SURROUNDED Charles Haddon Spurgeon: Though my thought be invisible to the sight, though as yet I be not myself cognizant of the shape it is assuming, yet thou hast it under thy consideration, and thou perceivest its nature, its source, its drift, its result. Never dost thou misjudge or wrongly interpret me: my inmost thought is … [Read More...] Hosea 6:11-7:7

TORN Jeremy Taylor: It is the greatest and dearest blessing that ever God gave to men, that they may repent; and therefore to deny or to delay it is to refuse health when brought by the skill of the physician - to refuse liberty offered to us by our gracious Lord. Hosea 6:1-10 “Come, let … [Read More...] Hosea 6:1-10

SICK John Calvin: It is the beginning of healing, when men consider the cause of their disease.   Hosea 5:8-15 Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm at Beth-aven; we follow you, O Benjamin! Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I make … [Read More...] Hosea 5:8-15

WITHDRAWN Matthew Henry: By dealing treacherously with the Lord, men only deceive themselves. Those that go to seek the Lord with their flocks and their herds only, and not with their hearts and souls, cannot expect to find him; nor shall any speed who do not seek the Lord while he may be found. Hosea 5:1-7 … [Read More...] Hosea 5:1-7

STUBBORN John Calvin: Every one of us is, even from his mother’s womb, a master craftsman of idols.   Hosea 4:12-19 My people inquire of a piece of wood, and their walking staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the whore. They … [Read More...] Hosea 4:12-19

GREEDY C.S. Lewis: You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.   Hosea 4:7-11 The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame. They feed on the sin of my people; they are greedy … [Read More...] Hosea 4:7-11

DESTROYED Pastor Lutzer: Those who love the Law of God are better off than those who have everything else, but ignore the Law of God.   Hosea 4:1-6 Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or … [Read More...] Hosea 4:1-6

REDEEMED C.S. Lewis: No creature that deserved redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician.   Hosea 3:1-5 And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they … [Read More...] Hosea 3:1-5

BETROTHED John Calvin: Let us then know, that whenever we are deprived of the sense of God’s favour, the way has been closed up through our fault; for God would ever be disposed willingly to show kindness, except our contumacy and hardness stood in the way. But when he sees us so subdued as to be … [Read More...] Hosea 2:14-23

FORGOTTEN Harry Ironside: Such is the marvelous lovingkindness of our God that He finds the objects of His love, not among the righteous and the holy, but among sinners lost and ruined. Hosea 2:1-13 “Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband— that she put away her … [Read More...] Hosea 2:1-13