Bible Readings:
Titus 3:1 – 15
Hosea 1:1 – 2:1
Sermon Outline:
Hosea 1:1–3 (NKJV)
1 The word of the Lord that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
2 When the Lord began to speak by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea: “Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry And children of harlotry, For the land has committed great harlotry By departing from the Lord.”
3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
I The times of Hosea
II The marriage of Hosea
Husband & Wife, Christ & Church – Eph 5
III The children of Hosea
2 King 9 – 10
IV The restoration of Israel
Romans 9:23–26 (NKJV)
23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,
24 even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As He says also in Hosea: “I will call them My people, who were not My people, And her beloved, who was not beloved.”
26 “And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ There they shall be called sons of the living God.”
Marriage
A man’s children are pieces of himself, but his wife is himself.
Matthew Henry
All the troubles men find in marriage they ought to impute to
sin.
John Calvin
Marriage is a covenant consecrated by God.
John Calvin
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Thomas Fuller