We return now to our series in the book of Hosea. This message is a refresher and review of where we have been. The Lord tells Hosea to marry Gomer, an adulterous wife, and gives him three children whose names are bad news to Israel.
Peter demonstrated to the crowds in Jerusalem on Pentecost that Jesus was the Messiah and was risen from the dead.
We read through Matthew 26-27 and include hymns on the crucifixion.
We must be on guard against the many false gospels prevalent around us today. Measuring a teaching against Jesus' description of the Narrow Way vs the Broadway is an excellent means of doing so.
God created man male and female. We are confronted in this fallen world with all kinds of perversions of gender and sexuality.
The civil authorities are established by God for our good and for striking fear into the lawless. Sometimes the Christian must choose to disobey the ruler in order to obey God.
The apostate has been shown, by the Spirit, the goodness of Christ in the gospel preached.
The apostate has received gracious gifts of the Holy Spirit, yet ends up despising them and falling away.
Being "enlightened" by the Holy Spirit through the preaching of the gospel is not in itself the new birth. Many have received this great privilege and yet, through carelessness and unbelief, ended in apostasy.
Jesus warned us that we can expect wars and other cataclysms to characterize this present world in which we live. We are not to be deceived by false prophets nor are we to be fearful.
