Sermon: Knowing God

Knowing God (Hosea 6:4-10)
Pastor Tony Felich
February 3, 2008

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Knowing God is the greatest human experience there is
- Knowing God doesn't come from obedience (4-6)
- Knowing God doesn't mean mere mental assent (6)
- Knowing God isn't based on a warm feeling (6)
- Knowing God has to do with loving comprehension of YOUR God (6)
- Truly Knowing God will produce obedience (6-10)

Hosea 6:4–10
4 What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
Your love is like a morning cloud,
like the dew that goes early away.
5 Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;
I have slain them by the words of my mouth,
and my judgment goes forth as the light.
6 For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,
the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
7 But like Adam they transgressed the covenant;
there they dealt faithlessly with me.
8 Gilead is a city of evildoers,
tracked with blood.
9 As robbers lie in wait for a man,
so the priests band together;
they murder on the way to Shechem;
they commit villainy.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
Ephraim's whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.