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Christ Community Church
The Prophet and the Prostitute
Title: The Prophet and the Prostitute Speaker: Walter Colace Series: Hosea
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Christ Community Church EC Campus
590 W Orange Ave, El Centro, CA 92243, USA
Sunday 8:00 AM
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INTRO: Story of Israel’s history leading up to Hosea
HOSEA’S CALLING: GOD’S PROPHET (1:1)
SPIRITUAL BACKGROUND.
2 Peter 1:21
For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND.
2 Kings 14:23–24
In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years. And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.
In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years. And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.
SOCIAL BACKGROUND
HOSEA’S WIFE: GOD’S PEOPLE UNFAITHFUL (1:2-3A)
GOD’S UNORTHODOX COMMAND
Leviticus 21:7 (ESV)
They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
Leviticus 21:9 (ESV)
And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.
And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.
Leviticus 21:13–14 (ESV)
And he shall take a wife in her virginity. A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin of his own people,
And he shall take a wife in her virginity. A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin of his own people,
HOSEA’S EXTRAORDINARY OBEDIENCE (V3A)
Ezekiel 20:30
“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Will you defile yourselves after the manner of your fathers and go whoring after their detestable things?
“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Will you defile yourselves after the manner of your fathers and go whoring after their detestable things?
In Ezekiel 16
the Lord describes how He made Israel His wife, His bride and then Israel going down the path of chasing things other than God, becoming unfaithful in their relationship with God.
the Lord describes how He made Israel His wife, His bride and then Israel going down the path of chasing things other than God, becoming unfaithful in their relationship with God.
Hosea 5:4 (ESV)
Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not the LORD.
Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not the LORD.
HOSEA’S CHILDREN: GOD’S PEOPLE JUDGED (1:3B-9)
JEZREEL - THE CHILD OF BLOODSHED.
LO-RUHAMA - THE CHILD OF “NO MERCY.”
LO-AMMI - THE CHILD OF “NOT MY PEOPLE.”
Exodus 6:7 (ESV)
I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
Hebrews 10:26–31
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.” It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.” It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
GOD’S PROMISE: HIS PEOPLE RESTORED (1:10-2:1)
GOD WILL RESTORE THE RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS PEOPLE
Genesis 22:17 (ESV)
I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies.
I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies.
Exodus 34:6–7 (ESV)
The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
Nehemiah 9:17 (ESV)
They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.
They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.
GOD WILL RESTORE THE UNITY AMONG HIS PEOPLE
GOD WILL RESTORE THE KING TO HIS PEOPLE.
Ezekiel 37:22 (ESV)
And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.
And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.
GOD WILL RESTORE THE HOMELAND TO HIS PEOPLE
GOD WILL REVERSE THE JUDGMENT OF HIS PEOPLE.
Hosea 14:4–7 (ESV)
I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them. I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon; his shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like Lebanon. They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow; they shall flourish like the grain; they shall blossom like the vine; their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.
I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them. I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon; his shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like Lebanon. They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow; they shall flourish like the grain; they shall blossom like the vine; their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.
Joel 2:12–14 (ESV)
“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster. Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the LORD your God?
“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster. Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the LORD your God?
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