Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it.

Hey friends, welcome back to another week of a year in the Bible. My name was Alexa, and I'm joined

for my co-host, Beth.

Everyone, so this week we're going to be studying Hosea 1, 2 through 3, 3, 1 through 5, and then also Ephesians 5, 25 through 32. And we are going to learn that God's faithfulness to his people

is reflected through Christ giving up himself for the church.

Yes.

So we are going to start that study today by talking about the annotation day on Hosea 1, 2, 3, and 3, 1 through 5.

I'll go ahead and read the first Hosea passage, and then I'll have you read the second one, Beth.

When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, he said this to him.

Go and marry a woman of promiscuity and have children of promiscuity, where the land is committing blatant acts of

promiscuity by abandoning the Lord. So he went and married Gomer, daughter of de Blame, and she conceived

and bore him a son. And the Lord said to me, go again, show love to a woman who is loved by another man

and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love

raisin cakes. So, I bought her for 15 shekels of silver and nine bushels of barley. I said to her,

you were to live with me many days. You must not be promiscuous or belong to any man,

and I will act the same way toward you. For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince,

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