Audio: Download Audio Download Text ‘Returning every day from the far country’ Hosea 14:1-9 Feb 12, 1989 Series on Hosea, No. 13 TEXT COMMENTS: With this sermon on the 14th chapter we are finished with the prophecy of Hosea. I pray that in hearing these sermons this book has been opened to your understanding […]
Audio: Download Audio Download Text ‘The First Deadly Sin’ Hosea 12:1-8; 13:1-8 Feb 5, 1989 Series on Hosea, No. 12 What is the greatest impediment to faith and godliness in your life? What is it, that more than anything else, prevents you from becoming the Christian you ought to be and, I know in […]
Audio: Download Audio Download Audio ‘If…then’ Hosea 10:1-15 Jan 29, 1989 Series on Hosea, No. 11 TEXT COMMENTS: Omitting chapter 9: have referred to several of its verses in the sermons already preached; it continues the same themes we have already explored in our progress through the book. But it is worth nothing the […]
Audio: Download Audio Download Text ‘The Missing Jewel: Love for God’s Law’ Hosea 8:1-14 Jan 22, 1989 Series on Hosea, No. 10 If there is a verse in all of Hosea that more than any other verse brings the prophet’s stern and solemn preaching home to our own day and our own lives, surely […]
Audio: Download Audio Download Text ‘Every Christian’s Greatest Challenge’ Hosea 7:1-16 Jan 15, 1989 Series on Hosea, No. 9 TEXT COMMENTS: The theme of Hosea’s sermon in chapter 7 is Israel’s complete, final, and irreversible failure of faith. She continues to be religious; she continues to call upon the Lord her God, though in […]
Audio: Download Audio Download Text ‘The Great Sunday Sin’ Hosea 6:4-10 Jan 8, 1989 Series on Hosea, No. 8 TEXT COMMENTS: Review: Hosea’s great message is that of the doom which God is about to bring upon his people for their disloyalty to Him. Remember we said that two-thirds of the book is comprised […]
Audio: Download Audio Download Text ‘There Is Forgiveness with God’ Hosea 5:13-6:3 Dec 11, 1988 Series on Hosea, No. 7 Text Comments: V. 3: Some commentators have supposed that these three verses opening chapter 6 are meant to be taken as a parody, Hosea’s sarcastic portrayal of the people’s false hope that God will […]
Audio: Download Audio Download Text ‘The Point of No Return’ Hosea 5:1-15 Dec 4, 1988 Series on Hosea, No.6 TEXT COMMENTS: V. 3 ‘corrupt’ = ‘unclean’ V. 6 Another of the curses which God long ago promised to visit upon those unfaithful to his covenant. E.g. Deuteronomy 31:18 ‘I will surely hide my face […]
Audio: Download Audio Download Text ‘The Fathers’ Iniquity upon the Children’ Hosea 1:2-7; 2:4; 4:6,13-14; 9:12,-13; 10:14; 13:16 Nov 27, 1988 Series on Hosea, No.5 There is a bitter fact often enough mentioned by the prophets, but usually ignored by us. Multitudes of children either suffered terribly or were slain when the judgment of […]
Audio: Download Audio Download Text ‘Like Priest, like People’ Hosea 4:1-19 Nov 20, 1988 Series on Hosea, No. 4 TEXT COMMENTS: V. 1: The prophetic lawsuit. ‘charge’ a technical term. vv. 1-3 the charge in general, with evidence and judgment; vv. 4-19 specifications of certain charges with evidence and judgment. V. 4: Alternate translations […]
Audio: Download Audio Download Text ‘Hosea’s Angry God’ Hosea 2:2-13 Nov 13, 1988 Series on Hosea, No. 3 After a three-week hiatus, a brief review. The great theme of the preaching of Hosea the prophet is that, because Israel has forsaken God’s covenant with her, she is soon to be punished. Fully two-thirds of […]
Audio: Download Audio Download Text ‘Hosea’s Main Point’ Hosea 1:1-11; 3:1-5 Oct 16, 1988 Series on Hosea, No. 2 Hosea begins with a bang! ‘Go,’ the Lord tells his prophet, ‘take to yourself an adulteress wife and children of unfaithfulness.’ This, it seems to mean and has always been widely taken to mean, that […]
Audio: Download Audio Download Text ‘The Prophecy of Hosea’ Hosea 1:1; 4:1-6; 14:1-9 Oct 9, 1988 Series on Hosea, No. 1 Last week I concluded a series of morning messages on the Holy Spirit and his work in our lives and in the church. Such a sermon series on a Biblical subject or theme […]