Hosea 2: The Brokenness of Sin

Intro:

Review from last week:

Hosea 1: A Challenging Illustration

Through the life of hte the prophet in prosperity, challenging marriage, and controversial children I want you to illustrate who I am to my People.

Broken Mirror

“I am not as good as God uses me” Dr. Loritts

Outline:

C: “” (vs. 1-13)

C: “” (vs. 14-23)

C: “” (vs.)

Summary of the Chapter: The brokeness of sin deceives us into moving towards something else and forgetting what God has done

Memory verse of the Chapter:

Illustration:

Prayer:

A Plea for Repentance: “” (vs. 1-13)

Hope (v. 1)

Say to your brothers

“You are my people”

Say to your sisters

“You have received mercy”

A continually broken covenant (vs. 2-7)

Plead with you mother- Personal consequences

for she is not my wife

and I am not her husband

that she put away her whoring from her face

and her adultery from between her breasts- this is the problem, this is the sin, it is very specific. And where is it located? What is between the breasts on the chest- the heart

Lest I strip her naked

and make her as in the days she was born

and make her like a wilderness

and make her like a parched land

and kill her with thirst

Now, these personal consequences did not happen right away. It was not like after the first altar to Baal was erected that this happened. It was not after Gomer’s first adulterous relationship that this happened. That is the deceptive nature of sin.

Upon her children also I will have no mercy- Parenting consequences

because they are children of whoredom

for their mother has played the whore-

she who conceived them has acted shamefully- her sin has splashed against them.

for she said,

I will go after my lovers

who give me

my bread and my water

my wool and my flax

my oil and my drink- the necessities of life. She is looking for another provider, another power to sustain her life and she is willing to give what God gave her in return to pay for it.

Therefore: in light of the plea to repent, in light of the consequences, in light of the affect of ongoing sin on those around her…

I will hedge up her way with thorns

and I will build a wall against her

so that she cannot find her paths- the most horrifying corn maze you will ever encounter

She shall pursue her lovers

But not overtake them

and she shall seek them

but shall not find them

then she shall say

I will go and return to my first husband

for it was better for me then than now- not only is this a great grammar lesson on the proper uses of the word “then, than”, but also a revelation in relationship

True source (vs. 8-13)

and she did not know

that it was I who gave her- perfect

the grain

the wine

and the oil

and who lavished on her silver and gold- perfect

which they used for Baal

Therefore

I will take back- perfect

my grain in its time

and my wine in its season

and I will take away my wool and my flax- perfect

which were to cover her nakedness- “without cloths”

Now I will uncover her lewdness- imperfect, ongoing, “shame”

in the sight of her lovers

and no one shall rescue her out of my hand- imperfect, there will continually be no one to rescue her.

And I will put an end to all- perfect

her mirth

her feasts

her new moons

her Sabbaths

and all her appointed feasts

ALL celebrations of faithfulness stop!

I will lay waste- perfect

her vines

and her fig trees

of which she said

these are my wages

which my lovers have given to me

I will make them a forest- perfect

and the beasts of the field shall devour them

And I will punish her- perfect, impose a penalty on

for the feast days of the Baals

when she burned offerings to them- imperfect

and adorned herself with her ring and jewelry- imperfect

and went after her lovers- imperfect

and forgot me, declares the LORD- perfect

Application/Implications:

Renew the Mind (the Scriptures):

What caught your attention in this section?

Which verses or words would you like to study a little more this week?

Engage the Heart (humility vs. pride):

How does this effect you as you live with something that is unrepentant in sin

Think about how this effected the children of Israel as they continued in unrepentant sin after years of pleading

Enlist the Body (faith steps):

Transitional phrase:

A Place for the Repentant: “” (vs. 14-23)

G (vs. 14-15)

Therefore, behold,

I will allure her- “be simple, be inexpert, be gullible, persuasion”

and bring her into the wilderness

and speak tenderly to her- from the heart

and there I will give her her vineyards- in the “wilderness”

and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope- “Achor”, trouble from Joshua 7:26 after the stoning of Achan for taking some of the devoted things for himself and lying about it. This was right after Jericho! This is the corridor into the promised land!!! “Why did you bring trouble on us?”- they broke faith with God.

and there she shall answer as in the days of her youth

as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt

M (vs.)

and in that day

declares the LORD

you will call me, “My Husband”

and no longer will you call me, “My Baal”

For I will

remove the names of the Baals from her mouth

and they shall be remembered by name no more

And I will

make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground

And I will

abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land

and I will

make you lie down in safety

and I will

betroth you to me forever

and I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy

I will

betroth you to me in faithfulness

and you shall know the LORD

G (vs.)

And in that day

I will answer, declares the LORD

I will answer the heavens

and they shall answer the earth

and the earth shall answer

the grain, the wine, and the oil

and they shall answer Jezreel

And I will sow her for myself in the land

and I will have mercy on No Mercy

and I will say to Not My People, “You are my people’

and he shall say, “You are my God’”

Application/Implications:

Renew the Mind (the Scriptures):

What caught your attention in this section?

Which verses or words would you like to study a little more this week?

Engage the Heart (humility vs. pride):

Enlist the Body (faith steps):

Transitional phrase:

Summary of the Chapter:

Memory verse of the Chapter

Discussion Starters:

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Song:

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