Alright, Hosea chapter 10. Let's begin that chapter. We've had a dissertation on it. Alright, Hosea chapter 10. Let's begin reading verses 1, 2, and 3. Try to remember verse number 1. Israel is an empty vine. He bringeth forth fruit unto himself. According to the multitude of his fruit, he hath increased the altars. According to the goodness of his land, they have made good the images. Their heart is divided. Now shall they be found faulted. he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images, for now they shall say, we have no king, because we fear not the Lord, what then shall a king do to us? Alright, who is this writing to? Who is this writing to? Who is this? Oh, Israel. Israel, alright. All twelve tribes? I have the ten tribes of Israel, alright. Not Israel as a whole, but just the top ten in the northern kingdom. And what does he call Israel here? What would that imply? Alright, and when you do get any fruit, what do they do for it? The fruit that he does have. What would that characteristic be? What would that be called? Those who want to call or write, simply write an email at questions at bftbc.org or call us at 856-855-4222. 2-6-1-9-0-1-8 for comments or questions. Now what trait would that identify? They have not much fruit in the vine, but the fruit that they have is for themselves. Now there's nothing wrong with feeding yourself, that's for sure, but it seems to imply a very good fruit unto himself. Now what is the measure of the fruit in verse 1? What measure, according to the multitude of his fruit, is done what? What are these altars? False gods. How many altars did God tell the Israelites to have? Just one. Where was that to be? Jerusalem. In Jerusalem, right? The tabernacle or the temple in Jerusalem. They were not to go on these different fields and the mountains and the hills and have these false altars. But they had them. And according to the goodness of His land, they've done what? Beautiful images. And apparently the land was good. They had many of these. There were many images. The Lord had given them a good land. And then the real problem with Israel and the problem with many of us is what? What would that imply? Alright. What would be the difference between their divided heads and their divided hearts? Is there any difference? What would the difference be? The heart is what you love with. Right. Emotions, the seed of emotions, rather than the intellect and so on. The heart divided. What did the Lord Jesus say about how it's divided against the self? Cannot stand. Cannot stand. But also they say about you can't serve God and man. You know that you serve one or the other. No man can serve two masters. Either you love the one, despise the other, please the one and forsake the other. So, this divided heart. Now, of course, there have to be certain things. We can't always be on one thing at a time. We have to have certain things that we do. We're not always sitting in these chairs and always standing, not always eating. We have certain things. But spiritually, having a heart that's divided, either serving ourselves rather than serving the Lord. See, that's like, we certainly eat, we dress ourselves, we bathe ourselves, we take care of ourselves. But our main goal in life should be to serve the Lord. And what did Paul say in Romans 12 verse 1? I beseech you therefore brethren, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, with your regional service. So he beseeches them to present their bodies so it will live for the Lord, not have a heart divided. And in Galatians 5, the works of the what is what, and the fruit of what is what? Works of the flesh is listed, and the fruit of The Spirit. So you see, are these the same? Do they go along each other? The contrary. The contrary. There's a battle. There's a fight. And so that's a divided heart. Now those who want to serve the flesh, that's all there is to it. Those who want to serve the Spirit, that's what God wants. Not a divided heart. We want to defeat the old flesh, the old nature. By the power of the Spirit of God. See, that's what our desire should be. And He will help us if we find it. So because our heart is divided in verse 2, what is the result of that? What would faulty mean? Lacking? Guilty? With errors and sins? When you're half-divided, the Lord doesn't say you're doing things right. The serving of the different altars, increasing the altars certainly would indicate that they're half-divided. You know, between the Lord, the true God, and then these false gods. He shall break down their altars. God's going to do that. And what else? Spoil the images. What country came and took them away? Assyria. Assyria, right? And at that point they just smashed all their... What do you think they did with the gold and silver on the altar? The Assyrians. The Assyrians over here, this big land of Assyria, came by what year roughly? 700 B.C. And when they came in apparently they just smashed everything and probably They took the silver and the gold that was around these altars. They decorated them, many of them, with very expensive things and they just took them and spoiled them. Then in verse number 3, what had happened, at least at this time, to their king? At the end, before they were taken away, their eyes were poked out, the kings were not right. Yeah, that was a different one. But the kings were eventually all taken and gone. And you remember the book of 2nd Kings at the end of that and 2nd Chronicles, it talks about the fall of the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom actually. I guess earlier in the book of Kings, I think it was 1st Kings 17. No, it could have been 1st Kings. 1st Kings, I mean 2nd Kings. 2nd Kings 17. Take a look at it. Keep your place here in Mosaic. Yes, the king of Assyria, in verse number 24, re-peoples the cities of Israel. And in 2 Kings 17, verse 4, the king of Assyria found conspirators in Hoshea, who had sent messengers to the king of Egypt and so on. And then in verse 17, the sins for which Israel was carried into captivity. A list of a whole bunch of sins. And so that's when they lost their kings. That's when they were just taken away. Hosea and various other ones were listed here. So apparently that's what these kings would do, take away their orders. And what should a king do to us? What should a king do? Should lead them. That's exactly right. In Deuteronomy, what did Moses say that the king should do? Prayers day. Write the book of the law. Write out a book of the law. And what are you going to do with that book of the law? Read there and how often? Daily. Daily. That's right. And not go outside horses, not go back into Egypt, but write yourself a copy of the law of Moses. And he was supposed to write it out at the beginning of his reign. That's right, at the beginning of his reign. That's quite interesting, isn't it? See, when they didn't do that, what should they do? They should not only know the word of God, but follow it. Very few kings did that, as you know. Yes? So, during the kings of Judah, the scriptures must have been lost, because was it Hilkiah that found the scriptures, or Josiah, and brought them to him? He didn't even know where they were, so they had been lost. Yes, you're right. That's a sad situation. The Levites were to teach the people throughout the land the law of the Lord, and they were to be the teachers. And Israel was just not a big map, but they had all kinds of their total of 48 Levitical cities. And they're spread out north and south all throughout. And those Levites were supposed to see the map is a little bigger. This one here. Yes. Here's here's a scenario. It's hard to see with this thing. Maybe over here we can go. But scattered throughout the north and the south, the Levites were just all over. They were supposed to teach the word of God, but they didn't. But after Jeroboam took over, many of them went back to the southern kingdom, didn't they, many of the Levites? Yes, I think they did. So then what happened to the Leviticus cities? Well, the Leviticus cities were still there, but apparently they were uninhabited by the Levites. There were the cities there, but then the Levites, apparently many of them fled to the south. But those, some of them, were up for grabs, you might say. They were in the north, and they were not solid. Levites, but we see a little bit later on that because it's chapter 20, this one Levite had a kind goodbye and went down to get me in and there's all sorts of sin involved. That was before, that was before, that if there was even any king. Well that's true, that's true, but I'm just using an example of a Levite that was not in line with the Lord. So a lot of them forsook the Lord when they went up there and they forgot all that, but some came down and were sure Levites. Alright, let's read verse number 4, 5, and 6 together. They have spoken words, swearing falsely, to making a covenant, thus just in spring about Beth-hemlock, in the furrows of the field. The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-Avon. For the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced in it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it. It shall also be carried into Assyria for a present to the King Jared. Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel." Want to call for comments, questions at BFTBC.org, we'll put that up for you, or follow us, 856-854, uh, what's the next one? 861-9018, yeah, 856-261-9018, follow it. Alright, verse number 4, what are some of the sins that they're carrying on here? Lies. Lies. What does it mean swearing falsely? Uh, well, like that Murdoch, is that his name? Murdoch? Murdoch? He was investigated and he swore falsely before, uh, before it passed when they were investigating him. Yes, that's true. So what did Lord Jesus say about swearing? What did James say about swearing? Swear not neither by heaven nor by earth, but your yea be yea, your nay be nay. Swear not at all. So what does this mean, swearing falsely? What is the penalty in the courts of law for swearing falsely? Perjury. It's called perjury. Perjura. Jura means to swear with false implications. Anybody there? Oh, OK. So they swore falsely. Did any of our presidents recently swore falsely? Yeah. OK. And who was he and what did he swore about? A couple of them swore falsely, but he didn't swore falsely. Swore falsely about this affair. Yeah. The false swearing, I specified for perjury. Is that a simple thing or does it bear a penalty? Martha Stewart. She lied to the federal people. And if you lie to the feds, they think it's a five year automatic penalty. Lying to the federal people. But you know, compared to what they had to do with her, other people get away with so much. You'll be taxed cheap and still then become the head of the IRS. So, you know, a lot of things that you get away with if you know certain people. It's unfortunate. Swearing falsely, though, is a terrible thing. We've got to make our yay, yay, and our nay, nay, and be honest about it. And making a covenant. What is a covenant in verse number 4? It's a promise, an agreement, alright? Thus judgment springs up as hemlock. Now, is that a good thing or a bad thing? What is hemlock? Who was the ancient person that died with Hemlock? Socrates. He ate the Hemlock and committed suicide. He was a homosexual and he was a teacher in Greece, in ancient Greece. So, this is a... So, dressing up as Hemlock, what would that imply? Oh, excuse me. Yes, they do. That's right. Exactly right. Euthanasia or killing people. If they want to die, they just go ahead. And several doctors in some states, I think, have got that. All right. You can be killed if you want to die. I forget what state it is. One of the states, that's coming. And of course, with the new president and his policies on the socialized medicine, governmental medicine, they're going to give older people just the medicine that they want to have and they want to not spend too much. And so, if they're too old, then they don't get the real treatment they need. And so, I think euthanasia is going to be more popular in many states and maybe the federal government. But the hemlock, so if judgment springs like hemlock, what does that mean? It's either false judgment. Do we have false judgment in our land? Sometimes judges, sometimes they're good, sometimes they're bad. If they're bad, they get false judgment. People have been, lawyers have been trying to get our president, for example, to give the very source of his birth certificate. He's denied. He's paid high paid attorneys, California, to block every attempt. block it in Hawaii, block it in Kenya, which I believe where I was born, block it everywhere. And attorneys are trying to bring this before the courts, before the thing, and they've been blocked because the attorneys don't want to bring it up and it's just paid off. It's false judgment. And it's judgment that's like hemlock. I just read another one today, and he was still trying to show that if indeed our president is not qualified according to the Constitution, that he'd be a natural born citizen, not just a citizen, natural born, which is defined very specifically. He knows what that means. He's a constitutional lawyer, our president. So this Justice Department or organization is trying to bring this out so that they can be, because if he's not a qualified constitutional man, all the things he signs are not void. And he was threatened by the president and his lawyers. This particular, people that are trying to bring this suit, just read it today. If you continue to do this, and don't stop it, we're going to make you pay the fullest extent of the law. In other words, all of your expenses, all of your lawyer fees, thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars. So, this company, this particular lawyer organization, is going to continue. They've asked for funds some, but it won't go anywhere. Because at the top, it's just a fight. But the judgment many times is like hemlocks, bringing up this hemlock, the fur of the field. Version number 5, what about the Samaritans, the birth people of Samaria? What does it mean they were feared because of the calves of the fowl? What were they doing with these calves, do you think? Sacrificing to the idols. Sacrificing to the idols, and they feared. Is that a proper fear or a false fear? Should we fear idols? We should pray well, we should pray in the sense of worship, you know, praying to God. But they should be afraid of God and of judgment. That's true, that's true. But in a sense, I think that praying to idols seems like they're, you know, first it's God fearing means that they respect the Lord and they serve the Lord. If they're praying in the sense of God fearing, they're praying to idols, God is fearing, you know, that's a bad thing. Mom? Well, we probably shouldn't be real chummy with idols. about two things like the totem poles you know when you go in the totem pole area where you live you know and then I've heard this that missionaries bring home curios I think they're called and for the missionaries and some of them are are really idols that's right and so I've heard I didn't hear this when I was younger but sometime in the recent past criticized this has been criticized because they're actually bringing these heathen things Yes, and sometimes the devil and evil spirits come with those idols and they infect Christians. We've heard of that. I've not experienced it myself, but I've heard different missionaries tell us. And I remember one missionary was telling me that, I don't remember what country it was, but there was a devil bush, whether it was in Africa or whatever, there's a devil bush. And the missionaries were warned, don't go into that devil bush where the evil spirits were worshipped out of this foreign field. The missionaries say, well, I'm a Christian, I've got the Holy Spirit in me, I have no problem. He goes into the devil's bush and comes out sort of a raving maniac. The evil spirits affected that missionary. Though he was bold in the flesh, that was told to me by a missionary. He said, I have nothing against it personally, but I don't want to mess with it. Remember in the Old Testament, what does God say to do with the necromancers and those worshiping spirits? What does he say to do in the Old Testament? Flee from them and die. What does he say to do with them? Just stay away from them. Come out from among them and be ye separated, says the Lord in the New Testament, 2 Corinthians chapter 6, verses 14, 15, and 17. So that they fear the wrong people and they mourn over it. And the priests, they rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it's departed from them. Now there's no glory, but they did rejoice in the past. Should we glory in the Lord? Yes, we should. But not in ourselves, or not in sin, or certainly not in false idols. And what's going to happen to these idols in verse 6? They will be carried away into Assyria. Into Assyria? Yes, for a present. So, in other words, when the Assyrians come after Israel, they are going to be carried away at that time into that land of Assyria, about 700 BC or whatever, because of their sins. It's interesting, the king's name is mentioned here, King Jerob. Yes, Jerob. And what is this going to be resulting with Ephraim? What are they going to receive? Shame. Shame at Israel? Ashamed of his own counsel. Now what would that mean? If you're ashamed of your own counsel, what would that imply? Foolish words, I guess. Foolish words? Now, we heard a man today on the television, and he said, sometimes I make mistakes. I don't admit them. Sometimes I make mistakes. If you're ashamed of your own counsel, what is counsel? Advice. Advice, alright. Is it always good? In the Old Testament, David had a counselor. What was his name? The Lord. The Lord was part of it, but then they had a human counselor. What was his name? Ahithophel. Ahithophel. Ahithophel. And then there was another counselor that came. Hoshai. Remember Hoshai and Ahithophel? They conflicted in their counsel. One gave David good counsel. One gave him bad counsel. And I guess it wasn't David, it was Solomon, but I don't think it was Solomon. It was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam. Was Rehoboam Now what did the council of Jezebel say? Go right now and go attack David right now. Absalom the son was attacking his father David. Go now. Jezebel said go now and get him. What else did he say? He gave this long speech about why they should not go now and that if they waited and gathered all the army then Absalom himself could lead and prevent them. That's right. And what counsel did Absalom take? Hintafel's good counsel or Horshani's bad counsel? Horshani. Horshani, okay. So David was let off the hook. Then what did Hintafel do after his counsel was not taken? He went and hanged himself. Hanged himself, that's right. He went and hanged himself. Is that a good idea when your counsel is not taken? Is your counsel always taken? Is your counsel always taken? No. Sometimes nobody even asks for your counsel. If they don't ask for it, do we sometimes give it anyway? Sometimes we do. And that's the least accepted, isn't it? It might be good, but it's not wanted. So here it says that they're ashamed of their own counsel. Have you ever counseled somebody wrongly? Think about it. Have you ever counseled somebody? Probably yes. We didn't know any better, maybe didn't mean to, but the thing we said really was not the way we should have counseled, but we did. So this was a case, now I will give it to Israel, they at least had the honesty to be ashamed that they're all counseled. Are some people not ashamed of anything that they counsel? Are some people not ashamed seemingly of anything that they counsel? There's some people that can never admit a mistake. There's just lots of shamelessness going on. If you have a comment on this or anything else on our study, give us a call. 856-261-9018 or questions at vftvc.org. If you don't know what sin is, you don't know, like he says, you're not ashamed. It's your conscience, sincerity. If you aren't taught right from wrong, you don't know. Right, although the bard can teach you through his word. But I'm just thinking of some of these people that didn't know anything. Right. So we have to have some light. before we can really be ashamed of anything, and it's got to be proper. All right, let's read verse number 7, 8, and 9 together. As for Samaria, her king is cut off as a foam upon the water. The high place is also of Avan. The sin of Israel shall be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars, and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us, and to the hills, Fall on us. O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah, There they stood to battle in Gibeah against the children of Iniquity, did not overtake them. As for Samaria, we are going to have it right here too. As for Samaria, that was the capital, wasn't it, of the Northern Kingdom, Samaria. It is right here on the map. The capital of the Northern Kingdom was Samaria. As to Samaria, what about the king? What's going to happen to the king? When will that be taking place? When will that take place? When it happens in captivity, that's right. Cut off as the foam upon the water. What's this foam upon the water? What water? The sea or the lake. Right, there's lots of foam that's there, white caps we call them, and leg area, different things. What is it? Well, it's cut off as the foam. Well, I guess when the waves come in, the foam is gone. And it just dries again, I guess. In other words, it disappears. You know, you see the thing coming along, a lot of white caps, we call them. White caps, when they land, it's gone. It's just plain water, see. Sometimes the ocean is rock foamy. When you walk through it, the foam goes... Yeah, it like moves, like it, you know, like, kind of like bubbles in the water. Especially if it's dirty water, especially if it's dirty. But I mean, it's, you know, sometimes it's a whole bunch of bubbles in the ocean, and sometimes it like goes away, or like she said, you walk on it and it just moves, it just disappears. Like the bubble bath, you know, like it kind of moves. Moving along. I haven't had one of those recently. Now notice in verse number 8, what is a high place? It talks about a high place. A place where they worship. What did God tell the Israelites to do or not to do as far as high places? Cut them down. Cut them down. Throw them down. They are bad. Why do you suppose Israel or any of these nations, Judah, would make orders in high places? Why do you suppose they would do that? Like Babylon, they wanted to reach God? Well, like the Tower of Babel, yes. The higher up, they thought they'd get closer to God. I think that's probably the reason. They wanted to go up in the high places. And, uh, but... But trees, isn't that what Jeroboam said? Yes, he had two calves, and one in the north, and one in the south of the northern tribes. One in the north, one in the south, and worshipped up there, and they were in high places. He was a high place worshipper. And, uh, now people living in high places, we talk about the The top most part of buildings and hotels, what is, where does the price go when you go to the highest? Higher. Why is that? That's true. Why is it? You have the highest price. Depends on what floor you're in. That's the highest. The highest price. Have a nice view. Have a nice view? What was your floor? Mine was the 11th. How many floors above? That was the 11th floor. That's the highest? There was a thing about 4 or 5 o'clock in the big apartment building. The mausoleum is the cheaper the higher you go. The mausoleum? Is that right? Because you can't walk all the way up there? You can't see them as well. You're right. My father wanted to pay. He wanted to pay where he had to, which is good. He said it's closer to heaven that way. So that's it about the mausoleum. That's all you have to learn about the mausoleum. What kind... you're going to have one, aren't you? We have those graves over there. We have graves ready to go. Our son David is buried there. We thought, well, we might as well get a couple right close by. So the high places of Israel, what's going to happen to these high places? I want to tell you a story. The beautiful apartment, when we went to Korea, we went to Dr. Chung, took us to his friend's house. And he was a doctor or something. He was high up on the top floor. You could see all of Korea. It was very exclusive. It was a very exclusive, beautiful, beautiful place. It was high. What floor was it? I don't remember, but it was high. To Liberty Place, the executive floor was the 54th floor. And I didn't like it up there. If it was a windy day, that building swayed. I never liked going up there if it was windy. Where is that in Philadelphia? They had one and two Liberty Place. The ones with the points. You can see them. If you look down Haddon Avenue, straight down Haddon Avenue, that building with the point is Liberty Place. Did you work in that building? I thought that was a new building. Well, I mean, we didn't work there until the building was built. Right. It was 1700 Orange Street before that. Okay. But then, yes, there was the wind, didn't you? Yes. Of course, the buildings are built that way. And it's all glass, too. So, you know, it was really scary. I'm glad you're... A lot of solid ground. We were all there. Let me... One other time. Oh. Where Diane had the reception, it was high. It was beautiful. Yes. And then we went out. We went with the Brea class to the World Trade Center. Yes, we did. Years ago. It took so long to get up there on the elevator. Yes. And the highest part. Yes. I don't know how many floors. 120. 120. That's huge. We went up there and looked out and one of the floors. Maybe it's only 110. 110? There's no more now. It's gone. Yeah. And I remember There was something on the very top thing, you could look down, you could see all down there, which I didn't enjoy doing, but I looked and that was it. So one lady, she used to come to our church, she looked there and she froze. She froze looking there, just froze. And her husband and another man had to just pick her up and move her. She just was frozen in spite. All the way down there. I mean, I don't, I, you know, I didn't realize what he did. A lot when I worked there. I used to have dreams at night that I was washing windows. So these high places will be gone and the sin of Israel shall be what? That's right. And what's going to be on those altars? What's going to come on those altars? What would that mean? They're going to be covered up with weed, ma'am. Disuse. Just cover up, was it? Oh, I was thinking, that reminded me of, uh, was it Ahab? It wasn't Ahab, it was somebody else. About the elven, you mean? No, the one who had the thistle and the seed. All right, here, we'll look it up. You're not looking at that, how convenient. Well, that would indicate that they're no longer using these things. They're going to be stopped. Because the thistles are going to come, and the thorns... They're all moved away. Was there anything in the Old Testament, the Book of Genesis about thorns and thistles? Yes, that's what came up after the sentence. It says, Then Amaziah, which was the Jew guy, sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehozah from Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face. And Jehoash, the king of Israel, sent to Amaziah of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy cedar to my son, to wife, and they'll pass by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and throw down the thistle. Thou hast indeed seen it in them, and thine heart hath lifted thee up. Glory of this, and tarry at home, for why shouldst thou matter to thy heart that thou shouldst fall? Even thou knewest it, and it rose down. So the thistle, the different ones, Can a thistle whistle? There's a lot of wind. They might make a noise if there was a lot of wind. It's just a rhetorical question. The thorns of thistles indicate that they are going to be completely disused. And what are they going to say? These worshippers of idols in verse 8. And what about the hills? Where is that in the New Testament? Revelation. Read it, Anna, if you haven't. Alright. Alright. You can read it in the cross reference. In the cross reference. And then to the mountains. Oops, let me read the previous. In the tribulation period. Is the church going to be there? The saved people going to be in the tribulation? No. And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal. And lo, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood. And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as the fig tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a squirrel when it is roared together. And every mountain and island moved out of places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every freeman hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the lions and the ox, follow us, and hide us from the face of him that sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand? That's during the judgment of the tribulation on the shirt. I'm glad the believer is going to be out of here. So, the drops in the mouth have fallen. And then in verse number 9, what does God tell them of the start of their sin? The days of Gibeah. It's still the battle of Gibeah. In Judges 20, verse 4, let's stop right here for tonight. If you take Genesis 20 verse 4, it talks about this Levite, the husband of a woman who was slain, came to Gibeah and belonged to Benjamin. We'll dig that up next week, but tell me in your own words, what happened at that time? What did the men of Gibeah or Benjamin do to this Levite and this woman, this concubine? What did they do? That's right. They wanted to slay the Levite. Apparently raped and killed this woman. And what did Israel want to do for these Gibegites who were on the tribe of Benjamin? They went to Gibegit. What did Israel say? What did Israel want? That these men, these sons of Belial, that they raped and killed this woman. What did Israel want the Benjamites to do? Turn them over to them. What did Benjamin say? No. So then what did Israel do? They went to war. They went to war and attacked. that the tribe of Benjamin, and many were slain, and the sin, the wickedness. God wants sin to be put out, and this is one way to ruin it. And of course, when you don't put out the sons of Belial, it goes all throughout the whole tribes, and that's what God wanted. We'll take that up next week, but do you have any time for questions before we close tonight? At the very beginning you were talking about a divided heart and I was thinking of this verse and I was looking for it and I couldn't find it. Psalm 8611, Teach me thy way O Lord and I will walk in thy truth. Unite my heart to fear thy danger. Good. Unite my heart. 8611 of the Psalms. That's good. Any other comments? 8611. All right, teach me that way. Unite my heart. Our Father, we do thank Thee for Thy words. We thank Thee for this book of Hosea, the prophet. We are sorry for the sins of Ephraim, of Israel, these ten tribes. I am sure, Lord, Thou art sorry about our sins as well when we failed to do that which is wrong instead of that which is right. Forgive us and unite us, heart, as this psalmist has said. and take us away from any divided heart, but help us to serve Thee with our spirit, with our soul, and our body, and our mind, and our strength, that we may please Thee in all that we do, that Thou wouldst not have to chastise us, and cut us off, and do all these things that these idolatrous Israelites had done, and cause them to go into captivity in the terrible country of Assyria. May Jesus bless us, those that are here. I bless our need for those that are sick and in need of prayer. We ask the Lord to take care of them. Those that are here, those that are listening by other means. Kindly direct us, Lord. Make us to love Thee and serve Thee. Bring us back on the Lord's day. May it be a blessing to all of our hearts. We pray in Jesus' name, for His sake. Amen.