Bear Valley Lectures – SEPT. 20th, 2013
MAJORING IN THE MINORS: A STUDY OF THE MINOR PROPHETS (PART ONE)
HOSEA CHAPTERS 12 & 13: “REPEAT OF ISRAEL’S SIN (JUSTIFYING GOD’S JUDGEMENT)”
“A Heart-Broken God” (Hosea 12-13)
OUTLINE
I. God Reminisces About His Honeymoon With His Bride Israel (12:1-6)
II. Israel Was Breaking God’s Heart (12:7-13:3)
III. God Defends Himself As a Faithful but Betrayed Husband (13:4-13)
IV. Interlude: God Will Redeem His Remnant (13:14)
INTRODUCTION
1. TAMPA, Fla. (AP)—Tampa police arrested an expelled student after thwarting what they called a “catastrophic” plot to set off a bomb at his former high school next week, authorities said Wednesday. Police Chief Jane Castor said Jared Cano, 17, had threatened to plant a device at Freedom High School in north Tampa and discharge it on the first day of school Tuesday. He was arrested Tuesday night after someone tipped off police about the plot. (http://www.tulsaworld.com/article.aspx/Police_Tampa_school_bomb_plot_aimed_for_mass_casualties/20110818_13_a6_cutlin186692)
Some people are so hard-hearted, you wonder if they have feelings. Does God have feelings like ours? We know from Scripture that God is an emotional being, yet He does not change and is never surprised. So how do we harmonize these? J.I. …show more content…
Packer does an exceptional job defining the doctrine of God’s impassivity: “This means, not that God is … unfeeling… , but that no created beings can inflict pain, suffering and distress on Him at their own will. In so far as God enters into suffering and grief … , it is by His own deliberate decision; He is never His creatures’ hapless victim. The Christian mainstream has construed impassibility as meaning not that God is a stranger to joy and delight, but rather that His joy is permanent, clouded by no involuntary pain.”[J. I. Packer, “God,” in Sinclair Ferguson and David Wright, eds., New Dictionary of Theology (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1998), 277] http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/articles/impassib.htm I. God Reminisces About His Honeymoon With His Newlywed Israel (12:1-6) Israel originated with Jacob. When Jacob is mentioned in verse 2, it is speaking of all 12 tribes of Israel. God is not a respecter of persons. When they sin, they are judged of God, and made to pay whatever punishment God allots to them. He is a forgiving God, but He is, also, a just God. In 12:3, this is speaking of Jacob and Esau, when they were born. We remember that the birthright belonged to Esau, but he traded it to his brother Jacob for a bowl of soup. Even in their mother's womb, before they were born, there was war going on between the two. It has never stopped. Jacob tricked His father into giving him the right hand (or preferential) blessing. We read in 12:4 about Jacob had wrestled all night with the angel of the Lord. Jacob won the battle, and caused the angel to bless him. God, through the angel, changed Jacob's name to Israel. All of this happened at Beth-el. "Beth-el" means house of God. Jacob's life was changed. He became the father of the 12 tribes of Israel. We saw in verse 4, Jacob was sorrowful for his past. Now, salvation has come to him through a covenant with God. It is not Israel that is God's memorial, but God that is Israel's memorial. "Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually" (Hosea 12:6). Their repentance has to do with man, but the greatest repentance for them, or us, is to repent and be brought back into right standing with God. God is never very far away. Turn to God, and He is there. This is saying, again, that salvation is a continual thing. Once a person has committed to salvation, they must continue to walk in that salvation. "Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD" (Psalms 27:14). II. Israel Was Breaking God’s Heart (12:7-13:3) Their business ethics revealed their flawed character (12:7). Cheating with dishonest scales, rigging the scales in the merchant’s favor. Archaeologists in Tirzah, an ancient city in Israel, made an interesting discovery. Two sets of weights were found, one for buying and one for selling. Dishonesty in favor of the merchant. (The Minor Prophets By James E. Smith, page 196 ISBN#
MAJORING IN THE MINORS: A STUDY OF THE MINOR PROPHETS (PART ONE)
HOSEA CHAPTERS 12 & 13: “REPEAT OF ISRAEL’S SIN (JUSTIFYING GOD’S JUDGEMENT)”
“A Heart-Broken God” (Hosea 12-13)
OUTLINE
I. God Reminisces About His Honeymoon With His Bride Israel (12:1-6)
II. Israel Was Breaking God’s Heart (12:7-13:3)
III. God Defends Himself As a Faithful but Betrayed Husband (13:4-13)
IV. Interlude: God Will Redeem His Remnant (13:14)
INTRODUCTION
1. TAMPA, Fla. (AP)—Tampa police arrested an expelled student after thwarting what they called a “catastrophic” plot to set off a bomb at his former high school next week, authorities said Wednesday. Police Chief Jane Castor said Jared Cano, 17, had threatened to plant a device at Freedom High School in north Tampa and discharge it on the first day of school Tuesday. He was arrested Tuesday night after someone tipped off police about the plot. (http://www.tulsaworld.com/article.aspx/Police_Tampa_school_bomb_plot_aimed_for_mass_casualties/20110818_13_a6_cutlin186692)
Some people are so hard-hearted, you wonder if they have feelings. Does God have feelings like ours? We know from Scripture that God is an emotional being, yet He does not change and is never surprised. So how do we harmonize these? J.I. …show more content…
Packer does an exceptional job defining the doctrine of God’s impassivity: “This means, not that God is … unfeeling… , but that no created beings can inflict pain, suffering and distress on Him at their own will. In so far as God enters into suffering and grief … , it is by His own deliberate decision; He is never His creatures’ hapless victim. The Christian mainstream has construed impassibility as meaning not that God is a stranger to joy and delight, but rather that His joy is permanent, clouded by no involuntary pain.”[J. I. Packer, “God,” in Sinclair Ferguson and David Wright, eds., New Dictionary of Theology (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1998), 277] http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/articles/impassib.htm I. God Reminisces About His Honeymoon With His Newlywed Israel (12:1-6) Israel originated with Jacob. When Jacob is mentioned in verse 2, it is speaking of all 12 tribes of Israel. God is not a respecter of persons. When they sin, they are judged of God, and made to pay whatever punishment God allots to them. He is a forgiving God, but He is, also, a just God. In 12:3, this is speaking of Jacob and Esau, when they were born. We remember that the birthright belonged to Esau, but he traded it to his brother Jacob for a bowl of soup. Even in their mother's womb, before they were born, there was war going on between the two. It has never stopped. Jacob tricked His father into giving him the right hand (or preferential) blessing. We read in 12:4 about Jacob had wrestled all night with the angel of the Lord. Jacob won the battle, and caused the angel to bless him. God, through the angel, changed Jacob's name to Israel. All of this happened at Beth-el. "Beth-el" means house of God. Jacob's life was changed. He became the father of the 12 tribes of Israel. We saw in verse 4, Jacob was sorrowful for his past. Now, salvation has come to him through a covenant with God. It is not Israel that is God's memorial, but God that is Israel's memorial. "Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually" (Hosea 12:6). Their repentance has to do with man, but the greatest repentance for them, or us, is to repent and be brought back into right standing with God. God is never very far away. Turn to God, and He is there. This is saying, again, that salvation is a continual thing. Once a person has committed to salvation, they must continue to walk in that salvation. "Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD" (Psalms 27:14). II. Israel Was Breaking God’s Heart (12:7-13:3) Their business ethics revealed their flawed character (12:7). Cheating with dishonest scales, rigging the scales in the merchant’s favor. Archaeologists in Tirzah, an ancient city in Israel, made an interesting discovery. Two sets of weights were found, one for buying and one for selling. Dishonesty in favor of the merchant. (The Minor Prophets By James E. Smith, page 196 ISBN#