Love Endures: Despite Disobedience (Pt. 2)
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Come, let’s return to the Lord. For he has torn us, and he will heal us; he has wounded us, and he will bind up our wounds.
INTRO— [The Call…Hosea 6.1-3]
INTRO— [The Call…Hosea 6.1-3]
MOTIVATION OF THE MESSAGE… [re-emphasis of Hosea 4.1]
Come, let’s return to the Lord. For he has torn us, and he will heal us; he has wounded us, and he will bind up our wounds. He will revive us after two days, and on the third day he will raise us up so we can live in his presence. Let’s strive to know the Lord. His appearance is as sure as the dawn. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the land.
REPENTANCE IS KEY!
REJECT sin.
RETURN to the Lord.
RENEWAL (Revival) the reward.
REMEMBER: LOVE REMINDS…LOVE CONFRONTS…LOVE WARNS…&…
Love Laments (Hosea 6.4-6; 7.13-16)
Love Laments (Hosea 6.4-6; 7.13-16)
The Heart of God
“What am I going to do with you?” [6.4]
“Woe to them…I want to redeem them.” [7.13]
The Desire of God
“Faithful love” [6.6]
Hesed [חֶ֥סֶד]: faithful, loyal, constant love.
…& “the knowledge of God”
…“and not sacrifice” or “burnt offerings”
A redeemed life—grateful for and showing hesed—will always lead to deep worship. Worship, without hesed, is just a useless activity.
[1 Corinthians 13 & others.]
Will we listen to the heart of God or our own hearts when we are confronted about our own sin?
Love Calls Out (Hosea 6.7-9; 6.11-7.7)
Love Calls Out (Hosea 6.7-9; 6.11-7.7)
The Historic Pattern of Sinfulness
Adam [Gen. 3 & Josh 3.16]…Gilead [Gen 31.25-26; Gen 28.11-22; etc.]…Shechem [Gen 34] = Breaking faith with God…a people without grace…& treacherous slaughter.
Think about this, we’ve inherited the same propensities, seen the same examples, & lived the same shameful legacies.
God Sees It All and Calls It Rightly
“Right in front of his face” [7.2]
Sin is within the home of God’s people…even to the point of pleasing the leaders. [Everyone is in on it.]
Our Lord is right to call us out. He reveals the truth (sets the standard) and sees all our actions and thoughts.
Love Is Relentless (Hosea 6.10-11; 7.8-12)
Love Is Relentless (Hosea 6.10-11; 7.8-12)
While sin persists among the people of God—within the house… [6.10]
… God’s people also extend their sinful pursuits—beyond the house—among the nations (like Egypt & Assyria). [7.8]
Sin will continue to take you as far away from God as you want to go…and likely farther than you ever thought you would.
God continues to call out Israel’s unrighteousness.
God will frustrate Israel’s pursuit of other nations… [7.11-12; Hosea 2.6-7]
God is just in relentlessly showing us our sin so that we might well see the great need we have for repentance to find renewal.
CONCL— [The Call…Hosea 6.1-3 …& Hosea 6.6]
CONCL— [The Call…Hosea 6.1-3 …& Hosea 6.6]
Today, I want us to end with two aspects of the prophet’s bottom line:
Repentance is CRUCIAL...
Come, let’s return to the Lord. For he has torn us, and he will heal us; he has wounded us, and he will bind up our wounds. He will revive us after two days, and on the third day he will raise us up so we can live in his presence. Let’s strive to know the Lord. His appearance is as sure as the dawn. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the land.
God wants us to learn the depth of HESED…what we receive from God…and how we should live our lives…[6.6]
9 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, “Follow me,” and he got up and followed him. 10 While he was reclining at the table in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came to eat with Jesus and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 12 Now when he heard this, he said, “It is not those who are well who need a doctor, but those who are sick. 13 Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
1 At that time Jesus passed through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick and eat some heads of grain. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “See, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.” 3 He said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry: 4 how he entered the house of God, and they ate the bread of the Presence—which is not lawful for him or for those with him to eat, but only for the priests? 5 Or haven’t you read in the law that on Sabbath days the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath and are innocent? 6 I tell you that something greater than the temple is here. 7 If you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent. 8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
They turn, but not to what is above; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because of their insolent tongue. They will be ridiculed for this in the land of Egypt.