Hosea's Story: His Wife (Hosea 2:2-23)

SERMON NOTES

Sermon Series: Seeing Into the Heart of God - Lent in Hosea

Sermon Title: Hosea’s Story: His Wife

Series Big Idea: The more we come to see the depth of our sin, the more we come to see the extent of God’s love

Sermon Text: Hosea 2:2-23

Israel’s Path to Destruction (v2-5)

• Unrepentant sin shames (v3a)

• Unrepentant sin separates (v3b)

• Unrepentant sin severs (v3c)

• Unrepentant sin spreads (v34)

God’s Intervention (v6-15)

• 1st Step: God disrupts our lives (v6-7)

• 2nd Step: God disciplines our sin (v8-13)

• 3rd Step: God draws us back to Him (v14-15)

The Good News of Hosea (v16-23)

God promises four realities that will exist in that day

• 1st Promise: In that day, God will restore His relationship with His people (v16-17)

• 2nd Promise: In that day, God will restore His covenant with His people (v18-20)

• 3rd Promise: In that day, God will restore all His creation for His people (v21-22a)

• 4th Promise: In that day, God will restore us as His people (v22b-23)

SERMON FOOTNOTES

• We are experiencing an “inaugurated eschatology” as God “has already begun that ultimate, final work of new creation” - NT Wright, “Jesus is Coming - Plant a Tree” from Surprised by Scripture (p94)