Textual Tuesday 07/07

2 Kings 17:12-17

For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.


Following are a few “Vain” things people go after:

- Money
- Success
- Stardom
- Entertainment
- Carnal Pleasures
- Worldly Possessions
- Physical Fitness & Beauty
- Independence
- Self Esteem
- Hobbies
- Sports

The list could go on and on.


When people follow vanity, they become vain and ultimately forsake God.

That is what happened to Israel long ago.

This is what has happened in America.

The reaction to Michael Jackson’s death is just another example of the sad reality of the vanity of the heart of man.