My People are Destroyed for the Lack Of Knowledge

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I am back with another daily dosage from healing string waters. I pray all is well with you and yours. God is still good. His mercy is renewed for us another day. And today I'm going to be reading from Hosea, the fourth chapter, and the sixth verse. My people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being priests for me. Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. In the book of Romans, Paul states, My prayer, my desire for Israel is that they be saved. I bear them record, they do have a zeal. They're happy about it. They're doing things, but it's not according to knowledge. They not knowing the righteousness of God went about establishing their own. God don't need us to reinvent the will. It's all in the manufacturer's book. It's all in the blueprint. Whatever you need to know from the Lord, his precepts, his ordinance, his laws, his commandments, he has written it for you. He wrote it first on uh the Ten Commandments on two stones, but later on he said he won't do it on stones again. He's going to write it on the tables of our heart. Now, this scripture is from an old testament uh scripture, and where God was highlighting Israel destruction stemming from the willful ignoring of God's law, meaning you knew the law, you just chose to ignore it. God always gave us a choice: choose life so that our seed will live, choose blessings or choose cursing, choose life or choose death. He always gave us the if-then statement. If you would do this, then this is what I'm going to do. So God never hid his law. We may have chosen to ignore, look the other way, but how many know that which he said from the beginning? You're going to be required of it. Be not deceived, because God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth, that will he also reap. What if some don't believe? Do it make the word of God of none effect. No, he said, because you rejected the law, he's talking to us as leaders. Whether you're a leader in your home, whether you're a leader in the church, he says, because you chose to reject my law, I'm going to reject you as being priest to me. So no matter your activity that you're doing, uh, it may seem right, but in the end, it's it won't work out good for you. It may look well in the eyes of the people, but if you're doing what God told you not to do, it's null and void. It used to be a saying that this mother had asked the uh daughter to clean the kitchen while she was gone, and while she was gone, she uh decided to do a good thing, she thought, and she cleaned the living room and the kitchen and the dining room, but that that she was told to do, she didn't have time to do it because she did everything else. You're not gonna get paid for extraordinary or things that God didn't assign your heart and your hand to do, as he did with Saul. When he told Saul, go down there and kill everything. But Saul went down there and he kept the choice things of the animals, he even kept King Agat alive. But Saul, that's not what God told you. Obedience is better than a sacrifice, and to hearken better than fat of rams. We must obey God, do exactly what he told us to do, or God's not going to accept our sacrifice, our offering. The same way with Cain and Abel. Abel gave God his best, what was uh pleasing to God's sight. I'm not sure what Cain gave him, but we know that God didn't accept it, and because he didn't accept it, Cain was wrath with his brother, he was jealous of his brother. The Bible says jealousy is crueler than the grave. So because of his sacrifice, offering not being accepted, he killed his brother. But God let Cain know that even the blood from the ground is still crying out. Let me tell you, you may shut people's mouths from telling the truth, but the rock, the uh, the tree, the leaves, uh, even in Adam and things are going to cry out for the truth. The thunder will roar, uh, lightning will flash, and as a witness against you, do right. The Bible says, seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. Righteousness is what, and that that is the right standing with God. It doesn't matter who's not doing what, who's not saying what, who's not believing. Believe God. Because you don't believe, that don't mean his word is of none effect. And because uh the priest went about doing their thing, he rejected them as priests, and then he went a little further on. He said, I'm also gonna reject your children, so one man's obedience can take us on a uh a world of a problem, just like with Adam. He sinned, and because of him sinning, we didn't have to do nothing but be born. We was born in sin and shaving in iniquity, but the last man, Adam, came and redeemed us back to the tree of life, so it don't take a lot of people, it just takes one one person deciding to obey can turn the whole generation around. Will you be that one? Will you stand for God? Will you um do what is right and pleasing in his sight so that he can accept your offering? He can accept your sacrifice. He won't accept your sacrifice if it's not backed by obedience. Don't let him reject your children. How many of you want your children lost? He said he will visit the iniquity of the fathers to the third and fourth generation. I might not see it in my time, my children may not see it in their time, but the iniquity will pass down to their children if someone don't stop it. I refuse to let it keep on rolling. I don't want my uh uh children to be rejected. I want my children to be taught of the Lord, but when we reject God, reject the plan and purpose of God, then He will reject those things that are attached to attached to us, lacking true knowledge of Him, that's why we do things because we don't have a clear perception of just who God is and just who God what He wants, and rejecting spiritual guidance. God said, How can you hear without a preacher? And how can they preach except they preach be sent? If you come and you're supposed to come with glad tidings, how feet are uh precious is a feet of them that preach uh the good news and bring glad tidings. You can test it, you can try it because if you say you are an orange tree, I should not see apples. God put these positions in the church for the work of the ministry until we come into the unity of Christ, it's for the edification of the church, it's not done away with yet. Until we come in unity, we still need it, we still need it to grow, we still need it to be edified. He said in the church the apostle, then the prophet, the pastor, the teacher, and the evangelist. We need those things until we come into unity of Christ, we need those things because everything don't know one person, know it all, and you can't reach everybody. You have a particular or specific uh market or a set of people you can reach, but everybody, if he didn't give you the language for everybody, if he didn't give you the know-how, he will give it to you because you see if you desire spiritual gifts, he said God will give it and he will give it liberally, he will give you how much you want, how much you're willing to study, how much you're willing to open yourself up and be taught, because it's not what head knowledge. That's the thing about Hosea sixth chapter, it was head knowledge, they didn't know, didn't know, and and rejected the knowledge of God. It's a it refers to broken covenant, not just intellectual ignorance. You don't know what you don't know. My mother used to have a saying that says, He who knows not and knows not that he know not, shunner. He who knows and knows that he knows is wise follow him, but he that just pretending uh that you know something, and you know you don't know that, especially with being over people. You cannot give what you don't have. That's why T work we often hear says make the dream work, and that's why the body is made up of many members: the eyes to see, the ears to hear, the feet to walk, the voice to talk. Everybody got their own special gift, but and I cannot say because I'm the I don't need you. The body is not made up of one member, we all need each other, so strive for unity in the spirit, you need somebody. We was told coming up, and I never forget it, we don't didn't uh like it, but no matter where you go, somebody is gonna tell you what to do. So if you don't want to be told what to do, you don't want to grow, you don't want to prosper, you don't want to make it to the next step because somebody has been where you haven't got to yet. Even Satan, we're striving to get to heaven. Satan already been there and was kicked out. That's why he doesn't want us to get there. He knows the Bible says that Satan believed and he trembled, he knows there's a God. What do you know? So, again, we're destroyed for the lack of knowledge. It's not that it wasn't given to us, it's knowledge is still being given, but if you reject it in your heart, he's gonna reject you for having a place in his kingdom as leadership. Come on, leaders, study to show thyself approved unto God, and work when the need is not be ashamed, so that you'll be able to rightly divide the word of truth. The Bible says, All scripture was given by the inspiration of God, and it's profitable. It was given for us to profit, so correct. Do what you gotta do. Don't see me going toward a ditch and don't warn me, don't see me keep doing stuff, knowing that I don't know what I'm doing. I could be thinking I'm right. My dad used to say, you can be sincere but sincerely wrong. Our hearts, Lord, make them make them where we will hear what the spirit is saying to the church in this day, in this hour, because we need the Lord, and not only do we need the Lord, we need one another. We're helpers one to the other. Look, this is healing stream waters, daily dosage. Tell me the truth. Tell me, don't don't don't make up something, don't be manipulate the word, don't make the word try to fit me and my condition. What does God say about my situation? Even Moses said um about the bill of divorcement, they was tempting. Jesus wanted to know Moses gave a bill of divorcement. What do you say about it? He wanna know what the Moses say. He said, from the beginning, it was not so, but because of the hardness of our heart, he allowed it. We don't want to be in his permissive will, we want to be in his perfect will. God, what are you saying about the matter? Father knows the best. Look, go in peace, seek, you want to find, ask, you want to receive, keep on knocking because the door will be open unto you. Again, healing street water, daily dosage. God love you, I love you. There's absolutely positively nothing that you can do about it. Go in peace.