Hosea 4:4-5

I had direct your attention to the book of Hosea 4. Oseilla 1 to 5. Because there is no truth nor mercy by swearing and lying. They break out to the field, the fishes of the sea all shall be taken away. Yet let no man strive nor to thy people. Stride with the brief, thou shalt be the sacred holy. It seemed that while they were working some 1,500 feet below the surface, one of the miners, and mud and water. The miners were these five men decided that they were going to have to leave the one. So they did so before. In our text, the whole nation of Israel, it’s his lawsuit, which we said last week. There is a complete thorough listing. At this point, it has some final word of sentence. We’ll listen. rescue. Thus, God abandoned. Let me begin benight by saying this. You may reach the point. In verse four, he says this. He says, yet let no man strive as there’s any hope. Want to be in vain for your set. So God says, physicians will attempt all kinds of nor despairing. They go. two streams. But there’s a point they say, I can’t believe. God is saying it’s futile to strive as long as there seems to be any hope of bringing a person to Vitus 1917. It says thou shalt in any wise rebuked thy neighbor. That’s part of you those around us. Can’t just say like came. A person from sin, such as the perverseness of them. So, so one is a struggle. You rebuke someone for their sin who was sent to the northern kingdom to rebuke it for his sins. However, because he didn’t take all the criticism. Why don’t you go back to Judah and prophesy there, leave us a while. But he still held out hope that maybe some of the people. So don’t just be discouraged by this. Content with him. I spoke to him. Spue back at me. Don’t try to press your morale. It may be that God will for how David blessed Abigail when she came out, stopped him slaughtering the whole house and Naebel. Blessed be God and blessed be thy advice and blessed be thou for thy counsel. So as long as there any hope, you got it for it’s for his sin. There comes a point when you must give up admonish. Chapter 2 and verses 1 and 2 the godly remnant. A month. nation were called to plead and content. Evidently that point. God now says let no man strive. But as he closes that section, he gives an interesting. 6. Give not that which is holy under the dogs. Neither cast ye your pearls before swine as they trample them under. There comes a point when Jesus says there is a point where you can’t just keep doing that. You know, I’m going to listen. And this will receive it as mercy from God, or just resentful. Haig will trampled out their being in the face. So is that Jesus said, like Elijah a hole, and then despair, he’s gone. He said his peace. He just worked with me. There was an ungodly man. He did so through down to the years. Eventually, the man said to my father, listen to me. Let me let me die and go to hell just stop, witnessing. So it may come to the point you must eat the words in Christ what he said about the embarrasses. Let them. It will let people their sin. So you may reach the point. God’s promise in a really serious place. Second, you will find yourself abandoned by God if you contend with this 4 and 5. Let’s look at verse 4B. Do not content with your minister if he’s faithfully rebuking your said. That’s strive with the priest. It doesn’t say prophet. Priesthood was an official. Priest was acknowledged as God’s official representative. The sense of the passage is this. You will not listen to your pastor. You contend with the one. Now the seriousness of this is seen in the fact that striving with the priest in Lest you undercut in Deuteronomy 17. And the man that will not not, excuse me, the man that will do presumptuously and will not hark under the priests that standeth the minister there before the Lord by God or under the judge. Even that man. So when a minister reproves you, there’s a tendency that they need to lash out against it. It’s almost as though he is the source of all your misery. He would say that he was a man of contention that everybody does the person. preached a sermon. It was so hated that people stowned him. Luther once said this. What is it to preach? Unless it be this, turn all the fury of the people upon oneself. Sadly, it’s not only wicked. They wish a faithful minister and never come along. This is an errand full of Israel while they were in bondage. They were not heartily received. Even though they came. deliver the people God, let my people go. We find that their message stirred up. Greece, the workload of the Israelites. They had to gather strong. The leaders of the Israelites soon became weary in Moses and Aaron. It said it’s better with us. It may stir up. It may in turn end up with. God has given the minister his duty. Sometimes get upset. His ministers of promise in Isaiah 492. He had made my mouth like a sharp sword. The shadow of his hand is the way I sometimes have a sharp sword. Notice that contending with a faithful minister hastens your destruction. Verse 5. God says that these people they greatly aggravate your guilt. At night, false prophets, leaders of the Lord Mother itself shall be destroyed. people are the children who govern us people and prophets political leaders that is indicating here that it’s a nation or an individual you can reach the point where you’re right for those who can tell with the faithful minister end up in the brother’s spirit why didn’t Eli’s son it’s interesting the passage in verse Samuel to the part 25 which after that Him Isaiah was set that my so in the past the king said up the thought set the prophet abused the king you imagine conquering a nation and deciding didn’t make much sense did it was he refused to pay attention destroy it that’s what the 291 says he that is he that often he’s destroyed it’s a dangerous thing to stay against man that you God God expects you to obey a faithfulness. God is anxious accept the people as I can join the disciples. Do good to those who obey the message. Those who let me close by saying this. You need to be very careful about contending. It’s obvious that the professing people criticize that some of the issues usually protest out of the truth of God’s word to you. Sacrifices to strengthen the service of the morning. As soon as something goes wrong, the church people are quick to open their mouths and set off. We are certainly that it’s certainly true that in the States, too dry or too emotional, too far from it, too demanding. His prayers are either lacking in this or that, but the real danger here is planning about the minister, especially preaching that is true. in some cases. It’s not a minister who’s really mad at. It’s God because it was God’s message. The minister brings us from God. It’s like they said in the Old Testament. They haven’t rejected you. They rejected me. The minister is faithfully doing his job, saying, thus say the Lord, we should be striving. And by not submitting to the teaching elder, you are declaring the fact that he will not bow down before the one. The man that will do presumptuously, the monarchan under the priest that standeth the minister there before the Lord by God. You’ve been that man. Thus as Russell read tonight, remember them which have the rule over you. It was spoken unto you the word of God. Obey them that they’d have the rule over you and submit yourself for they watch. on content with the man that’s stride. There are not a strike with a sense of faithfulness.