(Hosea 7)
10 SIGNS OF
HALF-BAKED
Believers
1
They practice lying and wickedness and are eager to impress people who have social status.
They practice lying and wickedness and are eager to impress people who have social status.
[Hosea 7:3]
2
They lie and steal and don’t even THINK about the fact that God is watching and remembers their actions.
[Hosea 7:1, 2]
They lie and steal and don’t even THINK about the fact that God is watching and remembers their actions.
[Hosea 7:1, 2]
3
They’re lazy, unfaithful,
and hung-over from hanging out.
[Hosea 7:4-6]
They’re lazy, unfaithful,
and hung-over from hanging out.
[Hosea 7:4-6]
4
Their leadership is corrupt
and they refuse to call on God.
[Hosea 7:7]
Their leadership is corrupt
and they refuse to call on God.
[Hosea 7:7]
5
They’re mixed in with evil people.
They think their messy lives,
which are as useless
as unflipped pancakes,
are totally acceptable.
[Hosea 7:8]
They’re mixed in with evil people.
They think their messy lives,
which are as useless
as unflipped pancakes,
are totally acceptable.
[Hosea 7:8]
6
Though they get older, they still don’t know that strangers" are weakening them. Though God has given them strength, they try to invent ways to use it against him.
[Hosea 7:9, 15]
Though they get older, they still don’t know that strangers" are weakening them. Though God has given them strength, they try to invent ways to use it against him.
[Hosea 7:9, 15]
7
They’re weak and prideful;
and that very pride is proven
to be against them,
but they still won’t repent.
[Hosea 7:10]
They’re weak and prideful;
and that very pride is proven
to be against them,
but they still won’t repent.
[Hosea 7:10]
8
They’re plagued with silliness
and heartlessness.
[Hosea 7:11]
They’re plagued with silliness
and heartlessness.
[Hosea 7:11]
9
They run from God, lie on him,
and only assemble before him
asking for blessings
while all along they continue to be
rebellious and ungrateful.
[Hosea 7:13, 14]
They run from God, lie on him,
and only assemble before him
asking for blessings
while all along they continue to be
rebellious and ungrateful.
[Hosea 7:13, 14]
10
They won’t return to God,
but they do return to
their own wickedness.
They won’t return to God,
but they do return to
their own wickedness.
[Hosea 7:16]
Like undone pancakes, people with such ways are NOT READY to be served (in service) to a spiritually-malnourished world.
Hosea 7 (KJV)
1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
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 this.
11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
16 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
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 this.
11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
16 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.