Kings & Prophets #8Hosea- Lesson 1
A Love That Will Not Let Me Go
Rulers During Hosea’s Time
2 Kings 15:27-28
27In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.28He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin.
2 Kings 17:5-6
5Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land and went up to Samaria and besieged it three years.6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried Israel away into exile to Assyria, and settled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings 18:22-23
22“But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?23“Now therefore, come, make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
Prophets & Symbolic actions
Isaiah 20:1-4
1In the year that the commander came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him and he fought against Ashdod and captured it,2at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go and loosen the sackcloth from your hips and take your shoes off your feet.” And he did so, going naked and barefoot.3And the Lord said, “Even as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot three years as a sign and token against Egypt and Cush,4so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Jeremiah 13:1-11
1Thus the Lord said to me, “Go and buy yourself a linen waistband and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water.”2So I bought the waistband in accordance with the word of the Lord and put it around my waist.3Then the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying,4“Take the waistband that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a crevice of the rock.”5So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord had commanded me.6After many days the Lord said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates and take from there the waistband which I commanded you to hide there.”7Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the waistband from the place where I had hidden it; and lo, the waistband was ruined, it was totally worthless.8Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,9“Thus says the Lord, ‘Just so will I destroy the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.10‘This wicked people, who refuse to listen to My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts and have gone after other gods to serve them and to bow down to them, let them be just like this waistband which is totally worthless.11‘For as the waistband clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole household of Israel and the whole household of Judah cling to Me,’ declares the Lord, ‘that they might be for Me a people, for renown, for praise and for glory; but they did not listen.’
How my walk can be a witness
1 Corinthians 9:19-23
19For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more.20To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law though not being myself under the Law, so that I might win those who are under the Law;21to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law.22To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some.23I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.
Romans 14:13-21
13Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this—not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother’s way.14I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.15For if because of food your brother is hurt, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.16Therefore do not let what is for you a good thing be spoken of as evil;17for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.18For he who in this way serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.19So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.20Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but they are evil for the man who eats and gives offense.21It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother stumbles.
Romans 15:1-3
1Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves.2Each of us is to please his neighbor for his good, to his edification.3For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me.”
God is not finished with you
Romans 9:25-26
25As He says also in Hosea, “I will callthose who were not My people, ‘My people,’ And her who was not beloved, ‘beloved.’ ”26“And it shall be that in the placewhereit was said to them, ‘you are not My people,’ There they shall be calledsons of thelivingGod.”
The Church is the wife of Christ
2 Corinthians 11:1-2
1I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed you are bearing with me.2For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin.
Ephesians 5:18-23
18And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,19speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;20always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;21and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body.24But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,26so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,27that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.28So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;29for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,30because we are members of His body.31For thisreason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall becomeoneflesh.32This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.33Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.
1 Corinthians 6:15-18
15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!16Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “The two shall becomeoneflesh.”17But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.18Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.
Revelation 21:9
9Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
James 4:4
4You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Spiritual Harlotry
Ephesians 2:1-3
1And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,2in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.3Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
1 John 5:19
19We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.