An Unfaithful Wife

Genesis 3:7

Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

A Relational Redemption (Genesis 3)

He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”

A Personal Redemption (Genesis 22)

A Substitional Redemption (Exodus 12)

5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, 6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.

Isaiah 54:5

For your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.

An Unfaithful Wife, (Hosea)

Continual Redemption

The Unlikely Wedding (Hosea 1)

1 The word of the LORD that came to Hosea, …

2 “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom,

for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD.”

3 So he went and took Gomer,

The Unlikely Wedding (Hosea 1)

1st son = “cast away”

Daughter = “no mercy”

2nd son = “not my people”

The Continual Infidelity (Hosea 2)

2 “Plead with your mother, plead—for she is not my wife, and I am

not her husband—that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts;

The Continual Infidelity (Hosea 2)

5 For their mother has played the whore; she who conceived them has acted shamefully.For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

The Continual Infidelity (Hosea 2)

6 Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths.

7 She shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and she shall seek them but shall not find them.

Then she shall say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now.’

The Continual Infidelity (Hosea 2)

14 “Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. 15 And there I will give her hervineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.

The Continual Infidelity (Hosea 2)

19 And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. 20 I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the LORD.

The Relentless Pursuit (Hosea 3)

1 And the LORD said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”

The Relentless Pursuit (Hosea 3)

2 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.

3 And I said to her, “You must dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you.”

The Relentless Pursuit (Hosea 3)

5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.

Romans 3:16 “For God so loved us that He gave His One and only Son that whoever will trust His love will live with Him forever.”

Romans 4:23 “For all of us have cheated on God and have fallen short of His love for us.”

Romans 5:8 “For God demonstrates His love for us that while we are still going after other lovers, He lays down His life for us”

An Unfaithful Wife

Lamentations 3:22-23

“Our Lord’s steadfast love for us never ends, His mercies never end, they are new each morning, His faithfulness to me us is great.”

An Unfaithful Wife

A Continual Redemption (Hosea)

Adam’s story says: God has chased me(relational)

Abraham’s story says: there is a debt(personal)

Moses’ story says: a substitute can be made(substitutional)

Hosea’s story says: regardless of you, I will always(continual)

Jesus’ story says: “It all points to Me!”