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Message
Hosea 1:1-2:15

4. Hosea 1:2
…the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, and take yourself a wife of…”

5. Hosea
God often calls us to do something rather than say something.

6. Hosea 1:4
…the Lord said to him, “Name him…”

7. Hosea
God may call me to something messy because that's where the people are whom he loves.

8. Hosea 2:14; 3:1
“Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her…” “…Go again and love …an adulteress.”

9. Hosea
Tough love may come before grace.

10. Challenge
Are you willing to do what the Lord calls you to do, even if it’s messy?