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何西阿书［第10章］
Book of Hosea 10

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何西阿书［第10章］ |Book of Hosea 10

【现在正是寻求耶和华的日子】

主讲：郑伟健同工
11/05/2023

引言：保持温度，不断上升

一道煮好的菜，若放的太久冷了就不好吃。同样，我们对主的心也不能冷却下来。

一、一心一意来侍奉神（V1-2）

当时候在耶罗波安二世统治之下，以色列军事和经济就突然繁荣起来。但是国家越繁荣，拜偶像之风就越盛行。

现今的我们也需要多加留意，一个国家越蒙神赐福，就越高举人、越提倡宗教多元化，表面上是祝福满爱，实际上是果子越多，就越增添祭坛；地土越肥美，就越造美丽的柱像，同样要定为有罪。

同样的，当我们的事业开始旺盛的时候，人总会开始忙绿，容易忘记了神，专注于事业。最后一心二意服事神，甚至最后把神先放下。我们要留心！

二、爱神必得世代蒙福（V3-8）

以色列民发假誓去祭拜偶像导致神发怒，最后就是灾罚四处滋生，百姓的心态是惊恐悲哀、蒙羞惭愧。最后国家灭亡，因为不持守耶和华的约而遭到审判。当一个国家没有君王的时候，就是人民任意而行的时候，他们也在思想就算有王，那他又能为他们做什么呢？

神的约已经向以色列表明了，“叫人不可跪拜那些像，也不可侍奉它，因为我耶和华你的神是忌邪的神。恨我的，我必追讨他的罪，自父及子，直到三四代。”（出20:5-6）。

神是信实持守约的神，若我们会悔改，求神的饶恕，回转爱神，我们的后代必蒙祝福。

三、知罪悔改神必拯救（V9-10）

基比亚的日子，指士师记所记载的基比亚匪徒奸杀利未人之妾， 从以色列人出埃及地，直到今日，这样的事没有行过，也没有见过，结果导致便雅悯支派几乎全部灭绝。

另外，基比亚是扫罗的根据地，每次扫罗出去打仗、或追杀大卫，都回到基比亚；所以基比亚是一个时常犯罪的地方，是预表扫罗，因为扫罗代表自己做决定，自己决定献祭、自己决定祭物、自己决定方法，也就会心怀二意，当我们不求问神时，就会容易犯罪。

以上两件事都说明，当人随己意犯罪时，神必兴起周围的环境攻击我们。

四、栽种公义得神慈爱（V11-15） 神告诉以色列民有一条出路，就是要寻求耶和华。从三个方面来回转寻求神：（1）开垦荒地，就是要除掉生命中的杂草；（2）等神临到，要不断等候神，让神掌权；（3）栽种公义，就是要做正直公义的事。

当我们这样做时，神公义的种子就被耕种起来，神的慈爱、公义、圣洁就会临到。

总结：今天，就是开始栽种，开始寻求神的日子！

今天正是要寻求神的时候，当我们决定开始跟随神来过生活，就栽下了那颗公义的种子。神必喜悦这一个栽种，必使我们收获祂丰盛的慈爱。求神带领我们栽下那公义的种子，帮助我们活出神心意的生命。

Hosea 10: Now is the Day to Seek the Lord
GK611 Morning Devotion
11/05/2023
Speakers: Bro Asher Chang

Introduction: Keeping the temperature and rise continuously

A dish that is cooked is not good if it is left too long to get cold. In the same way, our heart for the Lord should not cool down.

1. Serving God with one heart and one mind (V1-2)

At that time under Jeroboam II, Israel suddenly prospered militarily and economically. But the more prosperous the nation became, the more idolatry became prevalent.

The more a nation is blessed by God, the more it exalts people, the more it promotes religious pluralism, and the more fruitful it appears to be, the more altars are built; the more fertile the land, the more beautiful pillars are built, which are also condemned.

In the same way, when our careers begin to flourish, one always starts to get busy and tends to forget God and focus on the business. One ends up being preoccupied with serving God and even ends up putting God down first. We need to watch out!

2. Love of God will be blessed for all generations (V3-8)

The people of Israel made false vows to worship idols, which led to God's anger and eventually to plagues and punishments, and the people were in a state of fear and sorrow and shame. In the end the nation fell and was judged for not keeping the covenant of the Lord. When a nation has no king, it is a time when the people do as they please, and they are thinking that even if they had a king, what could he do for them?

God's covenant had been made clear to Israel, "5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me," (Ex 20:5-6).

God is a faithful and covenant-keeping God, and if we will repent, ask for God's forgiveness and turn to love Him, our future generations will be blessed.

3. God will save if you repent of your sins (V9-10)

The days of Gibeah refer to the rape and murder of the Levite's concubine by the bandits of Gibeah as recorded in the book of Shakespeare, which has not been done or seen since the Exodus of the Israelites from the land of Egypt until today, resulting in the extermination of almost all the tribe of Benjamin.

Furthermore, Gibeah was Saul's base, and every time Saul went out to war, or to hunt David, he returned to Gibeah; so Gibeah was a place where sin was often committed, and was a foreshadowing of Saul, because Saul represented himself as making his own decisions, deciding on his own sacrifices, deciding on his own offerings, deciding on his own methods, and thus being double-minded, and when we don't ask God, we are prone to sin.

Both of these things show that when man sins according to his own will, God will raise up the circumstances around him to attack us.

4. Planting righteousness and receive God's mercy (V11-15)

God told the people of Israel that there was a way out, and that was to seek the Lord. To turn back to God in three ways: (1) to cultivate the wilderness, that is, to get rid of the weeds in their lives; (2) to wait for God to come, to keep waiting on God and let Him reign; (3) to plant righteousness, that is, to do what is just and righteous.

When we do this, the seeds of God's righteousness are planted and God's love, justice and holiness will come.

Conclusion: Today is the day to start planting the seeds and to start seeking God!

Today is the day to seek God, when we decide to begin to follow God in our lives, we plant the seed of righteousness. God will be pleased with this planting and will enable us to reap the fullness of His love. Pray that God will lead us to plant that seed of righteousness and help us to live the life that God desires.