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Opening & Intro
Talk about Shara’s position - the whole story
Conversation with Jason
9 months of prayer
The out of the blue message from Jeremy
Me saying no but wanting to hear Shara out.
Hearing very clearly from God that this is what the right thing was.
Unanimously voting her in on a trial basis to be revisited
INcreasing the budget to keep her on trusting that we can do it financially.
Applying to the grant
Getting the grant
Covering all the things...
Now if I went with my initial gut response…it would have been a no.
We see now that God had a plan and He brought us through this.
So often we tend to speak for God instead of stopping to hear him speak.
Which is what we have done since the fall of mankind.
But here’s the point we are going to look at today.
Main Point
God’s Love is absolute.
Agape has no limits.
Explain Agape
Why Does it Matter
We need to know that God loves us no matter what.
Scripture
Hosea sets the pratices that he spoke of earlier in our series in their historical perspective.
He is giving examples from the life of Jacob as explainations of the beviour of both Israel and Judah.
But in this example the negative actions can also be seen as positive in 2 ways:
Jacob battles with his brother and God multiple times but eventually repents to both
God puts up with Jacob and still extends him grace.
A reminder to us that we might but fighting with God about something but He can take it.
His love is always available.
This reads almost like a prayer of repentance.
We need to realize when we have been unfaithful.
When we do we need to pray this prayer.
Application
The Book of Hosea is the telling of A righteous man who is married to an unfaithful prostitute.
He forgives her adulterous ways so long as she repents.
We need to repent.
God is waiting for us to turn away from what ever is holding us back.
When we struggle with Sin.
I mean reallys truggle we start by saying...
It’s not that bad
I will just go this far
I can stop
I don’t need to stop
I am an adult I can do this if I want
I feel guilty every time I do it.
I want to stop but I can’t
Please God help me.
I want to repent.
We don’t always know right away that what we are doing is wrong.
Look at Abraham.
It made sense to them.
Look at what it says.
Let’s take a look at the Israelites when they fashioned a golden calf in the desert.
They were only out of Egypt for roughtly 3 months at this point and Moses was gone for 40 days.
So it took them exactly 3 months before turning from God.
You see we justify our actions.
We want to find an esier and better way to do things but sometimes we have to wait on God’s timing.
Somtimes we have to take aleap of faith.
Like our story from the beginning of the message today.
Other times we need to recognize that we are lost on our own and accept help.
Lost husband...
Closing
Are you Epraim?
IS there something you need to repent of?
it is as simple as a prayer and understanding the depth of God’s Love.
He wants to see you succeed.
Pray, listen and respond.
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