy to be righteous and not your money it's not likely that's not how he is let me give you something else hold your place there and go with me to first samuel chapter 15 first first samuel chapter 15 and let's take a look at verses 22 through 23 first samuel chapter 15 verses 22-23 samuel said has the lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the lord behold to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of realms let me re-read verse 22. samuel said have the lord as great delight and burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the lord behold to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of realms for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness is as iniquity and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry because thou has rejected the word of the lord he has also rejected thee from being king so he was speaking to to saul uh king saul at that time and so because saul had disobeyed god but yet he wanted to give god the choice offerings of things even in his disobedience he still will let me let me give this and let me give that god overlook my you know my wrong you know and samuel told him god is not like that and because you continue to disobey god is going to remove you from the position of the blessing that he's placed you in that's the thing about it we have the tendency to think that it's more important that that we give of our offerings or of our tithes than it is to obey the lord and that's totally different and i'm not talking about people that that that you you know you've made a mistake you know you've you've stumbled we're talking about people that live and sin constantly but then all of a sudden here they want to come in and they they want to they they're not going to obey but the least they can do is contribute and and the whole reason that you contribute is because you want god first and foremost to receive what you're offering to him but god is saying that no i would much prefer to receive your obedience because that's more precious than what than the money that you're offering your your holiness your obedience that's more important amen and so that we stand on that as well and man that's just the bottom line you know and and people that's not a popular message because you know places of worship are hurting but i'm here to tell you again that we have to look at scripture and we have we're learning the character of god and how he is god desires your obedience and when you choose to disobey the scriptures cause that rebellion when you are stubborn that you're not going to listen to what anybody says god compares that to idolatry he compares it to idolatry when when you are rebellious of the lord and you just your you know what you're doing is wrong and you're going to do it anyway god compares that to the evil of witchcraft he said it's on the same line as that he says and when when you're stubborn about it you know that you're not going to listen to what anybody says he says that's on the same level as idolatry but then you want to go and sacrifice an animal so that god can atone for it so that god don't he don't fester over you being rebellious let me give this you can't pay god's wrath off and that's what it comes down to we're learning the character of god and so we're also learning what to do and what not to do how to be better than what we've been to be have a better version of ourselves and if you would try to walk upright if you would try to resist evil and resist sin if you would continue to resist and hang in there the enemy will flee that pressure is going to come up off of you but the enemy has no reason to to stop tempting you if if you're constantly giving in to him and when you're giving in to the enemy you're you're you're you're giving up on obeying god and that's the thing about it so god is saying i need you to to resist sin resist evil stop stop resisting god and start resisting the animal the enemy you know and and when you when you begin to do that then god moves you take care let that be taken care of first and then god begins to move you i'm not one of these preachers that'd be like oh if give send a a a gift offering and god will heal you or god will deliver you if you just send a gift offer no i'm not like that that's not what our scripture says our scripture says that your your focus and and and your charity or your your generosity should be in the obedience that you give to god first and foremost then god blesses you with the proceeds to give amen but put more emphasis on your obedience toward him rather than your proceeds amen and then the rest begins to fall in line so he says i desireth mercy and not sacrifice and knowledge of god more than birth offerings but they like and this translation here it says like men if you actually go into the to to the uh hebrew translation of this you're going to see that they call this is adam it says but they like adam not men but like adam have transgressed the covenant they there have they dealt treacherously against me and as as good as god is to us god will give and give and blessed and blessed and we move further and further away and god is putting them on notice that's not the way to do it you know because you're going to come closer to his wrath right so he says just like adam at the beginning when he transgressed my when he's transgressed my covenant nothing has changed it continues on even to this day gilead is the city of them that work iniquity and is defiled or is polluted with blood there's a lot of violence there as troops of robbers wait for a man so the company of priests murder in the way by consent for they commit lewdness this is heavy because this is the spiritual leaders of the of of that society at that time the priests were the spiritual leaders and god is putting them on notice showing how corrupt they are and he said you're no different than a band of thieves you got these thieves does that are robbing and polluting and murdering i can't tell the priest apart from the common thieves from the common murderers from the perverted people because the priests are the same so god is saying that all of y'all have abandoned you all of y'all have walked away god is making the case to show how bad things are have gotten in society when the priest which is the first line of defense has fallen then then sin runs rough shot in society right then he goes on to say i've seen a horrible thing in the house of israel there is whoredom of ephraim israel is defiled and it's talking about the idolatry and when it talks about whoredom is talking about their idolatry how they go and and and worshiping other gods and ephraim is that's just him calling another name for israel israel is defiled and then he goes on also judah he's now look at this also oh judah he has set a harvest for thee when i return the captivity of my people now it said judah is not out of the woods either i can't just put all the focus on israel even though that through judah i am going to restore all of humanity and why would i be as bold as to say that statement because it's through judah that jesus comes through and so it's going to restore uh it's going to liberate those that were in captivity jesus himself through jesus everyone uh that lived by faith will be saved everyone that accept jesus who was christ shall be saved right but even though god has a plan to rescue humanity through judah they still themselves need to be chastised and that's what that verse is saying also old judah he has set a harvest for thee when i return the captivity of my people that harvest is that that spanking that they gonna get to they're not out of the wood see what's gonna happen with israel is the assyrians are going to come in and take them into captivity what's going to happen with judah is the babylonians are going to come in and take them captivity but even though god will use judah to rescue humanity in itself because jesus comes through their bloodline even though that god is looking at his plan of salvation that's going to be executed through the bloodline of judah they still have to be chastised for their wrongdoing and so that's what the verse is saying they're not out of the woods so that it that's going to take care of that now let's get right into uh chapter seven hosea chapter 7 verse 1. when i would have healed israel then the iniquity of ephraim was discovered and the wickedness of samaria for they commit falsehoods and the thief cometh in and the troop of robbers spoils without or outside and it says i want a hill i have a desire to see israel healed but they are so defiled that i gotta light them up i gotta chastise them i gotta i gotta get them because uh even though i desire to save them they don't wanna be saved they don't wanna be healed look at all the things that are happening in and outside out in within their borders and outside their borders all the things that are manifesting even though i would even though i would want to heal them but look at all of the going zones that's going on in and about israel he goes on to say and they considereth not in their hearts that i remember all of their wickedness now their own doings have beset them about and they are before my face this this work this this sentence here now their doings have beset them about and they are before my face when you start off in sin this is interesting when you start off in sin you're in the privacy of your sin you're in secrecy of it as you begin to maintain that self-inflicted path of destruction because that's what the indulgence of sin is is going to lead to your demise as you spend more time in rebellion and in sin that's that secrecy that that that privacy be becomes transparent it starts to to i'll give you a modern day example if if you're seeing if you're if if you're in involved in a adultery say you're married and say um women you go meet up with the married guy and and the married man he go meet up with the with the with the married woman you go maybe you go out of town to meet up at a hotel or something and and you're you're you're trying to maintain in that sin you're trying to maintain a level of secrecy i must be talking to someone that's listening to the broadcast because i got the picture right here and there so that's pretty powerful but if you're if you're going out of town to go meet somebody and what's what begins to happen is when you first engaged in all of this adultery you're you're careful you're methodical uh you you're engaged in secrecy and in privacy and eventually the more you are into that uh what used to be out of town is now come in town to where people begin to see you you're not as the more you're engaged in that sin the more the the the more brazen you become and what you used to hide you're no longer care no you're no longer careful or do you care to hide the effort that you put in to heighten it you no longer put that effort in because that sin makes you bold and what used to be in a closet has come out of the closet and has now surrounded it it becomes apparent and obvious it makes you more bold and brazen well that's that's that sin that's what's going on and that's what you see here in the verse here they consider not in their hearts that i remember all of their wickedness now their own doings have beset them that were beset has surrounded them their their sins are now out in the open it's around them and it's so much so that it's it's there in my face now see you're no longer secret about what you're doing you're real brazen about it you got a level of pride about it that you just don't care you know and that's just how that is and god is saying that i see what you're doing now and i see what you did and i remember everything that you did then and look at where you are now you're just as worse now as you were then you know i see it i ain't forgot nothing look at what you're doing you know so god is calling it out and that's that's pretty heavy there they make the king glad with their wickedness and their princes with their lies look at this verse here when in our society i'm going to give you a modern example of this verse we should be are the saints of god chris christians in the world should be the moral barometer of society we should be a moral barometer of society and when when says when the immoral sees christians they should do what they can to to hide to hide their their you know their actions you know they're not going to repent but they have enough respect about you that they try not to do things in your face right if you're if somebody know that you're saved or if they know that there is something about you and they themselves are a cusser they're not going to to cuss around you a lot of them will try to avoid even being in your company because they know they know who you are and what you represent but if you cuss just as much as they do you hang out at the strip clubs just as much as now they don't feel awkward being around you do you understand that they don't feel awkward being around you you you've made them comfortable to to walk in carnality because you no longer represent that that moral barometer you know and that's kind of what the scripture is saying here they make the king glad with their wickedness and the princes with their lies there is no longer a moral barometer in society so they feel encouraged to to to continue on in in falsities and and in wickedness because there is not a moral barometer and that's what in our country in america here that's what um that's what society has been evolving to now trying to get trying to remove um that moral barometer out of society so those that are wicked can can pounce around through and do whatever they want to do whatever they want to do and live how they want to live without feeling any kind of uh awkwardness based on the light of christ that shines within us basically they try to get laws to legislate the light of christ within us so when you have a baker maybe you have a bakery and you have those that that that that that have been given away in sexuality that tries to come in and through the law they want you to you know to prepare for them baked goods you know for whatever ceremony they're looking to perform right or to to be involved in they're looking to dim your light through laws and various things so that they can continue on along the path of wicked and idolatry and that's where we are today as a society but we can't stop being who we are even if it cost us our lives we cannot stop being who god has called us to be you know they can't take that from you you can give it up if you so choose to but they can't take it from you why because christ had already pronounced that the gates of hell cannot prevail against us he already said that so they can't take it from you all you can do is take down and give it up that's the problem and that's what they're trying to get you to do they're trying to get you to give it up they're trying to get you to lay it down and to join them uh without reproach and that's where things are amen so again that's what the verse is saying here in verse three that there's no longer a moral barometer of society so the kings and the princes those that are in elect those elected officials and and those that are in office they feel at liberty to be open about their wickedness because there is not a moral barometer in society okay they are all adulterers and there's an overheated oven by the baker who ceases from rising after he had neither the dough until it be leaven so you think about an oven that's constantly heated it's saying that that's how their ways are they're they they just as a the the the baker will set the oven on high and he's kneading and doing the bread you know well even after he gets done using the oven for what it's used for the oven is still on it's still hot well that's that's where he's saying that that's what god is saying about the children of israel as they burn in their lust for rebellion and sin it's const that their flames are constantly on high and hasn't and won't simmer down it's constantly on high heat and that's what god is saying okay in the day of our king the princes have made him sick with the bottles of wine he stretcheth out his hands with corners for they have made ready their heart like an oven while they lie in wait their baker sleepeth all the night and in the morning it burneth as a fly as a flaming fire look at what these two verses are saying here and it's pretty powerful because you can equate that to politics of our our days and in our lifetime it's saying that when they have a a day set a tie for a king a celebratory holiday a king's some kind of king's holiday those that gather around the king will make him drunk and stuff as though that they're there to lift him up and to puff him up and to to embrace him as them as him being their king but all what they're doing is trying to get him drunk and and so that they can get him found and unawares so that they can come in and and and get him out of office this is what the verse is saying that in the day of our king a king's day or celebrate celebration day of of the king in the day of the king princes have made him sick so those that are in his chambers or those that are in his cabinet they've made him sick with the bottles of wine they got him drunk they and he stretched out his hands with scorners so those that are not in his best interest or don't have his best interest at heart he's welcomed them into knowing that they can't stand him and he's bringing them all into the feast but he don't understand that there is intrigue there for they have made ready their hearts like an oven while they lie in wait their baker sleepeth all the night and in the morning and burneth as a fire as a flaming fire they're they're they're waiting patiently to put the dagger in the king's heart there all and god is showing how all of society is decaying you know from the priest to the kings and look and as i said politically this verse is the way it is for us today you'll have a president in office and they'll do everything they can to get him in office and and then though and and those that mean him no good just want to be they want to be seen with the king the scorners those that mock him they act like they're for him in public but behind closed doors they're doing they're doing everything they can to bring him down and their desire to see him fall by the side is as a as a as a a flaming oven oven that stays lit the baker is sleep the baker don't even need the oven right but yet their oven is always hot well that their their desire their burning desire to to do away with the king or with those that are in in power and position is always set on high and they're going to do whatever they can to accomplish their deeds against whoever that elected official is so not only can all the common people uh corrupt it but is also talk about elected officials how they're corrupted and this is talking about the corruption how those that are in his own cabinet or those that claim to be working for him behind closed doors are working against him so again we could look at this and equate it to the politics of our day amen as well as the corruption of this time back then they are all hot as an oven and have devoured their judges and have devoured their judges all of their kings are fallen there is none among them that calleth upon me so they are all corrupt they are all corrupt and out of all of those out of all the kings and ju and all the kings and princes and all of the elected officials all the the diplomats out of all the people that are in powerful positions none of them walk with the lord and that's what god is saying there is none among them that calleth on me none walks with him you can relate this to the politics of our day you'll hear them say god bless america you'll hear them say our thoughts and our prayers are with you but their actions never show that they're for the lord our god our actions always shows their actions i should say always shows that they got their own interests and their own actions for their own sakes at heart their own ambitions and every move that they make every move that they make is move is made to further their careers amen they never do as an as a as a leader in a powerful position they they're not trying to lead you to the lord they're leading you away from him they're trying to show you how to live life away from god and not with him and what what was going on then remember we read in the last chapter how things happen with adam and then they continued even in hosea's time well in hosea's time the things that's happening then is happening in our own society and all over the world not just in america out of all the elected officials none is walking with god and all of them are trying to they're trying to gain a foothold to where they can eliminate the person in front of them they'll drink with them they're dying with them but wild they're plotting against them to see how they can take them out so that they themselves can inherit that position of power and but if they walk with god none of that would be an issue but they don't walk with god and these are the ones we're quick to line up and give support to so god is not only blaming those that are in charge but all the people that put them there too god is looking at ephraim has mixed himself among the people ephraim is a cake not turned think about a cake think about bread or cake when it ain't when it's if the outside may look finished but the inside is real doughy and so israel is supposed to be a peculiar papal however israel has mingled themselves into foreigners and now instead of foreigners learning how to worship the god of of abraham isaac and jacob israel is learning how to worship a heathen god and not only has it mixed itself with strangers but it also end up procreating with them having kids and their children of these mixed races here uh end up worshiping those gods of those of those foreigners that being been caught up in idolatry amen strangers have devoured his strength and he knoweth it not yea gray hairs are here and there upon him yet he naughted not he's supposed to be wise as with gray hairs on him he's supposed to know better however even the age of society that's supposed to know better is is caught up in idolatry you know the the foreigners have convinced them to worship their gods and to turn away from the god of abraham and of isaac and of jacob when you look at like i said there's a political theme to this because when you look at people that have been in washington for years you would think that they know better it don't matter which side of the aisle that you look at democrats or republicans but you think that their tenure in in in politics that they would know better and that they wouldn't make certain decisions because of the time that they got in however their heart is led after strangers or after foreign gods because they're they're living according to the desires and the ambitions of of foreigners and not after the the our ambitions of serving the lord our god amen and that's what the scripture is saying you would think that they with their gray hair that they would know better but they don't right they don't even know how weak they've become the aged in society should be a pillar of strength because of the wisdom that god has given them because of the experience how they would have had to endure in life but they've become weak because they've become ignorant about the lord our god they turned his back on them and went to ghosts a whoring after other gods and have become weak and ignorant amen verse 10 and the pride of israel testifieth to his face and they do not return to the lord their god nor seek him for all of this they get to the point that you can't tell them anything they think that they're doing it for the good of somebody for for the good of everybody that you know they'll tell you that this is you know we have to do this and you show them where their wrong is they don't want to acknowledge it and god says it testifies against them ephraim also was like a silly dove without heart they call to egypt they go to assyria you know they're they're going to and fro they're not they're not cemented in the lord they're going from one enemy to the next enemy trying to appease but they're not they're not cemented in the lord amen and then this gets real interesting when they go and when they shall go i will spread my net upon them i will bring them down that's the files of the heaven i was chastised them as their congregation has heard and it says woe unto them for they have fled from me destruction unto them because they have transgressed against me though i've redeemed them yet they have spoken lies against me and when god is no longer your pillar and when you've went into the world you become a double-minded man and you're unstable in all of your ways when you're no longer serving the lord but you're serving your own interest you find yourselves in a company of those that have scorned you and you think that they have your best interests at heart because that verse that we read here verse 11 ephraim is also like a silly dove without heart uh like it don't have any sense they call to egypt and they go to assyria you know and you're you're in the company of those that mean you no good you know you don't have sense enough to know that they look for your demise they're not trying to help you out of it they're trying to lead you to your demise and that's what happens when you walk away from god you can't reason well with yourself obviously you out of your mind if you're walking away from the one that has given you peace and prosperity right so woe unto them for they fled from me destruction unto them because they've transgressed against me though i've redeemed them yet they've spoken lies against me and they have not cried unto me with their heart when they've howled upon their beds they've assembled themselves for corn and wine and they rebel against me though i've bound and strengthened their arms yet do they imagine mischief against me imagine we look at look at this verse and i'ma give you a modern day perspective though i've bound and strengthened their arms yet do they imagine mischief against me let's look in our country and let's look at our space program maybe that'll be a good example we'll look at nasa god has given man uh knowledge on how to traverse the heavens okay that's that's a form of god strengthening their hands he's given them knowledge and and and the ability to make ships to traverse the heavens but he don't he's not trying to find things that he may glorify god he's not trying to traverse the heavens so that he can discover new miracles and and then bring good tidings back to the earth to tell everybody what a wonderful a mighty and an imaginative god that we serve he's trying to traverse the stars so that he can get away from god or so that he can disprove god you know disprove god's existence or that he can uh show how humanity can live without god that's imagining uh uh evil against god look at that though i've bound though i've bound and i strengthened their arms yet do they imagine mischief against me and like i said to give you a modern example of that is our space program you know we're not trying to god again god given man the abilities to traverse the heavens and as he's doing so he's not trying to find things to to represent the glory of god and to testify about god's uh imagination he's trying to disprove to disprop to this to to to disprove or or to teach men how to live without god to denounce the works of god amen that's what his and that's imagining a mischief against god that's what you're trying to do and that's no good and when god is the one that gave you the ability uh to do these things right he strengthens your arm he's given you the ability to to to traverse the heavens and to do these mighty things and you're trying to do it so that you can show man how to live without god that's unfortunate and our last verse they returned but not to the most high they are like a deceitful boat their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue this shall be their derision in the land of egypt and when you think about this shall be their their derision in the land of egypt what the verse is saying is about time god gets done dealing with them because they've imagined mischief against them they've turned away from them but they don't turn back to come to god they turn back they turn towards god to challenge him and because of that you know and we see we see this in a book of revelation when the time comes that that they're going to try to come against the lord jesus christ all right so it says they return but not to mo not to the most high they're going to turn against them they're they're going to come and try to take what god has given and they're just going to take it and they're going to try to rise up against them but their folly is going to even through the land of egypt and why why is egypt mentioned because remember back in the day it was when god pulled uh israel out of egypt and the things that god did to egypt his story is known for generations and generations and generations far down the line imagine when god begins to allow the assyrians to come through and to take you captivity those that are the descendants of those in egypt uh whose whose forefathers uh the the the the ten plagues of egypt fill upon them imagine when they see what happens to israel now and they're going to they're going to look at that and be like now look at you i kind of look at that verse like that look at what it says they they return but not to the most high for they are like a deceitful bow the princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of the tongue this shall be their derision in the land of egypt and i look at like i said like egypt is looking at that and be like yeah yeah yeah look at you now you know i kind of look at it like that now that's my interpretation of that but that's how i look at that whole thing so we're going to stop right there that was uh hosea chapter six and seven and in our next broadcast uh we'll pick up a couple more chapters there eternal god i thank you so much for the opportunity to bring forth this message to bring forth your word i thank you for any understanding that we've been able to receive thank you lord god for giving us the insight of what was then and where things are today father i pray in the name of jesus that this message is able to reach those where they are in power in simplicity and in praise to god father those of us that have heard this message that we would live by that we would understand that you desire obedience from us and that's not not sacrificial offerings such as our monies or or lambs or anything of that but that we would obey that we would turn from our wicked ways and that we would gain knowledge of god and to understand your character that we would be mindful not to associate ourselves with those of this world but that we would withdraw from them and that we would worship and serve you as true believers and true worshipers father let it be this message that we receive and let us live according to it thank you for the word thank you for the examples that you sent before us thank you for the strength and the knowledge even the platform to declare your truth i pray that all is received and instructed by the word in jesus name we pray amen now we've read and and i would like to go back and read it again we had read uh we opened up our theme our lesson today with with our theme coming from romans chapter 13. and i would like to read that today again i would like to just indulge you so if you will indulge me as i attempt to indulge you with the word of god amen this is romans chapter 13 um beginning at at verse 10 and working our way down to verse 14. love worketh no ill to his neighbor therefore love is the fulfilling of the law and that and that knowing the time knowing that the time that now it is high time to awake out of a sleep so let me reread verse 11 and that knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep for now was our salvation nearer than it was believed when we see all of these things going on all of the things that are happening around us we have to start waking up from the trench that we've been that we've been in and quit looking for quit looking for a rational uh explanation of what's going on or a scientific explanation of what's going on when we look at when we look at uh uh the this this this corona virus and they'll they'll say to us um if everybody get vaccinated we can return to life as normal that's what this that's that's what they've been saying um when you look at the the violence that have plagued various cities in various communities they'll say if we can just pass certain bills or if we can just have more uh community centers for our youth then that that will change things scriptures is calling for you to wake up and to acknowledge what's going on around you to understand that jesus is coming not only is he bringing his father's salvation meant for all of us who are willing to receive it but he's also bringing his father's wrath and you have to decide which one are you going to be a recipient of the salvation that god is offering or the wrath for the wicked that god is offering but it all starts with you waking up and realizing what's really going on today and you we're looking at our elected officials as they really understand the pulse of the people and they got our best interests at heart the scriptures again is calling for you to wake up it goes on to say the night is far spent and the day is at hand the night has had his way all this time but the the light of christ is on the way judgment is coming the light the night is far spent and the day is at hand let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting in drunkenness and in chambering uh and in wanting us and not in strife and enemy so let us not walk in sexual immoralities and lasciviousness let us not walk in those things let us not walk in strife in any if we know that jesus return is imminent we got to come up out of this stuff that we've been in we got to stop looking at man for the answer and start coming back to the lord who's been pleading with us to return but put ye on the lord jesus and make not provisions for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof it's on you but the night has far the night has played out the darkness has been played out now jesus is coming and his intimate um his return is imminent we have to start acknowledging you have to wake up from the sleep that you've been in just on cruise control thinking you got time i got time for this and time for that time is winding down because not only is christ bringing salvation he's bringing his father's wrath and you have to decide which you'll be a recipient of not when he gets here but before he gets there because once christ gets here the decision would have been made for you if you don't make it now do you understand now now that we've said that go with me to matthew go with me to matthew chapter 11. christ invites us to be a part of the family um for some reason i was headed towards john but let's go to matthew chapter 11 and let's look at verses 28 through 30. christ invites us to be a part of the family and he calls and cries out to us look at what he says he says come and incidentally didn't our lesson today start off that way going back into hosea then we just read that in hosea look at what this says in hosea wow come starts out the same way hosea chapter 6 come and it says come unto me hearing the hosea come let us return unto the lord praise god but look at that come on to me all ye that labor and are heavy late and i will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn of me for i am meek and lowly in heart and you shall find rest unto your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light jesus is offering you a position in the kingdom a place among his amongst his brethren to be the sons and daughters of god but the decision has to be made by you all he can do is invite you you have to be willing to accept and come and you most of us i was in talks with someone uh just recently and they said i don't trust preachers is what they what what they've said and my response to the individual that that said this to me is i get that that um when you when we look at people for how they are or who they are we get a little discouraged at the person that we that that we want to hear from god from because we measure them according to standards that even the bible um the bible tells us to you know we we are to live we're instructed to live according to the righteousness of jesus but even the bible acknowledged that a just man falls seven times but people that are not ready to commit to the lord will use the falling of anyone and and say and discount the message that god has spoken and that person said the whole reason that they don't go to a place of worship is because they believe that preachers are flawed this is what the person has told me when i spoke with them and i i simply replied your focus to your focus is more on the messenger rather than the message that don't take away from what god has said to you through that messenger if you look more at the messenger you'll find yourself distracted but that does not discount the message that god has to say this person was talking about you know how preachers are after your monies and various things like that but again when you're not ready or have not been walking with the lord you're convinced yourself you're doing the right thing because you say that none of these people are worth finding god through you know and so i'm telling you don't let the devil distract you from receiving the message that god is trying to declare even to this day you'll come up with every excuse not to accept jesus when he says come amen and we'll look at the quality of the person that's telling us to come to jesus and we'll we'll equate them to everybody else and we're quick to point out a person's flaws their shortcomings or their weaknesses but that has nothing to do with the message amen jesus says take my yoke upon you and learn of me and i'm he says for i am meek and lowly and hurt and you shall find rest unto your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light when when god uh the lord jesus christ sent ananias to go restore the eyesight of the apostle paul ananias said do you know who it is that you're sending me to restore whose eyesight you're saying that's that's saul of tarsus he's responsible for some levels of g i don't want to say genocide but he's responsible for some persecution of christians and you want me to go you know but god says the lord jesus christ says that he is to suffer much for my name we a lot of times we get lost in the messenger we get mess we get lost by the mess of the messenger even whatever lies that that was a former life we get lost by the message of the messenger we focus too much on that mess of the messenger that's what i'm trying to say but that's a ploy of the devil to distract or to keep you asleep when you're ready to wake up the devil says there is nobody there worth listening to to wake up for go back to sleep and live as you will amen so quit looking at people remember in this ministry we always say don't have the pastor's relationship with god i want you to have your own relationship and god would want you because we're not cr we're not engaged in a religion in this in in this ministry there was religion men tried that and and and they just got in the way of it jesus came to establish a relationship between the father and yourself through him amen now so jesus has invited you to come go with me to romans chapter 10 and let's look at verses 9-13 if you will come let me show you how to get to him and this is verses 9-13 romans chapter 10 that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the lord jesus and shall believe in thy in in thine heart that god has raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved so yours you have to transition from fear to faith you have to believe it becomes the practice the practice of your faith now to believe in the lord jesus christ who came from glory born into this world around the age of 30 went out went throughout the region of israel preaching the gospel of the lord and that gospel specified that god wanted to redeem man from his sins and he wants men to live forever as god wants to live forever or want man to live forever with him amen that's the good news that's the gospel that there is a redemption for your sins and that you can live forever with god amen now to do that you have to believe that jesus gave his life meaning that he was crucified he allowed them to take him into custody to nail him to a cross in doing so your past present and future sins are nailed to the cross with the lord jesus and when jesus died so that your sins die with him that's why jesus humbly gave himself up so that we can live forever with him and after three days and three nights of his death he was rose from the grave and now he's alive to this day ascended up into heaven and sets on the right hand side of god and if you believe that if you believe that jesus is lord and you're committing to making jesus lord of your life and you believe that he was resurrected from the grave meaning that you have faith to believe no one can persuade you otherwise that this is true and you accept jesus as lord you are saved again having that understanding that i just given you let's reread the scripture that if thou confess with thy mouth the lord jesus meaning that you make jesus lord of your life you believe that jesus is the only begotten son of god whom you have just made lord of your life and shall believe in your heart that god has raised them from the dead thou shall be saved what are you being saved from remember when we talked about that as our redemption draws near so does the wrath of god hold your place there and go with me to the gospel of john chapter 3 verse 36 the gospel of john chapter 3 verse 36 and here's what the word of the lord said this will answer the question what are you being saved from he that believeth on a son has everlasting life he that believeth not the son shall not see life but the wrath of god abideth on him that's what you're being saved from the wrath of god and as our redemption draws near so does the wrath of god for the wicked amen for the for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness with the mouth confession is made unto salvation for the scripture saith whosoever believe on him shall not be ashamed if you take a chance on god and you commit through the lord jesus christ he won't let you down and he won't disappoint you there is no difference between the jew and the greek so even as god was offering salvation to the jews he's also offering salvation to the gentiles for the same and god is able to do it for the same lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him so just ask israel remember when god said that none of them call upon me remember we read that where god says none of these judges or none of these princes call upon me well you're it's incumbent upon you to call upon god but the desire for you to call upon god god is the one that puts it there he's the one that's calling upon you that's why you're calling on god because god is calling on you for whosoever shall call upon the name of the lord shall be saved the whole desire that the desire that you have to call upon him means that god has chosen you to be saved and if you accept that and you call upon him then you shall be saved you have to do your part god is doing his part by waking you up so that to help you realize what's going on around you so that you could take advantage of the gift of salvation that's being offered to you through jesus christ go with me to the to uh to john first john chapter 1 verses 8 through 10 first john chapter 1 verses 8 through 10. if we say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us this is when you have to be honest with what's broken about you when you have to be honest with what's broken about you if you try to hide it and you don't acknowledge it you stay broke you're coming to the face number one i would imagine i can't speak for you so i can only imagine that you're coming to the faith so that you can be forgiven of your sins and that you can overcome your weaknesses okay but if you try to hide what your sins and your weaknesses are then the faith does you no good because you still give power to what you try to hide you still give it power amen so if you want to come out of it you have to bring it out of darkness so that it can be sanitized by the light but if you keep it from the the sanctification of the light you hide it and it thrives in darkness you're not redeemed from it and you're not out of bondage of it so that's that's what the scripture is saying if we say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us you have to acknowledge what's broken about you so that it can be fixed and when you acknowledge it you're bringing it out into the open so it can no longer have power over your life if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness once you acknowledge what's broken about you and you you let christ know here is where i messed up at god forgives you for it especially if you repent of it you repent of your sins meaning that you turn away from it once and for all and then you let him know what it is that you've done wrong and that you've turned away from if you do your part by repenting and confessing god will do his part to forgive and to cleanse he's going to cleanse you of the stain that that the sin and unrighteousness left upon you amen he's going to cleanse you of that but there is a process here and the process cannot be forsaken the process is for you to repent and to confess and in this process god will forgive and cleanse if if you forego the process then you forego the forgiveness and the cleansing if we say that we have not sinned we make him a liar and his word is not in us lastly go with me to acts chapter 2 verses 36-47 acts chapter 2 verses 36-47 god gives us the gift of his holy spirit and it's god's way of living inside of us because he's transforming this vessel into a temple and then god is going to dwell inside of us through his holy spirit amen so what we're reading about is when the process started we're about to read acts chapter 2 verses 36 36-47 in acts chapter 2 verse 36 and through 47 it's after the holy ghost fell upon the disciples so once the holy ghost fell upon the disciples peter began to preach to those that of his audience to tell them how you know to repent and and and to lay aside their sins but it's after the the spirit of god fell upon the disciples and and again that's god's way of living inside of us and then transform remember we read in the gospel of jesus christ in the gospel of john concerning how jesus came through the the temple of god and he began to remove the currency exchangers and those that defiled the temple well that's what begins to happen inside of us jesus once we accept jesus as lord he comes in and make his abode and the father comes in and the spirit of god comes inside of us and what god is trying to do is transform this vessel into a temple so that he can continue to dwell inside of us now after that process it started with the disciples of jesus christ and after that after it happened peter began to minister to his audience and here's what peter says beginning at verse 36 therefore let all the house of israel know surely that god had made that same jesus whom you've crucified both lord and christ so peter began to acknowledge that jesus christ made it possible for the spirit of god to abide upon us and in doing so we have to acknowledge jesus as the messiahs he is the one that came from god himself and we crucified him on the cross and incidentally what peter is also saying you may not have been the one you may not have been the one to drive the nails through his hands or through his feet as he was nailed to the cross but your lifestyle make you just as complicit and guilty as those that had done that to him so we have to acknowledge that that jesus is lord he is the messiah she's the one the anointed and the holy one that came from god we look at him as our lord and we have to refrain from a lifestyle that's in rebellion to jesus christ when we look at the doctrine of our lord and savior jesus christ anything that offends him we have to turn away from that we can't be following behind people a mixed crowd as it said a mix mixed people as it said in hosea the world don't acknowledge jesus but to be in favor of the world we want to be be to be in favor of the world we want to do things as they do it then you're just as guilty as those that are kneeling that have nailed jesus to the cross amen now when they heard this they were pricked in their heart and they said to peter and to the rest of the apostles men and brethren what shall we do so they got convicted when they were listening to peter's sermon about how their lifestyles make them just as guilty as those that had nailed jesus to the cross they were guilty and they wanted to know what what could they do to get their house in order when god begins to speak to you through a messenger and that guilt begins to happen in your heart god is just revealing what's what's out of order and he has given you an opportunity to get your house in order god is showing that he don't want to condemn you he wants to save you through jesus christ you have to be willing to allow him to do that and you can see that they were because they said men and brethren what shall we do so when god when when god speaks to you through a messenger with somebody preaching a sermon and what and you're moved in conviction based on that word that's been spoken god is trying to get your house in order because he doesn't want you to perish okay now so they asked peter and the rest of the apostles what can we do peter says repent in verse 38 well we've talked about that right repentance turning away from your sins once and for all then peter tells them to be baptized every one of them for the rem in the name of jesus christ for the remission of sins now let's talk about the ceremony of baptism because this is the instructions that peter had given to those that wanted to know how to get their house in order peter says turn away from your sins and then he says be baptized in the name of jesus christ for the remission of sins we know that jesus was crucified on the cross and he died on the cross he was taken down off the cross and he was laid to rest in the tomb after three days and three nights he was resurrected from the dead he was brought back to life so he was laid to rest in the tomb and after three days and three nights he was brought back to life okay when we go through the ceremony of baptism when we go down into the water because what's happening is you're you're going to be placed in the water in a tank of water in a tub or a tank of water and you're going to be laid down into the water that represents you being buried in jesus christ when you go down into the water this is why we don't take water and sprinkle sprinkle you need to be fully submerged you're going to be laid down into the water and then immediately taken up out of the water when your old man goes down into the water your new man comes up out of the water your sins are washed away remember the scriptures in in first john chapter chapter 1 verse 9 says that god is faithful and just uh uh to to forgive and and to cleanse you of your own righteousness right well this is the cleansing process that your old man goes down in the water your new man comes up out of the water all of your sins are washed away amen so in this day of of of this uh the coronavirus people don't want to come and contact one with another we're pretty leery and iffy but don't let the devil rob you of your obligations to be baptized because this is what god requires and you can't tell god that your walk with him is conditional you don't want to start off telling god that your walk with him is conditional you allow fear to dictate your walk with god don't allow that to happen amen and you have to ask the lord lord lead someone to me or lead me to someone that i can perform this ceremony and that's that's where we have to be because if we allow the corona and i'm not saying it should be taken lightly but if we allow it to dictate our walk with god then everything will begin to dictate our walk with god at some point in time by faith we have to take a stance amen so get baptized so then peter said unto them repent be baptized every one of you in the name of jesus christ for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the holy ghost and we talked about the gift of the holy ghost how god is going to set his spirit inside of you and it's going to work to transform your vessel into the temple of the lord for the promise is unto you and to your children and to all that are afar off even as many as the lord god shall call god wants to save not only you but he wants to save your children and your children's children that gift of salvation is being offered unto them as well with many other words did he testify and exhort saying save yourselves from this godless generation or this dis perverse generation you have when you look at what's going on those that you hanging around look the world is already making decisions for themselves people you could have been friends for somebody with somebody for years right let's let's let's let's call it as it is right you could have been friends with somebody for years and you may be one of these ones that don't believe in the in this particular vaccination that's being offered but they have they do believe and they have been vaccinated once they find out that you have not been vaccinated they they cut you loose they don't want to have nothing to do with you i heard i there was a um there was a uh an actress and i she said as an actress and she said that she lost a lot of friends because they refused to get vaccinated so she's she's lost a lot of friends they're making decisions concerning their life now that no matter how how far y'all go how far your friendship goes back if you go against their belief in in being vaccinated you know that you're not being vaccinated they will cut you loose just like that because you will endanger their their lifestyle they don't want to have nothing to do with you your ideology is a problem with well if they can have that kind of courage why can't you have that kind of courage to to look after your walk with god and cut folk off that mean you no good they the world is doing it they're cutting folk off if you don't get that shot if you don't get that jab gotta gotta let you lose but you want but they want to guilt trip you if you be like i don't want to hang out you know i'm really trying to be upright with the most high and i just you know if you're not walking with me towards him you know they'll try to guilt-trip you you know and and then you end up yeah you right i'm not being christian if i i should love you whether you walk with him or not i should love you and we can still walk they try to guilt-trip you but if you don't get that job hey see ya never knew you you know that's how they act you got to take that approach too the scriptures require you to take that approach look at what the scripture says with many other words did he testify and exhort saying save yourselves from this untoward generation remove yourself separate yourself from them that ain't walking with god it's a matter of life and death that's how the world looks at it when it comes to the jab this is all that i need to vaccinate myself from those that ain't walking from with the lord i can't get down with you okay you this is this is a spiritual jab i can't get down with you right this is how we got to be right this is where it is then they that gladly received the word were baptized and the same day were added unto them about 3 000 souls so god was adding to the size of our family they continue steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship and breaking the bread and in prayers so what god had done to get you to the point in where you are in your walk with him you can't take your foot off the gas you got to keep moving full speed ahead don't don't slow down the dangers of slowing down is coming to a stop the dangers of coming to a stop is going back and falling away keep moving keep praying keep fasting keep fellowship and keep studying the god the studying the word of god amen fear came upon every soul that's the one thing that begins to change about you immediately you begin to care about what god thinks about what you that's why you're being saved because you finally care about what god thinks and and how he sees you what god thinks about you and how you how he sees you and so that's the first thing that's that reverence that fear that begins to come over you amen so fear came upon every soul many wonders and signs were done by the apostles and all that believed were together and had all things coming they sold their possessions and and this is how the body of christ is that we we may exercise different levels of constraints when it comes to our worship of god some of us may go all out while some of us are a little reserved but what we all stand in agreement is is that god is the almighty the god of abraham of isaac and of jacob we're all on the same page that he is to be revered he is to be praised and worshiped there is no schism when it comes to that what what makes us different is the way we worship him some people will go all out and out and some people may not they're a little bit more reserved but our hearts are all in us in in the same place when it comes to how we see him and how we love him so they sold their possess their they sold their possessions and goods and departed them to all men as every man had need we no longer put a price tag like that those things of this world we don't value like that anymore it's my prayer that god continues to pry open our hands and to let those to rip those things out of our hands that kept it closed for so long amen and then that we can hold on to god amen and that means that we don't have an attachment to the material things here in this world and they continuing daily with one accord in the temple they were breaking bread they went from house to house they did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart so they ate food together they fellowshipped they didn't forsake the fellowship one of another you know they they came together as a family amen they were praising god and having favor with all people the lord added to the church daily such as should be saved and just a quick prayer eternal god i thank you for that powerful word holy word the instructions that lead us to your throne of grace and mercy i thank you for long suffering calling us out of darkness and into the armor of light here we are desiring you desiring to know you to know your character even desiring to fear you here we are calling upon you and we're here because you've answered you've given us the voice and the reason to cry out to you and there you are to receive our calls and our cries so father as you take us in and as we take you in equip us and fortify us and fill us with your spirit and clean us out every win make us whole send us to places of worship and fellowship father where we can glorify you where we can learn even the more so to come into the knowledge of god and even where we can be led to the water and baptized in jesus christ i thank you father fill us with your spirit and have your way with our lives and then god for your glory use us transform us and use us that others may come to the light of of christ that we may testify to others about the good works that god has done for us because god simply put you are always and abundantly good and i thank you in jesus name amen speaking of being appreciative i thank you for allowing us to be a part of your bible study i encourage you to hang in there our faith is being but we have the victory through christ jesus i'm always praying for us that's the right thing to do and that's what we always should do amen that's the first and immediate action for all of us to take always is to pray amen so our benediction comes in as always from numbers chapter 6 and please repent of any and all sins i want you to receive this blessing because even the more so it means so much more now as i read these benedictions to you this is number chapter 6 verses 24 through 26 amen please repent of your sins i want you to receive the blessings please repent of any unrepented sin the lord bless thee and keep thee i loose this on you the lord bless thee and keep thee the lord make his face to shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee the lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace again i'll loose this on you receive it be encouraged be encouraged in jesus name amen we love you and again thank you so you

Channel: Clarence Hardin

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Published: Sun Aug 29 2021