Sermon Notes
SCANDALOUS GRACE
GO, LOVE AGAIN
September 27, 2026
GO. LOVE. AGAIN.
Hosea 3:1
The Lord said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.”
What do you give your love to?
Wedding Cake
GO. LOVE. AGAIN.
The formula to capture the heart of man…
Ever-increasing craving for an Ever-diminishing pleasure.
“To get a man’s soul & give him nothing in return—that is what gladdens our father’s heart (Satan).
—C. S. Lewis,
The Screwtape Letters
Hosea 3:2–3
So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and about a homer and a lethek of barley. 3 Then I told her, “You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will behave the same way toward you.”
Hosea 3:4–5
For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or household gods. 5 Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the Lord and to his blessings in the last days.
Ephesians 2:1–5
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh[a] and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.
GO. LOVE. AGAIN.
What if the greatest gift God wants to give you… IS GOD?