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\nChrist.
\nIf you have had disappointments <\/p>\n
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\nwith your family over the last
\nmany years, you’ve tried to <\/p>\n
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\nraise them in the truth, to
\nguide them in the truth, then <\/p>\n
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\nthis book is for you.
\nIf you have trouble in your <\/p>\n
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\nmarriage and it has not turned
\nout the way you wanted it to <\/p>\n
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\nturn out, if it has its
\nstruggles, its heartaches, its <\/p>\n
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\nfeelings of loneliness and
\nisolation, then this book is for<\/p>\n
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\nyou.
\nIf you’ve had ecclesial trouble <\/p>\n
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\nand the sense that the Ecclesia
\nis always on the brink of <\/p>\n
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\ncollapsing trouble assails it on
\nevery side, and things are never<\/p>\n
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\nwhat they ought to be, and this
\nbook is for you also. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, brothers and sisters, we we
\nwon’t start in Hosea. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re going to start in Psalm
\n78. <\/p>\n
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\nSo if you’ll turn there with me,
\nwe’ll spend a little time in <\/p>\n
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\nthat Psalm before we look at
\nHosea. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it begins this way.
\nGive here are my people to my <\/p>\n
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\nlaw.
\nIncline your ears to the words <\/p>\n
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\nof my mouth.
\nI will open my mouth in a <\/p>\n
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\nparable.
\nI will utter dark sayings of <\/p>\n
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\nold.
\nNow why would he use this kind <\/p>\n
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\nof language?
\nAnd then speak so clearly in the<\/p>\n
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\nrest of the Psalm about what he
\nwants to talk about. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause for people who are not
\nlistening carefully to the word <\/p>\n
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\nof God, everything is a parable
\nthey can’t work out or <\/p>\n
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\nunderstand.
\nThe implication of everything is<\/p>\n
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\na dark saying that is obscure to
\nthem. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a message for somebody
\nelse, not for them. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s how people who listened
\nto Christ’s parables looked at <\/p>\n
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\nthem.
\nThey didn’t understand them <\/p>\n
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\nbecause they didn’t reflect
\ndeeply on them. <\/p>\n
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\nThey didn’t look to be changed
\nby them. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so these are dark sayings.
\nThey’re they’re parables to <\/p>\n
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\npeople who aren’t used to
\nlistening to the word of God. <\/p>\n
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\nHe goes on and he says, which we
\nhave heard and known, and our <\/p>\n
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\nfathers have told us, we will
\nnot hide them from their <\/p>\n
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\nchildren.
\nShowing to the generations to <\/p>\n
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\ncome the praises of the Lord and
\nHis strength and his wonderful <\/p>\n
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\nworks that he has done for He
\nestablished a testimony in Jacob<\/p>\n
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\nand appointed a law in Israel,
\nwhich He commanded our fathers <\/p>\n
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\nthat they should make them known
\nto their children, that the <\/p>\n
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\ngeneration to come might know
\nthem, even the generation which <\/p>\n
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\nshould be born who should arise
\nand declare them to their <\/p>\n
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\nchildren.
\nNow you might count the <\/p>\n
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\ndifferent generations and find
\n5-6 the number of them doesn’t <\/p>\n
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\nmatter.
\nThe point is that what God <\/p>\n
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\ntaught to those he taught his
\nmessage to had to be cascaded <\/p>\n
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\nthrough all the generations
\nfaithfully, completely, without <\/p>\n
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\nomission, without breakage,
\nwithout gaps and forgetfulness, <\/p>\n
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\nwithout any deficiencies.
\nNow did Israel do that? <\/p>\n
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\nDid they actually do that?
\nBut the Psalm tells us 7 The <\/p>\n
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\nwhole intent of the passing on
\nthe transmission of the word, <\/p>\n
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\nthe handing on from generation
\nto generation of the word of <\/p>\n
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\nGod, was that the people
\nreceiving it might set their <\/p>\n
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\nhope.
\nNot in arrows, not in bows. <\/p>\n
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\nNot in tanks.
\nNot in retirement funds. <\/p>\n
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\nNot in governments of this
\nworld. <\/p>\n
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\nNot in whatever political power
\npeople have around them. <\/p>\n
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\nNot in money.
\nNot in what they drive. <\/p>\n
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\nNot in where they live.
\nNot in who they know, but in <\/p>\n
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\nGod.
\nAnd not forget the works of God,<\/p>\n
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\nbut keep His commandments.
\nAnd might not be as their <\/p>\n
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\nfathers a stubborn and
\nrebellious generation, the <\/p>\n
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\ngeneration that set not their
\nheart aright, and whose spirit <\/p>\n
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\nwas not steadfast with God, the
\nchildren of Ephraim being armed <\/p>\n
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\nand carrying bows turned back in
\nthe day of battle. <\/p>\n
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\nNow what is that an allusion to?
\nWhat is it referring back to in <\/p>\n
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\ntime?
\nWell, it could be referring to <\/p>\n
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\nthat time when the Israelites
\ntook the Ark of the Covenant <\/p>\n
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\nlike some kind of nuclear
\nmissile with them into battle, <\/p>\n
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\nthinking that it would have a
\nmagical power that would conquer<\/p>\n
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\nthe enemies of Israel, but they
\nhad no faith. <\/p>\n
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\nThe priests that were around it
\nwas smitten down by God and the <\/p>\n
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\nold priest who should have
\npassed these things down to his <\/p>\n
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\nkids so that they were faithful
\nand disciplining them and they <\/p>\n
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\nwere not, fell backwards, broke
\nhis neck and died when the ark <\/p>\n
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\nof the covenant was lost.
\nBecause they had no faith. <\/p>\n
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\nIt didn’t matter what they were
\narmed with. <\/p>\n
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\nThey could not deal with the
\ntrials that they faced in the <\/p>\n
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\nbattlefield.
\nAnd brothers and sisters, you <\/p>\n
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\nknow, when all that we have is
\nthe strength of our arm and our <\/p>\n
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\nbrain and our friends and have
\nno faith, when certain kinds of <\/p>\n
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\ntrouble come into our lives,
\nwe’re like the Ephraimites, <\/p>\n
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\nfully armed, helpless, unable to
\ndeal with the challenges. <\/p>\n
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\nThe narrative goes on and it
\nsays they kept not the covenant <\/p>\n
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\nof God.
\nThey refused to walk in His law <\/p>\n
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\nand they forgot his doings.
\nNow how would they forget the <\/p>\n
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\ndoings of the Lord after
\neverything he had done? <\/p>\n
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\nHow is it that there was a
\ngeneration in the land so soon <\/p>\n
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\nafter the generation that had
\nfought its way into the land? <\/p>\n
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\nWho knew not?
\nThe Lord knew not Yahweh. <\/p>\n
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\nHow is that prosperity?
\nA generation got into the land, <\/p>\n
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\nexperienced decade over decade
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\nTheir lives became taken up with
\nthe land, its produce, their <\/p>\n
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\ncrops, gold, silver, all those
\nthings that they valued. <\/p>\n
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\nNow I’m a member of a generation
\nthat knows what that is, like <\/p>\n
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\nthe baby boom generation.
\nI’m 61 years old. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m not 12.
\nI look like I’m 15, but I’m 61. <\/p>\n
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\nThe baby boom generation had one
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\nthey did, and the other foot
\nfirmly planted in the world and <\/p>\n
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\nall it had to offer.
\nIt’s entertainment, it’s <\/p>\n
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\nprosperous lifestyle, It’s fancy
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\neverything.
\nAll of the expensive holidays a <\/p>\n
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\nperson could want and have.
\nThe best schools, private <\/p>\n
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\nschools, not one car, two cars,
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\nNot a three bedroom house, a six
\nbedroom house, a three or four <\/p>\n
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\nIt it was a generation afflicted<\/p>\n
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\nwith upgrades of everything.
\nUpgrade itis nothing was ever <\/p>\n
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\ngood enough.
\nFor very long now, we raised a <\/p>\n
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\ngeneration of kids thinking that
\nthey would be OK. <\/p>\n
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\nBut what our kids saw was mom
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\nand enjoying it and attached to
\nit and in the truth and trying <\/p>\n
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\nto support the ecclesia.
\nThat split, that conflict in our<\/p>\n
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\nlives, led to many of the
\nchildren we raised. <\/p>\n
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\nStepping away from the truth.
\nTurning away from God. <\/p>\n
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\nTurning away from the difficult
\nlife that a life of a believer <\/p>\n
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\nis really all about.
\nTurning away from a place that <\/p>\n
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\ncelebrated things so humble and
\nglorious at the same time with <\/p>\n
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\npeople they didn’t necessarily
\nwant to rub shoulders with. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so it wasn’t that we wanted
\nto harm the generation after us,<\/p>\n
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\nit’s that we were too in love
\nwith the world, the step away <\/p>\n
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\nfrom it, and to keep our kids
\nfully connected to and involved <\/p>\n
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\nin the truth and the ecclesia
\nand the life of the ecclesia. <\/p>\n
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\nHow is it that Israel lost the
\ntruth as the generations went <\/p>\n
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\non?
\nBecause for them, when they <\/p>\n
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\nlooked at the religion of the
\nthings that I worship in this <\/p>\n
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\nworld that make me feel good and
\neclise your life, I think the <\/p>\n
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\nworld makes more sense for me.
\nThat was the rationale many of <\/p>\n
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\nour kids went through.
\nIn their minds, it’s a hard and <\/p>\n
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\nsobering truth for us to think
\nthrough. <\/p>\n
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\nFor many in this room, you
\ndidn’t have that experience, but<\/p>\n
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\nmany of you did have it, and you
\ndo know what I’m talking about. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then we look at that
\ncascading effect, the visiting <\/p>\n
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\nof the sins of the fathers upon
\nthe children, the the outflow <\/p>\n
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\nand consequences of our mistakes
\nto the children that come after.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd we recognize our children as
\nthey go through the generations,<\/p>\n
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\ncontinue to make some of the
\nmistakes that we made. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so when we read this Psalm,
\nit’s not about those people over<\/p>\n
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\nthere in quaint and ancient
\ntimes. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s about people in this room
\ntoday, right now. <\/p>\n
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\nSo it goes on and it talks about
\nwhat it was ultimately that <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael was doing.
\nIt says though he took care of <\/p>\n
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\nthem in verse 17, they sinned
\nyet more against him by <\/p>\n
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\nprovoking the Most High in the
\nwilderness. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd they tempted God in their
\nheart because that’s where the <\/p>\n
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\nbattle against God starts.
\nIn all of the darkness of the <\/p>\n
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\nhuman heart, they tempted God in
\ntheir heart by asking meat for <\/p>\n
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\ntheir lust.
\nYeah, they spake against God and<\/p>\n
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\nlisten to what they said.
\nCan God prepare a table in the <\/p>\n
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\nwilderness?
\nBe only smote The rock and the <\/p>\n
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\nwaters gushed out and the
\nstreams overflow. <\/p>\n
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\nBut can he also give bread?
\nAlso, can he provide flesh for <\/p>\n
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\nhis people?
\nWhat does all that mean? <\/p>\n
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\nIt means I want flesh.
\nI want something that God hasn’t<\/p>\n
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\ngiven me.
\nGod’s given me manner, but I’m <\/p>\n
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\ntired of this old manner.
\nI want more than that. <\/p>\n
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\nI want something bigger, better,
\ntastier than that. <\/p>\n
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\nBrother, in your life, in your
\ncareer, when you want that <\/p>\n
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\npromotion more than anything
\nelse in your life, you’re <\/p>\n
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\nobsessed with that step up that
\nmight be flesh that God doesn’t <\/p>\n
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\nwant you to have.
\nAs though Israel wanted flesh. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd and and the way that they
\nwanted it cast a terrible insult<\/p>\n
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\non God who had so generously
\nprovided for them and was with <\/p>\n
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\nthem.
\nIn Western life today, we’re not<\/p>\n
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\nsatisfied with a humble and
\nquiet, downsized and downscaled <\/p>\n
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\nlife.
\nMany of us we struggle with the <\/p>\n
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\nsame kind of wanting that Israel
\nstruggled with. <\/p>\n
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\nWe look at them with a gimlet
\neye, condemning them for their <\/p>\n
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\nmistakes without always
\nrealizing how close they are to <\/p>\n
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\nour own.
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\ntalking to God, but I don’t have<\/p>\n
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\n00:29:08,960 –> 00:29:12,000
\nhim.
\nAnd this is where he talks to <\/p>\n
339
\n00:29:12,000 –> 00:29:16,800
\nyou in his word.
\nNow as we’re reading it, we ask <\/p>\n
340
\n00:29:16,800 –> 00:29:21,840
\nourselves, OK, what is it
\nstating? <\/p>\n
341
\n00:29:23,680 –> 00:29:28,960
\nWhat does that mean in the
\npassage, historically or in the <\/p>\n
342
\n00:29:28,960 –> 00:29:31,040
\ncontext of the chapter or the
\nbook? <\/p>\n
343
\n00:29:31,880 –> 00:29:34,840
\nAnd then the third piece,
\nspeaking brethren, take note. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:29:36,080 –> 00:29:39,120
\nSo easy for us to state and
\nexplain and sit down. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:29:40,120 –> 00:29:45,120
\nWe have to state, explain and
\napply. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:29:45,600 –> 00:29:49,040
\nHow does this apply to my life
\ntoday? <\/p>\n
347
\n00:29:49,040 –> 00:29:53,240
\nThe word comes at the beginning
\nto Hosea. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:29:54,520 –> 00:30:00,040
\nNow Hosea writes, inspired by
\nGod, about the different kings <\/p>\n
349
\n00:30:00,040 –> 00:30:04,160
\nwhose reigns he worked in, and
\nit starts off. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:30:04,160 –> 00:30:08,160
\nAnd Hosea, by the way, is a
\nprophet in Israel, not Judah, <\/p>\n
351
\n00:30:08,600 –> 00:30:11,960
\nIsrael.
\nBut he starts off and he he’s <\/p>\n
352
\n00:30:11,960 –> 00:30:14,040
\ntalking all about kings of
\nJudah. <\/p>\n
353
\n00:30:14,040 –> 00:30:19,000
\nAnd one of the things we bring
\nto scripture is questions, <\/p>\n
354
\n00:30:19,120 –> 00:30:23,800
\nquestions, questions.
\nWhy would it say it that way? <\/p>\n
355
\n00:30:24,960 –> 00:30:30,480
\nWhy wouldn’t it say he was a
\nprophet during the time of the <\/p>\n
356
\n00:30:30,480 –> 00:30:35,440
\nkings of Israel and list them
\nand then maybe say to help <\/p>\n
357
\n00:30:35,440 –> 00:30:38,960
\npeople orientate themselves who
\nthe kings of Judah were? <\/p>\n
358
\n00:30:39,960 –> 00:30:40,840
\nWhy?
\nWhy do you reckon? <\/p>\n
359
\n00:30:40,840 –> 00:30:48,280
\nBecause perhaps it is to imply
\nthe kings of Judah, for all <\/p>\n
360
\n00:30:48,280 –> 00:30:50,880
\ntheir problems, were the
\nlegitimate Kingdom. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:30:52,000 –> 00:30:58,520
\nThe Kingdom of Israel started on
\nillegitimate grounds and was an <\/p>\n
362
\n00:30:58,600 –> 00:31:03,400
\nillegitimate Kingdom starting
\nwith the worship of the calves <\/p>\n
363
\n00:31:03,960 –> 00:31:09,680
\nand leading down, down, down as
\nthe people descended from one <\/p>\n
364
\n00:31:09,680 –> 00:31:15,120
\nlevel of ignorance, down into
\nthe depths of gross darkness and<\/p>\n
365
\n00:31:15,120 –> 00:31:18,960
\nunawareness of the God of
\nIsrael, who was their God. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:31:20,240 –> 00:31:25,560
\nThey had a kind of religion that
\nwas intermingled like the feet <\/p>\n
367
\n00:31:25,960 –> 00:31:31,760
\nof Daniel’s image, partly of the
\nworship of Yahweh and partly the<\/p>\n
368
\n00:31:31,760 –> 00:31:36,600
\ngods and goddesses of the world.
\nSounds like a thing we struggle <\/p>\n
369
\n00:31:36,600 –> 00:31:41,280
\nwith sometimes, doesn’t it?
\nI know our presiding brother <\/p>\n
370
\n00:31:41,600 –> 00:31:46,040
\nthis, this this afternoon talked
\nabout having tears in the heart <\/p>\n
371
\n00:31:46,720 –> 00:31:52,760
\nthat need to be sutured after.
\nThis is intentional from the <\/p>\n
372
\n00:31:52,760 –> 00:31:55,600
\nword of God.
\nI know we always want to have a <\/p>\n
373
\n00:31:55,600 –> 00:32:00,080
\na happy message that comes out
\nof everything, but we’re given <\/p>\n
374
\n00:32:00,080 –> 00:32:06,520
\nthese messages so that we can
\nreflect deeply and grow and <\/p>\n
375
\n00:32:07,680 –> 00:32:12,360
\nbecome better believers.
\nHe worked for a long time. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:32:14,240 –> 00:32:17,440
\nThe estimates are anything
\nbetween 40 or 50 years, all the <\/p>\n
377
\n00:32:17,440 –> 00:32:24,320
\nway up to 70 years. 70 years of
\npeople not listening to you and <\/p>\n
378
\n00:32:24,600 –> 00:32:27,560
\nnot wanting to hear what you
\nhave to say. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:32:30,240 –> 00:32:33,080
\nSisters, that’s 70 years of
\nraising a teenager. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:32:35,920 –> 00:32:40,280
\nThat’s what that is.
\nNow if someone did work and <\/p>\n
381
\n00:32:40,280 –> 00:32:43,320
\nworked in the Ecclesia and
\ndidn’t get a thank you and <\/p>\n
382
\n00:32:43,320 –> 00:32:47,400
\ndidn’t see a result, didn’t see
\nan improvement, only saw things <\/p>\n
383
\n00:32:47,400 –> 00:32:53,520
\ngoing like a Corkscrew down down
\ninto the earth, it was Hosea, a <\/p>\n
384
\n00:32:53,560 –> 00:32:58,360
\nJew in Ecclesia life.
\nAre you the thank you man who <\/p>\n
385
\n00:32:58,360 –> 00:33:02,520
\nneeds to be thanked and praised
\nfor the work that you do? <\/p>\n
386
\n00:33:03,720 –> 00:33:07,040
\nAnd then if you don’t get that
\npraise, you sit and have a bit <\/p>\n
387
\n00:33:07,040 –> 00:33:12,560
\nof a pout because you didn’t get
\nthe praise, or your work wasn’t <\/p>\n
388
\n00:33:12,560 –> 00:33:16,440
\nappreciated, or you got some
\ncriticism from Brother X or <\/p>\n
389
\n00:33:16,440 –> 00:33:18,520
\nSister Y and then you’re not
\ndoing it again. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:33:19,040 –> 00:33:23,000
\nDon’t ask me again if you can do
\na better job than you do it. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:33:25,400 –> 00:33:29,920
\nWhat if you had 70 years of
\nhaving no liberty to pass it off<\/p>\n
392
\n00:33:29,920 –> 00:33:34,880
\non to someone else or to pout,
\nbut you just had to keep going? <\/p>\n
393
\n00:33:36,280 –> 00:33:42,000
\nThat’s what a brother in Christ
\ndoes. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:33:43,080 –> 00:33:46,440
\nHe doesn’t give up.
\nHe doesn’t check out. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:33:47,000 –> 00:33:51,120
\nHe doesn’t stop serving.
\nBecause if he does that in <\/p>\n
396
\n00:33:51,120 –> 00:33:54,000
\necclesial life, guess where else
\nhe’s going to do that? <\/p>\n
397
\n00:33:55,640 –> 00:34:02,440
\nIn his family?
\nIn his job, in all areas of his <\/p>\n
398
\n00:34:02,440 –> 00:34:09,280
\nlife, we can’t be people who are
\ndoing what we do to be thanked. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:34:11,120 –> 00:34:19,360
\nWe do what we do to give thanks.
\nIt’s work we do in thankfulness <\/p>\n
400
\n00:34:19,360 –> 00:34:25,320
\nto God for what he’s done for us
\nwith his son. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:34:27,480 –> 00:34:31,440
\nSo Hosea does this work, and it
\nsays, when the Lord spake at the<\/p>\n
402
\n00:34:31,440 –> 00:34:38,400
\nfirst by Hosea, he said to him,
\nNow if you have a young married,<\/p>\n
403
\n00:34:38,960 –> 00:34:42,320
\nthat is your child or
\ngrandchild, I want you to look <\/p>\n
404
\n00:34:42,320 –> 00:34:48,360
\nat what God said to this man and
\nask yourself, would you give <\/p>\n
405
\n00:34:48,360 –> 00:34:57,440
\nthis advice to your child?
\nGo take unto thee a wife of <\/p>\n
406
\n00:34:57,440 –> 00:35:03,120
\nwhoredom, and there will be
\nchildren of whoredom that she <\/p>\n
407
\n00:35:03,120 –> 00:35:09,320
\nwill have.
\nThere was no more difficult life<\/p>\n
408
\n00:35:11,000 –> 00:35:17,080
\nthan the life of a prophet.
\nTheir job was to take a message <\/p>\n
409
\n00:35:17,080 –> 00:35:21,520
\nfrom God that no one wanted to
\nhear except a tiny remnant. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:35:22,480 –> 00:35:25,720
\nAnd sometimes it was so tiny or
\nso silent you didn’t even know <\/p>\n
411
\n00:35:25,720 –> 00:35:28,000
\nthey were listening and that
\nthey were there. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:35:28,600 –> 00:35:31,840
\nTo the extent that you might
\nsay, like Elijah, I only am <\/p>\n
413
\n00:35:31,840 –> 00:35:33,080
\nleft.
\nThere’s no one else left. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:35:34,400 –> 00:35:38,360
\nAnd God had to say to him,
\nlisten, no, there are many <\/p>\n
415
\n00:35:38,360 –> 00:35:42,320
\nthousands that have not bowed
\nthe knee to bow. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:35:43,160 –> 00:35:45,520
\nYou still have work to do.
\nSo get up and get working. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:35:45,800 –> 00:35:50,240
\nWhat are you doing here, Elijah?
\nAnd so he goes back to work. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:35:52,400 –> 00:36:00,280
\nGod says to this young man
\nHosea, So now I’m going to bring<\/p>\n
419
\n00:36:00,320 –> 00:36:06,040
\na pain into your life that is
\nexcruciating. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:36:08,840 –> 00:36:15,600
\nI’m going to have you marry a
\nwoman that you will love deeply,<\/p>\n
421
\n00:36:18,600 –> 00:36:26,400
\nwho will be utterly and
\ncompletely unfaithful to you. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:36:29,000 –> 00:36:33,480
\nNow I know one or two of you,
\ngiven the size of the crowd, has<\/p>\n
423
\n00:36:33,480 –> 00:36:35,320
\ngot a child that’s gone through
\nthat. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:36:37,160 –> 00:36:42,040
\nYou know as a parent what that
\nfelt like for you to pray for <\/p>\n
425
\n00:36:42,040 –> 00:36:49,040
\nthem, to cry for them to have
\nthat anger towards your <\/p>\n
426
\n00:36:49,040 –> 00:36:53,800
\nson-in-law or daughter-in-law
\nthat you did because of the <\/p>\n
427
\n00:36:53,800 –> 00:36:59,800
\nunjust treatment of your child
\nand the things that that child <\/p>\n
428
\n00:36:59,800 –> 00:37:05,640
\nhad to go through.
\nYou may be going through a <\/p>\n
429
\n00:37:05,640 –> 00:37:09,800
\ntrial, brother or sister that
\nyou are barely able to cope <\/p>\n
430
\n00:37:09,800 –> 00:37:13,360
\nthrough.
\nYou feel like you’re held <\/p>\n
431
\n00:37:13,360 –> 00:37:22,000
\ntogether with the weakest of
\nglues and that you’re right on <\/p>\n
432
\n00:37:22,000 –> 00:37:30,960
\nthe brink of falling apart.
\nThat trial is in your life, and <\/p>\n
433
\n00:37:30,960 –> 00:37:38,320
\nGod is at work.
\nAnd in that trial out of your <\/p>\n
434
\n00:37:38,320 –> 00:37:48,160
\nlife, God will bring a gigantic
\ncompassion and empathy and <\/p>\n
435
\n00:37:48,160 –> 00:37:56,440
\nunderstanding and wisdom that
\napart from that pain, apart from<\/p>\n
436
\n00:37:56,440 –> 00:38:02,520
\nthat loss, apart from that
\ndestruction of what you held <\/p>\n
437
\n00:38:02,520 –> 00:38:06,960
\ndear, you would never have
\notherwise. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:38:10,600 –> 00:38:15,280
\nThis prophet of all the
\nprophets, aside from the Lord <\/p>\n
439
\n00:38:15,280 –> 00:38:21,560
\nJesus Christ, was able to
\nunderstand the heart of God in a<\/p>\n
440
\n00:38:21,560 –> 00:38:31,000
\nway that brought him right into
\nGod’s hurt and his love, his <\/p>\n
441
\n00:38:31,000 –> 00:38:37,200
\ndisappointment, his desire to
\nsave in spite of the gaps, in <\/p>\n
442
\n00:38:37,200 –> 00:38:42,320
\nspite of the failings of a
\nwayward wife. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:38:45,440 –> 00:38:51,640
\nBut his life and it’s heartache
\nmust have been indescribable. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:38:53,960 –> 00:38:55,960
\nSo he marries a girl, Her name
\nis Gomer. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:38:57,000 –> 00:39:01,080
\nShe’s the daughter of de Blime,
\nwhich conceived and bare him a <\/p>\n
446
\n00:39:01,080 –> 00:39:04,000
\nson.
\nShe bare him a son. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:39:05,120 –> 00:39:10,920
\nThen it goes on to say after
\nthat she bare a daughter. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:39:11,680 –> 00:39:15,480
\nAnd then it goes on to say after
\nthat she bare a son. <\/p>\n
449
\n00:39:16,520 –> 00:39:18,560
\nBut you notice the word that’s
\nmissing in those two other <\/p>\n
450
\n00:39:18,560 –> 00:39:26,280
\ninstances, Him.
\nIt doesn’t say she bear him that<\/p>\n
451
\n00:39:26,280 –> 00:39:31,000
\nsecond son.
\nIt doesn’t say she bear him the <\/p>\n
452
\n00:39:31,000 –> 00:39:35,840
\ndaughter.
\nSo those children more than <\/p>\n
453
\n00:39:35,840 –> 00:39:40,000
\nlikely were not Hosea’s
\nchildren. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:39:42,720 –> 00:39:48,640
\nSo not only did he have to
\ncontend with the heart <\/p>\n
455
\n00:39:49,280 –> 00:39:58,320
\nfragmenting waywardness of his
\nwife, but babies that were not <\/p>\n
456
\n00:39:58,320 –> 00:40:02,240
\nhis.
\nAnd it goes on. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:40:03,040 –> 00:40:10,640
\nIt says the first child is to be
\ncalled Jezreel, first child is <\/p>\n
458
\n00:40:10,640 –> 00:40:14,440
\nto be called Jezreel.
\nThat name is full of echoes, <\/p>\n
459
\n00:40:14,440 –> 00:40:17,520
\nisn’t it?
\nIt reminds us of what happened <\/p>\n
460
\n00:40:17,520 –> 00:40:25,120
\nwith Jihu, The pursuit of Ahab’s
\ndescendants and the destruction,<\/p>\n
461
\n00:40:26,080 –> 00:40:29,520
\nall the blood and gore that
\noccurred, the hands and the <\/p>\n
462
\n00:40:29,520 –> 00:40:37,880
\nscowl of wicked Jezebel, the
\ndestruction of all of the <\/p>\n
463
\n00:40:37,880 –> 00:40:39,920
\npriests and the worshippers of
\nBaal. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:40:40,200 –> 00:40:42,960
\nThough there must have been some
\nkind of survival of that <\/p>\n
465
\n00:40:43,200 –> 00:40:47,880
\nreligion, because it’s still
\nreferred to in Hosea, and we <\/p>\n
466
\n00:40:47,880 –> 00:40:52,120
\nknow about all that bloodshed.
\nWe know that God said to him <\/p>\n
467
\n00:40:52,120 –> 00:40:54,000
\nthat he had done what he wanted
\nhim to do. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:40:55,520 –> 00:40:58,880
\nBut we know also that a lot of
\nwhat drove Jihu was about <\/p>\n
469
\n00:40:58,880 –> 00:41:05,240
\npersonal ambition, settling of
\nscores, vindictiveness, and that<\/p>\n
470
\n00:41:05,240 –> 00:41:09,800
\nthere’s an autocratic,
\ntyrannical approach that he has <\/p>\n
471
\n00:41:10,200 –> 00:41:14,560
\nto the rest of his reign.
\nAnd he kept the false religion <\/p>\n
472
\n00:41:14,560 –> 00:41:17,440
\ngoing.
\nHe knew God. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:41:17,440 –> 00:41:21,480
\nHe knew who he was.
\nHe knew that God had delivered <\/p>\n
474
\n00:41:21,680 –> 00:41:25,640
\nIsrael into his hands, and he
\ndidn’t have enough faith in him <\/p>\n
475
\n00:41:27,120 –> 00:41:31,560
\nto stop the false religion.
\nNow we look at these men and <\/p>\n
476
\n00:41:31,800 –> 00:41:37,960
\nwe’re we’re astonished that
\nthese men in the presence of <\/p>\n
477
\n00:41:37,960 –> 00:41:41,040
\nYahweh, spoken to by his
\nprophets, blessed in the <\/p>\n
478
\n00:41:41,080 –> 00:41:45,560
\noutcomes of what he asked them
\nto do, would still not fully and<\/p>\n
479
\n00:41:45,560 –> 00:41:51,560
\ncompletely fulfill His will and
\nneed. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:41:51,560 –> 00:41:57,760
\nI said we just need to reflect
\non that in connection with our <\/p>\n
481
\n00:41:58,080 –> 00:42:02,800
\nown individual struggles.
\nWe all struggle. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:42:04,000 –> 00:42:09,920
\nEvery one of us, every one of
\nus, has got something that our <\/p>\n
483
\n00:42:09,920 –> 00:42:14,040
\nmind is engaged in, Our hearts
\nare tied to and attached to. <\/p>\n
484
\n00:42:14,040 –> 00:42:20,320
\nThat is, that is totally foreign
\nto that is as repugnant as an <\/p>\n
485
\n00:42:20,400 –> 00:42:27,240
\nidolatrous religious artifact to
\nGod, as as as the things that <\/p>\n
486
\n00:42:27,240 –> 00:42:32,600
\nJihu and Israel was attached to
\nwere repugnant to him. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:42:34,440 –> 00:42:42,480
\nSo we go on and God says, I will
\navenge the blood of Jezreel upon<\/p>\n
488
\n00:42:42,480 –> 00:42:45,600
\nthe House of Jehu.
\nI will cause to cease the <\/p>\n
489
\n00:42:45,600 –> 00:42:49,840
\nKingdom of the House of Israel.
\nAnd that is exactly what <\/p>\n
490
\n00:42:49,840 –> 00:42:53,200
\nhappened.
\nJehu’s house came to an end with<\/p>\n
491
\n00:42:53,200 –> 00:42:56,240
\nthe assassination, followed by
\nmultiple kings and <\/p>\n
492
\n00:42:56,240 –> 00:43:00,760
\nassassinations, some of whom
\nlasted barely any time at all, <\/p>\n
493
\n00:43:01,840 –> 00:43:06,240
\nsomething between 19 and 21
\nkings in the history of Israel <\/p>\n
494
\n00:43:06,240 –> 00:43:11,440
\nover what, 208 years?
\nThat is a ridiculously large <\/p>\n
495
\n00:43:11,440 –> 00:43:15,520
\namount of kings because they
\nkept hacking each other to <\/p>\n
496
\n00:43:15,600 –> 00:43:21,960
\ndeath, being an ungodly people,
\nworshipping idols with <\/p>\n
497
\n00:43:21,960 –> 00:43:28,080
\ninadequate faith in Yahweh.
\nAnd then he says in verse 7, <\/p>\n
498
\n00:43:29,600 –> 00:43:31,880
\nafter the the children have been
\nnamed. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:43:32,320 –> 00:43:35,000
\nAnd then reading.
\nThat was done beautifully for us<\/p>\n
500
\n00:43:35,000 –> 00:43:37,720
\nthis afternoon.
\nWe don’t even have to translate <\/p>\n
501
\n00:43:37,720 –> 00:43:43,120
\nthem, because the ESV translates
\nthe meaning of lo ruhamar and lo<\/p>\n
502
\n00:43:43,120 –> 00:43:46,760
\nAMI.
\nThose names are translated from <\/p>\n
503
\n00:43:46,760 –> 00:43:51,600
\nwhat we heard in the reading,
\nNot my people not loved. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:43:53,440 –> 00:43:57,560
\nAnd then he goes on.
\nHe says, after all the <\/p>\n
505
\n00:43:57,560 –> 00:44:01,840
\ndiscipline that Israel and their
\nkings will experience. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:44:02,440 –> 00:44:06,120
\nBut I will have mercy on the
\nHouse of Judah, and will save <\/p>\n
507
\n00:44:06,120 –> 00:44:11,960
\nthem by the Lord their God, and
\nwill not save them by bow, nor <\/p>\n
508
\n00:44:11,960 –> 00:44:17,640
\nby sword, nor by battle, by
\nhorses, nor by horsemen. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:44:17,640 –> 00:44:23,320
\nThink of think of Israel today.
\nWe love them for the Father’s <\/p>\n
510
\n00:44:23,320 –> 00:44:27,520
\nsake.
\nBut that is one of the nations <\/p>\n
511
\n00:44:27,520 –> 00:44:32,400
\nof the Kingdom of this world.
\nThat’s what the government is. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:44:33,840 –> 00:44:36,800
\nThat’s what they’re system of
\ngovernment is. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:44:37,160 –> 00:44:38,760
\nIt’s a part of the Kingdom of
\nthis world. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:44:40,000 –> 00:44:42,680
\nAnd and if you think it isn’t
\nand if that feels like a thought<\/p>\n
515
\n00:44:42,680 –> 00:44:48,080
\nthat you’re backing away from,
\nshying away from, is that <\/p>\n
516
\n00:44:48,360 –> 00:44:50,720
\ngovernment going to survive into
\nthe Kingdom? <\/p>\n
517
\n00:44:52,360 –> 00:44:57,280
\nNo it will not.
\nIt’s going to be done away with.<\/p>\n
518
\n00:44:57,280 –> 00:45:02,480
\nIt’s going to be done away with.
\nWe love Israel not for their <\/p>\n
519
\n00:45:02,480 –> 00:45:08,640
\ngovernment, not for their civil
\nsystem, not for anything that <\/p>\n
520
\n00:45:08,640 –> 00:45:13,680
\nthey have in their over reliance
\non the power of their arm, their<\/p>\n
521
\n00:45:13,680 –> 00:45:17,240
\nbows, their arrows, their
\nnuclear missiles. <\/p>\n
522
\n00:45:17,560 –> 00:45:19,840
\nWe don’t love them for that
\nbecause we know that’s all the <\/p>\n
523
\n00:45:19,840 –> 00:45:25,000
\nwrong headedness of this people
\nwe see described for us in Hosea<\/p>\n
524
\n00:45:25,000 –> 00:45:30,000
\nChapter One.
\nWe know that looking at it, and <\/p>\n
525
\n00:45:30,000 –> 00:45:32,520
\nthat’s something that they have
\nalways been afflicted with. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:45:34,200 –> 00:45:38,360
\nAnd so the God says, I’m not
\ngoing to save Judah with nuclear<\/p>\n
527
\n00:45:38,360 –> 00:45:47,240
\nmissiles, with arrows, with bows
\nand brother and sister. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:45:48,640 –> 00:45:56,320
\nYour family in its trouble, your
\nmarriage and its problems, you <\/p>\n
529
\n00:45:56,400 –> 00:46:03,640
\nand your crushing, humiliating
\nheart aches and challenges. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:46:05,480 –> 00:46:16,080
\nGod will not save you with bows,
\nwith arrows, with peeled stakes.<\/p>\n
531
\n00:46:17,200 –> 00:46:22,320
\nYou know how he’s going to save
\nyou through the tears that you <\/p>\n
532
\n00:46:22,320 –> 00:46:27,480
\ncry as you wrestle with his
\nAngel and he puts your hip out <\/p>\n
533
\n00:46:28,960 –> 00:46:31,480
\nand you feel that pain upon
\npain. <\/p>\n
534
\n00:46:32,400 –> 00:46:36,520
\nBut you know that God is with
\nyou and that he loves you and <\/p>\n
535
\n00:46:37,720 –> 00:46:45,040
\nthat through all of that pain,
\nthrough all of that trouble, God<\/p>\n
536
\n00:46:45,600 –> 00:46:52,800
\nis saving you.
\nAnd so, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n
537
\n00:46:56,160 –> 00:47:02,600
\nverse 10, God says, after all of
\nthese rebukes, and all of these <\/p>\n
538
\n00:47:04,040 –> 00:47:08,400
\nthreats of what he is going to
\ndo, yet the number of the <\/p>\n
539
\n00:47:08,400 –> 00:47:12,600
\nchildren of the of Israel shall
\nbe as the sand of the sea, which<\/p>\n
540
\n00:47:12,600 –> 00:47:17,000
\ncannot be measured nor numbered.
\nAnd it shall come to pass, that <\/p>\n
541
\n00:47:17,000 –> 00:47:20,960
\nin the place where it was said
\nunto them, Ye and not my people,<\/p>\n
542
\n00:47:21,280 –> 00:47:25,320
\nthere shall be said unto them,
\nye are the sons of the living <\/p>\n
543
\n00:47:25,320 –> 00:47:27,520
\nGod.
\nWho’s that talking about? <\/p>\n
544
\n00:47:28,440 –> 00:47:32,120
\nIsrael?
\nYes, dispersed, then, <\/p>\n
545
\n00:47:32,120 –> 00:47:34,440
\nregathering.
\nBut who? <\/p>\n
546
\n00:47:34,640 –> 00:47:35,120
\nWho?
\nWho? <\/p>\n
547
\n00:47:35,120 –> 00:47:37,680
\nWho does Paul apply that to?
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:47:37,680 –> 00:47:47,960
\nOnly there was a people that
\ndwelt in darkness and saw a <\/p>\n
549
\n00:47:47,960 –> 00:47:54,040
\ngreat light, and they’re sitting
\nin this room right now. <\/p>\n
550
\n00:47:56,440 –> 00:48:04,880
\nEveryone of you, we who were not
\nGod’s children, grafted in from <\/p>\n
551
\n00:48:04,880 –> 00:48:12,240
\nlands, never called the land of
\nGod, not a people low army. <\/p>\n
552
\n00:48:12,520 –> 00:48:19,880
\nLo Ruhama, who God gave his
\nbeloved Son, For that every <\/p>\n
553
\n00:48:19,880 –> 00:48:26,800
\nGentile one of us might have
\nhope, the hope of life in his <\/p>\n
554
\n00:48:26,800 –> 00:48:31,920
\nKingdom, and our number with
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:48:33,080 –> 00:48:38,000
\nAll of us together, spiritual
\nIsrael, Jew and Gentile, united,<\/p>\n
556
\n00:48:38,840 –> 00:48:43,720
\nwill be without number.
\nWe see us singing together in <\/p>\n
557
\n00:48:43,720 –> 00:48:49,560
\nRevelation, chapter 5, all of us
\nto that worthy lamb. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:48:51,440 –> 00:48:55,960
\nYe are the sons of the living
\nGod, then that shall the <\/p>\n
559
\n00:48:55,960 –> 00:48:59,520
\nchildren of Judah and the
\nchildren of Israel be gathered <\/p>\n
560
\n00:48:59,520 –> 00:49:06,120
\ntogether, and they shall come up
\nout of the land, for great shall<\/p>\n
561
\n00:49:06,120 –> 00:49:12,160
\nbe the day of Jezreel.
\nThis is a picture that God gives<\/p>\n
562
\n00:49:12,840 –> 00:49:18,600
\nto a wayward, disobedient nation
\nin which he says at it’s heart <\/p>\n
563
\n00:49:18,600 –> 00:49:26,000
\nthe following change and giving
\nyou time to change. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:49:27,200 –> 00:49:33,160
\nChange before it is too late,
\nbecause you’re going to lose <\/p>\n
565
\n00:49:33,240 –> 00:49:37,440
\neverything.
\nChange because I love you and I <\/p>\n
566
\n00:49:37,440 –> 00:49:43,840
\nwant to save you, but I need you
\nto reach out and take my hand <\/p>\n
567
\n00:49:44,040 –> 00:49:49,680
\nthat is stretched out to you.
\nListen to these words, painful <\/p>\n
568
\n00:49:49,680 –> 00:49:53,400
\nthough they may be.
\nThey don’t entertain you. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:49:53,920 –> 00:49:59,240
\nThey don’t make you delighted,
\nbut these are words of love. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:50:00,320 –> 00:50:04,240
\nThey come from a place of
\nintense commitment. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:50:05,800 –> 00:50:12,360
\nThey come from a place of a
\nfather’s heart, of a husband’s <\/p>\n
572
\n00:50:12,560 –> 00:50:18,000
\nheart.
\nAnd they set an example for <\/p>\n
573
\n00:50:18,280 –> 00:50:25,040
\nevery husband in this room.
\nYou have a wife at your side. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:50:25,200 –> 00:50:28,160
\nThank God for your wife,
\nbrother. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:50:29,520 –> 00:50:32,640
\nShe’s still with you after all
\nthese years, in spite of who you<\/p>\n
576
\n00:50:32,640 –> 00:50:35,400
\nare and all of your
\ninadequacies. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:50:36,880 –> 00:50:43,000
\nThank God for her every day.
\nYou could be without her and <\/p>\n
578
\n00:50:43,000 –> 00:50:46,440
\nalone.
\nAnd where would you be then? <\/p>\n
579
\n00:50:48,520 –> 00:50:52,480
\nBe grateful for her.
\nShe’s not the weaker vessel <\/p>\n
580
\n00:50:52,480 –> 00:50:57,000
\nbecause she’s more sinful to you
\nor less than you, but because <\/p>\n
581
\n00:50:57,000 –> 00:51:02,360
\nphysically her frame doesn’t
\nhave the strength that yours <\/p>\n
582
\n00:51:02,360 –> 00:51:06,480
\ndoes or did.
\nSo take that into account and <\/p>\n
583
\n00:51:06,480 –> 00:51:11,400
\ndon’t overburden her.
\nAnd should your wife be like <\/p>\n
584
\n00:51:11,400 –> 00:51:16,080
\nGomer or what do you do?
\nWalk away and say good riddance?<\/p>\n
585
\n00:51:16,680 –> 00:51:20,520
\nIs is that what God did to his
\nwife? <\/p>\n
586
\n00:51:22,040 –> 00:51:28,720
\nIs that what Hosea is allowed to
\ndo with his wife? <\/p>\n
587
\n00:51:30,000 –> 00:51:32,040
\nWell, we’ll look at that in a
\nlittle bit more detail in the <\/p>\n
588
\n00:51:32,040 –> 00:51:33,040
\nnext session.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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