Urgent Call to Restoration: Embrace God's Promise
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "It doesn't matter how your life looks. It doesn't matter how prosperous you feel in the experience of your life right now. If you don't take the word of God to heart, your life isn't right. And so God is calling his people to listen. This is an urgent thing. Hear my voice, hear my word, and respond and take it to heart. And we need to take it to heart as well, right?" [51:48]
2. "You know the most famous verse in the Bible, John 3, 16, right? For God so loved the world, he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him will not perish, but have everlasting life. Do you know what the next verse says? John 3, 17? It says, God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Jesus says, listen, I've not come to beat you up and condemn you. I've come to save you." [54:17]
3. "Friends, Pastor Kyle taught us last week, we don't want to live on autopilot. We don't want to settle down to a normal life. We want to do something that matters. We want to do something about what's happening in our world today. So let me make a suggestion, can I? Turn off the news channels. Turn off the gloom and doom forecasters. And choose, listen, to get outside of your houses and into our communities and lead lost people to Jesus where true heart transformation can happen. Because that's how the world changes." [46:34]
4. "Tomorrow, Lord, because tonight I've got things I wanna do. Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. But the Bible says, listen, today is the day of salvation. Right now, today. Now is the time. And so rather than wait till tomorrow, God tells the people of Judah, here in Joel chapter, two, there's an urgent matter that you need to hear about. Something you need to give your attention to right now, not tomorrow, today." [49:16]
### Quotes for Members
1. "And here's the second thing. God is basically saying, I'm warning you. And God in love does this. Doesn't he always warns us before he sends his judgment? And he's warning his people through this plague of locusts that a worse infestation is gonna come. The Babylonian army is gonna come upon Judah unless they repent. So the first thing that we see is God is calling his people to a sense of urgency. That is what restoration requires." [51:48]
2. "And we read in chapter two, in verse 18, finally, after all that, that the Lord, it says, became jealous for his land, and he had pity, compassion, and mercy on his people. God says, behold, I am sending you grain that you haven't had for four years, wine and oil, and you will be satisfied. Yes, finally, this great promise, right? From verse 19 onward, you see that God is promising to do good to his people." [01:03:02]
3. "I will restore to you the years that the locusts have eaten. Let me say that one more time. I will restore to you the years that the locusts have eaten. We're gonna gaze today into an amazing promise but also an amazing mystery of God. It's the God factor in all this. I describe it as a mystery because restoring years is obviously impossible, right? It cannot be done. You lose money. There are different ways in which money can be restored. Property can be restored. You can restore an old car. You can restore a painting. You can restore an old house. Relationships can be restored in that great forgiveness, reconciliation, that's wonderful. But one thing that can never be restored is time." [59:58]
4. "And we need to ask, what does it mean for us? And you know why we can do that? Why we can take an old story in the Old Testament and do something like that? Because the Bible says the word of God is living and active. And if it's living and active, that doesn't mean it's stagnant and an old story. It means it's still moving and working in your life today. The word of God is able to meet you where you are. The word of God, no matter what you've done, no matter what your past looks like, is able to speak something into your life today." [01:04:20]
5. "You ask anyone who became a Christian later in life, and they will tell you they wished they had become a Christian sooner. I guarantee you. It's a story that's been repeated thousands of times. Picture a person, let's just say his name's John. I'm going to take John, and John made kind of a half-hearted commitment to Christ, but it never really ran that deep. He had a faith in Jesus, but his faith in Jesus was kind of one little slice of the big pie of his life. And John's pursuing all these other things. And then one day, God gets a hold of John. And John is spiritually awakened, finally." [01:08:13]
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1. "It doesn't matter how your life looks. It doesn't matter how prosperous you feel in the experience of your life right now. If you don't take the word of God to heart, your life isn't right. And so God is calling his people to listen. This is an urgent thing. Hear my voice, hear my word, and respond and take it to heart. And we need to take it to heart as well, right?" [51:48]
2. "You know the most famous verse in the Bible, John 3, 16, right? For God so loved the world, he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him will not perish, but have everlasting life. Do you know what the next verse says? John 3, 17? It says, God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Jesus says, listen, I've not come to beat you up and condemn you. I've come to save you." [54:17]
3. "Friends, Pastor Kyle taught us last week, we don't want to live on autopilot. We don't want to settle down to a normal life. We want to do something that matters. We want to do something about what's happening in our world today. So let me make a suggestion, can I? Turn off the news channels. Turn off the gloom and doom forecasters. And choose, listen, to get outside of your houses and into our communities and lead lost people to Jesus where true heart transformation can happen. Because that's how the world changes." [46:34]
4. "Tomorrow, Lord, because tonight I've got things I wanna do. Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. But the Bible says, listen, today is the day of salvation. Right now, today. Now is the time. And so rather than wait till tomorrow, God tells the people of Judah, here in Joel chapter, two, there's an urgent matter that you need to hear about. Something you need to give your attention to right now, not tomorrow, today." [49:16]
### Quotes for Members
1. "And here's the second thing. God is basically saying, I'm warning you. And God in love does this. Doesn't he always warns us before he sends his judgment? And he's warning his people through this plague of locusts that a worse infestation is gonna come. The Babylonian army is gonna come upon Judah unless they repent. So the first thing that we see is God is calling his people to a sense of urgency. That is what restoration requires." [51:48]
2. "And we read in chapter two, in verse 18, finally, after all that, that the Lord, it says, became jealous for his land, and he had pity, compassion, and mercy on his people. God says, behold, I am sending you grain that you haven't had for four years, wine and oil, and you will be satisfied. Yes, finally, this great promise, right? From verse 19 onward, you see that God is promising to do good to his people." [01:03:02]
3. "I will restore to you the years that the locusts have eaten. Let me say that one more time. I will restore to you the years that the locusts have eaten. We're gonna gaze today into an amazing promise but also an amazing mystery of God. It's the God factor in all this. I describe it as a mystery because restoring years is obviously impossible, right? It cannot be done. You lose money. There are different ways in which money can be restored. Property can be restored. You can restore an old car. You can restore a painting. You can restore an old house. Relationships can be restored in that great forgiveness, reconciliation, that's wonderful. But one thing that can never be restored is time." [59:58]
4. "And we need to ask, what does it mean for us? And you know why we can do that? Why we can take an old story in the Old Testament and do something like that? Because the Bible says the word of God is living and active. And if it's living and active, that doesn't mean it's stagnant and an old story. It means it's still moving and working in your life today. The word of God is able to meet you where you are. The word of God, no matter what you've done, no matter what your past looks like, is able to speak something into your life today." [01:04:20]
5. "You ask anyone who became a Christian later in life, and they will tell you they wished they had become a Christian sooner. I guarantee you. It's a story that's been repeated thousands of times. Picture a person, let's just say his name's John. I'm going to take John, and John made kind of a half-hearted commitment to Christ, but it never really ran that deep. He had a faith in Jesus, but his faith in Jesus was kind of one little slice of the big pie of his life. And John's pursuing all these other things. And then one day, God gets a hold of John. And John is spiritually awakened, finally." [01:08:13]
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