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. Hi, friends, welcome back to Year in the

Bible. I'm Alexa, and I'm here with my co-host, Beth. Hey, everyone. So today we're going to connect the Old and New Testament passage that we've been studying this week together.

And we're going to connect them to Christ.

So Alexa, can you help us see how these passages do that?

Yes.

Just a reminder of what we talked about earlier this week with Josea, the Israelites were being an adulterous people

by breaking their covenant with God and being unfaithful to him by unifying themselves to other

gods, worshipping them instead of the one true God with whom they were in a covenantal relationship.

God pursued his people even in their unfaithfulness and promised to restore them back to himself.

We get a glimpse of this when God restores a remnant of God's people back to their land and in

worship to Him, but ultimately, God's promises of restoration are fulfilled in Christ.

All of us essentially act as the unfaithful Israelites. In our sin, we turn away from God to pursue other loves,

but God doesn't leave us in that condition. He pursued us in love by sending his son to die in

our place and to bring us to himself. And it's through Christ that we not only have our spiritual

adultery forgiven, but we are bound to God in Christ in a permanent union.

I really love the marriage analogy here. I think it helps explain our relationship to God so well.

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