Hosea's Sermon: Knowing God (Hosea 4:1-6:3)
SERMON NOTES
Sermon Series: Seeing Into the Heart of God - Lent in Hosea
Sermon Title: Hosea’s Sermon: Knowing God
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 4:1-6:3
Opening Argument (4:1-3)
Israel invited with three charges (4:1):
No faithfulness to God
No steadfast love of God
No knowledge of God
First Charge: No Knowledge of God (4:4-8) - Old Testament Reference: 1 Kings 13:33-34
The Impact of Sin (4:9-19)
Communal Impact of Sin (4:9-13a)
Generational Impact of Sin (4:13b-14) - Old Testament Reference: Deuteronomy 6:4-12, Judges 2:10
Relational Impact of Sin (4:15-19)
The Consequences of Sin (5:1-14)
Sin leads you away from freedom and into slavery (5:3b-4)
Sin leads you away from God and into danger (5:5-7)
Sin leads you away from peace and into conflict (5:8-11) - Old Testament Reference: 2 Kings 16
Sin leads you away from stability and into destruction (5:12-14)
The Good News of Hosea (5:15-6:3) - Old Testament Reference: Deuteronomy 30:1-3, 1 Kings 8:46-53
SERMON FOOTNOTES
“Dear Eric, Sunday morning and you’re getting ready to lead your congregation in worship - present them to God, present God to them.” - Eugene Peterson, Letters to a Young Pastor: Timothy Conversations Between Father and Son (p6)
“God is neither a ‘what’ nor a ‘thing’ but a pure ‘Who.’ He is the ‘Thou’ before whom our inmost ‘I’ springs into awareness.” - Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation (p13)