1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,720 For a while now, the book of Hosea and so I figured, no, 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:07,720 since I'm I've been studying it and I just want to share what 3 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:10,720 the Lord has been showing me in that book. 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,040 The book of Hosea have so much, there's so much you can get from 5 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:19,200 that book, so much information. And it's a book that shows God's 6 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:23,640 love and compassion for his children and and you know, and 7 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:28,480 how much God is willing to go getting the attention of those 8 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:32,159 that he loves. So tonight I'd like to preach a 9 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:38,840 message entitled Ayo Gomer. And I also would like to just 10 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:43,360 focus on this chapter, this first chapter, chapter 1, mainly 11 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:49,920 because let's see, get my stuff order. 12 00:00:55,690 --> 00:01:00,360 All right, yeah, because I didn't, I didn't want to just 13 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:03,360 try to, you know, do the whole book, but I want to but I but I 14 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:06,400 just want to just investigate the first chapter with you 15 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,760 tonight. So let's turn to chapter 1 of 16 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:12,440 book of the book of Hosea, chapter 1 17 00:01:22,850 --> 00:01:26,810 and Hosea chapter 1. The order of Lord came to came 18 00:01:26,810 --> 00:01:31,530 on to Hosea, the son of Barry and the days of Hosea, Jotham. 19 00:01:31,570 --> 00:01:37,320 It has Hezekiah king of Judah, in the days of Jeroboam, the son 20 00:01:37,320 --> 00:01:41,840 of Jorah, king of his will, the beginning of the word of the 21 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:46,440 Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go 22 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:50,280 take unto thee a wife of hodoms and children of Hodoms. 23 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:54,680 For the land had committed great hodoms, departing from the Lord. 24 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,600 So he went and told Gomer, the daughter of Dilem, which 25 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:04,960 conceived, and bear him a son. Let's pray, Father, we thank you 26 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:08,080 and praise you Lord, for this time where we can come, Lord, 27 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:13,640 nice and special time where we get to hear from you, Lord, not 28 00:02:13,640 --> 00:02:17,200 from me, but from you, because we all need you, Lord, and we 29 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:21,160 thank you so much for this book. I pray that as we talk about it, 30 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:23,480 that you would open our minds and our heart. 31 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,040 It will show us what you would want us to see. 32 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,640 First of all, about you, how good you are, how gracious you 33 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:34,440 are, and also about us, how needy we are, how unworthy we 34 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,360 are of your love. We pray for that you please be 35 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:40,880 with us, be with me as I speak of your word, Lord, and give me 36 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,000 the words to say. Speak through me and Lord use me 37 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,400 tonight. I pray, I do pray for Pastor and 38 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:46,960 Miss Becker that you would be with them. 39 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:49,800 I know Pastor have a busy schedule ahead next week. 40 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,520 I pray that you would just empower him with the Holy Spirit 41 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:56,280 to speak what you have to say and that he would be be able to 42 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,480 minister and be a blessing to the folks over there. 43 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:01,080 Lord, we pray that you'll be with us tonight in Jewish name, 44 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:06,760 Amen. OK, so the book of Hosea was 45 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,560 written through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit by Hosea, the 46 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,720 son of Bury. So far all we know, all we know 47 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,800 is that Hosea has been chosen by God, a prophet to the children 48 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:21,360 of Israel, the northern Kingdom. The Bible doesn't says that. 49 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:23,440 He's only said that he is the son of Bury. 50 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:26,600 There's not much the God doesn't say many much about Bury. 51 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,720 We don't know who any you know any anything about Bury or we 52 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:35,200 know that he is Hosea's father. So Hosea his his ministry 53 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:42,600 started his ministry started around the around the time, the 54 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:46,800 era of where Jehovah was was the ruler of Israel and the northern 55 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:48,800 Kingdom. And then as you say here, how 56 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:52,320 you say, as it says here in chapter and verse, one says the 57 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,400 word of the Lord came unto Hosea, the son of Bury in the 58 00:03:55,400 --> 00:04:00,680 days of Hosiah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 59 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:04,240 But Hosea was the citizen of the northern Kingdom. 60 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:07,240 So the Lord sent him to the children of Israel. 61 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:11,000 Because this children of Israel were doing things that were not 62 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,880 pleasing unto the Lord, they have turned away from God and 63 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,240 into idols. And because they have turned 64 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:20,560 away to a away to God from God and to idols, God has God. 65 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:25,600 God has sent Hosea to proclaim judgment upon that that that 66 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:27,560 that side of the the tribe of Israel. 67 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:32,040 And so we see here in chapter and I would say in chapter 1, 68 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:41,400 God told Hosea to go to the children of Israel and proclaim 69 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:46,960 to them that God was grieve that was grieve with what they were 70 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,600 doing. God was not happy with what they 71 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,480 were doing. If you look at verse verse 2, it 72 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:56,760 says the beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea and the 73 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:00,960 Lord said to Hosea, go take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and 74 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:03,320 children of whoredoms. Now I think I better come take 75 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:07,800 me, stick with me real quick. We, we might be saying, you 76 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,560 know, why would God ask a prophet to go marry a 77 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,520 prostitute? You know, and it's like it just 78 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,680 doesn't make sense to us, right? That guy would ask a man of God 79 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:20,960 to go and marry a prostitute. But let's let's make no mistake 80 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:22,560 here. God is trying to paint a picture 81 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:26,680 for us here and the picture that God is trying to to to paint for 82 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:36,080 us here is that is that is that the children of Israel the 83 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:39,480 children of Israel, they are in the state where they are 84 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:47,920 becoming spiritual decay and God here Hosea is is is God and as 85 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:54,080 God being the husband of Israel, OK, so, so therefore Hosea when 86 00:05:54,120 --> 00:06:00,320 God when God sent Hosea and say go married a woman of of of 87 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,040 whoredom and which obey your children of whoredom. 88 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,320 God is saying God is been a picture to us with the the 89 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:11,440 condition of what sinful men is and and because of sinful men 90 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:15,880 condition. God has to send Hosea with this 91 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:19,440 with with this, with this message to the tune of Israel 92 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:24,120 showing us that hey, we need to wake up. 93 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:30,920 We need to turn from our adult, our idols turn from from our 94 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,480 wicked ways, turn from ourselves and and to God. 95 00:06:36,280 --> 00:06:38,800 So the name of Hosea means salvation. 96 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:44,360 It comes from the same Hebrew roots Yeshua as the name of 97 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:48,040 Joshua and Jesus. So this books was written to to 98 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:51,160 to illustrate God's love for his sinful people. 99 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:55,520 The original audience is that exactly was as we just see in 100 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:59,000 verse one edition of Israel from the northern Kingdom and you 101 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:06,120 know Hosea's ministry began around 770 BC to 725 BC See on 102 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,360 those days the northern Kingdom was prosper. 103 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:12,320 There were real prosper, there were prosperous politically and 104 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:16,080 materially so. However, there were there were 105 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:19,680 in a time of spiritual decay. The people were greedy and had 106 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:23,520 adapted the immoral behavior and idolatrous religion of the 107 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:26,640 surrounding Canaanites. So there were these people. 108 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:30,760 God has saved them from Egypt. God has given given them laws. 109 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:35,080 God has given instruction that they are not to intermingle with 110 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:38,800 the with the surrounding nation. They are not to go and and do 111 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:42,920 what they do worship like they worship serve as they serve. 112 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:47,800 However they were they did not listen and we can see what 113 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:53,000 happened is Gerald Burum, which was, I believe, where is where 114 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:59,120 the the Kingdom split because when, when will Burum, the son 115 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:03,760 of Solomon, when the people came to him and say, Hey, you know, 116 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:05,520 your father has made her life miserable. 117 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:07,600 All right, we're serving. We were serving under our 118 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:09,320 father. He make our life miserable. 119 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:13,480 Now we come to you asking you to make our business lighter and to 120 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:15,240 you know, to to to take care of us. 121 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:20,640 But instead we were born. He did not listen to the to the 122 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:25,960 wise counsel that has been a mentor to his father Solomon. 123 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:30,200 Instead he listens to the young man, his own peers, and and then 124 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:33,440 he gave the people a very bad report, which they did not like. 125 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:37,039 So now Jeroboam came to the NTPTR and God had already 126 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:41,960 prophesied that he was going to give 10 tribes to Jeroboam and 127 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:45,680 one tribe, Judah to Wilburn, to Wilburn. 128 00:08:45,680 --> 00:08:49,880 And so we have Israel, the northern Kingdom in the north 129 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:57,360 and we have Judah in the South. So Hosea, his role was to warn 130 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:02,040 the northern Kingdom about the unfaithfulness to God and how 131 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:05,720 they they have left God the husband and provider and had 132 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,520 married themselves to Bell and the God of Canaanites. 133 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:14,960 So and look if you look at verse verse verse 3 God said God, God 134 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:21,120 told Hosea, go, I'm sorry, verse 2 the beginning of the Lord of 135 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:24,080 the Lord, the word of the Lord to Hosea and the Lord said to 136 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:28,080 Hosea, go and take unto thee wife of the wife of Hodom and 137 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:31,920 the children of Hodom, for the land had committed great Hodom 138 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:36,320 depart from the Lord. Verse 3 So Hosea went he went 139 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:41,000 and told Gomer the daughter of the Iblam, which conceived and 140 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:52,240 bear him a son. Please turn to Second Kings. 141 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:56,640 I'm sorry. First Kings 21 verse 19 to 22. 142 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:02,120 You see, King Ahab from the Kingdom of the North had 143 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:07,120 committed a lawful, an awful sin against God by introducing 144 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:09,800 better worship, worshipping in Israel. 145 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:16,960 So he committed murder so that the so so that the pleases the 146 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:17,720 Lord. He committed. 147 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:23,120 He committed by by killing one of his citizens. 148 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:32,160 So God sent Elijah to him and and saying Kings here in first 149 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:36,480 Kings chapter 21, it says that God says to him, go unto unto 150 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:39,120 Ahab and proclaim a message to Ahab. 151 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:43,240 And this is what God says, thou said the Lord, Hast thou killed, 152 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:47,360 and also taken possession? And thou shalt, and thou shalt 153 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:51,720 speak unto him, saying, Thou said, Thou said the Lord, and 154 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:55,840 the place where dogs lick the blood of neighbor, shalt thou 155 00:10:55,840 --> 00:11:00,760 lick thy blood even thine. And a have said to Elijah, Hast 156 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:04,320 thou found me or my enemy? And he answered, I have found 157 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:08,600 thee, because that has sold thyself to an evilness out of 158 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:12,080 the Lord. Behold, I will bring evil upon 159 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,760 thee, and will take thy pastority, and will cut off from 160 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:20,960 Ahab him that peace pisseth against the wall, and him that 161 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:26,080 is shot up and left in Israel, and and will make thy house like 162 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:30,560 the House of Jeroboam the son of neighbor, and and like and like 163 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:33,240 the House of Bishop the son of Ahijah. 164 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,760 And for the provocation where is that has provoked me to anger 165 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,720 and made Israel to sin. So you see Jeroboam had 166 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:46,640 instituted bare worshipping and is and and when the northern 167 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:50,760 king of Israel and have and displeases God and not only that 168 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:54,760 he was he committed murder on top of that and God was wanted 169 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:57,600 to judge the House of Jeroboam because of that. 170 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:01,280 If turn with me to 2nd Kings chapter 10, verse 10:50. 171 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:07,800 We'll be reading that and the Bible says know now that there 172 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:11,240 shall be, there shall be, for there shall fall unto the earth 173 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:15,480 nothing of the word of the Lord which the which the Lord spake 174 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:19,560 concerning the House of Ahab. For the Lord had done that which 175 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:25,000 is spake by his servant Elijah. Therefore, God uses Jehu to 176 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:30,160 fulfill that task and so and if you look at verse 11 of this of 177 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:34,360 this chapter chapter, chapter, no second king says so Jehu slew 178 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:38,840 all that remain in the House of Ahab and Jezreel and all his 179 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:43,320 great men and his kings folk and his priests until he left none 180 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:46,720 to remain. However, Scripture said that 181 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:52,680 Jehu went too far. He went too far and came out 182 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:57,880 God's command so and so, and Hosea chapter 1 back to judge, 183 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:00,320 chapter chapter one, verse four and five. 184 00:13:00,680 --> 00:13:04,080 God is now pronouncing judgment upon Jehu's household. 185 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:09,400 And the Lord said unto him, Call his name Jezebel, for yet a 186 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:13,640 little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jehu upon the House 187 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:18,800 of Jehu, and will cause to seize the Kingdom of the House of 188 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:20,960 Israel. And it shall come to pass at 189 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:27,920 that day that I will bring the bow of Israel and the value of 190 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,800 Jezwel. So this child that Gomer had for 191 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:38,280 for for with, with Gomer, God says to call his name Jezwel, 192 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:41,920 not Jezwel the the, the name judgment God saw. 193 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:46,160 So God was saying, listen, buddy, it's time you weep what 194 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:48,760 you saw. And God was saying God was 195 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:52,200 black. God was God was very was very 196 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:58,400 upset with the dynasty of Jehu because of the way he handled 197 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,080 things. You know, sometimes it's very, 198 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,800 it's very important that when God give us something to do, 199 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:07,800 give us a mission that we make sure we do it exactly the way he 200 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:10,000 want us to do it. We can't add to it. 201 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,200 We can't take out of it. We have to exactly the way God 202 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:14,840 wants to do it. This will happen, you see, with 203 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:19,320 Jehu, with Jehu here. Jehu thought that he was doing 204 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:24,520 God a favor by going overboard of then what God has told him to 205 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:33,760 do so let me just well, Jezzville means go God so so 206 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:39,960 Hosea first born to be he was to be a reminder that God will 207 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:43,600 judge the House of Jehu for their bloodshed and Jezzville. 208 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:47,520 So when the Kingdom was wrested from Ahab to and Jezebel. 209 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:54,480 So Jehu, you know, because of what he did, God not pronouncing 210 00:14:54,480 --> 00:15:07,850 judgment on on him. Now we're going to see, we're 211 00:15:07,850 --> 00:15:12,170 going to see how, you know, God contention, the contention that 212 00:15:12,170 --> 00:15:15,410 has built up between the Kingdom of the North, the Israelite and 213 00:15:15,410 --> 00:15:22,050 God will the contention between Gomer and Hosea, because Hosea 214 00:15:22,250 --> 00:15:26,520 being married to a prostitute and Gomer had a problem and she 215 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:29,720 was not she, she was, she was a woman that was not, that was 216 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,960 discontent. And, and based on, on, on, on 217 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:35,520 scripture, she was discontent and it was, it was 218 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:38,160 discontentment that caused her to go and, and follow and, and 219 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,960 continue to, to, to live in idolatry. 220 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:42,880 And so there's a contention there. 221 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,440 So when Hosea with his sacrificial love married Gomer, 222 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:50,400 she was, she was given the opportunity to trade, to trade 223 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:54,720 her sinful past for a future. That's exactly what happened. 224 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:59,240 And a lot of time, God, you know, God gave us chances after 225 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:02,240 chances. He gave us the ability to we 226 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:06,320 move away from our past from give up our past sense and give 227 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,880 us a fearful future, give us something to look forward to. 228 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:14,680 And and this is actually what the picture that this is, is 229 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:17,400 illustrating here. So Israel had this a shameful 230 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:21,200 past. The last 6 kings were especially 231 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:24,160 wicked. They promote heavy taxes, 232 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:29,120 oppression, oppression of the poor, idols, worship and and and 233 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:32,240 total disregard for God. So the people of Israel has 234 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,600 sinned against God as an adulterous woman sinned against 235 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:40,320 her husband. So here we see the Israelites. 236 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:46,680 They, because they were so consumed with their wealth, 237 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:49,920 they're so consumed with their, with, with, with their 238 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,600 well-being, the things that they had, the stuff that they have 239 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:59,520 and the idols, they, they totally lost the respect for 240 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:04,599 God, the love for God. And because of that, they, they, 241 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:07,800 they forfeit all the blessing that God has for them. 242 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:10,359 All right, all the blessing that God has for them. 243 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:14,160 God was given them a chance to to, to get rid of all that and 244 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,800 look forward to a, to a fulfilled future, to a faithful 245 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:21,119 future. But yeah, instead they disregard 246 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:25,200 that warning. And John 316, the Bible says 247 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,319 that, you know, God so loved the world that he gave his only 248 00:17:28,319 --> 00:17:31,200 begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not 249 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:32,800 perish but have everlasting life. 250 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,080 Yeah, but you know, but sometimes we tend, we have the 251 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:39,640 tendency of looking back, you know, Christ had done so much 252 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:42,480 for us. He has given himself a winsome 253 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:47,840 so that we could be safe from our sins, so that we could have 254 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,800 a fruitful future. But sometimes we tend to look 255 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:58,800 back at our past and that become a hindrance and it handles us 256 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:02,120 from moving forward to be the question that God wants us to 257 00:18:02,120 --> 00:18:04,000 be. And sometimes we suffer the 258 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:07,720 relationship that we have with God by and by breaking our 259 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:11,920 commitment to Him. And we see that in the life of 260 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:16,240 Gomer, Hosea was a faith, was a, was a faithful husband to Gomer. 261 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:20,480 But Gomer could not see that Gomer, Gomer kept going far to 262 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:24,520 the left as Hosea was trying to give her all the attention and 263 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:27,240 the passion and the love that she that she doesn't even 264 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:29,920 deserve. And a lot of time, God does that 265 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:32,440 for us. He gave us the, the passion. 266 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:35,680 He gave us the, the, the, I'm sorry, the compassion and the 267 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:39,480 love and the attention that we need, but we don't even deserve 268 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:42,240 it. And yet every day that provided 269 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:44,960 means every day he give us the attention that we need. 270 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:48,080 Every day that he show us compassion and mercy. 271 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:52,960 And here we see here in Hosea, that's exactly what Hosea was to 272 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:55,440 Gomer. However, Gomer missed the goal. 273 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,280 He she missed, she missed that completely. 274 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:02,520 And she she even thought that that other stuff that she was 275 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:06,360 having that she have was within her own strength or within 276 00:19:06,360 --> 00:19:08,040 herself. Isn't that she thinks she 277 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:10,600 deserved these things. She was entitled to these 278 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:19,360 things. The apostle Paul said in Romans 279 00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:23,440 chapter 6 verse 21. What fruit had ye done in those 280 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:27,480 things whereof you are now ashamed for the end of those 281 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:32,560 things is death. You know, as today and I and if 282 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:35,920 I can apply that in our life today, you know, we all here 283 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,920 sitting here in this in this in this establishment. 284 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,800 We had a pass before we met the Lord. 285 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,520 We were sent we were lost in the sin in trespasses. 286 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:51,000 So we had a shameful, shameful pass which if our to if we were 287 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,600 to sit and with us talk about our past, nobody would want to 288 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:56,320 do that because we would be ashamed to tell people or tell 289 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:59,800 each other about our past. You know, because we are this is 290 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:00,960 what this is what he's saying here. 291 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:03,440 And Gomer? She should have been. 292 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:07,560 A shame of our past, a shame of our activities and what she's 293 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:11,360 doing, but she was not. And because of that, it grieves 294 00:20:11,360 --> 00:20:13,080 God. It grieves the heart of God. 295 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,640 And the children of Israel, they, they were a nation. 296 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:20,200 That's the God. God, God called him a stiff 297 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:24,600 necked people because they would not be, they would not listen to 298 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:26,280 God's prophet. They would not listen to God's 299 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:29,040 messages. They would not humble themselves 300 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,000 in the sight of God. And then they were doing all the 301 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,760 things that they wanted to do. You know, they wanted to worship 302 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,160 their idols. You know, sometimes we think we 303 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:42,560 think the blessings that God has given to us and we glorify idols 304 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:47,080 with it. Now listen to listen to this. 305 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:52,640 Sometimes we think the blessing that God has given us and we 306 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:57,880 worship idols with those things instead of using those blessings 307 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:02,000 that God gave us to glorify his name, to honor him with him. 308 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:06,480 Instead, we take those blessings and we ratify idols with it. 309 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:13,840 Let me explain. For example, here we see and and 310 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:18,200 the go with me to chapter chapter 2 of the book and 311 00:21:29,460 --> 00:21:31,460 and chapter 2. Look at verse 7. 312 00:21:31,980 --> 00:21:35,020 Verse 7 says and she shall follow after her lovers. 313 00:21:36,620 --> 00:21:38,060 She shall follow after her lovers. 314 00:21:38,620 --> 00:21:45,240 Why and verse and verse and chapter and verse 5. 315 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:48,200 Look what it says. For their mother had played the 316 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:51,000 harlot. She that conceived them had done 317 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,240 shamefully. For she said I will, I will go 318 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:59,800 after my lovers that give me my bread, my water, my wool, my 319 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:04,120 flags, my oil and my drinks. Now think about this. 320 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:08,280 God was God, it was Hosea that was providing her with these 321 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:10,880 things. It wasn't her lovers, it wasn't 322 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,960 the idols. It was Hosea that provided with 323 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,640 these things. But instead she was, she took 324 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:20,880 these things and give them and give the, the, the glory that 325 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,480 belongs to God to her lovers instead. 326 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:28,240 And therefore This is why God was very upset with the children 327 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:33,000 of Israel because they were taking the glory that belongs to 328 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,600 God and give it to the and give it to idols. 329 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,720 All the praise was given to idols as opposed to God. 330 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:44,960 Now this is a nation that God has chosen for himself from the 331 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:47,760 very beginning, that has chosen the children of Israel for 332 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:52,760 themselves to be a special people, to be a people that God 333 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:57,000 can use to reach the entire world, to be a people that God 334 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,720 can, can, can use to, to, to bless the world. 335 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:04,600 And God has done that. You know what though? 336 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,680 The children of Israel behave the way I behave. 337 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,600 And here on Hosea, God still move forward and being faithful 338 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:13,000 and keeping the covenant that he made. 339 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:21,520 And we can see that here in verse and verse and verse 7 and 340 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,880 chapter 1. God says what I will have mercy 341 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:29,640 upon the House of Judah and will save them by the Lord their God 342 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:35,160 and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by 343 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:39,960 horses, nor by horsemen. Now in verse a says now when she 344 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:44,960 had win Loama, she conceived and bear a son. 345 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:55,440 And so in verse 9 then God said God God God said call his name 346 00:23:55,720 --> 00:24:02,160 lo Ami, which means you are my people not my people, and I will 347 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:08,200 not be your your God. Now this don't misunderstand, 348 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:13,680 God does not that does not change the the covenant God made 349 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:18,600 with Abraham God, God doesn't change God we made we made the 350 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:22,120 same no matter what. But I believe what God is saying 351 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:24,120 here. I believe as I was with as I was 352 00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:27,280 studying this, this is what I get out of it is that God is 353 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,440 saying that you said you know my people. 354 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:35,600 You say I'm not your God, you know and so we look at here. 355 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,360 It says that this is that yet the number of but look, look 356 00:24:38,360 --> 00:24:40,840 what God says in verse 10. Yet the number of the children 357 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:45,080 of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be 358 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:50,440 numbered, which not we cannot be measured nor numbered. 359 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,120 And it's how it come to pass that in the place where it was 360 00:24:54,120 --> 00:24:59,280 said unto them, you are not my people there it shall be said 361 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,160 unto them, you are the sons of the living God. 362 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:06,920 See, God does not change. We change the truth of Israel 363 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:08,440 and the book of Hosea. They change. 364 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,920 They took, they took the love of God, the, the, the, the, the, 365 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:17,920 the, the, the, the compassion of God as Goma here has done to to 366 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:21,000 Hosea. They took the love of God, the 367 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,160 compassion of God and for granted. 368 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,840 And they used that instead of worshipping God instead of 369 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:30,480 instead of being being faithful to God, they are more faithful 370 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:35,040 to the idols and their wealth. And so therefore they miss they, 371 00:25:35,120 --> 00:25:37,760 they missed the boat. They, they, they, they really 372 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:42,360 grieve God by committing committing such act. 373 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:59,490 Let's turn to look with me on verse chapter 2, verse 8 through 374 00:25:59,490 --> 00:26:04,600 verse 8 says for she did not know that I have given her corn 375 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:08,680 and and wine and oil and multiply her silver and gold, 376 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:15,080 which they prepare for bell. God was the one doing the 377 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,000 blessing. You know, sometime we, we, we, 378 00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:20,920 we achieve something in our lives and we think, oh, well, we 379 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:24,160 can give out. We can puff ourselves out or, or 380 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,080 we can call so and so and say, let's say someone this on for we 381 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:28,880 can we can just pop somebody out. 382 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,240 It's easy for us to pop somebody out because why we can see that 383 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:38,160 person, you see, But we need to be careful that when God blesses 384 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:43,440 that we give him the glory that we, we, we, we are sure to make 385 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:47,840 sure that God get the glory. God get the, the, the praise for 386 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,920 the things that we achieve. Because it is God that gave us 387 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:56,320 our corn, our oil, our, you know, our, our, our, everything 388 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,640 that we need. We we, we cannot take the the 389 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:03,280 blessing of God and give it to us and you know, and use it to 390 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:09,480 worship and praise idols. And lastly 391 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:36,490 and now back to chapter 1 chapter verse 11 says, then 392 00:27:36,490 --> 00:27:39,530 shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be 393 00:27:39,530 --> 00:27:43,810 gathered together and appoint themselves one head and they 394 00:27:43,810 --> 00:27:48,600 shall come up out of the land for great shall be of the day of 395 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:52,360 Jezreel. So now God is is is is is is is 396 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:58,280 is saying is saying, Hey, I am willing, willing to forgive your 397 00:27:58,280 --> 00:27:59,960 sins. Just turn to them. 398 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,520 Just turn away from them. Come to me. 399 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,680 I have God is showing compassion here. 400 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:09,600 That is showing. Listen, I will, I will not only 401 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:16,720 he says he will and verse and verse and verse 7 and he says 402 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,400 that he would multiply it and he would protect them. 403 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,120 He would he would, you know, love them. 404 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,280 But look what he says here in verse 11. 405 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,440 He says the children of Judah shall be there shall be a known 406 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,640 1. So God was going to bring God 407 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,920 bring the God's going to bring the, the Israelites. 408 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,920 It's kind of the north and the and Judah, the kind of the South 409 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:42,200 together under one head. And that day is coming. 410 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,160 And I believe this is spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ when he 411 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,360 reigned. Not only that Judah and Israel 412 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,360 will be one, but we also will be there. 413 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:58,520 We also will be the the child of God and the Kingdom worshipping 414 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:03,520 God together. I believe when as I as I with 415 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,800 the Bible, I see the there's a mystery. 416 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,080 I'm sure all of you probably see that there's a mystery that God 417 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,600 is trying to show us. And it's from the very beginning 418 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,000 that God, although God has chosen the children, Israel to 419 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:20,480 be this one nation, it wasn't because God favors them over 420 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:24,040 everyone else. It was because God has a plan. 421 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:29,320 And this plan was that through them He wished, he wished the 422 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,960 entire world. But even though they fell, even 423 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,480 though they they did not achieve what God has updated for them to 424 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:38,760 achieve, God still went by way of Christ and achieved that for 425 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,520 us. You know, one day we are going 426 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:45,480 to be one of the one, we are going to be the children of God 427 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:49,200 sitting, sitting before the throne of God, worshipping God 428 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:51,880 because of what? Because this is what this is the 429 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:53,960 mystery. The mystery is that one day 430 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:59,560 Israelites and Gentiles would be 1 body in Christ. 431 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,360 And this is what I get from that verse. 432 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,720 Anybody don't think so, just come to me, let me know. 433 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,000 But this is what I got from that, from that verse that that 434 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:15,920 the Lord Jesus Christ will will, will bring all nation to himself 435 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:21,040 and we will all be 1 and, and the one leader on one, one King, 436 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:28,880 one God worshipping together. You know, it's, it's it's 437 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:33,960 amazing how God uses something as marriage to to describe the 438 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:39,200 disobedience of disobedience of of the sure of Israel or, or or 439 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,920 the unfaithfulness of Gomer to to Hosea. 440 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,640 You know, marriage is the first institution that God has has 441 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:52,000 created and we all know that is it is a sacred thing for God and 442 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,440 God respect marriage God, God interested marriage for a 443 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,480 reason. And God marriage is a picture of 444 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:02,440 of our relationship with God. That's what it is. 445 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,880 It is a picture of our relationship of God's children, 446 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,960 relationship with God. And This is why it's important 447 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:15,160 that Mary should be kept secret. And we see Gomer here when she 448 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:19,880 went out and, and commit adultery and she and she, she, 449 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:24,760 she did not acknowledge the fact that Jose was the husband, that 450 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,280 that was given her all the stuff that she needed that was keeping 451 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:32,720 her satisfied and, and giving her all the attention that she 452 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,320 needed. But she felt that she had to 453 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:39,000 when she had to when I was tired of that to satisfy ourself that 454 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,520 grieves God because marriage is a sacred vow. 455 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,120 When you take a sacred vow before God. 456 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,680 We need to keep it all right, let's pray. 457 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:54,280 Father, we want to thank you and praise your Lord for tonight up 458 00:31:54,280 --> 00:32:00,040 the Lord that you would use what is being said and in our hearts 459 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:05,080 and that you would help us to see exactly Lord, what you you 460 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,760 have like you said to us Lord, and maybe put this into 461 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:09,520 practice. Lord. 462 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,600 I do pray, Father, that you would help us to be committed to 463 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:19,240 you Lord, and not to anything else because that you are the 464 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:24,480 guy that loves us and has given us life and have Lord saved us 465 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:28,320 from us from our sins. And Lord, we need to be 466 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,200 committed to you and be faithful to you. 467 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,920 Help us to just to do just that. We love you in just name, Amen.