When God Turns His Back
Ed Young
Hosea 9:1-17
If a man couldn't preach after that, he ought to turn in his polyester suit and his hair spray. Thank you, choir. You always speak to our hearts. Hope you have your Bibles open to the book of Hosea. We've been studying Hosea for a long time, and everybody can tell you about the first three chapters, but most of us are biblically ignorant about the final eleven chapters of this tremendous, tremendous study in God's Word. We're in Hosea, Chapter Number 9.
Let's bow for prayer together. ''Father, we seek Thy truth. Let it be penetrating and accurate as it deals with those areas of our lives that need exposure to the light. You speak. Let me get out of the way so that Thy Word and Thy message alone might be heard, it might be received, Thy truth might be understood and incorporated into our living. For we make this prayer through Jesus Christ, our blessed Lord. Amen.''
There are times in our lives and periods in history when all the facts seem to be on the side of the irreligious. We look at one catastrophe after another, we go through personal suffering, heartache, frustration, and death, and sickness, and finally we get to the point though we may never verbalize it, we ask it a million and one times inside our hearts and inside our minds, ''God, where are You?'' ''God, if You are there anywhere, speak! Do something! Let me know that You're around.'' And in spite of church and hymns and prayer
honest, would say, ''God, where are You?'' We would ask the question the psalmist asked in Psalm 22, ''Where is thy God?'' Life is empty, sin is rampant, depression is overbearing... ''I need God...Where is God?'' Francis Schaeffer has written a book entitled, The God Who is There. It's a legitimate title. Because in one sense, God is always there, He's always here, He's always everywhere, but in another sense, there comes those occasions in the lives of even the greatest saints among us, and they would stand and s ...
Ed Young
Hosea 9:1-17
If a man couldn't preach after that, he ought to turn in his polyester suit and his hair spray. Thank you, choir. You always speak to our hearts. Hope you have your Bibles open to the book of Hosea. We've been studying Hosea for a long time, and everybody can tell you about the first three chapters, but most of us are biblically ignorant about the final eleven chapters of this tremendous, tremendous study in God's Word. We're in Hosea, Chapter Number 9.
Let's bow for prayer together. ''Father, we seek Thy truth. Let it be penetrating and accurate as it deals with those areas of our lives that need exposure to the light. You speak. Let me get out of the way so that Thy Word and Thy message alone might be heard, it might be received, Thy truth might be understood and incorporated into our living. For we make this prayer through Jesus Christ, our blessed Lord. Amen.''
There are times in our lives and periods in history when all the facts seem to be on the side of the irreligious. We look at one catastrophe after another, we go through personal suffering, heartache, frustration, and death, and sickness, and finally we get to the point though we may never verbalize it, we ask it a million and one times inside our hearts and inside our minds, ''God, where are You?'' ''God, if You are there anywhere, speak! Do something! Let me know that You're around.'' And in spite of church and hymns and prayer
honest, would say, ''God, where are You?'' We would ask the question the psalmist asked in Psalm 22, ''Where is thy God?'' Life is empty, sin is rampant, depression is overbearing... ''I need God...Where is God?'' Francis Schaeffer has written a book entitled, The God Who is There. It's a legitimate title. Because in one sense, God is always there, He's always here, He's always everywhere, but in another sense, there comes those occasions in the lives of even the greatest saints among us, and they would stand and s ...
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