Hosea: Love to the Unlovely – The Unfaithful Lover

Peter Barnes | Hosea 2:2-13

SERMON NOTES
THE  UNFAITHFUL  LOVER
Hosea  2:2-13;  2 Timothy  2:1-13

Calvin  says  that  this  shows  that  we  need  to  be  reproved  very  often.

1.  God  warns  us  to  repent.

– 2:2;  a  divorce  is  threatened  (Isa.50:1;  Jer.3:8)

– 2:4-5;  Israel  is  chasing  after  the  Baal  worship

2.  God  chastens  us.

– 2:3;  death  for  literal  and  spiritual  adultery  (Lev.20:10);  God  chastens  out  of  His  love  (Prov.3:11-12;  Rev.3:19)

– ‘God’s  megaphone’  (C.  S.  Lewis);  2:9-13

3.  Other  refuge  have  we  none.

– 2:6-7;  this  looks  promising,  like  Luke 15:17-18;  but  it  is  like  the  shallow  repentance  in  Hosea 6:1-4

– ‘sorry’  followed  by  nothing;  see  2:8

– Deut.8:10-20

Other  refuge  have  I  none;/  Hangs  my  helpless  soul  on  Thee;/  Leave,  ah!  leave  me  not  alone,/  Still  support  and  comfort  me (Charles  Wesley).

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