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February 18 - Hosea 3 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Wednesday.
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  It's the 18th of February. I've noticed I'm quite lazy when
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  I say that February, February, it is the 18th of February and
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  it's great to have your company on this middle of the week where
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  we have been enjoying the book of Hosea.
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  Isn't it great to have an Old Testament prophet that is just
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  so clear? It's like, it's like a kid
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  sermon, right? It's this object lesson with
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  something really concrete that you can just understand.
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  So clearly you probably can't get up in front of church and do
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  a kids sermon about, you know, a prostitute having children to
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  her clients and God being faithful even though she is
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  unfaithful to her husband. But it sure works well in this
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  little book of minor prophecy. And we will continue on this on
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  this journey today beautifully. The other thing, friends, that
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  I'll tell you about that's happening in World of Sean is
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  today is the day that I go away on a few days of retreat before
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  this weekend, at which time I will be ordained as a priest in
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  the Anglican Church of Tasmania, which is just wild and
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  wonderful. I was ordained as a Deacon a
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  couple of years ago, and this is the next step as God has been
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  messing with my life, inviting me deeper into a world of
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  ministry where I can serve Him more.
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  So what an amazing thing. And I am just so grateful that
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  you friends come along with me. And no matter what goes down,
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  you and I will continue to read God's word each day and we'll do
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  just that. And today is a really short
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  reading. It's only 5 verses long.
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  And it's Hosea's wife being redeemed, which is beautiful.
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  And this, this can speak to each of us and how God redeems us.
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  Holy Spirit, may we see ourselves and the truth of who
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  you are to us as we read this passage today.
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  All right, friends, let's read together Hosea chapter 3.
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  Then the Lord said to me, go and love your wife again, even
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  though she commits adultery with another lover.
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  This will illustrate that the Lord still loves Israel, even
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  though the people have turned to other gods and loved to worship
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  them. So I bought her back for 15
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  pieces of silver and five bushels of barley and a measure
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  of wine. Then I said to her, You must
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  live in my house for many days and stop your prostitution.
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  During this time you will not have sexual relations with
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  anyone, not even with me. This shows that Israel will go a
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  long time without a king or Prince and without sacrifices,
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  sacred pillars, priests, or even idols.
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  But afterward the people will return and devote themselves to
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  the Lord their God and to David's descendant, their king.
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  In the last days they will tremble in awe of the Lord and
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  of His goodness. Oh Lord, you make it your
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  business to redeem your people. That is who You are.
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  And So what can we do other than tremble in awe at Your profound
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  and almighty goodness? We just cannot wrap our heads
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  around it. Lord, how good You are to us.
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  As deep as the oceans are, that does not touch the magnificence
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  of Your goodness to us. As high as the heavens are, as
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  far as the east is from the West, that does not begin to
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  describe the unfathomable bounty of Your goodness.
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  So instead, we don't try and understand it.
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  We simply tremble in awe of Your goodness.
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  Ah, we love you and we are in awe of You, and we pray this in
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  the awesome name of Jesus, our good, good Saviour.
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  Amen.