S4:212 Hosea 1-7
Join The Journey
Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
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🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
What’s the significance of the names God gives Hosea’s children—and how do they connect to Israel’s spiritual condition? 2. Why does Hosea buy his wife back in chapter 3—and what does that reveal about covenant love in the context of betrayal?
Additional references: 2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Kings 9; Romans 3:23-25
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| 0:00.0 | All right, all right, join the Journey family, friends, and guests. You're listening to Join the Journey |
| 0:06.0 | podcast with your host, Emma, daughter. Thanks for joining. Today, we are reading Hosea 1 through 7, |
| 0:12.7 | and I am in the podcast studio with today's Devo writer, Aubrey Weiser. Howdy? |
| 0:18.6 | Aubrey, it's so good to have you here. Thanks for coming on. Would you just |
| 0:23.3 | share a little bit about what God's done in your life and then what you're up to today? |
| 0:27.1 | Absolutely. So I was raised in Oklahoma and I'm the youngest of four. My parents are still up there |
| 0:34.9 | along with most of my siblings, which is really sweet. I have a brother that just moved to Avalene, Texas. |
| 0:39.5 | Nice. So that's so fun. I grew up, raised in the church, but I would say I did not have a true |
| 0:44.6 | understanding of God until I moved to Dallas in 2020 post-college during COVID. During COVID, wow. |
| 0:52.5 | Yeah, yeah, kind of crazy. But the Lord, he knows all things. And so I moved |
| 0:56.6 | to Dallas in 2020 and immediately got plugged in to regeneration with Watermark. And through that, |
| 1:03.4 | I came to a true understanding of the gospel for the first time, where it was, I think, step three, |
| 1:10.4 | that I was driving home after step group, |
| 1:13.0 | and I just was weeping and asked the Lord to fully forgive me of my sins and fully came to the |
| 1:19.5 | realization, to the end of myself, really. |
| 1:21.8 | And he met me there and in his kindness saved me. |
| 1:25.5 | Praise God. |
| 1:26.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.8 | Since then, the Lord has just transformed my life. |
| 1:30.1 | Second Corinthians 318 says, |
| 1:32.6 | for we with unveiled face beholding the glory of God are being transformed into his image |
| 1:36.1 | from one degree of glory to another. |
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