Gomer
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Sep 11, 2026
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Wow.
Dag Heward-MillsHOST
ERV version says, "Then the Lord said to me again, 'Gomer has many lovers, but you must continue loving her.' "
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Hey.
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Ministry.
Tim BrownHOST
And now I look and I just go, wow, God is showing his old covenant people there, Israel, how much he loves them.
Tim BrownHOST
They are like Gomer.
Tim BrownHOST
They are like the prostitute.
Tim BrownHOST
And he is like Hosea.
LukeHOST
In Hosea, we watched a prophet love a woman who keeps breaking his heart.
LukeHOST
Hosea's love for Gomer mirrors God's love for his people.
LukeHOST
Israel has wandered again, proud, unfaithful, forgetful of grace, and yet God doesn't give up.
LukeHOST
I long to redeem them, he says, even while their hearts are far from him.
LukeHOST
And God meets him with mercy.
LukeHOST
Maybe today you feel like Emma, trying to hold it all together while feeling like you're falling apart inside.
LukeHOST
Or maybe you feel like Gomer, wandering, weary, unsure if God could still want you.
LukeHOST
Or maybe you're Matthew, surprised that Jesus would ever call your name.
Scott PauleyHOST
But there are some that are lesser-known couples of the Bible, and yet what a profound impact they had or an illustration of some truth.
Scott PauleyHOST
For example, in the Old Testament, you have Hosea and Gomer, and what a picture of divine love, of forgiveness and restoration.
Scott PauleyHOST
And so that's just an example, but Scripture's full of them.
Scott PauleyHOST
And some positive examples, some negative examples, but all of them given to us for some reason.
Phil FieldsHOST
Hosea is told by God to actually live out this situation.
Phil FieldsHOST
He is told to marry Gomer, a prostitute.
Phil FieldsHOST
Through Hosea, God shows just how ready he is to restore and be reconciled with his wayward people.
Phil FieldsHOST
Hosea prophesied to the northern kingdom during the same time that Amos, Jesiah, and Micah were prophesying in the southern kingdom.
Phil FieldsHOST
Hosea 1 The Lord gave this message to Hosea, son of Be'eri, during the years when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah, and Jeroboam, son of Jehoash, was king of Israel.
Phil FieldsHOST
When the Lord first began speaking to Israel through Hosea, he said to him, This will illustrate how Israel has acted like a prostitute by turning against the Lord and worshipping other gods.
Phil FieldsHOST
So Hosea married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she became pregnant and gave Hosea a son.
Phil FieldsHOST
And the Lord said, Name the child Jezreel, for I am about to punish King Jehu's dynasty to avenge the murders he committed at Jezreel.
Zanita FletcherGUEST
Yeah.
Zanita FletcherGUEST
I'm sure there would have been moments where he turned to God just like I did and said, what are you doing? What is happening right now? But I guess even aside from that, Hosea really would have had to trust God and he would have had to have a lot of grit because you're looking for Gomer.
Zanita FletcherGUEST
He would have no doubt had to go to places where men of God were not expected to go or be.
Jarrod StackelrothHOST
And
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Zanita FletcherGUEST
His compassion towards Israel.
Zanita FletcherGUEST
But I think it's the same for us.
Zanita FletcherGUEST
We all have very divided hearts like Gomer did.
Zanita FletcherGUEST
We all have lesser loves that we give more attention to than God.
LukeHOST
For like an adulterous wife, this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord.
LukeHOST
So he married Gomer, daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
LukeHOST
Then the Lord said to Hosea, Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.
LukeHOST
In that day I will break Israel's bow in the valley of Jezreel.
LukeHOST
Gomer conceived again and gave birth to a daughter.
LukeHOST
Then the Lord said to Hosea, Call her Lo-Ruhuma, which means not loved, for I will no longer show love to Israel that I should at all forgive them.
LukeHOST
Yet I will show love to Judah, and I will save them, not by bow, sword, or battle, or by horses and horsemen, but I, the Lord their God, will save them.
LukeHOST
After she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, Gomer had another son.
Tim MartensGUEST
have had similar shocking histories.
Tim MartensGUEST
In the book of Hosea, in the Bible, we read about tragic situations with Hosea's wife, Gomer, and their children.
Tim MartensGUEST
It follows the same pattern.
Tim MartensGUEST
And it follows the awkward statistic why 25% of children in America will spend time being raised by grandparents or other relatives.
speaker_0HOST
Israel's present demands a complete change of heart if that calamity is to be averted.
speaker_0HOST
Hosea's heart has already been broken by the harlotry and shame of his wife Gomer.
speaker_0HOST
But now he pleads one last time with his countrymen that they not duplicate Gomer's folly.
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Return, O Israel, to the Lord.
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In chapter 14, verse 1.
Kevin CainHOST
The whole book.
Kevin CainHOST
If God is Hosea, Israel is Gomer, if we're ever going to come back, we've got to be still and allow God to be the husband of our lives and stop living a rebellious spiritual adultery.
Kevin CainHOST
Powerful words.
David SpenceGUEST
That's a perfect summary of the book of Hosea.
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