You will no longer call me Baali but Ishi - Hosea 2:16
"It will come about in that day," declares the LORD, "That you will call Me Ishi And will no longer call Me Baali. 17"For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, So that they will be mentioned by their names no more.…
Important distinction.
Husband vrs Lord and Master
The Demonic always extracts from us. Demands without filling us. Takes but does not provide for us. These are the elemental spirits - the base and common ways of the earth - passing away and pulling all in with it.
God is not like that.
He is like a Husband.
Committed in covenant love.
Jesus made the way driven by love.
Now a door stands wide open for all to come out from wrath, away from idols, and into the rooted and established love of Jesus. Sent by the Father, Jesus was the first apostle of Love and redemption.
The church needs to learn to both "speak the truth in Love" and believe in the "redemptive power of Love" at the same time.
Love hopes all things. Love believes all things. All things that God originates in love never fail!
Baali - requires prostitution - sexual distortion and unfaithfulness to God and all those around us.
- Idols only give when you follow the rules
- Idols only give when you give them what they demand.
- Idols only satisfy for a moment then they rule you for more.
- Idols are dead and lifeless and only carry the hopes people place onto them - vain and worthless reflections of our own brokenness.
- Idols are created things, tangible things of this world. Made by humanity they can only give back the fallen reality of the world in which their power resides.
- Idols are mute. They only voice we hear in them is ourselves, our desires and our aches for THE voice of God. It will never be heard in an idol.
- Idols are fantasies. Vain attempts at making life something more but absolutely and totally lacking the power for anything transcendent.
- Idols are cruel masters. They invite us into forms of worship that enhance our distortions and brokenness and suck blood from our wounds.
- Idols disintegrate over time. They carry no intrinsic value of their own. They are made in our image and in our fallen-ness. Left to themselves they loose all power and crumble to dust.
- Idols only have power when humanity gives themselves over to them.
Baali - called Israel to worship in the form of prostitution.
Worship was sex exchanged for the prosperity of the land, crops and animals. Unholy, debased, unclean, prostitution never produces freedom or true enjoyment. Sex created by Yahweh is found in covenant as a blessing on top of relationship; adding richness, enhancing intimacy and blessing and serving the other in love. Baali enslaves to lust and calls people to worship as if sex is the relationship. It sets up temple prostitutes and enslaves them to a cruel taskmaster god who requires them to give themselves to debasement and dishonor with strangers who have no covenant or love. Just lust, bondage, stealing, and cruelty.
There I will give her back her vineyards,
and will make the Valley of Achor[a] a door of hope.
There she will respond[b] as in the days of her youth,
as in the day she came up out of Egypt. Hosea 2;15
and will make the Valley of Achor[a] a door of hope.
There she will respond[b] as in the days of her youth,
as in the day she came up out of Egypt. Hosea 2;15
Ishi is covenant love. Always there. Always hoping. Always believing. Seeing one in the true light of God's eyes. This is the glory of the testimony of Jesus, the spirit of prophecy. It is seeing with the eyes of resurrection and the ascension. Seeing with the eyes of Jesus into the powerful and purposeful love of God at work in the lives of those around us.
Hosea was called to retain the covenant in light of his wife's unfaithfulness. To believe in love when it was not evident, responsive, worthy of love in response.
Unfaithful we all were when Christ died for us.
We were under the task master of Baali - the worship of idols and all things made - under the wrath of God which is coming upon the whole earth.
Jesus triumphed over death, sin and the Devil and made a new way through his blood shed on the cross.
That way is evidenced in the Resurrected Lord, the Firstborn over all creation. Our Brother Jesus who is like us and overcame sin, death and the Devil. We are alive in him with resurrected power and ascended with him into heavenly places.
Love never fails because....
Love cannot be bought - no money no price Isaiah 55:1-3
Love believes the dreams of God over us. I Corinthians 13
It is long-suffering and patient in believing what God calls forth.
Love looks like God himself. God is love. I John 4:8
Love knows that HIS love will win the day and overcome evil, rather than being swallowed up by it. This is the root of faith and zeal.
Jesus loved us with his life.
Believers today may be living in the Baal Master's mindset.
Surrendering to the idols of the age.
Giving up hope over that which the Father is supremely focused on for redemption.
Remember......
There is a Door of Hope in Valley of Troubles
1. There are no DEAD ENDS in God. He possess infinite plans to prosper us in Christ. Isiah 43; Jeremiah 29:11-13
2. There is no grater authority in HEAVEN or ON the EARTH - infinite power to see it accomplished in us. Matthew 28:18-19 All authority!
3. Troubles provide doorways to healing, transformation and expansion of our grace and glory. Infinite victory for heart, mind, soul and strength in Jesus. James 1 Put on some joy and victory as you see that God's love is in charge.
4.Testing of our faith provides us with perseverance and endurance. His word is infinitely efficacious, it possesses everything required to bring it to fruition.
Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.
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Jeff Reynolds ---
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