Good morning, our Fire-starter comes from 2 kings 17. Our Fire-starter
thought is: secret things
Our Fire-starter verse is verse 9.

Have you ever done something in secret that you thought no one saw? Have
you ever got caught and found out it wasn’t a secret?
Here in our text we find Israel is sinning in secret to the God that
sees all things.

Sometimes we are like this. We have our secret sins that no one knows
about yet we make it look OK outwardly. God sees them!!!
The Children of Israel faced consequences for their secret sins and we
will too if we do not get rid of it. I believe that is what’s wrong with
the Christian today is there is so much secret sins going on that no one
knows about yet there is a God in Heaven who knows about it and friend
don’t forget judgment will come for it if you are saved.

Achan had a secret sin and it was revealed. David had a secret sin and
it was brought to Nathan’s attention. Samson had a secret sin and his
parents didn’t know about it but all of these instances God knew. Don’t
think for one moment you will get away from it or from the punishment 
of it. You can get right but that still does not mean you will get away
from the punishment. Think about 1 John 1:9 for a moment. It says that
he will cleanse us from all unrighteousness. It does not say take away
our punishment.  You can chose your sin but you cannot chose your
consequences.
Do you have a secret sin this morning? Remember it’s not a secret to an
all seeing God. It will be a secret to a false god but not the true and
living God!!!!
You can get right with God and start fresh and new. This is a new day a
new beginning. Thank God for fresh starts!!!!
Remember, God is an all seeing God!!!!

2 Kings 17:1-41 KJV
In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah
to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. [2] And he did that which
was evil in the sight of the Lord, but not as the kings of Israel that
were before him. [3] Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria;
and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents. [4] And the king
of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So
king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had
done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound
him in prison. [5] Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the
land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. [6] In the
ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried
Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the
river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. [7] For so it was, that
the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had
brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh
king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, [8] And walked in the statutes
of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of
Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. [9] And the
children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against
the Lord their God, and they built them high places in all their cities,
from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. [10] And they set
them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green
tree: [11] And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did
the heathen whom the Lord carried away before them; and wrought wicked
things to provoke the Lord to anger: [12] For they served idols, whereof
the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. [13] 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. [14]
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.
[15] 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. [16] 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.
[17] 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. [18] Therefore
the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight:
there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. [19] Also Judah kept
not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes
of Israel which they made. [20] And the Lord rejected all the seed of
Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of
spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. [21] For he rent
Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat
king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the Lord, and made them
sin a great sin. [22] For the children of Israel walked in all the sins
of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; [23] Until the
Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants
the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to
Assyria unto this day. [24] And the king of Assyria brought men from
Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from
Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the
children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities
thereof. [25] And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there,
that they feared not the Lord : therefore the Lord sent lions among
them, which slew some of them. [26] Wherefore they spake to the king of
Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the
cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore
he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they
know not the manner of the God of the land. [27] Then the king of
Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye
brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach
them the manner of the God of the land. [28] Then one of the priests
whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and
taught them how they should fear the Lord. [29] Howbeit every nation
made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places
which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they
dwelt. [30] And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of
Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, [31] And the Avites
made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire
to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. [32] So they
feared the Lord, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests
of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high
places. [33] They feared the Lord, and served their own gods, after the
manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence. [34] Unto this
day they do after the former manners: they fear not the Lord, neither do
they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law
and commandment which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he
named Israel; [35] With whom the Lord had made a covenant, and charged
them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them,
nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them: [36] But the Lord, who brought
you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out
arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do
sacrifice. [37] And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and
the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for
evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.