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? …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]
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? …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]