Hosea 1-3
Big Idea: Even Though We Are All Spiritual Adulterers, God Is Our Faithful Redeemer
This Is Our Redeeming God:
1) Even when we are unfaithful, God keeps His covenant promises faithfully (1:1-11)
“I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.”
- Exodus 6:7
“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness and into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.”
- 1 Peter 2:9-10
2) Even when we pursue idolatry, God pursues us lovingly (2:1-3:1)
“Or do you presume on the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?”
- Romans 2:4
3) Even when we are in slavery, God pays our price fully (3:1-5)