God’s Purpose in Hosea’s Ministry:

1. God asks Hosea to marry a prostitute by the name of Gomer.

a. Hosea 1:2

2. To illustrate the kind of people the Israelites have become.

3. To illustrate the kind of God that God is

Overview of Hosea:

1. The need for the knowledge of God.

a. Hosea 4:1

2. The lack of the knowledge of God’s Word.

a. Hosea 4:6

3. The Lord loves those He disciplines and blesses those who acknowledge Him.

a. Hosea 6:1-3

4. The Lord wants relationship, not religion; adoration, not obligation; love, not duty.

a. Hosea 6:6

5. The Lord won’t cover over what we cover up.

a. Hosea 7:1-3

6. The Lord warns about living a “mixed life.”

7. The Lord warns about transgressing against His Covenant.

a. Hosea 8:1-6

8. The Lord warns about forgetting about reaping what we sow.

a. Hosea 8:7

9. The Lord warns that a divided heart is a defeated life.

a. Hosea 10:2-12

b. Hosea 11:1-11

c. Hosea 12:1-8

d. Hosea 13:1-11

Take Aways:

1. Like Gomer, we are all guilty of unfaithfulness to God.

2. God never stops loving us. He takes an active role in pursuing us.

a. Hosea 3:1

b. Jeremiah 31:3

c. Hosea 2:14a

3. Sometimes the wilderness is the only place we can really hear God.

a. Hosea 2:14b

b. Hosea 1:10b

c. Hosea 14:7-9