The Unfathomable Love of God

Pastor Malcolm
Hosea
December 8, 2019

Odd Jobs

Sign Act:

actions or objects used to

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to God’s people

Act 1: The

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carried out by the prophet
Act 2:

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of the action for the people

Examples: Isaiah 20; Jeremiah 13, 16, 19, 27, 32; Ezekiel 4-5, 12, 21, 24

Background on Hosea:

• Hosea ministers during the later half of the 8th century; between 750-680 BC
• A time of tremendous
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  among God’s people

• Pictures of Israel’s unfaithfulness in Hosea

  • An indifferent mother, an illegitimate child, an ungrateful son, a stubborn heifer, a silly dove, a promiscuous wife

• The message is of God’s

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  love for unfaithful people (unfathomable – incapable of being fully explored or explained)

God’s Unfathomable Love

• God’s love is unfathomable in its
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  (Romans 8:35-39, 1 John 3:1)
• God’s love is unfathomable in its
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  (Ephesians 3:16-19)
• God’s love is unfathomable in its
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  (Titus 3:4-5, John 3:16)
• God’s love is unfathomable in its
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  (Romans 5:8, 1 John 3:16, 1 John 4:10-11)
• God’s love is unfathomable in its
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  (1 John 4:19 God’s love is a gift always taking the initiative, Revelation 3:20)