By the time we've finished today's episode, which is more of God's judgment, more negativity,

but by the time we get done, you're going to see a wonderful silver lining that even in God's

judgments, there's always hope. Welcome to Everyday Truth with Kurt Skelly. We believe the Bible is true and relevant to everyone,

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Hey friends, welcome back. Appreciate you coming today to the studio here in Fredericksburg, Virginia. I'd love to show you the studio one day. There's not much to it. I've got actually a lot of clutter in this room right now, but what you see looks great. Isn't that

the way we do in life? We present only the best angle, and that's what we're doing here today. But

I'm glad that when we look at the Word of God, we're seeing God's angle. And that's the best

angle to see. So there we go. We're in Hosea chapter 9.

We're going to finish the chapter today. Verse number 14 is a tough verse. It says, give them,

O Lord, what wilt thou give? So interesting construction. Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give?

And I've read several commentators on this verse. And it seems as if what Jose is doing here is he is growing angry with the Lord.

Like he's seeing, because think about it,

he's the mouthpiece of the Lord.

He's giving people the messages.

He's the mailman, right?

He's delivering these messages to God's people.

So if anybody knows the rejection that God's people are giving to the word,

Josea does, because he's on the receiving end of it, and then add to that the fact that

Jose is living it. He's living this kind of rejection with his own wife and God has told him that's what I feel.

So if anybody is feeling the heart of God right now, it is Josea.

And I'll say this, that that's a good thing.

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