Summary: To show that we need to learn and experience the LORD while it is called Today, and we will be included in His Second Coming to reign and rule with Him.

I. EXORDIUM:

Are you growing in your knowledge of the LORD today?

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To show that we need to learn and experience the LORD while it is called Today, and we will be included in His Second Coming to reign and rule with Him.

IV. TEXT:

Hosea 6:3 (Amplified Bible)

6:3 Yes, let us know (recognize, be acquainted with, and understand) Him; let us be zealous to know the Lord [to appreciate, give heed to, and cherish Him]. His going forth is prepared and certain as the dawn, and He will come to us as the [heavy] rain, as the latter rain that waters the earth.

V. THESIS:

Praise, worship and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You have shown us the Way to Salvation, You, Yourself and have allowed us to learn from You while here on earth, You will take us with You and in Your Second Coming, we will return here on earth to rule and reign the earth with iron hand.

Revelation 2:26-27 (Amplified Bible)

2:26 And he who overcomes (is victorious) and who obeys My commands to the [very] end [doing the works that please Me], I will give him authority and power over the nations;

2:27 And he shall rule them with a sceptre (rod) of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, and [his power over them shall be] like that which I Myself have received from My Father;

VI. TITLE:

The LORD today, His first coming and His second coming

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Author: Hosea, son of Beeri, contemporary of Isaiah and Micah

B. Date written: Approximately 755 B.C. to 710 B.C.

C. Purpose: To reveal God's unconditional love, especially illustrated in contrast to the sinful harlotry of His people.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines

D. To whom written: The Northern Kingdom (Israel)

E. Main Theme: Spiritual Message. Apostasy from God is spiritual adultery.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines

F. Key words: Unconditional love

G. Key verse: Hosea 3:1

Hosea 3:1 (Amplified Bible)

3:1 THEN SAID the Lord to me, Go again, love [the same] woman [Gomer] who is beloved of a paramour and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins [used in the sacrificial feasts in idol worship].

H. Notable Passage: Hosea 14

VIII. MAIN BODY:

A. Today, more experiential knowledge for you

"Yes, let us know (recognize, be acquainted with, and understand) Him; let us be zealous to know the Lord [to appreciate, give heed to, and cherish Him]."

Know or "yada" in Hebrew meaning:

1. acknowledge, advise, answer, acquaintance = We acknowledge the LORD in everything, we do this by thanking Him for everything whenever we receive it and use it, for example, we give glory to the LORD before we eat, acknowledging the LORD is the Source of our food and drink and whatever we do.

1 Corinthians 10:31 (Amplified Bible)

10:31 So then, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you may do, do all for the honor and glory of God.

Acts 17:28 (Amplified Bible)

17:28 For in Him we live and move and have our being; as even some of your [own] poets have said, For we are also His offspring.

2. answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware = Whenever we are praised for whatever accomplishments, we answer the LORD, we say that the LORD is the One that did it.

John 15:5 (Amplified Bible)

15:5 I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing.

Philippians 4:13 (Amplified Bible)

4:13 I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me; I am self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency].

3. discern, discover = We discern and discover that everything existed because of the LORD.

Romans 1:20 (Amplified Bible)

1:20 For ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature and attributes, that is, His eternal power and divinity, have been made intelligible and clearly discernible in and through the things that have been made (His handiworks). So [men] are without excuse [altogether without any defense or justification],

Colossians 1:16 (Amplified Bible)

1:16 For it was in Him that all things were created, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, whether thrones, dominions, rulers, or authorities; all things were created and exist through Him [by His service, intervention] and in and for Him.

1 Timothy 1:17 (Amplified Bible)

1:17 Now to the King of eternity, incorruptible and immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever (to the ages of ages). Amen (so be it).

Romans 1:20-21 (Amplified Bible)

1:20 For ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature and attributes, that is, His eternal power and divinity, have been made intelligible and clearly discernible in and through the things that have been made (His handiworks). So [men] are without excuse [altogether without any defense or justification],

1:21 Because when they knew and recognized Him as God, they did not honor and glorify Him as God or give Him thanks. But instead they became futile and godless in their thinking [with vain imaginings, foolish reasoning, and stupid speculations] and their senseless minds were darkened.

2 Peter 1:2 (Amplified Bible)

1:2 May grace (God’s favor) and peace (which is perfect well-being, all necessary good, all spiritual prosperity, and reedom from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts) be multiplied to you in [the full, personal, precise, and correct] knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

Our goal here on earth is to know the LORD and to be filled with His knowledge, of Himself. As Paul have said it,

Philippians 3:10 (Amplified Bible)

3:10 [For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope]

B. His First Coming

"His going forth is prepared and certain as the dawn,"

2 Peter 1:19 (Amplified Bible)

1:19 And we have the prophetic word [made] firmer still. You will do well to pay close attention to it as to a lamp shining in a dismal (squalid and dark) place, until the day breaks through [the gloom] and the Morning Star rises (comes into being) in your hearts.

Luke 1:78 (Amplified Bible)

1:78 Because of and through the heart of tender mercy and loving-kindness of our God, a Light from on high will dawn upon us and visit [us]

2 Samuel 23:4 (Amplified Bible)

23:4 He dawns on them like the morning light when the sun rises on a cloudless morning, when the tender grass springs out of the earth through clear shining after rain.

The LORD JESUS CHRIST first came here on earth as a baby, tender, meek and powerless, yet can save our soul, His kingship is one that is invisible, He rules in our hearts.

Luke 17:20-21 (Amplified Bible)

17:20 Asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He replied to them by saying, The kingdom of God does not come with signs to be observed or with visible display,

17:21 Nor will people say, Look! Here [it is]! or, See, [it is] there! For behold, the kingdom of God is within you [in your hearts] and among you [surrounding you].

This is today, the time of His First Coming where we can accept Him as LORD and SAVIOR.

2 Corinthians 6:2 (Amplified Bible)

6:2 For He says, In the time of favor (of an assured welcome) I have listened to and heeded your call, and I have helped you on the day of deliverance (the day of salvation). Behold, now is truly the time for a gracious welcome and acceptance [of you from God]; behold, now is the day of salvation!

Accept Him as LORD, SAVIOR, MASTER and GOD of your life, let Him rule Your hearts, let Him be the LORD and SAVIOR for free, but He paid for us in blood, but there will come a time in His Second Coming where it will no longer be free, for all people who did not accepted today, will be left behind in the Tribulation Period, where it will be very difficult to accept the LORD, for it will cost your life.

C. His Second Coming

"and He will come to us as the [heavy] rain, as the latter rain that waters the earth"

Revelation 17:14 (Amplified Bible)

17:14 They will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them; for He is Lord of lords and King of kings—and those with Him and on His side are chosen and called [elected] and loyal and faithful followers.

Revelation 19:16 (Amplified Bible)

19:16 And on His garment (robe) and on His thigh He has a name (title) inscribed, king of kings and lord of lords.

Compare: Zechariah 14:4 with Mark 13:3

Zechariah 14:4 (Amplified Bible)

14:4 And His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from the east to the west by a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north and half of it toward the south.

Mark 13:3 (Amplified Bible)

13:3 And as He sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple [enclosure], Peter and James and John and Andrew asked Him privately,

Zechariah 14:4 speaks about His Second Coming where He will stand His feet on the Mount of Olives while Mark 13:3 shows the LORD JESUS CHRIST as meek as a Lamb sitting on the Mount of Olives.

IX. CONCLUSION:

Praise, worship and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You have shown us the Way to Salvation, You, Yourself and have allowed us to learn from You while here on earth, You will take us with You and in Your Second Coming, we will return here on earth to rule and reign the earth with iron hand.

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