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 Today's scripture reading comes from the book of Hosea.

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 We'll select passages from chapter 1 and chapter 3.

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 Please follow along in your bulletin.

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 The word of the Lord came to Hosea, the son of Beri,

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 in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah,

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 in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel.

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 When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea,

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 Go take to yourself a wife of whoredom, and have children of whoredom,

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 for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.

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 So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Dublaim,

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 and she conceived and bore him a son.

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 And the Lord said to him, Call his name Jezreel,

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 for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel,

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 and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

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 And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.

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 She conceived again and bore a daughter.

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 And the Lord said to him, Call her name No Mercy,

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 for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel to forgive them at all.

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 But I will have mercy on the house of Judah,

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 and I will save them by the Lord their God.

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 I will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen.

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 When she had weaned no mercy, she conceived and bore a son.

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 And the Lord said, Call his name Not My People,

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 for you are not My people, and I am not your God.

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 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea,

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 which cannot be measured or numbered.

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 And in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people,

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 it shall be said to them, Children of the living God.

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 And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together,

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 and they shall appoint for themselves one head.

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 They shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

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 Chapter 3.

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 And the Lord said to me, Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress,

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 even as the Lord loves the children of Israel,

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 though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.

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 So I bought her for fifteen shuckles of silver and a homer and a lethic of barley.

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 And I said to her, You must dwell as Mine for many days.

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 You shall not play the whore or belong to another man, so I will be to you.

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 For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince,

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 without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods.

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 Afterward, the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God and David their king,

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 and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to His goodness in the latter days.

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 For the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord and the Lord and to His goodness in the latter days.

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 And they shall come together and so on.

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 So I've been acting as the dad for the week.

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 They're my godkids as well.

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 But one of the things I learned about being a dad or having kids around is that,

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 especially when you've got to focus just on them,

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 and it's a two-year-old and a four-year-old that we're looking after.

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 And the four-year-old has been described, perhaps euphemistically, as spirited or rambunctious or a handful.

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 And so when we were taking them in and out of taxes and so on,

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 you know, I'm not the most organized person anyway,

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 and I can tend to be forgetful of, you know, my own personal belongings and so on.

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 So when there's kids around, right, and you're responsible for making sure they get in and out of the taxi alive,

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 then other things just kind of get left behind.

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 And so one of the things I left behind was my phone in the taxi last week.

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 And, yeah, it's sad to say we never heard from it again,

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 even though we kind of sent through a message through the network.

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 So if anyone's tried to call me or message me or text me or anything like that,

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 I apologize.

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 I haven't been able to get back to you.

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 So, yeah, I asked another taxi driver, and he said,

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 oh, I think I was about six hours later, and he said,

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 you know what, it's probably in Shenzhen by now.

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 So it's just gone.

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 I haven't had a great run with taxis, actually.

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 So we ended up in Hanoi last week.

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 And, yeah, trying to keep two kids alive in Hanoi, I felt like, was my main job.

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 I don't know if you've ever been to Vietnam or anywhere around in third world countries,

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 but, you know, you're walking down the streets,

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 and there's just thousands of motorcycles coming by you.

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 And normally you can walk on the sidewalk, so it's sort of okay.

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 But there was one street we went down which had no sidewalks.

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 And so we were basically walking amongst, through, and around the motorbikes,

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 and I just had to keep a firm grip on a rambunctious four-year,

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 and watch out for this as well.

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 When you end up in Hanoi, taxis try and scam you as well.

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 So sometimes it's just a couple of dollars or so on,

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 but on the trip back to the airport,

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 because we had all these kids and all the luggage,

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 and I was trying to make sure that everybody was going to be okay,

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 the guy just said, okay, I said, how much?

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 And he said, one and a half million dong.

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 And I just handed it over without even thinking.

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 And then I thought about, hang on a minute, that's 75 US dollars.

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 That's like five times as much as what I paid to get back out.

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 And so I sat back in the taxi and argued with him for the next five minutes.

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 And they threatened to call the police and all that kind of stuff.

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 And he gave me back like a third of it or something like that.

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 So then he charged me, he overcharged me three times instead of five times what he should have.

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 So Eric's going next week, so I'll have to tell him that story.

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 I don't think he's here.

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 But yeah, he has to make sure.

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 You know, I was pretty angry, actually, about that whole thing.

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 You know, I hate being cheated.

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 I think it just kind of runs in the family.

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 And yeah, you know, I was arguing with him.

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 And the conversation was getting pretty heated.

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 And he was making up all this stuff.

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 And yeah, and you know, afterwards, you know, I got out.

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 I just couldn't even look at him.

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 I just shook my head.

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 And, you know, I just wanted to, you know, shake him.

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 I said, what are you doing?

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 And it made me think about forgiveness.

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 Because that's what I was thinking about during the week, right?

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 And I didn't think about it until later.

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 But I was reading in Phil Yancey's book about grace, the story of Les Miserables.

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 Where, you know, right at the beginning, you know, Jean Valjean, the prisoner,

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 a hardened criminal over 20 years in jail,

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 goes and he stays at the priest's house and he steals.

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 And he's treated with kindness and grace to a thief.

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 He's shown forgiveness and mercy.

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 And because of that, his whole life is changed and transformed.

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 And so, yeah, it just made me think, you know,

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 how difficult it is for even us as people who have experienced grace

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 to continue to practice grace in the face of what we consider to be injustice.

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 Or when we feel like we've been wronged in some way.

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 There's a story of forgiveness that I heard as well one time.

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 And it goes kind of like this.

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 There was a husband.

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 And he was happily married to his wife.

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 And in a moment of madness,

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 he committed adultery one night against his wife.

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 And almost immediately, he regretted the terrible mistake that he'd made.

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 And he decided to come clean and confess to his wife what he had done.

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 And not knowing how she would respond,

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 he forced himself to do so,

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 stealing himself for what she might say.

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 Not knowing what she would say.

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 And her reply was this.

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 What you have done has really hurt me.

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 But I love you and I forgive you.

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 He couldn't believe his ears.

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 I mean, what could he say?

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 Was that it?

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 Could he be forgiven so easily?

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 Is it that easy to forgive?

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 In Hosea, we have a story of hurt and forgiveness.

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 And Hosea has been called the second greatest story of forgiveness in the Bible.

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 Because it points to the greatest story of forgiveness in the Bible,

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 which is found in the New Testament.

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 But in this part of Hosea,

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 we read about Hosea and Goma.

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 Goma, a promiscuous woman.

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 A woman of whoredom.

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 Who Hosea is told to marry.

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 And it seems strange to us that God would ask a prophet to do something like this.

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 But one thing that we need to understand is that the prophets

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 were God's spokespeople, spokespersons,

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 in the land of Israel at that time,

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 and other places as well.

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 And God sent many prophets to the land.

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 And as we heard from just a few weeks ago,

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 when Graham spoke about,

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 spoke on Amos.

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 Hosea and Amos were contemporaries.

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 And the land of Israel

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 had turned away from God.

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 They'd actually enjoyed a long period of peace and prosperity,

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 where riches had flowed into the land,

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 and the borders had expanded under King Jeroboam.

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 And in this time, even,

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 religion was expanding and booming,

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 but it was a religion which was not focused on God.

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 Instead, it was what they call syncretistic.

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 It was mixed in with the religions of all the other lands and places around them.

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 And so,

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 God sees this,

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 and His heart is torn apart,

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 broken,

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 because He sees a people

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 who have deserted Him

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 and gone to run other,

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 other idols,

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 run after other idols.

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 And so,

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 the prophets

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 embody

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 in themselves

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 God's message

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 within them.

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 To be a prophet,

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 to be a spokesman,

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 like the old children of prophets,

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 is to

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 almost identify with God

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 in such a way

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 that you feel what God feels.

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 If you want to know

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 what it's like to be an altarsome prophet,

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 you can read the words of Jeremiah.

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 And he said,

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 he talked about it like this,

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 if I say,

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 I will not mention His word

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 or speak any more in His name,

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 His word is in my heart

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 like a fire,

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 a fire shut up in my bones.

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 I am weary of holding it in.

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 Indeed,

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 I cannot.

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 God's word is like a fire

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 inside of the prophets,

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 and it must come out.

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 And in some cases,

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 the prophets,

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 even in their,

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 not just their words,

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 but their physical lives,

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 embodied the message of God,

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 embodied the heart of God,

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 the feelings of God,

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 communicating

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 what God wanted to communicate

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 to His people.

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 Hosea is one of those prophets.

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 And so he is commanded

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 to take

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 a wife of Hortum

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 and children of Hortum,

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 and

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 he commanded to do so

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 because Israel

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 has left

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 their God.

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 has become

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 unfaithful.

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 And so,

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 Hosea

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 marries,

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 it says,

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 Goma.

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 And

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 they get married

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 and

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 they have a child

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 together.

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 And after this child

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 is born

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 and some more children

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 are born,

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 Goma leaves

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 Hosea

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 for a new man,

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 a new life.

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 and God

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 tells Hosea

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 as well

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 the names

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 of the children

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 that He

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 is to name them.

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 And they are not

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 pretty names.

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 Jezreel,

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 the first one,

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 it's just the name

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 of the land

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 that

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 they were in.

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 But judgment

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 was coming

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 to that land

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 and that

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 was why

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 the name

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 was given.

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 The next ones

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 were named

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 perhaps in

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 accordance

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 with the fact

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 that they may

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 not have been

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 Hosea's children

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 at all.

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 No mercy

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 and not my

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 people.

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 And God

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 said that He

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 would no longer

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 show mercy

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 to the house

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 of Israel

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 and that

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 they would

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 not be

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 His people

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 anymore.

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 Because Israel

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 were the people

00:13:33.779 --> 00:13:34.200
 of God

00:13:34.200 --> 00:13:35.259
 chosen by God

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 and they were

00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:37.460
 to be His people

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 and He was

00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:38.720
 to be their God

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 but they had

00:13:39.659 --> 00:13:40.340
 wandered away,

00:13:40.779 --> 00:13:41.519
 had walked away,

00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:42.679
 had deserted Him.

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 And so God

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 in effect

00:13:45.500 --> 00:13:46.379
 broke the covenant

00:13:46.379 --> 00:13:47.919
 which He had

00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:49.200
 with Israel,

00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:50.539
 threw it aside

00:13:50.539 --> 00:13:51.220
 and said

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 you are not

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 my people

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 and I will not

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 be your God.

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 Well,

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 Gomer

00:13:59.960 --> 00:14:01.159
 leaves,

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 as I said,

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 Hosea

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 for a new man,

00:14:04.899 --> 00:14:05.620
 a new life

00:14:05.620 --> 00:14:06.080
 and yet

00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:06.879
 this new life

00:14:06.879 --> 00:14:07.379
 doesn't seem

00:14:07.379 --> 00:14:08.940
 to work out

00:14:08.940 --> 00:14:09.259
 in the way

00:14:09.259 --> 00:14:09.620
 that she had

00:14:09.620 --> 00:14:09.919
 intended

00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:10.879
 because she

00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:11.460
 sinks lower

00:14:11.460 --> 00:14:14.019
 in society

00:14:14.019 --> 00:14:15.860
 and eventually

00:14:15.860 --> 00:14:17.419
 hits rock bottom

00:14:17.419 --> 00:14:17.919
 when she is

00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:18.840
 placed for sale

00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:21.200
 on the slave

00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:21.519
 market.

00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:23.659
 She is reduced

00:14:23.659 --> 00:14:24.259
 to nothing,

00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:25.019
 owning nothing,

00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:25.759
 in fact not even

00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:26.159
 herself.

00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:26.860
 she is owned

00:14:26.860 --> 00:14:28.279
 by another,

00:14:28.379 --> 00:14:29.039
 the slave traders.

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 And this sad story

00:14:34.579 --> 00:14:35.959
 could have just

00:14:35.959 --> 00:14:36.559
 ended here

00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:39.079
 except that in

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 chapter 3

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 we're told

00:14:41.219 --> 00:14:42.219
 that God

00:14:42.219 --> 00:14:43.339
 tells Hosea

00:14:43.339 --> 00:14:44.959
 to go

00:14:44.959 --> 00:14:45.860
 and love her

00:14:45.860 --> 00:14:46.299
 again.

00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:49.399
 We're not told

00:14:49.399 --> 00:14:49.980
 what Hosea

00:14:49.980 --> 00:14:50.620
 thought about

00:14:50.620 --> 00:14:51.299
 kind of such

00:14:51.299 --> 00:14:51.779
 an instruction

00:14:51.779 --> 00:14:55.600
 but we can

00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:55.939
 imagine.

00:14:57.480 --> 00:14:58.419
 I think of

00:14:58.419 --> 00:15:00.579
 a friend

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 who

00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:03.319
 was convinced

00:15:03.319 --> 00:15:03.639
 that,

00:15:04.220 --> 00:15:04.519
 or who

00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:04.939
 suspected

00:15:04.939 --> 00:15:05.620
 that his wife

00:15:05.620 --> 00:15:07.939
 was emotionally

00:15:07.939 --> 00:15:09.279
 unfaithful

00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:09.659
 to him

00:15:09.659 --> 00:15:12.019
 and his fury

00:15:12.019 --> 00:15:12.919
 knew no bounds

00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:13.839
 as he suspected

00:15:13.839 --> 00:15:14.339
 everybody.

00:15:14.340 --> 00:15:19.340
 what were Hosea's

00:15:19.340 --> 00:15:19.700
 options?

00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:20.620
 Well,

00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:22.240
 he could have

00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:22.720
 just left her

00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:22.960
 there,

00:15:23.580 --> 00:15:24.100
 seen her at

00:15:24.100 --> 00:15:24.700
 the slave auction

00:15:24.700 --> 00:15:25.080
 market,

00:15:25.899 --> 00:15:26.580
 left her to

00:15:26.580 --> 00:15:27.120
 her own,

00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:28.600
 yeah,

00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:29.540
 to her fate,

00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:31.060
 laughed at her,

00:15:31.940 --> 00:15:32.480
 told her that

00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:33.180
 she deserved it.

00:15:33.179 --> 00:15:36.479
 or he could

00:15:36.479 --> 00:15:37.979
 have taken

00:15:37.979 --> 00:15:38.379
 her in,

00:15:39.439 --> 00:15:40.039
 brought her

00:15:40.039 --> 00:15:40.879
 as a slave

00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:42.000
 and brought her

00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:43.159
 in his house,

00:15:43.719 --> 00:15:44.599
 under his house

00:15:44.599 --> 00:15:46.599
 and exacted

00:15:46.599 --> 00:15:47.359
 his revenge

00:15:47.359 --> 00:15:49.219
 by taking

00:15:49.219 --> 00:15:49.839
 a new wife,

00:15:50.699 --> 00:15:51.299
 which he was

00:15:51.299 --> 00:15:52.159
 entitled to do

00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:52.899
 under Jewish law

00:15:52.899 --> 00:15:55.839
 and bring her

00:15:55.839 --> 00:15:56.500
 in as a slave

00:15:56.500 --> 00:15:56.959
 under new

00:15:56.959 --> 00:15:57.359
 management,

00:15:57.599 --> 00:15:58.000
 as it were,

00:15:58.479 --> 00:15:59.959
 so that she

00:15:59.959 --> 00:16:00.359
 could see

00:16:00.359 --> 00:16:01.379
 what she

00:16:01.379 --> 00:16:01.979
 once had

00:16:01.979 --> 00:16:03.039
 and missed

00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:03.459
 out on.

00:16:05.659 --> 00:16:06.379
 But that is

00:16:06.379 --> 00:16:06.879
 not what God

00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:07.599
 told him to do.

00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:10.419
 God told Hosea

00:16:10.419 --> 00:16:11.360
 to love her

00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:11.839
 again.

00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:16.099
 And so

00:16:16.099 --> 00:16:17.240
 he does so.

00:16:18.139 --> 00:16:18.860
 And you can

00:16:18.860 --> 00:16:19.419
 imagine what

00:16:19.419 --> 00:16:21.199
 his friends

00:16:21.199 --> 00:16:21.740
 and neighbours

00:16:21.740 --> 00:16:23.079
 have said

00:16:23.079 --> 00:16:23.579
 and thought

00:16:23.579 --> 00:16:24.579
 about all this

00:16:24.579 --> 00:16:24.939
 as they were

00:16:24.939 --> 00:16:25.839
 watching this

00:16:25.839 --> 00:16:26.579
 drama of

00:16:26.579 --> 00:16:28.039
 this prophet

00:16:28.039 --> 00:16:29.000
 and his wife

00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:29.779
 being enacted

00:16:29.779 --> 00:16:30.620
 out in

00:16:30.620 --> 00:16:32.139
 Israelite society.

00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:35.019
 perhaps they

00:16:35.019 --> 00:16:35.179
 would have

00:16:35.179 --> 00:16:35.339
 said,

00:16:35.419 --> 00:16:35.719
 Hosea,

00:16:35.779 --> 00:16:36.379
 you're crazy.

00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:38.480
 She doesn't

00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:39.039
 deserve your

00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:39.319
 love.

00:16:40.939 --> 00:16:41.539
 She doesn't

00:16:41.539 --> 00:16:42.039
 deserve

00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:43.500
 your

00:16:43.500 --> 00:16:45.159
 payment.

00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:47.240
 Why would

00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:48.219
 you pay

00:16:48.219 --> 00:16:50.219
 to take

00:16:50.219 --> 00:16:50.620
 back

00:16:50.620 --> 00:16:51.860
 this woman?

00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:53.740
 Don't you

00:16:53.740 --> 00:16:54.059
 remember?

00:16:54.620 --> 00:16:55.399
 She left you.

00:16:56.199 --> 00:16:56.959
 She took up

00:16:56.959 --> 00:16:57.279
 with someone

00:16:57.279 --> 00:16:57.639
 else.

00:16:58.019 --> 00:16:58.559
 She betrayed

00:16:58.559 --> 00:16:58.839
 you.

00:17:01.339 --> 00:17:02.399
 She doesn't

00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:02.899
 deserve

00:17:02.899 --> 00:17:04.359
 your love.

00:17:06.500 --> 00:17:07.619
 Yet Hosea

00:17:07.619 --> 00:17:08.279
 obeys God.

00:17:10.379 --> 00:17:11.259
 And he

00:17:11.259 --> 00:17:12.220
 goes and

00:17:12.220 --> 00:17:12.799
 talks to her

00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:14.359
 and rescues

00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:15.579
 her and

00:17:15.579 --> 00:17:17.099
 gathers the

00:17:17.099 --> 00:17:18.039
 resources necessary

00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:19.079
 to pay the

00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:20.079
 price for

00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:20.519
 her freedom.

00:17:20.519 --> 00:17:20.619
 him.

00:17:23.099 --> 00:17:23.599
 And when

00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:25.160
 he talks to

00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:25.420
 her, he

00:17:25.420 --> 00:17:26.059
 doesn't just

00:17:26.059 --> 00:17:27.240
 bring her

00:17:27.240 --> 00:17:27.639
 in as a

00:17:27.639 --> 00:17:27.920
 slave.

00:17:28.059 --> 00:17:28.220
 No.

00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:29.700
 He restores

00:17:29.700 --> 00:17:30.859
 her to a

00:17:30.859 --> 00:17:31.879
 position as

00:17:31.879 --> 00:17:32.319
 a wife.

00:17:34.019 --> 00:17:34.720
 She's fully

00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:35.259
 restored,

00:17:36.900 --> 00:17:37.200
 forgiven,

00:17:38.940 --> 00:17:40.059
 and he

00:17:40.059 --> 00:17:40.900
 resets as

00:17:40.900 --> 00:17:41.900
 well their

00:17:41.900 --> 00:17:42.220
 marriage

00:17:42.220 --> 00:17:42.559
 commitment.

00:17:42.779 --> 00:17:43.079
 He says

00:17:43.079 --> 00:17:43.400
 to her,

00:17:44.900 --> 00:17:45.240
 you must

00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:45.619
 dwell as

00:17:45.619 --> 00:17:46.000
 mine for

00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:46.559
 many days.

00:17:47.180 --> 00:17:47.440
 You shall

00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:47.799
 not play

00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:48.579
 the war or

00:17:48.579 --> 00:17:48.960
 belong to

00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:49.500
 another man.

00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:51.319
 So will

00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:52.039
 I also

00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:52.960
 be to

00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:53.220
 you.

00:17:55.519 --> 00:17:56.180
 It's a

00:17:56.180 --> 00:17:56.799
 recommitment

00:17:56.799 --> 00:17:58.200
 of their

00:17:58.200 --> 00:17:58.619
 marriage.

00:17:59.180 --> 00:17:59.539
 That once

00:17:59.539 --> 00:18:01.539
 again, she

00:18:01.539 --> 00:18:01.819
 will be

00:18:01.819 --> 00:18:02.200
 committed to

00:18:02.200 --> 00:18:03.740
 him and

00:18:03.740 --> 00:18:04.180
 he will be

00:18:04.180 --> 00:18:04.599
 committed to

00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:05.759
 her for

00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:06.139
 life.

00:18:07.740 --> 00:18:08.279
 Fully

00:18:08.279 --> 00:18:08.799
 restored,

00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:10.480
 their broken

00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:10.900
 marriage.

00:18:13.259 --> 00:18:13.900
 It's a

00:18:13.900 --> 00:18:14.460
 high price

00:18:14.460 --> 00:18:14.980
 to pay

00:18:14.980 --> 00:18:15.400
 as well.

00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:17.359
 The

00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:18.299
 resources that

00:18:18.299 --> 00:18:18.660
 were needed

00:18:18.660 --> 00:18:19.400
 to buy

00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:19.759
 her back,

00:18:20.519 --> 00:18:21.220
 the

00:18:21.220 --> 00:18:22.279
 humiliation

00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:23.500
 that he

00:18:23.500 --> 00:18:23.720
 would have

00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:24.379
 experienced,

00:18:24.579 --> 00:18:24.859
 that they

00:18:24.859 --> 00:18:25.220
 both would

00:18:25.220 --> 00:18:25.319
 have

00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:25.799
 experienced

00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:26.299
 from

00:18:26.299 --> 00:18:27.139
 friends,

00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:27.559
 family,

00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:28.220
 neighbours,

00:18:28.839 --> 00:18:29.299
 society.

00:18:30.619 --> 00:18:31.500
 The hurt

00:18:31.500 --> 00:18:32.039
 and anger

00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:34.319
 that Hosea

00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:34.579
 would have

00:18:34.579 --> 00:18:35.119
 had to

00:18:35.119 --> 00:18:37.619
 either bury

00:18:37.619 --> 00:18:39.200
 or just

00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:39.839
 kind of

00:18:39.839 --> 00:18:41.299
 assume

00:18:41.299 --> 00:18:42.319
 within him.

00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:45.759
 and the

00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:46.240
 prophet was

00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:49.159
 reenacting

00:18:49.159 --> 00:18:50.159
 the broken

00:18:50.159 --> 00:18:50.500
 covenant

00:18:50.500 --> 00:18:51.000
 relationship

00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:51.859
 between God

00:18:51.859 --> 00:18:53.039
 and Israel.

00:18:54.139 --> 00:18:54.899
 We read

00:18:54.899 --> 00:18:55.559
 chapter 1 and

00:18:55.559 --> 00:18:56.099
 chapter 3,

00:18:56.480 --> 00:18:56.939
 but between

00:18:56.939 --> 00:18:57.220
 them is

00:18:57.220 --> 00:18:57.759
 chapter 2,

00:18:58.519 --> 00:18:58.899
 where God

00:18:58.899 --> 00:18:59.599
 addresses Israel

00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:01.740
 directly and

00:19:01.740 --> 00:19:02.279
 speaks to

00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:03.799
 her and he

00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:04.500
 says to her

00:19:04.500 --> 00:19:05.179
 at that point

00:19:05.180 --> 00:19:06.519
 that she

00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:07.080
 is like

00:19:07.080 --> 00:19:08.180
 this woman,

00:19:09.180 --> 00:19:09.840
 an adulterous

00:19:09.840 --> 00:19:10.140
 woman,

00:19:10.539 --> 00:19:11.039
 and they

00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:11.380
 have become

00:19:11.380 --> 00:19:12.060
 an adulterous

00:19:12.060 --> 00:19:12.500
 people.

00:19:13.940 --> 00:19:14.500
 As it

00:19:14.500 --> 00:19:14.740
 says,

00:19:14.820 --> 00:19:15.360
 upon her

00:19:15.360 --> 00:19:15.940
 children I

00:19:15.940 --> 00:19:16.200
 will have

00:19:16.200 --> 00:19:16.820
 no mercy

00:19:16.820 --> 00:19:18.100
 because they

00:19:18.100 --> 00:19:18.460
 are children

00:19:18.460 --> 00:19:18.700
 of

00:19:18.700 --> 00:19:19.019
 wardom.

00:19:20.519 --> 00:19:20.700
 Their

00:19:20.700 --> 00:19:21.039
 mother has

00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:21.360
 played the

00:19:21.360 --> 00:19:21.600
 war.

00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:21.860
 She

00:19:21.860 --> 00:19:22.360
 who conceived

00:19:22.360 --> 00:19:22.700
 them has

00:19:22.700 --> 00:19:23.060
 acted

00:19:23.060 --> 00:19:23.600
 shamefully,

00:19:24.060 --> 00:19:24.400
 for she

00:19:24.400 --> 00:19:24.660
 said,

00:19:24.740 --> 00:19:25.160
 I will go

00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:25.560
 after my

00:19:25.560 --> 00:19:26.140
 lovers who

00:19:26.140 --> 00:19:26.600
 give me my

00:19:26.600 --> 00:19:26.900
 bread and

00:19:26.900 --> 00:19:27.299
 my water,

00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:27.720
 my will

00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:28.000
 and my

00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:28.279
 flax,

00:19:28.380 --> 00:19:28.740
 my oil

00:19:28.740 --> 00:19:29.000
 and my

00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:29.320
 drink.

00:19:29.319 --> 00:19:31.119
 She

00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:31.319
 shall

00:19:31.319 --> 00:19:31.639
 pursue

00:19:31.639 --> 00:19:31.859
 her

00:19:31.859 --> 00:19:32.179
 lovers,

00:19:32.919 --> 00:19:33.500
 but not

00:19:33.500 --> 00:19:33.879
 overtake

00:19:33.879 --> 00:19:34.000
 them.

00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:34.139
 She

00:19:34.139 --> 00:19:34.299
 shall

00:19:34.299 --> 00:19:34.539
 seek

00:19:34.539 --> 00:19:34.700
 them,

00:19:34.759 --> 00:19:34.960
 but not

00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:35.240
 find

00:19:35.240 --> 00:19:35.439
 them.

00:19:37.159 --> 00:19:37.519
 She

00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:37.819
 did not

00:19:37.819 --> 00:19:38.200
 know that

00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:38.419
 it was

00:19:38.419 --> 00:19:38.839
 I who

00:19:38.839 --> 00:19:39.159
 gave her

00:19:39.159 --> 00:19:39.599
 the grain,

00:19:39.700 --> 00:19:40.039
 the wine,

00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:40.539
 the oil,

00:19:40.779 --> 00:19:41.539
 who lavished

00:19:41.539 --> 00:19:41.779
 on her

00:19:41.779 --> 00:19:42.179
 the silver

00:19:42.179 --> 00:19:42.720
 and gold,

00:19:43.119 --> 00:19:43.480
 which they

00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:43.879
 used for

00:19:43.879 --> 00:19:44.139
 bail.

00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:45.839
 Therefore

00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:46.059
 I will

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 take back

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 my grain

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 in its

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 time and

00:19:47.639 --> 00:19:48.059
 my wine

00:19:48.059 --> 00:19:48.339
 in its

00:19:48.339 --> 00:19:48.619
 season.

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 I will

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 take away

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 my will

00:19:52.099 --> 00:19:52.339
 and my

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 flax,

00:19:52.679 --> 00:19:52.799
 which

00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:53.000
 were to

00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:53.399
 cover her

00:19:53.399 --> 00:19:53.980
 nakedness.

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 The

00:19:57.319 --> 00:19:57.679
 people of

00:19:57.679 --> 00:19:58.000
 Israel

00:19:58.000 --> 00:19:59.900
 were like

00:19:59.900 --> 00:20:00.180
 Gomer.

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 And the

00:20:02.619 --> 00:20:03.559
 prophet and

00:20:03.559 --> 00:20:04.079
 his wife

00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:05.460
 were just

00:20:05.460 --> 00:20:06.660
 kind of like

00:20:06.660 --> 00:20:07.380
 a microcosm,

00:20:08.940 --> 00:20:09.599
 an acted

00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:11.099
 story of

00:20:11.099 --> 00:20:11.480
 the wider

00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:12.519
 story that

00:20:12.519 --> 00:20:12.980
 all of

00:20:12.980 --> 00:20:13.640
 Israel shared.

00:20:13.779 --> 00:20:14.000
 And when

00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:14.480
 people looked

00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:15.380
 in and

00:20:15.380 --> 00:20:16.099
 asked why

00:20:16.099 --> 00:20:16.900
 is this

00:20:16.900 --> 00:20:17.720
 happening to

00:20:17.720 --> 00:20:18.660
 this prophet,

00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:19.220
 this man of

00:20:19.220 --> 00:20:19.519
 God,

00:20:20.940 --> 00:20:21.299
 then they

00:20:21.299 --> 00:20:21.779
 would know

00:20:21.779 --> 00:20:23.160
 that this is

00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:24.299
 because the

00:20:24.299 --> 00:20:24.619
 finger was

00:20:24.619 --> 00:20:25.039
 pointed right

00:20:25.039 --> 00:20:25.380
 back at

00:20:25.380 --> 00:20:25.579
 them.

00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:26.680
 You,

00:20:26.819 --> 00:20:27.200
 this is what

00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:27.559
 you have

00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:27.819
 done.

00:20:27.819 --> 00:20:28.139
 This is

00:20:28.139 --> 00:20:28.559
 who you

00:20:28.559 --> 00:20:29.000
 are,

00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:30.740
 are people

00:20:30.740 --> 00:20:31.319
 who have

00:20:31.319 --> 00:20:31.879
 forsaken

00:20:31.879 --> 00:20:32.279
 God.

00:20:34.679 --> 00:20:35.619
 And to

00:20:35.619 --> 00:20:36.539
 read Hosea,

00:20:37.059 --> 00:20:37.299
 and we

00:20:37.299 --> 00:20:37.519
 don't have

00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:37.759
 time,

00:20:37.859 --> 00:20:38.019
 obviously,

00:20:38.099 --> 00:20:38.460
 to read

00:20:38.460 --> 00:20:39.200
 the whole

00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:39.399
 book,

00:20:39.460 --> 00:20:39.819
 it's 12,

00:20:40.059 --> 00:20:40.819
 14 chapters,

00:20:40.899 --> 00:20:41.240
 something like

00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:41.460
 that.

00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:42.179
 To read

00:20:42.179 --> 00:20:42.460
 the whole

00:20:42.460 --> 00:20:42.720
 book of

00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:43.279
 Hosea is

00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:43.899
 to see,

00:20:44.899 --> 00:20:46.259
 to get a

00:20:46.259 --> 00:20:46.980
 peek into

00:20:46.980 --> 00:20:48.119
 the heart

00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:48.539
 of God,

00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:51.019
 possibly more

00:20:51.019 --> 00:20:51.299
 than any

00:20:51.299 --> 00:20:51.700
 other book.

00:20:52.639 --> 00:20:53.159
 And we

00:20:53.159 --> 00:20:53.759
 see inside

00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:54.179
 the heart

00:20:54.179 --> 00:20:54.679
 of God

00:20:54.679 --> 00:20:56.759
 is pain.

00:20:56.759 --> 00:20:59.660
 is broken

00:20:59.660 --> 00:21:01.259
 as his

00:21:01.259 --> 00:21:01.799
 heart is

00:21:01.799 --> 00:21:02.240
 broken

00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:03.920
 over his

00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:04.259
 people.

00:21:06.859 --> 00:21:07.339
 In

00:21:07.339 --> 00:21:08.019
 chapter 4,

00:21:09.019 --> 00:21:09.660
 verse 1,

00:21:10.140 --> 00:21:10.379
 I mean,

00:21:10.420 --> 00:21:10.619
 if you're

00:21:10.619 --> 00:21:11.259
 following along,

00:21:11.619 --> 00:21:12.400
 if you've got

00:21:12.400 --> 00:21:13.379
 phones and so

00:21:13.379 --> 00:21:13.480
 on,

00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:14.579
 I'll be

00:21:14.579 --> 00:21:15.220
 skipping around

00:21:15.220 --> 00:21:15.720
 and so on,

00:21:15.900 --> 00:21:16.359
 but just

00:21:16.359 --> 00:21:17.299
 for this

00:21:17.299 --> 00:21:17.759
 little while.

00:21:19.140 --> 00:21:19.680
 But in

00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:20.259
 chapter 4,

00:21:20.519 --> 00:21:21.099
 verse 1,

00:21:21.099 --> 00:21:23.579
 God says,

00:21:23.579 --> 00:21:24.079
 hear this

00:21:24.079 --> 00:21:24.399
 word,

00:21:24.480 --> 00:21:24.740
 hear the

00:21:24.740 --> 00:21:25.079
 word of

00:21:25.079 --> 00:21:25.459
 the Lord,

00:21:25.579 --> 00:21:25.939
 O children

00:21:25.939 --> 00:21:26.439
 of Israel,

00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:27.259
 for the

00:21:27.259 --> 00:21:27.559
 Lord has

00:21:27.559 --> 00:21:28.219
 a controversy

00:21:28.219 --> 00:21:28.559
 with the

00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:28.899
 inhabitants

00:21:28.899 --> 00:21:29.240
 of the

00:21:29.240 --> 00:21:29.579
 land.

00:21:30.740 --> 00:21:31.039
 There is

00:21:31.039 --> 00:21:31.980
 no faithfulness

00:21:31.980 --> 00:21:33.259
 or steadfast

00:21:33.259 --> 00:21:34.119
 love and

00:21:34.119 --> 00:21:34.599
 no knowledge

00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:34.939
 of God

00:21:34.939 --> 00:21:35.179
 in the

00:21:35.179 --> 00:21:35.480
 land.

00:21:35.939 --> 00:21:36.319
 There is

00:21:36.319 --> 00:21:36.759
 swearing,

00:21:37.179 --> 00:21:37.559
 lying,

00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:38.279
 murder,

00:21:38.619 --> 00:21:38.980
 stealing,

00:21:39.339 --> 00:21:39.699
 and committing

00:21:39.699 --> 00:21:40.159
 adultery.

00:21:40.519 --> 00:21:40.959
 They break

00:21:40.959 --> 00:21:41.539
 all bounds,

00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:42.639
 and bloodshed

00:21:42.639 --> 00:21:43.240
 follows

00:21:43.240 --> 00:21:43.939
 bloodshed.

00:21:46.139 --> 00:21:46.919
 This is the

00:21:46.919 --> 00:21:47.299
 land of

00:21:47.299 --> 00:21:47.519
 Israel,

00:21:47.619 --> 00:21:48.159
 the chosen

00:21:48.159 --> 00:21:48.799
 people of

00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:49.119
 God,

00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:50.539
 where there

00:21:50.539 --> 00:21:50.919
 is no

00:21:50.919 --> 00:21:51.399
 knowledge of

00:21:51.399 --> 00:21:51.699
 God in

00:21:51.699 --> 00:21:52.099
 the land,

00:21:52.219 --> 00:21:53.079
 no faithfulness,

00:21:53.159 --> 00:21:53.819
 no steadfast

00:21:53.819 --> 00:21:54.199
 love,

00:21:55.099 --> 00:21:56.039
 no grace.

00:21:59.259 --> 00:21:59.739
 In

00:21:59.739 --> 00:22:00.399
 chapter 5,

00:22:01.519 --> 00:22:02.319
 God says,

00:22:02.519 --> 00:22:02.979
 their deeds

00:22:02.979 --> 00:22:03.559
 do not

00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:04.059
 permit them

00:22:04.059 --> 00:22:04.639
 to return

00:22:04.639 --> 00:22:04.919
 to their

00:22:04.919 --> 00:22:05.239
 God,

00:22:05.759 --> 00:22:06.239
 for the

00:22:06.239 --> 00:22:06.619
 spirit of

00:22:06.619 --> 00:22:07.019
 wardom is

00:22:07.019 --> 00:22:07.500
 within them,

00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:07.919
 and they

00:22:07.919 --> 00:22:08.379
 know not

00:22:08.379 --> 00:22:08.819
 the Lord.

00:22:12.839 --> 00:22:13.419
 And in

00:22:13.419 --> 00:22:14.000
 chapter 6,

00:22:14.179 --> 00:22:14.739
 God kind of

00:22:14.739 --> 00:22:15.279
 pleads with

00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:15.439
 them.

00:22:15.679 --> 00:22:16.059
 He says,

00:22:16.659 --> 00:22:17.359
 in chapter 6,

00:22:17.399 --> 00:22:17.659
 verse 4,

00:22:17.660 --> 00:22:18.580
 what shall I

00:22:18.580 --> 00:22:19.080
 do with

00:22:19.080 --> 00:22:19.340
 you,

00:22:19.900 --> 00:22:20.560
 O Ephraim?

00:22:20.940 --> 00:22:21.600
 What shall I

00:22:21.600 --> 00:22:21.960
 do with

00:22:21.960 --> 00:22:22.120
 you,

00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:22.519
 O Judah?

00:22:23.040 --> 00:22:23.460
 Your love

00:22:23.460 --> 00:22:23.880
 is like

00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:24.380
 the morning

00:22:24.380 --> 00:22:24.820
 mist,

00:22:25.460 --> 00:22:25.920
 like the

00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:26.460
 dew that

00:22:26.460 --> 00:22:27.120
 goes away

00:22:27.120 --> 00:22:27.540
 early,

00:22:27.680 --> 00:22:28.259
 goes early

00:22:28.259 --> 00:22:28.580
 away.

00:22:31.920 --> 00:22:32.600
 It's like

00:22:32.600 --> 00:22:33.480
 somebody who

00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:34.300
 turns around

00:22:34.300 --> 00:22:35.320
 and loves

00:22:35.320 --> 00:22:35.700
 someone,

00:22:35.820 --> 00:22:36.460
 only to

00:22:36.460 --> 00:22:37.420
 change their

00:22:37.420 --> 00:22:37.720
 mind,

00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:38.160
 and then

00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:38.560
 come back

00:22:38.560 --> 00:22:38.759
 again,

00:22:38.800 --> 00:22:39.019
 and then

00:22:39.019 --> 00:22:39.380
 change their

00:22:39.380 --> 00:22:39.560
 mind,

00:22:39.580 --> 00:22:39.779
 and then

00:22:39.779 --> 00:22:40.060
 come back

00:22:40.060 --> 00:22:40.279
 again.

00:22:40.320 --> 00:22:40.500
 And that

00:22:40.500 --> 00:22:40.740
 was the

00:22:40.740 --> 00:22:40.940
 whole

00:22:40.940 --> 00:22:41.380
 history

00:22:41.380 --> 00:22:42.600
 of Israel,

00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:43.380
 right from

00:22:43.380 --> 00:22:43.800
 the beginning.

00:22:44.600 --> 00:22:45.100
 Even when

00:22:45.100 --> 00:22:46.080
 God saved

00:22:46.080 --> 00:22:46.440
 them out of

00:22:46.440 --> 00:22:46.759
 Egypt,

00:22:47.240 --> 00:22:47.700
 and they

00:22:47.700 --> 00:22:48.039
 saw with

00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:48.340
 their very

00:22:48.340 --> 00:22:48.960
 own eyes

00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:51.100
 what God

00:22:51.100 --> 00:22:51.380
 had done

00:22:51.380 --> 00:22:51.840
 for them,

00:22:52.740 --> 00:22:53.120
 rescuing

00:22:53.120 --> 00:22:53.900
 them with

00:22:53.900 --> 00:22:54.299
 His mighty

00:22:54.299 --> 00:22:54.740
 hand,

00:22:54.860 --> 00:22:55.700
 His power.

00:22:57.100 --> 00:22:57.420
 And yet,

00:22:58.480 --> 00:22:59.559
 20,

00:22:59.940 --> 00:23:00.580
 40 days

00:23:00.580 --> 00:23:00.900
 later,

00:23:01.640 --> 00:23:02.039
 they're off

00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:02.539
 worshipping

00:23:02.539 --> 00:23:03.240
 the golden

00:23:03.240 --> 00:23:03.660
 calves.

00:23:05.259 --> 00:23:05.779
 They're

00:23:05.779 --> 00:23:06.220
 complaining,

00:23:07.320 --> 00:23:08.259
 they're

00:23:08.259 --> 00:23:08.580
 forgetting

00:23:08.580 --> 00:23:10.420
 what God

00:23:10.420 --> 00:23:10.740
 has done

00:23:10.740 --> 00:23:11.200
 for them.

00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:12.000
 and that

00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:12.220
 cycle

00:23:12.220 --> 00:23:12.720
 continues

00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:14.380
 on as

00:23:14.380 --> 00:23:15.120
 they

00:23:15.120 --> 00:23:16.360
 continue

00:23:16.360 --> 00:23:17.600
 to forget

00:23:17.600 --> 00:23:18.080
 God in

00:23:18.080 --> 00:23:18.680
 one generation,

00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:19.920
 cry out for

00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:20.259
 mercy,

00:23:20.660 --> 00:23:21.039
 and God

00:23:21.039 --> 00:23:21.660
 comes and

00:23:21.660 --> 00:23:22.160
 rescues them

00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:22.460
 again.

00:23:22.759 --> 00:23:23.019
 And then

00:23:23.019 --> 00:23:23.440
 they forget

00:23:23.440 --> 00:23:24.299
 God in

00:23:24.299 --> 00:23:24.519
 the next

00:23:24.519 --> 00:23:24.980
 generation,

00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:26.440
 and they

00:23:26.440 --> 00:23:26.700
 suffer,

00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:27.220
 and they

00:23:27.220 --> 00:23:27.600
 cry out for

00:23:27.600 --> 00:23:27.840
 mercy,

00:23:27.920 --> 00:23:28.140
 and God

00:23:28.140 --> 00:23:28.480
 comes and

00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:28.700
 rescues

00:23:28.700 --> 00:23:29.039
 them again,

00:23:29.080 --> 00:23:29.200
 and they

00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:29.759
 forget again.

00:23:30.100 --> 00:23:30.360
 And this

00:23:30.360 --> 00:23:30.700
 cycle just

00:23:30.700 --> 00:23:31.420
 continues on,

00:23:32.500 --> 00:23:32.799
 and God

00:23:32.799 --> 00:23:32.920
 says,

00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:33.259
 your love

00:23:33.259 --> 00:23:33.559
 is like

00:23:33.559 --> 00:23:34.039
 the morning

00:23:34.039 --> 00:23:34.480
 mist.

00:23:35.100 --> 00:23:35.340
 It's

00:23:35.340 --> 00:23:36.259
 there for a

00:23:36.259 --> 00:23:36.519
 while,

00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:37.180
 and then it

00:23:37.180 --> 00:23:38.039
 just evaporates.

00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:41.539
 like trying

00:23:41.539 --> 00:23:41.819
 to love

00:23:41.819 --> 00:23:42.359
 a prostitute

00:23:42.359 --> 00:23:44.899
 who continues

00:23:44.899 --> 00:23:45.619
 to have

00:23:45.619 --> 00:23:45.960
 her eyes

00:23:45.960 --> 00:23:46.299
 set on

00:23:46.299 --> 00:23:46.659
 others.

00:23:52.259 --> 00:23:52.779
 Hosea

00:23:52.779 --> 00:23:53.259
 changes the

00:23:53.259 --> 00:23:53.779
 metaphor a

00:23:53.779 --> 00:23:54.099
 little bit

00:23:54.099 --> 00:23:54.859
 in chapter

00:23:54.859 --> 00:23:55.180
 11,

00:23:56.259 --> 00:23:56.759
 when God

00:23:56.759 --> 00:23:57.339
 treats

00:23:57.339 --> 00:23:58.299
 Israel like

00:23:58.299 --> 00:23:59.399
 a son.

00:24:00.220 --> 00:24:00.460
 He says,

00:24:00.559 --> 00:24:00.799
 when Israel

00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:01.139
 was a

00:24:01.139 --> 00:24:01.519
 child,

00:24:02.159 --> 00:24:02.619
 I loved

00:24:02.619 --> 00:24:02.859
 him,

00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:03.960
 and out

00:24:03.960 --> 00:24:04.319
 of Egypt

00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:04.819
 I called

00:24:04.819 --> 00:24:05.299
 my son.

00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:06.799
 The more

00:24:06.799 --> 00:24:07.039
 they were

00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:07.440
 called,

00:24:07.639 --> 00:24:08.019
 the more

00:24:08.019 --> 00:24:08.299
 they went

00:24:08.299 --> 00:24:08.619
 away,

00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:10.440
 they kept

00:24:10.440 --> 00:24:10.960
 sacrificing

00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:11.279
 to the

00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:11.619
 bales,

00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:12.059
 and burning

00:24:12.059 --> 00:24:12.639
 offerings

00:24:12.639 --> 00:24:13.480
 to idols.

00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:17.000
 I don't

00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:17.220
 know if

00:24:17.220 --> 00:24:17.579
 you've ever

00:24:17.579 --> 00:24:18.720
 experienced

00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:19.200
 a relationship

00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:19.759
 like that.

00:24:21.559 --> 00:24:22.039
 Family

00:24:22.039 --> 00:24:22.359
 member,

00:24:22.700 --> 00:24:24.519
 or someone

00:24:24.519 --> 00:24:24.859
 where,

00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:26.000
 a friend,

00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:27.920
 where the

00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:28.379
 more that

00:24:28.379 --> 00:24:29.139
 you try

00:24:29.139 --> 00:24:29.400
 and reach

00:24:29.400 --> 00:24:29.660
 out to

00:24:29.660 --> 00:24:29.859
 them,

00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:31.099
 the more

00:24:31.099 --> 00:24:31.500
 they draw

00:24:31.500 --> 00:24:31.839
 away,

00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:33.940
 and they

00:24:33.940 --> 00:24:34.200
 will not

00:24:34.200 --> 00:24:34.819
 be reached.

00:24:34.819 --> 00:24:40.919
 like

00:24:40.919 --> 00:24:41.299
 Hosea's

00:24:41.299 --> 00:24:41.679
 wife,

00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:44.059
 the people

00:24:44.059 --> 00:24:44.419
 of Israel

00:24:44.419 --> 00:24:44.839
 through their

00:24:44.839 --> 00:24:45.319
 adultery

00:24:45.319 --> 00:24:46.359
 violated

00:24:46.359 --> 00:24:46.919
 their marriage

00:24:46.919 --> 00:24:47.500
 covenant with

00:24:47.500 --> 00:24:48.159
 God again

00:24:48.159 --> 00:24:48.659
 and again

00:24:48.659 --> 00:24:49.119
 and again

00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:50.299
 until there

00:24:50.299 --> 00:24:50.700
 was nothing

00:24:50.700 --> 00:24:51.099
 left.

00:24:53.159 --> 00:24:53.379
 And so

00:24:53.379 --> 00:24:54.539
 what can

00:24:54.539 --> 00:24:54.980
 God do

00:24:54.980 --> 00:24:55.319
 with such

00:24:55.319 --> 00:24:55.659
 a people?

00:24:55.660 --> 00:24:59.779
 God will

00:24:59.779 --> 00:25:00.000
 end,

00:25:00.080 --> 00:25:00.500
 this is why

00:25:00.500 --> 00:25:01.180
 God declared

00:25:01.180 --> 00:25:02.120
 that he

00:25:02.120 --> 00:25:02.519
 will end

00:25:02.519 --> 00:25:03.060
 that covenant,

00:25:03.660 --> 00:25:03.960
 that they

00:25:03.960 --> 00:25:04.360
 will not be

00:25:04.360 --> 00:25:04.720
 his people

00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:05.180
 any longer

00:25:05.180 --> 00:25:05.480
 and he

00:25:05.480 --> 00:25:05.779
 will no

00:25:05.779 --> 00:25:06.200
 longer have

00:25:06.200 --> 00:25:06.740
 mercy upon

00:25:06.740 --> 00:25:07.040
 them to

00:25:07.040 --> 00:25:07.560
 forgive them.

00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:11.079
 call her

00:25:11.079 --> 00:25:11.440
 name no

00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:12.679
 mercy for

00:25:12.679 --> 00:25:13.079
 I will no

00:25:13.079 --> 00:25:13.639
 longer have

00:25:13.639 --> 00:25:14.099
 mercy on

00:25:14.099 --> 00:25:14.359
 the house

00:25:14.359 --> 00:25:14.700
 of Israel

00:25:14.700 --> 00:25:15.119
 to forgive

00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:15.419
 them at

00:25:15.419 --> 00:25:15.659
 all.

00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:18.319
 And

00:25:18.319 --> 00:25:18.839
 the son,

00:25:19.139 --> 00:25:19.399
 the Lord

00:25:19.399 --> 00:25:19.599
 said,

00:25:19.700 --> 00:25:19.940
 call his

00:25:19.940 --> 00:25:20.240
 name not

00:25:20.240 --> 00:25:20.740
 my people

00:25:20.740 --> 00:25:21.639
 for you

00:25:21.639 --> 00:25:21.919
 are not

00:25:21.919 --> 00:25:22.379
 my people

00:25:22.379 --> 00:25:23.299
 and I

00:25:23.299 --> 00:25:23.559
 am not

00:25:23.559 --> 00:25:24.019
 your God.

00:25:25.740 --> 00:25:25.960
 Our

00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:26.379
 people that

00:25:26.379 --> 00:25:26.980
 have abandoned

00:25:26.980 --> 00:25:27.519
 their God

00:25:27.519 --> 00:25:28.659
 are in

00:25:28.659 --> 00:25:29.519
 turn abandoned

00:25:29.519 --> 00:25:30.379
 by God.

00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:34.579
 And if that

00:25:34.579 --> 00:25:34.859
 was the end

00:25:34.859 --> 00:25:35.299
 of the story,

00:25:35.419 --> 00:25:35.579
 well,

00:25:36.679 --> 00:25:37.179
 that would

00:25:37.179 --> 00:25:37.500
 be it.

00:25:38.079 --> 00:25:38.279
 There

00:25:38.279 --> 00:25:38.519
 wouldn't be

00:25:38.519 --> 00:25:38.839
 any more

00:25:38.839 --> 00:25:39.059
 Israel.

00:25:39.519 --> 00:25:39.659
 There

00:25:39.659 --> 00:25:39.799
 wouldn't

00:25:39.799 --> 00:25:40.679
 be people

00:25:40.679 --> 00:25:41.000
 of God

00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:41.319
 at all.

00:25:43.460 --> 00:25:43.960
 But it's

00:25:43.960 --> 00:25:44.240
 not the

00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:44.440
 end.

00:25:46.039 --> 00:25:46.399
 And

00:25:46.399 --> 00:25:47.339
 again,

00:25:47.480 --> 00:25:47.980
 in this

00:25:47.980 --> 00:25:48.240
 book,

00:25:48.399 --> 00:25:48.919
 you see

00:25:48.919 --> 00:25:51.859
 the dilemma

00:25:51.859 --> 00:25:52.639
 in the

00:25:52.639 --> 00:25:52.960
 heart of

00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:53.240
 God.

00:25:54.460 --> 00:25:54.960
 He says,

00:25:55.059 --> 00:25:55.700
 how can I

00:25:55.700 --> 00:25:56.039
 give you

00:25:56.039 --> 00:25:56.339
 up,

00:25:57.500 --> 00:25:57.899
 Ephraim?

00:25:58.259 --> 00:25:58.919
 How can I

00:25:58.919 --> 00:25:59.220
 give you

00:25:59.220 --> 00:25:59.460
 up,

00:25:59.559 --> 00:25:59.759
 Israel?

00:26:01.919 --> 00:26:02.440
 And he

00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:02.559
 says,

00:26:02.599 --> 00:26:03.159
 I can't.

00:26:03.619 --> 00:26:04.259
 I can't

00:26:04.259 --> 00:26:04.519
 give you

00:26:04.519 --> 00:26:04.740
 up.

00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:06.899
 And so

00:26:06.900 --> 00:26:07.120
 even

00:26:07.120 --> 00:26:08.019
 just in

00:26:08.019 --> 00:26:08.540
 chapter 2,

00:26:09.340 --> 00:26:09.680
 a little

00:26:09.680 --> 00:26:10.259
 bit before

00:26:10.259 --> 00:26:11.340
 we got

00:26:11.340 --> 00:26:11.580
 to chapter

00:26:11.580 --> 00:26:11.960
 3,

00:26:12.759 --> 00:26:13.420
 he turns

00:26:13.420 --> 00:26:14.280
 and he

00:26:14.280 --> 00:26:14.440
 says,

00:26:14.500 --> 00:26:14.680
 I will

00:26:14.680 --> 00:26:15.080
 make for

00:26:15.080 --> 00:26:15.320
 them a

00:26:15.320 --> 00:26:15.560
 covenant

00:26:15.560 --> 00:26:16.460
 on that

00:26:16.460 --> 00:26:16.900
 day once

00:26:16.900 --> 00:26:17.200
 again.

00:26:18.200 --> 00:26:18.640
 And I'm

00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:18.820
 going to

00:26:18.820 --> 00:26:19.600
 call them

00:26:19.600 --> 00:26:19.900
 back.

00:26:19.960 --> 00:26:20.180
 I will

00:26:20.180 --> 00:26:20.500
 speak

00:26:20.500 --> 00:26:21.180
 and

00:26:21.180 --> 00:26:21.599
 allure

00:26:21.599 --> 00:26:22.559
 Israel.

00:26:23.559 --> 00:26:23.920
 He will

00:26:23.920 --> 00:26:24.359
 woo her

00:26:24.359 --> 00:26:24.859
 back to

00:26:24.859 --> 00:26:25.119
 him.

00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:26.880
 I will

00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:27.500
 betroth you

00:26:27.500 --> 00:26:27.799
 to me

00:26:27.799 --> 00:26:28.140
 forever.

00:26:28.759 --> 00:26:29.059
 I will

00:26:29.059 --> 00:26:29.519
 betroth you

00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:29.819
 to me

00:26:29.819 --> 00:26:30.359
 in righteousness,

00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:31.119
 in justice,

00:26:31.619 --> 00:26:32.440
 in steadfast love

00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:32.980
 and in mercy.

00:26:33.460 --> 00:26:33.799
 I will

00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:34.299
 betroth you

00:26:34.299 --> 00:26:34.559
 to me

00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:35.299
 in faithfulness

00:26:35.299 --> 00:26:36.200
 and you

00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:36.500
 will know

00:26:36.500 --> 00:26:36.940
 the Lord.

00:26:38.460 --> 00:26:39.039
 I will

00:26:39.039 --> 00:26:39.720
 have mercy

00:26:39.720 --> 00:26:41.960
 on no

00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:42.299
 mercy.

00:26:43.039 --> 00:26:43.700
 And I will

00:26:43.700 --> 00:26:44.319
 say to not

00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:44.799
 my people,

00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:46.400
 you are my

00:26:46.400 --> 00:26:46.700
 people.

00:26:46.700 --> 00:26:48.480
 and he

00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:48.980
 shall say,

00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:50.420
 you are my

00:26:50.420 --> 00:26:50.740
 God.

00:26:53.160 --> 00:26:54.080
 The act of

00:26:54.080 --> 00:26:54.600
 restoration

00:26:54.600 --> 00:26:56.840
 between Hosea

00:26:56.840 --> 00:26:57.259
 and Gomer

00:26:57.259 --> 00:26:58.920
 in fixing

00:26:58.920 --> 00:27:00.019
 what was

00:27:00.019 --> 00:27:01.319
 smashed,

00:27:01.660 --> 00:27:02.160
 irreparably

00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:02.559
 broken,

00:27:03.480 --> 00:27:03.980
 in putting it

00:27:03.980 --> 00:27:04.500
 back together,

00:27:05.120 --> 00:27:05.580
 in restoring

00:27:05.580 --> 00:27:05.920
 it,

00:27:06.500 --> 00:27:07.100
 is a picture

00:27:07.100 --> 00:27:08.000
 of what God

00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:09.340
 longed to do

00:27:09.340 --> 00:27:10.380
 with the

00:27:10.380 --> 00:27:10.680
 house of

00:27:10.680 --> 00:27:10.980
 Israel.

00:27:12.039 --> 00:27:13.000
 To restore

00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:13.220
 them,

00:27:13.799 --> 00:27:14.380
 to bring

00:27:14.380 --> 00:27:14.880
 them back.

00:27:16.700 --> 00:27:18.100
 the people

00:27:18.100 --> 00:27:18.440
 who were

00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:19.019
 rejected by

00:27:19.019 --> 00:27:19.360
 God

00:27:19.360 --> 00:27:20.120
 will be

00:27:20.120 --> 00:27:20.500
 restored

00:27:20.500 --> 00:27:21.120
 once more.

00:27:24.539 --> 00:27:25.140
 And yet

00:27:25.140 --> 00:27:25.700
 for all

00:27:25.700 --> 00:27:26.080
 of these

00:27:26.080 --> 00:27:26.519
 words,

00:27:27.420 --> 00:27:27.700
 you know,

00:27:28.539 --> 00:27:29.140
 the judgments,

00:27:29.480 --> 00:27:29.940
 the warnings

00:27:29.940 --> 00:27:30.539
 in Amos,

00:27:31.819 --> 00:27:32.360
 the call

00:27:32.360 --> 00:27:32.680
 to come

00:27:32.680 --> 00:27:33.039
 back to

00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:33.340
 God

00:27:33.340 --> 00:27:33.840
 here in

00:27:33.840 --> 00:27:34.259
 Hosea,

00:27:35.779 --> 00:27:36.120
 Israel

00:27:36.120 --> 00:27:36.640
 never did

00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:36.960
 come back

00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:37.340
 to God.

00:27:38.580 --> 00:27:38.759
 Israel

00:27:38.759 --> 00:27:39.240
 had a whole

00:27:39.240 --> 00:27:39.759
 string of

00:27:39.759 --> 00:27:40.160
 kings,

00:27:40.420 --> 00:27:40.640
 I don't

00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:40.880
 know how

00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:41.120
 many,

00:27:41.319 --> 00:27:42.039
 maybe 30,

00:27:42.140 --> 00:27:42.400
 40,

00:27:42.660 --> 00:27:43.019
 more,

00:27:44.380 --> 00:27:45.759
 and not

00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:46.100
 one of

00:27:46.100 --> 00:27:46.259
 them.

00:27:46.700 --> 00:27:47.039
 followed

00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:47.299
 God

00:27:47.299 --> 00:27:47.480
 with

00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:47.620
 his

00:27:47.620 --> 00:27:47.900
 heart,

00:27:48.660 --> 00:27:49.059
 all his

00:27:49.059 --> 00:27:49.319
 heart,

00:27:50.319 --> 00:27:50.980
 not one

00:27:50.980 --> 00:27:51.240
 of them.

00:27:52.759 --> 00:27:53.140
 And so

00:27:53.140 --> 00:27:53.440
 they led

00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:53.779
 the people

00:27:53.779 --> 00:27:54.240
 astray

00:27:54.240 --> 00:27:54.940
 all that

00:27:54.940 --> 00:27:55.220
 time.

00:27:55.319 --> 00:27:55.680
 And so

00:27:55.680 --> 00:27:56.799
 even as

00:27:56.799 --> 00:27:58.860
 the kingdom

00:27:58.860 --> 00:27:59.259
 ended,

00:27:59.880 --> 00:28:00.440
 they continued

00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:01.120
 to follow

00:28:01.120 --> 00:28:01.880
 other gods.

00:28:03.259 --> 00:28:03.539
 And so

00:28:03.539 --> 00:28:04.120
 Israel fell

00:28:04.120 --> 00:28:04.620
 into ruin

00:28:04.620 --> 00:28:06.279
 and were

00:28:06.279 --> 00:28:06.539
 conquered

00:28:06.539 --> 00:28:07.740
 by Assyria.

00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:10.720
 Judah

00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:11.259
 remained,

00:28:12.539 --> 00:28:13.700
 and yet

00:28:13.700 --> 00:28:14.259
 they too

00:28:14.259 --> 00:28:15.600
 forsook

00:28:15.600 --> 00:28:16.100
 their God

00:28:16.099 --> 00:28:17.019
 were led

00:28:17.019 --> 00:28:17.599
 into exile

00:28:17.599 --> 00:28:18.639
 and then

00:28:18.639 --> 00:28:18.959
 returned

00:28:18.959 --> 00:28:19.359
 back into

00:28:19.359 --> 00:28:19.799
 the land.

00:28:22.179 --> 00:28:22.740
 And the

00:28:22.740 --> 00:28:23.459
 people of

00:28:23.459 --> 00:28:24.819
 Israel

00:28:24.819 --> 00:28:26.279
 were intermixed

00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:26.779
 with the

00:28:26.779 --> 00:28:27.240
 peoples around

00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:27.500
 them.

00:28:28.059 --> 00:28:28.279
 And so

00:28:28.279 --> 00:28:28.859
 they became

00:28:28.859 --> 00:28:29.459
 by Jesus'

00:28:29.639 --> 00:28:29.899
 day

00:28:29.899 --> 00:28:30.879
 the

00:28:30.879 --> 00:28:31.619
 Samaritans.

00:28:33.199 --> 00:28:33.859
 And they

00:28:33.859 --> 00:28:34.619
 were despised

00:28:34.619 --> 00:28:35.500
 people by

00:28:35.500 --> 00:28:36.000
 the Jews,

00:28:36.779 --> 00:28:37.659
 despised as

00:28:37.659 --> 00:28:38.500
 those who

00:28:38.500 --> 00:28:41.199
 were children

00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:41.860
 of adultery.

00:28:42.779 --> 00:28:43.120
 They were

00:28:43.120 --> 00:28:43.580
 the children

00:28:43.580 --> 00:28:45.279
 of these

00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:46.720
 early Israelites.

00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:48.039
 And they'd

00:28:48.039 --> 00:28:48.360
 been mixed

00:28:48.360 --> 00:28:49.319
 in with

00:28:49.319 --> 00:28:49.580
 the other

00:28:49.580 --> 00:28:49.940
 peoples of

00:28:49.940 --> 00:28:50.380
 the land.

00:28:50.880 --> 00:28:51.380
 And they

00:28:51.380 --> 00:28:52.140
 worshipped God

00:28:52.140 --> 00:28:53.120
 and they worshipped

00:28:53.120 --> 00:28:53.620
 all these other

00:28:53.620 --> 00:28:54.120
 idols at the

00:28:54.120 --> 00:28:54.640
 same time.

00:28:59.279 --> 00:28:59.980
 What about

00:28:59.980 --> 00:29:00.400
 us?

00:29:01.400 --> 00:29:02.220
 How do we

00:29:02.220 --> 00:29:02.920
 read Hosea?

00:29:02.920 --> 00:29:06.500
 And what

00:29:06.500 --> 00:29:08.360
 about the

00:29:08.360 --> 00:29:08.700
 way that

00:29:08.700 --> 00:29:09.420
 Jesus comes

00:29:09.420 --> 00:29:09.700
 in?

00:29:10.980 --> 00:29:11.300
 And the

00:29:11.300 --> 00:29:11.519
 way that

00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:13.380
 he treated

00:29:13.380 --> 00:29:14.800
 Samaritans?

00:29:15.940 --> 00:29:16.620
 When he

00:29:16.620 --> 00:29:17.160
 went to

00:29:17.160 --> 00:29:19.019
 visit a

00:29:19.019 --> 00:29:19.340
 Samaritan

00:29:19.340 --> 00:29:20.420
 village and

00:29:20.420 --> 00:29:20.920
 encountered a

00:29:20.920 --> 00:29:21.320
 woman at the

00:29:21.320 --> 00:29:22.740
 well who

00:29:22.740 --> 00:29:23.360
 was a woman

00:29:23.360 --> 00:29:24.019
 who had

00:29:24.019 --> 00:29:25.940
 five husbands

00:29:25.940 --> 00:29:27.539
 and then was

00:29:27.539 --> 00:29:28.019
 living with

00:29:28.019 --> 00:29:28.320
 someone who

00:29:28.320 --> 00:29:28.720
 was not a

00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:28.880
 husband,

00:29:28.960 --> 00:29:30.720
 a woman of

00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:31.039
 Hortum,

00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:33.720
 he called

00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:36.120
 her and

00:29:36.120 --> 00:29:37.680
 he named

00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:38.900
 her and

00:29:38.900 --> 00:29:39.180
 all the

00:29:39.180 --> 00:29:39.460
 things that

00:29:39.460 --> 00:29:39.940
 she'd done

00:29:39.940 --> 00:29:41.180
 and he

00:29:41.180 --> 00:29:41.819
 forgave her

00:29:41.819 --> 00:29:43.500
 and she

00:29:43.500 --> 00:29:44.120
 turned around

00:29:44.120 --> 00:29:45.079
 and told the

00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:45.660
 whole village

00:29:45.660 --> 00:29:46.600
 and they

00:29:46.600 --> 00:29:47.079
 came out

00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:48.079
 and met

00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:48.640
 Jesus as

00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:48.900
 well.

00:29:51.720 --> 00:29:52.720
 And God

00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:53.579
 through that

00:29:53.579 --> 00:29:54.579
 act or

00:29:54.579 --> 00:29:55.259
 in that

00:29:55.259 --> 00:29:56.380
 time was

00:29:56.380 --> 00:29:56.680
 all of a

00:29:56.680 --> 00:29:57.200
 sudden calling

00:29:57.200 --> 00:29:58.559
 back this

00:29:58.559 --> 00:30:00.579
 broken and

00:30:00.579 --> 00:30:01.659
 kind of

00:30:01.659 --> 00:30:02.119
 destroyed

00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:03.379
 people back

00:30:03.379 --> 00:30:03.919
 to himself.

00:30:05.559 --> 00:30:05.819
 And so

00:30:05.819 --> 00:30:06.859
 what we have

00:30:06.859 --> 00:30:07.319
 here is

00:30:07.319 --> 00:30:08.439
 this hint

00:30:08.439 --> 00:30:09.259
 of what is

00:30:09.259 --> 00:30:09.559
 yet to

00:30:09.559 --> 00:30:11.199
 come that

00:30:11.199 --> 00:30:11.960
 not only

00:30:11.960 --> 00:30:13.539
 Israel and

00:30:13.539 --> 00:30:15.299
 Samaria but

00:30:15.299 --> 00:30:16.639
 all of the

00:30:16.639 --> 00:30:17.059
 peoples of

00:30:17.059 --> 00:30:17.460
 the world

00:30:17.460 --> 00:30:18.839
 would come

00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:19.559
 back and be

00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:20.079
 restored to

00:30:20.079 --> 00:30:20.339
 God.

00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:24.460
 As we're

00:30:24.460 --> 00:30:24.779
 thinking about

00:30:24.779 --> 00:30:25.240
 it today,

00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:26.279
 here in

00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:27.039
 21st century

00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:27.460
 Hong Kong,

00:30:28.179 --> 00:30:28.759
 we might be

00:30:28.759 --> 00:30:29.079
 thinking,

00:30:29.259 --> 00:30:29.400
 well,

00:30:30.220 --> 00:30:30.720
 am I

00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:31.819
 Hosea?

00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:33.680
 Am I

00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:33.960
 Goma?

00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:34.779
 Who do I

00:30:34.779 --> 00:30:35.539
 identify with

00:30:35.539 --> 00:30:35.839
 in this

00:30:35.839 --> 00:30:36.140
 story?

00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:37.039
 And you

00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:37.339
 might be

00:30:37.339 --> 00:30:37.680
 tempted to

00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:38.480
 identify with

00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:39.259
 one or the

00:30:39.259 --> 00:30:39.799
 other and

00:30:39.799 --> 00:30:40.700
 say, oh,

00:30:40.839 --> 00:30:42.259
 if I'm to

00:30:42.259 --> 00:30:42.680
 be Hosea,

00:30:42.740 --> 00:30:43.079
 then my

00:30:43.079 --> 00:30:43.799
 role is to

00:30:43.799 --> 00:30:44.539
 try and win

00:30:44.539 --> 00:30:45.640
 back those

00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:46.039
 relationships.

00:30:46.180 --> 00:30:47.220
 Perhaps there's

00:30:47.220 --> 00:30:47.640
 been a broken

00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:48.140
 marriage and I

00:30:48.140 --> 00:30:49.839
 need to fix

00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:50.200
 that.

00:30:51.140 --> 00:30:51.859
 Or if we

00:30:51.859 --> 00:30:52.640
 identify ourselves

00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:53.099
 as Goma,

00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:53.839
 then we think

00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:55.099
 that we're

00:30:55.099 --> 00:30:55.500
 the ones

00:30:55.500 --> 00:30:58.439
 who are

00:30:58.439 --> 00:30:58.839
 the whore.

00:30:59.199 --> 00:30:59.619
 And we're

00:30:59.619 --> 00:31:00.079
 the ones

00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:00.819
 who've

00:31:00.819 --> 00:31:01.299
 fallen away

00:31:01.299 --> 00:31:01.779
 from God

00:31:01.779 --> 00:31:03.720
 and we're

00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:04.199
 the ones

00:31:04.199 --> 00:31:05.079
 like Israel,

00:31:05.379 --> 00:31:05.559
 who are

00:31:05.559 --> 00:31:06.079
 like Israel.

00:31:07.500 --> 00:31:08.159
 But can I

00:31:08.159 --> 00:31:08.699
 suggest that's

00:31:08.699 --> 00:31:08.980
 actually not

00:31:08.980 --> 00:31:09.559
 the best way

00:31:09.559 --> 00:31:10.299
 of reading

00:31:10.299 --> 00:31:11.079
 through the

00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:11.459
 Old Testament,

00:31:11.859 --> 00:31:12.119
 particularly

00:31:12.119 --> 00:31:12.459
 through Old

00:31:12.459 --> 00:31:13.099
 Testament prophets.

00:31:13.919 --> 00:31:15.379
 Because that's

00:31:15.379 --> 00:31:16.119
 not what the

00:31:16.119 --> 00:31:16.439
 New Testament

00:31:16.439 --> 00:31:16.839
 does.

00:31:17.439 --> 00:31:17.980
 The New Testament

00:31:17.980 --> 00:31:18.720
 doesn't say that

00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:19.899
 we are the

00:31:19.899 --> 00:31:20.599
 people of Israel.

00:31:21.779 --> 00:31:22.559
 It doesn't teach

00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:23.059
 that we are to be

00:31:23.059 --> 00:31:23.720
 identified with

00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:24.139
 Israel in that

00:31:24.139 --> 00:31:24.339
 way.

00:31:24.500 --> 00:31:25.319
 Rather, Paul

00:31:25.319 --> 00:31:26.000
 teaches us in

00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:26.500
 1 Corinthians

00:31:26.500 --> 00:31:27.000
 that what

00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:27.460
 happened to

00:31:27.460 --> 00:31:28.019
 the Israelites

00:31:28.019 --> 00:31:29.019
 is a warning

00:31:29.019 --> 00:31:29.700
 for us.

00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:31.579
 That is, we're

00:31:31.579 --> 00:31:32.019
 to look at the

00:31:32.019 --> 00:31:32.399
 way that God

00:31:32.399 --> 00:31:33.139
 dealt with Israel

00:31:33.139 --> 00:31:33.859
 and we're to

00:31:33.859 --> 00:31:34.379
 learn certain

00:31:34.379 --> 00:31:35.059
 things about

00:31:35.059 --> 00:31:36.419
 God and

00:31:36.419 --> 00:31:37.059
 certain things

00:31:37.059 --> 00:31:38.579
 about the

00:31:38.579 --> 00:31:39.139
 human heart

00:31:39.139 --> 00:31:39.559
 condition.

00:31:41.179 --> 00:31:41.559
 And as I

00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:41.919
 said before,

00:31:41.980 --> 00:31:42.480
 what we learn

00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:42.940
 from this

00:31:42.940 --> 00:31:44.299
 passage, from

00:31:44.299 --> 00:31:44.879
 the book of

00:31:44.879 --> 00:31:45.659
 Hosea, is a

00:31:45.659 --> 00:31:46.159
 peek into the

00:31:46.159 --> 00:31:47.000
 very heart of

00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:47.299
 God.

00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:49.379
 And what we

00:31:49.379 --> 00:31:50.099
 see in God's

00:31:50.099 --> 00:31:50.980
 heart is real

00:31:50.980 --> 00:31:51.460
 pain.

00:31:53.059 --> 00:31:53.799
 And it's

00:31:53.799 --> 00:31:54.339
 only when we

00:31:54.339 --> 00:31:55.779
 see God's

00:31:55.779 --> 00:31:58.099
 pain at a

00:31:58.099 --> 00:31:58.599
 people who

00:31:58.599 --> 00:31:59.099
 have deserted

00:31:59.099 --> 00:32:00.559
 him, at a

00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:01.319
 creation that

00:32:01.319 --> 00:32:01.639
 has turned

00:32:01.639 --> 00:32:02.839
 their back on

00:32:02.839 --> 00:32:04.259
 him, even

00:32:04.259 --> 00:32:05.279
 though he

00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:05.960
 gave us life

00:32:05.960 --> 00:32:06.480
 and breath

00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:07.000
 and everything.

00:32:08.299 --> 00:32:08.720
 It's only when

00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:09.259
 we see the

00:32:09.259 --> 00:32:10.159
 depths of God's

00:32:10.159 --> 00:32:10.679
 pain that we

00:32:10.679 --> 00:32:11.159
 can see the

00:32:11.159 --> 00:32:11.919
 depths of his

00:32:11.919 --> 00:32:13.440
 forgiveness, the

00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:14.399
 way he longs to

00:32:14.399 --> 00:32:15.879
 reach out to

00:32:15.879 --> 00:32:16.240
 us.

00:32:18.779 --> 00:32:19.539
 And forgiveness

00:32:19.539 --> 00:32:21.240
 forgiveness is

00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:22.220
 not without

00:32:22.220 --> 00:32:22.700
 cost.

00:32:23.819 --> 00:32:24.420
 It's not

00:32:24.420 --> 00:32:24.759
 easy.

00:32:26.539 --> 00:32:27.119
 Remember the

00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:27.579
 story of that

00:32:27.579 --> 00:32:28.279
 guy that I

00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:28.720
 told you about

00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:28.980
 from the

00:32:28.980 --> 00:32:30.740
 beginning, who

00:32:30.740 --> 00:32:31.559
 was forgiven

00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:32.720
 by his wife

00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:33.700
 after committing

00:32:33.700 --> 00:32:34.339
 adultery against

00:32:34.339 --> 00:32:34.579
 her?

00:32:36.220 --> 00:32:36.920
 He thought

00:32:36.920 --> 00:32:38.379
 that it was so

00:32:38.379 --> 00:32:39.579
 easy that he

00:32:39.579 --> 00:32:39.879
 could be

00:32:39.879 --> 00:32:40.159
 forgiven.

00:32:40.460 --> 00:32:41.159
 He almost

00:32:41.159 --> 00:32:41.559
 couldn't believe

00:32:41.559 --> 00:32:41.779
 it.

00:32:42.899 --> 00:32:43.659
 And after the

00:32:43.659 --> 00:32:44.200
 affair and his

00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:45.019
 confession of it,

00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:46.220
 then life just

00:32:46.220 --> 00:32:46.659
 seemed to go back

00:32:46.659 --> 00:32:47.139
 to normal for

00:32:47.139 --> 00:32:47.319
 them.

00:32:47.379 --> 00:32:47.579
 And he

00:32:47.579 --> 00:32:47.740
 thought,

00:32:47.740 --> 00:32:48.599
 oh, that

00:32:48.599 --> 00:32:48.859
 was it.

00:32:48.980 --> 00:32:50.700
 I got off.

00:32:52.660 --> 00:32:53.140
 And it

00:32:53.140 --> 00:32:53.559
 seemed like

00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:54.299
 everything was

00:32:54.299 --> 00:32:54.880
 over until

00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:55.460
 one day he

00:32:55.460 --> 00:32:56.660
 heard what

00:32:56.660 --> 00:32:57.299
 sounded like

00:32:57.299 --> 00:32:58.440
 the sound of

00:32:58.440 --> 00:32:59.180
 his wife crying.

00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:01.259
 And he came

00:33:01.259 --> 00:33:02.519
 closer until he

00:33:02.519 --> 00:33:03.440
 realized that she

00:33:03.440 --> 00:33:04.460
 was crying and

00:33:04.460 --> 00:33:05.059
 she was praying

00:33:05.059 --> 00:33:05.559
 to God.

00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:07.880
 And he heard

00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:08.400
 what she was

00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:09.480
 saying and she

00:33:09.480 --> 00:33:09.940
 was saying,

00:33:11.120 --> 00:33:11.579
 oh God,

00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:13.660
 please help me

00:33:13.660 --> 00:33:14.400
 to forgive him.

00:33:15.819 --> 00:33:16.740
 I want to.

00:33:16.740 --> 00:33:18.480
 but it's so

00:33:18.480 --> 00:33:19.720
 difficult.

00:33:22.579 --> 00:33:24.259
 And in

00:33:24.259 --> 00:33:24.980
 that moment

00:33:24.980 --> 00:33:27.559
 he realized

00:33:27.559 --> 00:33:28.799
 what his

00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:30.440
 act and

00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:30.920
 the forgiveness

00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:31.500
 that he had

00:33:31.500 --> 00:33:33.099
 received cost

00:33:33.099 --> 00:33:35.039
 his wife and

00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:35.660
 was costing

00:33:35.660 --> 00:33:36.299
 his wife

00:33:36.299 --> 00:33:37.180
 daily.

00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:39.539
 For him it

00:33:39.539 --> 00:33:40.039
 was free,

00:33:41.440 --> 00:33:42.299
 but for her

00:33:42.299 --> 00:33:43.839
 the emotional

00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:45.180
 cost was

00:33:45.180 --> 00:33:45.559
 immense.

00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:50.179
 for Hosea,

00:33:50.399 --> 00:33:51.740
 the price of

00:33:51.740 --> 00:33:52.359
 forgiveness was

00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:52.700
 high.

00:33:53.980 --> 00:33:54.639
 He paid for

00:33:54.639 --> 00:33:56.139
 it with his

00:33:56.139 --> 00:33:56.779
 own resources,

00:33:58.279 --> 00:33:59.139
 with enduring

00:33:59.139 --> 00:34:00.379
 disbelief,

00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:00.779
 shock,

00:34:00.899 --> 00:34:01.759
 and humiliation

00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:02.299
 from his

00:34:02.299 --> 00:34:02.619
 neighbors,

00:34:03.679 --> 00:34:04.159
 and yet to

00:34:04.159 --> 00:34:04.619
 swallow his

00:34:04.619 --> 00:34:06.000
 own sense of

00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:07.019
 injustice,

00:34:07.879 --> 00:34:08.299
 injustice,

00:34:09.099 --> 00:34:09.440
 hurt,

00:34:10.059 --> 00:34:10.500
 and anger

00:34:10.500 --> 00:34:11.719
 at his

00:34:11.719 --> 00:34:12.059
 wife.

00:34:12.059 --> 00:34:14.559
 so it

00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:14.880
 is with

00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:15.199
 God.

00:34:16.539 --> 00:34:17.239
 This is what

00:34:17.239 --> 00:34:17.739
 God does

00:34:17.739 --> 00:34:18.000
 when he

00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:18.639
 forgives us.

00:34:19.699 --> 00:34:20.400
 It seems so

00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:21.239
 easy for us.

00:34:21.799 --> 00:34:22.199
 We confess

00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:22.860
 our sin and

00:34:22.860 --> 00:34:23.519
 ask and

00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:24.179
 receive

00:34:24.179 --> 00:34:24.579
 forgiveness

00:34:24.579 --> 00:34:25.179
 and grace.

00:34:26.639 --> 00:34:27.320
 But for

00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:27.679
 God,

00:34:29.139 --> 00:34:29.639
 the just

00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:30.059
 judge of

00:34:30.059 --> 00:34:30.380
 all the

00:34:30.380 --> 00:34:30.679
 earth,

00:34:31.019 --> 00:34:31.480
 it comes

00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:31.860
 at a

00:34:31.860 --> 00:34:32.619
 great cost.

00:34:32.619 --> 00:34:35.639
 Jesus said

00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:35.920
 that the

00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:36.219
 Son of

00:34:36.219 --> 00:34:36.900
 Man came

00:34:36.900 --> 00:34:38.420
 to give

00:34:38.420 --> 00:34:38.799
 his life

00:34:38.799 --> 00:34:39.039
 as a

00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:39.719
 ransom for

00:34:39.719 --> 00:34:39.980
 many.

00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:43.159
 Can a

00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:43.799
 just God

00:34:43.799 --> 00:34:44.759
 forgive

00:34:44.759 --> 00:34:47.519
 when he

00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:47.980
 looks upon

00:34:47.980 --> 00:34:48.460
 this world

00:34:48.460 --> 00:34:48.880
 and sees

00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:49.440
 evil and

00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:49.940
 wrongdoing

00:34:49.940 --> 00:34:51.380
 and injustice

00:34:51.380 --> 00:34:51.980
 and hurt

00:34:51.980 --> 00:34:52.579
 and betrayal

00:34:52.579 --> 00:34:53.839
 and lying

00:34:53.839 --> 00:34:54.299
 and murder

00:34:54.299 --> 00:34:54.819
 and adultery

00:34:54.819 --> 00:34:55.279
 and cheating

00:34:55.280 --> 00:34:59.640
 only by

00:34:59.640 --> 00:35:00.000
 bearing

00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:00.840
 the pain

00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:01.480
 himself.

00:35:03.700 --> 00:35:03.940
 Jesus

00:35:03.940 --> 00:35:04.800
 Christ came

00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:05.580
 as a

00:35:05.580 --> 00:35:06.080
 ransom for

00:35:06.080 --> 00:35:06.320
 many

00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:08.580
 and he

00:35:08.580 --> 00:35:09.080
 died

00:35:09.080 --> 00:35:10.560
 for our

00:35:10.560 --> 00:35:11.300
 spiritual

00:35:11.300 --> 00:35:11.900
 adultery.

00:35:15.200 --> 00:35:16.100
 This is

00:35:16.100 --> 00:35:16.540
 the kind

00:35:16.540 --> 00:35:16.980
 of God

00:35:16.980 --> 00:35:17.360
 that we

00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:17.700
 follow.

00:35:18.980 --> 00:35:19.540
 A God

00:35:19.540 --> 00:35:19.900
 who

00:35:19.900 --> 00:35:20.580
 experiences

00:35:20.580 --> 00:35:22.519
 the pain

00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:23.860
 of brokenness,

00:35:24.300 --> 00:35:24.920
 of broken

00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:25.639
 relationships

00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:29.079
 and a

00:35:29.079 --> 00:35:29.780
 God who

00:35:29.780 --> 00:35:31.559
 walks

00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:32.019
 through that

00:35:32.019 --> 00:35:33.840
 pain and

00:35:33.840 --> 00:35:34.460
 embraces even

00:35:34.460 --> 00:35:35.099
 more pain

00:35:35.099 --> 00:35:37.000
 in order to

00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:37.320
 win us

00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:37.659
 back.

00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:40.900
 Do we

00:35:40.900 --> 00:35:41.280
 know this

00:35:41.280 --> 00:35:41.559
 God,

00:35:41.780 --> 00:35:42.680
 this true

00:35:42.680 --> 00:35:43.000
 forgiveness?

00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:47.079
 How do we

00:35:47.079 --> 00:35:47.599
 receive

00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:48.099
 this

00:35:48.099 --> 00:35:48.400
 forgiveness?

00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:50.760
 True

00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:51.139
 forgiveness,

00:35:51.639 --> 00:35:52.960
 it can't be

00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:53.440
 demanded,

00:35:54.240 --> 00:35:54.639
 expected,

00:35:54.920 --> 00:35:56.039
 or presumed

00:35:56.039 --> 00:35:56.240
 on.

00:35:58.480 --> 00:35:58.940
 Can you

00:35:58.940 --> 00:35:59.420
 imagine if

00:35:59.420 --> 00:36:00.619
 that husband

00:36:00.619 --> 00:36:01.380
 had gone

00:36:01.380 --> 00:36:01.780
 in and

00:36:01.780 --> 00:36:02.320
 demanded

00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:02.760
 forgiveness

00:36:02.760 --> 00:36:03.180
 from his

00:36:03.180 --> 00:36:03.680
 wife for

00:36:03.680 --> 00:36:03.980
 what he'd

00:36:03.980 --> 00:36:04.220
 done?

00:36:06.059 --> 00:36:06.579
 It would

00:36:06.579 --> 00:36:06.720
 have been

00:36:06.720 --> 00:36:07.119
 thrown in

00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:07.519
 his face.

00:36:07.720 --> 00:36:07.840
 No,

00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:09.099
 true

00:36:09.099 --> 00:36:09.559
 forgiveness

00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:10.420
 can only

00:36:10.420 --> 00:36:11.420
 be received

00:36:11.420 --> 00:36:12.180
 with a

00:36:12.180 --> 00:36:12.539
 kind of

00:36:12.539 --> 00:36:13.659
 a humbled

00:36:13.659 --> 00:36:14.159
 awe.

00:36:16.380 --> 00:36:17.159
 Like that

00:36:17.159 --> 00:36:17.440
 husband,

00:36:18.300 --> 00:36:18.900
 who was

00:36:18.900 --> 00:36:19.300
 speechless

00:36:19.300 --> 00:36:20.019
 forgiveness

00:36:20.019 --> 00:36:21.039
 when he

00:36:21.039 --> 00:36:21.980
 realized the

00:36:21.980 --> 00:36:22.620
 cost of

00:36:22.620 --> 00:36:22.960
 forgiveness.

00:36:23.640 --> 00:36:23.960
 And he

00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:24.280
 could only

00:36:24.280 --> 00:36:24.920
 stand there

00:36:24.920 --> 00:36:26.280
 and receive

00:36:26.280 --> 00:36:28.160
 it in

00:36:28.160 --> 00:36:28.920
 humility.

00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:32.620
 We receive

00:36:32.620 --> 00:36:33.280
 forgiveness as

00:36:33.280 --> 00:36:34.220
 well from

00:36:34.220 --> 00:36:34.580
 God.

00:36:35.980 --> 00:36:36.660
 True

00:36:36.660 --> 00:36:37.080
 forgiveness,

00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:37.920
 not by

00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:38.580
 demanding it

00:36:38.580 --> 00:36:38.940
 from him,

00:36:39.560 --> 00:36:40.300
 expecting it

00:36:40.300 --> 00:36:40.640
 from his

00:36:40.640 --> 00:36:40.960
 hand,

00:36:41.019 --> 00:36:41.720
 or presuming

00:36:41.720 --> 00:36:42.220
 upon it.

00:36:42.219 --> 00:36:43.939
 it can only

00:36:43.939 --> 00:36:44.500
 be received

00:36:44.500 --> 00:36:45.059
 with a kind

00:36:45.059 --> 00:36:45.679
 of humbled

00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:47.659
 awe as we

00:36:47.659 --> 00:36:48.119
 come before

00:36:48.119 --> 00:36:49.500
 God realizing

00:36:49.500 --> 00:36:51.480
 that this is

00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:51.959
 the God

00:36:51.959 --> 00:36:52.739
 who made

00:36:52.739 --> 00:36:53.079
 us,

00:36:53.579 --> 00:36:54.319
 who gave

00:36:54.319 --> 00:36:54.819
 us everything,

00:36:55.679 --> 00:36:56.339
 who sustains

00:36:56.339 --> 00:36:56.839
 us,

00:36:57.619 --> 00:36:58.079
 and yet

00:36:58.079 --> 00:36:59.119
 who we

00:36:59.119 --> 00:37:00.219
 turn our

00:37:00.219 --> 00:37:00.659
 back on,

00:37:01.480 --> 00:37:02.059
 who we

00:37:02.059 --> 00:37:03.339
 engage in

00:37:03.339 --> 00:37:04.379
 idolatry

00:37:04.379 --> 00:37:05.059
 against,

00:37:05.739 --> 00:37:07.000
 who we get

00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:07.459
 distracted

00:37:07.459 --> 00:37:07.899
 from,

00:37:07.900 --> 00:37:10.760
 who is,

00:37:11.300 --> 00:37:11.700
 rather than

00:37:11.700 --> 00:37:12.180
 being foremost

00:37:12.180 --> 00:37:12.619
 in our

00:37:12.619 --> 00:37:13.000
 thoughts,

00:37:13.700 --> 00:37:14.039
 is often

00:37:14.039 --> 00:37:14.639
 last in our

00:37:14.639 --> 00:37:14.980
 thoughts,

00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:15.599
 and a

00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:15.760
 bottom

00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:16.240
 priority

00:37:16.240 --> 00:37:16.760
 for us.

00:37:21.240 --> 00:37:21.820
 True

00:37:21.820 --> 00:37:22.180
 forgiveness

00:37:22.180 --> 00:37:22.559
 though,

00:37:23.660 --> 00:37:24.380
 overcomes

00:37:24.380 --> 00:37:25.400
 revenge,

00:37:25.980 --> 00:37:26.420
 and spreads

00:37:26.420 --> 00:37:26.820
 love,

00:37:27.099 --> 00:37:27.420
 peace,

00:37:28.160 --> 00:37:28.680
 and redemption.

00:37:30.200 --> 00:37:30.760
 But as

00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:31.139
 the woman

00:37:31.139 --> 00:37:32.039
 who was

00:37:32.039 --> 00:37:32.420
 betrayed

00:37:32.420 --> 00:37:33.900
 was praying,

00:37:34.380 --> 00:37:35.019
 so also

00:37:35.019 --> 00:37:35.680
 it is hard

00:37:35.680 --> 00:37:36.500
 too for us

00:37:36.500 --> 00:37:37.099
 to forgive.

00:37:37.900 --> 00:37:38.579
 Because

00:37:38.579 --> 00:37:38.920
 forgiveness

00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:39.440
 is not

00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:39.880
 natural

00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:40.720
 for the

00:37:40.720 --> 00:37:40.960
 human

00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:41.380
 spirit.

00:37:42.680 --> 00:37:43.079
 Rather,

00:37:43.940 --> 00:37:44.599
 unforgiveness

00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:45.760
 is natural.

00:37:47.099 --> 00:37:47.320
 And I

00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:47.639
 think about

00:37:47.639 --> 00:37:48.119
 that taxi

00:37:48.119 --> 00:37:48.460
 driver,

00:37:49.660 --> 00:37:50.800
 and what

00:37:50.800 --> 00:37:51.519
 I wanted

00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:51.940
 to do,

00:37:52.019 --> 00:37:52.260
 you know,

00:37:52.340 --> 00:37:52.740
 to throttle

00:37:52.740 --> 00:37:54.639
 him for

00:37:54.639 --> 00:37:54.920
 what he'd

00:37:54.920 --> 00:37:55.160
 done.

00:37:55.880 --> 00:37:56.300
 When I

00:37:56.300 --> 00:37:56.660
 think about

00:37:56.660 --> 00:37:57.079
 a relative

00:37:57.079 --> 00:37:57.880
 of mine

00:37:57.880 --> 00:37:58.160
 who is

00:37:58.160 --> 00:37:58.579
 old enough

00:37:58.579 --> 00:37:59.039
 to remember

00:37:59.039 --> 00:37:59.700
 the Japanese

00:37:59.700 --> 00:38:00.320
 occupation

00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:00.840
 of Hong

00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:01.119
 Kong,

00:38:02.860 --> 00:38:03.220
 and says

00:38:03.220 --> 00:38:03.420
 he would

00:38:03.420 --> 00:38:03.700
 never go

00:38:03.700 --> 00:38:03.920
 to a

00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:04.160
 Japanese

00:38:04.160 --> 00:38:04.599
 restaurant,

00:38:05.940 --> 00:38:06.480
 and never

00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:08.880
 speak to

00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:09.159
 a Japanese

00:38:09.159 --> 00:38:09.659
 person,

00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:10.599
 except to

00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:11.039
 curse them.

00:38:15.099 --> 00:38:15.579
 Decades

00:38:15.579 --> 00:38:15.780
 on.

00:38:18.900 --> 00:38:19.460
 When I

00:38:19.460 --> 00:38:20.000
 think of

00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:21.840
 a pastor's

00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:22.960
 wife crying

00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:23.380
 at a

00:38:23.380 --> 00:38:23.719
 pastor's

00:38:23.719 --> 00:38:24.139
 conference,

00:38:24.920 --> 00:38:25.300
 as we

00:38:25.300 --> 00:38:25.719
 talked about

00:38:25.719 --> 00:38:26.079
 anger,

00:38:26.860 --> 00:38:27.460
 and forgiveness,

00:38:28.240 --> 00:38:28.579
 and she

00:38:28.579 --> 00:38:29.079
 was talking

00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:30.340
 about hurtful

00:38:30.340 --> 00:38:30.820
 relatives,

00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:31.780
 who she

00:38:31.780 --> 00:38:32.119
 could not

00:38:32.119 --> 00:38:32.500
 forgive.

00:38:32.500 --> 00:38:35.739
 In this

00:38:35.739 --> 00:38:35.980
 book,

00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:36.239
 Philip

00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:36.579
 Jansi

00:38:36.579 --> 00:38:37.239
 writes of

00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:37.579
 forgiveness,

00:38:37.900 --> 00:38:38.300
 it's called

00:38:38.300 --> 00:38:39.179
 What's So

00:38:39.179 --> 00:38:39.440
 Amazing

00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:40.000
 Around Grace,

00:38:41.400 --> 00:38:42.800
 and he

00:38:42.800 --> 00:38:43.059
 tells a

00:38:43.059 --> 00:38:43.539
 story of

00:38:43.539 --> 00:38:44.400
 two peacemakers

00:38:44.400 --> 00:38:44.840
 who visited

00:38:44.840 --> 00:38:45.360
 a group of

00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:45.639
 Polish

00:38:45.639 --> 00:38:46.079
 Christians

00:38:46.079 --> 00:38:46.579
 ten years

00:38:46.579 --> 00:38:46.900
 after the

00:38:46.900 --> 00:38:47.119
 end of

00:38:47.119 --> 00:38:47.420
 World War

00:38:47.420 --> 00:38:47.659
 II.

00:38:49.539 --> 00:38:50.179
 They said,

00:38:50.539 --> 00:38:50.739
 would you

00:38:50.739 --> 00:38:51.079
 be willing

00:38:51.079 --> 00:38:51.380
 to meet

00:38:51.380 --> 00:38:51.699
 with other

00:38:51.699 --> 00:38:52.019
 Christians

00:38:52.019 --> 00:38:52.420
 from West

00:38:52.420 --> 00:38:52.739
 Germany?

00:38:53.960 --> 00:38:54.300
 They want

00:38:54.300 --> 00:38:54.719
 to ask

00:38:54.719 --> 00:38:55.139
 forgiveness

00:38:55.139 --> 00:38:55.760
 for what

00:38:55.760 --> 00:38:56.300
 Germany did

00:38:56.300 --> 00:38:56.800
 to Poland

00:38:56.800 --> 00:38:57.260
 during the

00:38:57.260 --> 00:38:57.460
 war,

00:38:57.539 --> 00:38:57.719
 and to

00:38:57.719 --> 00:38:58.099
 begin to

00:38:58.099 --> 00:38:58.519
 build a

00:38:58.519 --> 00:38:58.679
 new

00:38:58.679 --> 00:38:59.159
 relationship.

00:39:01.159 --> 00:39:01.480
 There was

00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:01.920
 silence.

00:39:02.500 --> 00:39:03.780
 And then

00:39:03.780 --> 00:39:04.159
 one Pole

00:39:04.159 --> 00:39:04.760
 spoke up.

00:39:06.039 --> 00:39:06.280
 What you

00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:06.739
 are asking

00:39:06.739 --> 00:39:07.360
 is impossible,

00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:08.480
 he said.

00:39:09.219 --> 00:39:09.880
 Each stone

00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:10.300
 of Warsaw

00:39:10.300 --> 00:39:10.980
 is soaked

00:39:10.980 --> 00:39:11.539
 in Polish

00:39:11.539 --> 00:39:11.880
 blood.

00:39:12.719 --> 00:39:13.159
 We cannot

00:39:13.159 --> 00:39:13.599
 forgive.

00:39:15.900 --> 00:39:16.699
 Before the

00:39:16.699 --> 00:39:17.300
 group parted,

00:39:18.340 --> 00:39:18.699
 they said

00:39:18.699 --> 00:39:19.059
 the Lord's

00:39:19.059 --> 00:39:19.559
 prayer together.

00:39:20.760 --> 00:39:21.500
 When they

00:39:21.500 --> 00:39:21.860
 reached the

00:39:21.860 --> 00:39:22.219
 words,

00:39:23.159 --> 00:39:23.739
 forgive us,

00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:24.679
 forgive us

00:39:24.679 --> 00:39:25.199
 our sins

00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:25.679
 as we

00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:26.079
 forgive,

00:39:27.159 --> 00:39:27.739
 everybody

00:39:27.739 --> 00:39:28.159
 stopped.

00:39:31.380 --> 00:39:31.940
 Tension

00:39:31.940 --> 00:39:32.260
 swelped

00:39:32.260 --> 00:39:32.360
 swelped in

00:39:32.360 --> 00:39:32.440
 the

00:39:32.440 --> 00:39:32.619
 room,

00:39:32.700 --> 00:39:32.840
 and the

00:39:32.840 --> 00:39:33.099
 Pole,

00:39:33.300 --> 00:39:33.599
 who had

00:39:33.599 --> 00:39:34.139
 spoken so

00:39:34.139 --> 00:39:34.700
 vehemently,

00:39:34.920 --> 00:39:35.179
 said,

00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:36.599
 I must

00:39:36.599 --> 00:39:37.039
 say yes

00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:37.380
 to you.

00:39:38.200 --> 00:39:38.740
 I could

00:39:38.740 --> 00:39:39.119
 no more

00:39:39.119 --> 00:39:40.200
 pray our

00:39:40.200 --> 00:39:40.519
 father.

00:39:41.159 --> 00:39:41.460
 I could

00:39:41.460 --> 00:39:41.800
 no longer

00:39:41.800 --> 00:39:42.360
 call myself

00:39:42.360 --> 00:39:42.800
 a Christian

00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:43.820
 if I

00:39:43.820 --> 00:39:44.420
 refuse to

00:39:44.420 --> 00:39:44.780
 forgive.

00:39:45.900 --> 00:39:46.360
 Humanly

00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:46.659
 speaking,

00:39:46.760 --> 00:39:47.039
 I cannot

00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:47.440
 do it,

00:39:47.980 --> 00:39:48.440
 but God

00:39:48.440 --> 00:39:48.780
 will give

00:39:48.780 --> 00:39:49.099
 us his

00:39:49.099 --> 00:39:49.440
 strength.

00:39:51.200 --> 00:39:51.579
 Eighteen

00:39:51.579 --> 00:39:52.019
 months later,

00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:52.440
 the Polish

00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:52.780
 and West

00:39:52.780 --> 00:39:52.980
 German

00:39:52.980 --> 00:39:53.360
 Christians

00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:53.579
 met

00:39:53.579 --> 00:39:54.000
 together in

00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:54.260
 Vienna,

00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:55.179
 establishing

00:39:55.179 --> 00:39:56.760
 friendships that

00:39:56.760 --> 00:39:57.240
 continue to

00:39:57.240 --> 00:39:57.659
 this day.

00:39:57.659 --> 00:40:02.859
 unforgiveness

00:40:02.859 --> 00:40:04.480
 is hard

00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:05.739
 because within

00:40:05.739 --> 00:40:07.739
 us we

00:40:07.739 --> 00:40:08.500
 want justice

00:40:08.500 --> 00:40:09.679
 and we

00:40:09.679 --> 00:40:10.319
 seek redress

00:40:10.319 --> 00:40:10.639
 for the

00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:11.699
 hurt that

00:40:11.699 --> 00:40:11.920
 has been

00:40:11.920 --> 00:40:12.399
 done against

00:40:12.399 --> 00:40:12.859
 us.

00:40:13.420 --> 00:40:13.539
 See,

00:40:14.699 --> 00:40:15.059
 this is like

00:40:15.059 --> 00:40:15.799
 Miroslav Rolf,

00:40:15.960 --> 00:40:16.559
 who's a

00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:17.199
 Croatian

00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:17.920
 theologian.

00:40:18.019 --> 00:40:18.379
 He writes,

00:40:18.379 --> 00:40:19.319
 deep within the

00:40:19.319 --> 00:40:19.779
 heart of every

00:40:19.779 --> 00:40:20.099
 victim,

00:40:20.259 --> 00:40:21.119
 anger swirls up

00:40:21.119 --> 00:40:21.500
 against the

00:40:21.500 --> 00:40:21.980
 perpetrator,

00:40:22.779 --> 00:40:23.719
 rage inflamed by

00:40:23.719 --> 00:40:24.159
 unredeemed

00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:24.579
 suffering.

00:40:25.460 --> 00:40:25.980
 We don't

00:40:25.980 --> 00:40:26.319
 pray,

00:40:26.940 --> 00:40:27.860
 Father,

00:40:27.940 --> 00:40:28.360
 forgive them

00:40:28.360 --> 00:40:28.880
 for what they

00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:29.059
 do.

00:40:29.139 --> 00:40:29.739
 We'd rather

00:40:29.739 --> 00:40:30.019
 pray,

00:40:30.219 --> 00:40:30.440
 Father,

00:40:30.559 --> 00:40:31.099
 forgive them

00:40:31.099 --> 00:40:32.139
 not for

00:40:32.139 --> 00:40:32.599
 they knew

00:40:32.599 --> 00:40:33.199
 exactly what

00:40:33.199 --> 00:40:33.599
 they did.

00:40:36.139 --> 00:40:36.639
 Forgiveness

00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:36.980
 is an

00:40:36.980 --> 00:40:38.079
 outrage against

00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:39.519
 straight-line,

00:40:39.619 --> 00:40:40.279
 dues-paying

00:40:40.279 --> 00:40:40.779
 morality.

00:40:42.199 --> 00:40:42.739
 If perpetrators

00:40:42.739 --> 00:40:43.380
 were repentant,

00:40:43.500 --> 00:40:43.900
 then forgiveness

00:40:43.900 --> 00:40:44.460
 would come more

00:40:44.460 --> 00:40:45.460
 easily, but too

00:40:45.460 --> 00:40:45.920
 often they are

00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:46.179
 not.

00:40:47.380 --> 00:40:47.659
 And so

00:40:47.659 --> 00:40:48.480
 victim, both

00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:48.920
 victim and

00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:49.420
 perpetrator,

00:40:49.960 --> 00:40:50.460
 are imprisoned

00:40:50.460 --> 00:40:52.219
 in the automatism

00:40:52.219 --> 00:40:53.119
 of mutual

00:40:53.119 --> 00:40:53.619
 exclusion,

00:40:53.779 --> 00:40:54.420
 unable to

00:40:54.420 --> 00:40:54.940
 forgive or

00:40:54.940 --> 00:40:55.320
 repent,

00:40:55.720 --> 00:40:57.079
 united in a

00:40:57.079 --> 00:40:57.760
 perverse communion

00:40:57.760 --> 00:40:58.420
 of mutual

00:40:58.420 --> 00:40:58.820
 hate.

00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:01.039
 And the

00:41:01.039 --> 00:41:01.480
 trouble with

00:41:01.480 --> 00:41:02.800
 revenge is

00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:03.059
 that it

00:41:03.059 --> 00:41:03.980
 enslaves us.

00:41:04.740 --> 00:41:05.039
 And of

00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:05.400
 course he's

00:41:05.400 --> 00:41:06.059
 talking about

00:41:06.059 --> 00:41:07.300
 the genocide

00:41:07.300 --> 00:41:08.579
 and of his

00:41:08.579 --> 00:41:09.559
 hometown in

00:41:09.559 --> 00:41:10.119
 Serbia and

00:41:10.119 --> 00:41:10.659
 Yugoslavia,

00:41:11.980 --> 00:41:13.180
 back in those

00:41:13.180 --> 00:41:13.639
 days in the

00:41:13.639 --> 00:41:14.079
 90s,

00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:14.900
 warfare,

00:41:15.019 --> 00:41:15.480
 blood feuds

00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:16.079
 and genocide,

00:41:16.599 --> 00:41:16.960
 the end

00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:17.860
 result of

00:41:17.860 --> 00:41:18.579
 unforgiveness.

00:41:20.059 --> 00:41:20.320
 But it

00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:20.619
 takes an

00:41:20.619 --> 00:41:21.340
 act of grace

00:41:21.340 --> 00:41:22.539
 to break

00:41:22.539 --> 00:41:23.000
 into that.

00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:24.559
 It takes

00:41:24.559 --> 00:41:25.579
 someone to

00:41:25.579 --> 00:41:26.239
 take the

00:41:26.239 --> 00:41:26.579
 initiative

00:41:26.579 --> 00:41:28.360
 to forgive.

00:41:30.019 --> 00:41:30.659
 Often we

00:41:30.659 --> 00:41:30.920
 think,

00:41:31.320 --> 00:41:32.139
 I'll forgive

00:41:32.139 --> 00:41:32.800
 if they

00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:33.380
 come before

00:41:33.380 --> 00:41:34.519
 me and

00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:35.179
 are repentant.

00:41:35.840 --> 00:41:36.360
 And I

00:41:36.360 --> 00:41:36.559
 used to

00:41:36.559 --> 00:41:36.820
 think that

00:41:36.820 --> 00:41:37.179
 as well.

00:41:38.059 --> 00:41:38.360
 And then I

00:41:38.360 --> 00:41:39.000
 realized that

00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:39.820
 Jesus prayed,

00:41:41.119 --> 00:41:41.400
 Father,

00:41:41.539 --> 00:41:41.980
 forgive them

00:41:41.980 --> 00:41:42.440
 for they do

00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:42.980
 not know what

00:41:42.980 --> 00:41:43.500
 they are doing

00:41:43.500 --> 00:41:43.960
 when he was

00:41:43.960 --> 00:41:44.559
 on the cross

00:41:44.559 --> 00:41:47.340
 for people

00:41:47.340 --> 00:41:47.739
 who had

00:41:47.739 --> 00:41:48.280
 certainly not

00:41:48.280 --> 00:41:48.679
 repented.

00:41:48.679 --> 00:41:53.039
 to forgive

00:41:53.039 --> 00:41:53.579
 is divine,

00:41:53.699 --> 00:41:53.940
 as they

00:41:53.940 --> 00:41:54.179
 say.

00:41:55.559 --> 00:41:56.099
 And God's

00:41:56.099 --> 00:41:56.879
 correct grace

00:41:56.879 --> 00:41:57.659
 teaches us

00:41:57.659 --> 00:41:58.079
 to forgive.

00:41:58.440 --> 00:41:58.859
 The reason

00:41:58.859 --> 00:41:59.440
 why we

00:41:59.440 --> 00:41:59.980
 find it

00:41:59.980 --> 00:42:00.599
 hard to

00:42:00.599 --> 00:42:00.859
 forgive,

00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:01.679
 even as

00:42:01.679 --> 00:42:02.759
 people who

00:42:02.759 --> 00:42:04.039
 have experienced

00:42:04.039 --> 00:42:04.440
 forgiveness,

00:42:05.239 --> 00:42:05.579
 and I don't

00:42:05.579 --> 00:42:05.899
 know if you

00:42:05.899 --> 00:42:06.480
 have or not,

00:42:08.679 --> 00:42:09.359
 but one of

00:42:09.359 --> 00:42:09.619
 the reasons

00:42:09.619 --> 00:42:10.139
 we might find

00:42:10.139 --> 00:42:11.059
 it hard is

00:42:11.059 --> 00:42:11.480
 that we've

00:42:11.480 --> 00:42:11.839
 forgotten

00:42:11.839 --> 00:42:12.980
 forgiveness.

00:42:13.659 --> 00:42:14.339
 We've forgotten

00:42:14.339 --> 00:42:15.419
 who we are

00:42:15.419 --> 00:42:16.339
 as people of

00:42:16.339 --> 00:42:16.619
 God.

00:42:16.619 --> 00:42:18.619
 we've

00:42:18.619 --> 00:42:18.819
 forgotten

00:42:18.819 --> 00:42:19.339
 the forgiveness

00:42:19.339 --> 00:42:19.859
 that comes

00:42:19.859 --> 00:42:20.319
 to us.

00:42:21.799 --> 00:42:22.299
 Like the

00:42:22.299 --> 00:42:22.659
 unforgiving

00:42:22.659 --> 00:42:24.319
 servant who

00:42:24.319 --> 00:42:27.779
 couldn't

00:42:27.779 --> 00:42:28.659
 forgive a

00:42:28.659 --> 00:42:28.960
 debt,

00:42:29.039 --> 00:42:29.400
 even though

00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:29.719
 he'd been

00:42:29.719 --> 00:42:30.440
 forgiven a

00:42:30.440 --> 00:42:32.259
 debt millions

00:42:32.259 --> 00:42:32.799
 of times

00:42:32.799 --> 00:42:33.159
 greater.

00:42:35.099 --> 00:42:35.619
 It reminded

00:42:35.619 --> 00:42:36.420
 me of when

00:42:36.420 --> 00:42:37.199
 the kids were

00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:37.739
 playing and

00:42:37.739 --> 00:42:38.579
 they ran

00:42:38.579 --> 00:42:38.799
 out of

00:42:38.799 --> 00:42:39.039
 water.

00:42:40.679 --> 00:42:41.219
 You can't

00:42:41.219 --> 00:42:41.440
 drink the

00:42:41.440 --> 00:42:41.759
 water in

00:42:41.759 --> 00:42:42.000
 Vietnam,

00:42:42.440 --> 00:42:42.779
 the tap

00:42:42.779 --> 00:42:42.960
 water,

00:42:43.059 --> 00:42:43.339
 so you've

00:42:43.339 --> 00:42:43.480
 got to

00:42:43.480 --> 00:42:43.659
 buy a

00:42:43.659 --> 00:42:43.900
 bottle of

00:42:43.900 --> 00:42:44.059
 water.

00:42:44.199 --> 00:42:44.359
 And so

00:42:44.359 --> 00:42:44.659
 they ran

00:42:44.659 --> 00:42:44.880
 out of

00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:45.099
 water.

00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:45.839
 And so

00:42:45.839 --> 00:42:46.179
 I had a

00:42:46.179 --> 00:42:46.480
 big bottle

00:42:46.480 --> 00:42:46.739
 and I

00:42:46.739 --> 00:42:47.159
 filled up

00:42:47.159 --> 00:42:47.399
 one of

00:42:47.399 --> 00:42:47.619
 the kids'

00:42:47.719 --> 00:42:48.059
 bottles with

00:42:48.059 --> 00:42:49.259
 mine and

00:42:49.259 --> 00:42:49.659
 gave it to

00:42:49.659 --> 00:42:49.859
 her.

00:42:51.099 --> 00:42:51.980
 And she

00:42:51.980 --> 00:42:52.279
 took it

00:42:52.279 --> 00:42:52.779
 gratefully and

00:42:52.779 --> 00:42:53.159
 drank it.

00:42:53.679 --> 00:42:54.059
 And then we

00:42:54.059 --> 00:42:54.639
 told her,

00:42:54.679 --> 00:42:54.980
 share it with

00:42:54.980 --> 00:42:55.379
 your sister.

00:42:56.059 --> 00:42:56.440
 She said,

00:42:56.500 --> 00:42:56.799
 no,

00:42:57.000 --> 00:42:57.480
 mine.

00:42:59.000 --> 00:42:59.559
 I was like,

00:42:59.859 --> 00:43:00.379
 I just gave

00:43:00.379 --> 00:43:00.899
 that to you.

00:43:03.019 --> 00:43:03.460
 And we

00:43:03.460 --> 00:43:04.379
 just looked at

00:43:04.379 --> 00:43:04.739
 each other and

00:43:04.739 --> 00:43:04.919
 thought,

00:43:05.019 --> 00:43:05.460
 that's what

00:43:05.460 --> 00:43:05.839
 it's like

00:43:05.839 --> 00:43:06.159
 with us

00:43:06.159 --> 00:43:06.519
 and God.

00:43:08.699 --> 00:43:09.279
 We can't

00:43:09.279 --> 00:43:10.319
 forgive this

00:43:10.319 --> 00:43:10.879
 thing that

00:43:10.879 --> 00:43:11.500
 somebody else

00:43:11.500 --> 00:43:11.879
 has done

00:43:11.879 --> 00:43:12.759
 towards us.

00:43:13.079 --> 00:43:13.299
 And we

00:43:13.299 --> 00:43:13.419
 say,

00:43:13.480 --> 00:43:13.659
 no,

00:43:13.759 --> 00:43:14.419
 that's mine

00:43:14.419 --> 00:43:15.159
 that you've

00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:15.659
 taken from

00:43:15.659 --> 00:43:15.899
 me,

00:43:16.539 --> 00:43:17.659
 my hurt

00:43:17.659 --> 00:43:19.059
 that I

00:43:19.059 --> 00:43:19.460
 can't give

00:43:19.460 --> 00:43:19.719
 up.

00:43:20.719 --> 00:43:21.319
 And we

00:43:21.319 --> 00:43:23.219
 forget God's

00:43:23.219 --> 00:43:23.779
 broken heart.

00:43:24.699 --> 00:43:25.460
 We forget

00:43:25.460 --> 00:43:26.659
 the forgiveness

00:43:26.659 --> 00:43:27.099
 that we've

00:43:27.099 --> 00:43:27.519
 received.

00:43:28.679 --> 00:43:29.339
 No wonder

00:43:29.339 --> 00:43:30.920
 Jesus says

00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:31.719
 that we should

00:43:31.719 --> 00:43:32.239
 pray,

00:43:32.879 --> 00:43:33.079
 Father,

00:43:33.139 --> 00:43:33.659
 forgive us as

00:43:33.659 --> 00:43:34.019
 we forgive

00:43:34.019 --> 00:43:35.279
 those who

00:43:35.279 --> 00:43:35.519
 have sinned

00:43:35.519 --> 00:43:36.239
 against us.

00:43:36.239 --> 00:43:37.619
 because if

00:43:37.619 --> 00:43:38.479
 we cannot

00:43:38.479 --> 00:43:39.239
 forgive others,

00:43:39.239 --> 00:43:41.899
 then we

00:43:41.899 --> 00:43:42.479
 have forgotten

00:43:42.479 --> 00:43:43.819
 the forgiveness

00:43:43.819 --> 00:43:45.759
 that was

00:43:45.759 --> 00:43:46.159
 ours.

00:43:47.019 --> 00:43:47.500
 And if we

00:43:47.500 --> 00:43:48.079
 continue to

00:43:48.079 --> 00:43:48.579
 forget that

00:43:48.579 --> 00:43:48.919
 forgiveness,

00:43:50.159 --> 00:43:50.539
 then perhaps

00:43:50.539 --> 00:43:50.819
 we're not

00:43:50.819 --> 00:43:51.259
 forgiven at

00:43:51.259 --> 00:43:51.479
 all.

00:43:53.899 --> 00:43:55.179
 Grace is

00:43:55.179 --> 00:43:55.539
 the only

00:43:55.539 --> 00:43:56.059
 solution

00:43:56.059 --> 00:43:57.819
 to ungrace.

00:43:59.259 --> 00:43:59.819
 I'm going

00:43:59.819 --> 00:44:00.179
 to finish

00:44:00.179 --> 00:44:00.659
 with this

00:44:00.659 --> 00:44:00.979
 story,

00:44:01.699 --> 00:44:02.659
 one final

00:44:02.659 --> 00:44:03.359
 story here,

00:44:03.360 --> 00:44:04.240
 which illustrates

00:44:04.240 --> 00:44:04.740
 this.

00:44:06.019 --> 00:44:06.500
 And it's

00:44:06.500 --> 00:44:07.700
 about a

00:44:07.700 --> 00:44:09.019
 woman who

00:44:09.019 --> 00:44:09.519
 had to

00:44:09.519 --> 00:44:09.900
 forgive.

00:44:12.240 --> 00:44:12.599
 You see,

00:44:13.500 --> 00:44:14.960
 and I think

00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:15.240
 the names

00:44:15.240 --> 00:44:15.440
 have been

00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:15.740
 changed,

00:44:15.860 --> 00:44:16.260
 but Rebecca,

00:44:17.140 --> 00:44:19.640
 in weeks of

00:44:19.640 --> 00:44:20.079
 meeting together

00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:20.519
 in this small

00:44:20.519 --> 00:44:21.300
 group discussion

00:44:21.300 --> 00:44:21.720
 regarding

00:44:21.720 --> 00:44:22.180
 forgiveness,

00:44:22.940 --> 00:44:23.620
 spoke up and

00:44:23.620 --> 00:44:24.039
 said that she

00:44:24.039 --> 00:44:25.240
 had married a

00:44:25.240 --> 00:44:27.240
 pastor who

00:44:27.240 --> 00:44:28.559
 was quite well

00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:28.840
 known,

00:44:28.840 --> 00:44:30.460
 and yet he

00:44:30.460 --> 00:44:30.900
 had a dark

00:44:30.900 --> 00:44:31.260
 side.

00:44:32.740 --> 00:44:33.420
 He would

00:44:33.420 --> 00:44:33.680
 visit

00:44:33.680 --> 00:44:34.460
 prostitutes

00:44:34.460 --> 00:44:34.900
 whenever he

00:44:34.900 --> 00:44:36.000
 would go to

00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:36.440
 other cities

00:44:36.440 --> 00:44:37.000
 to speak.

00:44:38.600 --> 00:44:39.380
 And she

00:44:39.380 --> 00:44:39.840
 knew about it

00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:40.180
 and sometimes

00:44:40.180 --> 00:44:40.660
 he would ask

00:44:40.660 --> 00:44:41.200
 Rebecca for

00:44:41.200 --> 00:44:41.820
 forgiveness and

00:44:41.820 --> 00:44:42.260
 sometimes he

00:44:42.260 --> 00:44:42.700
 did not.

00:44:43.680 --> 00:44:44.300
 And in time,

00:44:44.960 --> 00:44:45.519
 he left her

00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:46.019
 for another

00:44:46.019 --> 00:44:46.300
 woman,

00:44:46.760 --> 00:44:47.240
 Julianne.

00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:49.480
 Rebecca told

00:44:49.480 --> 00:44:50.039
 us how painful

00:44:50.039 --> 00:44:50.519
 it was for

00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:50.860
 her, a

00:44:50.860 --> 00:44:51.460
 pastor's wife,

00:44:51.539 --> 00:44:51.840
 to suffer

00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:52.579
 this humiliation.

00:44:54.420 --> 00:44:54.900
 Some church

00:44:54.900 --> 00:44:55.260
 members who

00:44:55.260 --> 00:44:55.660
 had respected

00:44:55.660 --> 00:44:56.000
 her husband

00:44:56.000 --> 00:44:56.700
 treated her as

00:44:56.700 --> 00:44:57.360
 if his sexual

00:44:57.360 --> 00:44:58.180
 strain had been

00:44:58.180 --> 00:44:58.700
 her fault.

00:44:58.840 --> 00:45:00.720
 Devastated,

00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:01.079
 she found

00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:01.519
 herself pulling

00:45:01.519 --> 00:45:01.860
 away from

00:45:01.860 --> 00:45:02.500
 human contact,

00:45:02.600 --> 00:45:03.039
 unable to

00:45:03.039 --> 00:45:03.640
 trust another

00:45:03.640 --> 00:45:04.079
 person.

00:45:05.100 --> 00:45:05.539
 She could never

00:45:05.539 --> 00:45:05.960
 put her husband

00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:06.320
 out of her

00:45:06.320 --> 00:45:06.780
 mind because

00:45:06.780 --> 00:45:06.980
 they had

00:45:06.980 --> 00:45:07.480
 children and

00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:07.740
 she had to

00:45:07.740 --> 00:45:08.140
 make contact

00:45:08.140 --> 00:45:08.800
 with him to

00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:09.660
 arrange

00:45:09.660 --> 00:45:10.260
 visitation.

00:45:11.400 --> 00:45:11.840
 And she

00:45:11.840 --> 00:45:12.059
 had this

00:45:12.059 --> 00:45:12.440
 increasing

00:45:12.440 --> 00:45:13.720
 sense that

00:45:13.720 --> 00:45:14.180
 unless she

00:45:14.180 --> 00:45:14.680
 forgave her

00:45:14.680 --> 00:45:15.380
 former husband,

00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:16.680
 a hard lump

00:45:16.680 --> 00:45:17.579
 of revenge would

00:45:17.579 --> 00:45:18.260
 be passed on

00:45:18.260 --> 00:45:18.500
 to their

00:45:18.500 --> 00:45:18.820
 children.

00:45:20.380 --> 00:45:20.820
 For months

00:45:20.820 --> 00:45:21.380
 she prayed.

00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:22.760
 At first her

00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:23.220
 prayers seemed

00:45:23.220 --> 00:45:23.840
 as vengeful as

00:45:23.840 --> 00:45:24.160
 some of the

00:45:24.160 --> 00:45:24.440
 psalms.

00:45:24.519 --> 00:45:24.820
 She asked

00:45:24.820 --> 00:45:25.220
 God to give

00:45:25.220 --> 00:45:25.680
 her husband

00:45:25.680 --> 00:45:26.320
 what he

00:45:26.320 --> 00:45:26.820
 deserved.

00:45:26.820 --> 00:45:28.800
 Finally,

00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:29.260
 she came to

00:45:29.260 --> 00:45:29.700
 the place of

00:45:29.700 --> 00:45:30.320
 letting God

00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:31.140
 not herself

00:45:31.140 --> 00:45:31.860
 determine what

00:45:31.860 --> 00:45:32.420
 he deserved.

00:45:34.019 --> 00:45:34.600
 One night,

00:45:34.660 --> 00:45:35.120
 Rebecca called

00:45:35.120 --> 00:45:35.559
 her ex-husband

00:45:35.559 --> 00:45:36.160
 and said in a

00:45:36.160 --> 00:45:36.720
 shaky, strained

00:45:36.720 --> 00:45:37.059
 voice,

00:45:37.700 --> 00:45:38.160
 I want you to

00:45:38.160 --> 00:45:38.539
 know that I

00:45:38.539 --> 00:45:39.160
 forgive you for

00:45:39.160 --> 00:45:39.620
 what you've done

00:45:39.620 --> 00:45:41.000
 to me and I

00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:41.700
 forgive Julianne

00:45:41.700 --> 00:45:41.940
 too.

00:45:43.380 --> 00:45:43.820
 He laughed

00:45:43.820 --> 00:45:44.500
 off her apology.

00:45:44.940 --> 00:45:45.420
 I'm willing to

00:45:45.420 --> 00:45:45.960
 admit he had done

00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:46.539
 anything wrong.

00:45:47.780 --> 00:45:48.480
 Despite that,

00:45:48.980 --> 00:45:49.460
 the conversation

00:45:49.460 --> 00:45:50.059
 helped Rebecca

00:45:50.059 --> 00:45:50.780
 get past her

00:45:50.780 --> 00:45:51.360
 bitter feelings.

00:45:51.360 --> 00:45:54.099
 A few years

00:45:54.099 --> 00:45:54.420
 later,

00:45:55.019 --> 00:45:55.539
 Rebecca got a

00:45:55.539 --> 00:45:56.200
 hysterical phone

00:45:56.200 --> 00:45:56.620
 call from

00:45:56.620 --> 00:45:57.200
 Julianne,

00:45:57.700 --> 00:45:58.180
 the woman who

00:45:58.180 --> 00:45:58.539
 had stolen

00:45:58.539 --> 00:45:59.000
 her husband.

00:46:01.059 --> 00:46:01.579
 She'd been

00:46:01.579 --> 00:46:02.500
 attending a

00:46:02.500 --> 00:46:02.820
 ministerial

00:46:02.820 --> 00:46:03.360
 conference with

00:46:03.360 --> 00:46:03.599
 him in

00:46:03.599 --> 00:46:04.620
 Minneapolis and

00:46:04.620 --> 00:46:05.000
 he'd left the

00:46:05.000 --> 00:46:05.559
 hotel room to

00:46:05.559 --> 00:46:05.920
 go for a

00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:06.140
 walk.

00:46:07.140 --> 00:46:07.640
 A few hours

00:46:07.640 --> 00:46:08.200
 passed and

00:46:08.200 --> 00:46:08.660
 Julianne heard

00:46:08.660 --> 00:46:08.960
 from the

00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:09.260
 police.

00:46:09.620 --> 00:46:09.960
 Her husband

00:46:09.960 --> 00:46:10.260
 had been

00:46:10.260 --> 00:46:10.840
 picked up for

00:46:10.840 --> 00:46:11.380
 soliciting a

00:46:11.380 --> 00:46:11.800
 prostitute.

00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:14.260
 On the phone

00:46:14.260 --> 00:46:14.640
 with Rebecca,

00:46:14.780 --> 00:46:15.180
 Julianne was

00:46:15.180 --> 00:46:15.480
 sobbing.

00:46:16.079 --> 00:46:16.480
 I never

00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:17.000
 believed you,

00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:17.380
 she said.

00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:18.140
 I kept

00:46:18.140 --> 00:46:18.720
 telling myself

00:46:18.720 --> 00:46:19.320
 that even if

00:46:19.320 --> 00:46:19.700
 what you said

00:46:19.700 --> 00:46:20.079
 was true,

00:46:20.160 --> 00:46:20.380
 he had

00:46:20.380 --> 00:46:20.820
 changed.

00:46:21.360 --> 00:46:21.860
 And now

00:46:21.860 --> 00:46:22.180
 this.

00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:23.360
 I feel so

00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:24.019
 ashamed and

00:46:24.019 --> 00:46:24.420
 hurt and

00:46:24.420 --> 00:46:24.720
 guilty.

00:46:25.460 --> 00:46:25.920
 I have no

00:46:25.920 --> 00:46:26.380
 one on earth

00:46:26.380 --> 00:46:26.640
 who can

00:46:26.640 --> 00:46:27.059
 understand.

00:46:28.340 --> 00:46:28.760
 Then I

00:46:28.760 --> 00:46:29.180
 remember the

00:46:29.180 --> 00:46:29.559
 night when

00:46:29.559 --> 00:46:30.039
 you said you

00:46:30.039 --> 00:46:30.559
 had forgiven

00:46:30.559 --> 00:46:31.200
 us.

00:46:32.200 --> 00:46:32.680
 I thought

00:46:32.680 --> 00:46:33.039
 maybe you

00:46:33.039 --> 00:46:33.460
 could understand

00:46:33.460 --> 00:46:33.700
 what I'm

00:46:33.700 --> 00:46:34.120
 going through.

00:46:34.860 --> 00:46:35.320
 It's a

00:46:35.320 --> 00:46:35.700
 terrible thing

00:46:35.700 --> 00:46:36.079
 to ask,

00:46:36.160 --> 00:46:36.380
 I know,

00:46:36.440 --> 00:46:36.780
 but could I

00:46:36.780 --> 00:46:37.079
 come and

00:46:37.079 --> 00:46:37.380
 talk to

00:46:37.380 --> 00:46:37.519
 you?

00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:39.320
 Somehow

00:46:39.320 --> 00:46:39.860
 Rebecca found

00:46:39.860 --> 00:46:40.240
 the courage

00:46:40.240 --> 00:46:40.660
 to invite

00:46:40.660 --> 00:46:41.160
 Julianne over

00:46:41.160 --> 00:46:41.559
 that same

00:46:41.559 --> 00:46:41.860
 evening.

00:46:42.940 --> 00:46:43.360
 They sat

00:46:43.360 --> 00:46:43.599
 in their

00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:44.039
 living room,

00:46:44.320 --> 00:46:44.539
 cried

00:46:44.539 --> 00:46:44.920
 together,

00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:45.500
 shared

00:46:45.500 --> 00:46:45.980
 stories of

00:46:45.980 --> 00:46:46.320
 betrayal,

00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:47.079
 and in

00:46:47.079 --> 00:46:47.320
 the end

00:46:47.320 --> 00:46:47.500
 prayed

00:46:47.500 --> 00:46:47.840
 together.

00:46:49.180 --> 00:46:49.519
 Julianne

00:46:49.519 --> 00:46:49.960
 now points

00:46:49.960 --> 00:46:50.200
 to that

00:46:50.200 --> 00:46:50.579
 night as

00:46:50.579 --> 00:46:50.940
 the time

00:46:50.940 --> 00:46:51.199
 when she

00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:51.639
 became a

00:46:51.639 --> 00:46:51.900
 Christian.

00:46:53.819 --> 00:46:54.380
 Our group

00:46:54.380 --> 00:46:54.840
 was hushed

00:46:54.840 --> 00:46:55.159
 as Rebecca

00:46:55.159 --> 00:46:55.599
 told her

00:46:55.599 --> 00:46:55.960
 story.

00:46:56.880 --> 00:46:57.099
 She was

00:46:57.099 --> 00:46:57.480
 describing

00:46:57.480 --> 00:46:57.940
 forgiveness

00:46:57.940 --> 00:46:58.299
 not in

00:46:58.299 --> 00:46:58.679
 the abstract,

00:47:00.259 --> 00:47:01.380
 but in

00:47:01.380 --> 00:47:02.299
 the reality

00:47:02.299 --> 00:47:02.699
 of the

00:47:02.699 --> 00:47:03.159
 rawness,

00:47:04.460 --> 00:47:04.739
 of a

00:47:04.739 --> 00:47:04.980
 husband,

00:47:05.119 --> 00:47:05.340
 steal,

00:47:05.440 --> 00:47:05.500
 and

00:47:05.500 --> 00:47:05.799
 abandoned

00:47:05.799 --> 00:47:06.380
 wife kneeling

00:47:06.380 --> 00:47:06.860
 side by

00:47:06.860 --> 00:47:07.319
 side on

00:47:07.319 --> 00:47:07.599
 a living

00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:08.199
 room floor

00:47:08.199 --> 00:47:08.639
 praying.

00:47:08.639 --> 00:47:22.980
 God

00:47:22.980 --> 00:47:37.480
 comes and

00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:37.840
 identifies

00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:38.559
 with us.

00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:40.360
 We don't

00:47:40.360 --> 00:47:40.599
 have a

00:47:40.599 --> 00:47:41.000
 high priest

00:47:41.000 --> 00:47:41.159
 who is

00:47:41.159 --> 00:47:41.639
 unable to

00:47:41.639 --> 00:47:42.059
 sympathize

00:47:42.059 --> 00:47:42.280
 with our

00:47:42.280 --> 00:47:42.659
 weaknesses,

00:47:42.940 --> 00:47:43.159
 but we

00:47:43.159 --> 00:47:43.519
 have one

00:47:43.519 --> 00:47:43.719
 who has

00:47:43.719 --> 00:47:44.079
 been tempted

00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:44.500
 in every

00:47:44.500 --> 00:47:44.719
 way,

00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:45.099
 just as

00:47:45.099 --> 00:47:45.500
 we are,

00:47:46.019 --> 00:47:46.340
 and yet

00:47:46.340 --> 00:47:46.760
 was without

00:47:46.760 --> 00:47:47.139
 sin.

00:47:48.099 --> 00:47:48.420
 And yet

00:47:48.420 --> 00:47:48.900
 he became

00:47:48.900 --> 00:47:49.920
 sin for

00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:50.300
 us.

00:47:51.539 --> 00:47:51.980
 God

00:47:51.980 --> 00:47:52.300
 bridged

00:47:52.300 --> 00:47:52.740
 the gap.

00:47:53.619 --> 00:47:54.039
 He came

00:47:54.039 --> 00:47:55.219
 in and

00:47:55.219 --> 00:47:56.079
 forgave us.

00:47:57.679 --> 00:47:58.260
 He has

00:47:58.260 --> 00:47:58.719
 been there,

00:47:58.940 --> 00:47:59.320
 and he

00:47:59.320 --> 00:47:59.820
 knows and

00:47:59.820 --> 00:48:00.300
 understands.

00:48:00.699 --> 00:48:01.659
 And as

00:48:01.659 --> 00:48:02.000
 Jesus

00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:03.800
 recorded,

00:48:05.159 --> 00:48:05.500
 forgiveness

00:48:05.500 --> 00:48:06.119
 was not easy

00:48:06.119 --> 00:48:06.559
 for Jesus

00:48:06.559 --> 00:48:06.920
 either.

00:48:08.440 --> 00:48:08.859
 If it is

00:48:08.859 --> 00:48:09.159
 possible,

00:48:09.259 --> 00:48:09.519
 may this

00:48:09.519 --> 00:48:09.839
 cup be

00:48:09.839 --> 00:48:10.299
 taken from

00:48:10.299 --> 00:48:10.440
 me,

00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:10.679
 Jesus

00:48:10.679 --> 00:48:11.079
 prayed.

00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:12.920
 There was

00:48:12.920 --> 00:48:13.239
 no other

00:48:13.239 --> 00:48:13.539
 way.

00:48:14.519 --> 00:48:14.759
 And yet

00:48:14.759 --> 00:48:15.239
 he says,

00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:16.159
 in his

00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:17.019
 dying moments,

00:48:17.460 --> 00:48:18.019
 forgive them,

00:48:18.119 --> 00:48:18.619
 all of them,

00:48:18.639 --> 00:48:18.920
 the Roman

00:48:18.920 --> 00:48:19.279
 soldiers,

00:48:19.420 --> 00:48:19.779
 the religious

00:48:19.779 --> 00:48:20.099
 leaders,

00:48:20.219 --> 00:48:20.579
 the disciples

00:48:20.579 --> 00:48:21.039
 who fled

00:48:21.039 --> 00:48:21.559
 in darkness,

00:48:22.099 --> 00:48:22.319
 you,

00:48:22.699 --> 00:48:22.940
 me,

00:48:23.440 --> 00:48:24.059
 forgive them,

00:48:24.319 --> 00:48:24.859
 for they do

00:48:24.859 --> 00:48:25.420
 not know what

00:48:25.420 --> 00:48:25.900
 they are doing.

00:48:27.699 --> 00:48:28.099
 Let's

00:48:28.099 --> 00:48:28.319
 pray.

00:48:28.319 --> 00:48:28.380
 Amen.

00:48:33.980 --> 00:48:34.699
 Father God,

00:48:34.699 --> 00:48:35.099
 we know

00:48:35.099 --> 00:48:37.339
 that we

00:48:37.339 --> 00:48:37.599
 are a

00:48:37.599 --> 00:48:38.359
 people who

00:48:38.359 --> 00:48:41.099
 sometimes

00:48:41.099 --> 00:48:41.519
 are far

00:48:41.519 --> 00:48:41.919
 away from

00:48:41.919 --> 00:48:44.239
 you and

00:48:44.239 --> 00:48:44.639
 run in the

00:48:44.639 --> 00:48:44.799
 opposite

00:48:44.799 --> 00:48:45.279
 direction,

00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:46.480
 even though

00:48:46.480 --> 00:48:46.799
 you hold

00:48:46.799 --> 00:48:47.039
 out your

00:48:47.039 --> 00:48:47.399
 hands to

00:48:47.399 --> 00:48:47.699
 us.

00:48:48.980 --> 00:48:49.839
 And we

00:48:49.839 --> 00:48:50.239
 might take a

00:48:50.239 --> 00:48:50.679
 step forward

00:48:50.679 --> 00:48:51.119
 but then fall

00:48:51.119 --> 00:48:51.619
 back again.

00:48:53.359 --> 00:48:53.839
 And Father,

00:48:53.899 --> 00:48:54.359
 I know that in

00:48:54.359 --> 00:48:55.059
 my life too,

00:48:56.019 --> 00:48:57.019
 I have

00:48:57.019 --> 00:48:59.339
 failed to

00:48:59.339 --> 00:49:01.339
 continue to

00:49:01.339 --> 00:49:02.259
 follow you,

00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:04.039
 to seek

00:49:04.039 --> 00:49:04.619
 after you.

00:49:05.739 --> 00:49:06.300
 Forgive me,

00:49:06.440 --> 00:49:07.019
 forgive us.

00:49:09.320 --> 00:49:09.840
 Father,

00:49:09.900 --> 00:49:10.579
 we ask that

00:49:10.579 --> 00:49:11.679
 you would

00:49:11.679 --> 00:49:12.360
 help us to

00:49:12.360 --> 00:49:13.000
 remember not

00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:14.679
 to demand

00:49:14.679 --> 00:49:15.920
 or expect

00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:16.360
 or presume

00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:16.779
 upon your

00:49:16.779 --> 00:49:17.099
 forgiveness,

00:49:17.820 --> 00:49:19.019
 but to

00:49:19.019 --> 00:49:19.599
 receive it

00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:20.300
 from you

00:49:20.300 --> 00:49:21.659
 with humbled

00:49:21.659 --> 00:49:21.980
 awe.

00:49:23.940 --> 00:49:24.579
 And we

00:49:24.579 --> 00:49:25.079
 thank you

00:49:25.079 --> 00:49:26.639
 for this.

00:49:27.719 --> 00:49:28.159
 In Jesus'

00:49:28.300 --> 00:49:28.519
 name we

00:49:28.519 --> 00:49:28.779
 pray.

00:49:29.340 --> 00:49:29.659
 Amen.