Minor Prophets, Major Message

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Minor Prophets,Major Message
Our Winter Series at Living Water

• Pastor Brett Peterson Slide 46

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12 Angry (Zealous) Men

• A message that transcends time
• A journey that will bring us into right
  relationship with Yahweh
• A glimpse into the very character of God
• A winter we will spend with some mighty men of
  God as we peer into their letters
• A time to love, grow, and shine!

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Review

• Week One Get Zealous for the things of God!
• Week Two 1Co 141 Pursue love, yet desire
  earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that
  you may prophesy.
• Week Three Overview Courage, Faith, and
  Covenant Relationship
• Week 4Faithfulness and Forgiveness
• Last week Thank Him for the red lights
• Today Hosea Part II

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The book is one big chiastic poem
Statement of Gods Covenant Lawsuit (41) Statement of Gods Covenant Lawsuit (41) Statement of Gods Covenant Lawsuit (41)
You have rejected knowledge (42-10) You have rejected knowledge (42-10) You have rejected knowledge (42-10)
Spiritual prostitution (411 - 515). Note the use of the term "harlotry." Spiritual prostitution (411 - 515). Note the use of the term "harlotry." Spiritual prostitution (411 - 515). Note the use of the term "harlotry."
Warning against insincere Repentance (6). Warning against insincere Repentance (6). Warning against insincere Repentance (6).
Case against Kings and Leaders (7). Case against Kings and Leaders (7). Case against Kings and Leaders (7). Kings, Priests, Leaders
Warning against insincere Repentance (8). Warning against insincere Repentance (8). Warning against insincere Repentance (8).
Spiritual prostitution (9-10). Israel has "played the harlot." Spiritual prostitution (9-10). Israel has "played the harlot." Spiritual prostitution (9-10). Israel has "played the harlot."
Gods love and compassion rejected (11). Gods love and compassion rejected (11). Gods love and compassion rejected (11).
Gods Covenant Lawsuit (12-13). Gods Covenant Lawsuit (12-13). Gods Covenant Lawsuit (12-13).
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Hosea the Man

• Hoseas name means Salvation
• Quoted in the NT several times
• Mt 215 913 127 Rom 925, 26 1 Cor 1555 
  1 Pet 25, 10.

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• Matt. 215 Hosea 111 Out of Egypt I called my
  son
• Matt.913 127 - Hosea 66 For I delight in
  loyalty rather than sacrifice, And in the
  knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
• I Cor.1555 - Hosea 1314 Shall I ransom them
  from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from
  death? O Death, where are your thorns? O Sheol,
  where is your sting? Compassion will be hidden
  from My sight.

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• I Peter 25-10
• Hosea 110 Yet the number of the sons of Israel
  Will be like the sand of the sea, Which cannot be
  measured or numbered And in the place Where it
  is said to them, "You are not My people," It will
  be said to them, "You are the sons of the living
  God."

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• Hosea 223 "I will sow her for Myself in the
  land. I will also have compassion on her who had
  not obtained compassion, And I will say to those
  who were not My people, 'You are My people!' And
  they will say, 'You are my God!'"
• Romans 925 As He says also in Hosea, "I WILL
  CALL THOSE WHO WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, 'MY PEOPLE,'
  AND HER WHO WAS NOT BELOVED, 'BELOVED.'"

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• That is all about the Church! The Bride of
  Christ!

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Key to Understanding the Book
Hosea 1-3 Hosea 4-13 Hosea 14
Hoseas Marriage Hoseas Message----------------------------------- Hoseas Message-----------------------------------
Gomers Unfaithfulness Gomers Discipline Gomers Restoration The case of God's covenant lawsuit is set forth, showing how Israel has been an unfaithful bride Ultimate restoration
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Hosea 46

• My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge
  because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also
  reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me
  seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God,
  I will also forget thy
  children.
• Knowledge - law of God (forgotten, rejected)
• Results in destruction of people who once were
  Gods people

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• Hosea is prophesying the reasons God will send
  Israel into captivity
• 1. They slaughtered Ahabs people when God only
  pronounced judgment on Ahab and Jezebel and their
  false prophets.
• 2. Israel now worshiped materialism, other gods,
  and pleasure. They forsook the Lord!
• 2Ti 34 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers
  of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

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• Hos 12 When the LORD first spoke through Hosea,
  the LORD said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself a
  wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry
  for the land commits flagrant harlotry, forsaking
  the LORD."
• Forsake fall away from, depart to show ones
  backside
• Hos 412 For a spirit of harlotry has led them
  astray, And they have played the harlot,
  departing from their God.

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• 1Ti 41 But the Spirit explicitly says that in
  later times some will fall away from the faith,
  paying attention to deceitful spirits and
  doctrines of demons,

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• Heb 310 "THEREFORE I WAS ANGRY WITH THIS
  GENERATION, AND SAID, 'THEY ALWAYS GO ASTRAY IN
  THEIR HEART, AND THEY DID NOT KNOW MY WAYS'
• Heb 311 AS I SWORE IN MY WRATH, 'THEY SHALL NOT
  ENTER MY REST.'"

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• Heb 312 Take care, brethren, that there not be
  in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that
  falls away from the living God.
• Heb 313 But encourage one another day after
  day, as long as it is still called "Today," so
  that none of you will be hardened by the
  deceitfulness of sin.

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• 2Pe 317 You therefore, beloved, knowing this
  beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not
  carried away by the error of unprincipled men and
  fall from your own steadfastness,
• 2Pe 318 but grow in the grace and knowledge of
  our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the
  glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

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They are like America today

• Hos 41 Listen to the word of the LORD, O sons
  of Israel, For the LORD has a case against the
  inhabitants of the land, Because there is no
  faithfulness or kindness Or knowledge of God in
  the land.
• Hos 42 There is swearing, deception, murder,
  stealing and adultery. They employ violence, so
  that bloodshed follows bloodshed.

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• Hos 418 Their liquor gone, They play the harlot
  continually Their rulers dearly love shame.
• Hos 419 The wind wraps them in its wings, And
  they will be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
  
• Hos 917 My God will cast them away Because they
  have not listened to Him And they will be
  wanderers among the nations. (70AD 1917)

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True Repentance

• Act 238 Peter said to them, "Repent, and each
  of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ
  for the forgiveness of your sins and you will
  receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
• Act 319 "Therefore repent and return, so that
  your sins may be wiped away, in order that times
  of refreshing may come from the presence of the
  Lord

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Hosea ends with

• Hos 149 Whoever is wise, let him understand
  these things Whoever is discerning, let him know
  them. For the ways of the LORD are right, And the
  righteous will walk in them, But transgressors
  will stumble in them.

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The Knowledge of God

• Hosea challenges Israel to know the Lord.
• Their lives indicated that they didnt know the
  Lord (41-3)
• Evil actions indicate a lack of experience and
  knowledge of God.
• They rejected Gods law and prophets
• My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge
  (46).
• He urged people to press on to the fuller
  knowledge of the Lord (63)

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• Hsa 63 "So let us know, let us press on to know
  the LORD. His going forth is as certain as the
  dawn And He will come to us like the rain, Like
  the spring rain watering the earth."

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Yahwehs covenant love in Jesus

• Romans 9 24 even us, whom he also called, not
  only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
  25 As he says in Hosea "I will call them my
  people' who are not my people and I will call
  her my loved one' who is not my loved one," 26
  and, "It will happen that in the very place
  where it was said to them, You are not my
  people,' they will be called sons of the living
  God.'"

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In Jesus

• We are chosen to be a people, and called to that
  destiny.
• We are redeemed from the power of sin and death.
• We are blessed with all things necessary for
  life and godliness 2 Peter 13-4

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2 Peter 13-4

• 3 His divine power has given us everything we
  need for life and godliness through our knowledge
  of him who called us by his own glory and
  goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his
  very great and precious promises, so that through
  them you may participate in the divine nature and
  escape the corruption in the world caused by evil
  desires.

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• The Charge Against Israel
• Against the nation
• ..against you who live in the land There is no
  faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God
  in the land. (41)
• my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge
  (46)

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• Against the priests in particular
• The more the priests increased, the more they
  sinned against me they exchanged their Glory for
  something disgraceful. They feed on the sins of
  my people and relish their wickedness. (47,8)
• The imminent sentence
• For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, like a
  great lion to Judah. I will tear them to pieces
  and go away I will carry them off, with no one
  to rescue them. (514)

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• Their Appeal Rejected
• The call to repentance
• Let us acknowledge the LORD let us press on to
  acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he
  will appear he will come to us like the winter
  rains, like the spring rains that water the
  earth. (63)

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• Rejected because of Israels true condition
• ..Your love is like the morning mist, like the
  early dew that disappears. (64)
• For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and
  acknowledgement of God rather than burnt
  offerings. (66)

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Real Repentance

• The Lord presents this problem with the
  illustration of dew and a morning fog. They do
  not survive the heat of day.
• Jesus also spoke about the necessity of enduring
  to the end. Endurance is the stuff of real faith.
  Saving faith is enduring faith. For this reason
  you are called to endure.

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• Jam 123 For if anyone is a hearer of the word
  and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his
  natural face in a mirror 24 for once he has
  looked at himself and gone away, he has
  immediately forgotten what kind of person he was.
  25 But one who looks intently at the perfect law,
  the law of liberty, and abides by it, not
  having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual
  doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.

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• And this I pray, that your love may abound still
  more and more in real knowledge and all
  discernment, so that you may approve the things
  that are excellent, in order to be sincere and
  blameless until the day of Christ (Philippians
  19-10).

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Conclusion

• Who is wise? He will realize these things. Who
  is discerning? He will understand them. The ways
  of the LORD are right the righteous walk in
  them, but the rebellious stumble in them. (149)

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What about us?

• Like Israel, I have been richly blessed
• Like Israel, I am expected to remain faithful
• Am I building Gods kingdom or mine?
• Am I growing in the Knowledge of God and walking
  in the ways of the LORD?
• Or am I playing the unfaithful spouse, flirting
  with the world?

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We all Fail God!

• 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 CHRISTwhich 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 repentance!

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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

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• I will betroth you to me forever I will betroth
  you in righteousness and justice, in love and
  compassion. I will betroth you in faithfulness,
  and you will acknowledge the LORD (Hosea 219,20)