Hosea Pt. 2 -God Believes in Appropriate Consequences Continued

1.What does this passages teach us about God, and what does that mean for us today?


2.Are there areas where you see yourself giving in to social pressure in order to gain things that only God can really give? How can we as a church (not some church down the street, but THIS one! ) guard against this temptation?


3.Read Heb. 12:5-11; Rom. 5:1-5; I Pet. 1:1-8 and chapter 3. When we’re going through difficult things in life –how can we tell the dif-ference between discipline, suffering “for righteousness sake” and suffering that God us using to grow us?


4.How is 12-23 encouraging to you as we look ahead to what God has in store?