WHEN A DIVORCED GOD REMARRIES HIS WIFE

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• Love Story

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WHEN A DIVORCED GOD REMARRIES HIS WIFE

• A Survey of Hosea

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Starting next Sunday

• The Heartbeat of God

• Heartbeat

The HEARTBEAT of GOD Knowing Gods Plan
for the Nations
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September 7

• Part I Understanding Gods Glory
• Focus Nation France
• Life Group Sunday sign up day
• College Meal
• Beginning of 3 Sunday morning worship
• services 900 / 1015 / 1130

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• Theme of Hosea

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• I. The Unfaithful Wife and the Faithful Husband
  (1235)
• 1. The Children as Signs (1221)
• 2. The Unfaithful Wife (2223)
• 3. The Faithful Husband (ch. 3)
• II. The Unfaithful Nation and the Faithful God
  (414)
• 1. Israels Unfaithfulness (4163)
• 2. Israels Punishment (641015)
• 3. The Lords Faithful Love (1114)

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• The key word in Hosea is loving-kindness
  (hesed).

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Another key word in Hosea is return, which
is used 22 times in Hoseas prophecy.
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• HOSEAS PERSONAL BACKGROUND
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• The name Hosea means salvation. It is
  believed that he was a native of Samaria. His
  family seems to be of significant social standing
  for the name of his father to be mentioned (Hosea
  11).

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• Hosea was a contemporary of Amos in Israel who
  ministered in the Northern Kingdom of Israel
  (760-720 B.C.).

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KEY DATES
922 B.C. Divided Kingdom 722 B.C. Fall of
Israel 587 B.C. Fall of Judah
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• The Sins of Israel
• Dishonest government
• Religious idolatry
• Godlessness in personal lives
• Total loss of truth

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Ch. 2 Specific Sins

• Idolatry (22-5) included prostitution
• Ingratitude (25-9) they thanked idols!
• Hypocrisy (210-13) divided loyalties

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Key issue in the Book of Hosea

• He married a what?

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• 12

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Prostitution was a symbol of idolatry and
unfaithfulness to God (Jeremiah 2-3).
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• God claimed Israel as His bride at Mt. Sinai
  when His covenant was accepted (Ex. 19-21).
• After years of unfaithfulness, God declared
  that He was divorced from Israel (Jeremiah 38).

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Israel was idolatrous from the beginning
(Josh. 24 2-3).
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Children of Hosea

• Jezeel (14-5) - God scatters
• Lo-ruhamah (16-7) - no pity
• Lo-ammi (18-9) - Not my people

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Gods Promises to His Wife

• I will allure (214)
• I will give (215)
• I will take away (216-17)
• I will betroth (218-20)
• I will respond (221-22)
• I will plant (223)

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Hosea 33 Hosea didnt immediately enter
into intimacy with Gomer after he purchased her
from slavery. This is a picture of Israel today.
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Portraits of Israel

• 6 4-11 Morning cloud and dew
• 7 1-7 - Overheated oven
• 7 8 - Half-baked cake
• 7 11-12 Silly dove
• 7 13-16 Faulty bow

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Portraits of Judgment

• 81-6 - The Eagle
• 87 Sowing and Reaping
• 89 - Donkey lost in the wilderness
• 1012 - Fallow ground

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CHAPTER 11
God demonstrated His love for His wife,
Israel, through

• The Exodus from Egypt (1-2)
• The Wilderness journey (3-4)
• Long-suffering (5-7)
• Faithfulness (8-9)
• Plans for future (10-12)

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Gods Promises for the Future(Ch. 14)

• He will receive (142-3)
• He will restore (144)
• He will revive (145-8)

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Life Lessons

• 1. God suffers when His people sin.
• 2. God will never condone our sin.
• 3. God will never cease to love His own.
• 4.  God seeks to win back those who have
• forsaken Him.
• 5. God offers choices.with consequences.

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• I have set before you life and death,
  blessing and cursing therefore

• CHOOSE LIFE!

Deuteronomy 3019
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