Homilist Hosea 7:2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about… I. GOD REMEMBERS men's sins. "I remember all their wickedness." 1. This is a wonderful fact. When we think of the infinite greatness of Him to whom the universe is as nothing. Sin is no trifle in the eye of Him whose glory is His holiness. 2. This is not only a wonderful, bat a solemn fact. God not only observes and knows my sins, but He remembers them. II. MEN DISREGARD God's remembrance of their sins. Why, then? 1. Because other thoughts engross their minds — thoughts of worldly wealth and power. 2. Because this thought, if it occurs to them for a moment, is too painful to be entertained. III. That men's disregard of God's remembrance of their sins LEADS THEM TO REVEL IN INIQUITY. "How their own doings have beset them about; they are before My face." Here we have — 1. Their sins in general. They are abundant and daring. Their sins encompass them on all sides, and they perpetrate them without shame under the very face of God. 2. Some of their sins are specified here. They made them glad "with their lies," with the lying praises with which they crowned the favourites of the prince, and the lying calumnies and censures with which they blackened those whom they knew the princes disliked. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. |
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