Ralph Sutherland
March 25, 2012
Learning from the Prophets Session 1 Elijah: Holding Steady In A Roller Coaster World
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Ralph Sutherland
March 18, 2012
Hosea Part 2
1. The Prophet Hosea was required to marry an unfaithful, Adulteress woman
2. God portrays Himself as a husband
3. The story of Hosea centres around the first 3 chapters, but also 3 locations
Chapel Brothel Market place
Hos 2:5 Their mother has been unfaithful and has conceived them in disgrace. She said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my food and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my drink.' Hos 2:6 Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way. Hos 2:7 She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them. Then she will say, "I will go back to my husband as at first, for then I was better off than now.' Hos 2:8 She has not acknowledged that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil, who lavished on her the silver and gold- which they used for Baal.
Derek Kidner "Remember, this marriage is a microcosm of God and His people. Once more, the reader is confronted by a mirror rather than a window because Israel's sin is humanity's sin"
Hosea 2:14 "Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her.
Chap 3:1"The Lord said to me, 'Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.' So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and about a homer and lethek of barley. Then I told her, 'You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will behave the same way toward you.' For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or household gods. Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the Lord and to His blessings in the last days."
1 Peter 1:18 "You have been bought not with perishable things like gold or silver but by the precious blood of Christ."
"The more you expose yourself to truth and the more you expose yourself and experience grace, the more you're going to learn about who God is. The more you're going to learn about His holiness, and the more you learn about who God is, the more you're going to learn about who you are in your own sinfulness. The cross gets bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger in your life." Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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