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Hosea, Pt 2: Destroyed By a Lack of Knowledge
By: Curtis Baker
As we continue on with our study of the Minor Prophets, I want to spend one more week with you in the book of Hosea. Last week we examined the strange command that God gave Hosea to marry a prostitute. We saw in this that Hosea’s personal experience fleshed out the experience of God with his people, as God tried to draw them back from the corrupt lovers that Israel had given herself to. Hosea’s own personal experience of marrying an unfaithful woman brought firsthand knowledge of what God experienced as his people were unfaithful to him time and time again. Just as Hosea lovingly endured the unfaithfulness and called his wife back to him, so also has God repeatedly endured the unfaithfulness of his people, only to patiently call them back. This drama takes up the first three chapters of Hosea and sets up the major themes of the book. But there is much more to Hosea than his own personal story of love and betrayal. All of this is merely a prelude to the remaining eleven chapters of the book.
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The Thing About Rules (Rom 7:7-13)
By: Curtis Baker
People often conceive of religion as simply a system of rules. If you are predisposed to like religion, then you might find the rules helpful and necessary to living a good life. If you are not, then you might see the rules as a hindrance to your fun and self-fulfillment. In either perspective, what matters is that there are rules, and the question is whether they are to be obeyed or defied. But while it is true that religion, and the Christian religion in particular, does have certain rules to govern behavior, it would be a mistake to think that keeping the rules is all that religion amounts to. Indeed, if we follow what the apostle Paul says here in Romans 7, we see that rules alone have rather strange consequences.
Once again, this section of Paul’s teaching is hard to follow, but here is basically what he says in these verses: “Rules actually provoke people to sin further!” Can you believe that? Maybe I need to state it again so that you don’t think it was a typo. “Rules provoke people to sin further!” That is what Paul says as he continues his discussion of the law in 7:7-13.