Love At a Price

There was a song that had a line in it, "the things we do for love." Those things, sometimes can be expensive. We go to fancy dinners, movies, even expensive "night on the town" all to show that someone that we really love them. Notice what God instructed Hosea to do to truly love Gomer.

Hosea 3:1 Then the Lord said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is loved by her husband, yet an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes." 2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley. 3 Then I said to her, "You shall stay with me for many days. You shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man; so I will also be toward you." 4 For the sons of Israel will remain for many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar and without ephod or household idols. 5 Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come trembling to the Lord and to His goodness in the last days. NASU

Despite all that Gomer has done, God instructed Hosea to love her again. This meant that was going to truly cost him. Since Gomer was "up for sale" Hosea would purchase her to once again make her his wife. (Those other lovers has dumped and left her) She was instructed never to play the harlot again and Hosea told her he would LOVE her, not just keep her as a slave woman.
God is show Israel that He too love them. He told them that there would be a day when they would return and seek the Lord and "David" their king. This David is Jesus.

1 Cor 6:20 For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

Jesus has purchased you to be his "bride".

Explore for yourself.
1. What command was given to Hosea?
2. What condition do we find Gomer? And Israel?
3. How much did Gomer cost? What did God buy? How?
4. What command came with the purchase? What comes to us? See Acts 20:28, Rev. 5:9
5. What happens to Israel?
6. What does this cause Israel to do? When?