Loving the Unlovable (2)
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Lessons from the Book of Hosea • Sermon • Submitted • Presented • 37:28
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· 192 viewsTony Padgett begins a series on the book of Hosea "Loving the Unlovable".
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LESSON TEXT
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When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.”
Hosea’s Faith, Courage and Obedience
Hosea’s Faith, Courage and Obedience
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
1. Remember Your Former Self
1. Remember Your Former Self
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
2. Walk the Path of Humility
2. Walk the Path of Humility
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
3. Be Transformed
3. Be Transformed
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
4. Do Not Be Self-Righteous
4. Do Not Be Self-Righteous
One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and reclined at table. And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment. Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.”
The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
”It is futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance” (Thomas Sowell)
”It is futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance” (Thomas Sowell)
Plan of Salvation
Plan of Salvation
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.