I will not show my love to her children, because they are the children of adultery

Hosea 2:2-13

Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adulterous look from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

I will not show my love to her children, because they are the children of adultery.

She said, ‘I will go after my lovers,  who give me my food and my water,  my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.’ Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.

I will punish her for the days she burned incense to the Baals; she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but me she forgot,” declares the Lord.

Hosea's voice, pleading with his unfaithful wife, becomes one with the voice of God addressing Israel. The people are worshipping Baal, the Canaanite fertility god, thinking he is the one who gives good crips and plentiful harvests; when all the time it is God. They will be punished.

Why?

The Lord told his people you are the children of adultery, they forgot the Lord gives what they needed, but they turn away from the Lord and burn incense to the Baals. It is like adultery, betraying her husband.

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爭辯: 法庭用語，表達神想用愛，孩子們的親情來挽回。人犯罪才要穿衣服，所以剝去衣服，就是使罪顯露出來。

餅、水、羊毛、麻、油、酒，神並不阻止我們享受，最大問題是不知道這是神給的，反而以為是情夫給的。神用戶圍堵方法，使她找不到。愈有能力的人愈以為是自己努力、聰明才智、技謀才得到的。更可怕是拋夫棄子來求取自己想要的。得到很多卻享受不到，享受也不滿足。

為什麼不知道以色列的收穫是神給的?以色列是遊牧民族，當時迦南人，已經有發達農業，因此以色列人接受這些文明後，運他們的宗教、文化也學了。也就是隨從世界的潮流。如果現在我們追隨世界潮流，潮流本來是中性的，但是我們如何運用更重要。以色列人認為潮流中一切都是對的。求神給我們智慧，讓我們可以使用潮流使用在對的事，用在神喜悅有事上。例如因為疫情大家用視訊，人們用在與神無關的地方，我們可以用來傳福音，聚會。

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How?

Do I forget the mercy of the Lord? Do I turn to this world? May the Holy Spirit remind me and let my heart always focus on Jesus Christ.