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God Calls People to REPENTANCE & RESTORATION The Book of JOEL

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• 1. God calls His people to

grieve over their sin

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• 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

• r in the days of your ancestors?

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• 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.

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• 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;

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• 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.

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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?"

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 1. God calls His people to

grieve over their sin

Joel 1:5-14 (HCSB) –

11 Be ashamed, you farmers,

wail, you vinedressers,

• ver the wheat and the barley,

because the harvest of the field has perished.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 2. God calls His people to

return to Him in repentance

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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+ 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.

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+ 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.

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• 3. God promises to restore

His people by His Spirit

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 3. God promises to restore

His people by His Spirit

Joel 2:25-32 (HCSB) –

29 I will even pour out My Spirit

• n 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.

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• 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.

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• 3. God promises to restore

His people by His Spirit

Joel 2:25-32 (HCSB) –

32 Then everyone who calls

• n 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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God Calls People to REPENTANCE & RESTORATION The Book of JOEL

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