God Speaks Tenderly to Sinful Hearts (Hosea 2:14)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 29 October 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Pray the Word on Hosea 2:14, David Platt teaches us that even in our sin, God allures us with His grace and mercy.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:30.3 | Idolatry, their immorality, their spiritual adultery, how they have gone after all sorts of |
| 0:37.0 | the language in verse 13 is lovers in the world, all the things of this world to try to satisfy |
| 0:42.2 | them, how they've turned away from God and how they deserve his just and holy judgment. |
| 0:49.6 | That's 13 verses and it's piercing the picture of their sin and how much they deserve judgment. |
| 0:56.4 | And then you get to Hosea 2 verse 14 and the Bible says, therefore, so in light of all of |
| 1:02.1 | the sin, idolatry, immorality, spiritual adultery, we read the word therefore, we expect, okay, |
| 1:08.3 | here's the judgment coming, but listen to what God says. Therefore, in light of all of this, |
| 1:14.0 | I will allure her and I will bring her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her. |
| 1:21.6 | Is that not an amazing verse? God's people deserving God's judgment and he says in light of your |
| 1:27.9 | sin against me, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to allure you what a word, allure, |
| 1:34.0 | captivate you with my love. I'm going to pour out my affection on you in such a way that you |
| 1:40.2 | would be drawn to me. I'm going to allure you. I'm going to bring you into the wilderness in order. |
| 1:46.4 | In other words, I'm going to pull you aside and speak tenderly to you. Praise God for his grace |
| 1:55.2 | and his mercy towards sinners like you and me. We don't deserve the allurement of a holy God. We |
| 2:02.7 | deserve the judgment of a holy God. We don't deserve to be spoken tenderly to by a holy God who |
| 2:09.5 | hates sin. We deserve to be cast out and condemned forever. Yet God in his grace and in his mercy |
| 2:19.2 | chooses to allure us to bring us aside from the stuff of this world that destroys us and to speak |
| 2:26.1 | tenderly to our hearts. This is the gospel. We deserve eternal judgment before a holy God. |
| 2:32.8 | And God, you want to talk about allurement. He has sent his son Jesus God in flesh to bear |
| 2:39.2 | our judgment in our place on a cross to rise after dying for our sin from the grave to make it |
| 2:46.8 | possible for us to be forgiven of all of our sin and united with him and relationship with him |
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