Hosea 2:14-23

There is something profoundly shocking about the love of God. The covenant Lord restores His unfaithful people by wounding, wooing, renaming and securing them in everlasting marital grace.

Matthew 7:13-14

Christ the Covenant King confronts every hearer, those present on the Mount, those present this morning, with the absolute necessity of entering the narrow gate of sovereign grace, for only through union with Him can sinners escape destruction and inherit eternal life.

Hosea 2:1-13

Covenant love refuses to die.

Matthew 7:12-14

Those who have received the grace of God must actively extend that grace to others in every relationship of life.

Song of Solomon 3:1-4

God's love in the scripture is often characterized as a parental love, but it's also characterized with marriage language, the love of spouses.

Matthew 7:7-11

Because the righteousness required by Christ exceeds human ability, the king of the covenant calls his people, the people of the covenant, to seek from their heavenly Father the grace necessary to live the life of the kingdom.

Hosea 1:2-10

Hosea reveals that persistent covenant rebellion invokes divine covenant sanctions -historical judgment, withdrawal of mercy, and a relational disowning.

Matthew 7:1-6

Jesus is not abolishing judgment. He's redeeming it. One of the deepest sins of the human heart is our desire to sit in God's seat, where God and God alone belongs. while we forget our own desperate need for daily mercy from that same holy and righteous God. These verses here, you'll see, confront religious pride.

Hosea 1:1-3

Hosea 1:1-3, reveals through a prophetic sign-act that Israel's adultery is covenant adultery, and that God's sovereign, electing love pursues an unfaithful people. God's sovereign, electing love pursues unfaithful people. It is a love ultimately fulfilled in Jesus Christ, the faithful bridegroom.

Matthew 6:25-34

Because our sovereign covenant Father knows our needs, rules our future, and has secured us in Christ, corrosive worry is sinful unbelief, and we must replace it with kingdom-first trust expressed in prayerful dependence.