Hosea

God’s Purpose in Hosea’s Ministry:

1.    God asks Hosea to marry a prostitute by the name of Gomer.

a.    Hosea 1:2 

2.    To illustrate the kind of people the Israelites have become. 

3.    To illustrate the kind of God that God is

Overview of Hosea:

1.    The need for the knowledge of God. 

a.    Hosea 4:1 

2.    The lack of the knowledge of God’s Word.

a.    Hosea 4:6 

3.    The Lord loves those He disciplines and blesses those who acknowledge Him.

a.    Hosea 6:1-3 

4.    The Lord wants relationship, not religion; adoration, not obligation; love, not duty. 

a.    Hosea 6:6 

5.    The Lord won’t cover over what we cover up.

a.    Hosea 7:1-3 

6.    The Lord warns about living a “mixed life.”

7.    The Lord warns about transgressing against His Covenant.

a.    Hosea 8:1-6

8.    The Lord warns about forgetting about reaping what we sow.

a.    Hosea 8:7 

9.    The Lord warns that a divided heart is a defeated life.

a.    Hosea 10:2-12

b.    Hosea 11:1-11

c.     Hosea 12:1-8

d.    Hosea 13:1-11

Take Aways:

1.    Like Gomer, we are all guilty of unfaithfulness to God.

2.    God never stops loving us. He takes an active role in pursuing us.

a.    Hosea 3:1 

b.    Jeremiah 31:3 

c.     Hosea 2:14a 

3.    Sometimes the wilderness is the only place we can really hear God.

a.    Hosea 2:14b 

b.    Hosea 1:10b 

c.     Hosea 14:7-9