He Made A Way

This Week’s Theme: Purposed Restored

Word for the Week is Restoration: The returning of something or someone to their original state. Through the redeeming work of Jesus Christ, both humanity and creation will eventually be restored.

Memory verse: Galatians 6:1 Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who [are] spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.

Sermon Focus: Through Jesus, we can be forgiven and restored to the purpose for which He created us.

Sermon Passage: Acts 3:14-26

Acts 3:14–26 NKJV

14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, 15 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. 16 And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. 17 “Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers. 18 But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. 19 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 20 and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began. 22 For Moses truly said to the fathers, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you. 23 And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’ 24 Yes, and all the prophets, from Samuel and those who follow, as many as have spoken, have also foretold these days. 25 You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’ 26 To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.”

I. MESSED UP THROUGH

YOUR DENIAL

Acts 3:14 NKJV

14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

Evil Attitudes

Proverbs 15:26 NKJV

26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, But the words of the pure are pleasant.

YOUR DECLARATION

Acts 3:14 NKJV

14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

Evil Appetites

1 Corinthians 9:27 NKJV

27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.

YOUR DRIVE

Acts 3:15 NKJV

15 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

Evil Activities

Ephesians 5:11 NKJV

11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.

Evil Associations

Proverbs 24:1 NKJV

1 Do not be envious of evil men, Nor desire to be with them;

Acts 3:16 NKJV

16 And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

You are in Christ Jesus for there is

Romans 8:39          Love of God

2 Timothy 1:1         Promise of Life

2 Timothy 2:1         Grace

2 Timothy 3:15       Faith

2 Timothy 2:10              Salvation

2 Corinthians 5:17   A New Creature

Romans 3:24          Redemption

Romans 8:2            Freedom

1 Corinthians 1:2    Sanctified

Galatians 3:28        Oneness

Galatians 2:4          Liberty

Ephesians 1:3         All Spiritual Blessings

IGNORANCE

Acts 3:17 NKJV

17 “Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

DETERMINED BY GOD

PROPHESY

18 “But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.

II. A MAKEOVER REQUIRD

REPENTANCE

Acts 3:19 NKJV

19 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

Repentance involves turning from sin

Sorrow for sin

2 Corinthians 7:8–10 NKJV

8 For even if I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it. For I perceive that the same epistle made you sorry, though only for a while. 9 Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. 10 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.

Confession of sin

Luke 15:17–19 NKJV

17 “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, 19 and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.” ’

Forsake sin

Acts 15:19–20 NKJV

19 Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who are turning to God, 20 but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.

By faith

Habakkuk 2:4 NKJV

4 “Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith.

Genesis 15:6 NKJV

6 And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.

Romans 1:16–17 NKJV

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”

DESERVED      BUT  RECEIVED

Justice of God         Mercy of God

Power of the Law    Power of salv.

Bondage in sin        Freedom sin

Divided                  reconciliation

condemnation         justification

annulation            glorification

wrath                      kindness

grudge                  forgiveness

eternal death          eternal life

strangers                 divine sonship

Evil spirit                 Holy Spirit

No matter How

Heavy the burden

Steep the climb

Dark the night

Rough the road

Pressing the persecution

Difficult the circumstance

III. MISSION RESTORED

HEAR HIM

Acts 3:22–23 NKJV

22 For Moses truly said to the fathers, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you. 23 And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’

RECEIVE HIM

Acts 3:24–25 NKJV

24 Yes, and all the prophets, from Samuel and those who follow, as many as have spoken, have also foretold these days. 25 You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

PROMOTE HIM

Acts 3:26 NKJV

26 To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.”

THROUGH JESUS

Romans 6:23 WE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE

Galatians 4:7 WE ARE AN HEIR OF GOD

Romans 1:8 WE THANK GOD

Romans 5:1 WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD

Romans 5:11 WE JOY IN GOD

Romans 8:37 WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS

Titus 3:5-6 WE HAVE ABUNDANT MERCY

Philippians 4:13 WE ARE ABLE TO DO ALL THINGS

1 Corinthians 15:57 WE HAVE THE VICTORY