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February 24 - Hosea 6 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Tuesday, it's the 24th of
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  February, and good on you for tapping on play and saying let's
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  see what we're up to in our Bible reading this week.
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  Whether it's the first part of the day and you are kind of
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  rubbing the sleep out of your eyes, or whether your day is
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  well underway and you're in the thick of it taking a moment.
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  Or whether your day has now come to an end and you are in the
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  deep exhale knowing that you've made it wherever you are.
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  Friends, so lovely to have you gathered around God's Word with
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  me and all of our brothers and sisters who do this together.
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  What a wonderful community to be able to be a part of as we
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  continue along this journey, peppering our days and shaping
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  our hearts around God's Word. And today we are going to read a
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  call to repentance where Hosea calls his people just to step
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  away and come back to the God who loves them and provides for
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  them. And what a beautiful call for us
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  to hear in our lives, no matter what's going on for us.
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  So how about we dive into this together?
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  Shall we? Yeah, Holy Spirit, open our
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  hearts so that we can hear your voice so clearly as we read
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  together this chapter of Your word.
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  Alright friends, let us read together Hosea Chapter 6.
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  Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces.
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  Now He will heal us. He has injured us.
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  Now He will bandage our wounds. In just a short time He will
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  restore us so that we may live in His presence.
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  Oh, that we might know the Lord. Let us press on to know Him.
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  He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the
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  coming of rains in early spring. O Israel and Judah, what should
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  I do with you? Asks the Lord?
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  For your love vanishes like the morning mist, and disappears
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  like dew in the sunlight. I sent my prophets to cut you to
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  pieces, to slaughter you with my words, with judgement as
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  inescapable as light. I want you to show love, not
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  offer sacrifices. I want you to know me more than
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  I want burnt offerings. But like Adam, you broke my
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  covenant and betrayed my trust. Gilead is a city of sinners
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  tracked with footprints of blood.
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  Priests form bands of robbers waiting in ambush for their
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  victims. They murder travellers along the
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  road to Shechem and practise every kind of sin.
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  Yes, I have seen something horrible in Ephraim and Israel.
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  My people are defiled by prostituting themselves with
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  other gods. Oh, Judah, a harvest of
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  punishment is also waiting for you, though I wanted to restore
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  the fortunes of my people. Our Lord, you truly are a God
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  who sees through to our heart. You don't want tokenistic
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  gestures of faith, You want us to know you.
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  You don't want our sacrifices, You want our love.
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  And so here we are, our wonderful Lord.
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  We are your people and we love you.
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  And we come before you today to know you better, to hear your
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  word, to learn more about your heart, to learn more about you,
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  and to spend time in your presence.
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  Holy Spirit, come to us, touch us, bubble up inside of us so
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  that we would know you, so that we would experience you, so that
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  through this closeness with you, you can change us and renew us.
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  But most importantly, you can make us understand the depth of
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  your love for us. Oh, you are a good God and we
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  love you so much. And we thank you for loving us.
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  And we pray all of this in your beautiful name, Jesus, Amen.