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Last week - God’s plan - Repentance, Obedience, Redemption - New creation - living out new creation
This week, we are going to spend some time looking at the promises of God that we see at the end of Joel 2 once the people repented and turned in obedience claiming God’s redemption and plan for new creation.
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The Promise of the Spirit (28-29)
• “And it shall come to pass afterward”
o Afterward – after God’s promise of restoration (vv.18-27)
Both first and second advent significance in this short passage
• “I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh”
o Significance of giving of the Spirit of God in the OT. - The Spirit was alive and well - part of the Trinity even before Pentecost.
We see God’s promise to pour out his spirit upon those he has restored.
o God’s promise was to all people here, both Jew and Gentile - First Coming of Jesus Christ
o (Promise of Christ)
o (Day of Pentecost) Acts 2:38-39
• “Your sons and daughters…your old men…your young men.”
o Israel is still God’s chosen people and still has a major role to play in God’s redemptive history.
Also significant that God mentions both men and women - God will pour out his spirit on all and calls regardless of gender or any other category we may put people in.
• How blessed are we to be counted among those to whom the Holy Spirit of God has been so generously poured out upon.
o Through God’s Spirit we are given the ability to know and understand spiritual truths - God reveals himself more and more to those that follow him - what a privilege and blessing to learn more about our God!
o Also God gives us the ability to live a life of obedience that is pleasing to Him and no longer just serving to please ourselves.
II.
The Promise of Signs (30-31)
Vs. 30a
• Again both first and second advent significance in this prophecy also.
• First Coming “show wonders in the heavens and in the earth”
o Jesus’ life
o Jesus’ death
Vv. 30b-31
• Second Coming
• Why does God promise signs?
o To get our attention, scripture says that we are not even looking for God, He must come to us.
o To give us direction, God wants to make sure that we know the way to Him.
III.
The Promise of Salvation (32)
• The pouring out of the Spirit, the signs; were all done for this reason - that we might be saved.
o First Advent
o Second Advent
• God is still pouring out His Spirit, He is still doing wonders (changed lives), and He is still saving people.
• Are we doing our part?
o “preacher” means one who proclaims or one who tells.
- Anyone who shares the Good News
How are you doing as bearers of the Good News of God’s New Creation - both in the here and now and in the yet to come?
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