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A Love Story.doc
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February 12, 2006                                                                                                   File: E
A LOVE STORY
Hosea
 
I want to tell you a love story—Valentines is Tuesday!
It is of course, about a man and a woman
He was a good man…with a good reputation…not the kind of man you would find cruising the red light district of the city
Not the kind of man who would even know a woman like her—
 
So how they met is a mystery..
      Yet meet they did…I didn’t get that part of the story…
            Maybe it was a walk in the park one day—
 
He fell in love!
But she was a woman of the night.
A street walker…a prostitute…
            He was torn—between his budding love and his reputation
 
But his love grew…
      He was committed…they were married
            But she couldn’t (wouldn’t) change…
 
He gave her everything
      A good home, fine gifts
            But more…he gave her his heart!
– Unconditionally
 
They had three children…first a son, then a daughter, then another son…
But she was back to her old haunts…back to the old friends, the old places, the old habits..
And he left her alone…until….finally,
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Her youth spent…her money gone…her body ravaged…her beauty betrayed…
Loaded with personal debt and no longer good for the street she hoped to sell herself as a slave to pay the debt.
It was the days when people were bought and sold to pay their debts…you would even sell yourself
 
That is where he saw her…
It was the first time in several years…he had looked, searched, wanting to see her…
And now she is on the auction block in the slave market…where she would be sold to the highest bidder…
 
He had never given up!
And he was passing by that day…when something made him look up at the next one being sold…
 
She was barely recognizable
      Hair matted and dirty
            Her clothes hardly covered her…
                  Bent low…shivering…cowering
 
Nothing left of the fineries of her former trade in lust.
Sick and sinful…wasted!
But he was there now!
And she was within reach!
He had waited!
Hoped!
Many had told him to get on with his life!
There are other fish in the sea—move on
      But it just wasn’t an option he left open for himself.
He loved deeply!!!!
And now today he saw her!
      His heart aches for what had become of her…
            Broken hearts hurt deeply!!!
And as the auctioneer began the bidding…his voice rang out loud and clear…
Her eyes lifted but a little!
Did she recognize the voice?
But how could it be?
Surely he has moved on!
“Why would he be here…today…wanting me?”
But when the teller is given the ransom price…he went to her!
      Took off his robe and wrapped her up…and took her home!
If you have read the Old Testament prophets you have come across this story—the story of Hosea and Gomer
 
But it is much more than a story about a man and a woman
      It is the story of God and his love for you and me
And how we have often spurned his love and done our own thing—and been left with the dregs
 
Rebellious—sick—filled with self—reaping the harvest we have sown—
      Having gone our own way…and been left for dead.
Rejected—alone—lost!!!
But still God loves!!!
And still He waits!!!!
     
The story is told in one great hymn—by Ralph Carmichael
      “The savior is waiting to enter you heart, why don’t you let Him come in?
There’s nothing in this world to keep you apart, What is your answer to Him?
      “Time after time He has waited before, and now he is waiting again, To see if you’re willing to open the door, Oh, How He wants to come in.
If you’ll take one step toward the Savior, my friend, You’ll find His arms open wide; Receive Him and all of your darkness will end, Within in your heart He’ll abide.”
The story is told in many scripture texts:
 
“Greater love has no man than this…that he lay down his life for a friend…”
But greater love is the love of God, who “While were yet sinners, died for us.”
Mark 10:21 (rich young ruler)  “Jesus, beholding him, loved him…”
 
John 13:1  “Having loved His own, he loved them to the end.”
Jeremiah 31:3 “the Lord has appeared of old to me saying, ‘Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.”
 
1 John 4:9-10 (NIV)/ /This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
In the love story of Hosea and Gomer—we are the harlot
      And God is the lover—
 
We have stood on the auction block of sin—ready to be sold for our debt…
But the voice of the Lord comes ringing out over the crowd of gawkers…*she is mine!
I will buy her back!*
The words of one song—the most theologically correct songs I know come back to me:  “Jesus loves me this I know, for the bible tells me so…”
 
1 John 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called the children of God.”
1 John 3:16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.
And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
1 John 4:9/ /This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
The concept of unconditional love is a hard one to wrap our mind around—we are so used to loving others for what we get out of them—spouses, kids, brothers and sisters—
And we are used to receiving that kind of manipulative love! \\ I love you if… \\       I love you when…
But his kind of love—is the greatest thing in the world!!! \\       It is the greatest thing you can give \\             It is the greatest thing you can receive!
It is demonstrated by God Himself! \\       Unconditional love!!!!
            JESUS LOVES YOU!
Nancy (that is her real name-though you don’t know her)…had been going through a very trying time in her life...the kind we all go through at one time or another… \\       God just was far, far away!
It was winter at Emerald Bay in Laguna.
It was winter inside and outside—The beach was nearly deserted—just a few people walking down the beach, some distance away.
It was almost like she had the entire beach to herself \\       She needed to be alone with her thoughts and her prayers – and with God, if He might show up! \\       She needed to cry out to Him for comfort, for help—as she struggled with some deep personal needs.
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