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BUT…..
November 23, 2003
New Hope Baptist Church
9:30 a.m.
Scripture Text:
 
Hosea 3:1
Luke 22:31-34
Hebrews 7:23-27
 
Introduction:
 
There is a little word that is used quite often, both in the English and the Greek language.
It is quite simply not thought of often in our everyday speech.
It can be used as a conjunction, a preposition or an adverb.
Most often the word to which I refer is used to show exception to an aforementioned thought.
Today, as we explore the reasons for being thankful and the goodness of our God, today as we look at Hosea and Peter and ourselves, and see the love of the Father towards us; as we reminisce past failures towards God and His constant faithfulness towards us; as we postulate our tomorrows through dark colored glasses, yet be reminded of His plan of a glorious future; as we remind our children of the chicken & dumplings we had to eat made with chicken feet while setting our tables today with the whole chicken, the high part of the hog and the choicest beef,  cornbread dressing and collard greens; as we look back at the muck and the mire that we stepped from, and picture the long white robe we’ll wear in glory as we walk around singing “How I Got Over”, I can only title this message with that little word, *But….*
*          *It has been said that big things come in small packages, however where this word is concerned, the all-important things is not the smallness of the package, but the One who has sends the package.
Naturally, at this time of the year, people begin to remember things to be thankful for.
Not just Christians, but people with no object of their thankfulness, are thankful.
The sad thing is that the Christian’s gratitude lists seems to have fallen in line with the worlds’:  cars, clothes, shelter, jobs, food, and the list goes on.
There is nothing wrong about being thankful for these things, these needful and necessary things.
However, the object of our thankfulness should be God.
Today, I would like to redirect our thoughts from the “things” that we have been blessed with to the God that has given the blessings.
I don’t know about you, but when I stop and think about it, I am just amazed that a God like ours can so love a person like me.
The question is begged; just what is our God like?
Not what we have made Him to be, but what is He really like?
You see, I don’t much fancy the idiom that He’s a *right now God*.
That just seems to place Him in a bottle that we expect Him to emerge from whenever we rub it the right way.
A right now God seems to allude to the misconception that we are the determiners of His actions and not the other way around.
When you say He’s a right now God, it seems that we set Him up and dare Him to disappoint us.
When you call Him a right now God, it just seems to me that we have initiated a role reversal.
I don’t postulate today that you should call Him a right now God, but I can suggest a few other adjectives that just might accommodate His Person.
You see, I know Him and can recommend Him as:
      An all right God – sometimes, as situations determine, He’s right now, sometimes, He wait a minute, and sometimes, He’s just plain no; but whenever He acts and however He acts and whatever He does, it’s all right.
There are three other ways that we want to see God today: 
      *(Faithful and forgiving God) *in Hosea
      *(Interceding High Priest)*  in Hebrews
      *(Constant Visionary and Protector)* in Luke
*I.
Faithful and Forgiving God – *
He is a faithful, forgiving God in spite of a faithless, adulterous people.
The book of Hosea dramatically portrays our God as having a constant and persistent love towards His people.
God had consistently provided for His people, but they refused to see what He had done, and they showed no interest in thanking Him.
You see ungratefulness is a common human fault.
For example, when was the last time you thanked your parents for caring for you?
Oh, your childhood might not have been like you thought it should have been, however, you made it and now it’s your turn with your kids.
When did you personally thank your pastor for the service he gives to the church?
Or, your child’s teacher for the care taken with each day’s activities, instead of focusing on the one time the teacher admonished the child for disrespect or misbehavior?
Or, your heavenly Father for his guidance and all of His blessings, rather than pouting over His correction and disciplines?
*Background synopsis of Hosea:*
        It was a time of material prosperity and spiritual bankruptcy under Jeroboam II.
Judgment seemed remote, but by 732 b.c.
Damascus had fallen to the Assyrians and by 722 Samaria, the capital of Israel, fell and the people were deported.
This is a book that illustrates God’s steadfast love for Israel in spite of her continued unfaithfulness.
He assigns Hosea a huge task and uses his situation as an object lesson to illustrate just how the nation of Israel behaved toward her God in ignorance and indifference; and how devoted her God was to His love and desire for her.
Hosea begins ministry during reign of Jeroboam II - His name means “salvation”
      The upper classes were oppressing the poor
      Hosea was the prophet to the Northern kingdom, Samaria and Ephraim, and he wept over their sins.
*Points from Hosea:*
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*1.      **Ephraim (which was the first of the 12 tribes to backslide) Denounced:*
a.
Because of ignorance – the leaders had failed to teach the people the “Shema” – that the Lord is our God; the Lord is One
b.
Because of idolatry - They made molten images, idols of silver were made by the craftsmen, and they worshipped them
c.
Because of immorality – There was no faithfulness, no kindness, no knowledge of God in the land; only violence everywhere
Israel sowed to the wind, but they reaped the whirlwind.
Ephraim was everything that we were before Christ: without hope; ignorant, idolaters; and immoral.
*2.      **Ephraim Desired:*
a.
In spite of all of this, God still loved her.
b.
She was a backsliding heifer
c.
A bakers hot oven
d.
A half-baked cake
e.
A silly dove
f.
A crooked bow
g.
A broken pot
h.
A wandering and lonely wild animal
i.
A dried up root
j.
An empty vine
God’s desire for His people never dwindled, and one day their faithfulness to Him will be realized.
3.
*Ephraim Delivered:*
a.
With disobedience comes discipline
b.
With immorality comes judgment
c.
With destruction come construction
d.
With unfaithfulness comes consequences
e.
One day, all of Israel will be redeemed and restored.
Now, we come to the all-encompassing reason that God is the object of our thankfulness:
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