#1 Refreshed

Refreshed  •  Sermon  •  Submitted   •  Presented   •  33:14
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Opening

• Welcome
• Happy New Year
• Boudreaux Joke

Message Opening

• Pray
• New Year - resolutions - usually a series about restarting
• something to bring our resolutions into alignment with the Word
• Uncertainties • disorder • social unrest • Inflation
• Aliance closing
• Praying and this phrase (leading to text) came to me:
Acts 3:19 NASB95
19 “Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;
• NEED a time of refreshing
• In the face of what we’re dealing with - we need refreshing!

Refreshing is a Bible Theme

• Image of the beginning
• God labored for 6 days
• God rested on the 7th day
• God didn’t need rest - it was a type a shadow for His creation
• And He set it out
• He set aside the 7th day as holy so that man could rest

• What that means for this church service
• What it means for Sunday
• What church should be
• Let’s look at our text in more detail

times of refreshing

• start with the phrase that God brought to my mind in prayer
• I was praying for renewal, for fresh perspective, fresh inspiration
• God brought this phrase to my memory
• There is a time of refreshing that God can send
• What is it • How do I receive it?
• times = season, period of time • Sunday • annual prayer times
• refreshing = renewal, restoration • ANOTHER IMPORTANT PHRASE:
"so that”
“so that”: a prerequisite
• has to happen before the good things come
• How do I get it? • Bring it about
• What makes “so that” happen?
Repent
• Traditionally “I’m sorry”
• partly
• but more to
Repent: turn back
• turn away
• the things that are holding me
• keeping me off course
• drawing me in the wrong direction
• tv, sports, hobbies, work
• Once I’ve turned away from those things, I must
Return:
• simple really
Return: begin to move toward God
• And where am I going
(T)he “presence of the Lord”
(T)he “presence of the Lord”: before His face
• Greek is literally “face”, in front of
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