Redeeming Love

Ignite: Be All That You Can Be (Series 5)
REDEEMING LOVE
Hosea 3:1 - 5

The prophet Hosea tells his story in the first three chapters of Hosea to illustrate the love God has for His people.

Hosea’s unfaithful wife Gomer produced three children each the result of an adulterous affair, she eventually becomes a prostitute.

1. Gomer Was Chosen

Gomer was special God had a vision for her beyond what she was to what she could become.

God has chosen every person to be His masterpiece and illustrate His glory, graciousness, and His grace.

We have the option to accept or reject the call of God.

2. Gomer Wasn’t What She Ought To Have Been

Gomer could remain a loyal trusted wife or she could take another route, she chose the other path.

God created Adam and Eve and gave them the ability to make their own choices.

Simply sin means we prefer to serve ourselves rather than to serve God.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Romans 3:23 KJV

3. Gomer Didn’t Get What She Ought To Have Got.

The Bible is clear that all sex outside of marriage is sin.

Leviticus 20:10 NLT If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the man and the woman who have committed adultery must be put to death.

Hosea could have demanded and received the maximum penalty for Gomer’s sin and that of her lovers.

The New Testament response to spiritual adultery is spiritual death.

>Justice would have been death.

>Mercy would have allowed her to continue what she was doing.

>Grace was Hosea wiping away her tears and carrying her back home.

4. Gomer Got What She Ought Not To Have Got

The LORD said to me, "Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes." Hosea 3:1 NIV

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 KJV

You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will live with you." Hosea 3:3

Hosea paid for her but the final decision was hers’ alone.

Jesus won’t force you to accept him as Lord and Savior.