May 14, 2025

Love In The End Times

Send us a text Have you ever poured your heart into someone who couldn't—or wouldn't—love you back? The biblical prophet Hosea lived this reality when God commanded him to marry a woman who would repeatedly betray him. His story reveals a profound truth: sometimes our most painful relationships serve a divine purpose we can't yet see. Today's episode dives deep into what it means to love with God's heart, especially when that love isn't returned. Many of us find ourselves loving people whose...

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Have you ever poured your heart into someone who couldn't—or wouldn't—love you back? The biblical prophet Hosea lived this reality when God commanded him to marry a woman who would repeatedly betray him. His story reveals a profound truth: sometimes our most painful relationships serve a divine purpose we can't yet see.

Today's episode dives deep into what it means to love with God's heart, especially when that love isn't returned. Many of us find ourselves loving people whose hearts are fractured—people who push away affection, sabotage relationships, or never learned what healthy love looks like. When we consistently show up with patience and faithfulness, these individuals often don't know how to respond. They might run, reject, or take what we've given them only to offer it to someone else.

The message of Hosea offers a radical perspective shift. Perhaps God placed you in their life not primarily to receive love but to give it—to show them what divine love looks like through your constancy. Your love becomes a seed planted in broken soil that may not sprout for years, maybe not until eternity. The value isn't measured by what returns to you but by what flows from you. As we explore this counterintuitive truth, you'll discover that loving like Hosea—loving like God—transforms not just those we love, but ourselves as well.

Ready to see your painful relationships through heaven's eyes? Listen now and discover how your unreturned love might be accomplishing more than you realize. If this message resonates with you, don't keep it to yourself—share it with someone who needs this perspective today. Visit renewedmindsetscom to explore more episodes that challenge conventional thinking with biblical truth.

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Be An Encourager...Not A Discourager!

Chapters

01:30 - Written in PAIN Scripture

02:49 - Teaching The Broken What Love Really Is

03:38 - When Your Heart Breaks Like God's

04:36 - Quiet Obedience, Eternal Reward

06:48 - When Love Isn't Returned

07:45 - Outro

Transcript

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This is Renewed Mindsets where we confront biblical truth head on no sugarcoating, no compromise.

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We expose false doctrine, reveal fulfilled prophecy and shine light on the demonic deception of these last days, but we also stand firm on the hope of Christ's return, the call to holiness and the urgency of true salvation.

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It's time to renew your mind, for the time is now.

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Let's go, boys.

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Welcome back to Renewed Mindsets where we renew our thinking by the Word of God and not the patterns of this world.

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I'm Rick and I'm so glad you're here.

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Today's episode is going to hurt a little.

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We're looking at Hosea, a prophet who was commanded by God to love someone who wouldn't love him back.

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It's one of the most painful love stories in all of Scripture.

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But what if I told you that that kind of love story is happening all around us?

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No, now, maybe God didn't tell you to marry a prostitute, like he told Hosea, but he may have called you to love someone broken, someone guarded, someone who pushes you away, someone who doesn't yet know what real love looks like, and you're the one God placed there to show them.

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It's not always dramatic.

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A lot of times it's quiet, but it's real and it matters.

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Let's talk about what it means to love with the heart of God, even when that love isn't returned.

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So when the Lord first began speaking to Israel through Hosea, he said to him Go and marry a prostitute, so that some of her children will be conceived in prostitution.

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This will illustrate how Israel has acted like a prostitute by turning against the Lord and worshiping other gods.

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That's Hosea, chapter 1, verse2.

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Now, to quote Marty McFly, this is heavy.

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Hosea didn't just preach about God's love, he lived it.

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God told him to marry Gomer, a woman who would wound him again and again, and each time she ran, god told Hosea go get her, love her anyway.

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Now, most of us won't be called to something that extreme, but many of us have been called to love people whose hearts are fractured, people who don't know how to love in return, people who sabotage relationships, push away affection or simply never learn what it looks like to be loved with consistency and grace.

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And when you're in that situation, it's easy to feel like you're wasting your time.

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But Hosea teaches us you might be walking out God's love story in disguise.

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You see, some people in your life may have never seen what godly love looks like.

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They've been lied to, used, abandoned, some were abused, and when you show up with patience and faithfulness and forgiveness, they don't know what to do with it.

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They might run from it, they might reject it, mock it or ignore it entirely.

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But that doesn't mean that your love failed.

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It means you were planting seeds in a broken soul.

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God may have placed you in their life not to get love but to give it, to teach them what it looks like.

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And the blessing is you don't always realize what you taught them until a whole lot later.

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Sometimes it's not until eternity.

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But let's be real, it hurts.

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You pour out and they don't pour back.

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You give and they take.

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You pray and they drift.

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You try to show them Christ.

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But it's in that moment that you ask God, why me?

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But Hosea's story gives us an answer, because sometimes God needs someone who's willing to love like he loves, not for what it gets back, but for what it gives out.

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Not for what it gets back, but for what it gives out.

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God does it daily.

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He loves a world that rarely thanks him, rarely obeys him and constantly breaks his heart.

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And when you love someone who doesn't know how to love in return, you get a taste of that holy sorrow and strangely it makes you more like him.

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Let me read from Hosea, chapter 3, verse 1.

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Then the Lord said to me go and love your wife again, even though she commits adultery with another lover.

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This will illustrate that the Lord still loves Israel, even though the people have turned to other gods.

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Now let me say this again God may never call you to a Hosea-level obedience, but he will call you to love the unlovable, to forgive when it makes no sense To stand in the gap for someone who doesn't even know there's a gap, and sometimes God doesn't tell you the purpose until the very end.

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You realize years later that you were there, one glimpse of Jesus, that your love softened them for something else.

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It softened something in them, that your prayers were the reason they came home.

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You may not see the harvest now, but in God's economy, love is never wasted.

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God told Hosea go again, even though she'd been with someone else, even though she gave her body away again with someone else, even though she gave her body away again, even though she's taken everything you've poured into her and spent it on someone else, and if you've ever loved someone deeply, you know this pain.

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You show them what real love is.

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You pray over them, you protect them, you forgive them, you help them grow, help them heal, and then they leave.

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And sometimes, not only do they leave, they turn around and offer that healed, better version of themselves to someone else.

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It's the kind of ache that Hosea knew, and it's the ache that many of us know too.

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But hear this Just because they took your gift and gave it away doesn't mean it was wasted.

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You weren't loving them for you, you were loving them for God, and God sees what you poured out, even if they never look back.

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If you're sitting there right now and wondering why your love wasn't enough, just let me remind you it wasn't supposed to be.

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Only God's love is enough to change a heart.

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Yours is the vessel, his is the power.

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You weren't sent to rescue them, you were sent to reflect him, and whether they ever come back around or not, you need to know this.

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You obeyed, you loved, you taught them something holy, and God is pleased.

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In these end times, when love has grown cold and self-interest reigns, the world desperately needs people who will love, like Hosea, like Christ, like God, even if it hurts.

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I want to thank you for listening to me today.

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This came from God directly.

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Sometimes the deepest love stories don't have fairytale endings, but they have eternal purpose.

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I need you to keep loving, keep trusting and know that God sees your heart, your sacrifice and your obedience.

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Just remember it's not a waste to love like Jesus, especially when there's no one else who will.

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That's all for today, but I'll be back with more unfiltered biblical truth and undeniable prophecy.

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The time to wake up is now.

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If today's episode challenged you, don't keep it to yourself.

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Tell someone.

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Please Text them a link.

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Share the truth while there's still time.

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Jesus is coming soon.

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Stay watchful, stay holy, stay holy, stay renewed Until next week.

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I'm Rick.

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Be an encourager, not a discourager.

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I love you.

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Special thanks to Christy mccurry.

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See ya.

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The intro and outro music for the renewed mindsets podcast is are you ready?

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By floodgate from the album are you ready?

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Copyright 2002 offbeat ministries incorporated.

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Floodgate can be found on apple music and itunes.

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Music used with permission.

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