Hosea 11:2 Made Simple

KJV ORIGINAL

As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

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✦ MADE SIMPLE

But the more God called out to them, the further they ran away. They kept offering sacrifices to false gods and burning incense to their carved idols.

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

Sometimes the harder someone tries to reach you, the more you pull away — even when it's God.

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If those old sacrifices actually worked, wouldn't they have stopped doing them? I mean, if people were truly cleaned up once and for all, they wouldn't still feel guilty about their sins, right?

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