August 12, 2001

Hosea 10

v. 1 - Empty vine, fruit unto itself - luxuriant - like the

fig tree which Christ cursed.

v. 2 - divided heart - “my son, give me thy heart”

Prov. 23:26

Ecclesiastical disaster, secular disaster - no upholder

of church or state.

v. 3 - wild license - recklessly giving vent to an

anarchical & atheistic spirit.

Fountain head of their wickedness!

“In those days there was no king in Israel: every

man did that which was right in his own eyes”

Judges 21:25

v. 4 - hemlock - crimes springing up abundantly like

an obnoxious weed. SORROW - SHAME-

SUFFERING

Moral corruption the usual consequence of

irreligious - deception, perjury, spin doctors.

v. 5 - Glory departed - Ichabod - I Samuel 4

v. 6 - “receive shame....and ashamed of his own counsel”

v. 7 - “foam upon the water” - reduced to nothing.

vs. 8-9 - hypocritical worshipping of God other than at

Jerusalem.

v. 11 - Also ch. 4:16 - Braced

v. 12 - Call to repentance and reformation

“it is time to seek the Lord”

The heart, like land untilled, hard & difficult to plow -

must be broken - loss of time - misspent time - redeem

the time.

v. 13 - Plowed wickedness, reaped iniquity - cultivated it.

Rom. 6:19,21

Sunk into idolatry, no longer looking to Jehovah as the

source of their power & strength - confident of their

sagacity & thought - they fancied themselves independent

of the Almighty.

Trusting in political wisdom and the power & prowess of

their mighty men.

“eaten the fruit of lies” - Satan the father of lies.