Amazing Love Series

iii. Gomer seemed in the story ambivalent to Hosea because she leaves after having three children and re-enters her sexual slavery. Not sure why other than she did not want to remain faithful to her loving husband.

b. Gomer’s lifestyle sends a few messages:

i. Unfaithfulness damages our integrity but does not necessarily prevent someone else from loving us in spite of our failures.

1. God loves us in spite of our past sins and desires a loving relationship with us if we choose to repent and turn away from sinful lifestyles.

3. God – God the Father is involved in this relationship with Hosea and Gomer – He puts it together and He uses it as a teaching tool to the nation of Israel, and even to us today and to our loveless world.

a. God has established an amazing love relationship with us- He pursues that love relationship with us daily and He wants it because He loves us.

b. He proved his love for us by sending His son Jesus to die on the cross for us and our sins. He did this so that we could be bought back out of the life of slavery to sin and be restored to right relationship with our loving Heavenly Father – God.

c. God is committed to loving us even though we sin but He will forgive us if we repent and ask for forgiveness.

T.S. - Love that is spoken of in the Bible is an “Amazing Love” it’s a love that astounds others, astonishes others, wows others and makes others look on in amazement!

II. The power of love is what makes love so amazing (John 3:16; 15:9; 15:12)!

a. The power of love restored a world back to right relationship with God the Father.

i. Romans 8:37:

1. 37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

a. God loved us before we ever loved Him and He pursues a love relationship with us.

b. Some people think that God is out to get them or punish him but thevtruth is God wants a love relationship with you.

ii. 1 John 4:7-12:

1. 7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

2. Amazing love is a God thing its actually His very nature to love.

3. His love is an amazing love that comes with divine power behind it.

iii. The power of Love:

1. The power of love defeated death.

2. The power of love crushed the head of evil.

3. The power of love unleashed forgiveness and grace to a hopeless world.

4. The power of love brought back hope and happiness.

5. The power of love changed people’s destinies.

6. The power of love set you and I free too!

a. Have you experienced this amazing love?