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Spiritual Infidelity's Pain Hosea 2 +3 Morality, justice, loving kindness, and faithfulness. These are all words and concepts that are familiar to our culture’s understanding, but are woefully absent from existing in it. Immorality is not just the norm of our society, it is accepted, promoted, and awarded.…

Love Story This morning is going to be different than any other study we have done together. Sit back tune in as we take a look at a love story. (insert- Love story picture here) There are movies that are love stories that come with some great loss. The first one is the movie love story from 1970, maybe…

Previously in Hosea Since we are doing overview, survey of the books, it is good to do reminders of what we have already seen too. God’s illustration using Hosea and Gomer (1:1-3:5) You can see Israel’s rejection symbolized by the names of Gomer’s children (1:2-9) Jezreel - God sows; God scatters Lo-Ruhamah…

Setting the stage Last week we look at a narrative view of chapters 1-3 now this week we are going to look at the biblical view. So we need to set the stage for it. At the time: Amos preaching in the Northern kingdom; this is also the time of Hosea, whose name means “salvation” Remember Amos was from…

Welcome back to part 15 of our Story Series - this chronological look at the Bible. Up to this point, the Creator God, whose creation chose to rebel and sin in the Garden, has graciously chosen a group of people to represent him. They have proven over and over again that they can’t live up to God’s standard,…

Social media is something that a huge percentage of the population follows, for many different reasons. According to Pew Research’s analysis of social media usage, on a compilation of 27 surveys and about 47,000 interviews among adult internet users and about 62,000 interviews among all adults conducted…

What would you do for the one you love? How far would you be willing to go to get them back? Follow along and see how Hosea's life mirrored God's plan for us today.

God's grace is incomprehensible. It is so profound that we sinners have a hard time understanding it. For this purpose God asked Hosea to act it out in a real-life charades. This reality show is as shocking and painful to watch as those on TV today.

For all of our parents out there this passage from Hosea is for you. The image that is portrayed is God as a parent and Israel as God’s child. Now this imagery isn’t foreign in the Bible, as we see God talk about Israel as God’s son elsewhere, but there are other metaphors used as well and so we might…

Introduction The book of Hosea is an incredibly brutal read for us romanticized thinkers of the 21st century. This is not the fairy tale story we imagine would come from the Bible. Let’s just consider a few points from this book. Israel and Judah, who are in a marriage [covenantal relationship] with…

Background I’m sure you guys know the background... Let me refresh and get new people caught up quickly Two kingdoms after king Solomon - Israel north, Judah South Eventually, both would be conquered and the people exiled Israel first by who? Assyrians... Judah later by who? Babylonians... Israel was…

A Sermon Tracing God's faithfulness to Israel

Notes And then one day another blow fell. Gomer left him. You could imagine that Hosea came home and found a note on the nursery door. She told him she was leaving. She was tired of being tied down. She wanted to have her freedom, and she was going out back to the culture. And she wanted him to know…

The illustration of redemption

Introduction From massive armies, murder, scandal, poetry, worshipping false gods and idols, betrayal, alliances and hypocrisy, Hosea has it all yet is one of those “fly-over” books at the end of the Old Testament that many people simply ignore as they conclude the major prophets and skip ahead to the…

Introduction/Background The Children: God is Gracious (1:1-2:1) The Times (1:1) The Marriage (1:2) The Names (1:3-9) The New Names (1:10-2:1) Gomer: God is Holy (2:2-13) Idolatry (2:2-5a) Ingratitude (2:5b-9) Hypocrisy (2:10-13) Hosea: God is Love (2:14-3:5) God’s love promised (2:14-23) God’s love pictured…

There’s something that my mom said to me that at the time she said it, I took more of as something a mother says to say and annoy a child than as something that she truly meant. I was an adult already and my mom and I were hanging out and she was giving me advice about things and making sure that I was…

Introduction Top Ten quoted and alluded to Books of the Old Testament? Psalms (68 times) Isaiah (55) Deuteronomy (44) Genesis (35) Exodus (31) Leviticus (13) Proverbs (8) Zechariah (7) Jeremiah (5) Hosea (5) What makes this book of only 14 chapters one of the most well known books of the NT writers?…

Scripture Reading 2 When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, take to yourself an adulterous wife and children of unfaithfulness, because the land is guilty of the vilest adultery in departing from the Lord .” 3 So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and…

Hosea is a prophet whom God uses to portray a message of repentance to God's people. Through Hosea's marriage to Gomer, God shows his great love for his people, comparing himself to a husband whose wife has committed adultery.

CBC Bible Book Reading Plan Study for February

You may not know it, but there is some degree of controversy around the sinner’s prayer . It is part of revivalism and crusades, and has become adopted by much of mainstream Christianity. We see it in practice in places like Harvest Crusades . There is a preacher. He makes an evangelistic appeal. And…

Yahweh the parent laments over the rebellion of his children and promises not to completely destroy them.

Introduction According to the first verse, Hosea’s prophetic career spanned at least forty years. It began sometime during the reign of Jeroboam II, who ruled Israel, the Northern Kingdom According to the first verse, Hosea’s prophetic career spanned at least forty years. It began sometime towards the…

Introduction The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom…