Advent:
Date: December 14, 2003
Theme: Til Death Do Us Part!
– Hosea 3:1-5
– ( Pastor John Ude )
The Order of Worship:
Liturgy: TLH, p. 5 ff.
Hymns:
TLH 58 st. 1-4: O Lord, How Shall I Meet Thee 
TLH 73 st. 4: Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates
TLH 68 : The Advent of Our King
TLH 72 : Rejoice, Rejoice, Believers
Scripture Readings:
Hosea 1:1-9
Hosea 1:10-11
Theme: Til Death Do Us Part!
Hosea 3
Hosea Redeems His Wife
3:1 And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.” 2 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley. 3 And I said to her, “You must dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you.” 4 For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods. 5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days. (ESV)
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