GUIDING LIGHT FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES

Let us take a look at the comparing of Hosea and Gomer to Christ and the Israelite. When we are asked..."What is Prostitution" ? The first reply would be ..."That it is a person that trades off their body with sex in exchange for monetary paid services". This may come as a surprise to many. This reply is not the definition of "Prostitution". It is an act of prostitution. The definition of prostitution is.."The act of a person who accepts money for sexual services, or sells their integrity (oneself, one's artistic or moral integrity, etc.) for an unworthy purpose. Also recognized as Debasement (which is voluntary self punishment or humiliation in order to atone for some real or imagined wrongdoing). Words have factual and foundational meanings (definitions). Facts are Truths and vice versa. So When the scriptures teach us the parallel of Hosea and Gomer to Christ and the Israelite, we can see how we have prostituted ourselves to a pimp (Satan) by lowing ourselves to sin. And just like Gomer, many times even as a believer, we are determine to leave out of the comfort of love and dwell in places or actions that that degrade who we are. For Gomer, her self-worth and image. For a believer, our spiritual image, character, and representation of proclaiming that the Holy Spirit lives in us. God has labeled us as prostitutes and whoremongers in his eyes when we exchange our worth and values for anything other than what God has instructed us to live. And just like Hosea, God commanded His son, Christ, to come down to Earth and go get us (the prostitutes and whoremongers) and love us. God even instructed Christ to pay the price to save us in the same way He instructed Hosea to go the second time and pay whatever it cost to free her from the chains and bondage of slavery of which Gomer herself brought upon herself. Now pay attention: God didn't ask either of them "how they felt about it", but commanded for them to go get an undesirable prostitute and marry her (them in regards to the sinners). Despite how either of the two felt, both of them, Hosea and Christ, were completely obedient and faithful. Some might debate this, but Christ, just like Hosea, was not as desirable to pay the price for someone who didn't seem to show that they were not as sincere about any claims to be a faithful mate or believer. How do we know this ? Well, Christ pleaded three times to God (His Father) that He would not have to pay the price (to be whipped till His skin tore and ripped off so bad that He was beyond recognition, tortured, spit on, embarrassed, degraded, hit on, stabbed, nailed, and crucified) for atonement of our sins and provide salvation of restoration of our souls. But we find in John 14 that Christ states that because of His obedience and love for His Father that He sacrificially does exactly what His Father tells Him to do. Isn't it good to know that Christ loves the Father so much that He paid the price for us (who didn't deserve it) to have an opportunity to an everlasting inheritance of the kingdom of God.

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