To download full issues and find more information on the Southwestern Journal of Theology, go to swbts.edu/journal. Bring your order ID or pickup code (if applicable) to your chosen pickup location to pick up your package. I pray that I could absorb all that, live it and teach it. , Dimensions Murray: I know, but you read lots of commentaries on Matthew and Hosea and thats where you read, or again just attempts to explain things away. And I think for myself, when I look at that challenging part, I see it as what I call is an illogical fulfillment or fulfillment by way of analogy. It continues, as he brings more and more people into relationship with Him through the centuries and brings us into closer relationship with Him. So thats what Hosea is doing there in Hosea 11, hes saying, Look, you know, God has called Israel out of Egypt before showing Gods protection and provision of his son, Israel, through an Egyptian sojourn supervised by a divinely saint Joseph. And then Matthew looks at this and says, You know, thats a paradigm. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. In the message of Hosea, we see the passion, jealousy, commitment, heartbreak, judgment, and love of God. The book of Hosea illustrates that no one is beyond the offer of our forgiveness because no one sits outside Gods offer of forgiveness. There are two unequal sections in the book of Hosea, composed of chapters 1-3 and 4-14. Hosea taught about the role of prophets, visions, and similitudes in guiding the Lord's people (see Hosea 12:10-13). Can you see that Jesus in the red letters of his own blood has written across your life, I will have mercy. And He will betroth Himself to them "forever.". David, thank you for being willing to help us teach the Bible. With this bold and uncomfortable imagery, Hosea tells the story of God and his people. And I think if theres any challenge facing us today, its to try and get that message outside of the churchs walls into our society. Home | Admissions | Academics | Campus Life | Alumni, All content copyright 2023 Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. So that may be a useful tool and that one of the emphasis I have is really focusing on the original message so that we dont just skip to the fulfillment is very important. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1972. Outline of Hosea. This unusual instruction served to teach the people of Israel an important lesson. Except for the name of his father Beeri ( Hosea 1:1) we do not know anything about the background of this prophet. This verse-by-verse commentary makes Hosea's message applicable today to all who struggle with questions of the gospel and cultural changes and idolatry and sin in the church. If you have struggled over the direction that your childs life is taking and then you read Hosea, and you hear God as a nurturing parent, both threatening judgment because he cant ignore the wrong, and yet he is twisted up inside because he loves the child. : The Unbelieving Unbelievers Epidemic, THE FOUR POSITIONS OF THE Holy Spirit: Beside Us, Within Us, Upon Us, and Filling Us, 15 WAYS TO HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD: Book 2 of the "SO, YOU WANT TO HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD?" Hosea (his name meaning "to save, salvation") is the first of the so-called Minor Prophets. Murray: Oh, I know, its difficult. O grave, I will be your destruction. And youve also got Jesus, you know, refers to it in Matthew 9:15. And yet to me it is just such the heart of the book, especially in terms of Hosea being a picture of the greater bridegroom to come. Throughout the book, Hosea pictured the people turning away from the Lord and turning toward other gods (4:123; 8:56). Because as long as people think of God as a fallacy, as a holier than thou, detached, looking down on, just condemning, criticizing and judging, theres no pull, theres no attraction, theres no desire. The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. . Outline. But if you study just even okay, what are the quotations of Hosea that are used in the New Testament, and spent some time on that. Guthrie: No, I kind of doubt it. I remember when I was converted, I tried to read through the Bible a couple of times. When he says, go and learn what that means, I will have mercy and not sacrifice.. That really, you know, the judgment is the foil that reflects, you know, that really shines light on these I wills and make them make them just glow all the more fiercely and brightly. I will be as a Jew to Israel. The unilateral grace of God, they are the one sided grace of God. But I think what Tim Pollard has done here in the book and in the accompanying software is provide a way of helping Bible teachers get to a very compelling messages. Please try your request again later. I think its hard for us as modern people to understand what it would have been like to say to the people of Israel, who they define themselves by their connection to Yahweh and yet by these childrens names, basically God is saying to them, You are not my people. And that would have been horrifying to them. The Northern Kingdom . 1 Corinthians 15, and that is actually the quotation of Hosea 13:14 and which says, I will ransom them from the power of the grave. , Raising The Standard International Publishing LLC (May 28, 2021), Language Guilt and Salvation: A Study of the Prophecy of Hosea, pp. Then you wrote Reset, and then with your wife, Refresh. Copyright 2023 The Gospel Coalition, INC. All Rights Reserved. Make her like a parched land and kill her with thirst. And we see Jesus saying, I am thirsty. I will have no mercy and think about Jesus being on the cross. Guthrie: And what struck me when I saw that, you know, Id read, as Ive mentioned, Ive read through the whole book this morning. And you know, for example, if you go into chapter 4 to 14, its really the first 3 chapters are faithful Hosea, and his faithless wife, and then chapters 4 to 14, faithful God, and his faithless people. These are very kind words, I dont deserve them, but I do admit we shared a mutual love for teaching the Bible and we do get a lot of excitement and joy from it. Murray: It is much harder to preach the second part of the book, the greater part of the book, than the first part, chapters 1, 2, 3, are easy, yes, but not without difficulty. Guthrie: So we talked about how Gomer helps us to see ourselves, maybe we can help Bible teachers with some of the specific ways, especially in Hosea 1-3, how Hosea helps us to see the more perfect bridegroom and the more perfect husband, Jesus himself. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club thats right for you for free. And really, that is our God, hes willing to be thought of like that, as Jesus Himself should when he came to this world and he was denigrated, and he did lose his reputation, and yet willing, not just forced willing but happy willing, eager willing, enthusiastic willing to be contaminated by these associations. Guthrie: And so you now have your doctorate in what? I was like, What? I was like, lets just read the text. In his ministry, Charles has traveled extensively throughout the world, including Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Korea, Africa, India, and many places within the United States. Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web. I mean, if anyones not encouraged by a message like this, yeah, you gotta wonder, do you know who you are really before God? Hosea. Hosea tells a heartbreakingand for many, a perplexingstory about a prophet told to marry a prostitute. Not essentially, not that he ever became unholy, but just in the way he was regarded. Hosea tells us what God thinks about Israel, sin, and us. , ISBN-13 So its a cycle of covenant breaking, covenant discipline, but always covenant renewal. In context of all of Gods uncomfortable promises to judge his people in heartbreaking ways, Murray points out Gods repeated promises throughout the book to live, to save, to redeem, and to restore his people to himself after theyve wandered away from him. And though God told them as much through the birth of Hoseas third child, Lo-ammi, He also reminded them that He would ultimately For many days you shall not play the whore or belong to another man and so also I will be to you. Its a picture not just of salvation but of sanctification. Murray: Youve got Hosea there and Gomer and you also have their children, each of which has given a very significant name, each of which contains really a gospel message as well and really helps us to see the glory of the gospel. A Broken Marriage and a Chastened Wife Hosea 1:2-3 (ESV) Gomer is presented as . Hosea 1-3 The Lord commands Hosea to marry, and Hosea selects a woman named Gomer. Whereas what we want people to see is hes like Hosea, hes this incredible God of the guilty. Learn more about Crossways gospel-centered resources at crossway.org. People often talk about what they feel about God. He resigned from his full-time pastorate in October 2018 to enter his career as a full-time author. Thats when I came to link to quite often. Unable to add item to List. So were making contact early in this new year with a view to trying to tweak his method so that it is more suitable for ministers without us having to do the adaptations. I think were called to do that as preachers, not just rely on the Holy Spirit but also develop in our abilities, fan into flame the good gifts God has given us. The guilt of Gomer as a "harlot" is . : But it presents such a glorious picture of Gods love and Gods grace, his sovereign grace and sovereign love. . And weve not really captured grace until we come to that point where we say, Thats crazy. And thats just, I dont know if theres another book in the Bible thats just so suited to the Christian who has wandered. He spoke forth the word of the LORD, and applied that word to his life, and to the people and circumstances around him. Join our email list. The condition in the churches today is similar to that in Israel in the middle of the eighth century B.C. Help! Designed primarily for the pastor, Bible teacher, and serious student of Gods Word, this Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Hosea brings together commentary features rarely gathered together in one book. Charles published his first book, "The Four Positions of the Holy Spirit," in 2014. ET on EWTN: Holy Mass and Rosary on Thursday, April 13, 2023 - Thursday within the. Theyve just loved, it sort of bridge the gap between the text and the sermon, like how do you get from all this exegetical work to a compelling sermon. : The Book of Hosea (Biblical Hebrew: , romanized: Sfer Ha) is collected as one of the twelve minor prophets of the Nevi'im ("Prophets") in the Tanakh, and as a book in its own right in the Christian Old Testament.According to the traditional order of most Hebrew Bibles, it is the first of the Twelve. A brief verse by verse exegesis with practical applications and illustrations on many verses. Theyre all very different characters. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. Hosea specifically, but even broader than that, because of the way Jesus and these other biblical writers use the book of Hosea. Hosea tells us what God thinks about Israel, sin, and us. "Go and marry a prostitute." These are the first words God spoke to his prophet Hosea. Guthrie: A message that Ive done, its on the first three chapters of Hosea, may be my most favorite message Ive ever given, right here. Theyre more internal. 11K views, 428 likes, 445 loves, 3.6K comments, 188 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from EWTN: Starting at 8 a.m. Theyre hopeless. What are the lessons we can learn and apply to our lives today from the story of Hosea? To renew faithfulness to God, and its a call to enjoy Gods love and intimacy with God along a path of obedience and faithfulness. The Book of Hosea is certainly emotional and relational. But you know, always on both fronts, whether its blessings and obedience, threats of judgment and disministry of love, its because he wants to keep that relationship healthy and happy and holy. And that was just how I read this if I ever got to Hosea, in my reading, and then I eventually went into ministry, I went to seminary, to prepare for ministry and started hearing all these different theories that this was just a vision that Hosea was given or it wasnt real harlotry, it was spiritual harlotry, or she wasnt a harlot at the time he married but later. ASIN She and her husband founded Respite Retreats for couples who have faced the death of a child and are co-hosts of the GriefShare video series. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club thats right for you for free. In this book he opens up the rich contents to our hearts and minds. Guthrie: Lets talk about a couple of other challenges about the book, because weve kind of identified one in that it is so much about judgments. So its very text-centered, and yet, I really believe it helps us get the text across in a better way than maybe many traditional methods of designing sermons, homiletic methodology. And as you talk about that heart twisting inside anyone that were talking to whos a parent. I do that. And you see how, you know, you just see it through another lens somehow and you see somebody else do it and that character on the screen. Brief Summary: The Book of Hosea can be divided into two parts: (1) Hosea 1:1-3:5 is a description of an adulterous wife and a faithful husband, symbolic of the unfaithfulness of Israel to God through idolatry, and (2) Hosea 4:1-14:9 contains the . Charles carefully and Biblically takes us through the unfolding story of Hosea and his wife, Gomer, while explaining the basic message in vivid detail. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! The Gospel Coalition supports the church by providing resources that are trusted and timely, winsome and wise, and centered on the gospel of Jesus Christ. I mean, the basically the names are no prints with God, no mercy and no people. To me, its almost like Hosea and God are singing or speaking in unison together about their unfaithful brides, because it seems to kind of be about both or go back and forth somehow. Murray: I hope so. Getting Rid of Your Fear of the Book of Revelation, Putting Passion and Personality into Your Teaching, Putting Together a Christ-Centered Bible Talk, Its Not About You: How Biblical Theology Transforms Bible Study. Wolff, Hans Walter. A frustrated Shepherd, 4:16, a destructive moth, 5:12, a ferocious lion, 5:14, a trapper, 7:12. So. And it can sound in many ways, like thats the dominant note. King Jeroboam II, one of the worst kings in Israel's history, grew apathetic and allowed idol worship in the nation, opening the doorway for Israelites to cheat, steal, have unlawful sex, and even murder each other. Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs. Nancy Guthrie teaches the Bible at her home church, Cornerstone Presbyterian Church in Franklin, Tennessee, as well as at conferences around the country and internationally, including her Biblical Theology Workshop for Women. Here, God wanted a willfully blind Israel to see their sin and repent of it. Pastor Charles and his wife, Debra, currently reside in Navarre, Florida. Guthrie: Okay, well, lets go this way, David. And I think we often, especially with common prophecies, we skip over it. Mays, James L. Hosea: A Commentary. : vv. Most are reluctant to intrude their own personal experience into their prophecies, but the experience of Hosea parallels the experience of the nation . 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