Are You A Gomer?

Are you a Gomer?

Intro Questions:

How do you discipline your children when they do something wrong:

Nothing? Gently talk to them? Timeout? Ground them? Take their phone? Spank them? Cain them? Kill them? Nuke them? Thanos Snap the entire Galaxy?

When God catches you doing something wrong, what does He do?

Proverbs 3:11,12

11 My son, do not despise the LORD’s discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, 12 because the LORD disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.

Do saved people lose their salvation when they do something wrong?

No – you can’t lose your salvation.

If if a person loses their salvation when they sin, how is it God chastises those He loves? (hint: you can’t lose your salvation)

Hosea and Gomer is sort of known as the second best story in the Bible (Jesus’ salvation story being the first). Hosea and Gomer is a metaphor for God and Us. So we are all Gomers!

Hosea 1:2

2 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.”

So Hosea married a promiscuous woman.

Right away, God likens this relationship as between the Lord and marrying us even though His people are being unfaithful.

But wait that’s not us, that’s Israel, right. Nope it’s both – there’s no distinction. (Galatians 3:23-29, Romans 3:22, Romans 10:12, Colossians 3:11)

Galatians 3:23-29

23 Before the coming of this faith, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed. 24 So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. 25 Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian. 26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Romans 3:22-24

22 This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

Romans 10:11-13

11 As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.” 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Hosea 1:3-6

3 So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. 4 Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel. 5 In that day I will break Israel’s bow in the Valley of Jezreel.” 6 Gomer conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Call her Lo-Ruhamah (which means “not loved”), for I will no longer show love to Israel, that I should at all forgive them.

Jezreel – I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel and I will put an end to the kingtom of Israel.

Lo-Ruhamah - Not Loved, for I will no longer show love to Israel

Lo-Ammi - Not my people, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.

Hosea 1:7-9

7 Yet I will show love to Judah; and I will save them—not by bow, sword or battle, or by horses and horsemen, but I, the LORD their God, will save them.” 8 After she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, Gomer had another son. 9 Then the LORD said, “Call him Lo-Ammi (which means “not my people”), for you are not my people, and I am not your God.

Hosea 1:10

10 “Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.’

Just because you are Jewish does not make you saved. Gentiles (not Jewish) are getting saved so being Jew has nothing to do with salvation.

Romans 9:25-33

25 As he says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people; and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,” 26 and, “In the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ” 27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved. 28 For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality.” 29 It is just as Isaiah said previously: “Unless the Lord Almighty had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.”