With so much evil and anger around the streets of our world we need the gospel of Jesus Christ more than ever.
4 Gospel steps from Hosea 13 v 12-14.
- God knows everything about you. He has a record of every sin. “The guilt of Ephraim is stored up, his sins are kept on record”, v12.
- These sins will bring pain like that of a mother with childbirth. “Pains as of a woman in childbirth come to him”, v13.
- But the pain will not bring new life because you have not recognised the time of new birth, you think you know more than your mother. “…but he is a child without wisdom; when the time arrives, he doesn’t have the sense to come out of the womb”, v13.
- So God does what is needed. He delivers and He redeems. “I will deliver this people from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. Where, O death, are your plagues? Where, O grave, is your destruction?” v14 But it can also be translated “I will be your plagues and I will be your destruction.”
The Apostle Paul knew this gospel message when he wrote:
Death has been swallowed up in victory.” “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
! Corinthians 15: 54-57
Missions Paul 