Hosea 14:4 "I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them." All of the rebukes from Hosea to the people and this is how He reassures them in the end. Man o man have we been wayward. So wayward that we cannot even do right if we…
Love & Joy 1:9-10 "And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ." 1:25-27 "Convinced of this, I know that I will remain,…
This is the order: Call. Obedience. Revelation God reveals Himself in response to your obedience.
v. 4 They make many promises, take false oaths and make agreements; therefore lawsuits spring up like poisonous weeds in a plowed field. ‘make many promises’ is two words together, meaning ‘they speak a lot of declarations’ or ‘they say a lot of things’ agreements: barrett, oath, vow, this makes me think of all the…
Hosea 10?É¬Ø v. 5 The people who live in Samaria fear for the calf-idol of Beth Aven. here Hosea shows that God has renamed Bethel (House of God) to the House of Wickedness. The people are worried about their god being taken away by the Assyrians. Can you imagine their fear? “Oh, I hope they…
Idol worship in Hosea 8 v.5 ‘Throw out your calf-idol, O Samaria! My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of purity?’ Israel’s idolatry has made righteousness impossible for them. They can go to the temple and have their feasts and sacrifices, but it does no good-the idols are still in place….
This study started in Hosea 8Jeremiah 11:13 You have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah; and the altars you have set up to burn incense to that shameful god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem. Israel was turned so far from the Lord. He was about to bring affliction…
Hosea 6.6 | word study For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings. * desire: to find pleasue in, to choose, strong attraction to* mercy: hesed, mercy, compassion, what Rahab showed the spies, to treat someone as if a previous relationship existed in which they were close friends, although…
Hosea 4-5?É¬Ø 4:6 “My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.” The same things is happening today, but it need not be God doing some kind of spiritual cleansing. By simply not knowing Him and disobeying Him, people are pouring judgement on themselves through disease, criminal suffering, starvation as a result of greed, addiction, and…
7/31/04 2:34 pm the boys are having their afternoon nap and I’m on the couch typing. Yesterday I read a great thing, but I haven’t been able to write it down until today.I read 2 cor 4:8 “We are …perplexed, but not in despair…” Since I had just heard from work that my reign of…
