Paradise Regained?
Hosea 10

Purpose: Having lost everything, how can we regain what is worth infinitely more?

1. The Way Things Are

             Deuteronomy 8:11-13

             Judges 21:25

             Jeremiah 17:9

2. The Way Things Will Be

    Genesis 3:18

   Judges 20:27-37

3. The Way Things Were Meant to Be

Matthew 13:18-23
   Hebrews 6:7-8
   John 15:1-8

To lay down our empty short-term sinful pursuits and break up the fallow ground of idolatry, is to trade the fruit of wickedness that can never satisfy, for the fruit of righteousness that will never disappoint.