{"id":29335,"date":"2024-01-03T22:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/hosea-10_1-15-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-12-26T18:17:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T01:17:27","slug":"hosea-11_1-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/hosea-11_1-12\/","title":{"rendered":"A Father’s Love Like No Other"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hosea 11:1-12 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0(CLICK HERE FOR\u00a0BIBLE VERSES)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today’s passage is Hosea 11:1-12.\u00a0 Let’s go!<\/p>\n

Hosea 11:1-12 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n1\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
\n2\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But the more I called Israel, the further they went from me. They sacrificed to the Baals and they burned incense to images.
\n3\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms; but they did not realize it was I who healed them.
\n4\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love; I lifted the yoke from their neck and bent down to feed them.
\n5\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“Will they not return to Egypt and will not Assyria rule over them because they refuse to repent?
\n6\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Swords will flash in their cities, will destroy the bars of their gates and put an end to their plans.
\n7\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0My people are determined to turn from me. Even if they call to the Most High, he will by no means exalt them.
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is changed within me; all my compassion is aroused.
\n9\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0I will not carry out my fierce anger, nor will I turn and devastate Ephraim. For I am God, and not man– the Holy One among you. I will not come in wrath.
\n10\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0They will follow the\u00a0LORD; he will roar like a lion. When he roars, his children will come trembling from the west.
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0They will come trembling like birds from Egypt, like doves from Assyria. I will settle them in their homes,” declares the\u00a0LORD.
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, the house of Israel with deceit. And Judah is unruly against God, even against the faithful Holy One.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 1-12:\u00a0 Earlier in Hosea the dominant picture to describe the relationship between God and Israel was that of husband and wife.\u00a0 Here the view shifts to describing our relationship with God as that between a child and his father.\u00a0 These are just different angles by which we can see and appreciate God\u2019s love.\u00a0 In fact, today’s passage, Hosea 11:1-12, contains one of the most tender descriptions of the fatherly heart of God that you will find in the Bible.<\/p>\n

Hosea 11 describes how God was like a loving father to His child Israel (also called Ephraim) (v1), how He taught Israel how to walk, carried Israel by the arms, took care of Israel’s needs without Israel even knowing (v3).\u00a0 With cords of kindness and ties of love, this loving Father led Israel (v4), helped Israel when Israel was in trouble and humbly fed Israel (v4).<\/p>\n

Yet Israel was rebellious toward their Father.\u00a0 As verse 2 says, “the more I called Israel, the further they went from me.” \u00a0As verse 7 says, “My people are determined to turn from Me.” \u00a0Just as sometimes teens are famous for listening to others but not their own parents, wayward Israel seemed bent on following anyone other than their own heavenly Father.\u00a0 They would sacrifice to the idol Baal (v2), burn incense to idols (v2), want to go back to being enslaved by other masters who had been cruel to them in the past, like Egypt and Assyria (v5).<\/p>\n

In His wrath, the Father could have easily disowned and devastated His child Israel.\u00a0 Yet in His great compassion, the Father could not do it.\u00a0 As verses 8-9 say,<\/p>\n

Hosea 11:8-9 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is changed within me; all my compassion is aroused.
\n9\u00a0<\/sup>I will not carry out my fierce anger, nor will I turn and devastate Ephraim. For I am God, and not man– the Holy One among you. I will not come in wrath.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite His children\u2019s sin, in His great compassion the Father was committed to restoring Israel so that “they will follow the Lord” (v10), promising to settle them peacefully in their homes (v11).<\/p>\n

Was God being fickle?\u00a0 Did He change His mind?\u00a0 No, it was God\u2019s plan all along to show us His mercy and compassion while also demonstrating His holiness and justice.\u00a0 God would still exact His holy wrath against our sin, except instead of that wrath landing on us, incredibly God would place that wrath on Himself and on His Son Jesus.\u00a0 That way the requirements of His justice could be satisfied even as He extended mercy and forgiveness toward us.<\/p>\n

Thus Hosea 11 is a picture of the Gospel.\u00a0 In this chapter we see how:
\n1. our heavenly Father loved us with a love like no other:
\n2. we kept rebelling against Him, stirring up His wrath;
\n3. instead of disowning and destroying us, the Father in compassion sacrificed Himself and welcomed us back;
\n4. as a result we have a restored relationship with God characterized by peace.<\/p>\n

We have an amazing heavenly Father who loves us, has great compassion on us, and never quits on us.<\/p>\n

God, thank You for being such a loving Father to me and to every person.\u00a0 Thank You for treating me with great compassion from the very beginning of my existence and throughout my life, even when I was so rebellious toward You.\u00a0 Thank You for never giving up on me.\u00a0 In Jesus’ name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Copyright \u00a9 2021 Justin Lim. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today’s passage is Hosea 11:1-12.\u00a0 Let’s go!
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\nHosea 11:1-12 (NIV)
\n1\u00a0\u00a0“When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
\n2\u00a0\u00a0But the more I called Israel, the further they went from me. They sacrificed to the Baals and they burned incense to images.
\n3\u00a0\u00a0It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms; but they did not realize it was I who healed them.
\n4\u00a0\u00a0I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love; I lifted the yoke from their neck and bent down to feed them.
\n5\u00a0\u00a0“Will they not return to Egypt and will not Assyria rule over them because they refuse to repent?<\/p>\n

On verses 1-12:\u00a0 Earlier in Hosea the dominant picture to describe the relationship between God and Israel was that of husband and wife.\u00a0 Here the view shifts to describing our relationship with God as that between a child and his father.\u00a0 These are just different angles by which we can see and appreciate God\u2019s love.\u00a0 In fact, today’s passage, Hosea 11:1-12, contains one of the most tender descriptions of the fatherly heart of God that you will find in the Bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29338,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29335\/revisions\/29338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}