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<div class="SSN_title">"THE REASON WHY"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro. In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria. Thus the writer records the death of the nation. Why would God forsake His people? Why would He allow their enemies to triumph over them?</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THE SCRIBE THAT RECORDED THIS HISTORY IS CAREFUL TO GIVE TO US THE REASONS WHY THEY WERE FORSAKEN BY GOD AND WENT INTO CAPTIVITY.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Vs. 7 The children of Israel had sinned against Jehovah their God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. They feared or reverenced other gods.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The first commandment was "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. They had a place for God in their lives, but it was not first.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. The fact that you are here this morning shows that you have made a place for God in your life, but does He have the first, place above all others?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. Is this the extent of your relationship with Him, a couple hours on Sunday morning?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Vs. 10 They set up images of Asherah.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The second commandment was Thou shalt not make any graven image to bow down to them.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Asherah was an idol of a female deity.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. They did wicked things that provoked the Lord to anger. vs 11</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. They would not listen to the warnings of the messengers of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. They rejected the covenant that God had made with them.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Note they not God broke the covenant.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. God had given them His law and warned them:</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Lev',26,14);">LEV 26:14</a> But if you will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Lev',26,15);">LEV 26:15</a> And if you shall despise My statutes, or if your soul abhor My judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but you break My covenant:</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. In verse 15 we read: And they rejected His statutes, and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He testified against them;</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Lev',26,17);">LEV 26:17</a> I also will do this unto you; I will set My face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you;</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. This is exactly what has happened to them. They have been slain by their enemies and taken captive.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">8. They could not plead ignorance, nor could they deny that they had not been warned.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. THEY PURSUED EMPTINESS AND BECAME EMPTY. VS. 15</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. God has put in every man a need and a thirst for God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. David said, "My soul thirsts for the living God."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. This is true of all men.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. What is tragic is the empty things by which men see to slake this thirst.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. They feel that perhaps the thirst can be quenched through things, so they amass all kinds of things. But ultimately find them empty. Their philosophy is he who dies with the most toys wins.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. They pursue pleasure, it ultimately leaves them empty.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. There is one empty pursuit after another, as they seek to fill the recognized void in their lives, but there is no lasting satisfaction in empty things.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. They went after the ways of the heathen that were round about them.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. A few years back we did a series of videos titled "The Pagan Invasion."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Through this series we sought to show how that the United States has slowly become paganized.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The New Age movement is not new, it is ancient Hinduism in a new garb.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The worship of mother earth and the forces of nature is nothing more than Animism practiced by primitive cultures.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Worshipping and serving the creature, more than the Creator.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. They made a grove. The Hebrew word translated grove is Asherah. She was the female goddess of reproduction.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Whenever you read in the Old Testament of them making a grove, it is making an idol that represented the goddess Asherah. The idols were a form of pornography and designed to arouse the sexual passions.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. People were becoming highly stimulated sexually.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. What happens when a society is exposed to seductive pictures? They become highly sexually aroused?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. The Bible warns us that if we sow to our flesh, we will reap of the flesh.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. When people make sex their god, and sex outside of marriage becomes a common expected thing suddenly you have many unwanted pregnancies.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. Now you have a real social problem.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. What to do with all of these unwanted babies?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. You have men who do not want to take the responsibility of having to support a child that they fathered.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Rather than turning to the commandment of God and cease such activity, you have people advocating the right of a mother to end the life of her unwanted child, and politicians who make that as one of their major planks in order to be elected to office.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. It those days, they did not have abortion clinics, nor morning after pills.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. They had to carry the baby full term and give birth to the child.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. But then they wanted to get rid of the child so they would build big bon fires and throw the unwanted child into the fires.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. That is what the scripture is speaking about when it says that they cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fires.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. It was the human sacrifice of their offspring to their god of pleasure and lust.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. This was the final stage of their rebellion against the laws of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">8. This is the point where God said, it's enough, and God removed His hand of protection from them and the nation went into captivity to their enemies.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. We read, "Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and He removed them out of His sight."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. I SEE STARTLING SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE NATION OF ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. God had brought the nation from the oppression and bondage of Egypt into a land where they were free to worship their God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Even as God brought our pilgrim fathers from the religious bondage of the State church of England to a land where they were free to worship God after the dictates of their own hearts.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. They established the new nation on the laws of God, it was to be a nation that recognized and honored God. As one of the founding fathers of the new nation, Joshua said to the people, "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. Our founding fathers also saw that the strength of the nation was in proportion to its relationship with God, so they sought to incorporate into the constitution those provisions that would guarantee the freedom for a man to worship God after the dictates of his own heart.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. There was never an intent of freedom from religion, as has been interpreted by the opinions handed down by the Supreme Court.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The whole idea was freedom of religion. No state church. You could worship in whatever church you pleased. No one saying that you had to abide the rules of one church.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. Look how the decisions of the Supreme Court have slowly corrupted our nation and have brought us on the verge of destruction.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The decision that the constitution guaranteed a person freedom from religion, thus restricting any positive instruction of the our children in the public schools from any moral values that might be based on Biblical principals.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The ordered removal of the ten commandments from the classrooms.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. No more baccalaureate services for the graduating seniors.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. No singing of Christmas Carols, in fact Christmas vacation is now winter break and Easter vacation is now spring break for we do not want to suggest anything that might refer to Christianity, for it might offend someone who wants to be free from religion.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. And just look what is happening on the spring breaks. Drunken sexual orgies leading to more unwanted pregnancies, and more business for the abortion mills.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. In the Friday edition of USA Today there was an article that spoke of the need to begin a program of teaching the children of the dangers of unprotected sex, so they began to design a program for 7th graders, then they discovered that children begin their sexual practices at the age of nine today.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Next our Supreme Court under the guise of and their interpretation of freedom of speech they opened the doors for a flood of pornography to fill our land. Because they were unable to define obscenity, nothing is obscene. We are in an anything goes society.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Next the removal of laws that restricted certain types of sexual activity so that consenting adults are free to do whatever their fantasies might dictate.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">F. The result is the same as the nation of Israel. You have a society where sex has become the god of the people and we have sex pushed at us from every quarter. You can hardly watch the news anymore on TV without some sexually titillating feature being presented, if not in the news section in the advertising which consumes 1/3 of the time.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Thus with the nation living in a state of high sexual arousal, and the laws granting us the freedom to explore as we please, we again are faced with a plethora of unwanted pregnancies.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Thus it was important to go back to the Supreme Court to to get a decision on the Roe vs Wade so that abortion is a chosen option for any woman who does not want to carry her unwanted child full term. This has now become the shame of the nation that has now legally murdered some 40,000,000 babies.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. About the only difference between us and the ancient Israelites is that we burn the babies to death in the womb with the saline solution before they are born, rather than throwing them in the fires after they have been born.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">G. Therefore you can be sure that the righteous God that punished Israel and gave them over to be ruled by their enemies will not spare our nation from the judgments to come.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">H. I would like to say that the Supreme Court is wrongly titled for it is not the Supreme Court. They do not make the final determination of what is right and wrong, the Bible that they do not want taught to our children in our public schools teaches the true laws of God, and one day those justices who have liberalized men from the laws of God will face the true Supreme Court and will be found guilty.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">I. Because it might be the law of our land it does not make it right in the sight of God. And it is His decision that you need to be concerned about. Jesus said, <a onClick="return mV('Mat',10,28);">MAT 10:28</a> And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.</div>
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