00:00 Welcome and Introduction

00:14 Women's Bible Study and Pastor's Wife's Sermon

01:19 Men's Activities and Pizza Plans

02:55 Discussion on Hosea and His Message

04:57 Hosea's Life as a Parable

08:54 God's Judgment and Hope for Israel

10:15 Anticipating the Millennial Kingdom

10:43 Hosea's Story of Hope

12:31 Israel's Present Depravity

14:32 Judgment on Judah and Israel

14:59 Future Hope and Restoration

18:53 The Depth of Israel's Sin

21:05 Concluding Prayer and Reflections

Good morning and happy Saturday.

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We hope that you're starting

your day off with the word and

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the daily Bible podcast while.

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If they did start off with the

word they're certainly here.

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Yes, because they're listening.

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Yes.

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They're hearing our words right now.

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So welcome.

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Got to have you back.

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Yeah, we are glad to have you back.

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It is Saturday and today's women's

Bible study and pastor, rod, why

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don't you tell us what's going on?

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Women's Bible study.

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Well, I am pleased to let you

know that my wife is preaching.

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Maybe even right now,

as you listen to this.

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Well, if you, and if you're a male,

because if you're a female, I hope that

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you were at the women's Bible study.

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Yeah, she's preaching today.

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She's doing gentleness in

the fruit of the spirit.

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So I'm excited to hear how that goes.

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We've been, she's been

working on it for weeks.

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Um, we have a very similar

approach to our sermon prep.

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Like we'd like to start as early as

possible and just get all the stuff done.

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And so she's been working on this

for four weeks now, so I feel like.

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She'll be relieved when it's over.

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And I know she's been pumped to do that.

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She's been preparing all

week long, obviously, as

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she's been doing VBS as well.

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So she hasn't had as much time this

week, but she's really excited for this.

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I'm sure.

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It's going to be great for

her and for everybody else.

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Yeah.

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So ladies, if you are within earshot

of this and you're not there already,

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hopefully you're on the way there or yeah.

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Uh, or, uh, yeah, be there,

be square down, right.

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No, it's going to be awesome.

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We're excited.

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And, uh, just a blessing for

us to have wives who are gifted

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and able to, to do these things.

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It's, uh, uh, something that

we don't take for granted.

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And I know that, so indeed,

excited to hear how that goes.

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Men are going to be out at founders

classical academy, again, up at the church

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because we have tear down this morning.

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And so during women's Bible study

men, if you're available, we

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are going to be at the church.

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We're going to be tearing down

VBS and getting the church ready.

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For church on Sunday morning,

which the silver lining in that.

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Is that we won't have to do

set up on Sunday morning.

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That's going to be pretty awesome.

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Okay.

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I believe is to get everything back to.

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Yeah.

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Well, of course, Saturday.

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Why wouldn't we want to do that, right.

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Right.

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Well, thank you for whoever's

about to show up to that.

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We greatly appreciate that.

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Yeah.

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In mark is coordinating childcare.

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So I know our ladies are going to be at

women's Bible study, but I believe some

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of the teen girls are going to be there

at the church to watch the kiddos so that

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the men can be free to show up to help.

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Oh, yeah.

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Brilliant.

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And I think we're getting pizza.

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Oh man.

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Now you've that's it, it gets better.

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That is it from Costco?

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I think so.

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Probably.

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Only way you can improve that.

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If the pizza was from mountain

Mike's, that's the only way

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you can improve this plant.

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I don't know my mix, but okay.

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Fair enough.

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Mountain Mike's is phenomenal.

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Yeah, that's one of my, it's

my, probably my favorite.

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No, not my favorite.

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It's one of my favorite pizzas.

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Yeah.

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And I thought they were only California.

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I found that there's there's

locations here in north Texas.

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Yeah.

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I like Marcos.

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We do markers.

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Yeah, Marcos is good.

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I don't know that one.

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Data is that local, uh, I

think they have other places.

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I think they haven't been

marked in California, too.

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M a R C O S I, yeah.

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I've never heard of them also.

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There's one in Salina.

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That's in like the basement

of one of the older buildings.

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Oh, Jimbo's Jimbo's.

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That's good.

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I haven't tried it.

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It is.

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They have a Sunday brunch buffet thing.

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I've been wanting to do that.

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Someday sometime, sometimes

you're busy on Sunday.

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So occasionally.

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Yeah.

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I feel like every now and

then I have an open Sunday.

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Well, All right.

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Well, let's jump into the word.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Uh, Hey, parents just heads up.

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This is not a PG book of the Bible.

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Yeah.

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So how would you describe that word

to an underage young man or woman?

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The word that we're going to

be trying to dance around.

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Yeah, I think unfaithfulness, um, On a

fateful, you know, As moms and dads are

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called to be faithful to one another.

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Yeah.

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And that means that they have

a relationship with each other.

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They don't have relationships

with other people's moms and dads.

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They're just good way

to put it up and here.

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Jose Jose, his wife is going to

go and have a relationship with

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somebody else's mom and dad.

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Or den, and that's not a good thing,

not a good that doesn't smile upon that.

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A wife of unfaithfulness, right.

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Let's use that.

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Fair enough.

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That sounds good.

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Anyways.

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Uh, yeah, so we get into Jose who is Jose?

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Jose is probably from

the Northern kingdom.

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We just don't know a lot about this guy.

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the son of Berry.

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Well, who is beer?

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We don't know.

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We don't know who beer he is.

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Um, he prophesied during the

reigns of, of in Judah Ukiah.

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Jotham a has and has a Kia.

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And then in Israel from Jeroboam

the second, all the way through the

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end, all the way through Jose Hoshi.

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So, uh, Hosea is probably

from the Northern kingdom.

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We can't pound the pulpit

on that one though.

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We don't know.

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Uh, he's a contemporary

of Isaiah and Micah.

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Uh, second Kings 14 through 20

and second Chronicles, 20 60, 32

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kind of formed the background to

a lot of what he is talking to.

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And speaking into is real.

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At this time is experiencing peace and

prosperity, and yet at the same time,

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moral depravity and spiritual bankruptcy.

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So it's a.

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It's a bad scene in Israel.

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We just read about, remember yesterday,

the fall of the Northern kingdom,

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this is one of those situations we're

backing up again, before that we're

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backing up before the fall of the

Northern kingdom to catch up with a

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lot of what Jose is going to speak

to the Northern kingdom specifically.

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Kind of like a last ditch effort.

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I mean, God's giving them another as a

hail, Mary and God knows ultimately in his

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sovereign purposes and in his Providence,

this is not going to be effective,

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but this is showing the heart of God.

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Yeah.

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He's merciful.

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He wants him to hear, he wants

him to see again, knowing that God

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still has his plans and purposes.

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This shows that God has

a tender spot for them.

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He wants him to respond.

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Yup.

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So the first three chapters really

contain the majority of the parable.

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And it's a parable, not in the

sense that this didn't happen.

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This, this, all of this stuff did happen.

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These are historical events, but it's,

uh, it's God using Hosea's life much.

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Like you remember, we talked about Isaiah

taking his clothes off and walking around.

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Here, God's going to do something

similar with Hosea and make his

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marriage, uh, uh, a parable for the

people that are watching and listening

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and paying attention for this.

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But the way that the first three

chapters work, there's a pattern to it.

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And so the pattern goes like

this it's a B one, B B, one.

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And so that's super confusing, but here's

what that means a is Hosea's story.

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Okay.

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So Jose's story is, is

one of, of judgment.

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B, uh, is Jose his Oracle of judgment,

his message of judgment, but then

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mixed in there's part of his message

of hope and his story of hope.

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So it's kind of, it flashes back and

forth as we go through these first

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three chapters where Jose is, is.

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Communicating through his marriage,

to this woman of unfaithfulness,

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uh, God's judgment, but then also

the hope when he goes back and

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retrieves her and brings her back.

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So we'll get into the text,

but there's a back and forth.

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It's not all condemnation

through the first three chapters.

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There's some hope that

sprinkled in there as well.

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Well, what's the device called

that you just described.

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That is called a word that is

escaping my memory right now.

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Qiagen is what you said.

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Yes.

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And that's something that we tend to see.

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I mean sprinkled throughout scripture,

sometimes we can probably over oversee it.

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Right.

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And maybe we can go crazy with

it, but this chaotic structure

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can be found in other books.

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So this is something that we

should keep in mind, right?

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Yes.

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Yep.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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So let's jump into the text.

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If that all went over your

head, then I apologize.

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And probably shouldn't

have even gone there, but.

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But it's again, it's in the Bible.

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It's there.

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I guess it's helpful to see

it because the, usually the

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centerpiece of that Stick structure.

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The emphasis is the emphasis.

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Exactly.

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That's why it's important to know.

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Right.

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And in this case it would be his message

of judgment that's that's coming.

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And so it's all kind of leading

to that centerpiece, this

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message of judgment there.

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Was it chapter one

verses two through nine.

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You hear the prophet is commanded

to marry an immoral woman, a woman

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of unfaithfulness, and to not only

marry her, but have a family with

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her to have children with her.

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Uh, who themselves are going to

be associated with her immorality.

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And that seems to tell me that she wasn't

necessarily an immoral woman right.

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Beforehand.

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Uh, but he married her and then

afterwards she became this.

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It's worse.

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I think, I think so.

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If you go, if you go into it,

knowing, okay, she's been unfit now.

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It's no, she could have been.

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A totally normal faithful

woman and then things change.

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Oh heartbreaking.

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Yeah.

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So he has these three children in

the first one is a son named Jezreel,

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probably a nod to Ahab in first Kings 21.

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He, he took vineyard there in Jezreel.

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Ahab was one of the most

wicked Kings of the north.

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And so.

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There's some confusion as to

what particular this is about,

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but everybody concludes.

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I mean, this is about God's

judgment coming upon Israel.

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With, with Jezreel here.

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And then second, he has

a daughter who he names.

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No mercy.

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Which is an unfortunate name to have, uh,

because the Lord was not going to show

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mercy to Israel any longer, and this was

going to be so also with Judah, uh, for

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this would not be so father would you

to, because Judah is the true kingdom.

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So we will show mercy there,

but not with the north here.

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And then third, he has a second son

who he names, not my people as a

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representation of really, of God's

divorce from the Northern kingdom.

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Like you said yesterday, after the

fall of Israel, Israel is done.

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There, there is no more Efraim.

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There's no more Northern kingdom there.

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And so God is severing that

relationship in, in that sense, there.

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Um, then the chapter one ends.

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Verse 10 and through chapter

two, actually, first one.

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Uh, God's not going to

wash his hands completely.

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There's going to be a remnant that

is still going to remain and that

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remnant will eventually thrive again.

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And once again, be called

the children of God.

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So there's the hope that,

that peaks out there as well.

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I, the word that comes to mind as

I redo chapter one is severity.

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The severity of God.

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Paul talks about it.

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Talks about this in Romans chapter 11.

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Uh, where he talks about God's

kindness and a severity, but

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here I just see severity.

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God is to be feared.

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He's a God who will judge,

especially those, his P his people.

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He cares that they be pure.

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He cares that they'd be right.

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And again, even though we're looking at

Hosea we're new Testament, Christians,

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we're not under the same covenant.

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This is still the character

of God on display.

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Yeah, it is.

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It is.

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Well, Jose chapter two

verses two through 13.

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This is the Oracle of judgment

that we were talking about earlier.

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And this is the judgment

against his people who had

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committed spiritual adultery.

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And so that's the, the, the

metaphor that's taking place.

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He, that's why he told Jose aunt Mary,

this woman, who's going to be unfaithful

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to you because Israel has been unfaithful

to the Lord and through joining themselves

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to foreign nations in foreign gods.

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Uh, they had attributed even beyond

that God's provision and gifts to pagan.

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Uh, providers and in God had had enough.

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He was done and judgment was decreed.

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His judgment would come and,

and still it's couched in a

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plea though, for repentance.

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You said this last ditch effort.

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And so look at Hosea two.

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Uh, verse two.

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And we see that there, that

she put away her unfaithfulness

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from her face and her adultery.

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And so he's, he's calling on Israel,

still look, listen, plead with her plead

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that she would do these things that she

would repent and that she would come back.

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So a last-ditch effort perhaps.

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To say, Hey return, come back.

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Stop being unfaithful.

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Verse eight talks about the way

that idolatry deceives us into

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thinking that it is providing

the good things that we enjoy.

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When God's saying, look, I'm the one

who gave you what you wanted, right?

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I'm the one who provided for you.

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And I think that's just as true today as

it was back in Jose's time, sin deceives.

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It makes us think that we

rely upon it, that we need it.

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But in reality, God's

the one who's lavishing.

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The good gifts upon us.

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Never forget that.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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Verses 14 through 23, then in chapter

two, we get the hope as the prophet

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looks forward to the promises of God

that he would restore his people.

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And his relationship with them.

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This section is really anticipating,

depicting the great millennial kingdom

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and the covenant peace that God will

have with Israel during that time.

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And just a kind of a tip as you're

reading through prophetic sections.

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If you get to a place where

you're like, wow, wait a minute.

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Everything seems to be really good.

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All of a sudden everything's all the

bad things that he was talking about.

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Don't seem to be here anymore.

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And it seems to be talking about

a time when everything's great.

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Chances are good.

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You're you're reading a passage.

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It's about the millennial kingdom.

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It's looking forward to

that reign of Christ.

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And that's what we find

here in chapter two as well.

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Chapter three, then

verses one through five.

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This is Jose.

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A story of hope.

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Jose here is commanded to retrieve

his wife from this other person.

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Uh, and, and to take her back, restoring

her as his wife in an illustration of what

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the Lord was offering to do for Israel.

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What an amazing.

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Picture of what it is for God

to, to bring us back to him.

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Um, and, and that's what

I kind of take away from.

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This is our own faithfulness, right?

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I mean, it, it ultimately cost him his

son in order to provide the way that

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we could repent and return to him, but

still like, Just that, the thought of

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what Jose had to go through in the.

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The willingness to do that out of a

love for the one that's unfaithful

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and that's, that's incredible.

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And, and God, even more

so, because I don't know.

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We're not told if Jose

truly loved this woman.

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Hmm.

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But God loves us in spite of it.

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And so he may have just been doing

this because God told him to do this.

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I wonder I, I, yeah, I get that.

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I would suspect given the fact

that he's a prophet of God, God

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calls him to certain things.

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I think he wants to do what God wants.

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I would suspect that if God's

trying to create the parallel,

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the para bowl, as much as he can.

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Jose is going to love her.

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Gomer is, is that your, my

wife I've given my life to you.

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And so I, I would suspect given

the way that God is trying to have

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him reflect his heart, I would

suspect that he did love her.

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And that this was a powerful display

of God's affection for Israel

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because of how Hosea pursues, the,

the wife of his youth, his bride

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is beloved in that very, very mid.

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Well be, but even then he loves her

because God has commanded him to write.

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Versus God's love for us is

completely self-initiated he?

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No, one's telling God, Hey, sin

Christ to die on the cross to

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redeem this on faithful people.

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God did that.

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Of his own accord.

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His he's his love for us is so vastly

beyond anything we can even imagine.

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But yeah, I can see what

you're talking about there too.

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Yeah.

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Undeserved love for sure.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Chapter four begins with this

prolonged section describing

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Israel, present depravity.

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So here we are.

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We're we're out of the

hope we're back in the.

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The unfaithfulness.

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So just to be quick here.

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For you guys, as you're listening

along chapters one through three

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that's, one section that's one unit of.

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Uh, thought one area and now

chapters four through 14.

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If you're trying to kind of

outline the book in your head four

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through 14 is the rest of the book.

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It's kind of a neat outline

chapters, one to three part one

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chapters four through 14 part two.

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There you go.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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So second part is, is quite longer.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But it opens with this prolonged section

describing Israel's present depravity.

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This is the sinfulness.

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This is who they are.

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This is their.

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They're adultery, so to speak.

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And so verses one through 19.

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Efraim is in view in this passage in her

sinfulness is depicted in the provity

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specifically of her priest who had

failed to teach the people and instruct

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them in the knowledge of the Lord.

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God was going to judge everyone

for their lack of knowledge

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and their great a dollar tree.

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And so he's, he's coming after

the, the religious leader saying

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you guys have failed miserably

and as a result, Verse six.

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My people are destroyed for

a lack of knowledge because

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you've rejected knowledge.

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It's not because it wasn't available

is because they did not seek it

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and they did not apply it the way

that he had commanded them to that

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extend to shiver down your spine.

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Yeah.

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I feel this I regret is not

to us, but it is for us.

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And I see this as one of our chief

responsibility, obviously it's

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I don't want to see it this way.

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This is the way scripture defines it.

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Describes it.

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If you're a part of a church, your

pastor's jobs are to apply and

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instruct you in the word of God.

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That's our job.

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We're supposed to teach you this.

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And if we don't do that

shame on us, we're bad.

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Shepherds.

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This is just as true in Jose's

time, and this is why God

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holds the standard so high.

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And granted you could argue the standard

is, is not all that extraordinary.

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And Titus chapter one first,

Timothy three, the standards for

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being an overseer or an elder.

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Our kind of common or ordinary

as some have observed.

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Uh, I think of Don Carson, da

Carson, who talked about the.

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The description or the qualification

of a pastor being kind of

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normal, they should be normal.

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And so anyway, all that to say, God holds

a standard high our job as a teacher, your

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job is to be listeners and to be appliers.

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And when we work together,

good things happen.

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But when they don't work together,

This is what you end up saying.

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Yup.

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Y'all chapter five, then

verses one through 15.

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In this chapter, we find that the sins

of Efraim had also infected Judah.

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And so we're, we're seeing

the Southern kingdom now.

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That it's it's bleeding down

into the south and judgment was

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going to come upon all Israel

from Dan to Beersheba, basically.

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In other words, from the north

all the way to the south.

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Uh, those who had been faithless to the

load would suffer his judgment regardless

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of whether they were part of the

Northern kingdom or the Southern kingdom.

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So this is kind of our first glimpse here.

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Into the fact that man judo,

something's coming for you too.

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And you better buckle up.

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All right.

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Chapter six then, uh, there's going to

come a day verses one through three when

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Israel will return to the Lord again.

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So we're flashing back to the hope.

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And that day is going to be again,

that future millennial kingdom.

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And so note, uh, chapter six,

verse two is not a reference

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to the resurrection of Christ.

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Uh, with the, the time, uh, some of

have looked at that and said, oh,

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two days, and then the third day,

and then he's going to raise us up.

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Maybe that's anticipating

the resurrection of Christ.

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I don't see that here.

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I think that's pressing something.

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Uh, a little bit too far.

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And instead, what, what I think this

is is that, that the end is not the

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ultimate end, that there's still a future.

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There's still a hope in that

it's going to be that, that

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eventually God is going to restore.

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Uh, his people to their, their place

with him, into his affection for them.

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So if you read that and you

go, oh, is this anticipating

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the resurrection of Christ?

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I don't see that there.

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I don't know if PR if

you do, but I wouldn't.

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I would agree with you.

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I would agree with you in that.

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And I was going to ask you though, could

you explain the reasoning, how you think

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about that to make you say, oh yeah.

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That's probably not that, even though

it seems like it, and maybe for a novice

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Bible reader, they might be tempted to

say, oh, I wonder if this is pointing.

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Just like you're saying.

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What about the text itself?

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What about the wording or the verbiage

gives you the sense that this is probably

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not that well, part of it is a text

can never mean what it never meant.

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Um, And, and that that's hard because.

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There's sometimes the divine

author supersedes the, the

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knowledge of the human author.

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And so the human authors

writing one thing and the divine

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author means something else.

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But here, I think just contextually,

when he's talking about the

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first person plural, he will

revive us on the third day.

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He will rise.

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Raise us up.

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That we may live before him.

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I he's talking about Israel.

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In the resurrection of

Christ, we was not us.

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We weren't participating in that.

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Uh, in fact that was a total God

thing that he did, that we get the

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benefit from the results of that.

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But, uh, but we weren't being raised

up together with him in, in that sense.

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Um, but.

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Even there, man.

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Somebody could preach it and go

to Roman six and say, we've been

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buried with him by his death.

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The resurrection.

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Again, the same thing.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, you would still say no.

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Yeah.

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So here's the thing that history doesn't

repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

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Maybe this is a rhyming scheme that God,

you know, skillfully employees knowing

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full well, what he's going to do in 2000.

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Or not 2033.

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Uh, but I would agree with you,

is it probably asking too much of

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the text to say, you're talking

about the resurrection, aren't you?

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Right.

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Probably not.

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Right.

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But we could see how

someone might go there.

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And I think the other reason why is,

again, contextually, we're talking

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about the millennial kingdom and.

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The, the resurrection of Christ

and the advent of the millennial

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kingdom, we're still waiting out in

the advent of the millennial kingdom.

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I mean, those two things are so

far separated from one another.

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I think it presses it too hard to see

them connected to each other here.

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Over-interpreting right.

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That's what we'd call that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But some great passages in this

text, like verse three, let us know.

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Let us press on to know the Lord.

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I love that.

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I love that rallying cry.

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Let us press on to.

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No the Lord that that should

be our desire as well.

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Is going out, as sure as the Dawn, he

will come to us as the showers, that

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future hope there, that, that the

prophet is holding out verses four

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through 11 in the present though.

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Both Judah and Ephram had expected the

religious systems to stave off judgment,

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but the Lord would have none of it.

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They were going to suffer

for their faithless idolatry.

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So they're going through the motions.

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Is not going to work.

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In other words, I really.

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I really gravitate toward verse six

because of the parallel he makes here.

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He says, I desire steadfast

love and not sacrifice.

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Um, that would be line a, of this,

uh, of the parallelism line beat.

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The knowledge of God,

rather than burnt offerings.

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So if you're looking at your Bible verse

six of chapter six, Steadfast love and

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knowledge are parallel to one another.

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They're put together as speaking to

the same thing as sacrifice and burn

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offerings, speak to the same thing,

which tells me that knowledge of God.

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If it does not possess or

produce steadfast love is

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not genuine knowledge of God.

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This is what God wants.

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He wants our steadfast love, but that

love is not hanging in the air detached

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or a part from the, the anchor of

God's word, which tells us who we is.

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Knowledge of God must.

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And it needs to produce steadfast love.

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If not, it's fall short

of what God desires.

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Yeah.

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Chapter seven.

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Uh, chapter seven is again the Northern

kingdom in view in this chapter that

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indicts them for their pride and the

refusal to repent and seek the Lord.

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Uh, verse two, they do not consider that.

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I remember all their evil now their deeds

surround them and they're before my face.

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And so chapter seven.

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Is another look at verse 10.

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The pride of Israel testifies to his

face yet they do not return to the Lord,

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their God nor seek him for all this.

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The picture there, I think is

one of Israel looking in the

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mirror and seeing their pride.

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And their pride is testifying to

their face of what their problem is

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yet rather than seeking the solution.

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They still won't return to

the Lord nor seek him in.

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In all of this.

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They cry do not cry for me from

their heart verse 14, they whale

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upon their beds for grain and wine.

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They mash themselves.

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They rebel, they hate their

circumstances, but in their bold.

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Uh, sinfulness, they will

not return to the Lord.

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I think all of us have

experienced a toddler like that.

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If you've had a toddler before the

toddler hates the punishment and

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it hates the situation, but they,

and they hear mom and dad saying,

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Hey, this is what you need to do.

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And you can be released from

your, your discipline there.

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And yet they won't do it.

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Yeah.

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A few of us.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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My word, not like that.

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Really?

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Yeah.

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They came out, doing

everything we said, okay.

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I was going to lead a parenting class.

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Yes, father.

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Yeah, that's awesome.

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Yeah.

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That's where I was going to lead that.

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And, uh, don't come to me for that.

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Verse 15 says all the way trained

and strengthen their arms, that

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they devise evil against me.

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It's like that whole sense of, ah,

I'm using the very gifts you gave

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me two pound to pound you with.

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I'm going to kill you with the things

that you intended to bless me with.

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That's terrible and terrifying that

any human heart could go to that

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degree of a vitriol against God.

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And yet that's the, that's

the depth of our depravity.

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None of us are.

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And I want to say none of us, many

of us are not as bad as we could be.

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We're not there, but it's possible, which

is why you have to Proverbs chapter four.

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For 23 guard your heart above all else

for, from it flow the Springs of life

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because you're capable of this Christian.

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It may not be the same because

you guys don't have the spirit.

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I get that, but your

heart is capable of evil.

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Even in a redeem sense, you must be on

guard and guard your heart with the word

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of God and not be like a silly dove.

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I mean, if freedom is like a diverse 11th

silly and without sense, don't be flighty.

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Don't be all over the place.

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Anchor yourself to God

and his word know him.

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Love him.

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That's the, that's the result.

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Don't be a silly to have.

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Don't be a silly duck.

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Don't be our new tagline.

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And let's pray and then we'll

be done with another episode.

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God, keep us faithful to you and

not like, uh, Israel on faithful in.

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We are thankful for the

cross because all of us.

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Uh, do you fail in that regard?

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From time to time.

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And yet we are so grateful for.

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Uh, your mercy and your grace,

which are inexhaustible, and that

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we can always come back to you.

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We can always repent.

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We can always seek forgiveness because

of Christ because of the cross.

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And so I pray that it

would be quick to do that.

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That would keep short accounts with you.

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And that we would be faithful to

you each and every day of our lives.

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We pray in Christ's name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep your Bibles and tune in

again tomorrow for Sunday's

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edition, the daily Bible podcast.

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We shall see you then back.