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Please open or click in your
Bibles to Hosea. We've been considering the minor
prophets in their historical order, as best we can figure.
But this Hosea, he's our fifth prophet that we've considered,
but he's the first in the canonical order of the minor prophets.
So Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, the major prophets,
and then Hosea. Open to Hosea chapter 4. Hosea
4. I will be reading a selection
of verses as a sampling of Hosea, and I will announce each verse
as I go along, so you can flip through the pages and stay with
me, seeing that what I am saying is really there on the page.
You know, that's always important. It's always important to be sure
the pastor is saying what's actually there in Scripture. So I will
point these out, but if you're a note-taker, let me tell you,
you don't need to write all these down. They're in the bulletin
insert. All the verses I'm going to be reading here in a moment
are already listed there in the bulletin inserts. Also, if you
fall behind, you can glance there and catch up with me. So let's
begin in Hosea 4, verse 5. And I will be offering some comment
along the way. Hosea 4, verse 5, where it says to Israel, I
will destroy your mother. Verse 6, and since you have forgotten
the law of your God, I will forget your children. That's harsh. Organized crime has long known
that if you want to hurt a man, you don't hurt the man, you hurt
his family. The quickest way to get somebody
to do what you want them to do is to threaten their family. And here God has said, I'm going
to destroy your mother and forget about your children. Flip over
to chapter 5. Isaiah 5. I'm going to look at
verses 11 and 12. Ephraim is oppressed. Quick comment there. Ephraim
is the largest tribe in the northern nation of Israel. And so it is
a part of speech known as a metonymy, where you take a little bit of
something and use it to speak of the whole thing. We will sometimes
talk about Moscow. The news reports talk about Moscow
doing this or that when they mean the government of Russia.
Or Beijing did this or that when they mean the government of China.
Ephraim stands for the northern nation of Israel. Ephraim is oppressed, crushed
in judgment because he was determined to go after filth. But I am like
a moth to Ephraim and like dry rot to the house of Judah. Like a moth doesn't sound all
that terrible at first reading, but it is a reminder that things
go bad. You put it away. I've had this
experience. You put that wool suit away for
the summer and come back in the fall expecting to have a nice
suit to wear, and it's got holes in it because the moths have
gotten to it. Some of you know that I've been
doing some remodeling in my house, and I tore open a corner of the
house to find it's all rotted away. This moth, this rot, God
is destroying Israel. And notice he says, I am the
moth. God is destroying Israel and Judah from the inside out. Verse 14, I will be like a lion
to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. Jesus is the Lion of Judah, a
common metaphor for him. I'm sure we all assume that means
that he will defend Judah, that he will rise up and attack those
who attack her. But listen as he goes on. Even
I will tear and go away. I will carry off and no one shall
rescue. Flip over to chapter seven, Hosea
seven, beginning in verse 12. I will spread over them my net. I will bring them down like birds
of the heavens. They didn't have shotguns back
then to hunt. They would use these nets, these
weighted nets that they would fling into a flock of birds and
trap some of them. And it was a horrible experience
for the bird, its wings tangled in the net and broken, its bodies
wrenched. God is going to do that to his
people. Verse 13, woe to them, for they have strayed from me.
Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me. Verse 16, their princes shall
fall by the sword. Chapter 8, verse 5. My anger
burns against them. Now, we know that must be a mistake,
right? That's a typo in the Bible. You know, we know that the ancient
manuscripts are, there's a few places where they're damaged,
and this must be one of those places. It must be damaged here,
right? God's anger burns against sin,
not against the sinner. I mean, if there's one thing
we know, it's that God hates sin, but He loves the sinner. No, there is no textual damage
here. My anger burns against them. Verse 13, as for my sacrificial
offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the Lord does
not accept them. Marriage counselors will tell
you that if a couple comes in yelling at each other, screaming
at each other, there is some hope, because at least they're
talking. It's when they will not talk,
when one ignores the other, or both ignore each other, that
that marriage is in serious trouble. And God says, I ignore your worship. I want no part of it. Same verse. He will remember
their iniquity and punish their sins. What is the great hope
in Scripture among the psalmists and among the prophets? That
God will no longer remember our sins. Recall not to mind, O Lord,
my transgressions. And here we see that he will
remember their iniquity and punish their sins. They shall return
to Egypt. Again, they will be slaves. Verse 14, I will send a fire
upon Israel's cities, and it shall devour her strongholds. Notice, it does not say that
a fire will arise. I will allow a fire. I will let
the Assyrians know. God says, I will send the fire. Chapter 9, flip over to chapter
9, verse 3. Ephraim shall return to Egypt. Again, they shall be enslaved.
And they shall eat unclean food in Assyria. That doesn't seem
like much to us. They're going to eat unclean
food in Assyria. We say, well, what's the big
deal with that? So they have to have a bacon cheeseburger. So
what? But remember, this was the marker
of their identity. This was the outward sign of
who they were. Their dietary laws were a big
deal to them. And what's being said here is
that when the Assyrians haul them away into captivity, they're
going to lose their identity. They're going to lose their status. The inward reality that they
are no longer the people of God shall become the outward reality
that they will lose the markers of themselves as the people of
God. Chapter 9, looking at verse 6.
Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver. Thorns shall
be in their tents. If you are familiar with your
Bible, this ought to bring to mind Genesis chapter 3. The curse upon Adam. The curse wherein God says to
him that thorns and thistles will arise and entangle you and
ensnare you. That the curse of sin is now
coming upon God's people in a profound way. Verses 11 and 12, still
in chapter 9. Ephraim's glory shall fly away
like a bird. Now listen to why, how. no birth,
no pregnancy, no conception. Even if they bring up children,
I will bereave them till none is left." Again, loss of identity,
loss of who they are. There will be no children to
carry on the family name. Death is terrifying, being utterly
forgotten for all of eternity. Even more so. Staying in chapter
9, looking at verse 14. Give them, O Lord, what will
you give them? Give them a miscarrying womb
and dry breasts. Let the women miscarry. Let there
be stillborn children throughout the land. But if one of them
should happen to survive and be born alive, then let him starve
to death at the breast of his mother, which are dry. This is astounding language. That God is going to rain his
wrath down on their babies. Of course, it recalls what he
said back in Exodus and repeated in Deuteronomy. I am Yahweh your
God, and I am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the
fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of
those who hate me. Still in Hosea 9, looking at
verse 15, I will drive them out of my house. I will love them
no more. Verse 16, even though they give
birth, I will put their beloved children to death. It's hard to read in Joshua where
Joshua is commanded to go and to wipe out entire villages of
the Canaanites, man, woman, and child. This is even harsher. These are the people of Israel,
and God is saying he's going to kill their babies. verses seven and eight. Samaria's
king, and a reminder, Samaria is the capital city of Israel,
so this is another metonymy, the capital being used to speak
of the entire nation. Samaria's king shall perish like
a twig on the face of the waters. The high places of Avon, the
city of Israel, shall be destroyed. Thorn and thistle shall grow
up on their altars, and they shall say to the mountains, cover
us, and to the hills, fall on us. Again, the curse of sin upon
Adam. is brought to the people of God.
Hosea 10, verses 14 and 15. The tumult of war shall arise
among your people, and all your fortresses shall be destroyed,
as Shalom destroyed Beth-Arable on the day of battle. Mothers
were dashed in pieces with their children, thus it shall be done
to you. Some 150 years after Hosea was
written, an unknown psalmist would sit in exile in Babylon
and pen the 137th Psalm, which closes like this. Oh, daughter
of Babylon, blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rock. It's a terrifying and horrible
picture, but now Hosea is applying it to the mothers and children
of Israel. Hosea 11, verse six. The sword
shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates,
and devour them. Hosea 13, verse eight. Mosiah
13, verse 8, skipping over a couple chapters. I will fall upon them like a
bear robbed of her cubs. I will tear open their breasts,
and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast
would rip them open. Verse 14. It's going to sound
familiar to you. Verse 14. Shall I ransom them
from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from death?
O death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my
eyes. Hosea 13-14 is quoted by the
Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15. Two weeks from today, on
Easter Sunday, churches around the world are going to read 1
Corinthians 15 to talk about the resurrection, and they're
gonna read this, where Paul quotes this from Hosea, where he says
in 1 Corinthians 15, O death, where is thy sting? Paul quotes
it ironically. Paul is quoting it to say, look,
the sting of death is gone because of the resurrection of Christ,
but in here, in Hosea, do not read Paul's reading, get back
into Hosea. This is not being said ironically. This is God saying to death,
bring out your sting. Bring out your victory. When
I say to Becky, where is your frying pan? I'm not asking ironically,
ha ha, you don't have a frying pan. It's because I want to put
it to use. God says in Hosea 13, 14, O Death,
where are your plagues? I have need of them. O Sheol, that's the underworld,
where is your sting? I'm gonna put it to work. Compassion
is hidden from my eyes. And Hosea 13, 16. Samaria shall
bear her guilt. Not, I will remove her guilt.
Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she hath rebelled against
her God. They shall fall by the sword, their little ones shall
be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open." This is the God of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, speaking to the biological descendants of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob. Are we hearing What is being
said? Does it rattle us at all? I've taken these in the canonical
order, just so it would be easy to flip along, but I left one
of them out of order. Go back now to Hosea 9.15. Turn
back in your Bibles to Hosea 9.15. And put away every distraction for
this moment. Do not talk to the person next
to you. If you're at home, shoot a cat
away, put down the coffee. If you're here, ignore what's
around you. Don't worry about taking notes in this moment.
But hear Hosea 9.15. Let it fall upon your ears and
heart. And hear the word of God that
says this. In Gilgal, there I began to hate. God says of Israel, I begin to
hate them. Almighty God, fearsome and awful,
tremendous and terrifying, these verses from Hosea shake us. They scare us. We do not want
you to hate us. Teach us through these verses. Teach us through the prophet
Hosea. Show us how we can avoid all that is portrayed here. Amen. Jesus loves you. There may not be a phrase that
is more familiar in the church than that one. loves you. In fact, the church has so regularly
and routinely proclaimed it that it is a phrase that many outside
of the church know to be true. I was most recently reminded
of this being our, for lack of a better term, mantra of the
church. I don't love that phrase, but
anyway. When Becky and I were out for a run the other night,
we were running on the rail trail there in Easton, And on the black
asphalt of the rail trail, in pink chalk, was written out the
words, accompanied by some butterflies and some rainbows and some flowers,
were written out the words, Jesus loves you. So this child, I'm
assuming, knows that to be true. But why do we? On what grounds
do we just randomly say that to anyone and everyone? On what grounds? Now, if the
child had written, Jesus loves me, well, that may be true. But to just randomly declare
to anyone and everyone, Jesus loves you, there's a problem. The selected Psalms we read,
our Old Testament reading, our New Testament reading, All were
chosen because they have a thread through them. Did you catch it?
It is the word hate. The Psalms, the Old Testament
reading, and the New Testament reading all include the word
hate. And what's interesting in them
is that it's not hate for something abstract. It is hate of people. Even the Proverbs, the Old Testament
reading, begins, there are six things the Lord hates, even seven,
begins with the list of sin, a lying tongue, haughty eyes,
those sorts of things, but it ends with God's hatred for the
specific people. Look back in your bulletins to
page five. Verse 19, God hates a false witness,
the actual person who testifies falsely, who breathes out lies,
and one who sows discord among the brothers. That list may begin
with hate for abstract things, but it ends with God's hate for
people. So why do we feel free to just
say to anybody randomly, Jesus loves you? In our study of the
Book of Acts, we commented on the fact that the word love does
not appear anywhere in Acts. And not one sermon of the apostles
was a proclamation that Jesus loves you. And in fact, most
of the sermons of the apostles were the other way around. You
have made God very angry. The Jesus whom he sent, you crucified. You better get your house in
order. You had better repent now. In one of our study of the minor
prophets so far, did Obadiah declare to Edom the love of Jesus? No. What about Joel's depiction
of the day of the Lord? Is it a love fest? Was Joel's
depiction of the day of the Lord all about the warm fuzzies and
the cuddlies? It was about a locust plague
destroying God's people's land. And Jonah, you know, he went
to Nineveh and he preached the love of God, right? 40 days and Nineveh will be destroyed. and the intensity we saw in Amos
last week. That was because he was really
worried about proclaiming God's love. No. It was because he was
proclaiming God's wrath. On what biblical grounds do we
say Jesus loves anyone and everyone? It is unwarranted. Let me say that again. There
is no biblical warrant No scriptural basis for just randomly saying
to anyone and everyone, Jesus loves you. In fact, Jesus hates
a lot of people. Until we come to grips with this
biblical truth, we're going to doom a lot of those people to
a first-hand experience of that hatred. What of the Pharisees? Is Jesus
just overflowing with love for them? You whitewashed tombs? You brood of vipers? And Judas? Does Jesus say, well,
I'll forgive him. It's all good. I love him. No,
Jesus says it would have been better if he had not been born. Woe to you, scribes and Sadducees.
Does that sound like love? Woe. It's not whoopee. Whoa. Turn your Bibles to Revelation
chapter 19. Revelation 19. We're going to begin at verse 11. Revelation
9 verse 11. Oh, 19. Thank you. Revelation 19 verse 11. Pay attention. Follow the details, pay attention
to who's here, who this is. Then I saw heaven open and behold
a white horse, the one sitting on it is called Faithful and
True. Okay, it's God. And in righteousness
he judges and makes war. Well, it's gotta be the God of
the Old Testament, right? That's who judges and makes war.
His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many
diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself.
He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood. Wait a second. And the name by which he is called
is the Word of God. Who is the Word of God? It is
Jesus. And he comes, listen to how it
goes, and the armies of heaven arrayed in fine linen, white
and pure, were following him on white horses. From his mouth
comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. And he will rule them with a
warm, fuzzy kindness. He will rule them with a rod
of iron. He will tread the winepress of
the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. On his robe and
on his thigh, he has a name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Skip forward to verse 21. The
intervening part is the war that breaks out between Jesus and
the forces of heaven and the forces of the beast on earth
and the evil forces. In verse 21, and the rest, not
the beast, and the rest were slain by the sword that came
from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and all
the birds were gorged. wish with their flesh. Turn back
to Hosea. That is not a picture of a love
of God. That does not fit with God's
own definition of love. Love is patient. Love is kind.
It does not envy. It does not boast. It is not
proud. It does not dishonor others. It is not self-seeking. It is
not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs. This is not a picture of God's
love. And what do we do? Where does
this leave us? The Bible says God is love, pastor.
Yes, it does. First John, chapter four, twice,
God is love. But God is also holy. Because he is holy, he will not
tolerate sin. And until we come to grips with
that, until we understand God's holiness, we will not fully understand
His love. Now, God is not hate that is
not inherent to who He is, but hate is a possibility because
of holiness. Alfred Nobel did not create dynamite
to be used in bombs. He created it for the mining
industry and the construction industries, so they could dig
pits and holes faster. But in a world where international
hostility exists, and in a world where dynamite exists, bombs
are going to be made. So it is with God's holiness.
God is not hate, he is not inherently hateful. But in a world where
God is holy and sin exists, hate is going to happen. Look at Hosea 4, verses 1 and
2. Hosea 4, verses 1 and 2. There is no faithfulness or steadfast
love and no knowledge of God in the land. There is swearing,
lying, murder, stealing, and committed adultery. They break
all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed. This is the opening
salvo of God's charges against Israel. And from chapter 4 through
chapter 13 is a list of God's charges. And we've read a bunch
of the consequences of those charges. God's hatred exists
because the people are sinful. He is love, but he is sin. holy, and because he's holy,
because there is sin, hatred is a real possibility. We've got to come to grips with
this. We've got to understand this biblical reality. This idea
that God hates sin but loves the sinner is either unbiblical
or all of these passages of scripture I just read are unbiblical. One
of those two things must go. The two cannot coexist. If we understand God's hate,
if we look around us, we realize that it is only in light of God's
hatred that the world makes any sense. There really are only
two logical, internally coherent, self-consistent interpretations
of our world. One that almost nobody holds
to, and the few who do try to hold to it end up committing
suicide. One is the realization that there is no God, the world
is completely amoral, there is no right or wrong, there is no
standard, there is no justice, there is no hope, and that everything
is just random Chance. Not even the atheists hold to
that. The other view is this. There's
a God and he hates sin. Hates it. This word that we don't
allow our children and grandchildren to use. Oh, don't use that, honey.
God hates sin. It's only in light of that that
the world makes any sense. How can storms like Katrina and
Sandy devastate millions of people? Oh, we might chalk up the shooting
in Atlanta. You know, that's on us. Yeah,
we did that. But how do you chalk up a storm?
A Christmas tsunami? Was it 20 years ago or whatever
that was? COVID. How do we make sense of that?
If God exists, and He doesn't have any hatred in Him, then
why is He letting these things happen? And if He can't do anything
about it, then is it God worth trusting in? If He can't do anything
about COVID, what makes us think He can do anything about our
eternal situation? The only logical thing, the only
thing that makes sense, is that God hates. Stop and think about what happened
to Adam in the garden. He didn't cheat on his wife.
He didn't murder anybody. He wasn't a child pornographer. He took a piece of fruit. And for that, God said, you will
die. God hates sin. And he hates sinners. God hates sin. The second part,
you go, wait a second, Pastor, I get the first part, he hates
sin, but he hates sinners? Yes. God does not, in the end, send sin
to hell. On the fields of war in Revelation
19, it wasn't the bodies of sin that the birds were gorging on.
It was sinners. People. Flesh and blood human
beings are gonna go to hell. where there is no mercy, no compassion,
no grace, nothing but the wrath of God poured out against them
as sinners for all eternity. God hates sinners. And we have
got to come to grips with that. With that said, now we go back
to the beginning of Hosea. Now we go back and look at Hosea
1. And now we come back and we understand how this passage opens
up and who this minister is. You know, when we think about
Hosea 1, You know, we have a tendency to say, I want a preacher like
me, I want a pastor who understands me, who can relate to me, who
gets me. And at least in the case of Hosea,
this may not be true of every minister all the time, but in
the case of Hosea, God said, nope, I want a minister, I want
a preacher who understands me, who understands me as God, what
I'm going through, what my situation is like, what my relationship
with my people is. and therefore we find in Hosea
1-2, we read these words. When the Lord first spoke through
Hosea, here's the opening, here's his call to ministry. This is
not, think about Isaiah's call. In the year the king Uzziah died,
I saw the Lord high and lifted up, seated upon his throne, and
the train of his robe filled the temple. No, here's Hosea's
call to ministry. Go, take to yourself a wife of
Hordah. and have children of whoredom. For the land commits great whoredom
by forsaking the Lord. So he went and took Gomer the
daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. Do not read verse three as proof
that it was his biological child. Just the opposite. Verse two
tells us it probably isn't. Or we don't know, at least is
the point. In verse three, She's bearing him a son in the legal
sense. They're married, therefore it's
his kid. But the whole point of verse 2, children of whoredom. You're not going to know if you're
the father of your own kids, Hosea. Welcome to the ministry. Verse four, and the Lord said
to him, call his name Jezreel. Jezreel was a place of bloodshed. It was the place where Ahab and
Jezebel, those evil kings of Israel, had been slaughtered.
So Jezreel conjures up a time of God's judgment against evil
people. And there's the name of your
firstborn child. God kills the evil. Verse five, she conceived again
and bore a daughter, and the Lord said to him, call her name
No Mercy. No Mercy. Hebrew, Lo Ruhamah. Lo meaning no, or it's the negative. Ruhamah, mercy. No Mercy. That's the name for your daughter.
We use names like Faith and Hope for our daughters. We will name
them things like Charity. When's the last time somebody
named their daughter No Mercy? But this is how Hosea was to
name his little girl. And then we see, where am I? I lost my verse. Verse eight.
When she had weaned in no mercy, she conceived and bore a son.
The Lord said, call his name, not my people. Lo, Ami. Ami is my people. Lo, the negative. Not my people. That's quite the
baby list of names. Place of death and judgment,
no mercy, not my people. Then in chapter 2, verse 1, say
to your brothers, you are my people, and to your sisters,
you have received mercy. Looking back, what has happened
to you now? Verse 2, plead with your mother.
Plead. For she is not my wife, and I
am not her husband. that she put away her whoring
from her face and her adultery from between her breasts, lest
I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and
make her like a wilderness, and make her like a parched land,
and kill her with thirst. Upon her children also I will
have no mercy, because they are children of whoredom. For their
mother has played the whore, she who conceived them has acted
shamefully. This metaphor Hosea's marriage
is so that Hosea can understand God. So that the prophet can
go, I get it, Lord. I get what you're going through.
I married this woman. I gave her a chance. I went down
to the temple of Baal where she was chained up as a cult prostitute. And I freed her from that life
of abuse. from that life of being treated
like property. And I loved her. Despite that,
she wandered. For me, children, I can't even
be sure they're mine. I get it, God. I get what you're
going through with Israel. I understand. It's why Hosea
could preach the rest of this book the way he preached it.
Because he understood what God was going through. I get why
you hate these people. Because all I can feel in my
heart for my wife right now is disgust and hate. She has treated
me horribly. And we turn over to Hosea 3.
Hosea 3. A passage that James Montgomery
Boyce, a pretty good exegete, a pretty good expounder of scripture,
Hosea chapter 3, he calls the greatest chapter in the Bible. Look at it. Follow with me. I'm
sorry, Hosea 3. And the Lord said to me, go again,
love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress. even as the Lord loves the children
of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of
raisin. So I bought her for 15 shekels of silver and a homer
and a lethic of barley. She has returned to prostitution,
and she is enslaved in it. Just as many prostitutes today
are essentially owned by their pimps, she is owned by the temple
where she is a prostitute. She walked away from the good
life that Hosea had offered her, back into the life of sexual
slavery. But verse three is still there. I said to her, you must dwell
as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore.
or belong to another man. So will I also be to you. For the children of Israel shall
dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice
or pillar, without ephod or household gods. Afterward, the children
of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God and David
their king. And they shall come in to fear the Lord to his goodness
in the latter days. Let me close with this illustration.
Dr. Barnhouse. long time pastor up
at 10th Press in Philadelphia during the middle of the 20th
century, shares a story about a man who came in to him and
said, Dr. Barnhouse, I have a terrible past. I came to know the Lord
later in life, and I lived a rough, rough life before I became a
Christian. But I have yet, I've met a woman,
a lovely Christian woman, and I want to marry her, but I am
afraid of how my past is going to affect our relationship. And
Dr. Barnhouse agreed. to meet with the two of them.
And so they invite the woman in, and the man pours out his heart
to this woman that he wants to propose to. And he lays out all
the disgusting, sinful, terrible things that he had done. It's
a tough story. She looks up her eyes, and she
looks up and says, listen, I know my Bible. And I understand that
you've been made a new creation in Christ. I understand that
you are a new man. But I also understand that the
old man will still be there till the day you die, entangled with
you, wrapped up in who you are. And I get that you're going to
be tempted. And I get that you're going to be dragged down. And
I get that you are probably going to fall. And when you do, you're
Instincts in this world are going to tell you to hide it from me,
to keep it from me. Don't hurt her. Don't tell her. I want you
to do that. I want you to come to me. I want to help you through this.
Because I love you. I love you. And I love the new
man that Christ is making you, but I love the old man that is
still there. And I will help you. And the man turns to Dr. Barthaus
and says, well, if love like that won't keep down the straight
and narrow, nothing will. We have been bought with a price.
Not because we were good or pure or wonderful or nice, but because
despite how much he hated us, underneath all of that was a
love that said, go after them, pursue them. buy them back, redeem
them from their iniquity, and make them yours. The ministry
of Hosea is a reminder that God hates sinners, and yet He still
redeems them, and loves them, and makes them His own.
Hosea: God's Hate
Series Light in the Darkness
Salvation has no meaning until we realize that Jesus does NOT love everyone.
| Sermon ID | 323211257496589 |
| Duration | 43:11 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday Service |
| Bible Text | Hosea 1:1 |
| Language | English |
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