Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon. I'm Tanya Wilmouth.

And I'm Patrick Miller.

On today's episode we have a special guest sharing his favorite verse, Dr. Brian Luretz.

He is the president and founder of the Kainas movement. He's a teaching pastor at Summit Church and the author of several books which have made a big influence on my life. One of my favorites is right color wrong culture. I'm really excited for you to learn from Dr. Luritz today.

Hey Brian Luritz here and it is such a delight to share my favorite verse or actually I should say verses on this

the crossing podcast it's a section of scripture that is tucked away in the book of

hossa hossa chapter 3 it's one of the shorter chapters in the Bible it is a chapter

where we get a big picture as relates to God's heart for His people and specifically around this whole idea of what it looks like to love.

I've been marinating in this passage, gosh, for about five years and I just can't get away from it

if you're familiar with the book of hosaia it's God just

saying, saying,

in regard to his people to Jose

and him just saying,

I'm in covenant relationship with my people and yet they keep cheating on me by their

hoaring his words, hoaring after other gods. That's true of us. Every time we sin, sin isn't just

sin. Sin is spiritual adultery and

idolatry. It is us saying God you are not enough and I am going to sidestep this relationship and I am going to find

fulfillment independent of you in a lot of ways that's what happens literally when a

person commits adultery. They sidestep their covenant partner

God's gift to them and they say I'm going to find fulfillment on my own terms outside of God's provision for my life.

I love the next step God takes and God's saying in so many words I've got every right to divorce

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