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The Fivefold Action Plan - Bible Verse Handbook
Session 5 The Fivefold Action Plan God Wants from Us 8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth…13Gird yourselves and lament, you priests; wail, you who minister before the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, you who minister to my God; for the grain offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your God. 14Consecrate a fast, call a sacred assembly; gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD. (Joel 1:8, 13-14) I. LAMENT IN VIEW OF THE MOUNTING CRISIS • Joel called the nation to come before the Lord in wholeheartedness. 8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth…13Gird yourselves and lament, you priests; wail, you who minister before the altar… (Joel 1:8, 13) D. God calls us to solemn assemblies because He delights in mercy. 18 Who is a God like You, He does not retain His anger forever, H. Something was coming that was more severe than a locust invasion 4 What the chewing [ a ] locust left, the swarming locust has eaten; 5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep; 8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth 11 Be ashamed, you farmers, With a drought 15 Alas for the day! And fires 19 O Lord , to You I cry out; He pointed to a coming Babylonian military invasion (Joel 2:1-9 See Session #1 Bible Verse Handbook ) II. WHAT GOD WANTS IS DIFFERENT FROM WHAT MAN SEEKS B. The story of Naaman, the commander of the Syrian army, is an example of this. 1Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great and honorable man in the eyes of his master, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor, but a leper. (2 Kgs. 5:1) 1. 10Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean.” (2 Kgs. 5:10) 2. 13His servants came near and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?'” (2 Kgs. 5:13) C. God's answer is often so simple that it is offensive, and this is true of God's plan for how a nation is to respond to Him when in crisis. 12The LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: “I have heard your prayer… 13When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, 14if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. (2 Chr. 7:12-14) III. THE FIVE-PART ACTION PLAN 14Consecrate a fast, call a sacred assembly; gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD. (Joel 1:14) • God has a five-step program of how He wants us to respond to Him in a crisis. B. Step one: Consecrate a fast. (Joel 2:12-13 See Session #1 Bible Verse Handbook ) C.Step two: Call a sacred assembly. 1Bhold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity… 3For there the LORD commanded the blessing. (Ps. 133:1, 3) 5. Even the most anointed individual intercessors could not stop the coming judgment. 14Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness,” says the Lord GOD. (Ezek. 14:14) 1Then the LORD said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My mind would not be favorable toward this people.” (Jer. 15:1) 10. Even a small number of devoted believers can cry out to God, resulting in His judgments being withheld from the land 32He said, “I will not destroy it [Sodom] for the sake of ten.” (Gen. 18:32) • Step three: Gather the elders. Joel is saying, “Go cast the vision to other spiritual leaders (elders) and rally them.” E. Step four: Gather all of the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord. F. Step five: Cry out to God together. IV. THE FOURFOLD PREPARATION FOR GOD'S ACTION PLAN A. Preparation #1: The call to gird ourselves, to make preparation in practical areas. 13Gird yourselves and lament, you priests… (Joel 1:13) 4. Jesus used this same language in His earthly ministry. 35“Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning…” (Lk. 12:35) B . Preparation #2: The call to lament 13Lament, you priests; wail, you who minister before the altar… (Joel 1:13) 2. An angel warned John that the end-time message has an element of sweetness to it, yet it would make his heart sick when he digested its full meaning and implications. 10I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. But when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter. (Rev. 10:10) 6. Jesus taught in the Beatitudes “Blessed are those who mourn” 4 Blessed are those who mourn, C. Preparation #3: To lie in sackcloth is to call the leaders to humility. 13You priests…come lie all night in sackcloth, you who minister to my God… (Joel 1:13) 14“If My people…will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face…” (2 Chr. 7:14) 3Seek the LORD, all you meek of the earth, who have upheld His justice. Seek righteousness, seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the LORD's anger. (Zeph. 2:3 ) D. Preparation #4: All night—extreme and radical 13Lament, you priests…come lie all night in sackcloth, you who minister to God… (Joel 1:13)
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