FHBC Sermon Notes

Scripture: Hosea 2:2-23 - Listen
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Jim continues to look at our affections and motivations from the Book of Hosea. This is good stuff!

1. The natural direction of our spiritual affections points us away from God. (2:2-13)
• Hosea's life is an analogy of the nation of Israel and God. We are the same.Where are our affections? Do the things we do and desire lead us to Christ?
1. Our natural affections lead us to unfaithfulness
• Hosea is telling his children "plead with your mother", because she is not my wife. Her actions declare this as so.
• When we are unfaithful we see a since of prayerlessness, no desire to hear and study his Word, to nurture and assemble with his children, his bride, the church, and to be a servant to all, both in and out of the church building.
2. Our natural affections lead us to errant devotions.
• Jim mentions the Facebook trend to bring on a revival by posting this prompting status on your profile. Revival is not something to be prompted, especially when we are spending more time on Facebook than in the Word of God.
3. Our natural affections lead us to pursue the things of this world.
• We pay top dollar for the next big thing. But it is all fleeting.
• As Gary Alley used to say to us, "It is all gonna burn!"
4. Our natural affection lead us to an improper motivation for compliance.
• Like Gomer, when life is God, we turn back to God and plead that He will help us. We go back because the world proved hard and we haven't got what we wanted. God is not the path of our last resort
5. Our natural affections lead us to ignore the good things of God.
• Jim mentions how difficult the years in seminary were for him and Crissa and how at the end she made a collogue of all their experience, with a verse on how God is faithful in the middle. Jim knows that God is faithful because he has been faithful already. Let us remember the good things of God.