My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
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Not when you consider God's warning to his people 3,000 years ago, a warning that is just as applicable today as it was then. In Hosea 4 verse 6, God talked about what happens to a nation that forgets him and forsakes him. He said, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being my priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. Ladies and gentlemen, God is no respecter of people or nations. Any nation that reverences God will be blessed by God. And any nation, including the United States, that rejects God will be rejected by God. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. I close today with the reflections of a man who could hardly be labeled a conservative. When I was growing up here in Dallas in the 50s and 60s, the chief justice of the Supreme Court for much of that time was a man named Earl Warren. …
… That we need to follow him as he leads the way. Hosea chapter 4, verse 6. I'm going to read this in several versions. Listen to it carefully. Hosea chapter 4, verse 6. Notice the New King James Version says this. My people are destroyed, he gives you the reason, for a lack of knowledge. that's New King James Hosea chapter 4 verse 6 my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge the New Living Translation says my people are being destroyed that's actually very accurate my people are actually in the process of being destroyed because they don't have any vision or reason they don't have any knowledge because they don't know me next I think we have a Thank you. King James Version, Proverbs 29, verse 18, King James. Where there is no vision, the people perish. Notice the correlation from Hosea. Proverbs 29, 18, New King James Version. Where there is no revelation, it's the same difference. No vision, no revelation. Where there's no word guiding, the people cast off restraint. …
… And it's almost inevitable that you will fall into that trap. Hosea says, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge because you have rejected knowledge. I also will reject you from being priests for me because you have forgotten the law of the God. God is looking at people and he sees how fast they fall for this deception. And it's only because they don't know him. You don't know the God of Israel. if you hate Israel. Trust me. And you don't know the Messiah, the Holy One of Israel. And you don't have the Spirit of the Holy One of Israel in you. 2 Timothy says, For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires. Hatred has always been there. Paul already saw it in the first century. The hatred for the Jewish people comes from two things. Lack of God in their life and huge, huge insecurity. Why am I not the only one? Why am I not the chosen one? …