<span id="more-974"></span> <h4 class="wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-heading"><strong>Sermon Details:</strong></h4> <p class="wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio">Rev. Tim Grieves preached this sermon on October 10, 2021.</p> <h4 class="wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-heading"><strong>Scripture Passage:</strong></h4> <p class="wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><strong>Hosea 2:2-13</strong> <strong>(ESV)</strong></p> <p>²“Plead with your mother, plead—<br>    for she is not my wife,<br>    and I am not her husband—<br>that she put away her whoring from her face,<br>    and her adultery from between her breasts;<br>³lest I strip her naked<br>    and make her as in the day she was born,<br>and make her like a wilderness,<br>    and make her like a parched land,<br>    and kill her with thirst.<br>⁴Upon her children also I will have no mercy,<br>    because they are children of whoredom.<br>⁵For their mother has played the whore;<br>    she who conceived them has acted shamefully.<br>For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,<br>    who give me my bread and my water,<br>    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’<br>⁶Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns,<br>    and I will build a wall against her,<br>    so that she cannot find her paths.<br>⁷She shall pursue her lovers<br>    but not overtake them,<br>and she shall seek them<br>    but shall not find them.<br>Then she shall say,<br>    ‘I will go and return to my first husband,<br>    for it was better for me then than now.’<br>⁸And she did not know<br>    that it was I who gave her<br>    the grain, the wine, and the oil,<br>and who lavished on her silver and gold,<br>    which they used for Baal.<br>⁹Therefore I will take back<br>    my grain in its time,<br>    and my wine in its season,<br>and I will take away my wool and my flax,<br>    which were to cover her nakedness.<br>¹⁰Now I will uncover her lewdness<br>    in the sight of her lovers,<br>    and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.<br>¹¹And I will put an end to all her mirth,<br>    her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths,<br>    and all her appointed feasts.<br>¹²And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,<br>    of which she said,<br>‘These are my wages,<br>    which my lovers have given me.’<br>I will make them a forest,<br>    and the beasts of the field shall devour them.<br>¹³And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals<br>    when she burned offerings to them<br>and adorned herself with her ring and jewelry,<br>    and went after her lovers<br>    and forgot me, declares the Lord.</p> <h4 class="wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-heading"><strong>Sermon Video:</strong></h4> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> <iframe class="youtube-player" width="642" height="362" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/23cbBgKvce4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe> </div></figure> <p>The post <a href="https://chinesegospelchurch.net/cgcse/messages/a-pleading-god-hosea-22-13/">A Pleading God &#8211; Hosea 2:2-13</a> appeared first on <a href="https://chinesegospelchurch.net/cgcse">CGC Scarborough English</a>.</p>