Hosea, the prophet of God, who's name means savior or deliverer was sent to Israel, (to the northern kingdom, the 10 tribes) to call them to repentance for their sins of idolatry. It was a time of prosperity and faithlessness in Israel. God would shock the people of Israel in Hosea's marriage to a woman who was a harlot. His marriage to Gomer was to show the people of Israel what they were doing to Him! But in all of Hosea's prophecy, we see God's unwavering love for His covenant people! He would not leave nor forsake them.

Christ, by His own blood entered once into the holy place (in heaven) having obtained eternal redemption for us, this by His blood. Christ accomplished what no Levitical Priest could do, nor could eternal redemption be obtained with the blood of bulls and goats. All of the sacrifices and ordinances of the Old Covenant could only make the comers ceremonially and outwardly clean, but only by Christ are we made inwardly cleansed in our hearts! Now in Christ, we have eternal redemption, through Him who through the eternal Spirit, offered Himself without spot to God. All those who have been redeemed by Christ, have an eternal inheritance in heaven.

First: God is victoriously seat in the heavens having conquered His enemies. Second: God, who is sitting in the heavens laughs at His enemies, and Thirdly, God will have His enemies in derision or He shall mock at those that would fight against Him.

Jesus gives us a warning. We must not trifle with our sins, but we must be ruthless with our sins, casting them from our lives. If we do not kill our sins, our sins will take us down.

God's awesome and unlimited power is hard to comprehend. And yet, He is all-powerful. God is in this passage called, my Rock, my Fortress, my Deliverer, The God of my rick, in Him will I trust. All of us should be able to say what David says here.

The writer continues after teaching the better promises of the New Covenant, and now by showing the excellence of the New Covenant, by showing the weakness and insufficiency of the Old Covenant and its ordinance. And then there's this extraordinary truth, in the Old Covenant sacrifices, there was a remembrance of sins every year. And then there was this, under the old covenant there was a remembrance of your sins every year, but not under the New Covenant. God promised, your sins and your iniquities, will I remember no more.

In this passage, the Apostles were arguing among themselves about who among them would be the greatest. Jesus taught them that greatness in the Kingdom of heaven is not like the proud greatness in the world. Trying to be first in the world is not the greatness in Christ's Kingdom. There's always a desire to be number one, but Christ taught His disciples, the last would be first, and the first would be last.

James having taught us about an untamed tongue now teaches us about two wisdoms. One from above and the other from beneath. You will know what is the prominent wisdom of your life by how you behave and conduct yourself in this world.

Mary, a young and faithful virgin, who lived in Nazareth of Galilee was greatly honored to be chosen by God to carry the Christ into the world, and to be mother to the Son of God. One cannot overstate what she must have felt within her heart, we read her song of praise when she visited her cousin Elisabeth, who was herself partaking of a miraculous birth in John the Baptist. But again, it cannot be overstated that Mary would conceive and carry the Savior of the world into the world. The salvation of Israel that she had long waited for would come into the world through her own body. The Word was made flesh within her very flesh.

This is a Messianic Psalm which speaks prophetically of how God's enemies raged against Jesus, the Anointed King.