How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Have you heard about the husband whose wife ran away twice into a life of prostitution and then sold

herself into slavery? But her husband, ever faithful, paid the price to buy her back? Welcome to Through the

Bible. You'll hear more about this story as Dr. J. Verna McGee finishes his introduction to the Old

Testament book of Hosea. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for your

grace that saves us. Open our hearts to hear your timeless message of mercy no matter how far we've run.

In Jesus' name, amen. Well, we're off to Hosea on Through the Bible with Dr. J. Verne-McKeigh.

I probably should have said this last time, but I want to say it today.

The message that you will listen to today, the conclusion of it, was a sermon.

A sermon I gave some time ago.

But you must remember it's a sermon and not just a Bible study. There are those that

think that my method of preaching and my method of teaching is entirely different. I never felt

so myself personally, but if you distinguish that difference, it's simply because of the fact that this was a sermon

that was given before, a congregation of, I'm confident, 3,000 or more people besides a radio

audience at that time. Now, I want to come back and talk a little about this man, Josea, because we are going to talk about him again in the message today.

But I want to think of him in connection with the prophet Jeremiah.

As we indicated last time, Jeremiah stood actually at the very end of the time of the nation, Judah.

He predicted their captivity and they went in the captivity.

Josea is the prophet to the northern kingdom, and actually he prophesied long before Jeremiah and he said practically the same

thing to them you find that the experience of these men are very similar in many ways both of

these men spoke with a broken heart.

Jeremiah was told never to marry.

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