Hosea's Sermon: Knowing God (Hosea 4:1-6:3)

Redemption Bible Church Sermon Audio

SERMON NOTES

Sermon Series: Seeing Into the Heart of God - Lent in Hosea

Sermon Title: Hosea’s Sermon: Knowing God

Series Big Idea: The more we come to see the depth of our sin, the more we come to see the extent of God’s love

Sermon Text: Hosea 4:1-6:3

Opening Argument (4:1-3)

Israel invited with three charges (4:1):

• No faithfulness to God

• No steadfast love of God

• No knowledge of God

First Charge: No Knowledge of God (4:4-8) - Old Testament Reference: 1 Kings 13:33-34

The Impact of Sin (4:9-19)

• Communal Impact of Sin (4:9-13a)

• Generational Impact of Sin (4:13b-14) - Old Testament Reference: Deuteronomy 6:4-12, Judges 2:10

• Relational Impact of Sin (4:15-19)

The Consequences of Sin (5:1-14)

• Sin leads you away from freedom and into slavery (5:3b-4)

• Sin leads you away from God and into danger (5:5-7)

• Sin leads you away from peace and into conflict (5:8-11) - Old Testament Reference: 2 Kings 16

• Sin leads you away from stability and into destruction (5:12-14)

The Good News of Hosea (5:15-6:3) - Old Testament Reference: Deuteronomy 30:1-3, 1 Kings 8:46-53

SERMON FOOTNOTES

• “Dear Eric, Sunday morning and you’re getting ready to lead your congregation in worship - present them to God, present God to them.” - Eugene Peterson, Letters to a Young Pastor: Timothy Conversations Between Father and Son (p6)

• “God is neither a ‘what’ nor a ‘thing’ but a pure ‘Who.’ He is the ‘Thou’ before whom our inmost ‘I’ springs into awareness.” - Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation (p13)