"There is one text in the Bible that, as God is my witness, I never read without trembling" (Morgan, Hosea, 72). That text is found in Judges 16. In that chapter, Samson is asked multiple times by Delilah to reveal the secret of his strength. Finally, after giving her false answers, verse 16 tells us …
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https://youtu.be/xa9Zw5l4ugU Gram loquitur, Dia verba docet, Rhet verba colorat,Mus canit, Ar numerat, Geo ponderat, Ast colit astra. Few have encountered that Latin couplet today, but Lewis introduces it by saying: Everyone knows that the Arts are Grammar, Dialectic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, and Astronomy. And almost everyone has met the mnemonic couplet" (The Discarded Image, …
As we have established, the two big sections of Hosea are chapters 1-3 and 4-14. The first three chapters give us the summary and the picture of Hosea and Gomer. Hosea 2 is the summary of Yahweh's plan of Israel. He will discipline them severely but ultimately bring them back to Himself. Chapter 1 and …
So far in the book of Hosea, the first three chapters gave us Hosea's marriage to Gomer, which represented Yahweh's covenant with Israel. Chapter 2 gave us God's plan for Israel in a nutshell: He would severely discipline her but ultimately bring her back to Himself. Chapter 3 gave us a picture of that predicted …
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https://youtu.be/i1DgrZgC64M Every education has a telos, whether it is explicitly stated or not. The point of our first study was to establish what is the telos of education according to Scripture. We then ended by distinguishing between education and schooling, which served as our bridge into today's topic, which shifts from the great governing idea …
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In Hosea 1, God gave the prophet Hosea the assignment to marry a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom. This was to be a sign, a kind of living parable, of Israel's whoring after other gods. Hosea takes Gomer to be his wife and has three children: Jezreel, No Mercy, and Not My …
https://youtu.be/EEXSBBFDCk0 Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, "What road do I take?" The cat asked, "Where do you want to go?" "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't really matter, does it?" Without a destination in mind, choosing a path is rather pointless. After all, the …
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Discipline is an act of love. The author of Hebrews notes that all discipline is painful at first, "but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it." Indeed, whenever God disciplines us, we ought to be encouraged that He is treating us like sons. The opposite of …
My eyes long for your promise;I ask, “When will you comfort me?”For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke,yet I have not forgotten your statutes Psalm 119:82-83 ESV The psalmist began this stanza with a desire for salvation: "My soul longs for your salvation; I hope in your word." Given the context of …
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"The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture itself" (1689 Baptist Confession, I.9). Scripture illuminates Scripture, and one portion of the Bible must be interpreted through other portions. The full sense of Scripture is not manifold but one, just as Author Himself is one. I always have that principle in mind as I …
