The Story Sessions Ep. 4 | Losing My Religion

LS Community Church

LS Community Church pastors Stan Rodda, Kevin Hartman, and Corbett Cutts sit down together to talk through our upcoming series - The Story: Loosing My Religion.

If you were to shine a spotlight on Israel, you might hear them singing, “That’s us in the corner. That’s us in the spotlight, losing our religion.”

After centuries of pursuing an earthly king, Israel completely forgets their identity. God had built them through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God has rescued them from Egypt and foreign nations. He has brought them into the promised land. And they still want to be like everyone around them.

God gave them their kings and it didn’t go the way they hoped. And now they begin to completely lose their identity to foreign nations and pagan gods. They intermarry, they stop following Torah and sacrificing as they should. They abandon Yahweh for the identity of false gods and nations. They sacrifice to false gods. They lose their religion, their identity.

Empire after empire rise and eventually swallow up the directionless nation of Israel. With no anchor in their identity as God’s people, they are eventually defeated and brought into captivity in foreign nations. They have completely forgotten who and whose they are.

Yet during an incredibly dark chapter, God continues to pursue. He raises up prophets despite Israel’s rebellion to call them back to Himself. These prophets rise in both the Northern and Southern kingdoms. They also appear in captivity. No matter how far God’s people have strayed, He continues His relentless pursuit of His creation.

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