Title: I Love You/Hosea 11:1-7
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Hos 10:12 Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap mercy; now is the time to seek the LORD;
till the land of silver, for at last the LORD will come and rain down righteousness on you.
Today in 11:1, we are talking about how God had done to Israel in the past.
1. He loved Israel when they were young.
Hos 11: 1 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
Hos 11:2 The more the prophets called to them, the more they distanced themselves from them, and they sacrificed to the Baals and carved idols.
burnt incense before
When I was young, I don't mean time (when I was young), I didn't have any experience and was weak when I couldn't
expressed words.
When Israel was a child, it was the time of slavery in Egypt. Then they can do it themselves
There was nothing. They just did what Egypt told them to do. If you ask to buy a star stone, you will burn a white stone
When asked to build old castles, they were slaves who built castles.
At that time, God loved Israel and was called my son.
He saw all of Israel as one person, one son. They cannot be independent on their own.
When they were in their weakness, God loved them and called them out of Egypt.
It is from the time of the Exodus from Egypt that God called Israel his son.
When God sent Moses from Mount Horeb to Egypt, He said this.
Exo 4:22 You shall say to Pharaoh, saith the LORD, Israel is my son, my firstborn.
Exo 4:23 I said to you, Release my son, that he may serve me, but you refuse to let him go.
“I will kill your son and your firstborn.”
He said that He already loved us when we were weak, when we were unable to do righteousness on our own, and when we were sinners.
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2. I was called out of Egypt because I loved it.
The Israelites lived peacefully in the shadow of Joseph in Egypt. but didn't last long
All. When a new king who did not know Joseph began to rule over Egypt, Israel was treated as a Gentile.
All. As Israel's population continues to grow, it is no longer a subject of caution. When the enemy is approaching, join hands with the enemy
Fearing that if they betrayed them, they would suffer great damage, Egypt began to persecute Israel. tiring
He was jealous of the hard work, and when a boy was born, he killed him. I couldn't get out of the hard slave's Salhal. Such
It means that God loved Israel and called them out of Egypt.
This Egypt symbolizes the world, sin.
It is in Jesus Christ that God called weak Israel his son and was called out of Egypt.
It typifies us who have been redeemed by the love of God.
The only reason He called us sons and saved us from our sins is because He loved us.
You will see that the people who have been saved by God's love are forgetting God's grace.
You see them betraying God.
Hos 11:2 The more the prophets called to them, the more they distanced themselves from them, and they sacrificed to the Baals and carved idols.
burnt incense before
Hos 11:3 But if I teach Ephraim to walk and take him in my arms, I will heal them.
did not know
1. The more God called, the farther away he became.
Isaiah 1:18 Come, let us reason together, says the LORD, though your sins are as scarlet, they are as snow
This white will be young, though it be red like crimson, it will be like wool.
Isaiah 2:3 Many people will go and say, ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us the way, and we will walk in the way, for the law is in Zion.
from the west, and from Jerusalem the word of the LORD.
2. The more God called, the more they went before the idol.
"' 'They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense before carved images."
So the prophet Hosea laments:
Hos 11:7 My people are determined and withdraw from me; though call them and return to the one above.
Yet no one rises.
Still, God loved him so much that he called him his son and blessed him because he was called out of Egypt.
Hos 11:4 I drew them with human cords, even with cords of love, and took them off the yoke from their necks.
They became like creepers, and they put food before them.
1. He led us with human cords and cords of love.
Hos 11:4 I drew them with human cords, even with cords of love.
Romans 8:35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness
Am I a danger or a sword
Romans 8:37 But in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Romans 8:38 I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come,
ability or
Romans 8:39 Neither height nor depth, nor any other creature
You will never be separated from God's love
2. He took the yoke off his neck.
Hos 11:4 .... have become to them like those who take the yoke off their necks . . .
Matthew 11:28 Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and your hearts will be at rest.
will get
Matthew 11:30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
3. You have put food before us.
Ho 11: 4 . . . . We have put food before us.
He fed them with manna and quail for 40 years and gave them the land of Canaan, flowing with salt and honey.
Today, Jesus has been given to us, the true bread of life.