Amen. And amen. And good evening. You welcome. You can be seated. So glad you're here tonight. How you doing? Bless? I know. You kind of get a little Pentecostal on that hymn. That was pretty cool, actually. That's a good hymn to get Pentecost along too, yeah.

Those of you online, we're so glad that you're joining with us as well.

We're taking two more chapters tonight in our study through the book of Josea, which we

began last week.

And it's going to be kind of interesting because the first three

chapters are actually establishing this similarity this comparison is literally

though not hyperbole this comparison of the wife of God, being Israel,

and her unfaithfulness, her adultery, but yet God's faithfulness in the midst of her faithlessness.

So God literally has Josea, the prophet, marry a prostitute as a visual prophecy to picture the relationship that God had with his people Israel.

His people Israel were hoaring after these other gods, committing adultery, playing the harlot.

And so, Josea, very interesting man,

obedient to God, if you can imagine how hard that must have been,

I want you to marry a prostitute so that I can have a visual and literal prophecy for you to prophesy to my wife, who will be like your wife, will be pictured in your adulterous wife, because my wife Israel has been adulterous.

So the first three chapters that we're going to, chapter three is actually very short tonight.

We're going to see now the end of it and actually apparently she leaves him and God I'm kind of getting ahead of myself

tells her tells Jose to go back and get her see I totally would have done that listen I could

take a hit you want to leave I have grounds for divorce here. Bye. But not Josea.

So you see it on the screen and I hope you don't tire of me saying this, but the title

that I choose for these expositional teachings is synonymous with the takeaway from these

expositional teachings. And I want to draw your attention to two particular words in the

title that I chose for tonight's Bible study. And the two words are mercy and restore.

Mercy and restore. God in his mercy, his love, will restore you as we're about to

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