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何西阿要处理妻子的不忠，一定感到非常尴尬的了，然而神却咐吩何西阿要仍然爱她，于是何西阿便付了价银，把她赎出来，带回家。

从这件事上我们学到了什么功课？我们看到，没有人能够单靠自己从罪的深渊中爬出来；此外，我们也看到，神的救赎大功付上重大代价，来赎出罪人（把他们买回来），拯救他们脱离罪。

这幅图画描绘了神因爱我们——祂的子民——所做的一切。为了要拯救我们，神使耶稣成为挽回祭；耶稣舍弃了祂的性命，为我们付了赎价，好叫我们能够脱离罪恶，得到与神同在的新生命。就是这样，神把我们挽回，从罪的奴仆成为祂的子民；祂让我们重新成为祂家庭的成员，就像何西阿挽回歌蔑那样。这是何等大的福气啊！

在韩国，有一本名叫“从瑞草区到天堂”的书，瑞草区是首尔市的一个区。这本书表达的意思是：在瑞草区居住的人可以迁移至城市的另一区，但他们却不能随己意迁移到天堂。怎样才可以“迁移”到天堂呢？唯有相信耶稣，我们才能够做得到。

现今我们应当怎样生活呢？你看，何西阿告诉歌蔑，不可再离家出走或犯奸淫了。意思是说，作为神家里的人，我们也不应该再离开神转而爱世界。我们是不可以侍奉两个主人的。

How embarrassing it must have been for Hosea to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness. But God told Hosea to show love to her, so Hosea paid the price to buy her back and bring her home.

What can we learn from this? We learn that no one can climb out of the depths of sin on their own. In addition, we learn that God's work of salvation pays the price to redeem the sinner (buy them back) and save them.

This is a picture of all that God has done to show his love to us, his people. God made Jesus to be a sacrifice in order to save us. Jesus laid down his life to pay the price to redeem us, so that we can be free from our sin and have new life with God. In this way, God restored us from being slaves of sin to being his people again. He made us a part of his family again, just as Hosea restored Gomer. What a great blessing this is!

There is a book in Korea called "From Seo-cho to Heaven." Seo-cho is a district in the city of Seoul. The point is this: people can live in Seo-cho and can move to other districts in the city, but they can't move to heaven as they please. How do we "move" to heaven? It's possible only if we believe in Jesus.

How should we then live? Well, Hosea tells Gomer not to run away or commit adultery again. So this means we, as God's family, shouldn't turn away and love the world again. We cannot serve two masters.