Grace and the Unexpected Reversal

GRACE WILL LEAD ME HOME

Grace and the Unexpected Reversal

Hosea 11:1-11

Our Heavenly Father’s Photo Album

The Early Years:

Hosea 11:1 (NIV) — “When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.”

Hosea 11:4b (NIV) — “. . . To them I was like one who lifts a little child to the cheek, and I bent down to feed them.”

The Dark Years:

Hosea 11:2 (NIV) — “But the more they were called, the more they went away from me. They sacrificed to the Baals and they burned incense to images.”

Hosea 11:7 (NIV) — “My people are determined to turn from me . . .”

The Present Moment: A for

Hosea 11:8b (NIV) — “. . . My heart is changed within me; all my compassion is aroused.”

Hosea 11:9 (NIV) — “I will not carry out my fierce anger . . . For I am God, and not a man — the Holy One among you.”

Matthew 2:15 (NIV) — “. . . where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: ‘Out of Egypt I called my son.’”