270: Dev Ramcharan – Israel’s Spiritual Adultery

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Welcome to Good Chris Selfie and
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I’m Levi.
And I’m Chris.

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With a short intro beforehand to
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talk you’re about to listen to.
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this week’s talk.
This is Brother Brian.

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This week’s talk is the second
class in a series that was given

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by brother Dev Ramsharan.
On the topic Hosea, from this

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past September in Australia, it
would appear that Brother Dev

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was brought over to give a
number of different talks in

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various places.
So there’s plenty of good

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material to scope out and we
certainly thank the sister who

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sent in these recommendations
with active links hot off the

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press.
That’s very much appreciated.

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Out of all the classes, the
Hosea study was the most

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intriguing to me because the
story on face value is just

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brutal to have to put yourself
in his shoes and imagine what

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that scenario would be like.
So Brother Dev does a great job

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of bringing out all the finer
and more blunt points over the

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series of four classes.
But the second one that we’re

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listening to here stood out the
most, with an abundance of cut

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to the heart, practical
takeaways, and memorable

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analogies and metaphors.
From a study perspective,

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there’s a cool tidbit in here
about the price that Hosea had

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to pay in order to get Gomer
back.

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It being half in silver, half in
barley, and what was the meaning

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of all of that?
But overall, I would suggest

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this class as one that was just
a very powerful take on a very

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harsh story.
Brother Deb reminds us that

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through all of the heartbreak
that Israel put him through, God

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was all the more willing to
show.

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His long-suffering and care for
his people, even to the offering

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of his only begotten son as a
testament of his commitment to

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all of us.
And nothing will separate us

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from his love for us.
So as always, we hope that this

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strengthens your faith and
brightens your day.

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Brother Dev Ramchuran Hosea,
Israel’s.

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Spiritual adultery.
The second chapter of Hosea

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begins with the following words.
Say unto your brethren, AMI, and

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to your sisters.
Ruhama plead with your mother,

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plead for she is not my wife.
So it’s almost as if God is

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saying.
Go tell your son Jezreel to

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stand up and plead a case
against her mother as if his

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mother as if she was in in court
and we were in front of a judge,

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and talk to her about how she’s
living and the way she is

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treating her family and treating
her marriage and through through

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this.
Acted out parable in a man’s

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life, God is showing Hosea and
the nation what it was that

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Israel put him through.
Now when you look at the

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prophets to Israel, they come
right at that end stage the last

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few years of the existence of
the Kingdom of Israel and the

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north.
And you, you would ask yourself

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the question.
Why would God go to the trouble

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when they wouldn’t listen and
just a tiny remnant of them

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would survive?
Why would he go to all this

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trouble?
Why did Jesus offer Judas

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Iscariot the SOP?
He knew he had betrayed him.

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He knew he wouldn’t turn from
what he was going to do.

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He knew that Judas would go all
the way through, and even

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knowing that and knowing that
Scripture had predicted all

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these things, there is Christ
still working with a brother,

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just in case he can turn him
around.

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He did that because that’s the
way God is, because that’s the

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way God was.
With this rebellious people.

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God, God knew them.
He says it right in the chapter

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that was just read for us.
I know your heart, O Ephraim.

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And yet he still sends a Hosea.
He still allows this man to

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plunge into the depths of
heartache and loss.

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All of those things.
Because he loved Israel deeply,

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deeply.
So it goes on in chapter 2 and

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he says, look, you need to do
these things lest I strip her

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naked and set her as the day
that she was born.

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And surely some of you will be
thinking of Ezekiel chapter 16,

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where God represents himself as
walking along and he sees this

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little baby girl.
She still has the umbilical cord

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attached to her.
She’s thrashing around in her

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blood.
She’s just been born and pitched

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out, rejected by the mother that
bore her.

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He picks up that baby in her
nakedness, in her blood, and he

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says live.
And he cares for her and he

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loves her.
And so here he says.

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I need you to talk to her so
that her thinking will change,

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so that I don’t have to put her
back down onto the ground, so

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that she can continue to thrash
in her blood pitched out by the

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people who should have loved her
and looked after her.

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And so he goes on and he says.
As in the day that she was born

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and make her as a wilderness and
set her like a dry land.

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Look at the attitude that Israel
has.

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Israel looks at all of these
lovers that she has, and in the

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context of the passage, it’s
about the gods that she worships

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outside of Yahweh, together with
worshipping Yahweh, that

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horrible, nasty amalgam.
Of religion that she had and it

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says in verse 5 for she said I
will go after my lovers that

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give me my bread and my water
and my wool and my flax and mine

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oil and my drink.
Look at the repetition of that.

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That word, mine, mine.
It’s all about me.

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It’s this thing that belongs to
me that I have, that I’ve gotten

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from my lovers.
And she hadn’t gotten it from

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those lovers.
She’d gotten these things from

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her actual God, Yahweh, her
husband, that she’d spurned.

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And then he goes on verse seven,
she shall follow after her

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lovers.
But she shall not overtake them,

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and she shall seek them, but
shall not find them.

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And just before he says that,
God says I’m good, going to put

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a hedge in place so she can’t
find her lovers anymore.

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God made it hard for Israel to
sin, but she still found ways.

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Now it’s the same thing with us,
isn’t it?

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God puts in boundaries, things
in our conscience, things from

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the word of God, words our
parents have taught us or or or

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or or told us as they were
raising us, the words of our

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brothers and sisters around us,
All these things.

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And yet we still find ways to
sin.

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Every one of us.
We know the bypass, We know how

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to get under, get over, get
around that hedge.

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But God still puts a hedge in
place.

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He still put something in place.
That provides A boundary line, a

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limit, a deterrent to doing
those things we want to do.

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But Israel found a way around
and it says in verse 9.

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Therefore will I return and take
away my corn?

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It was mine.
It wasn’t from the gods that she

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worshipped.
In the time thereof, and my wine

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in the season thereof, and will
pluck away my wool and my flax,

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which should have covered her
nakedness.

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So he corrects all the My’s and
minds, and he says all that

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stuff, all those things, all
that prosperity.

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It belonged to me.
I’m going to take it all back.

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It was the story of a brother
who had everything a person

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could want in this world.
He’d worked hard, he’d

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accumulated it, put it together.
It was his life.

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He was full of it, full of
pride.

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Because of all the things that
he had, it lifted him in his

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mind, above his brothers and
sisters.

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He became unapproachable,
judgmental, hard, critical,

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edgy.
Circumstances changed in his

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life and he lost every penny he
had.

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He was more destitute than the
poorest brother that he knew.

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You know who showed him the most
kindness?

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The people who had nothing.
Nothing at all.

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They took what little food they
had, what little clothing they

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had, and they shared it with
him.

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They gave him a place to stay in
their little tiny apartments,

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and they slept on the floor and
put him in the bed.

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And that brother realized I had
nothing when I had everything,

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and now that I have nothing.
I have everything because now I

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know what my faith is.
Now I I know who my brothers and

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sisters are.
The brother still has almost

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nothing, but he’s happier than
he ever was when he had

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everything.
Israel had everything, she

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thought.
It was hers, she thought.

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People gave it to her that
didn’t even exist.

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God takes that misunderstanding
and corrects it by taking

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everything away from her.
Now these are the things he said

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that he would do to her.
But she didn’t believe what he

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was saying.
She didn’t listen to what he was

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saying, but he still tried.
He still gave her that SOP.

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Hosea, go and talk to her.
Jezreel, talk to your mother.

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People, listen to me.
Take the SOP.

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Do the right thing, change your
ways.

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And so God in the end, would do
all of these things.

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He would take away Israel’s
feasts, festivals, sacrifices,

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temple.
He take away all of that because

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out in the lands in which she
was, he was.

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He catapulted her.
He sowed her like seed strewn

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into the wind, out into foreign
nations.

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She couldn’t worship him.
She wanted to, but she couldn’t.

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She couldn’t keep the feasts,
festivals, fasts, any of those

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things she found.
Everything that was of value was

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taken away from her at that
time.

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And so, as Brother Rodstell was
pointing out to me, there are

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three interesting uses or places
and contexts that the word

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therefore is used something,
something therefore, and then

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something else.
The first one then or one of

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them is in verse.
Six therefore, behold, I will

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hedge up thy way.
So, because she has these

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attitudes, my me, mine, and my
lovers, the idols that I worship

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gave this stuff to me.
Therefore I’m going to put a

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hedge between them and their
ability to worship these things.

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But she wouldn’t have anything
to do with that hedge.

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She found a way around it.
And then in verse 9.

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Verse nine, he talks about.
Therefore, because of the

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attitudes I’m going to take
away, I’ll take those things

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away, but it still doesn’t have
the desired effect.

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And then I put it to you.
The real heart of God comes out

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underneath the discipline,
underneath the correction,

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underneath the terror and
tragedy comes the love that is

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underneath all of that.
And he says in verse 14,

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Therefore the third.
Therefore, behold, I will appeal

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to her, I’ll bring her into the
wilderness and speak tenderly to

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her.
And what God is saying is I’m

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going to take her back to when
she was my young bride.

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I’m going to take her back to
that first little apartment that

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we had, where the only furniture
in the place was stuff we found

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thrown out in front of people’s
homes or that had been given to

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us by brothers and sisters,
where even the curtains were

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given to us by brothers and
sisters.

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Where we had old pots and pans
that didn’t match up, furniture

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didn’t match, but that’s where
we started.

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That’s where our love was young.
And where was the love of Israel

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and Yahweh?
Young.

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And he brought her out of Egypt
into the wilderness, and she

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followed him around through the
wilderness, even as she made her

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mistakes.
And a generation was lost.

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But a generation was gained and
brought, brought into the land

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of promise.
But that was their little

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apartment.
That was their first time

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together as a couple.
God says she won’t respond to

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these other disciplines.
Let me take her back to when she

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was my young wife and see if
that will turn her around, and I

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will give her her vineyards from
thence.

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The Valley of Ayko for a door of
hope.

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Now, yes, he’s talking about how
he’s going to deal with Israel

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at this time, but he’s pointing
forward into the future too,

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isn’t he?
He’s pointing forward to a time

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when Israel will be saved by his
son Jezreel, that he’s going to

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send and look at the wounds in
his hands.

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Ask him about them.
And He will save them with His

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bride, that thundering army on
horses together the word of God

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made flesh and His bride, when
they save the remnant that’s

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left in Jerusalem and Israel.
And and then there will be a

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reuniting again the valley of
Acor, which reminds them of

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Acan.
And what had happened to him and

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the cursing of that man when
he’d stolen the Babylonian

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garment and the bars of gold and
all the things of this world

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that he thought would give him
happiness and just gave him

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death?
And that instead will be turned

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around and Acor will instead be
a door of hope, open for this

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stubborn and resistant.
Nation, verse 19.

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I will betroth thee unto me
forever.

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Yeah, I will betroth thee unto
me.

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With what things, what
qualities, what aspects will

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mark that relationship?
In righteousness and in

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judgement, and in loving
kindness and in mercies.

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I will even betroth thee unto me
in faithfulness, and thou shalt

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know Yahweh.
And so he’s he’s looking forward

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to a time he knows he has to
discipline this nation.

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He has to put them through the
horror of what the Assyrians are

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going to do to them, those
wicked Assyrians.

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But he looks forward to the time
when the remnant of that people

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raised from the grave will be
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With Gentiles to become the
bride of his son and his people

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forever.
So it goes on in this chapter,

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and it says in verse 23.
Now just look at this exquisite

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verse and puzzle it out, he
says.

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And I will sow her unto me in
the earth.

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And I will have mercy upon her
that have not obtained mercy.

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I will say to them which were
not my people, Thou art my

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people, and they shall say, Thou
art my God.

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Now now look at look, look at
that wonderful little sentence.

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And I will sow her unto me in
the earth.

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Well, what does that remind you
of, 1st Corinthians 15?

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The seed sown in the earth, the
dead in Christ in the earth,

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that seed that is sown unto me,
because they’ll be raised and

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after judgement will be God’s
everlasting, ever living

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children.
So God is not just looking and

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what’s going to happen to Israel
as a nation only and what he has

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to put Israel through.
He’s looking forward and pass

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that to the fulfillment of his
promises, his mercies, the

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mercies of David.
He’s looking forward to the time

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when the resurrection has
occurred through his son

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represented by Jezreel.
Go talk to your mother, the

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nation, when they will be raised
from the dead.

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Those people who were sown, he’d
sown them like seed amongst Jews

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and Gentiles to be his children
forever.

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That’s beautiful, that little
verse.

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You have troubles in your life
sometimes, brothers and sisters,

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and just just when you think you
cannot take any more, God adds

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another trial on top of that.
This this man, Hosea had two

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terrible jobs.
He had to preach to the nation

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that didn’t want to listen to
him.

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He had to marry a wife that
would not be faithful to him.

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He had to raise other people’s
kids, and then she left him to

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go and live with somebody else.
Now when that happens, your

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heart is broken into little
splintered bits.

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You wake up in the morning and
you don’t want to wake up.

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You go to sleep at night and you
cannot sleep.

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You go to sleep exhausted.
You wake up exhausted.

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You can barely think.
You can’t work.

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You can barely take care of
yourself.

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But then as time goes by,
there’s a a kind of healing, a

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trigger, a circuit breaker that
goes off in our minds.

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You never get over the loss of
the person you love.

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You just slowly get used to the
fact that they’re not there

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anymore.
That hole is never filled.

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That was them in your life, but
you grow used to it.

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And then you begin to forget the
sound of their voice, and

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sometimes you can’t remember
what they look like, except for

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pictures that you’ve still got.
Now you get to that stage,

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perhaps in your Hosea, and then
Lord God Almighty says to you in

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Hebrew this is literally,
literally what it says.

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Go again.
Exclamation point love

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exclamation, or whatever the
Hebrew equivalent is 2 strong

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ordered commands.
Go again love.

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So what he’s telling him is it’s
not over with that woman, son.

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Commentators do backflips and
all kinds of things that they

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read into a woman loved of her
friend, who is the friend that

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she is loved by, and it’s Hosea.
He never got over that love for

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his for his wayward wife.
He never stopped loving her.

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He he he was without the stress
of her being with him and

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wandering for a while.
But then God said, you have to

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do it like me.
Go.

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Continue to love her.
She is beloved of you and yet

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she is an adulteress.
And this is how you need to love

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her.
What?

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What did Christ say?
I want you to love each other as

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I love you.
And that was a new commandment.

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Well, how was it new?
How was it new that they would

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love each other?
Well, what was new was the

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standard they had.
They had to love each other the

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way Christ loved them.
And they knew what Christ had to

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look past to love them, and he
still loved all of them.

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And God essentially is saying
the same thing to Hosea.

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I want you to love her like I
love Israel.

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That’s what God is saying to
him, according to the love of

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the Lord toward the children of
Israel now.

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So he goes out to find his wife,
and he knows where she is.

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And I want you to just imagine
this.

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He marries beautiful, wayward
young Comer.

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At first she’s faithful to him
like Israel was faithful to God,

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as Jeremiah chapter 2 says.
But then her eye wandered and

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she thought she could do better,
and she spurned him and

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undervalued who he was and what
he was to her.

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And she went out with one man
and another man and another man,

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and of course she was beautiful,
so that could happen.

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And continue until as time went
by.

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She wasn’t beautiful anymore.
She wasn’t young anymore.

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Now, now look what has to
happen.

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I bought her to me for 15 pieces
of silver and a Homer of barley,

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and a half Homer of barley.
Now why this mixture of silver

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and and and a Homer and half of
barley?

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Now of course we might read into
it.

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Silver having to do with
redemption and the sacrifice of

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the Lord Jesus Christ.
The barley once again the grain

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offering, reminding us of the
bread that’s in the bread and

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wine that represents Christ
again.

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And of course it sews things
together when Zama pointed out

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that when you add up according
to what a Homer of barley was

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valued at in the days of the
kings during whose time Hosea

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was writing, this would add up
to 30 pieces of silver, the

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price of a slave.
Why did he give barley and

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silver?
Because he gave everything he

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had.
He had nothing else to give.

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He didn’t have it all in silver
because he didn’t have that kind

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of money.
So he he supplemented what he

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had, all the silver.
He had everything he had to give

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with all the food he had so that
he could redeem his beloved

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sinful wife.
Does that remind you of another

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woman?
Of course it does.

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She’s sitting in every chair in
this room right now.

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The woman that a man gave
everything he had for that you

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might sit in this room and
listen to these words.

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And so he gives everything and
he takes Gomer is broken,

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chastened, demoralized, depleted
woman who is now a slave in

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somebody’s house property,
someone of no value, mistreated

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and abused, and he takes her
back home.

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Would you do that for your wife?
Yes, you would.

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I know you think you wouldn’t.
I know you would be thinking of

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all that she did to hurt you and
said about you and said against

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you did to you.
How she blackened your

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reputation, ruined your name,
how she hurt you to the core.

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How many years it took you to
get over it.

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But when you see her in the
condition she is in, and you

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remember the love you have for
her, how could you do otherwise

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than what Hosea did here for
Gomer and what God did for

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Israel, and what Christ did for
you, How could you do otherwise?

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Now are you willing to do that
for the brother or sister that

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fails beside you in the
ecclesia?

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And the full shame of the bad
decisions or actions they’ve

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been engaged in is out there for
everyone to see?

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Would you do that for them?
Would you do that for your child

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that has bitterly disappointed
you?

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For your brother that you’re
related to?

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For, for your aunt, your uncle
riddled with disease, whose life

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has fallen apart into drugs and
alcohol and all kinds of

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degradation?
Would you do that for them?

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You see, we’re all fine
upstanding, well dressed

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brothers and sisters in Christ.
But every one of these suit

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jackets covers a broken person,
broken because of sin, broken

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because of all the folly and
frailty that we carry about in

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ourselves, in our hearts, in our
minds.

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And sometimes when someone’s
brokenness becomes public, we

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pull back from them, so none of
it splashes up unto us.

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But that’s our flesh and blood.
Isaiah 58 talks about the fact

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that we cannot hide ourselves
from our own flesh and blood.

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When the leper came up to Christ
and said, if you will, you can

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make me clean, he didn’t step
back and say yes, stand back a

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big will you?
Yes.

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Be clean.
He put his hand on him and by

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every tradition and social norm
of Israeli life, rendered

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himself utterly unclean by
touching that man.

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But he touched him so that he
could show you, you’re connected

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to me.
What you have on you that

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everyone can see on the outside,
I have in the nature I bear, and

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I do want to make you clean, and
I do want to treat you with

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honor and respect.
So that man picked up his

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broken, pitiable wife in his
arms, and he took her home.

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And he said to her when he took
her home, Thou shalt abide for

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me many days.
Thou shalt not play the harlot.

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Thou shalt not be another man’s,
And so will I also be for thee.

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For the children of Israel shall
abide many days without a king,

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without a Prince, without a
sacrifice, without an image,

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without an ephod, without
Terrapin.

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And afterwards shall the
children of Israel return and

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seek the Lord their God and
David their king, and shall fear

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the Lord and his goodness in the
latter days.

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And so the this this picture is
not just about a man and what

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God put him through, so he could
understand what it’s like to

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think like God, to feel like
God.

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And you?
Some commentators say you know

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this this business about these
feelings God is expressing.

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Well, that’s not really what God
feels.

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God is trying to explain his
emotions and terms that we

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ordinary humans can understand.
And that’s rubbish.

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Where do you think those
feelings and us came from?

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Mums.
Where do you think your motherly

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feelings came from?
From God?

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From God?
All of these feelings hurt.

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Love.
Sadness.

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Disappointment, elation, joy.
These feelings come from God and

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are in us too.
So God did feel hurt and

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disappointment.
God did feel a deep sense of

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loss.
With Israel, it’s not just that

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He’s talking in language so we
mortals can understand, but

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that’s not really how he feels.
That is exactly what he feels.

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So that means when God saw his
child, his baby, pinned to that

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cross, he felt everything a
father would feel everything.

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Every pang his child felt, he
felt it too.

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So like Abraham and Isaac, they
too went along together.

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And when that great darkness
unfolded around that scene on

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Golgotha, it was God coming
down, some presence representing

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him there with his child.
Just like that same cloud had

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00:36:49,280 –> 00:36:54,480
come down upon Mount Sinai, just
like that same cloud had come

435
00:36:54,480 –> 00:36:57,840
down on the Mount of
Transfiguration, just like that

436
00:36:57,840 –> 00:37:03,240
same cloud had filled up the
temple and pushed the priests

437
00:37:03,280 –> 00:37:08,840
out because of its presence.
He was right there with his

438
00:37:08,840 –> 00:37:19,280
child, feeling every pang with
his child, and that’s how he is

439
00:37:19,280 –> 00:37:26,160
with you.
So I know brother or sister, you

440
00:37:26,160 –> 00:37:30,400
have a hard life.
You have to live, and I

441
00:37:30,400 –> 00:37:34,360
understand the loneliness that
goes with that life.

442
00:37:36,920 –> 00:37:40,480
I understand those long, long
evenings.

443
00:37:42,280 –> 00:37:45,040
Just know that you are not
alone.

444
00:37:46,240 –> 00:37:53,720
That your God is with you, that
your God cares so much for you

445
00:37:54,640 –> 00:37:58,240
and what you feel and what
you’re going through, That he

446
00:37:58,240 –> 00:38:03,720
will never let you go.
He’s always there with you.

447
00:38:06,000 –> 00:38:11,520
Chapter four, he goes through
all the evils of the nation, he

448
00:38:11,520 –> 00:38:14,960
says in verse six.
My people are destroyed.

449
00:38:14,960 –> 00:38:19,720
For what?
For lack of knowledge, because

450
00:38:19,720 –> 00:38:25,440
thou hast rejected knowledge, I
will also reject thee, that thou

451
00:38:25,440 –> 00:38:29,040
shalt be no priest to me.
So this is like the words in

452
00:38:29,040 –> 00:38:34,960
Malachi, where God is rebuking
the priests, and they were to be

453
00:38:34,960 –> 00:38:40,320
the sources of knowledge and
teaching in the nation.

454
00:38:40,600 –> 00:38:44,440
The prophets came and went.
The priests were supposed to

455
00:38:44,520 –> 00:38:50,160
always be there, teaching,
leading, reaching into the

456
00:38:50,160 –> 00:38:52,360
nation, showing them out of the
law.

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00:38:52,360 –> 00:38:57,040
And you know, brethren, that’s
our job today.

458
00:38:57,480 –> 00:39:00,960
And sisters who teach Sunday
school, that’s your job with the

459
00:39:00,960 –> 00:39:05,480
kids.
This is part of what Psalm 78

460
00:39:05,480 –> 00:39:12,840
describes, generation, passing
things on to generations after

461
00:39:12,840 –> 00:39:15,240
them.
And if if we don’t have the word

462
00:39:15,240 –> 00:39:19,240
of God right in the center of
ecclesial life and it’s so easy

463
00:39:19,240 –> 00:39:23,200
for it to be pushed off, you
just just think the ecclesia

464
00:39:23,200 –> 00:39:28,160
gets together, everybody is
playing games, having fun, and

465
00:39:28,160 –> 00:39:30,080
the word of God is pushed off to
the side.

466
00:39:30,080 –> 00:39:33,720
May or may not even be read.
Perhaps if it’s read it’s just a

467
00:39:33,720 –> 00:39:36,360
short passage no comments.
And on to the games.

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00:39:37,280 –> 00:39:42,760
Well, the the the problem is
that’s appealing to flesh if the

469
00:39:42,760 –> 00:39:44,920
word of God is not kept in the
center.

470
00:39:46,680 –> 00:39:51,920
And brothers, you might listen
to speakers travelling through

471
00:39:52,520 –> 00:39:57,800
like, oh, it’s so easy for that
brother to get up there and say

472
00:39:57,800 –> 00:40:00,800
this or that.
I couldn’t do that.

473
00:40:02,160 –> 00:40:06,280
You are making for yourself, The
biggest cop out an excuse

474
00:40:06,280 –> 00:40:13,040
imaginable.
Thousands of hours of Labor.

475
00:40:13,920 –> 00:40:20,600
Are poured by speakers into the
speaking that they do up till

476
00:40:20,600 –> 00:40:24,560
2:00 in the morning.
Your eyes can barely stay open.

477
00:40:25,160 –> 00:40:28,600
You just have to get through a
few more words in the passage to

478
00:40:28,600 –> 00:40:32,920
understand what is this saying?
What does it mean?

479
00:40:33,600 –> 00:40:36,440
How can I bring it out to my
brothers and sisters?

480
00:40:37,240 –> 00:40:42,840
The labour, the backbreaking
labour that goes into study?

481
00:40:43,800 –> 00:40:47,760
It’s not easy for anyone what
what you’re saying effectively

482
00:40:47,760 –> 00:40:51,560
in that cop out is this, oh,
study is easy for some kinds of

483
00:40:51,560 –> 00:40:54,360
flesh.
Are you crazy or something?

484
00:40:54,680 –> 00:40:57,840
Crazy, by the way, is not a
diagnostic term that clinicians

485
00:40:57,840 –> 00:41:00,240
use today.
They don’t say, well, actually

486
00:41:00,240 –> 00:41:03,640
your mother is crazy.
They don’t use that term.

487
00:41:04,120 –> 00:41:07,640
But are you crazy that you think
that we just throw it together

488
00:41:07,640 –> 00:41:10,880
because we’re talented?
There’s no such thing.

489
00:41:11,720 –> 00:41:16,040
It’s all work.
So put in the work.

490
00:41:16,920 –> 00:41:18,880
The priests weren’t putting in
the work.

491
00:41:19,560 –> 00:41:23,120
The truth was lost for lack of
knowledge.

492
00:41:23,800 –> 00:41:28,760
The Ecclesia was falling apart,
perishing without anchor this

493
00:41:28,760 –> 00:41:32,040
direction, that direction and
away and away from God.

494
00:41:33,640 –> 00:41:35,400
And don’t think it couldn’t
happen to you.

495
00:41:37,200 –> 00:41:39,120
Don’t think it couldn’t happen
to your Ecclesia.

496
00:41:40,120 –> 00:41:46,440
So this is an excitation to us.
That’s for us to be able to look

497
00:41:46,440 –> 00:41:52,040
at and learn from.
And then chapter 5 hear this.

498
00:41:52,040 –> 00:41:57,880
So you priests hack in the House
of Israel, O House of the King

499
00:41:57,880 –> 00:42:05,000
gave ear, he says, for judgment
is towards you because you have

500
00:42:05,000 –> 00:42:10,160
been a a snare on this path and
a net spread upon table.

501
00:42:10,880 –> 00:42:14,080
Now he’s using very famous
locations in Jewish history and

502
00:42:14,080 –> 00:42:20,360
he’s saying instead of you being
the kind of people who in those

503
00:42:20,360 –> 00:42:25,080
historical circumstances were
heroes of the nation and helped

504
00:42:25,080 –> 00:42:30,240
to save the nation who trusted
in God, you’re spreading a net

505
00:42:31,320 –> 00:42:36,280
to trap your people like birds
and to kill them, he says in

506
00:42:36,280 –> 00:42:42,080
verse three.
I know Ephraim, and Israel is

507
00:42:42,080 –> 00:42:45,440
not hid for me.
And so brother, that’s that’s a

508
00:42:45,440 –> 00:42:49,840
message to you and me, brothers
and sisters, God knows us.

509
00:42:50,680 –> 00:42:54,920
We might pretend to be one
person to our people at large,

510
00:42:55,320 –> 00:42:57,560
but inside with somebody
completely different.

511
00:42:59,600 –> 00:43:02,560
And what God is saying is you
can’t pretend with me.

512
00:43:03,480 –> 00:43:05,440
You can’t make like you’re
somebody you’re not.

513
00:43:05,440 –> 00:43:10,000
I know you.
I know who you are, with

514
00:43:10,000 –> 00:43:12,840
everything that’s good and bad
going on inside of you.

515
00:43:13,480 –> 00:43:16,360
And I still love you.
And I still love you.

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00:43:17,920 –> 00:43:21,840
And so God talks about the
rebuke He even says in verse 5

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00:43:22,560 –> 00:43:26,200
Judah also shall stumble with
them.

518
00:43:26,920 –> 00:43:32,160
Something about the mentality of
prosperous, sinful, heedless,

519
00:43:32,280 –> 00:43:36,320
stubborn Israel affected Judah
as time went by.

520
00:43:37,440 –> 00:43:39,680
We want to be prosperous like
Judah too.

521
00:43:40,560 –> 00:43:44,360
Maybe what they worship, maybe
the way they live is OK.

522
00:43:44,640 –> 00:43:48,920
Maybe if we’re more like them
we’ll be as well off as them.

523
00:43:49,800 –> 00:43:52,240
And Judah started to slip and
slide.

524
00:43:52,640 –> 00:43:56,640
And God is saying, look, even
Judah is going to stumble

525
00:43:56,880 –> 00:43:58,560
because of you people.
Verse 12.

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00:43:59,080 –> 00:44:03,640
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim
as a moth into the House of

527
00:44:03,640 –> 00:44:05,560
Judah.
As rottenness.

528
00:44:05,960 –> 00:44:08,400
Of course.
That ties up with James, doesn’t

529
00:44:08,400 –> 00:44:11,320
it?
You’re moth eaten gold and

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00:44:11,320 –> 00:44:15,080
silver.
And what he’s saying is this.

531
00:44:15,240 –> 00:44:18,080
It’s the story of that brother I
told you who lost everything.

532
00:44:18,960 –> 00:44:20,080
He says.
I’m going to take everything

533
00:44:20,080 –> 00:44:25,840
away from you now.
First Corinthians, First

534
00:44:25,840 –> 00:44:29,600
Corinthians 14.
Let’s go there for a minute.

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00:44:30,160 –> 00:44:32,960
You are so tired this evening,
brothers and sisters.

536
00:44:34,560 –> 00:44:37,560
I’m standing here and looking at
you, and you look terrible.

537
00:44:41,680 –> 00:44:43,680
See, now you’re up a little bit
more, right?

538
00:44:45,200 –> 00:44:51,080
OK, so let’s see if I can find
it not just by memory, but

539
00:44:51,080 –> 00:44:53,040
actually find the passage I’m
looking for.

540
00:44:53,800 –> 00:44:55,560
Might have to do a little bit of
digging around.

541
00:44:55,560 –> 00:45:01,720
Still, just bear with me here.
See if I can find that passage.

542
00:45:01,920 –> 00:45:04,800
There it is.
OK, First Corinthians Chapter

543
00:45:05,320 –> 00:45:09,520
11.
And let’s end with this, shall

544
00:45:09,520 –> 00:45:13,160
we?
So that you can just rest a

545
00:45:13,160 –> 00:45:15,440
little.
I know it’s been a long day.

546
00:45:17,040 –> 00:45:21,360
So, First Corinthians Chapter
11, verse 31.

547
00:45:22,680 –> 00:45:24,840
There are three forms of
judgement.

548
00:45:25,200 –> 00:45:32,120
OK, if we would judge ourselves,
we should not be judged.

549
00:45:34,400 –> 00:45:39,200
So the rebuke of the word of God
is not to make us feel down.

550
00:45:39,720 –> 00:45:44,800
It’s to give us the incentive to
change, to look at ourselves,

551
00:45:45,160 –> 00:45:48,320
judge ourselves and say, look, I
I can’t be like this anymore.

552
00:45:49,000 –> 00:45:51,480
I can’t do things this way or
that way anymore.

553
00:45:51,480 –> 00:45:56,680
I have to change that, right?
So if we would judge ourselves,

554
00:45:57,560 –> 00:45:59,680
then God is not going to have to
judge us.

555
00:45:59,680 –> 00:46:03,760
And what judgement is that?
It’s the correction.

556
00:46:04,120 –> 00:46:08,800
It’s the the experiences.
We go through Indiana, this life

557
00:46:09,600 –> 00:46:18,560
where God takes who we are and
confronts us with painful and

558
00:46:18,600 –> 00:46:23,640
difficult circumstances.
That’s that’s what the second

559
00:46:23,640 –> 00:46:26,280
judgment is.
And why did we receive that

560
00:46:26,280 –> 00:46:29,680
second judgment?
Why did God put Israel through

561
00:46:29,760 –> 00:46:31,760
all the terrible things he put
her through?

562
00:46:32,440 –> 00:46:36,040
So that she wouldn’t have to
undergo that final judgement,

563
00:46:36,560 –> 00:46:39,680
which is rejection at the
judgement seat of Christ?

564
00:46:41,120 –> 00:46:45,520
So we we have these three
judgements, and the first is

565
00:46:45,840 –> 00:46:49,920
reading the word of God, being
rebuked and chastened by what it

566
00:46:49,920 –> 00:46:52,240
says.
And it’s not going to happen if

567
00:46:52,240 –> 00:46:54,920
we’re not reading it.
So if we’re not doing the

568
00:46:54,920 –> 00:46:58,960
readings or reading the word of
God in a systematic, continuous,

569
00:46:59,240 –> 00:47:04,480
daily way, it doesn’t have the
chance to work on us that way.

570
00:47:05,440 –> 00:47:10,600
And then so what’s left then is
correction in this life through

571
00:47:10,600 –> 00:47:15,800
circumstances we go through Now,
what we have to avoid is this.

572
00:47:18,200 –> 00:47:22,240
There are many tragic
circumstances that attend our

573
00:47:22,240 –> 00:47:25,840
lives.
That does not mean when someone

574
00:47:26,080 –> 00:47:29,680
goes through those things that
God is rebuking a person or

575
00:47:29,680 –> 00:47:35,160
correcting them.
It may just be a genetic

576
00:47:35,520 –> 00:47:41,720
inheritance that a person has a
predisposition for cancer, for

577
00:47:41,720 –> 00:47:44,560
instance.
When a person develops cancer,

578
00:47:44,920 –> 00:47:48,040
is it then right for you or me
to say, well, God is teaching

579
00:47:48,040 –> 00:47:50,960
that person this or that, that’s
why they have cancer?

580
00:47:50,960 –> 00:47:57,280
No, no.
God knows when he’s correcting

581
00:47:57,280 –> 00:48:00,720
people in particular ways.
But sometimes it’s just the

582
00:48:00,720 –> 00:48:07,280
experience of human life,
frailty, loss, disease, and

583
00:48:07,280 –> 00:48:11,680
these things that we we all go
through and that we all have to

584
00:48:11,720 –> 00:48:16,080
endure as brothers and sisters,
right?

585
00:48:17,560 –> 00:48:23,840
So other times God acts
directly, does something to stop

586
00:48:23,840 –> 00:48:30,880
you from going too far, and that
usually involves loss or pain or

587
00:48:30,880 –> 00:48:35,960
some experience that is not easy
to bear up under, but it can

588
00:48:35,960 –> 00:48:40,000
have the effect of cutting you
off at a point where you would

589
00:48:40,000 –> 00:48:44,360
go too far.
But if you still do not take

590
00:48:44,360 –> 00:48:51,360
heed, well then there is the
judgement seat when we will be

591
00:48:51,360 –> 00:48:54,800
told so.
If, brother, you, you mistreat

592
00:48:54,800 –> 00:49:02,360
your wife, you disrespect her,
you make her life a life full of

593
00:49:02,360 –> 00:49:08,320
pain, a veil of tears, and and
you read in scripture about the

594
00:49:08,320 –> 00:49:11,760
way a man should behave, and now
we should love his wife as his

595
00:49:11,760 –> 00:49:14,840
own body.
And you don’t take heed to that,

596
00:49:15,680 –> 00:49:17,400
and you continue to behave that
way.

597
00:49:19,160 –> 00:49:24,320
You will hear about it at the
Judgement seat, and that’s not

598
00:49:24,320 –> 00:49:25,680
where you want to hear about
that.

599
00:49:27,720 –> 00:49:31,960
But Israel would not listen.
God loved her.

600
00:49:33,200 –> 00:49:39,520
God gave her so much.
God gave her his beloved Son,

601
00:49:40,840 –> 00:49:46,600
and she still put him to death.
But sections of the nation

602
00:49:47,200 –> 00:49:54,240
believed there was 5000 that
didn’t bow the knee to bow the

603
00:49:54,240 –> 00:49:59,320
ball of tradition and the
priesthood and the Roman

604
00:49:59,320 –> 00:50:03,200
authority.
They believed in Jesus and

605
00:50:03,200 –> 00:50:05,040
continued as his brothers and
sisters.

606
00:50:05,720 –> 00:50:12,760
So here we are, the broken bits
and pieces of the bride of

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00:50:12,760 –> 00:50:17,000
Christ.
All of us working with different

608
00:50:17,000 –> 00:50:22,280
forms of trouble, addiction,
wrong headed notions,

609
00:50:22,600 –> 00:50:26,040
stubbornnesses, difficult areas
to change.

610
00:50:26,280 –> 00:50:29,200
Every one of us.
I’ve got my things, you’ve got

611
00:50:29,200 –> 00:50:32,120
your things.
Many of us have certain things

612
00:50:32,120 –> 00:50:34,720
in common.
You know there’s a brother here

613
00:50:34,720 –> 00:50:38,640
and this just it is unfortunate
for you that I have so many

614
00:50:38,640 –> 00:50:41,760
distractions that run across my
head while I’m speaking.

615
00:50:42,200 –> 00:50:47,520
There’s a brother in this in
this room today, who was born on

616
00:50:47,520 –> 00:50:52,640
the same day of the same month,
of the same year that I was

617
00:50:52,640 –> 00:50:57,080
born.
Peter Osborne.

618
00:50:59,080 –> 00:51:00,960
We’re twins.
It’s pretty sad, isn’t it?

619
00:51:02,640 –> 00:51:08,000
Same day, different sides of the
earth and part of the same

620
00:51:08,000 –> 00:51:12,360
family in Christ.
But he’s my brother and you’re

621
00:51:12,360 –> 00:51:15,800
my brothers and my sisters, and
whatever trouble we’re going

622
00:51:15,800 –> 00:51:21,640
through, God is at work.
God does love you.

623
00:51:22,520 –> 00:51:25,560
The pain in your life is not
evidence of the opposite.

624
00:51:27,120 –> 00:51:32,920
He loves you in that pain,
working with you through it to

625
00:51:32,920 –> 00:51:37,760
to to shape you into the gem
that you are.

626
00:51:39,240 –> 00:51:42,560
Job did not go through what Job
went through because God didn’t

627
00:51:42,560 –> 00:51:46,720
love him.
God absolutely loved him.

628
00:51:47,680 –> 00:51:50,480
So hold on to that.
This evening when you go to

629
00:51:50,480 –> 00:51:56,440
sleep, thank him for his love,
and thank that woman or man

630
00:51:56,440 –> 00:51:59,000
beside you for their love for
you.

631
00:52:14,640 –> 00:52:16,760
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