Hosea

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Hosea

• GODS Redeeming Love

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The Unsung Hero of the Bible

• 755 710 BC in the Northern Kingdom of Israel
• 40 years of Ministry
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• Take a wife of whoredom/harlotry/prostitution
• Israel has committed great whoredom
• An Object Lesson a lesson taught by using a
  material object, a practical demonstration of
  some principle or ideal
• Hosea you will represent Me
• Wife she will represent Israel

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Hosea Gomers Kids

• Gomer bore him a son (13)
• Jezreel God will sow (14)
• Gomer bore a daughter (16)
• Lo-Ruhamah no mercy (16)
• Gomer bore a son (19)
• Lo-Ammi not my people (19)

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I am Gomer.

• Everyone GOD loves has betrayed Him, forsaken
  Him, and been unfaithful to Him.
• All we like sheep have gone astray
  we have turned every one to his own way
  (Isaiah 536 ESV)
• for all have sinned and fall short of the glory
  of God. (Romans 323 ESV)
• I am no better than Gomer, I am no different.

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I have broken GODS heart.

• Through Hoseas experience, GOD is telling His
  people that He knows what it is like to suffer
  through the pain of infidelity, the anguish of
  betrayal, and the hurt of broken promises
• GOD knows all there is to know about a broken
  heart.

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GOD loves me still!

• Everyone GOD loves has betrayed Him, forsaken
  Him, been unfaithful to Him, but He
  loves us anyway.
• just like the love of the LORD for the children
  of Israel (Hosea 31 NKJV)
• while we were still sinners, Christ died for
  us. (Romans 58 NKJV)
• with the precious blood of Christ
  (1 Peter 119 NKJV)
• Hosea demonstrates how deep GODS love goes for
  us.

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His love for me!

• that Christ may dwell in your hearts through
  faith that you, being rooted and grounded in
  love,
• may be able to comprehend with all the saints
  what is the width and length and depth and height
  
• to know the love of Christ which passes
  knowledge that you may be filled with all the
  fullness of God.
• Ephesians 317-19 NKJV

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GOD wants me to repent.

• GOD pleads with His people to return to Him.
• So you, by the help of your God, return (35
  710 115 126 141)
• So I bought her for myself (32)
• If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.
  (John 138 NKJV)
• Repent therefore and be converted, that your
  sins may be blotted out, so that times of
  refreshing may come from the presence of the
  Lord (Acts 319 NKJV)
• Redemption is impossible without the cooperation
  of the sinner.

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Accept His redeeming love!

• I have been crucified with Christ
• it is no longer I who live,
• but Christ lives in me
• and the life which I now live in the flesh
• I live by faith in the Son of God,
• who loved me and gave Himself for me.
• Galatians 220 NKJV