Peter Barnes | Hosea 8:1-14
SERMON NOTES
SOWING THE WIND, REAPING THE WHIRLWIND
Hosea 8:1-14; Galatians 6:1-10
– we experienced a cyclone in Vanuatu in late 1982
1. Israel’s disobedience to God’s law.
– 8:1b, 3a, 12; this is the basic attitude
(a) they chose their own kings (8:4); see 1 Kings 12:19, 28
(b) they turned to idols (8:4-6), notably the calves at Bethel and Dan
(c) they turned to foreign alliances (8:7-10); Churchill on cooperation with the USSR: ‘if you are going to sup with the devil, better use a long spoon’.
– Moses had warned Israel in Deut.4:23; 6:10-12; 8:10-14, 19-20
2. Israel’s religious pretences.
– 8:2, 11, 13; religious activities without biblical faith
– Rom.1:21-23
3. If we sow the wind, we will reap the whirlwind.
– 8:7; Gal.6:7-8; see Hos.8:5, 13, 14.