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Good evening, everyone. Welcome to first works Baptist Church
We're gonna get started with song number 411 hold the fort song number
411 and if you are able to let's all stand together for our first song song number
411 hold the fort seen on that first verse. Oh my comrades see the signal waving in the sky
See it on that on that first. Oh
my comrade see
the signal waving
in the sky
I
Reinforcements now appearing victory
Hold the board for I am coming Jesus signal still
Wave the answer back to heaven by thy grace we will
See
The mighty post advancing Satan leading
Mighty men around us falling courage almost gone
Hold the board for I am coming Jesus signal still
Wave
The answer back to heaven by thy grace we will
See the glorious banner waving hear the trumpet blow
In our leaders name will try you over every
Boat
Hold the board for I am coming Jesus signal still
Wave the answer back to heaven by thy grace we will
See it on that last
Fierce and long the battle
Rages, but our help is near
Onward comes our great commander cheer my comrades cheer
Hold the board for I am coming Jesus signal still
Wave the answer back to heaven by thy grace we will
I
Am a wonderful scene. Let's start our service with a word of prayer
Dear God Heavenly Father. We thank you so much Lord God for just allowing us to be here in your house this evening
Oh God, we do pray that you please just bless every aspect of the service
Please bless the singing unto you Lord your God and I pray that you please just be with our pastor guys
He preaches your word
I pray that you film with your Holy Spirit
Oh God guide him through the scriptures of God bring to remembrance of the things that he has studied and also I do pray that
You please just be with us in the congregation help us or God to just learn of your word and help us
We've got to receive it in our hearts with God as well. I pray now these keys in Jesus name. Amen
You may be seated if you
Raise your hand if you didn't get a song sheet, we're gonna sing the wonder of it all
Please keep your hands raised and one of the ushers will come by and give you one
Keep your hands raised nice and high. We're singing the wonder of it all
We've sung this song before but it's been a while. It's a really good song
Keep your hands raised if you have not gotten one
Okey-dokey, we're gonna sing it on that first. There's the wonder of sunset
The
Sunrise I see
But the wonder of wonders that thrill
my soul
is a
wonder that God
loves me
Oh the wonder of it all the
Wonder of it all just to think that God
The
wonder of it all
the
Wonder of it all just a thing that God loves me
There's a wonder of springtime and
harvest
The sky the stars the Sun
The
Wonder of wonders that thrills my soul
is a
wonder that's only
begun
Oh
The wonder of it all the
Wonder of it all
Just a thing that God
The
Wonder of it all the
Wonder of it all just a thing that God loves me
There's a wonder of God's revelation
The
Word who dwelt among men
But the wonder of
Wonders that thrills my soul is that Jesus is coming
Again
Oh
The wonder of it all just a thing that God
The
Wonder of it all the
Wonder of it all just a thing that God
Loves me
All right great singing just a few announcements here before we sing our next song which will be song number
119 till the storm passes by song number 119 if you want to get that ready in your song books
Of course, our services are as follows Sunday morning is at 1030 Sunday evening at 5 p.m
And then we have our Thursday night Bible study at 7 o'clock
You see the first works family nights summer schedule there
We'll start next week with carnival nights and then that will be after the evening service
We'll have food and games for the kids
And so I want to encourage you to bring your families to spend some time
After Sunday night church and just fellowship and then on the 16th is the ice cream social
We have the men's preaching night and kids Olympics on the 30th and then we concluded with the church bonfire on Friday, August 4th
We'll give you more details about the bonfire as we approach that date
But this coming Tuesday is the 4th of July Church picnic and that'll be at Eucalyptus Park
We'll meet there or we'll start around 1030. That's when they're gonna start grilling and so you can come at any time
It's more of a casual type setting and so I want to encourage you to be there
There'll be games and food and fellowship
And so hope to see you on Tuesday and then men's prayer night is this coming Friday on July 7th
7 p.m. At the church building dinner will be provided for those who come and then as I mentioned the family nights begin on Sunday
July 9th
Samaria soul winning is on Monday, July 10th meet at the building at 1130
You can see brother Elise's for more details about that
And then of course
Congratulations, once again to the carries on the news that they're expecting continue to pray for them
We'll make sure we'll get them on the bulletin here so we can keep them in prayer and then the maps for the 4th of July
Picnic are available at the Usher station
Obviously you can just type in where you can lift this park is that map is there to kind of help you avoid
The parade okay, so that way you can get into the park and so you can get one at the Usher station
And then there's also a sign-up sheet there as well
If you're gonna be coming to the picnic just so we can get a headcount of everyone who's coming and then that is pretty much
It make sure you silence your phones during the preaching so as to not be a distraction during the service
Let's take some soul-winning numbers from this past week salvation's from Monday to Thursday any salvation's from Monday to Thursday
Six salvation's Friday and Saturday, how about Friday and Saturday two and then this afternoon salvation's for this afternoon two for brother hikes team
One for brother Morris team one for brother Ulysses team one for the Marcus's team that I miss anybody else
Okay, great. Keep up the great work. Let's go ahead and sing our next song
119 till the storm passes by
Song number 119 till the storm passes by
Song number 119 sing it on that first verse
In the dark of the midnight
Have I oft hit my face
While the storm howls above me
And there's no hiding place
Mid the crash of the thunder
Precious Lord hear my cry
Keep me safe till the storm
Passes by
Till the storm passes over
Till the thunder sounds no more
Till the clouds roll forever
From the sky
Hold me fast let me stand
In the hollow of the hand
Keep me safe till the storm
Passes by
Many times
There is no
Need to try
For there's no end of sorrow
There's no hope by and by
But I know thou art with me
And tomorrow I will rise
Where the storms never dark
In the skies
Till the storm passes over
Till the thunder sounds no more
Till the clouds roll forever
From the sky
Hold me fast let me stand
In the hollow of the hand
Keep me safe till the storm
Passes by
When the long
Night has ended
And the storms come no more
Let me stand in thy presence
On that bright peaceful shore
In that land where the tempest
Never comes, Lord may I
Dwell with thee when the storm
Passes by
Till the storm passes over
Till the thunder sounds no more
Till the clouds roll forever
From the sky
Hold me fast let me stand
In the hollow of the hand
Keep me safe till the storm
Passes by
Amen, wonderful scene at this time our ushers will be receiving the offering
And please turn your Bibles to Hosea chapter 1
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Good evening to now we're in Hosea chapter 1. Hosea chapter 1
in the Bible reads, in the word of the Lord that came unto Hosea
the son of Birai in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah
kings of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel
the beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea and the Lord said to Hosea go
take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms for the land hath committed
great whoredom departing from the Lord. So he went and took Gomer the daughter
of Diblium which conceived and bare him a son and the Lord
sent unto him call his name Jezreel for yet a little while and I will avenge the blood
of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu it will cause to cease the kingdom
of the house of Israel and shall come to pass it that day that I will break the bow of
Israel in the valley of Jezreel and she conceived again and bare a daughter
and God sent unto him call her name Lorahama for I will no longer have mercy
upon the house of Israel but I will utterly take them away
but I will have mercy upon the house of Judah and will save them
by the Lord their God and will not save them by bow nor by sword nor by
battle nor by horses nor by horsemen. Now when she had weaned
Lorahama she conceived and bare a son then God said
call his name Bloami for ye are not my people and I will not be your God
yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea which cannot be measured
nor numbered and it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them ye are not
my people there shall be said unto them ye are the sons of the living God
then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together
and appoint themselves one head and they shall come up out of the land for
great shall be the day of Jezreel. Let's pray dear Lord God thank you for
this church you've given us Lord thank you for the King James Bible Lord and we just pray right now that you
bless the preaching Lord fill pastor with the Holy Spirit Lord as he preaches your word and just bless this service
and pray we have attentiveness while we listen to the preaching Lord and pray this all in Jesus name Amen.
Amen okay we're in Hosea chapter number one this evening
and the title of my sermon tonight is Hosea and the wife of Hordams
Hosea and the wife of Hordams the book of Hosea is a great book
and of course it's one of the minor prophets and it's a book that entails a prophet
speaking of the judgment that's about to come upon Israel
and Judah but mainly Israel because of their idolatry
and this is post I guess you could say post judgment or I'm sorry
pre-judgment before the judgment comes upon them God's going to use Assyria
to come and destroy Israel which is the northern kingdom
as well as Judah the southern kingdom but mainly destroy Israel which is the
northern kingdom because they're the ones who are the most guilty of a lot of the
wickedness and iniquity that's taken place in Israel and so Hosea
sent to do this and this ministry for Hosea takes about
approximately 50 60 some would even say 70 years or so
so he's preaching to Israel trying to bring them unto repentance
and the reason God uses them in such a great and unique way
is how he uses them in a symbolic way to represent
the relationship between God and the nation of Israel
using Hosea picturing God the father and picturing Israel which is pictured by
Hosea's wife Gomer who's a prostitute okay and so it's
it's a it's pretty crazy actually if you think about it when you
think about the fact that God is instructing Hosea
to marry a wife of whoredoms in order to symbolically represent
the relationship between God and the nation of Israel
looking for number one it says the word of the Lord came unto Hosea the son of
Birai and the sons of Uzziah Jotham Ahaz and Hezekiah king of Judah
kings of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of
Joash king of Israel the beginning of the word of the Lord
by Hosea and the Lord said to Hosea go take unto thee a wife of whoredoms
and children of whoredoms for the land hath committed great
whoredom departing from the Lord now the first thing I want to point out before I
even get into the application of what we're going to
look at tonight is the fact that when God tells Hosea
go marry a prostitute this isn't necessarily
an instruction to all believers today right it's just like hey
you know God's okay with me marrying a prostitute
he's okay he wants you know me to find me a whore or whatever and marry
her and you know that I want to be like Hosea you know
sometimes throughout the old testament you'll see God instructing certain
prophets to you know go to certain extremes
in order to represent a spiritual truth and of course we see that here with
but we have another example with Isaiah right where I
he instructs Isaiah to essentially remove the sackcloth from his loins and
be barefoot essentially be naked to expose his nakedness and it was to
picture the fact that the Assyrians were going to come and
destroy Egypt and lead them away captive naked and barefoot and essentially
expose their shame and so obviously we know nakedness is a
sin in the bible but God isn't sinning by telling Isaiah
to do so because he's using them to symbolically represent the sin of a
nation and so these are essentially
exceptions to the rule okay you have for example the fact that
the bible tells us that it is a shame for a man to have
long hair does not nature even teach you that if a man have long hair it is a
shame unto him yet we see the Nazarite vow in Numbers
chapter 6 where it's permitted for the Nazarite
to grow his locks of hair until his vow is accomplished and of course
then he would cut it but you say well are they sinning by allowing their hair
to grow well I think we're asking the wrong
question okay the right question would be why would
God allow them to grow out their hair in such a way
if it's considered a sin and that is because of the fact that
if you were to see a Nazarite for example in those days with
long locks of hair it would be a shame to that person you would look at the
person and say oh this person has not yet performed their vow
this person has not performed their vow or completed their vow
and therefore it's a shame and it would be a humiliating type of a thing
to undergo to allow your locks to grow because essentially telling the world
I have not yet fulfilled my vow okay and so you'll see examples of this where
throughout the bible where it seems to contradict the laws of God
maybe they're committing a sin but that's not the case God is obviously
using it to represent a particular biblical truth and we see that here
with Hosea so don't take this as an excuse or as permission I don't know
anybody who would but to say you know oh God's okay with me marrying prostitutes
or a prostitute or whatever and this is the biblical model here that I'm going to
follow for marriage okay obviously that's not
what's being stated here but we also see that God's willing to go
through some extreme lengths here to display some biblical truth I mean
Hosea is obviously an obedient servant of the Lord
because when God tells him go take your wife of whoredoms he didn't question it
he didn't say whoa hold on a second you know I ain't about that life or you know
this is not you know that's not what I had envisioned or whatever
he just obeyed the Lord and it reminds me of for example Ezekiel
where in the book of Ezekiel God told Ezekiel to do some pretty crazy stuff
right you know eat cow's dung and of course he was a little
resistant regarding that because he thought it was going to be human dung
and then he'd say oh don't worry it's not gonna be human dung it's gonna be
cow's dung and then he eats the cow's dung but
then in other areas where he says I'm gonna take the desire from thine eyes
referring to his wife and the Bible tells us that the desires of his eyes
you know his wife dies he gets up in the morning
and he preaches the word of God and he just keeps going forward
and he's using Ezekiel to essentially display
these biblical as an illustration to display these biblical truths
and so a very extreme case here not necessarily a model of how to find a
spouse okay and he says there take unto you
go take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms so the first
thing we're going to look at here is God commanding Hosea to marry a
prostitute now why does he do that why is God telling him
go marry a prostitute go get a whore as a wife
why would he why would he have him do that well because of the fact that a
whore is essentially someone who sleeps around with multiple lovers
right and more specifically a prostitute is
someone who gets paid to do so that is their form of employment so
men pay a woman to sleep with them and they have all types of lovers they're
adulterers and it's a wicked sin and what God is
doing is he's comparing Gomer who's the prostitute
to Israel because of the fact that Israel is supposed to be married unto
one God the God of Israel yet Israel is
committing whoredom spiritual whoredom by worshiping false gods by going after
different nations to help them and to assist them
and making alliances with heathens that God told them not to do
those alliances with and so God sees that as whoredom he sees that
as being a spiritual adulterer that's what he's saying there
and he says in verse number three so he went and took Gomer the daughter of
Diblion which conceived and bear him a son now hold your place there and go to
first Corinthians chapter number 10 first Corinthians chapter number 10 if
you would and then we're going to go to the book of James but hold your place
there in the book of Hosea and throughout the Bible we see Israel
constantly constantly being a whore okay he's like
constantly just getting involved in whoredom forsaking
the God of the Bible and you know joining other nations
you know reaching out to Egypt for help to the Assyrians for help
using them as a strong arm to defend them against
the enemies of Israel and then ultimately of course
worshiping a bunch of false gods and God's constantly having to address this
to Israel through the prophets that they're committing whoredom look what
it says in verse number five of first Corinthians 10
this is not just when they were established as a nation even
when they're going into the promised land
you know leaving Egypt in the wilderness
going into the promised land they're already being whores
okay look what it says in first Corinthians 10 5 but with many of them
God was not well pleased for they were overthrown in the
wilderness referring to the fact that God destroyed a lot of people
in the wilderness right overthrown means he destroyed them killed them
verse 6 says now these things were our examples to the intent that we should
not lust after evil things as they also lusted neither be
idolaters as were some of them as it is written
the people sat down to eat and drink listen to this and rose up to play
now what are they playing are they playing scrabble
monopoly you know that little jewish game where you
what's that called the dreidel you know what are they playing in the wilderness
well this isn't referring to a game that they're playing okay
when you look throughout like for example the book of ezekiel
when God is reproving Israel for its idolatry
he often will say that they played the harlot in other words they're
acting like a whore they're acting like a harlot
so it says here that the people sat down to eat and to drink
referring to the fact that they're eating things sacrifice them to idols
they're eating and drinking things sacrifice them to idols and then they're
rising up to play the whore in other words they're committing
idolatry is what they're doing which obviously can be seen by the
statement in verse 7 neither neither be idolaters
verse 8 says neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed
and fell in one day three and twenty thousand go to james
chapter four if you would james chapter number four
and again this is something that happened even in the wilderness and of
course they picked up a lot of those habits a
lot of that that sinfulness and abominable acts from egypt
and when when they left egypt when they were delivered from egypt it was a mixed
multitude that came out right so it wasn't just israelites you had
egyptians coming out and joining israel becoming jews however
not all of them are believers they're not all saved
so they're still pagan and hedonistic in their ways of thinking
and so to a certain extent they infiltrated israel and this is why god
had to give instructions of what to do when someone
would say hey let us go and worship false gods
okay another god and how they were to be put to death
and so we see here that throughout the bible that god is constantly calling
israel a whore and they're committing adultery
spiritual adultery because they're going around with other
gods and forsaking you know the husband of their youth
which is the god of the bible now the way we would apply this today
look what it says in verse number four is this
ye adulterers and adulteresses knowing not that the friendship of the world
is enmity with god whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world
is the enemy of god so just as israel as a whole
is often pictured as a wife unto the god of the bible
one like man in the new testament local new testament churches
essentially picture the bride of christ right
and when the bride of christ begins to become worldly
you have churches that become worldly they forsake doctrine
they start doing things that are contrary to god's word god considers
that adultery when they start bringing in teachings
that are contrary to the bible of false salvation they begin to
intermingle with the religions of this world
and start teaching things that are contrary to the bible
god says then you're not my friend you're my enemy okay
you're not behaving like a chaste virgin you're acting like a whore
that's why he says the adulterers and adulteresses
and so we need to make sure you know the way we would apply this to us today
it's important to keep a holy church the bible says without
spot without blemish and to be a church that's
that's essentially sanctified in the eyes of the lord
by the cleansing and washing of the water of the word the word of god
and not become this worldly church with the purple lights
and the smoke machine and you know the smoke and mirrors and all these all
these worldly things that come in and obviously those things aren't
necessarily inherently bad but churches that have those things often
have false doctrine behind the pulpit as well
okay you know
if you have a church that sings worldly music
you're probably going to have a church that teaches a lot of false doctrine
okay and so i'm not to say that people who have the right doctrine don't listen
to bad music but let's just be honest a church that
has bad music probably has a lot of false doctrine
in regards to salvation in regards to the bible in regards to holiness they're
probably turning the grace of god into lasciviousness
in many different ways and so that's why it's important that a church
maintains hard preaching biblical preaching
that we constantly put forth what god expects of us as a church
to be wholly acceptable unto god and so that's important go back to the book of
jose if you would so he tells him you know marry a whore
marry a prostitute because he's trying to symbolize the fact that israel is
acting like a prostitute okay now here's the thing though okay
because it's actually worse with israel than it is with an actual prostitute
i'm gonna explain to you why because with the prostitute
the way it works is that a person pays a prostitute for their
services i mean that's how it works okay they pay
a harlot for their services they perform the
services and that's the job whereas israel is like paying
the you know these nations and these false gods
to be a harlot so it's not like they're it's not like israel is necessary
getting paid it's like they're the ones paying
to become that way now obviously we'll see later on that they were
receiving things from these uh other nations
things of that nature but other portions of scripture also tells us that they're
like paying them in order to become a harlot so it's
like you're worse than a harlot you're you're like paying them for the for you
performing those services of being an idolater a spiritual adulterer it's
pretty wicked he says in verse number three
so he went and took gomer the daughter of dibliam
which conceived and bear him a son and the lord said unto him call his name
jesrael for yet a little while and i will avenge the blood of jesrael upon
the house of jehu and will cause to cease the kingdom of
the house of israel and it shall come to pass at that day i
will break the bow of israel in the valley of jesrael so what
is he referring to here well just as his wife represents
a whore his offspring also represent judgment they'll represent the fact that
you know god is going to judge israel and that he
we'll see later on that he's going to choose a different generation
a different nation to become his people and in particular here in jesrael
what he's referring to is the fact that god doesn't forget the past
okay because he's actually calling back to the days of jehu
who's jehu the son of nimshi and jehu the son of nimshi was a great king
if you guys remember uh in your bible reading jehu the son of nimshi
he did a lot of great acts he's the one who you know
he drives furiously he gathered all the prophets of bale into one temple and
he's like you know ahab served bale much or served
him little i shall serve him much and he deceived all these false prophets
to go into the temple and then he just killed them all right there
you know he just put like a rat trap for the false prophets
and then he slew them all and then of course he slays jezabel as well
and he's just like an awesome king great story someone who's anointed by elijah
the prophet and does their great exploits however
there are certain sins that existed in israel
and that persisted throughout the reign of jehu that he never took care of
and these were idolatrous sins that existed even when
the nation had split from 10 kingdoms to the north and the two kingdoms to
the to the south when that happened there's
certain sins that just persisted in the land and he never took care of them
and so it even says towards the end of jehu's ministry
his kingship it says that israel was cut short in those days
because of jehu okay and the lesson that we can learn
for the fact that he's telling hosea hey your son shall be named jezreel
it's because he's basically saying like i haven't forgotten about the
abominations of the generations prior to you
now what does that tell us it tells us that god keeps good records
regarding the abominations of the nations
and even though we our generation isn't necessarily responsible
for the abominations that are done today
he still holds our nation responsible for the abominations of times past and
unfortunately we also suffer the consequences because of that
okay so he's keeping good records and he's going to continue to judge
israel for the abominations that were done the sins the iniquities that were
that were accomplished in times past even during the days of
jehu even though he was a great guy god did not forget those specific sins
that they committed during that time look at verse number six
and she conceived again and bare daughter and god said unto him call her
name loruhamah for i will no more have mercy
upon the house of israel but i will utterly take them away let me
ask you something what does utterly mean it's completely
right it means like they're done for okay
utterly means completely you know there's there's not there's not
necessarily anything going to be left behind okay he says in verse seven but i
will have mercy upon the house of judah and i will save them by the lord by the
lord their god and will not save them by bow nor by sword nor by battles by
horses nor by horsemen now the illiterate the
literal interpretation here that he's actually referring to
is the fact that when the asyrians came to destroy
israel and judah he destroyed israel just completely just completely wiped
them out and although the asyrians attacked judah
they weren't necessarily as successful with that as they were with israel and
if you remember back in second kings that's when the the angel comes and
wipes out like 180 000 men in one night okay which is why he
says that he's not going to save them by bow nor by sword nor by battle or by
horses or horsemen it was just a miraculous supernatural
deliverance where the angel comes and just wipes them all out
okay now the spiritual interpretation of this application should i say
is the fact that israel's reprobate as a nation
whereas judah because jesus christ will come from judah
you know even though he destroyed it a little bit a remnant was left
and this is that spiritual generation that will carry on throughout the
generations and it's supposed to kind of help us to
recognize the fact that you know even though each
generation of israel there are certain people that were just completely cut off
and wiped out there was always a remnant left
right and by remnant we mean a group of people who were actually believers
believe it or not there were saved jews and israelites in those days
okay seven thousand prophets who would not bow their knee to Baal
and he always left a remnant lest they would have been like
sodom and like into gomorrah the bible says and so lorohama
pictures the fact that he's not going to have mercy upon the house of israel
he's like i'm going to wipe them all out they're done for and i'm just going to
utterly take them away but he is but he did deliver judah the
southern kingdom he obviously had affection towards
judah which is where jesus christ would ultimately come from
look at verse eight now when she had weaned lorohama
she conceived embarrassed son then said god call his name
lo ami for you're not my people and i will not be your god so if someone
can show this verse to the old ifb
and help them to see that even in the old testament there were instances
where god says you're not my people he said well they have a covenant but they
broke the covenant even in the old testament
and we have evidence here to clearly show
conclusively that he said you're not my people
i'm not your god now why is that because they're not worshiping the god of the
bible they're not following the god of the
bible they're following babylonian gods they're following pagans and pagan
deities and they're going the way of the heathen
he says in verse 10 yet the number of the children of israel
shall be as the sand of the sea which cannot be measured
nor numbered and it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto
them ye are not my people there it shall be
said unto them ye are the sons of the living god now
what's with verse number 10 because if he's saying look you're not my
people and i'm not your god and then he goes back and says but the
number of the children of israel shall be as the sand of the sea
well we're missing a part here and the part that we're missing is the fact that
he's obviously including the gentiles in this particular promise here because
if he's wiping out israel utterly he's not going to have mercy on them but
then he later states oh but you know later on you guys are
going to be as the sand of the sea well they're not going to accomplish that
with one nation one physical nation should i say that
promise is accomplished by a spiritual nation
made up of gentiles who are believers who have believed on jesus christ
and he says there that ye are the sons of the living god
now here's the thing this is very important to note here
and that is you know when you talk to these people who believe that the jews
are god's chosen people you know they can't get away from some
of these verses here that obviously say that you know believers
christian believers of the new testament are the sons of god and we lump up the
people of god what the sons of god is being the same because that's exactly
what they are but they'll say well there's a difference
between the people of god and the sons of god you know people of
god are the physical jews with the with the jerry curl siberns the
tassel and all that the people in israel and
then the sons of god are believers in christ
there's a distinction between the two but according to verses nine and ten
they're the exact same thing because he says you are not my people i will not
be your god and then later on he says you're not my
people there it shall be said unto them ye are the sons of the living god
essentially saying that they're one in the same okay
now go to romans chapter number nine hold your place there in hosea
romans chapter number nine so understand that the new testament
isn't where god is just like you know what i'm gonna create a new plan
we're gonna you know i'm gonna start paying more attention to the gentiles
i'm gonna make them my people that's been foretold since the old testament
that's an old testament concept because he's always wanted to be
wanted to be the god of all the earth he wanted all people to believe on him
and to get saved through of course israel
you know that's where salvation would stem from they were supposed to be a
light unto the world unto them were committed to the oracles
of god they had the word of god to go and proclaim it
and of course they failed in that area look at romans chapter 9 verse number
6 it says not as though the word of god has
taken none effect for they are not all israel which are of israel
neither because they are the seed of abraham are they all children but in
isaac shall thy seed be called that is they which are the children of the flesh
these are not the children of god but the children of the promise are counted
for the seed for this is the word of promise at this time will i come
and sarah shall have a son and not only this but when rebecca also had conceived
by one even by our father isaac we see here in
romans chapter 9 that even within the nation of israel not
everyone who claims to be an israelite is an israelite in the eyes of god
which is why galatians chapter 6 says he addresses
the israel of god he doesn't just call him israel he says the israel
of god referring to saved israelites go to romans chapter 11 romans chapter 11
if you would
now when it comes to the subject of replacement theology
god's chosen people zionism romans 11 is my favorite chapter to go
to believe it or not and it's actually the favorite chapter
for the zionists to go to as well or let me rephrase that it's the
favorite verse for them to go to they don't like the entire chapter you
know because like romans 11 one is to the zionist
what matthew 7 1 is to those who don't want you to judge
right because they only stick with one verse and just ignore
the entire chapter and in like manner romans 11 they just stick to that one
verse and just ignore the entire chapter he says here in verse number one of
romans 11 i say then hath god cast away his people
god forbid and it's just like there you go
the jews are still god's chosen people because god forbid that he should cast
them away okay and anytime someone brings that up to me and they say hey
god forbid had god cast away his people and i literally just take them to verse
number 14 or verse 15 to answer them for if the casting away of them
be the reconciling of the world what shall the receiving
of them be but life from the dead so let me ask you something
god is reconciling the world through jesus christ that's why we have gentile
believers so if if the world has been become or
if that process of reconciling the gentiles back into
god has already begun that means that israel has been cast away
which is why he says for if the casting away of them be
the reconciling of the world so yes they were cast away
let's read on here in verse number one god forbid for i am also an israelite
of the seed of abraham of the tribe of benjamin
god hath not cast away his people which he foreknew which by the way according
to roman's age is referring to believers why ye not what the scripture saith of
elias how he maketh intercessions to god against israel
now what nation is elijah from israel right
but yet we see here that he's making intercessions to god
against israel so there's clearly a distinction between
the israel that elijah is a part of and the israel that he's praying
against kind of like what romans 9 says they are not all of israel which are of
israel saying verse number three lord they have
killed thy prophets who the israelites and dig down thine altars and i am left
alone and they seek my life but what saith the answer of god unto
him i have reserved to myself seven thousand men
who have not bowed the knee to the image of bail so according to the bible
everyone outside of the scope of those seven thousand prophets
are not worshiping the god of the bible they're worshiping bail
and if you're worshiping bail you're not saved
if you're worshiping bail you have essentially breached that covenant
which is that you're only supposed to worship the god of the bible
therefore you have essentially relinquished your
privilege of being god's chosen people which is why he doesn't consider them in
hosea as being his people he says in verse five even so then
at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of
grace so what he's saying here of course is
the apostle paul speaking thousands of years later
he's saying just like it was in elijah's day when there's only seven thousand
people who are actually worshiping the god of
the bible and there is this false israel who he's making intercessions against he
says in like manner it's the same thing today
there is a saved remnant of israel and there's also a remnant of israel
should we say in israel that's not saved okay
and he says that it's according to the election of grace
so the remnant is based upon what for by grace are you saved through faith in
that not of yourselves it is the gift of god not of works that any man should
boast and of course we have verse number six
and if by grace and there's no more of works
otherwise grace is no more grace but if it be of work then there's no more of
grace otherwise work is no more work great verse to use out sony verse number
seven says what then israel now here's another verse i like to
use when talking to people who are his highness he says what then
israel has not obtained that which he seeketh for
but the election has obtained it and the worst were blinded
now isn't that interesting because those who believe that the jews are god's
chosen people will often call israel the elect
but how can they be the elect if he says the israel hath not obtained that which
he seeketh for but the elect hath obtained it that
would mean they're two distinct there's two separated groups
there one being that's saved and the other
that's not
yeah but you know they're just but they're still god's chosen people
not according to the stipulations placed on
the bible stipulations according to the bible the qualifications to be god's
chosen people is that they have to be saved in the
new testament and he says that the rest were blinded now look at verse 14
he says in verse 14 if by any means i may provoke to emulation
then which are my flesh i might save some of them for if the casting away of
them be the reconciling of the world what shall the receiving of them be but
life from the dead now people like to bring up all israel
shall be saved and they you know that's their doctrine
where they believe like in the end times when jesus christ comes from in
revelation chapter 19 but somehow viewing jesus christ coming on
a white horse is going to convince them and then
they're going to believe on jesus christ based upon that supernatural event
however he came riding on a a coal full of an ass and the
bible says that they still didn't believe him
he came lowly as a king without a kingdom per se a physical kingdom
they didn't believe in him so what makes us think that just because they
view him on a white horse coming from heaven they're going to believe in him
it's not going to happen
okay then what does verse 15 mean then because he says therefore if the casting
away of them be the reconciling of the world
what shall the receiving of them be but life
from the dead so the implication here is that they will be received in the end
times now how is that how is it that israel
will be received by god in the end times well it says
life from the dead and what that's referring to
is the resurrection okay that they will receive that we
received in other words the only people that are going to be in
the millennial reign are saved israelites
unsaved israelites don't get a free pass it's not like well you know
you're half saved you know or you know just say you're saved
you know just you're in israel you're a jew so you get a free pass or something
no it has to come by faith in jesus christ god is no respecter of people
go back to jose if you would jose go to chapter two
so he addresses this here and he's basically telling them
that you know he he tells jose marry a woman of whoredoms these are the
children you're going to have and this is what they represent
the fact that he's not going to have mercy upon them
uh and that this the third child he has is going to represent the fact that he's
going to reach all the gentiles with the gospel
and they're going to be god's chosen people look at verse number one of
chapter two says say ye into your brethren am i
and to your sisters ruhamim plead with your mother plead for she is not my wife
neither am i her husband let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of
her sight and her adulteries from between her
breasts now what does that phrase mean her
adulteries from between her breasts what is that referring to
exactly well again israel's being idolatrous and
there's a verse in proper chapter five when dealing with marriage for example
let me read it to you it's talking to a husband and the
instructions of how he should appreciate the wife of his youth and it
says in verse 19 let her be as the loving hind and
pleasant robe let her breast satisfy thee at all
times and be thou ravished always with her
love and we could use this verse to
interpret what hosea chapter 2 verse number 1 is talking about
because of the fact that in proper chapter 5 when he says
let her breast satisfy thee at all times he's referring to
embracing his wife at all times because you know when when i hug my wife
her breasts are against my my chest and i'm embracing her and therefore i
i'm allowing her embracement to satisfy me
right satisfy the desire for a physical relationship
the the closeness that i have with my spouse i hug only my wife
with the exception of my mother and of course
uh made me like a my sister if i ever see her you know
every once in a while you know some old lady or something like that will come to
me and give me a hug or something just like
they catch me off guard
okay all right you know just pat him real quick
no i'm just kidding you know there's nothing wrong with necessarily a hug
folks okay i'm just saying what the bible is
saying here is that god is instructing a husband
to be satisfied and be satiated physically
with just embracing his spouse in other words don't embrace don't embrace the
bosom of another stranger you know it's like you shouldn't be
going around hugging other women that's what he's saying you know hug
your wife you don't need to be hugging some other man's wife or you say well
that's weird people do that there's people that do that
well they think it's like it's appropriate to just go around and hug
each other's spouse or something like that and embrace us no stay away from my
wife don't touch my wife her breasts are to
satisfy me at all times i'm the one who's supposed
to be satiated and i have rights to her body
to hug her and keep her as my spouse and and and
that's what the bible is teaching there and so what proverbs 5 is saying here is
that you should embrace your spouse and not
embrace a stranger right so when we take that
interpretation to hosea chapter 2 and he says let her therefore put away
her hoardings from out of her sight and her adulteries from between her
breasts it's referring to the fact that gomer
which represents israel is embracing false gods
he's taking the breast of false gods and embrace she's taking the breast of false
gods and embracing them she's embracing the assyrians she's
embracing the egyptians she's embracing false
doctrine and false gods he's like tell her to put away her
adulteries from between her breasts stop embracing strangers
that's what it's saying okay and look that's a that's a good
practical lesson too you know don't go around embracing
strangers or kissing strangers you know i remember i went to guatemala
and it was like a thing in guatemala to like give each other a kiss on the cheek
they just kind of like see each other how many know what i'm talking about
does anybody have a culture like that and it's just like it's like no
that's weird don't don't kiss my wife or my wife's never been there but it's like
i wouldn't be cool with that you know and so
here he's instructing that he's saying you know she needs to
to put away her her adulteries which is her idolatry verse number three says
lest i strip her naked and set her as in the day that she was
born and make her as a wilderness and set her like a dry land
and slay her with thirst
he's like i'm gonna just uh shame you before the entire population by just
burying you naked before everyone of course he's referring to israel
he says i will not have mercy upon her children for they be the children
of whoredoms now what's one of the reasons why
israel's be behaving in an unfaithful way look at verse number five
he says for their mother has played the harlot she that conceived them has done
shamefully for she said i will go after my lovers
that give me my bread and my water my wool and my flax
my oil and my drink
so she's under this impression that if she goes after these lovers they're
going to provide something for her that she needs
and they're not but the reality is this they're not going to be she's not going
to be fulfilled with that and most of the time they're not even
going to give her that now what's the application here the
application here for us as christians is this
you know sin is very deceitful my friends
and sin will often propose and promote an outcome that is not legitimate
oh you're gonna get bread water wool flax oil drink
fame fortune comfort if you commit these sins you get involved in this you get
out of church you do all these things it always proposes something that it's
not going to be able to come through on it's not going to fulfill it that's
always how it works my friends sin is very deceitful the bible says that
the pleasures of sin are only for a season
and yet you may have a little bit of bread and wine
and oil for a temporary time but you know what that stuff runs out
eventually and so don't become deceived by sin into thinking well if i get out
of church or i get involved in this relationship
or if i do x y and z somehow that's going to fulfill me
with all these luxuries and delicacies and i'm going to be happy
wrong judgment awaits you okay go to hosea chapter 7 hold your place
from chapter 2
you know israel is like well i'm going to go after the egyptian
i'm going to go after the asyrians for their oil and their wine their wool and
their flax but at the end of the day she
is treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath because god
is not just going to stand by on the sidelines and watch her commit
abominable things he's going to judge her for it that's
always how it works so don't be this type of christian
where it's just like well i'm going to continue in sin
and nothing's going to happen to me the lord does not see
what you know what you're doing the lord can't see he doesn't see he's not judging
me folks if you're involved in sin and you
have not been judged for that sin just know this it's god's mercy on
your life he's being gracious to you he's giving
you space to repent but there comes a time where god's
mercy kind of runs out and he's got to do what he has to do he's
going to chastise you to get you back on track which is exactly
what he did to israel multiple times destroyed them just
completely wiped them out humbled them in sackcloth and ashes
because that's the only thing that can get their attention
i don't buy you but i don't want god to go to great lengths to get my attention
a sermon will do a verse in the bible when i read it will do
you know guilt will do it's good to have guilt my friends
it's good that when you do bad you feel bad about it
and not become desensitized to your actions and to your sin
that it actually bothers you when you commit sin when you do that which is
wrong because you don't want to go beyond
those boundaries where then you hear a sermon you ignore
the sermon you hear another sermon ignore that sermon
and you just keep going deeper and deeper and then finally god says okay
well then i know what to do to get your attention
and it's not going to be pleasant it's an unsavory judgment upon someone's
life and the truth is is that god will do
whatever it need what needs to be done in order to
make that happen
now look at hosea chapter seven he said well how did gomer become that
way like how you just become like a whore overnight
well she didn't become a whore overnight it like with anything else
it's just little by little look at it says in verse eight ephraim
he has mixed himself among the people ephraim is a cake
not turned so number one he started intermingling with people who are
influencing him to become the way he is or she is the
way it would describe israel as a whole here
as being gomer and so you don't you know what often
takes a christian off course it's not necessarily a what
it's a who who have to be which do you should not
obey the truth it's often a person influencing you or
people influencing you to do wrong and what is what happens
when that takes place well you become like a cake
not turned in other words you're cooked on one side because you're in church
but then you're all flabby and nasty and uncooked on the other side because you
have one foot in the world and one foot of the church
so you're like a cake unturned come to church and get cooked
let him cook you sing the songs you do all these things
and it's just like oh your cake on one side is nice and crispy
but then you're all runny on the other side because you have one foot in the
world like a cake not turned verse number nine
strangers have devoured his strength and this is the scary part
and he knoweth it not what does that mean
it means that the people who are you are allowing to influence your life
will eat you up little by little and you don't even see it
he that walketh with wise men shall be wise but a companion
a fool shall be destroyed here's the kicker
it's just little by little
and why is it little by little well because
that way you don't notice it
you know a little sin a little folding of the hands the sleeve a little slumber
you don't really notice it a little sin here a little sin there you don't really
notice how much you can actually you know
stray from the lord if you do it incrementally
it's like the illustration where they say you know if a plane when a plane
takes off if that plane changes trajectory just a
couple inches no biggie but after a couple hundred
miles oh it's going to end up somewhere else
that's how it is with the christian life you change incrementally
you know you look 12 months down the road you look two years down the road
you're going to be in a completely different area than you were in when
you initially started your flight he says strangers have devoured his
strength and he knoweth it not oh listen to this yay we all all of us
know about this to a certain extent right
gray hairs are here and there upon him yet he knoweth not the bible says
now as far as i know i don't have gray hairs
on my head even though y'all stress me out a lot i'm just kidding
but i do have them on my beard
oh
okay you free them i'm just kidding i'm just kidding yeah you know i have them
on my beard i have and in fact i remember i don't know if
it was like a year ago maybe two years ago i can grow a pretty
long beard but i i chopped it because i don't want people to mistake me for
for an imam or something like that as people typically used to
and you know i keep it short but i remember you know when i would like
just trim it or whatever i would see my beard
did i have like red hair oh yeah that's kind of cool
you know i got i'm like a ginger in my beard you know
and and i had no white hairs and and you know
and by the way i don't care if i have gray hairs or not
i couldn't care less adam
but i could care less though you say why because i'm already married so you know
my wife's stuck you know what i mean she's got to get your hair
no but she likes it but here's the thing is that
last year i had no gray hairs on my beard
then all of a sudden sometime this year i'm just like oh man there's one and
then all of a sudden like i feel like i woke up one morning
it's just like a patch here and a patch there
and i just but it's not like they just showed up overnight
right it's like they came here and there upon me
and i knew it not
i'm like whoa and you know what it's gonna happen to the top of my head too
and i'm not gonna cheat either and dye my hair okay
like some of you out here
yeah just accept your gray hairs okay um
i'm not doing it you know there's there's people out there there's like
pastors out there and it's like if i were to dye my hair
let me just say this if i were to dye my hair you know i
would do it like gradually so they're like one sunday you see me
it's gray and then the next time they come and it's just jet black
and he had the eyebrows are are i've seen that before
we're like i remember one guy who was just like he this guy was gray
at back of my old church and then he came one sunday he's just like
everything was just jet black including his eyebrows
and i'm like come on
anyways the point that i'm trying to make here is god obviously sees that
gray hairs come upon us here and there sometimes we don't notice it
well you know what the gray hairs of death
spiritually come upon a person here and there
and you know it not that's what sin does you know you commit a little bit of sin
here a little bit of sin there and then the gray hairs of death the
gray hairs start popping up here and there
and you just don't know it it's just something that happens
gradually incrementally verse 10 says in the pride of israel
testify to his face and they do not return to the lord their god nor seek
him for all of this ephraim also is like a silly dove
without heart they call to egypt they go to asyria
what is a silly dove it's a stupid bird that's what he means
it's like ephraim is acting like a stupid bird with no heart
now why is he saying that because like this should bother you
israel this should bother you ephraim this should bother you judah that you
guys are committing these abominable acts before the lord
you're a nation who adheres to the god of the bible and the laws of god's word
you should be ashamed of yourself but it's like you have no heart
now it's possible for christians to go down this path as well you know why
because it's possible for a christian to become hardened
and desensitized to sin and to the things of this world
if they're not careful can happen to me can happen to you
this is it's a common thing and the way people go down this road is
when they commit sin they don't confess it right away don't get right right away
they allow too much time to pass between point a and point b
point a of committing the sin and point b of repenting
and so therefore they become hardened and then they have me
preaching the word of god trying to bring you to repentance
and you're just like in your heart you're like man i don't agree with you
no i don't think that's true okay you're just hardening your heart
you silly dove
he says they call to egypt they go to they go to iseria i mean they're acting
they're acting dumb okay
go back to hosea chapter two
look at verse number six it says therefore behold i will hedge up thy way
with thorns and make a wall that she shall not find
her paths so there comes a point with israel where
god gives them space to repent and he's trying to like call them back to
repentance he's trying to help them to get
get it right but then they're just not listening so you know what god does
instead he begins to place thorns upon that road to sin he makes a
wall and they can't really see their way
everything becomes kind of convoluted they can't really see what's ahead of
them what is he doing he's making the path
hard for them and you know the bible says that the way of the transgressor is
hard and sometimes when a christian remains
unrepentant of a particular sin god will place
thorns upon that person's life so that when you're walking that path
you're scraping yourself it's uncomfortable it's hard and the
bible even says that he puts up a wall what does that mean it means he doesn't
allow you to succeed he puts a wall so that you can't go
over the wall it's like man i keep hitting hitting these walls in my life i
can't seem to succeed in these areas yeah he's trying to get your attention
the bible says that's what it's teaching can't find her
past they they feel lost incapable of finding their way
verse seven and she shall follow after her lovers
but she shall not overtake them and she shall seek them
but shall not find them then shall she say
i will go and return to my first husband for then was it better with me than now
what does this mean you know israel is just being stubborn
they're like well i'm still going to try to go after the asyrians i'm still
trying to get help from the egyptians i still want to get help you know from
these false gods but she never reaches her destination
like it never comes to pass and one thing christians will realize
when they're backslidden they're going to keep wanting to go deeper deeper into
sin but they'll never be fulfilled with that
particular sin it will never fulfill them oh just one
more blunt just one more bottle of alcohol just
one more of this just one more that but it just never fulfills
because those whose hunger and thirst after righteousness shall be filled
the world and sin never satiate the soul the hungry soul my friends
it's like cotton candy it's sweet in the beginning but it's just it's not
going to fill you up and in fact you have enough of it's
going to make you sick you have enough of it your teeth are going to hurt
you have another enough of it is just it's just you know it's fun for a season
carnival night is good for one night but we can't have carnival night every
single sunday night you know what i mean and he says there
eventually because they come to the realization
that this isn't working out that's supposed to turn them back to
god because he says there i will go and return to my first husband
and i love this phrase here for then was it better with me
than now and i've met a lot of christians who
come to that realization where they realize you know what i had it better
in church i had it better when i was like
soul winning and when i was just living right
reading the bible doing that which is right in the side of the lord
it was better with me then than it is with me now
you may think to yourself well i know someone like that and it seems as though
it's going better for them now than it was then
but hold on a second you're not god and you don't know that
because you don't know the mental anguish that people suffer
when they're away from god they could put up a front
they can drown themselves in alcohol and drugs
and worldliness and try to portray this happy life that they're happy outside of
the will of god folks you have no idea what they're
thinking when they go to sleep when they're alone with the inner recesses of
their mind and what they think when they're at
home you have no idea the anguish that god places upon a heart
the delusions he gives them the chastisement that they feel the guilt
that's constantly plaguing them every single day so when you talk to
someone it's just oh it's great it's just like yeah right you liar
you know your life sucks because any life outside of god's will
sucks always will
we may have a bad day here and there but for the most part in general we live a
good life we got it made in the shade my friends
and anybody outside of god's will who tries to portray as though they're happy
living in sin just going out on friday nights and drinking going to the bars
and sleeping around and just fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind
they want to tell you that they're having a good time
and they're having no problems at all well number one either they're just not
saved and yes i said they're not saved because
you know a christian who's that far and is not getting chastised
you know then they're bastards and no sons according to the bible or they're
just lying about it which i think they're
probably just lying about it
because it's better here it's better in the bible
it's better to be in church yes it's better to be in church sunday morning
and sunday night being in church sunday night is better
than being at the beach on sunday night there i said it being in church sitting
there while i yell at you and spit all over the place and talk
about my gray hairs and all this stuff and the ac kicks on
it's too cold and all you know all the whatever complaints
you got going on for you this is still better than whatever you
would have been doing if you weren't in church
out there and if you don't believe me take a break from christianity you'll
see that it's true don't take a break but i'm just saying
verse eight says for she did not know that i gave her corn
and wine and oil and multiplied her silver and gold which they prepared for
bail so the things that people look for in
the world are things that god has already provided for you
in god's will with the clear conscience the pleasures that you're seeking out in
the world are pleasures that god can give you within the will of god
the goals and the accomplishment and the achievements that you want the areas you
want to succeed in the world you can have those here in god's will
go to hosea chapter 8 hosea chapter 8
so how does god chastise us placing thorns placing walls creating an
emptiness within your soul they recognize you can't be fulfilled
with these things look at hosea 8 verse 7
it's powerful here it says for they have sown the wind
and they shall reap the whirlwind it hath no stock the bud shall yield no
meal if so be yield the stranger shall
swallow it up israel swallowed up now shall they be
among the gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure
what is he saying you're not going to succeed out there
since it has no stock the bud shall yield no meal
and he says and if it does yield something strangers are just going to
take it from you verse 9 says for they are gone up to
syria a wild ass alone by himself ephraim hath hired lovers yea though
they have hired among the nations now will i gather them and they shall
sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes
because ephraim hath made many altars to sin altars shall be
unto him to sin now what does that mean you know people can get to a point when
their backs linen they're just sick and tired of their sin
it's just disgusting you know oh man it might be fun going out on saturday
nights they'll go have a drink but go ahead and multiply that times 365
days or whatever or how many ever weeks or months after a while not only does it
get boring it becomes depressing there's no pleasure in that
so what's what is the the lesson that he's trying to get across here
what he's trying to get across is that he's trying to keep israel from going
further than what they've already gone he's trying to warn them like you're
going after silver and gold oil and flax and all these um
all of these luxuries when seeking first the kingdom of god
and his righteousness and these things shall be added unto you
you're seeking after these relationships but you know you can have a fulfilled
relationship within the will of god a righteous
relationship within the will of god okay and of course he um you don't have
to turn to hosea 14 verse 4 says i will heal their backsliding
i will love them freely for mine anger is turned away from
him now um let me skip some things here because
i'm already out of time go to chapter three
and here's the main reason why god tells hosea
go marry a woman of hordups this is the main reason why aside from
the fact that he's picturing israel as being a whore with other false gods
and nations he's going to tell go he's going to tell
hosea hey buy your wife back he's saying that
look at verse number one then say the lord unto me go ye love a woman beloved
of her friend yet an adulteress according to the love
of the lord toward the children of israel
who look to other gods and love flagons of wine
so i bought her to me for 15 pieces of silver
and for an homer of barley and half a homer of barley
and i said unto her thou shall abide with me many days
thou shall not play the harlot and thou shall not be for another man
so will i also be for thee so what a what a humbling thing
for hosea to go to the slavery market or whatever
where prostitutes are being sold and this is his wife standing there selling
herself and he's like i'll purchase her to the
highest the highest number i'll give all this
for i'll purchase her back to me i mean that's a that's a very humbling
an incredible situation there to have to do that and that's a love
that passeth knowledge is it not that he loves her so much even
though she's been with multiple men and and by the way
you know god bless hosea because we're looking at all the symbology
and stuff but this like literally happened to him though
like she's actually doing all this stuff okay like his wife is actually sleeping
around she's being a prostitute she's being a whore and it's just like
and he actually does buy her back so this is hosea
is is a great picture of jesus christ right because of the fact that he shed
his blood to purchase us right to pay our wage of sin that we
deserve to pay to go to hell he paid for that for
us on the cross but if you think about it you know i
want to make an application here that hosea had already made a covenant
before god for gomer so like she was already his right
but she's out there playing the harlot she's defiling herself
and then ultimately he went and he purchased her entire body
completely towards the end in chapter three
that's a great picture of salvation is it not because
when we believe on jesus christ we're part of that new covenant
that better covenant and our soul has been purchased by the blood of jesus
christ but the bible also says that the holy spirit is the earnest of our
inheritance until the redemption of the purchase
possession unto the praise of his glory so even
though we are his our soul belongs to him
at the end of the day you know we're going to be purchased completely
as hosea purchased gomer her body in like manner one day this entire body
will be redeemed by god at the resurrection and if we're to
speak in generalities you know we as christians are kind of
like gomer because we still have that sinful flesh
that displeases the lord that sins for in me that is in my flesh
dwells no good thing and we live day to day sometimes
offending the lord by our actions by the sinfulness and our members
and to a certain extent it's like our members are committing whoredom
with the things of this world right we do things that displease the lord
we're we grieve him sometimes we grieve the holy spirit
because we're not completely redeemed but there will come a day when you know
at the resurrection where this entire body will be purchased and now we'll
just belong to hosea from here on out right we'll belong to
jesus christ so shall we ever be with the lord because
he says there uh in verse number three
thou shall not play the harlot and thou shall not be for another man
so will i also be for these like we're we're going to be inseparable at that
time what a beautiful picture of salvation
right
purchasing gomer purchasing her body is a great picture of salvation and so
i'm going to stop right there and what a great lesson to learn from
hosea and his wife there that you know we as
god's people it's like jesus christ hosea is in this constant
pursuit of his wife to try to win her back and he's willing
to pay the price to do so he's willing to pay the price whatever
price is there whatever amount of money is there
he's willing to do whatever it takes to to to to to purchase his wife
and in like manners like our life is that
it's jesus christ constantly sanctifying us
so we can be made into the image of christ and here's the thing it's like a
lifelong process sanctification is a lifelong process
for a church it's a lifelong process until that day that he purchases
completely at the resurrection and the rapture
great pictures there and that's pretty much it let's pray father we thank you
so much for your word thank you for hosea's example lord help
us as your people to avoid the traps that gomer fell into
the the luxuries of this world the luster of this world
that uh seeks to tempt us as your people to seek after the flagons of wine the
oil the flax the bread and water that the
world seems to promise lord but we are not to love the world
neither the things that are in the world i pray that you'd help us lord
as your people to be reminded of this truth as we go out about our week lord
that we're supposed to be a sanctified people consecrated unto you that we're
to sanctify the lord god in our hearts and stay faithful to you no matter what
and i pray that you'd help us to do so love you we thank you pray these things
in jesus name amen
song number 19 there is a fountain that's our last song song number 19
song number 19 there is a fountain seen on that first
verse there is a fountain filled with blood
run from emmanuel's veins and sinners
beneath that but lose all their guilty stains
lose all their guilty stains lose all their guilty
stains and sinners punch beneath that but
lose all their guilty stains the dying thief
rejoice to see that fountain in his day
and there may i though vial as he
wash all my sins away
and there may i though vial as he
wash all my sins away
dear dying lamb thy precious blood shall never
lose its power till all the ransomed church of god
be saved to sin no more
be saved to sin no more be saved
to sin no more till all the ransomed
church of god be saved to sin no more
ever since by faith i saw the stream thy flowing
wounds
redeeming love has been my theme and shall
be till i die and shall be till i die
and shall be till i die
deeming love has been my theme and shall be till
i die then in an older sweeter song
i'll see thy power to save
when this poor little spring-stem ring tongue
lie silent in the grave lie silent in the grave
lie silent in the grave when this poor little
spring-stem ring tongue lie silent in the grave
amen wonderful scene you are dismissed