Rejected and recovered

Senior Adult Sermons
Date 7 February 2010
Hosea 2
Rejected and recovered
Introduction:
Dear friends, I remember when my son Kevin was still the age of two years, this child is very great curiosity, a time when I was ironing, he asks what this is? May be borrowed, should be held? I say this should not be hot but he kept on trying to hold the iron. I say love this hot, she does not believe, always seize to hold, I was somewhat annoyed, why this kid does not believe the same daddy. Finally I let him touch a bit, after touching directly cried and cried, then he believed that the iron is really hot. Small children easily intrigued by something new, great curiosity, he always wanted to find out something
Brother, what do think about my child, I think that sometimes we like a little of my child before God. God through the Word of God, always admonish, forbid us either by gently until hard so that we do not do things that violate God's word, but sometimes we do not want to hear, we will try to do what is forbidden by God.
Bible records how, in the event fall of the first human sin, the Bible records they are tempted to eat the fruit of knowledge of good and evil because of the temptation of evil, but in fact if we look more clearly, in fact here is not solely because of the devil but the man himself, where the Bible says that man's view and noted that apparently the fruit of knowledge of good and evil that, attracted her and gives light. He was curious and tried to eat it .. he took the time God is no longer banned but God gave him the freedom to do his will desire of God. Free will God gave him free will to choose to obey God or obey the will or the will of the devil himself.
We human beings are sinners who are descendants of Adam and Eve also have a tendency as did Eve. God gave us free will for us is free to choose obedience to God or to sin or obey our wishes. When we choose to follow our desires, then we know there are consequences that we will encounter. If we are more obedient to our will, then God let us do what we think is good, he let us do our will, and he allowed us to receive the reward of what became our choice.
God always wants us sisters loyal to him, God always wants us to obey him, but we often do not obey the Lord, but God remains faithful he wanted to return to Him, so he used a variety of ways for us to get back to Him.
Brother this week we will learn from the book of Hosea chapter 2. From this second article we will learn about how God brings people who are not obedient and loyal to realize his mistake and turned to God.
Brothers, through the Word of God is at least three ways God brought the Israelites for their return to the Lord and I am sure this way God can use to us sinful human beings to be able to come back to Him, to worship and dating back to Him:
I. God let the man follow his own desires (2:1-4)
Paragraph 1-4, here gives us a clear picture about how God punishes the people of Israel who are not loyal. Here God punishes them by God to let them do what they think is right.
Brother, this means the same as the way I did to my child, have been admonished, dingatkan still insist, then I let it, if he felt the result would be realized, and finally know that what daddy says is true.
In this section as if God had no idea with his people, It is clear with God says that he's not my wife, and I'm not a husband, I will let him naked, let him like the day she was born, I will not love him, even until the kids ...
Why did God let his people for his people chose to follow her lover who according to him, giving him food and drink, sheep and property. They follow other gods. They left her husband a legitimate and prostituting herself with another man, or worship the Canaanite gods. So God let them with their choices.
God always wants his children to remain faithful to Him, God wants his people to worship only Him, so God sent the prophets to remind parishioners of the error and their sin, so they turned around, but humans have a tendency to fight against God, they did not turn over to God.
When they did not turn around, what is God doing? God let them, God memberikakan their free will to choose whether to follow God or follow his own path. With all the consequences they have experienced.
Brother when talking about this then I remembered about the parable of the Lord Jesus of the prodigal son, when the youngest child was asked to leave his inheritance to his father and his father. His father originally did not allow this but when the child still will not leave his father, his father allowed, although his father did not let her daughter go tegah. His father knows what the future will be experienced this child, but his father finally let her daughter follow her wishes. And what happened finally? Finally this kid realizes he's going to mistake.
Brother of the same things God has done to the nation of Israel through Hosea's wife's picture, in which Israel does not want to hear God's voice, they do what they think is good. According to their more promising idolatry, idol gives them something to eat and drink and even thanks to the excess. In fact they believe that all the abundance of all the blessings that they get all of that is not from God but from those going to other gods.
Brother indeed sometimes we see that getting something in a way that is not true, faster, look more fluent than wearing the right way. Relatives in the area there is a mace which was initially very, very poor, but suddenly become rich. The people around him really wonder why these people suddenly became rich suddenly. Turns out he went to Mount Kawi and fast life seems to change. This is something seductive sister, do not need hard work suddenly become rich. But the consequence is the son of his only daughter became insane and beheaded.
Dear friends, today if we are honest we can be successful for quick and instant do business legally, but illegal. A few months ago in Pontianak post, reported the police arrested a woman drug dealer on the street 28 october. Reporters interviewed her neighbors, neighbors saw that he was surprised because the mother's life is suddenly changed, in a few months so big house, formerly used only motorcycle suddenly have a car. Dear friends, This is a reality, today, we see that when we seek the right way seems so difficult for us to go, but we see around us, there are people whose lives are not right, trying in a way that is not true, but businesses and their lives seem fluent and good looks.
But when someone uses your own way, without wearing God's way, then God will let him in his own way. God always reminds his flock that they realize their mistake with a variety of ways, but if had repeatedly but they still did not hear the voice of God, then God let or let them do what they think is good .... But God still wants someday he'll realize that what he said was true turned out to be wrong and he will return to the Lord.
Brother of Israel, too, God had warned them through the prophets and their sins would be a mistake but they did not hear the voice of the Lord God gave them what they desire, because they no longer hear God's voice, they want to follow their own path. Therefore, God let them follow their path.
Dear friends, something very tragic in human life when God has abandoned us, let us live in sin, when God allowed to do what we desire. Why this is something terrible, why is something tragic, because human beings are basically unable to walk alone, humans are not capable of doing the right thing, people need to be guided by God. As the psalmist describe human beings, like sheep who can not walk alone, sheep are easy to get lost, who do not know the direction of the course.
Sheep can not walk alone, if the sheep do not walk alone what it would be left by the shepherd the sheep? Obviously he was lost, and eventually he could be eaten by wild animals. This is a picture of life we humans, when humans left the Lord and let the man follow his own path, then all will all lead to death.
Romans chapter 1:18-23 talks about how humans have departed from God, human beings know God but do not glorify God, man does not mengucapsyukur, people love the idols of the Lord. Loving God's creatures from the Lord who created, then verse 24 says: Therefore God gave them up to the desire of their hearts to impurity, so that they mutually contaminate their bodies. "
Application:
Our friend was grateful, at this time because we have a faithful God for us, through His son Jesus Christ. Although we are sinful, unfaithful God never leaves us, He does not let us walk by himself, he did not let us follow our ways. Jesus after he died he sent the Holy Spirit to dwell within our hearts. The Holy Spirit dwells in our hearts, to guide us, rebuke us, and reminds us of our didosa .

Brother, the first way God to bring us to Him that is by letting us in our sinfulness, with the aim that one day we can be aware of our mistakes and eventually turned to Him.
II. Cover all the blessings of God in human life (2:5-12)
Brother, what a pride of man? What makes people leave God? Relatives who often make people leave because God is tempted by the wealth .. tempted by the promised pleasures of the world.
Why did the Israelites from God and turned to worship idols? Brother at that time, the Canaanites believed that the source of blessing in their lives comes from the god of fertility and Baal. According to them Baal regarded as the giver of fertility to their farms. Israel apparently influenced by religion of the Canaanites, and they doubt and forget the promise of God to those who give them the land of Canaan, which is filled with milk and honey. They forget that the source of blessing, soil fertility and prosperity all originate from God, not from the gods worshiped by the Canaanites.
Therefore, when they have more confidence to the numbness of God, then God's disappointment and anger towards Israel. The Israelis think their God is God `wilderness' are not able to bless them in Canaan. Baal for the sake of Israel and the abundant life in the land of Canaan. Israel has been having an affair with Baal (verse 4) ..
How do I let them know God and believe that all the blessings that they found in Canaan is not derived from Baal, but from God;
Second, God's way of life they cover everything, cover the blessing of God in the life of Israel ..
Verses 5-6 "Therefore, behold, I will insulate the way with thorns, and build the wall, locked him so that he could not find his way.
This brother is a rather harsh way of Allah. Where is God truly Israel closed the road so there is no room for them dating to idols, God did not give them the freedom to perform the worship of idols, possibly through ill health or other things, the Bible does not explain clearly, how God made the Israelites could not worship idols anymore.
Brother, what is idolatry? Brother is not only idolatry or worship of us worship the image of other things. But that is idolatry is something that we love and love exceeds our love to God's idols.
Could be idols that is ourselves, our loved ones, our jobs, our possessions and so forth.
Application: My brothers, as believers sometimes God can also do things such as when we had begun being unfaithful to the Lord, when more loving other things from the Lord. Then God will use God's way, he will close all the doors, our path to our respective gods for example through ill health, our business or bankrupt and more tragically, God destroyed the idols of ourselves segalah ie, all of which became our passion, that makes us not abandon God's faithful and taken by God. Is something tragic brother .. (Imagine; work is our idol, and God took from us, the money becomes our idol, and God takes from us ...
However, in the seventh paragraph saying Israel was not aware, why they were not aware because they think, they still have food, and they still believe all that the gods they worship.
Therefore they are not aware then, act of God to the two that God took all the grain, wine and all their property, through the nation of Assyria, who seized and looted all their wealth (ayt 8). They become poor, suffer. But they also have not repented, they would not recognize their mistakes. Because they think, although wheat, grapes and their property has been taken by the Assyrians. They still have a garden which can still produce, they will not lack. They are still proud of it.
Applications: Civil sometimes if there is a pegangangan in our lives, we still feel that we are still strong, we tdak need God, just like the Israelites.
And what did God, for his people who do not repent, God punishes with a more severe penalty that made them again to his knees before God, that is in verse 11 God menimpahkan extraordinary pests that destroy their crop, so that they experience hunger and are not There they were proud of.
The culmination of all that is God's throwing them in Babylon for 70 years (Section 10) in Babylon they will not celebrate the feast days they used to celebrate, whether it's Easter and other celebrations, including those not able to worship on the Sabbath day.
Brother, ignorance hearts of the people unto the Lord, is actually a picture of our life with God. Sometimes God must wear a hard way to admonish us to turn to him. Sometimes we feel that we have is because of our efforts, and sometimes we are so proud of what we have, that we forget that behind all that we have no God who gives to us. So we do not feel obligated to give thanks to God, worship him.
III. God will restore and persuaded to return (2:13-22)
Brother, we worship the same God as our parents to our children, when our children make mistakes, then we condemn, as we condemn if we are good parents, then we will persuade him back, we forgive him. When we want to actually hit our goal so that he knows his mistakes. Why was he punished or beaten?
Civil God punish the people with a variety of punishments ranging from, sickness, conquered and plundered by the Assyrians, are experiencing hunger because they are experiencing outbreaks of lading fields and eventually exiled to Babylon, they were actually God's purpose to bring them back to God. Bringing them to return to worship God, acknowledging that God is more powerful than they worshiped Baal.
Relatives when the Israelites were in Babylon, where they were a lot of contemplating God's goodness, there they realized the goodness of God. The people of Israel just like the prodigal son who likened the Lord Jesus. After he went to the distant country where he experienced hunger, he became poor, then he realized that his father was so good and he longed to return home from his ancestors.
Likewise with Israel, in Babylonia they would realize their mistake, they want to return immediately but the Lord through the prophet Jeremiah said they had to wait 70 years, they have to undergo the punishment for a 70-year period the new God they will be returned to Israel.
Babel is the last place God's punishment for Israel, in Babylon they experience various sufferings, they experience how difficult life in a foreign country, they try very hard to get food, they were in slavery and all kinds of suffering. Various events that they experienced in Babylon finally opened their eyes, that what they do is not true, to hurt God, through this they realized their mistake, there they began to learn to re loyal to God, learn to be faithful to God. Learning to walk in the plan and will of God.
When they re-turned to God, God gives a promise of blessing, which God will give rich, peace, God pour out abundant blessings in their lives and even the biggest blessing is that God would make his wife his people for ever, he made his wife in in truth and justice and lovingkindness .. ,
Conclusion:
Brother, lives an unfaithful nation of Israel, portrayed through Hosea's unfaithful wife, could be a picture of our lives that are not loyal.
Today there may be among us who experience struggles, problems in her life, problems and struggles to come from the devil, from us due to our mistakes and carelessness, but it could be from God, whereby God wants to say hello, calling us from all our mistakes, through various issues and struggles in our lives.
The goal of all of them so that we turn from our will and desire is wrong, the will of God. For us to love God above all we love to earthly things.
Through the struggles and problems we face, God willing we will acknowledge his existence, going back to worship him, recognized the power and authority.
How does God rebuke and greet us, so we can turn to Him from us the wrong way? Through the problems and struggles of life that we experience. Menizinkan God we have problems ranging from minor problems, until a big problem that makes our knees before God.
Brother; if I can describe how God punishes the Israelites and correlated with the possibility that God punishes us as a child when the parents make mistakes. Firstly parents just scolded, if not with pinched, if you do not hear anymore, still duablek, diplasa, diplasa still do not want to hear ... if dipangkong (In languages indonesian) inevitably be surrendered.
Dear friends, today when we are far from God, we are not faithful to God, may the Lord a new rebuke us, if we do not hear God might just pinch us. Relatives when the Lord rebuked us, let us quickly turn to God, do not wait until the Lord, pinch, let alone hit us hard.
Come, we live faithful and pleasing to God. Amen