COME TO TAKE YOU HOME

FROM THE BEGINNING GOD HAS ORDAINED THE HOME

SATAN HAS MAD IT HIS GOAL TO TARE IT UP

WE FIND A STORY OF A BROKEN HOME

A UNFAITHFUL PARTNER THE SIN OF BROKEN LOVE

GOD USES THIS LIFE STORY TO TELL HIS STORY OF HOW ISRAEL IS BREAKING HIS HEART BY LIVING THERE FIRST LOVE

THEY ALSO LIKE GOMER WENT THE WAY OF THE WORLD

GOD USES HIS PROPHET HOSEA AND GOMER TELL HIS HEARTS DESIRE

CHAPTER 1 YOU WILL FIND AN INCONCEIVABLE LOVE

  • Hosea 1:2 ……… And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.

CHAPTER 2 YOU WILL FIND AN INCREDIBLE PLEA

  • Hosea 2:2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
  • THE NATION OF ISRAEL HAD LOST THERE RIGHTS
  • BEG HERE TO STOP

CHAPTER 3 YOU WILL FIND AN INCREDIBLE OBEDIENCE

  • Hosea 3:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
  1. CONDITION OF THE LOST (1,2)
  2. GOMER (TYPE OF THE LOST OR WAYWARD SOLE)
  3. DISTANT- FROM GOD
  4. SLAVERY- CONTROLLED BY SIN
  5. WICKEDNESS-YOKED UP WITH DARKNESS
  6. PERIL-ALWAYS IN DANGER OF THE FALL
  7. CALL TO RESTORATION( SALVATION)

HOSEA MEANS DELIVERER OR SAVIOR

TO RESCUE FROM EVIL

GO YET LOVE THE WOMEN

  1. PROBLEM SHE WAS A HARLOT (SINNER)
  2. SIN IS OUR PROBLEM
  3. WE ARE LIKE GOMER IN MANY WAYS

James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

  1. EVEN IN OUR SINFUL STATE THE LORD LOVED US

Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

  1. CHRIST LOVES JUST AS WE ARE
  1. COST FOR LOVE (2)
  2. A PRICE HAD TO BE PAID
  3. SHE WAS A SLAVE (SHE COULD NOT PAY THE DEBT)
  4. THE COST OF THIS SIN WAS DEATH

Leviticus 20:10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

a)SHE WAS TO BE STONED

  1. IT WAS AN UNTHINKABLE PRICE

SHE WAS WORTH NOTHING AS A WIFE

  1. HOSEA(DELIVERER OR SAVIOR TO RESCUE FROM EVIL)

a)PAID THE FULL PRICE FOR A SLAVE

(1)THE COST ALL HE HAD

(2)READ V2 =ABOUT 30 PIECES OF SILVER

  1. JESUS (DELIVERER OR SAVIOR TO RESCUE FROM EVIL)

a)JESUS PAID THE FULL PRICE TO FREE US FROM SINS CAPTIVITY (HIS LIFE)

b)HE WAS SOLD OUT FOR 30 PS SILVER

1 Peter 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

1 Peter 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: THE COST FOR LOVE WAS EVERY DROP OF BLOOD

  1. COMMITMENT OF LOVE V3
  2. THE PROMISE
  3. THE PLEDGE OF HIS LOVE
  4. I LOVED YOU ENOUGH TO BUY YOU BACK

a)PAID THE PRICE

  1. YOU ARE NOW MINE AND ARE TO OBEY ME

a)NO LONGER WILL YOU LIVE IN A BROTHEL OF THIS WORLD

b)BUT ABIDE FOR ME

c)NO LONGER WILL THERE BE UNFAITHFULNESS AS A HARLOT

(1)YOU WILL BE FOR NO OTHER

  1. I WILL ALSO BE FOR YOU YOUR HUSBAND
  1. THE LORDS PROMISE
  2. I NEVER LEAVE THEE NOR FORSAKE THEE
  3. HE LOVES THE UNLOVABLE
  4. AS HOSEA CAME TO TAKE HIS WIFE HOME
  5. THE LORD WILL COME IN ALL HIS GLORY
  6. TO COME TAKE YOU HOME
  7. THROUGH THE LORD THERE IS THE CALL
  8. FOR REPENTANCE OF OUR SINS
  9. TO BE RESTORED TO THE FAMILY
  10. TO REMAIN FAITHFUL

A JEWELER WILL ALWAYS DISPLAY HIS JEWELS AND GOLD AGAINST BA BLACK BACK DROP FOR IT SHOW HOW PRECIOUS THEY ARE.

WE ARE SO PRECIOUS TO THE LORD EVEN IN THE DARKNESS OF SIN GOD SEEK OUT THE PRECIOUS LOST SOUL

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