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The breakdown of family values is having a devastating effect on society. Older people are no longer respected by the young, lawlessness abounds, everyone does what they like with no thought for their neighbors, politicians, and the government is viewed as corrupt. The leaders of the church are out of touch, out of mind, and out to lunch. This scenario is not taken from last week’s tabloid...

They tell God that they intend from this time forward to worship him (14:2b). They know that they will be really grateful to experience God’s forgiveness in the face of so much accumulated wickedness. They renounce the very things that they have been putting their trust in for so long. Before, they had been putting their trust in Assyria or in Egypt’s powerful military equipment (horses!), a most sophisticated form of contemporary warfare. They renounce the false religion in which they had put so
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