Title: Marriage to Christ 2
Content Marriage to Christ 2 (Ho 2:2-7)
We call Jesus the bridegroom, and we praise and confess that we are the bride of Jesus. On what basis do you make this profession of faith? This is a mystery that was already foreordained in the blueprint when God created the universe. (Genesis 2:18) Putting Adam into a deep sleep meant that Christ died, and that Eve came out of that rib means that Jesus was crucified. When the soldiers pierced the side with a spear, water and blood flowed out. This means that the New Testament bride, the church, was born, and all these secrets were already designed by God when he created the heavens and the earth. We ask you to know and believe in this fact.
What kind of person would a person who is going to marry choose a bride? I will choose a pure, good person. However, God introduced Gomer as a matchmaker to the prophet Hosea. Who is Gomel? A woman who is an adulteress before marriage, and an affair after marriage, and a woman who gives birth to a child of lewdness This is who we are today and who we were before we met Jesus. Spiritually, she had an illegitimate child in the world, married her, married Jesus, and had an illegitimate child. Even after marrying Jesus, they still have not cut off contact with the world and are still living with an illegitimate child in the world. At this point, it would be good for God to give up, but he does not give up until the end. That's why you pay the price and bring it home and say, "I'll forgive you and love you for all your past, so love me only!"
Why do you love me so terribly without abandoning someone like me? (1) This is because it is the will of God who will not give up forever if he chooses once. (2) As seen in the parable of the one lost sheep, it is because of the love of Jesus. (Luke 15:4) But how foolish is it that the world has gone mad and has a wind? We are such people.