DISCOURSE: 1146 IGNORANCE DESTRUCTIVE Hosea 4:6. _My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge_. IGNORANCE, as it respects the things of this world, is attended with many evils. It disqualifies a man for those situations in life that require the exercise of wisdom and discretion; it degrades him... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1147 THE EVIL AND DANGER OF BACKSLIDING Hosea 4:16. _Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer_. SUCH is the influence of bad example, that it is extremely difficult to withstand its attractions, even at the time that we behold its fatal effects. Israel, or the ten tribes, from their... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1148 THE DANGER OF SPIRITUAL IDOLATRY Hosea 4:17. _Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone_. THERE is a day of grace, wherein God strives with men by his Spirit: this past, he abandons them to impenitence and obduracy [Note: Luke 19:42.]. The precise period of its termination is, in m... [ Continue Reading ]