Alright, if you will, please
open to the book of Hosea. Hosea. To the right of Psalms
you'll find Ezekiel, Daniel, and Hosea. There's not a lot of sermons
out of the book of Hosea. I think that's a shame, but I
think I have some understanding as to why. The truth of our sin
is exposed in this book as plainly and as clearly, as accurately
as we can handle. It's put into brutal, honest
terms. What we are in our birth, it's
on display. Our lewdness is on display, public
auction block. And the purpose of God to save
a people, all the performing of all the work, from deciding
to do it, from choosing the people, his wisdom, the knowledge he
has in planning out and his providence, just exactly how to save those
people, maximizes his glory. And it's greatly for our good. Nothing could be better for our
good. The performance of it and the preserving of it, of salvation,
is absolutely, completely all of the Lord from start to finish. That's why most people don't
like to preach out of Hosea. It's a beautiful book. One of
the clearest pictures we see of Christ redeeming His church
in all the Scriptures, as plain as it can be for us. Some of the commentators, I believe
they've aired, and they say that this is just a parable. This
is just a story that was given to us to explain something. I
firmly disagree. Hosea was a prophet. Gomer was
his bride. Gomer did what she did. Hosea
lived up to his name that his mommy and daddy gave him, the
deliverer. He delivered his bride. I think
the Lord made that come to pass in this earth, in reality, to
give us a picture. Just to show us what He's done
for us. Hosea means deliverer. Same name
as Joshua. Same name as Jesus. He saves
His people. He delivers His people. Gomer
means consumption. The word completion. Complete
death. Her father's name was Burnt Branch. Dead tree. She's complete dead. And through her Redeemer, through
her Deliverer, through her Hosea, she's complete in Him. That's
the only source of completion for her. The only hope she has.
In chapter 1, verse 2, we see here the wedding announcement. Hosea 1, verse 2, "...in the
beginning of the word of the Lord to Hosea. And the Lord said
unto Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children
of whoredoms." You take her, you take all the offspring she
has. George now. "...For the land
hath committed great whoredom departing from the Lord. This
wife of whoredoms Hosea didn't go down to that town and say,
I think that one's got some potential. I think maybe she's probably
the better of the stock. I can make something out of her.
She was just like all her brethren from a land of whoredoms, a people
of whoredoms. Nothing in her appealing, nothing
in her that was potential, no worth, no value. This all happened
in In physical time here, the Lord spoke to His prophet, and
He said, you go marry a wife of Hortense. This is a picture
for us of time past, before the foundation of the world, God
the Holy Father spoke to His Son. And He said, I'm going to
make a whole people just like you. Now you go to them, and
you take your bride. The announcement was made. And
then in chapter 2, here's where we come in. Here's where we physically
enter the picture. Chapter 2, verse 2. Plead with
your mother, plead, for she is not my wife, neither am I her
husband. Let her therefore put away her
whoredoms out of her sight and her adulteries from between her
breasts, lest I strip her naked. and set her as in the day that
she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like
a dry land, and slay her with thirst. And I will not have mercy
upon her children, for they will be the children of whoredoms,
for their mother hath played the harlot. She that conceived
them hath done shamefully, for she said, I will go after my
lovers that give me my bread, and my water, my wool, my flax,
mine oil, and my drink. This is how we entered this earth
in our natural birth, in our physical birth. Scriptures say
we come forth from the womb speaking lies. We serve ourselves. We look after our oil, our flax. I want all the things to dress
me in, all the comforts, the foods, the drinks, and the anointings,
the oil. We think something in this world
provides it, or we think something worse, something in us provides
it. All of us enter this life the same way. And sin must be
punished. Sin must be punished. The Lord
will remain just. But never forget, before we came
on the scene, our Redeemer, our Deliverer,
went and took a bride. He loved her. He loved His bride
before time was. Then here in verse 6, the Lord
deals with us in Providence. This is our condition. This is
His planning. This is the wedding promise,
the wedding vows. Chapter 2, verse 6. Therefore
behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns and make a wall that
she shall not find her paths. People call that fate. That's
the Lord's sovereign Providence. I'm going to go to Hawaii. You
might, you might not. There's a whole lot between here
and there. I'm going to walk to that door. I might, I might
not. The Lord sets walls around His people. He hedges them about.
And see verse 7, She shall follow after her lovers, but she shall
not overtake them. And she shall seek them, but
shall not find them. Then shall she say, I will go
and return to my first husband, for it was then better with me
than now." Just like that prodigal son. He's out there in a hog
pen, eating hog feed, and he said, I'm going to go back to
my father's house. At least his servants, they eat better than
this. They eat better than these hogs do. The Lord's providence
in everything in our lives turns us, hedges us about, there's
thorns in the way. He directs us directly, puts
us exactly where He'd have us. right to himself. It says in
verse 8, for she did not know that I gave her corn and wine
and oil, multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared
for Baal. He gave us wine. He gave us oil,
the flax, and everything. And what do we do with it? In
our ignorance, in our natures, we burn it to false gods, thinking
it was ours. The Lord provided that. He provides
for His people. But He gives this oil and then
He also removes it. The things that we trust in,
the things we think are ours will be chipped away. It will
be whittled away. He goes on there saying that
He's going to take away all those things and He's going to discover
her. Verse 10. Now I discover her
lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver
her out of my hand." Whenever all of our vines are gone that
we thought we've planted, when all of our oil's gone, all of
our wool, everything that we think is good, all of our pleasure
in it. That's a big payment. People
are always concerned about money. I do a whole bunch of stuff because
I like to. Goldmer could have been in her
profession because she just enjoyed it. All the things that we enjoy,
we find comfort in, is going to be removed. And the Lord's
going to expose our lewdness. And no one will deliver you out
of his hand if he chooses to show your lewdness. If he's going
to come to you in the Holy Spirit, that comforter comes and convicts
of sin in our hearts. You can run for the hills, you
can run for the mountains, you can run for the ocean, you ain't
gonna escape it. He will perform that he's intended
to perform. But he takes all of our resources
that we provide for ourselves. What we think is ours, ain't
nothing ours. What we think, and He removes
those things. And He shows us the false religion that we once
thought was jewels. We thought it was earrings, these
things that adorned us. But all it was, was forgetting
the Lord. Every bit of it. Look here in verse 13, And I
will visit upon her the days of Balaam, wherein she burned
incense to them, and she decked herself with earrings and her
jewels. And she went after her lovers
and forgot me, saith the Lord." All these adornings, these jewels,
pretty earrings, we thought was good. We thought this world gave
us what we gave ourselves. The Lord said, all that is, that's
forgetting me. We're in a bad spot anyway. Then He comes to us. We're made
low, we're made humble, and this is all the promise of what's
going to happen. He chose the people, and here's the vow. So
these are the things you've done, and here's what I'm going to
do. My providence is going to bring you all the way down to
cross feet. Verse 14. Therefore, behold,
I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak
comfortably unto her. Rock bottom. Brought her all
the way down. Humble completely. Stripped of
everything that we thought was good. And the Lord said, I'm
going to lure you into the wilderness. I'm going to get you all by yourself.
And I'm going to speak to the heart. Comfortably to the heart. And then he was going to restore
everything she had. And give you vineyards. He burned up them
other ones. They'll be rejoicing. I'll give
you youth back to you. Verse 19 says, and I will betroth
thee unto me forever. I will betroth thee unto me forever. Yea, I will betroth thee unto
me in righteousness. How I'm going to do this, how
he's going to be wed to his bride will be holy. It's going to be
holy. I will betroth you unto me in
judgment. All judgment will be satisfied
and that judgment will be final. to be eternal, and in loving
kindness and in mercies, tenderly, with great care, with great mercy,
forgiveness is how He will betroth her unto Him. I will even betroth
thee unto Me in faithfulness." You're going to be faithful to
the Lord, and thou shalt know the Lord. That's His promise. He loved the bride. Just promised to keep him. That's
the Lord speaking through that whole second chapter. He said,
this is what I'm going to do. He's going to use Hosea to do
it physically. That's what he's going to perform. That was the
engagement we saw there in chapter 1. These are the vows. It said,
you're going to wander, you're going to stray, and everything
in this universe is going to be performed and function exactly
to draw you to me. Put you right where I want you.
And now we're going to see the action. or this playing out,
or the wedding ceremony. This is when Gomer comes to find
out about it. This is when this actually takes place. Here in
chapter 3, Hosea 3. We begin in verse 1. Then said the Lord unto me, Go,
yet love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress according
to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel. who looked
to other gods and loved flagons of wine. So I bought her to me
for 15 pieces of silver and for a omer of barley and a half omer
of barley. And I said unto her, thou shalt
abide for me many days. Thou shalt not play the harlot.
Thou shalt not be for another man. So will I also be for thee. It says there in verse one, The
Lord spoke to him and he says, go yet. Go again. How does the Lord come to us
again? He came to us in eternity past, didn't he? He loved us
then. He vowed to keep his people then. He entered into a covenant with
his father. He loved his bride. He loved his Gomer. And now here
she is destitute. We came into this world born
destitute. She's destitute. And the Lord says, go yet. Now
her paths are hedged about. Now that thorny way has put her
exactly where she is. Her lewdness is exposed. She's
on an auction block naked for sale. She has no worth and no
one to care for. And he says, go again. Now go
to her. Got her right where I want her.
She's in a place of need. She's not a place of pride. Not
a place of clean living. I think I'm good enough now to
go to service. That woman's in need. She's a
beggar, a mercy beggar. Why would Hosea go there to get
Gomer? He must go get her. He made a covenant with the father,
he must keep his word. Christ must keep his word to
our eternal father. But Gomer was on this slave block.
She was in bondage. The law said she must be sold. She's in captivity. She can't
go to him. It's an impossibility. What binds
us that we can't come to Christ on our own? The law binds us. That's what's put between us,
isn't it? We're bound to the law. Slaves to the law. We're
bound to this nature that we were born in. This family of
ordens. Nature of sin. We're bound to
sin. We have no desire and no ability to come to Him. Our Hosea
must come to us. Hosea, deliverer, you go. That's what the Lord said to
him. It hurts my heart. It offends
me. I get mad sometimes, and I get
a little more poppy than I ought to be. But it hurts me. It pains
my heart. People say, God's just waiting
and hoping you come to Him. God's not waiting, and He is
not hoping that His bride comes to Him. He seeks His lost sheep. He gave that parable. He said,
which one of you have a hundred sheep, Ninety and nine. You leave
them and you go after that one lost one. Go yet. Go again. It says, Go
yet. Love a woman. I fought long and
hard for that. Physically on this earth. Hosea,
go act like you love that woman. That was a mighty miracle of
God's grace to that man. He loved her. Hosea loved Gomer. He didn't say try. He didn't
say act like it. He said, go love her. Love a
woman. Go yet love a woman beloved of
her friend. That friend there is Hosea. She is loved of Hosea. She does not love Hosea. In the timeline of this story,
whenever they first met, she didn't love him. They had those
three children, she didn't love him. When she left, she didn't
love him. Whenever he was sneaking up there at night, find out where
she is and he will leave a little bit of oil out there. Leave a
little bit of money out there, make sure she got through the
day. She didn't love him. He loved her. Beloved of a friend. He loved her. We have a friend
that's closer than a brother, don't we? our Deliverer, our
Redeemer, our Hosea. Christ loved us when we didn't
love Him. It says, Yet an adulteress, while
we were still in our sins, without love in our hearts, Christ died
for the ungodly. While we were at enmity with
Him, hating God, Christ came to us. We didn't like him a little
bit and then he come to us. In the depths of our rebellion
against the Almighty God we offended, that's when Christ comes to us. You go love this woman. Go love
Gomer. According to the love of the
Lord towards the children of Israel. This is the same situation. This
is the same love and this is the same salvation in Christ
for all of God's elect, all of his spiritual Israel. This is
how he does it. It's his pattern. He sits a watchman
on the wall and they cry, come. And that spirit comes to him. Some
people say, well, now I don't really think I was on an auction
block. I did some bad things or I did okay under the law. I'm bound to it, but I didn't
do everything, but I didn't break the whole law. And I'm not completely
naked and I'm not completely worthless. I'm bad, but I'm not
a prostitute that's on a slave block in handcuffs. That's not
me. God hasn't come to you yet. God
hasn't exposed His lewdness to you. I've been saved, not according
to His Word. He said, this is what I'm going
to do. I'm going to pierce your heart. Convict you of what you
are, of who Christ is, and what He's accomplished. So come to
us. Turn over to 1 Corinthians chapter
1. 1 Corinthians 1, beginning in verse
26. For you see your calling, brethren,
how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many not mighty
and not many noble, are called. So easily we read through that
and we say, well yeah, there's not a whole lot of brilliant
people, there's not a lot of tremendously mighty people, and
there's not much nobility that the Lord sends his word to. That
can also be read how that not everyone that God calls is wise. He didn't only call mighty. He
didn't only call nobility. He's not a respecter of persons.
But God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound
the wise, and God hath chosen the weak things of the world
to confound the things which are mighty, and the base things
of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen,
yea, and things which are not to bring to naught things that
are that." Here's the reason. Poor, nasty, Despicable gomer. God said, that one's mine. He
saved her, didn't he? Our master walked this earth
and oh, they just thumbed their noses up at him. Did you see
who he's eating dinner with? Look at that. Sinners. Publicans. That woman come and washed his
feet with her hair and her tears. He's anointed by people that
just disgusted everyone around him. And He did it on purpose. That's the people He saved. Why?
Verse 29, that no flesh should glory in His presence. If I was
mighty, if I was noble, if I was wise, I'd have something to stand
in, wouldn't I? Are you weak? Are you base? Are you despised?
Are you a fool concerning the wisdom of God? If not, I pray
He makes you that way. I pray it crushes everything
you put your hopes in. I'm back in our text here in
Hosea 3. Verse 1, Hosea 3, verse 1. Then
said the Lord unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend,
yet an adulteress, according to the love of the Lord toward
the children of Israel, who look to other gods and loved flagons
of wine. Every one of us, we look to anything
that's not Christ. Ourselves, our idols, other gods,
and we love flagons of wine. We were drunk on our pride, drunk
in our self-righteousness. So I bought her to me for 15
pieces of silver and for an omer of barley and a half omer of
barley. Physically, Hosea was purchased
Gomer for a small amount. Brother Hawker said in his day
this was about one pound seven pence, a dollar and seven cents
back then. What would that be now, $10?
Less than the cost of a cheeseburger. An omer of barley and a half
omer of barley. That was large rough grains. They probably didn't
even weigh it. That one that was auctioned off
just wanted it. That ain't even worth paying for. Fifteen pieces
of silver. That was a small amount. There
wasn't a bidding war going on. Understand that? The price didn't
get jacked up. There wasn't a slew of people
there trying to get a good price, but they really wanted gomer.
There was one bidder. One that was kin, wed before
eternity. One that was willing to do it,
to bear that shame. This is God's prophet. Go take
back his cheating wife. She's ruined herself. And he's
able. He's able to buy her. Her deliverer. Her kinsman redeemer. Physically, earthly, the story
that transpired The worth of Gomer was very low. It was 15
pieces of silver. I won't have you turn there,
but in Exodus 21-32, there was all the laws given about slaves
and lending and all kinds of things. And it says there that
if an ox were to push a manservant or a maidservant, that means
if it butts, it takes its horn and knocks them into a ditch.
The owner of that ox must pay that manservant or maidservant
30 pieces of silver. If a cow hit one of you kids,
that man owes me twice as much as Gomer was worth. What a shame. What was the payment
for us earthly? Just what happens in this earth
for us to be brought to Christ? Turn over to Isaiah 43. I quote this a lot, but it's
good to read it. Isaiah 43. Earthly, for you and I to be
purchased, to be hedged about, to be brought to Christ's feet,
what does it take? Just in Providence, just on this
earth. Isaiah 43, verse 1. But now thus saith the Lord that
created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, fear
not, for I have redeemed thee. I have called thee by thy name,
thou art mine." Gomer was purchased by Hosea, not everyone on that
auction block, by name, Gomer, and she was redeemed. as the
Lord redeems us. Verse two, when thou passest
through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers,
they shall not overflow thee. When thou walkest through the
fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle
upon thee, for I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel,
thy Savior. I gave Egypt for thy ransom,
Ethiopia and Seba for thee. Since thou wast precious in my
sight, Thou hast been honorable. We're honorable. The only reason
we're honorable, the only reason that Gomer was honorable, the
only reason I'm honorable is because I was precious in his
sight. Since thou was precious in my sight, thou hast been honorable
and I have loved thee. Therefore, will I give men for
thee and people for thy life. Pestilence, viruses, pandemics come upon
this nation this past 12 months, hasn't it? Lord saved his people
from that. I got to witness that. I got
to hear about it. That was exciting. Somebody's schedule changed because
the work couldn't be open or they got closed and that child
had to go stay with somebody else. And while they were staying
there, that family member was listening to a preacher on TV,
on YouTube, because they had to live stream. So they could
keep her. Lord saved that woman. He sends
all these things. He sends wars down here. He taught
me and you some stuff. He says halfway around the world
to teach us one little thing of what we are. What a Gomer
I am. Nations. That physical nation
of Israel was wiped off the face of the map so the gospel could
come to us Gentiles. Millions of people. Earthly,
that's the price for us Gomers. Spiritually, what's the price? Go back a couple pages there
in Isaiah 42, or I'm sorry, Isaiah 40. Spiritually, what was the price
of our purchase? Isaiah 40, verse 1. Comfort ye,
comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak to their hearts. He'll
draw them to the wilderness. he'll speak comfort to them as
he promised he would Gomer. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem
and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity
is pardoned. She has been purchased for she
hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins. The price for this Gomer has
got to be double what I'm worth. I think this is beautiful. I
think the Lord showed me something here and I hope you all stay
with me. In Matthew 26, 14 through 16,
Judas Iscariot went to the high priest and he said, how much
will you give me for him if I turn him over to you? Y'all looking
to get Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I'll turn him over to you. How
much will you give me? And they went into a covenant.
And you know how much they paid Judas? 30 pieces of silver. Double what I'm worth for all
my sin. The cross was numbered with the
transgressors. He bore the shame of the cross
for his people. He had to bear the sin that put
me on that auction block. I earned it. I earned the shackles.
I earned the The ugliness, the shame, and he took every bit
of it in our place. Substitute and satisfaction.
It's a two-word gospel, isn't it? Filthy, horrible. If we saw that right now out
in the parking lot, and it was a normal occurrence for these
folks to walk by, we'd turn our eyes and go hide. If I saw what
I was, I'd go hide from you. That's what he became. And not
just becoming that, but suffer the punishment of it. The whole wrath of God. God turned
His back on God for a woman of whoredoms. What's the result? All this undeserved
great mercy. This wonderful grace of this
purchase that was given for us. Look here at our text, Hosea
3. Hosea bought her, and he got
her in a car, and he said, you know everything you put me through?
Let me bring up everything you've done in the past that got you
here. That ain't what he said, was it? Look here in verse 3.
And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days. This
is forever. Thou shalt not play the harlot,
and thou shalt not be for another man. So will I also be for thee. She's going to be bound to Him,
looking to Him only, forever. And I can't explain this, how
this is possible. With me, this is impossible.
With God, all things are possible. Just the same as Hosea was married
to one Gomer. He said, so I'll be to thee,
to each of his children. that He entered that marriage
covenant before time began, that He loved before time began. When we didn't love Him equally
to each one of them, He will fully and completely be for them. That's what He promised through
chapter 2. He said, you'll no longer call
Me Master, you'll call Me Esha, you'll call Me Husband. And just
to make rules, rules are a thing. You're going to love Me and I'm
going to love you equally. I want to see this play out there. Turn to Jeremiah chapter 30. We'll see this kind of summed
up. The Lord's speaking about the
restoration of Israel, what He's going to do for them, for His
people, His spiritual Israel. And He says in Jeremiah 30, verse
20, Their children also shall be as before time, and their
congregation shall be established before Me. He's going to save
His people. And I will punish all that oppress
them. Every enemy, every foe is going
to be punished. Look down at verse 23. Behold
the whirlwind of the Lord go forth with fury, continuing whirlwind,
and it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. The fierce
anger of the Lord shall not return. until He hath done it, and until
He hath performed the intents of His heart in the latter days,
ye shall consider it." The Lord's going to punish sin. In the latter
days, people will consider these things. Frightening. Everybody's
worried about all that, isn't it? They don't read chapter 31,
verse 1. Look at there, at the same time,
While all this is happening, this great whirlwind, this wrath,
this anger, at the same time, saith the Lord, will I be the
God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
That's what we looked at this morning. A whole family of God.
Every one of them given Christ's name. The Lord our righteousness.
He will be their God. Verse 2, Thus saith the Lord,
the people which were left of the sword found grace in the
wilderness, even Israel, When I went to cause him to rest,
the Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have
loved thee with an everlasting love. Therefore, cause that covenant
before, that promise before time, therefore, with loving kindness
have I drawn thee." The Lord is to the wilderness. Brought
us out there, spoke peace to our hearts. Took us off a slave
block, a prostitute, And you know what He will say to us?
Look at verse 4. Again, I will build thee, and
thou shalt be built. Be born anew, given a new spirit,
a new nature. O virgin of Israel. It's not
any day different. That ain't a cleaned up version
of Galilee. O Virgin of Israel, thou shalt
again be adorned with thy taprets, and shalt go forth in the dances
of them that make merry. Oh, you're going to rejoice in
this. I'm going to make you anew, build you up, and you shall be
built. And verses 5 through 9 goes into the rejoicing that's going
to take place. And then we see there in verse
10, Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it
in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattereth Israel will
gather him up, and keep him as a shepherd doth his flock. Those
that are scattered abroad he allowed to go, hedge up, he'll
put thorns in their path, he'll bring them right to him. For
the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand
of him that was stronger than he. That law should be terrifying
to every man. The sin that's in us we were
born with, that should be terrifying to us because it's much stronger
than we are. We're not getting a handle on sin. We're not going
to attain the law. The separation from God that
we had is much stronger than us, but we've been ransomed and
we've been redeemed by Him. We've been purchased off an auction
block. And we rejoice. And we dance. We sing. Back in our text there
in Hosea 3. It says in verse 4, for the children
of Israel, all this happened. This prophet married this woman,
took that shame. You know everybody in town, they
wasn't nothing but whispering going on. Do you see Hosea? I bet there's committees upon
committees trying to run him out of there. The Lord wouldn't
let it happen. All this happened for a purpose. This took place
not just for Gomer, not just for Hosea physically, for a purpose. Look here in verse 4. For the
children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and
without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image,
and without an ephod, and without teraphim. Your whole life, until
the Lord comes to you, you're going to be without Him, without
God. Verse 5, afterward, after He
comes to us, shows us our lewdness, shows us what we are, breaks
our heart, humbles us. makes us to see we're on that
auction block and He purchases us, loves us. Afterwards shall
the children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God and
David their King and shall fear the Lord and His goodness in
the latter days. I wouldn't think it was a good
thing if I was in condition physically, if I had to live that, if that
was my life. The Lord's providence for me was to be a gomer physically
on this earth. Boy, at the end of it. When you
see Him, you see the price it took to buy you double everything
that I've earned. What goodness! Oh, what goodness! I pray throughout our days, as
our days get lighter. As we grow, the Lord shows us
more and more of His goodness. But physically, consider Hosea,
his prophet, and Gomer, the prostitute. What scandal? So many people
say, oh, I feel sorry for Hosea. I would never be a gomer. Boy,
we're going to have to be gomers. If you're ever going to meet
a Hosea, or meet a deliverer. Physically, that's something.
Lord's providence. But spiritually consider, for
us gomers, those who cross-purchased, how meek, how lowly he had to
come to pay our price. to purchase us. Brother Henry said, when Hosea
got Gomer home, you think he had trouble getting a cup of
coffee the next morning? She loved him because he first
loved her. That's what it is.