Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge;
because you have rejected knowledge,
I reject you from being a priest to me.
And since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.
Tag: Knowledge of God is Essential to Please God
Hosea is a book that condemns Israel for leaving the convent God made with them. They have sought after other gods and worshipped them. They have turned the land Yahweh gave them into a land of false and meaningless gods. There are many reasons why this has happened but the above verse speaks about one of those reasons; perhaps the strongest. They have left God's covenant because the people responsible to teach them God's convents (the priest) failed to do so. The role of the priest in the covenant system was to teach the people and hold them accountable for the instructions in the Torah (the first five books of the Bible). The Torah was God's manual of how to live and approach Him. It was the priest job to teach the Torah to the people. But, as the verse states, they had forgotten the Torah and thus, God would forget them. If we want to please God we must have faith (Hebrews 11:6). If we want faith we have to know God and read His Word (Romans 10:17). Faith comes from knowing more and more about the deep knowledge of God. The more I know about God the more I can learn to trust in Him for everything in my life . The people of Israel had no one to teach them the knowledge of God, so they fell off in faith and worshiped false gods. Doctrine is key to faith. Knowing God is key to pleasing God.
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