1. God’s Love for Humanity

2. Warm-up Discussion Questions 1.Identify the typical plot sequences (from beginning to end) during a romantic movie. 2. Share your favorite movie depicting true romance and why. 3. What do you love about God? Put on Charlie Brown Tree.

3. My Favorite Movie

4. God’s Love for His People Key Verse: Hosea 3:1 The Lord said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods…” 1. Hosea teaches us the nature of God’s _____________ love towards sinners like us.

5. God’s Love for His People Hosea 1:2:“When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, “Go, take to yourself an adulterous wife and children of unfaithfulness, because the land is guilty of the vilest adultery in departing from the Lord.” 2. Hosea was willing to show God’s _______ and ________ for his people through his personal life.

6. God’s Love for His People Hosea 1:4-8: “And the Lord said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel. Gomer conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said, “Call her name no mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house…

7. God’s Love for His People Of Israel, to forgive them at all. But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God. I will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen. When she had weaned No mercy, she conceived and bore a son. And the Lord said, Call his name not my people, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.” (Hosea 4:6-8).

8. God’s Love for His People Hosea 1:10-11: Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. The children of Judah and Israel will one day be called “Sons of the living God…” God still loved the _____________ people of Israel. God had a ______________ for his people that someday they would be united and called “sons of the living God.”

9. God’s Love for His People Hosea 2:19-20: “I will betroth (engagement) you to me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion. I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will acknowledge the Lord.” God wants to be the ____________ husband for his bride-the church.

10. God’s Love for His People We have no __________ to come to God, but God seeks us, his sinful, __________ people, just as Hosea sought his wife and bought her back from slavery.