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Seek Me and live, says the Lord

We look at Hosea 14 in this message. Hosea was a contemporary prophet of Amos, Jonah, Joel, Micah and Isaiah

"By His Stripes...I am healed"

Lost, not found, blind and unable to see, until I met the only King that ever died for me. Wounded and bruised He gave Himself for me, living to die, that He might rescue and set us free.

Bleeding and burdened He laid upon that tree, yielding His life to His Father and shedding His blood for me, to forgive and heal wretched sinners, people like you and me.

Nick Holden

(Hosea 14:4 & Isaiah 53:5)

Blessings my friends, Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe...

Jeremiah 3

Get Right — Fed Right

The context has to do with backsliding, unfaithfulness, treachery and wandering (or as the passage refers to her/them as gadding/going about with no purpose). I think Chapter 3 helps us see the picture and emphasis on the new thing God's referring to... it was foreign or shameful for a woman to "come back" to her husband if she ran off with other lovers. And when a divorce was given and she took on a new man, the law forbid the first husband to take her back (it would defile the land). But God said he would take her (Israel/Judah/Church back, in spite of her unfaithfulness. Though He wrote her a divorce... and sending her into the dispersion/Babylon He would take her back (also pictured in Hosea).

So "the woman shall come back to the man..." in this new thing under this new covenant God of grace that He showing them and will fulfill in Christ. And this message was a message of hope... grace was freeing them from the bondage of the law. This word was truth that wou