{"id":53826,"date":"2018-11-15T04:35:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T10:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=53826"},"modified":"2018-11-15T04:35:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T10:35:17","slug":"10-they-turned-back-and-were-more-corrupt-than-their-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/15\/10-they-turned-back-and-were-more-corrupt-than-their-fathers\/","title":{"rendered":"10.  They turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\"><b> Exodus 32:7<\/b> And the Lord said to Moses, \u201cGo down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. And the Lord said to Moses, \u201cI have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:1.6.11\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Genesis 6:11-12<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Now the earth was corrupt in God&#8217;s sight, and the earth was filled with violence.\u00a0\u00a0And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:7.2.19\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Judges 2:19<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0But whenever the judge died, <strong>they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers<\/strong>, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:28.9.9\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Hosea 9:9<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:23.24.5\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Isaiah 24:5<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:23.31.6\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Isaiah 31:6<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Turn to him from whom people have deeply revolted<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:19.78.8\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Psalms 78:8<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">The natural intent of our heart is rebellion, stubborn, unfaithful, corrupt, easily turned aside, stiff-necked, and not steadfast in serving God.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>How are we to recognize the intent of the heart when the society\/culture has put its stamp of approval on the very things that oppose God?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 This m<\/span>akes it very hard to see it for what it is when there is nothing to counter their truth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Think about it. Mainstream media is calling bi-sexual, homosexual, transgender lifestyles as being \u201cProgressive\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They call pornography \u201cAdult Entertainment\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They call abortion \u201cChoice\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They call God-fearing people as \u201cWeak and Uninformed\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They call creation \u201cThe Big Bang\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They call faith \u201cWishing Upon A Star\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They call God a \u201cMyth\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They call Jesus Christ a \u201cGood Man\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They call God, if He exists, \u201cUnloving\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They call hell a \u201cStick to get followers\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They deny a \u201cFinal Judgement\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They say the Bible is\u00a0 \u201cMan Made Stories\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They say, because God does not exist, \u201cSin is not real\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They say, if a god exists,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cAll Religions Point to Him\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">It is very hard to recognize our sinful behavior if we do not believe, desire, seek, serve, follow, and obey God.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is hard to obey God when there is no input of His word into our lives.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is hard to confess sin when neglect and complacency replace daily time in His word.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Do you want to please God?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Commit to humbly serving Him.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Be intentional in daily time in His word.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Seek thoughts, words, and actions that which honors and glorifies Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exodus 32:7 And the Lord said to Moses, \u201cGo down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. And the Lord said to Moses, \u201cI have seen this people, and behold, it is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/15\/10-they-turned-back-and-were-more-corrupt-than-their-fathers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;10.  They turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8441,640,8438,1062,3481,8442,4602,3510,2243,1059,626,3389,304,240,8437,4,587,8439,219,4469,3112,4067,969,8440,211,2287,315,655,621,972,8443,3157,5130,1723],"class_list":["post-53826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-bowing","tag-broken","tag-caommanded","tag-corrupt","tag-corrupted","tag-deepy-corrupt","tag-defiled","tag-died","tag-earth","tag-egypt","tag-everlasting","tag-fathers","tag-flesh","tag-generation","tag-go-down","tag-heart","tag-iniquity","tag-more-corrupt","tag-moses","tag-not-faithful","tag-people","tag-punish","tag-rebellious","tag-serving-them","tag-sight","tag-sins","tag-spirit","tag-statutes","tag-stiff-necked","tag-stubborn-ways","tag-transgressed","tag-turned-aside","tag-turned-back","tag-violence"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53828,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53826\/revisions\/53828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}