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A Pageant of Recovered Love - Hosea 2-3

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Are you running from circumstances that appear hopeless? Are you feeling the tugging on you heart that you can't quite understand? Well these all may be the prompting of the Holy Spirit of God to get your attention. Hosea and Gomer had a marriage that was difficult and full of impossible issues but God had a purpose for it all. Their marriage was a picture to the people of Israel of how we should not treat God. Gomer had freewill and made a bad choices but Hosea stayed faithful in the midst of it all…, why? Because Hosea listened to the grace of God and was sustained. You may be going through difficult times, circumstances of hardships, but if you listen to the prompting of God you will be sustained, but if you reject His promptings you could suffer and take the wrong paths. God will demonstrate His love to you in every way but it's up to you to recognize it and choose whom you will serve, God or man.

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A Pageant of Recovered Love
Hosea 2-3
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Are you running from circumstances that appear hopeless? Are you feeling the tugging on you heart that you can't quite understand? Well these all may be the prompting of the Holy Spirit of God to get your attention. Hosea and Gomer had a marriage that was difficult and full of impossible issues but God had a purpose for it all. Their marriage was a picture to the people of Israel of how we should not treat God. Gomer had freewill and made a bad choices but Hosea stayed faithful in the midst of it all…, why? Because Hosea listened to the grace of God and was sustained. You may be going through difficult times, circumstances of hardships, but if you listen to the prompting of God you will be sustained, but if you reject His promptings you could suffer and take the wrong paths. God will demonstrate His love to you in every way but it's up to you to recognize it and choose whom you will serve, God or man.
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Minor Prophets in the Major Leagues

Minor Prophets in the Major Leagues

Why do we call Jonah, Amos, Obadiah, Malachi and the others the "minor" prophets? It certainly isn't because their messages were less important! Prophets are like people holding a wire from heaven and wire to the earth, with God speaking through them. At times, God used these unique men to proclaim His truth, or to denounce men's sin, or to predict the future, both near and far-off. Other times, He used them to show His truth by demonstration, through events in their lives. In this in-depth series, Pastor Skip Heitzig presents important truths about these little books with big messages.

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Chapter one of Hosea is really about rejected love and Chapter two is about the faithful love to one who is not faithful. Hosea has been rejected by his wife Gomer, a prostitute. God was painting a picture to Israel of how Israel was treating Him in rejecting God with idolatry. Hosea was under prescribed stress, all of it designed by God. For God needed to demonstrate to the people of Israel how a nation of idolatry will end up. God is going to give promises to these people but only if they stay faithful to Him but first God will have to get the point across to them by some very stern words and allow things to happen to them. God allowed the Assyrians to come and take them away and then God said, "You are not my people", God rejects them and then God extends this love back to them with mercy.

Often times we are much like the people of Israel and Hosea. We often need to be shaken and turned up-side-down all in an effort to show mercy to a wayward people. God will extend mercy and allow hardship in order to get you to think of what is really going on in your life. God's grace is seeking to bring those to Him and if that means breaking us then so be it for God knows our frame that we are but dust and God showed us grace by sending His Son to the cross. So, will we put aside such a loving God who is so interested in us that He sent His Son to die for us?

Hosea's marriage was a demonstration to the nation of Israel of loving mercy and grace, to a people who were treating Him badly. God will send many people, circumstances and hardships into our life in allowance of His grace and mercy so we may see with our heart, and understand with our mind the condition we are really in. Israel was in a bad condition and God loved them so much that He sent Hosea to display a message of what condition they were about to descend to, and how they were acting toward God and how disrespectful Israel was treating God. But God has ways to bring us to our knees when we won't bend our knees willingly to Him. Israel is often called a people with a stiff neck, unbending, self-willed in the wrong perspective and slow to change her ways, however, God chooses Israel anyway knowing all these things. We are so like this nation Israel when we go after other beliefs and lusts that take the priority of the relationship that we have with God. You see the things of this world offer many fine and great things that tempt many in ways that assault the peace and joy of those who believe and those who don't. We must understand, as Hosea demonstrated, that God will have no other things in place of Him. Gomer's desire was for the material things of the world and she could not see the loving grace of God through her husband Hosea who loves her. Gomer's heart was not for God but for lusts of the flesh instead of the things of God. Gomer could have had it all only if she returned to Hosea and put away her harlotries. God wanted the people of Israel to see this relationship of Hosea and Gomer and make the connection that they were playing the harlot just as Gomer was doing but they failed to see the love of Hosea and how he would take Gomer back. God was still willing to take back the people of Israel and He would stay faithful to them, for God will still seek those who go astray even while they are still running from Him. God still comes with gifts of blessings we don't desire. Hosea came to Gomer, while looking for her with gifts to express his love to her. We should be like God in the unconditional love to those who leave the love they once knew, Jesus, and help to restore their relationship back to God.

We should not be ignorant of the mercy of God for God will not always strive with man so we must pay attention to the things in our life that appear to have a stinging theme as a message from God that He allowed to happen to you. For God knows what you need and will not let you go to a place of no return. For God is able to complete that work which He started in you, He will be faithful to do all that He says. You can rest and rely on that.

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9/20/2006
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A Pageant of Rejected Love
Hosea 1:1-2:1
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All of us have a need to see and understand God. But what does it take for God to get your attention? The book of Hosea speaks of God using the marriage of Hosea and his wife Gomer to depict a demonstration of events to come and cause them to recognize the degradated state the house of Israel was in. God will use/allow any means to get our attention to turn to Him but do we really want that extreme? I hope not, but if that is what it takes then God, because He loves us, will allow just that. If you find many hardships, disappointment and tough times, stop, think and turn to God for He has the answers you seek.
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10/4/2006
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Come Let Us Return!
Hosea 4-6
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10/25/2006
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The Court is Now in Session!
Hosea 7-8
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11/1/2006
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The Righteous Gavel of God
Hosea 9-10
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11/15/2006
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Runaway and Rebellious and yet Restored!
Hosea 11-14
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11/22/2006
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Insects and the Day of the Lord!
Joel 1-3
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11/29/2006
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Famous Amos and His Recipe for Disaster
Amos 1-2
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1/17/2007
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Sermons from the In-Your-Face Prophet
Amos 3-4
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1/24/2007
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The Funeral-Singer
Amos 5-6
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1/31/2007
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Sheepbreeder With an Attitude!
Amos 6-7
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2/21/2007
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The Light and the Glory
Amos 8-9
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2/28/2007
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Obadiah--The One-Hit-Wonder!
Obadiah
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3/7/2007
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The Unprofitable Prophet
Jonah 1
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3/14/2007
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The Prayer of a Prodigal Prophet
Jonah 2
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3/28/2007
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The Angry Evangelist
Jonah 3-4
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4/11/2007
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Micah--Tough & Tender Warrior
Micah 1-2
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4/25/2007
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I've Got Good News & I've Got Bad News!
Micah 3-4
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5/2/2007
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Four Freedoms
Micah 5
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5/9/2007
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What Does God Want?
Micah 6-7
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5/16/2007
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The Sermon Jonah Wished He'd Preached
Nahum 1-3
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6/13/2007
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The Just Will Trust
Habakkuk 1-3
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6/20/2007
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Operation Judgment Day
Zephaniah 1-3
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6/27/2007
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If You Build It, He Will Come
Haggai 1-2
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