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Speaker 1: What if God asked you to marry someone who would
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Speaker 1: betray you over and over again, someone who would lie
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Speaker 1: to your face, run into the arms of other lovers,
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Speaker 1: and humiliate you in public, and yet you were called
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Speaker 1: to love them anyway. Most of us would refuse, We
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Speaker 1: would walk away, unable to endure the pain. But Hoseiah
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Speaker 1: didn't have a choice. His marriage was his message. God
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Speaker 1: commanded Hoseiah to marry a woman who would be unfaithful,
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Speaker 1: not as a punishment, but as a prophecy. His relationship
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Speaker 1: would be a mirror reflecting God's own broken heart. Because
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Speaker 1: the real betrayal wasn't just between Joseiah and his wife.
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Speaker 1: It was between God and Israel. A nation that had
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Speaker 1: once been devoted to him had now chased after idols,
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Speaker 1: lovers and false promises, turning its back on the one
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Speaker 1: who had saved them. But is Israel's story really so
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Speaker 1: different from ours? Today? We live in a world that
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Speaker 1: worships success, pleasure, and self, chasing anything that makes us
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Speaker 1: feel good for a moment while pushing God further away.
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Speaker 1: We promise faithfulness on Sunday, then betray him by Monday.
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Speaker 1: Hoseiah's heartbreak is not just ancient history. It's a timeless warning,
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Speaker 1: and yet in the midst of betrayal, there is hope
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Speaker 1: because this is not just a story of judgment. It
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Speaker 1: is a story of relentless love, a love that refuses
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Speaker 1: to give up, a love that pursues even the unfaithful.
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Speaker 1: The question is how far can love really go before
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Speaker 1: it breaks. If this video gives you a fresh perspective
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Speaker 1: on the Book of Joseiah, share it with someone who
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Speaker 1: let's dive deeper into the life of the prophet Hoseiah
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Speaker 1: and uncover the man behind the message. When God speaks,
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Speaker 1: it is rarely in a whisper. His words shake mountains,
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Speaker 1: call down fire, and bring nations to their knees. But
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Speaker 1: for Hoseiah, God's voice came as a command so painful,
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Speaker 1: so personal, that it would reshape his entire existence. Hoseia
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Speaker 1: was no ordinary prophet. He was a man chosen to
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Speaker 1: live out his message, to experience the heartbreak of God
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Speaker 1: first hand. His life would not just be about speaking
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Speaker 1: the word of the Lord. He would become the message.
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Speaker 1: So who was this man, where did he come from,
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Speaker 1: and how did his life become one of the most
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Speaker 1: gut wrenching testimonies in the entire Bible. Hoseiah's name means salvation,
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Speaker 1: a tragic irony for a prophet whose life would be
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Speaker 1: defined by suffering. He was born in the Northern Kingdom
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Speaker 1: of Israel, a land drowning in idolatry, political instability, and
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Speaker 1: moral corruption. It was a time of fleeting kings, treacherous alliances,
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Speaker 1: and spiritual decay. Leaders were assassinated in rapid succession. The
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Speaker 1: people bowed before golden calves while still claiming to worship Yahweh.
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Speaker 1: Priests turned the temple into a business, and justice became
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Speaker 1: a commodity for the highest bidder. Israel, the chosen nation,
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Speaker 1: was crumbling from the inside out. But in the midst
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Speaker 1: of the chaos, God called Hoseiah. Unlike some prophets who
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Speaker 1: resisted their calling, think of Jonah running in the opposite direction,
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Speaker 1: Joseia obeyed without hesitation. He didn't argue, he didn't plead
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Speaker 1: for another mission. He simply listened, and then the impossible
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Speaker 1: command came go marry a prostitute. It was a prophecy
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Speaker 1: unlike any other Prophets were known for their words, their sermons,
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Speaker 1: their fire breathing pronouncements of doom and redemption. But Hoseiah's
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Speaker 1: message wouldn't be written in ink or thundered from a
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Speaker 1: mountain top. It would be written in his tears, in
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Speaker 1: his heartbreak, in the agony of a love rejected over
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Speaker 1: and over again. His life would mirror God's own pain
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Speaker 1: as he watched his beloved Israel turn to other gods,
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Speaker 1: just as Joseiah's wife, Gomer, would turn to other men.
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Speaker 1: Yet despite this personal burden, Joseiah preached relentlessly. His warnings
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Speaker 1: were not just divine pronouncements. They were the words of
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Speaker 1: a man who felt what God felt. Every betrayal of
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Speaker 1: Israel against Yahweh mirrored Goma's betrayal against him. Every false
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Speaker 1: idol was another lover stealing his wife's heart. He lived
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Speaker 1: every prophecy he suffered through every metaphor. The nation's response
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Speaker 1: silence mockery. In difference, Israel was too far gone. They
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Speaker 1: had grown deaf to the voice of God, blind to
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Speaker 1: his mercy, numb to his warnings, They continued in their sin,
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Speaker 1: laughing in the face of judgment, and yet Joseiah never
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Speaker 1: stopped loving. History doesn't tell us exactly how Joseiah's story ended.
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Speaker 1: Did he die in obscurity, heart broken over both his
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Speaker 1: wife and his nation? Did Israel ever realize the depth
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Speaker 1: of his sacrifice. What we do know is this, his
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Speaker 1: words endured, his pain became a prophecy that still shakes
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Speaker 1: us to day. Hoseiah's life raises haunting questions. What if
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Speaker 1: your greatest suffering was meant to teach others about God's love?
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Speaker 1: What if the person who hurt you most was the
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Speaker 1: one God called you to keep forgiving. Joseiah's story is
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Speaker 1: more than ancient history. It is a living, breathing warning
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Speaker 1: to a world that still chases after idols. And so
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Speaker 1: the prophet with a broken heart spoke, But would any
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Speaker 1: one listen? The people of Israel were unfaithful. Their hearts,
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Speaker 1: once devoted to the one true God, had been seduced
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Speaker 1: by foreign idols, by lust for wealth, by a hunger
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Speaker 1: for power. They bowed to bail, sacrificed to false gods,
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Speaker 1: and traded their sacred covenant for momentary pleasure. But How
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Speaker 1: do you make a nation feel its own betrayal? How
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Speaker 1: do you make people understand what their sin looks like?
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Speaker 1: From God's perspective. For Hoseiah, there would be no fiery sermon,
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Speaker 1: no symbolic parable. Instead, God gave him a command so painful,
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Speaker 1: so humiliating, that it would mark him forever. Go take
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Speaker 1: to yourself a wife of Hooredom, and have children of Hooredom,
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Speaker 1: for the land commits great howedom by forsaking the lord
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Speaker 1: Hoseiah one two. Imagine the weight of those words. Hoseiah,
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Speaker 1: the prophet, the man of God, was being told to
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Speaker 1: marry a woman who would never truly love him, a
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Speaker 1: woman who would betray him, abandon him, sell herself to
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Speaker 1: other men, a woman who would break his heart again
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Speaker 1: and again. And yet he obeyed. He found her Gomer.
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Speaker 1: Maybe she was beautiful, Maybe she was broken. Maybe she
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Speaker 1: laughed at the idea of belonging to just one man.
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Speaker 1: Maybe she longed to escape her past but didn't know how.
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Speaker 1: Whatever the case, Joseiah took her home, He gave her
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Speaker 1: his name, he made her his wife. For a time,
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Speaker 1: things seemed good. Maybe she tried, Maybe she enjoyed the
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Speaker 1: warmth of a home, the security of a husband who
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Speaker 1: actually cared. Then came the children. Jezreel, the firstborn son.
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Speaker 1: His name was a warning, a reminder of the bloodshed
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Speaker 1: that had differed filed Israel, a prophecy of the destruction
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Speaker 1: that was coming. Lo Ruhamah, a daughter. Her name meant
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Speaker 1: no mercy, a sign that God would no longer spare
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Speaker 1: Israel from judgment. Loss Ami the second son. His name
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Speaker 1: cut deeper than the rest, not my people. Each name
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Speaker 1: was a dagger to the nation's heart, a painful mirror
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Speaker 1: reflecting what they had become. The chosen people, the beloved ones,
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Speaker 1: had turned their back so completely that God was ready
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Speaker 1: to disown them. And then, just as predicted, Gomer left.
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Speaker 1: The details are scarce, but the outcome is clear. She
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Speaker 1: abandoned her home, her children, her husband. She went back
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Speaker 1: to the life she knew, chasing the thrill of forbidden lovers,
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Speaker 1: trading the security of Hoseiah's love for the empty promises
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Speaker 1: of men who saw her as nothing more than a
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Speaker 1: momentary pleasure. And Hoseiah was left alone. This is where
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Speaker 1: the story should have ended. By all rights, Hoseiah should
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Speaker 1: have let her go. She had made her choice, She
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Speaker 1: had shattered his heart. She was not coming back, but
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Speaker 1: God wasn't finished. Go again, love a woman who is
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Speaker 1: loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as
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Speaker 1: the Lord loves the children of Israel. Though they turned
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Speaker 1: to other gods, Hoseiah three one, the command was unthinkable,
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Speaker 1: find her, love her again, take back the one who
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Speaker 1: betrayed you. And so Hoseiah searched through dark streets, through
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Speaker 1: alleys and brothels, through places no respectable man would go,
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Speaker 1: until finally he found her. Not as she was before.
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Speaker 1: She was not the woman he had first taken home.
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Speaker 1: She was used, abandoned, stripped of her beauty. She had
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Speaker 1: given herself away so many times that she was no
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Speaker 1: longer her own. She belonged to another man, now not
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Speaker 1: as a wife, but as a slave. And there on
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Speaker 1: an auction block, Gomer stood naked, ashamed, humiliated. The world
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Speaker 1: had chewed her up and spat her out. She was
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Speaker 1: nothing now. And then a voice rang out, fifteen shekels
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Speaker 1: of silver and a homer and a letheck of barley.
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Speaker 1: It was Hoseia. He was buying her back. She had
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Speaker 1: sold herself, but he was willing to pay the price.
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Speaker 1: The world saw her as worthless, but to him she
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Speaker 1: was worth everything. She had been unfaithful, she had abandoned him,
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Speaker 1: but Hoseiah didn't just take her back, He redeemed her.
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Speaker 1: This is the heart of the book of Joseia. It
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Speaker 1: is not just about a prophet and his wife. It
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Speaker 1: is not just about Israel's sin. It is about God,
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Speaker 1: about his love, his mercy, his willingness to buy back
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Speaker 1: the unfaithful, the unworthy, the ones who have spit in
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Speaker 1: his face and walked away. Because we are Gomer, we
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Speaker 1: have chased after other gods. We have chosen sin over righteousness,
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Speaker 1: We have sold ourselves to things that cannot satisfy, and
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Speaker 1: yet He still comes for us. What this means for
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Speaker 1: us today, Hoseiah and Gomer's story is not just ancient history.
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Speaker 1: It is our story. How many today have walked away
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Speaker 1: from God. How many have traded his love for the
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Speaker 1: fleeting pleasures of this world. We run after money, success, relationships, pleasure,
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Speaker 1: things that promise fulfillment but leave us empty. And yet
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Speaker 1: God still loves, He still calls, he still redeems no
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Speaker 1: matter how far gone we think we are, no matter
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Speaker 1: how broken, no matter how much we've betrayed him. If
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Speaker 1: Hoseiah could buy back Gomer, how much more will God
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Speaker 1: do for us? The next chapters take a dark turn.
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Speaker 1: The warnings grow louder. Judgment is coming. Will Israel listen
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Speaker 1: or will they seal their fate? Forever Hoseiah had lived
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Speaker 1: his prophecy, his own marriage had become a symbol of
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Speaker 1: Israel's betrayal, a nation that had abandoned its first love
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Speaker 1: and chased after false gods. But now the message became clear.
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Speaker 1: God was putting Israel on trial. The evidence was overwhelming,
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Speaker 1: the verdict guilty. This was no longer just about Goma's unfaithfulness.
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Speaker 1: This was about an entire nation that had sold itself
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Speaker 1: to sin. God's opening words in Hoseiah for one cut
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Speaker 1: like a blade. There is no faithfulness, no lave, no
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Speaker 1: acknowledgment of God in the land. This was not a
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Speaker 1: miner offense. This was not a momentary lapse. Israel had
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Speaker 1: abandoned God completely. What came next was a list of charges,
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Speaker 1: each one a nail in their coffin. The charges against Israel,
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Speaker 1: a nation in moral collapse, first rampant corruption and idolatry.
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Speaker 1: Israel was supposed to be a holy nation, a people
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Speaker 1: set apart, But instead of worshiping Yahweh, they had prostituted
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Speaker 1: themselves to bail. They sacrifice on the mountain tops and
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Speaker 1: burn offerings on the hills under oak, poplar and terebinth
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Speaker 1: where the shade is pleasant Hoseiah four thirteen. They had
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Speaker 1: traded the majesty of the temple for pagan altars. The priests,
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Speaker 1: who were meant to lead people toward God were instead
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Speaker 1: leading them into idolatry. The prophets, who were supposed to
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Speaker 1: proclaim truth had been silenced or had joined in the corruption.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't just about false gods. It was about what
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Speaker 1: came with them, Orgies in the temples, human sacrifices, rituals
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Speaker 1: soaked in blood. The people of Israel weren't just worshiping bail.
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Speaker 1: They were imitating the worst of their enemies. Two A
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Speaker 1: rejection of truth. Then came one of the most haunting
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Speaker 1: verses in scripture. My people are destroyed for lack of
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Speaker 1: knowledge Hoseiah for six. This was not ignorance by accident.
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Speaker 1: This was wilful rejection of truth. The people chose to
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Speaker 1: forget God's law, the priests refused to teach it. The
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Speaker 1: leaders suppressed it. Truth had been exchanged for convenience. The
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Speaker 1: laws of God were seen as old fashioned, unnecessary, even oppressive,
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Speaker 1: sound familiar. Three, The collapse of morality as God continued
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Speaker 1: his words described a nation that had lost its moral compass.
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Speaker 1: There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery.
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Speaker 1: They break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed Hoseaphore Colon II.
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Speaker 1: The decay was everywhere. Violence filled the streets. Families were
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Speaker 1: torn apart, the rich grew richer, the poor were crushed.
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Speaker 1: Justice was no longer justice. The nation was unrecognizable. This
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Speaker 1: was no longer just sin. This was self destruction. And
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Speaker 1: yet the people refused to see it. They still performed
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Speaker 1: religious rituals, they still offered sacrifices, They still thought they
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Speaker 1: were fine. But God's patience was running out. Relating it
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Speaker 1: to today, are we witnessing the same collapse? As we
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Speaker 1: read these words, we must ask, are we any different?
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Speaker 1: Look at the world today? A rejection of truth. We
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Speaker 1: see it everywhere, Absolute morality replaced by personal preference, churches
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Speaker 1: abandoning biblical teaching, believers too afraid to stand for what
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Speaker 1: is right. Moral collapse we live in an age of
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Speaker 1: rampant sin, sexual immorality, greed, corruption, the devaluation of life.
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Speaker 1: The things once seen as evil are now celebrated the
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Speaker 1: lack of knowledge. The Bible is more accessible than ever before,
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Speaker 1: yet fewer and fewer people read it. We have traded
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Speaker 1: God's wisdom for self help books, political ideologies, and social
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Speaker 1: media influences. We are watching history repeat itself the call
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Speaker 1: to repentance. But will they listen? In Oaiah six, God
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Speaker 1: extends an invitation, come, let us return n to the Lord.
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Speaker 1: He has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us.
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Speaker 1: He has injured us, but he will bind up our
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Speaker 1: wounds Hoseiah six one. Even after everything, God still wanted
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Speaker 1: them back. He was ready to heal, ready to restore,
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Speaker 1: ready to forgive. All they had to do was turn back.
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Speaker 1: But the response was half hearted. They wanted blessings, not change.
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Speaker 1: They wanted God's protection, not his lordship, and so they refused.
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Speaker 1: For your love is like the morning mist, like the
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Speaker 1: early dew that disappears Hoseiah six four. Their repentance was fleeting,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't real, and because of that, judgment was coming.
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Speaker 1: What about us? Will we listen? Joseiah's warnings are not
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Speaker 1: just for Israel, they are for us. Are we content
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Speaker 1: with religion or do we seek true relationship with God?
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Speaker 1: Are we ignoring the signs of moral collapse, convincing ourselves
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Speaker 1: that everything is fine. God is still calling, He is
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Speaker 1: still willing to forgive, but time is running out. The
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Speaker 1: question is will we listen? If this message has stirred
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Speaker 1: in the comments the warnings will only grow stronger, the
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Speaker 1: consequences will become real. Judgment is at the door. Will
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Speaker 1: Israel wake up before it's too late? Oziah had spoken.
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Speaker 1: The charges against Israel were clear, corruption, idolatry, moral collapse.
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Speaker 1: But instead of repenting, instead of falling to their knees
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Speaker 1: and crying out to God, Israel shrugged. The people were
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Speaker 1: too far gone, the leaders were too drunk on their
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Speaker 1: own power. The warnings fell on deaf ears, and now
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Speaker 1: judgment was coming. If you had walked the streets of
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Speaker 1: Israel in Hoseiah's time, you would have seen a nation
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Speaker 1: on the brink of collapse. Their enemies didn't need to
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Speaker 1: destroy them, they were destroying themselves. The political system was
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Speaker 1: a disaster. Kings were assassinated one after another. Corrupt leaders
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Speaker 1: rose to power, only to be betrayed by the very
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Speaker 1: people who put them there. They make kings, but not
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Speaker 1: by me. They set up princes, but I do not
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Speaker 1: acknowledge them. Hoseia Ate four. Israel had abandoned God's authority.
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Speaker 1: They didn't seek him when they chose their rulers. They
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Speaker 1: followed greed, ambition, and manipulation, and it led to chaos.
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Speaker 1: Their kings weren't leaders, they were puppets controlled by the
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Speaker 1: highest bidder. The nation had no stability, no morality, no future.
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Speaker 1: Does this sound familiar? Look at today's world. Leaders rise
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Speaker 1: and fall, consumed by corruption and greed. Nations tear themselves
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Speaker 1: apart from the inside. Betrayal, manipulation, and deception are the
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Speaker 1: new normal. Just like Israel, we are witnessing the collapse
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Speaker 1: of morality in leadership and culture. And just like Israel,
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Speaker 1: we are ignoring the warnings. God doesn't just tell Israel
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Speaker 1: what's wrong. He paints a picture, and the images are haunting.
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Speaker 1: One a half baked cakes. Iphraim is a cake unturned
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Speaker 1: Hosea seven eight. Imagine a loaf of bread placed over
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Speaker 1: a fire but never flipped, Burnt on one side, raw
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Speaker 1: on the other. This was Israel incomplete, corrupt, ruined. They
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Speaker 1: had some religion but no relationship with God. They had
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Speaker 1: moments of worship but no true obedience. They were pretending
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Speaker 1: to be whole, when in reality they were spiritually rotten.
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Speaker 1: Are we any different today? Church is full of people
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Speaker 1: who say they love God but ignore his commands. A
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Speaker 1: nation that claims faith while embracing sin, half baked, lukewarm, useless. Two.
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Speaker 1: A senseless dove. Ephraim is like a dove, easily deceived
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Speaker 1: and senseless, now calling to Egypt, now turning to Assyria.
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Speaker 1: Hoseiah seven eleven. A dove flutters from place to place, confused, lost, directionless.
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Speaker 1: This was Israel. Instead of trusting God, they ran from
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Speaker 1: one worldly alliance to another. They begged Egypt for help,
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Speaker 1: then turned to Assyria, trusting political deals instead of divine
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Speaker 1: protection and God soar rite through them. Woe to them
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Speaker 1: because they have strayed from Me Assi seven thirteen. How
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Speaker 1: often do we do the same look looking to money
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Speaker 1: for security instead of God, turning to politics, influences, and
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Speaker 1: media instead of scripture, trusting in human strength while ignoring
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Speaker 1: the power of prayer. Just like Israel, we are a
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Speaker 1: senseless people. There is a law written into creation itself.
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Speaker 1: You reap what you sow. If you plant seeds of righteousness,
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Speaker 1: you will harvest blessing. But if you plant seeds of sin, corruption,
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Speaker 1: and rebellion, you will reap destruction. And Israel had been
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Speaker 1: sowing evil for generations. They sow the wind and reap
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Speaker 1: the whirlwind Hoseiah eight seven. They thought they could worship
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Speaker 1: idols and still be blessed. They thought they could ignore
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Speaker 1: God and still have his protection. They thought they could
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Speaker 1: sin without consequences. But the whirlwind was coming. Foreign nations
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Speaker 1: would invade, The people would be scattered, the cities would burn,
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Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Israel would be no more. And it
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Speaker 1: was all their own doing. Because you have depended on
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Speaker 1: your own strength and on your many warriors, the roar
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Speaker 1: of battle will rise against your people Hoseiah ten thirteen
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Speaker 1: to fourteen. They trusted their military instead of their maker.
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Speaker 1: They put their faith in chariots instead of God's covenant,
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Speaker 1: and so God would remove his protection, the great Kingdom
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Speaker 1: of Israel, the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, was
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Speaker 1: about to fall. We read these words and think, how
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Speaker 1: could Israel have been so blind? But are we any different?
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Speaker 1: Look at our world to day? A society built on sin,
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Speaker 1: a culture that rejects truth, A people that worship pleasure,
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Speaker 1: wealth and power instead of God. We have sown sexual immorality, greed,
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Speaker 1: violence and pride. What will we reap and look around? Division?
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Speaker 1: Political corruption, leaders betraying their people, Families falling apart, nations
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Speaker 1: in turmoil. Just like Israel, we are standing on the
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Speaker 1: edge of destruction and God is still calling. He is
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Speaker 1: still warning, But are we listening? Israel refuse to repent.
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Speaker 1: They thought they could sin without consequences. They thought their
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Speaker 1: wealth and armies would protect them. They were wrong, and
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Speaker 1: soon they would be conquered, scattered, and lost. What about us?
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Speaker 1: God's warnings are still echoing to day? Will we wake
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Speaker 1: up before it's too late? Or will we continue to
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Speaker 1: sow the wind and reap the whirlwind? The warnings will
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Speaker 1: not stop. Judgment is coming, But is there still hope?
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Speaker 1: Israel had rejected God, betrayed him, and turned to idols.
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Speaker 1: They had broken his heart. But in Hoseir eleven the
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Speaker 1: tone shifts. The accusations, the judgment, the warnings of destruction,
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Speaker 1: they all pause, and suddenly we hear something unexpected, the
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Speaker 1: voice of a grieving father. This is not a chapter
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Speaker 1: of wrath. This is a chapter of love, a love
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Speaker 1: so deep, so relentless, that even after everything, God still
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Speaker 1: can't let go. If you have ever loved someone who
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Speaker 1: walked away, someone you desperately wanted to save but couldn't
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Speaker 1: force to stay, then you understand the heart of Hoseiah eleven.
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Speaker 1: God does not speak here as a king delivering judgment,
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Speaker 1: or a judge pronouncing a sentence. He speaks as a father,
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Speaker 1: and his voice breaks with sorrow. When Israel was a child,
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Speaker 1: I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
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Speaker 1: Hoseiah eleven one. God remembers when Israel was small, helpless,
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Speaker 1: lost in slavery. He rescued them. He carried them through
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Speaker 1: the wilderness, fed them, clothed them, led them to the
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Speaker 1: promised land. But now that same child has run away.
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Speaker 1: But the more they were called, the more they went
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Speaker 1: away from me. Hoseiah eleven. Two. Every time God reached out,
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Speaker 1: Israel ran further, every time he sent a prophet, they
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Speaker 1: ignored him. They gave their worship to bal their hearts
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Speaker 1: to idols, their lives to destruction, and yet God still
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Speaker 1: loved them. This is not just a historical account. This
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Speaker 1: is the story of humanity. How many times has God
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Speaker 1: called us and we ran the other way? How many
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Speaker 1: times has he reached out but we ignored him, and
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Speaker 1: yet He loves us still. God's words in Hoseah eleven
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Speaker 1: are some of the most tender in all of scripture.
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Speaker 1: It was I who taught he free him to walk,
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Speaker 1: taking them by the arms, but they did not realize
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Speaker 1: it was I who healed them. Hoseiah eleven three. Picture
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Speaker 1: a father bending down, holding his child's hands, guiding their
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Speaker 1: first steps. Picture him lifting them when they fall, bandaging
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Speaker 1: their wounds, whispering words of encouragement. This is how God
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Speaker 1: sees Israel, not as a rebellious nation, not as a failure,
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Speaker 1: but as his child. He fed them, carried them, protected them,
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Speaker 1: and they never even noticed. How often do we do
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Speaker 1: the same. How often do we take God's blessings, his mercy,
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Speaker 1: his protection without ever thanking him. How often does He
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Speaker 1: hold us up and we think We're standing on our
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Speaker 1: own and still he loves us. Israel deserved destruction. They
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Speaker 1: had earned it. They had broken every command, rejected every warning,
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Speaker 1: and spit in the face of the God who loved them.
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Speaker 1: And yet as God prepared to punish them, he hesitates.
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Speaker 1: His voice wavers, how can I give you up, Ephraim?
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Speaker 1: How can I hand you over Israel? Hoseiah eleven eight.
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Speaker 1: Do you hear the pain in those words? That this
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Speaker 1: is not a cold hearted king pronouncing judgment. This is
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Speaker 1: a father who cannot bear to see his children suffer.
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Speaker 1: My heart is changed within me, all my compassion is
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Speaker 1: aroused Hoseiah eleven eight. God is not indifferent, he is torn.
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Speaker 1: Justice demands that Israel suffer, but love begs for mercy.
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Speaker 1: Have you ever wondered if God struggles over you? Have
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Speaker 1: you ever imagined him watching as you wander, as you sin,
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Speaker 1: as you reject him, with tears in his eyes. We
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Speaker 1: think of God's power, his sovereignty, his authority, But do
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Speaker 1: we ever think of his heartbreak? Because this is the
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Speaker 1: God of Hoseiah eleven, not distant, not indifferent, but a
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Speaker 1: father who loves too much to let go. At the
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Speaker 1: end of this emotional chapter, God makes a shocking statement,
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Speaker 1: I will not carry out my fierce anger, nor will
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Speaker 1: I devastate Ephraim again, for I am God and not
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Speaker 1: a man, the holy one among you. Hoseiah eleven nine.
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Speaker 1: Do you see it? If God were like us, he
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Speaker 1: would have given up, and he would have walked away,
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Speaker 1: cut off Israel forever and never looked back. But he
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Speaker 1: is not like us. He is God, and his love
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Speaker 1: is not human love. It does not give up, It
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Speaker 1: does not let go, it does not end. Israel had
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Speaker 1: betrayed him a thousand times, and still he would not
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Speaker 1: let them go. This is the gospel in the Old Testament.
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Speaker 1: This is Jesus on the cross, dying for the very
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Speaker 1: people who rejected him. This is God's love for you,
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Speaker 1: for me, for a world that keeps running away. God's
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Speaker 1: love is relentless, but love does not force. Like the
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Speaker 1: father of the prodigal son, God waits, He waits for
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Speaker 1: his children to come home. Israel still had a choice.
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Speaker 1: They could return or they could perish. And so do we.
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Speaker 1: Will we keep running or will we finally turn around
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Speaker 1: and fall into the arms of a father who never
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Speaker 1: let go. Hoseia eleven shows us God's heart, but the
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Speaker 1: story of Israel is still unfolding. In the next chapter,
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Speaker 1: Hoseiah will lay out Israel's final choices, repentance or ruin
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Speaker 1: away back, or a path to destruction. If this message
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Speaker 1: The Father's love is still calling, but will his children
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Speaker 1: finally listen? For years, Joseiah had warned them, He had shouted, wept,
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Speaker 1: and pleaded, but Israel refused to listen. Now, as the
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Speaker 1: book draws to a close, Joseiah's voice rises one last time.
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Speaker 1: Return o Israel to the Lord, your God. Your sins
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Speaker 1: have been your downfall Joseiah fourteen one. It is not
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Speaker 1: a political appeal, not a call to arms. It is
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Speaker 1: a desperate cry, a last chance to come home before
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Speaker 1: it's too late. Would Israel finally listen or would they
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Speaker 1: seal their fate forever? The warnings had been clear, as
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Speaker 1: Syria was coming, the Northern Kingdom of Israel was on
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Speaker 1: the brink of collapse, and still they would not repent.
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Speaker 1: But here in these final chapters, Joseiah does not just
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Speaker 1: pronounce judgment. He offers a way back. God's heart is
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Speaker 1: still open, but time is running out. Joseiah twelve is
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Speaker 1: a history lesson, a brutal reminder of how far Israel
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Speaker 1: had fallen. Joseiah points to Jacob, their ancestor, a man
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Speaker 1: who wrestled with God and refused to let go. But
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Speaker 1: Israel had done the opposite. Instead of clinging to God,
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Speaker 1: they had abandoned him. Instead of seeking his blessing, they
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Speaker 1: sought power, money, and alliances with foreign nations. If im both,
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Speaker 1: I'm very rich, I have become wealthy Joseiah twelve eight.
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Speaker 1: They thought their economy was strong, that their political deals
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Speaker 1: with Assyria and Egypt would keep them safe, But God
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Speaker 1: saw through it all. They had built their success on deception,
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Speaker 1: corruption and lies, and now their judgment was near. Joseiah
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Speaker 1: thirteen paints the grim reality of what was about to happen.
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Speaker 1: As Syria would invade, the cities would burn, the people
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Speaker 1: would be so flattered, and worst of all, it could
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Speaker 1: have been avoided. God never wanted this for them. You
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Speaker 1: are destroyed, Israel, because you are against Me, against your helper.
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Speaker 1: Joseiah thirteen nine. Did you catch that the very God
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Speaker 1: who had rescued them, who had carried them, who had
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Speaker 1: loved them like a father, was the God they had
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Speaker 1: turned against. They had rejected their only source of help,
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Speaker 1: and now help would not come. Israel had sealed its fate.
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Speaker 1: But then one final hope Joseiah fourteen is a whisper
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Speaker 1: of mercy in the midst of judgment. Even now, even
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Speaker 1: after everything, God is still calling return o Israel to
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Speaker 1: the Lord your God. Hoseiah fourteen one. If they would
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Speaker 1: just turn back, God would heal them. If they would
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Speaker 1: just repent, God would restore them. I will heal their
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Speaker 1: waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned
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Speaker 1: away from them. Hoseiah fourteen four. Imagine a prisoner on
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Speaker 1: death row, moments from execution, only to have the judge
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Speaker 1: throw open the doors and offer freedom. Imagine a cheating
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Speaker 1: spouse who has broken every vow, only to find their
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Speaker 1: partner still willing to take them back. This is the
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Speaker 1: heart of God's love, not a love that ignores sin,
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Speaker 1: but a love that is willing to forgive it. If
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Speaker 1: only Israel would come home. Hoseiah is not just a
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Speaker 1: story of ancient Israel. It is a story of us.
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Speaker 1: How many times has God called our generation and we
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Speaker 1: have refused to listen? How many warnings has he sent
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Speaker 1: only to be ignored? Like Israel, we trust in wealth,
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Speaker 1: we chase pleasure. We put our faith in polity, power
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Speaker 1: and human wisdom. And yet our world is crumbling, crime, corruption, war, destruction.
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Speaker 1: We are reaping what we have sown. And just like
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Speaker 1: in Hoseiah's day, God is still calling return. But will
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Speaker 1: we The book of Joseiah ends with an open door.
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Speaker 1: God had given Israel every chance to repent. They had refused,
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Speaker 1: and within a few years the Northern Kingdom was gone forever.
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Speaker 1: But what about us? Will we make the same mistake?
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Speaker 1: Will we keep running from the only one who can
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Speaker 1: save us? Or will we finally stop and return to
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Speaker 1: the Lord. Hoseiah's prophecy ends, but God's love does not.
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Speaker 1: His call is still going out to nations, to churches,
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Speaker 1: to individuals, and to you. God is calling, will we
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Speaker 1: finally listen? The story of Hoseiah is not just history.
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Speaker 1: It is a mirror. It reflects the faithfulness of God
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Speaker 1: and the faithlessness of humanity. It shows us a love
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Speaker 1: so relentless, so incomprehensible, that it would chase after the
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Speaker 1: unfaithful again and again, even at great cost. But what
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Speaker 1: happens when a nation refuses to turn back? Israel had
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Speaker 1: its chance. It ignored the warnings, and within a few
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Speaker 1: short years, the Northern Kingdom was wiped from history. The
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Speaker 1: people were scattered, their cities destroyed, their sin caught up
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Speaker 1: with them. The question is will we learn from their mistake?
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Speaker 1: Or are we walking down the same path, ignoring God's
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Speaker 1: call until it's too late. But here is the good news.
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Speaker 1: God's love is still calling, and we see its ultimate
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Speaker 1: fulfillment in Jesus Christ, the greater Hoseiah. Like Hoseiah, Jesus
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Speaker 1: came to redeem the unfaithful, to buy us back, not
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Speaker 1: with silver, but with his own blood. We were Gomer,
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Speaker 1: running after idols, chasing pleasure, selling ourselves to things that
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Speaker 1: would never satisfy, and yet he still came for us.
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Speaker 1: The question is will we return to him before it's
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