Paradise Lost!

Hosea 9

Purpose: Calling us to faithfully follow God at all costs, lest we lose everything.

1. The Backdrop (Deuteronomy 11)

          Blessings and Curses Promised (esp. vv. 13-17 & 26-28)

2. The Betrayal (Hosea 9:1-9)

3. The Consequences (Hosea 9:10-17)

There is no wisdom in short-term gain for long-term loss!

Rather, we must sacrifice fruitless and empty short-term idolatrous and sinful pursuits, for long-term Christian eternal gain (Hebrews 12:1-2)

John Piper, “Sin is the suicidal abandonment of joy.”