...iB'xs ,Mi?n }"nn T niar DJ ,11?' n^'i ^sa'i ins 73'i .nrwn 15), and, "And I, I taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them" (ibid. 11:3). V. It is for him who trusts in God to hope, in the gloom of his anguish, that the darkness...

...to love Him more. When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. . . . I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love. . . . Hosea 11: 1, 4 Nothing can satisfy the entire man but the Lord's love, and the Lord's own self....

...secret drawings of grace may often be hardly recognizable, but are effectual: "I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not...drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love" (Hosea 11.3,4). After the instantaneous act of regeneration, the subsequent openings and actings of...

...11:1. How rich are the implications in this verse! CORDS OF A MAN, BANDS OF LOVE Hosea ll:4a says, "I drew them with cords of a man, / With bands of love." God's love is divine, but His love reaches us in the cords of a man. It is important for us to realize...

...guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there] (Gen. 39: 1): B. "I drew them with cords of a man, [with bands of love. Yet I was to them as those who lift up a yoke, on account of their jaws. I reached out food to them]"...

...mouth." 9: Cf. Genesis 30:30: "And the Lord hath blessed thee withersoever I turned." 11: Cf. Hosea 11:4: "I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love." AMONG MY FRIENDS (36) This battle poem also appears in the manuscript of Ben Kohelet. HaNagid was 61...

...is surprising what darkness and legality still encompassed me. The Lord says: "I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms, but they knew not that I healed them." So I was utterly ignorant of the way in which the Lord was teaching me by little and little, and therefore,...

...our enemies, might serve Him" (Luke 1:74). I. Characteristics of God's Service. A. Lotting service. "I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love" (Hos. 1 1:4). B. Wholehearted service. "No man can serve two masters" (Matt. 6:24). "Present your bodies...

...unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. I taught Ephraim [the Northern Kingdom] also to go, taking them by their arms,- but they knew not...man, with bands of love: And I was to them as they take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. He [Israel] shall not return into the land...

...child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt," and in verse three, "I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them." In Acts xvii, 30, it is stated, "And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth...