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It's Complicated
Jeremy Jernigan
Hosea 1:2-3
1) Welcome to Central!
a) Today is a special weekend with the launch of Ahwatukee!
b) How many of you made New Year's Resolutions this year?
c) How many of you are still going on them?
d) Open in your journals to week 2
e) Title today is ''It's Complicated''
2) Life can be confusing at times
a) Our technology reflects this
b) There are 11 options for your Facebook relationship status
i) Picture - Facebook Relationships 1
ii) The one that has intrigued many people is called ''it's complicated''
(1) Picture - Facebook Relationships 2
(2) ''Refers to a couple in an ambiguous state between 'friends' and 'in a relationship.' May also be used to indicate dissatisfaction with an existing relationship.'' Urban dictionary
3) Question: if you had to pick a status of your relationship with God, which one would you choose?
a) If we are honest, I think many of us would put our status as ''it's complicated'' when it comes to God
i) We don't feel the commitment of ''married''
ii) But we don't want the isolation of ''single''
b) I can think of no book in the Bible that illustrates this better than the book of Hosea
i) Open your Bibles to Hosea
ii) Toward the back of the Old Testament right after Daniel
iii) Hosea is a prophet of God and his name means ''salvation''
iv) God asks Hosea to do something that He had never asked a prophet to do, and hasn't asked another since
4) Hosea 1:2-3 ''When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, ''Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord.'' 3 So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.''
a) Does this catch anyone else off guard a bit?
i) God wants His prophet to do what?
(1) Marry a prostitute?
(2) Marry a woman named Gomer!
(3) Picture - Gomer Pyle
ii) Talk about complicated!
iii) Video clip - magic trick
b) F ...
Jeremy Jernigan
Hosea 1:2-3
1) Welcome to Central!
a) Today is a special weekend with the launch of Ahwatukee!
b) How many of you made New Year's Resolutions this year?
c) How many of you are still going on them?
d) Open in your journals to week 2
e) Title today is ''It's Complicated''
2) Life can be confusing at times
a) Our technology reflects this
b) There are 11 options for your Facebook relationship status
i) Picture - Facebook Relationships 1
ii) The one that has intrigued many people is called ''it's complicated''
(1) Picture - Facebook Relationships 2
(2) ''Refers to a couple in an ambiguous state between 'friends' and 'in a relationship.' May also be used to indicate dissatisfaction with an existing relationship.'' Urban dictionary
3) Question: if you had to pick a status of your relationship with God, which one would you choose?
a) If we are honest, I think many of us would put our status as ''it's complicated'' when it comes to God
i) We don't feel the commitment of ''married''
ii) But we don't want the isolation of ''single''
b) I can think of no book in the Bible that illustrates this better than the book of Hosea
i) Open your Bibles to Hosea
ii) Toward the back of the Old Testament right after Daniel
iii) Hosea is a prophet of God and his name means ''salvation''
iv) God asks Hosea to do something that He had never asked a prophet to do, and hasn't asked another since
4) Hosea 1:2-3 ''When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, ''Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord.'' 3 So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.''
a) Does this catch anyone else off guard a bit?
i) God wants His prophet to do what?
(1) Marry a prostitute?
(2) Marry a woman named Gomer!
(3) Picture - Gomer Pyle
ii) Talk about complicated!
iii) Video clip - magic trick
b) F ...
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