Forsake God

"Forsake God" - Deuteronomy 32:15-18 The dangers of forgetting God. Israel had inclination to abandon God. What is abundance and prosperity were to be, as is often the case, an occasion for sufficiency (quality of "capable", conceit, presumption), pride and insolence (speaking or acting with a lack of respect that is offensive, daring).

I. Jeshurun means Straight.

A. He kicked like a well-fattened ox.

1. When Jeshurun becomes intractable and refuses to bear the yoke of his master.

2. He dared to throw kicks against God Himself even in the midst of the pain produced by kicking against the sting of an evidence that hurts because it confuses (Acts 9:5: Paul, it is hard for you to kick against the thorn), to the one who enrages.

3. When the Israelites forgot God and forsaken Him, they persecuted the prophets God had sent them and with this same fury carried the Son of God Himself to the cross.

4. The other notable example of their apostasy was idolatry.

5. It was precisely idolatry that led them to abandon the true God.

6. Wanting to follow their own ways and becoming lovers of novelties, they "grew weary" of serving and worshipping the one true God.

7. What, has the world done any good in your life?

8. What fulfills you so much?

9. What the world has is the impure against the pure.

10. Warnings against the "fullness of the world."

11. (Psalm 17:10) They are wrapped in their thickness (fat).

12. Lewdness and gluttony breed vain thickness in the heart: it closes (that thickness) its doors against all "compassionate" emotion and all reasonable judgment.

13. The old proverb says: "To full bellies, empty skulls" and it is even more true that they often make "empty" hearts.

14. How is your heart today?

15. "With their mouth they speak arrogantly."

16. He who worships himself will not dispose his heart to worship the Lord.

17. Full of selfish pleasure in his heart, the infidel fills his mouth with boastful and arrogant expressions.

18. Ambition for prosperity and vanity often lodge together.

19. Woe to the fattened ox when it bellows (cries) to its master; Its end is very near!

20. (Ezekiel 16:49) The sins of Jerusalem resembled those of her sisters, particularly those of Sodom.

21. This was the wickedness of Sodom your sister: pride, satiety of bread, and abundance of idleness.

22. One sin leads to a dirtier one.

23. Pride was what turned the fallen angels into "demons" and Jehovah's garden into a "hell on earth."

24. Gluttony is called here "bread satiety."

25. "The abundance of idleness" was the hatred of work and the love of comfort which opens the door to all vices.

26. With pride, abundance, and idleness, went hand in hand "lack of concern for the poor and the helpless."

27. (Luke 6:25) Woe to you who are now filled; full of you, but "without Christ," without hope and without God (Ephesians 2:12), because you will be hungry; sooner than you think, you will be dispossessed of all that you now boast of.

28. Woe to you, those who laugh now, those who are always ready to laugh with the laughter of the fool, resounding (exaggerated) and ostentatious laughter (exaggeration so that others will see it) because, without long, you will lament and weep!

29. (Revelation 3:17) Laodicea boasted that it needed nothing, but the Lord Jesus reveals its true condition.

30. They believed themselves prosperous in their businesses, in their beneficial banking transactions.

31. They thought they were self-sufficient, they didn't need anyone or anything, but, in reality, they are "miserable", that is, "worthy of pity".

32. They had good eyesight, but the Lord points out to them that they are deceived; The sad reality is that they are "blind" because they do not realize their pitiful spiritual state.

33. The worst thing about the Laodicean church was that they were blind.

34. The worst misfortune is experienced by those who do not want to see their own condition. Amen.