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Lesson Summary:

Israel is rebuked because their faithless hearts will lead to future desolation.

Focus Passage: Hosea 10.

Outline and Lesson Goal

Principles and Applications

I. False Declarations (Hosea 10:1-10)

Principle: Faithless Hearts can only offer Faithless Worship.
Application: How are you offering empty acts of worship to the Lord today?
Scripture Reference

⁴Alas, sinful nation, People weighed down with iniquity, Offspring of evildoers, Sons who act corruptly! They have abandoned the Lord, They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have turned away from Him.
⁵Where will you be stricken again, As you continue in your rebellion? The whole head is sick And the whole heart is faint.
Isaiah 1:4-5 (NASB)

II. Future Desolation (Hosea 10:11-15)

Principle: Shallow Religion leads to Shallow Results.
Application: Where in your life do you need to dig below the surface to grow in your relationship with the Lord?
Scripture Reference

²⁴‘They do not say in their heart,“Let us now fear the Lord our God,Who gives rain in its season,Both the autumn rain and the spring rain,Who keeps for usThe appointed weeks of the harvest.”
²⁵‘Your iniquities have turned these away,And your sins have withheld good from you.
Jeremiah 5:24-25 (NASB)