Text: Hosea 10:1-15

• Introduction:
  • The situation in Hosea’s time
  • The correlation to Solomon’s warning from God in II Chronicles 7
  • The parallel to our day in our nation today

1. Our growing condition in America                                                            V. 12,13
2. 1. We are becoming hardened by being fallow with God               Psalm 95
   2. We have become fallow with God by plowing wickedness         Isaiah 59:1-4
   3. We are reaping iniquity because we have sown Godlessness    Galatians 6:2-10
3. Our growing risk as Americans                                                                   V. 14,15
   1. Growing troubles and struggles with no solutions
   2. Growing strife and division within our nation
   3. Growing weakness in our nation’s defense and productivity
   4. Growing self-destruction due to our growing wickedness            II Chronicles 7
4. Our only remedy to avoid the coming destruction                                   V. 12
   1. Live more Godly lives
   2. Reap more mercy by showing more mercy
   3. Repent of our wickedness and turn to God fully
   4. Seek the LORD with our whole heart and be blessed by Him
      1. It is time to do so                              II Cor 6:2
      2. It will one day be too late                Romans 13:11; II Tim 4:6; Psalm 103
      3. It must begin with God’s people     II Chron 7:14

• Action Point:  II Chron 7:14; Hosea 10:12; I Peter 4:17   —  Now Do It!