Hosea 11-13
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Find the “BIG IDEA” >> a. What is the author talking about? b. What is he saying about what he is talking about?
a. Man trusts in his own counsel, God shows patience towards this, hatred for what it does to them because of the consequence, and yet will still not leave them there
b. God is communicating his patient love. In the end, Paul quotes this to make a fulfillment of God’s declaration for those who are in Christ.
Find the FCF >>
1. What does the text say?
2. What spiritual concern(s) did the text address (in its context)?
3. What spiritual concerns do listeners share in common with those to (or about) whom the text was written?
We too trust in our own counsel
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[Kids Time!]
Who remembers what “repentance” means?
Have you ever had a mommy or daddy repent to you?
Does God ever have to repent of sin?
NO! - God is not like man! He acts in total wisdom and control
God saves us from our own sin!
[Introduction]
Who I am
[Introduce Text]
Going through Hosea
Hosea was a prophet to the Northern Kingdom
Last prophet before Assyria takes Israel into captivity
Beginning of the book, God uses Hosea’s marriage to an unfaithful wife to show his current relationship with Israel
We just talked through how we will “reap what we sow”
[Prayer]
[Main Point]
Flow of our Text:
Israel is loved and called a son
Israel turned and found comfort in their own counsel
But God is not a man who has the patience of a man. He will not abandon them despite their rebellion (just like Hosea did for Gomer).
Sadly, Israel will still experience consequences for their sin
But God uses the consequences of their sin to invite Israel back to himself
Imagine a day, where Death and Sheol have no power...
Read through 3 chapters
As Robbie said last week, we’re going to look in the mirror
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English Standard Version Chapter 11
11 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. 2 The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols.
3 Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk;
I took them up by their arms,
but they did not know that I healed them.
4 I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.
They act like a teenager who forgets that everything they have, God has given
It’s not until things are taken away that they realize who is really in control
5 They shall not return to the land of Egypt, but Assyria shall be their king, because they have refused to return to me.
6 The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them because of their own counsels.
7 My people are bent on turning away from me, and though they call out to the Most High, he shall not raise them up at all.
He then references history as the example - Sodom & Gomorrah
23 the whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath—
8 How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim?
My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender. 9 I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim;
for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.
Is God waffling here? - NO
God is showing how he does react the way we react
19 God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Implications of this
Trustworthy
Kind
Gracious
Wise
If God is like us then we should be on our toes, hoping we get in his good graces...
He has made a promise to us in Christ
10 They shall go after the Lord; he will roar like a lion; when he roars, his children shall come trembling from the west;
11 they shall come trembling like birds from Egypt, and like doves from the land of Assyria, and I will return them to their homes, declares the Lord.
God will still execute justice to Israel, but it will result in their return which is his goal, not their destruction
Now we’re in chapter 12
12 Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.
1 Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.
Covenant with Assyria - They marry another
Oil to Egypt - They worship another
11 Ephraim is like a dove,
silly and without sense,
calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.
Origin story of Israel from Genesis 35:
Jacob (Heel) wrestles with God and is renamed “Israel” (Striving)
2 The Lord has an indictment against Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways; he will repay him according to his deeds.
3 In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he strove with God. 4 He strove with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought his favor.
He met God at Bethel, and there God spoke with us— 5 the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord is his memorial name: 6 “So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.”
Verse 6 reflect next weeks plea for Israel to return in chapter 14
7 A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress. 8 Ephraim has said, “Ah, but I am rich; I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they cannot find in me iniquity or sin.”
Rich Young Ruler
Mark 10:17–31 “17 And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 18 And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. 19 You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’ ” 20 And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.” 21 And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” 22 Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
23 And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!” 24 And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” 26 And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him, “Then who can be saved?” 27 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.” 28 Peter began to say to him, “See, we have left everything and followed you.” 29 Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, 30 who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life. 31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.””
See how God responds to his resume: “I am the Lord…” in verse 9
Look for the “I” statements
9 I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.
10 I spoke to the prophets; it was I who multiplied visions, and through the prophets gave parables. 11 If there is iniquity in Gilead, they shall surely come to nothing: in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls; their altars also are like stone heaps on the furrows of the field.
12 Jacob fled to the land of Aram; there Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he guarded sheep. 13 By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was guarded.
14 Ephraim has given bitter provocation; so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him and will repay him for his disgraceful deeds.
-”Given bitter provocation..” = Provoked the Lord to anger
1 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died. 2 And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen.
It is said of them, “Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!”
They sacrifice what is real and valuable - humans and children for things that are made up and fake
I’ve been recently challenged with this this weekend:
My kids are more real and valuable than my job
Challenge for the families: moms, you form and shape children who are more real and valuable than anything dad does at work
Fathers, LEAD your family to make that true
Fathers sacrifice their families for something they create
Consequence for this is severe:
3 Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.
English Standard Version Chapter 6
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
THEREFORE (What’s therefore there for?)
“Because of your evil, and the disappearance of your love, here in the morning gone by noon, I will displace you. Here today, gone to Assyria.”
4 But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.
5 It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought; 6 but when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.
7 So I am to them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk beside the way. 8 I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs; I will tear open their breast, and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast would rip them open.
9 He destroys you, O Israel, for you are against me, against your helper.
God is supposed to be the helper
He is supposed to be the protector to Israel, but instead now he must show his jealousy in a different way
We end chapter 13 with 3 visuals of Past, Present, Future
In the past, You trusted earthly Kings
Today, You are like a Newborn baby who doesn’t come out of the womb
In the Future, The East Wind of Assyria will come as a consequence
10 Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities? Where are all your rulers— those of whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?
11 I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath. 12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is kept in store.
13 The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son, for at the right time he does not present himself at the opening of the womb.
14 I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol; I shall redeem them from Death.
O Death, where are your plagues?
O Sheol, where is your sting?
Compassion is hidden from my eyes.
15 Though he may flourish among his brothers, the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come, rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall dry up; his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.
16 Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
Consequences are awful
“Because of what they did…” This is informing of the future “Because you did X, Y will happen...”
Next week, we will finish our text with God’s final plea for Israel to return
Band can come up
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14 I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol; I shall redeem them from Death. O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting?...
1 Corinthians 15:54-57
English Standard Version Chapter 15
“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
55“O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
In Hosea:
Israel is loved and called a son
Israel turned and found comfort in their own counsel
But God is not a man who has the patience of a man. He will not abandon them despite their rebellion (just like Hosea did for Gomer).
Sadly, Israel will still experience consequences for their sin
But God uses the consequences of their sin to invite Israel back to himself
Imagine a day, where Death and Sheol have no power...
Because of Jesus:
We are loved and called sons & daughters
We turned and found comfort in our own counsel
But God is not a man who has the patience of a man. He will not abandon us despite our rebellion (just like Hosea did for Gomer).
Sadly, we will still experience consequences for our sin
But God uses the consequences of our sin to invite us back to himself
Because of Jesus, Death and Sheol have no power...
[Application]
The orld feels:
Unsteady
Unreliable
Disregarding of God’s Kingdom
But not us!
Would Abide exibit these attributes
English Standard Version Chapter 15
58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
[Conclusion]
