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Lesson Summary:

Hosea warns Israel that its shameless idolatry will lead to severe judgment.

Focus Passage: Hosea 2:1-13.

Outline and Lesson Goal

Principles and Applications

I. Israel’s Shameless Idolatry (Hosea 2:1-8)

Principle: God will not tolerate Unfaithfulness in His People.
Application: In what ways are you following after other gods/idols? How are you being unfaithful to the Lord?
Scripture Reference

⁷Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.
⁸For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Galatians 6:7-8 (NASB)

II. Israel’s Severe Judgment (Hosea 2:9-13)

Principle: God will discipline His People because He loves them.
Application: In what ways is God trying to get your attention and calling on you to repent?
Scripture Reference

⁵and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by Him;
⁶For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, And He scourges every son whom He receives.”
Hebrews 12:5-6 (NASB)