EVERYBODY’S SERMON
Hosea 1:2
Hosea
37 sermons on Hosea
THE LORD’S OWN SALVATION
Hosea 1:7 — "But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen."
STRANGE WAYS OF LOVE
Hosea 2:14 — "Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her."
STRANGE DISPENSATIONS AND MATCHLESS CONSOLATIONS
Hosea 2:14 — "Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her."
THE BACKSLIDER’S DOOR OF HOPE
Hosea 2:15 — "And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt."
A DOOR OF HOPE
Hosea 2:15 — "The valley of Achor for a door of hope."
THE CLIMAX OF GOD’S LOVE
Hosea 2:16 — "And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name."
GOD’S WORK IN MAN
Hosea 2:16 — "And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name."
GOD’S PEOPLE, OR NOT GOD’S PEOPLE
Hosea 2:23 — "I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God."
THE SILKEN FETTER
Hosea 3:5 — "Fear the Lord and his goodness."
A FEAR TO BE DESIRED
Hosea 3:5 — "And shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days."
LET HIM ALONE
Hosea 4:17 — "Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone."
A CAUTION FOR SIN-SICK SOULS
Hosea 5:13 — "When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to King Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound."
THE PRESENT CRISIS
Hosea 5:15 — "I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early."
OUR MISERIES, MESSENGERS OF MERCY
Hosea 6:1 — "Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days he will revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight."
REASONS FOR TURNING TO THE LORD*
Hosea 6:1 — "Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight."
THE BLESSINGS OF FOLLOWING ON
Hosea 6:3 — "Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth."
THE ROUGH HEWER
Hosea 6:4 — "O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth."
GREY HAIRS
Hosea 7:9 — "Gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not."
A SILLY DOVE
Hosea 7:11 — "Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart"
THE MINISTER’S TRUMPET-BLAST AND CHURCH-MEMBER’S WARNING
Hosea 8:1 — "Set the trumpet to thy month. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee."
“WHAT SHALL THE HARVEST BE?”
Hosea 8:7 — "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up."
THE BIBLE
Hosea 8:12 — "I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing."
A DIVIDED HEART
Hosea 10:2 — "Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty."
THE DIVIDED HEART
Hosea 10:2 — "Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty."
SOW TO YOURSELVES
Hosea 10:12 — "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy."
THE DUTY OF THE PRESENT HOUR
Hosea 10:12 — "Break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you."
AN URGENT NECESSITY
Hosea 10:12 — "It is time to seek the Lord till he come and rain righteousness upon you."
BANDS OF LOVE
Hosea 11:4 — "I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them."
“GOD, AND NOT MAN,”-WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
Hosea 11:9 — "I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man."
EVERYBODY’S SERMON
Hosea 12:10 — "I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes."
SELF-DESTROYED, YET SAVED
Hosea 13:9 — "O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help."
CONSOLATION FROM RESURRECTION
Hosea 13:14 — "I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes."
THE ORPHAN’S FATHER
Hosea 14:3 — "For in thee the fatherless findeth mercy."
GRACE ABOUNDING
Hosea 14:4 — "I will love them freely."
THE BEAUTY OF THE OLIVE TREE
Hosea 14:6 — "His beauty shall be as the olive tree."
WHERE TO FIND FRUIT
Hosea 14:8 — "From me is thy fruit found."
THE GREAT CHANGE
Hosea 14:8 — "Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found."