God Calls People to REPENTANCE & RESTORATION The Book of JOEL - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 1. God calls His people to grieve over their sin

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 1. God calls His people to grieve over their sin Joel 1:1-4 (HCSB) – 1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel son of Pethuel: 2 Hear this, you elders; listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors?

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 1. God calls His people to grieve over their sin Joel 1:1-4 (HCSB) – 3 Tell your children about it, and let your children tell their children, and their children the next generation.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 1. God calls His people to grieve over their sin Joel 1:1-4 (HCSB) – 4 What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten;

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 1. God calls His people to grieve over their sin Joel 1:1-4 (HCSB) – and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text Matthew 6:25-26 (HCSB) – "This is what I tell you: Don't worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the sky: They don't sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you worth more than they?"

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 1. God calls His people to grieve over their sin Joel 1:5-14 (HCSB) – 5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you wine drinkers, because of the sweet wine, for it has been taken from your mouth.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 1. God calls His people to grieve over their sin Joel 1:5-14 (HCSB) – 6 For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the fangs of a lioness.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 1. God calls His people to grieve over their sin Joel 1:5-14 (HCSB) – 7 It has devastated My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off its bark and thrown it away; its branches have turned white.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 1. God calls His people to grieve over their sin Joel 1:5-14 (HCSB) – 8 Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, mourning for the husband of her youth.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 1. God calls His people to grieve over their sin Joel 1:5-14 (HCSB) – 9 Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, who are ministers of the Lord, mourn.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 1. God calls His people to grieve over their sin Joel 1:5-14 (HCSB) – 10 The fields are destroyed; the land grieves; indeed, the grain is destroyed; the new wine is dried up; and the olive oil fails.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 1. God calls His people to grieve over their sin Joel 1:5-14 (HCSB) – 11 Be ashamed, you farmers, wail, you vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 1. God calls His people to grieve over their sin Joel 1:5-14 (HCSB) – 12 The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, the date palm, and the apple — all the trees of the orchard — have withered. Indeed, human joy has dried up.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 1. God calls His people to grieve over their sin Joel 1:5-14 (HCSB) – 13 Dress in sackcloth and lament, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 1. God calls His people to grieve over their sin Joel 1:5-14 (HCSB) – Come and spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, because grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 1. God calls His people to grieve over their sin Joel 1:5-14 (HCSB) – 14 Announce a sacred fast; proclaim an assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land at the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 2. God calls His people to return to Him in repentance

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 2. God calls His people to return to Him in repentance Joel 2:12-14 (HCSB) – 12 Even now – this is the Lord’s declaration – turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 2. God calls His people to return to Him in repentance Joel 2:12-14 (HCSB) – 13 Tear your hearts, not just your clothes, and return to the Lord your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, rich in faithful love; He relents from sending disaster.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 2. God calls His people to return to Him in repentance Joel 2:12-14 (HCSB) – 14 Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him, so you can offer grain and wine to the Lord your God.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text + Repentance is a heart attitude expressed in outward action Joel 2:12b-13a (HCSB) – Turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning. 13 Tear your hearts, not just your clothes, and return to the Lord your God.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text + Repentance is received by a gracious & compassionate God Joel 2:13b (HCSB) – For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, rich in faithful love; He relents from sending disaster.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 3. God promises to restore His people by His Spirit

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 3. God promises to restore His people by His Spirit Joel 2:18 (HCSB) – 18 Then the Lord became jealous for His land and spared His people.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 3. God promises to restore His people by His Spirit Joel 2:25-32 (HCSB) – 25 I will repay you for the years that the swarming locust ate, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust — My great army that I sent against you.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 3. God promises to restore His people by His Spirit Joel 2:25-32 (HCSB) – 26 You will have plenty to eat and be satisfied. You will praise the name of Yahweh your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. My people will never again be put to shame.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 3. God promises to restore His people by His Spirit Joel 2:25-32 (HCSB) – 27 You will know that I am present in Israel and that I am Yahweh your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 3. God promises to restore His people by His Spirit Joel 2:25-32 (HCSB) – 28 After this I will pour out My Spirit on all humanity; then your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your old men will have dreams, and your young men will see visions.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 3. God promises to restore His people by His Spirit Joel 2:25-32 (HCSB) – 29 I will even pour out My Spirit on the male and female slaves in those days. 30 I will display wonders in the heavens and on the earth: blood, fire, and columns of smoke.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 3. God promises to restore His people by His Spirit Joel 2:25-32 (HCSB) – 31 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and awe- inspiring Day of the Lord comes.

Here is some test text Here is some test text Here is some test text 3. God promises to restore His people by His Spirit Joel 2:25-32 (HCSB) – 32 Then everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh will be saved, for there will be an escape for those on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, as the Lord promised, among the survivors the Lord calls.

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