God’s Redeeming Love Part 5 – “The Secret of the Easy Yoke” Hosea 4:1-19

ISRAEL THREW OFF GOD’S YOKE (Hosea 4:1-3; 16)

ISRAEL DIDN’T KNOW GOD (Hosea 4:4-6) Disobedience stems from not knowing God as we should.

animals and creeping things. 24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

ISRAEL DIDN’T KNOW GOD (Hosea 4:4-6) Disobedience stems from not knowing God as we should. Knowledge of God without a change in mind and heart is the very thing that condemns mankind. God’s workings throughout Israel’s history was so that His people might know Him.

ISRAEL DIDN’T KNOW GOD (Hosea 4:4-6)

ISRAEL YOKED THEMSELVES ISRAEL YOKED THEMSELVES TO SIN TO SIN (Hosea 4:7-15,17-19)

Proverbs 7:21-23 (ESV) 21 With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him. 22 All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast 23 till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.

ISRAEL YOKED THEMSELVES ISRAEL YOKED THEMSELVES TO SIN TO SIN (Hosea 4:7-15,17-19) Stay away from sin, and stay close to God.

God’s Redeeming Love Part 5 – “The Secret of the Easy Yoke” Hosea 4:1-19