God's building a case against the nation

There where seven charges against the nation mentioned by Hosea that caused a spiritual collapse in the nation of Israel, these are equally relevant to church society today, they are as follows:

1. lack of knowledge (4:6), this sent Israel on a downward spiral.  If you around the modern Christian long enough you will hear misquoted scripture, misapplied scripture, and total ignorance of the word.  How can we say we Love and wish to follow Him, when we don't know Him through His word.
2. Pride (5:5), always has been an issue in mankind, and is the root of many of our problems.  We have such a pride issue today in modern church.  We feel we are the center of the universe, thus removing God from His center point.
3. Instability (6:4), forget God and we forget our place and puts us on shaky ground.  We build a relationship with God mostly at face value and when we do we find ourselves instable.
4. Worldiness (7:8), God is absent from their lives thus they seek the world for fulfillment.  Today you cannot tell much difference between the believers life morally and ethically and the non-believers.  We have bent our ways towards the worlds ways.
5. Corruption (9:9), the nation was rotting from the inside out.  We find ourselves becoming more and more rotten from the inside out, corruption comes from within.
6. Backsliding (11:7), turned their backs against God.  When things don't go the way we think they should or they way we want it to, we are quick to turn against God.
7. Idolatry (13:2), anything that takes the place of God in our lives is idolatry.  We are far too often putting things like work, money, fame, family, significant others, and etc. in front of God when we do it is nothing short of idolatry.

These things are what we are confronted with still today in the spiral of sin of society, and quite frankly within our own churches.  We are warned ahead of time that people are not going to want to hear it, in fact they will want it sugar coated and to make us feel good even though we are on a path of self destruction:

 

3 For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.   4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.   5 But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry. (The Holy Bible  : New International Version (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996, c1984), 2 Ti 4:3-5.)

We have got to keep our head in the game and be bold like Hosea in telling the truth, they may not want to hear it but it is for their own good, and for my own good.