Hosea 6:4
Transitory Faithfulness and Imminent Judgment
6:4 What am I going to do with you, O Ephraim?
What am I going to do with you, O Judah?
For your faithfulness is as fleeting as the morning mist;
it disappears as quickly as dawn’s dew!
Hosea 8:14
8:14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built royal palaces,
and Judah has built many fortified cities.
But I will send fire on their cities;
it will consume their royal citadels.
Hosea 11:7
11:7 My people are obsessed with turning away from me;
they call to Baal, but he will never exalt them!
Psalms 78:37
78:37 They were not really committed to him,
and they were unfaithful to his covenant.
Jeremiah 3:10
3:10 In spite of all this,
Israel’s sister, unfaithful Judah, has not turned back to me with any sincerity; she has only pretended to do so,”
says the
Lord.
Luke 8:13
8:13 Those
on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while,
but
in a time of testing
fall away.
Luke 11:24-26
Response to Jesus’ Work
11:24 “When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places looking for rest but not finding any. Then it says, ‘I will return to the home I left.’
11:25 When it returns, it finds the house swept clean and put in order.
11:26 Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so the last state of that person is worse than the first.”