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When He Roars
It is not easy raising children.
When they are toddlers we face the terrible twos and the awful threes and the horrible fours.
When we were fostering we had a toddler for a while and his slightly older brother.
We only had them for two weeks, the first week was good, we only had the four year old.
He was a sweet loving boy.
He followed me around like a puppy dog.
Then his brother came for the second week.
That sweet four year old turned into a demon from the bad place.
After they left and went back to their regular foster home I said that after having them I knew what some animals eat their young.
Hosea in his prophecy writes God’s word.
God has change his description of his people.
In the first two chapters of Hosea’s prophecy, Israel is pictured as being in a marriage relationship.
God is the husband and Israel is the wife.
When we think about the Old Testament we have this picture of God as the law giver and the people as the law keepers.
We know from reading the Old Testament that the people were not very good at keeping the law.
In my younger years in ministry I was the Youth Pastor at a church in Mississippi.
The senior pastor never preached from the Old Testament.
I talked to him once about that and he said that the Old Testament did not apply to us so why preach from it.
Every change that I had to preach, I would preach from an Old Testament passage.
It was interesting to see what happened.
He began to talk about how the Old Testament had lots to say to us today.
What I think we miss out when we think about the Old Testament is that there is way more than just the law there.
Throughout the Old Testament the love of God is seen.
One author describes this chapter of Hosea as the “John 3:16” of the Old Testament.
I want to think that after Hosea’s marriage to Gomer that what God was saying was all the more real to him.
God switches from the imagery of a marriage to that of a Father and a child.
James Mclemore told the following story
In this family, there are four children, two boys and two girls.
The oldest girl taught school, volunteered at the women's mission, and went to church every Sunday.
The youngest girl kept a good house, raised five good children, never met a person she didn't like, and never met a person who didn't like her.
The oldest boy followed his dad into missionary work, spent his youth in India feeding the hungry, and spent his manhood in South America building homes for the homeless.
But the youngest son didn't like the teachings of his father and mother.
He decided to get his teachings in the street, and find his spirits in a bottle.
For years the youngest son spent his nights in the streets, and his days in a drunken stupor.
There was no place to go, nothing to do, nothing to live for.
He moved from one lonely town to another lonely town in a lonely life.
He looked down the dusty streets and watched the emptiness of people passing each other, and he felt like a stranger in a strange land.
One night he found himself in a strangely familiar town.
He could see the outline of a distant steeple in the moonlight, and the voices of old memories spoke to him from the streets.
In the distance he could hear the sound of a bell ringing in the city.
Three times the bell rang out its familiar song, six times it rang, twelve times, and then he remembered the name of the melody.
He made his way around the corner to the building where the ringing was coming from, and made his way to the door.
And when he looked up, he saw the choir singing the words to the song, "Amazing Grace, How Sweet The Sound."
He made his way to the altar, and he recognized that he was in the same church, in the same town where his father and his mother raised him.
It was New Year's Eve watch night service, and there was a sign above the altar: "God's Going To Bring His Children Home." [1]
That is the picture of Hosea chapter 11, God is still wanting to brink his Children home.
Hosea 11:1 (CEB)
1 When Israel was a child, I loved him,
It’s easy to love a little child even if they drive you nuts sometimes.
God says that when Israel was a child that He loved him.
God created us in His image so that He could have a relationship with us.
It was a relationship based on love.
It wasn’t a relationship based on laws of doing this and not doing that.
Something that I hadn’t considered before is this:
When God created us to receive His love and to love Him, He became vulnerable to our rejection
We were created with a free will, that ability to choose to follow God or to walk away.
That placed God in a vulnerable position of facing rejection.
God had promised Abraham that there was a land of promise.
That promise carried down to Isaac and then to Jacob and Jacob’s children, the 12 tribes of Israel.
Those tribes were in Egypt as slaves but God did not forget about them.
Hosea 11:1 (CEB)
1 out of Egypt I called my son.
They weren’t just some random group of people that God decided one day to make His special people.
God says that he called “my son.”
God had not forgotten his promise.
The people of Israel were His Children, He was their Father and they were His children.
That one verse shows God’s love for them.
This is amazing because out of all the nations around Israel, they were the only ones who worshipped a God who was portrayed as their Father.
Jehovah was unique in that there was this loving relationship between Him and His children.
No other deity that was worshipped was viewed as having that type of relationship.
Look at the prominent god that was worshipped, Baal.
Baal was not pictured as a loving father.
You had to to stuff to appease him and the other countless gods.
If you did not do what that god wanted then you had better watch out, you were going to be punished.
Jehovah is unique, He loved his people and He wanted them to love him back.
The more it seemed that he loved them the more they pushed back.
They were like teenagers.
Teenagers are designed to push away from parents.
They are trying to figure out who they are.
They are no longer children, but they aren’t adults.
It is a hard time in life for some teens.
I have several teen young men that I see weekly.
One is really struggling with this.
His parents are also struggling with him pushing back.
God said there in verse 2
Have you been there with a teenager?
The more you loved them, the more they pushed back?
I remember a man in one of the churches we attended years ago who’s father was a preacher.
When he was a teenager he was that rebellious teen.
He pushed back against his father.
He told of one time as a teen that he was angry with his father.
He said he went around the church building and broke all the basement windows.
God says that the more that he called them.
What was he calling them to?
He was calling them to love him and live in that covenant relationship with him.
The more he called them he says that the further they went from him.
The first two commandments confirm this
When we think of the Ten Commandments we just read the bullet points and skip over God’s reason for the commandment.
Look there at verse 6
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