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Establishing a Joel 2 Spiritual Culture - Bible Verse Handbook
Session 4 Establishing a Joel 2 Spiritual Culture (Joel 1:2-3) 2Hear this, you elders, and give ear, all you inhabitants of the land! Has anything like this happened in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? 3Tell your children about it, let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. (Joel 1:2-3) I. PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE MESSAGE OF JOEL 2Hear this, you elders, and give ear, all you inhabitants of the land! (Joel 1:2a) B. 13Rend your heart…return to the LORD your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm. 14Who knows if He will turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind Him? (Joel 2:13-14) E. Jesus called the seven churches in Revelation to “hear.” 1• Just like the disciples on the road to Emmaus, we want our hearts to burn within us at the opening of the scriptures 32 And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?” (Lk. 24:32) F. Hearing the end-time message as seen in the book of Joel does not come automatically. 14He appeared to the eleven…and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen. (Mk. 16:14) G. The Lord told Ezekiel and John to “eat the scroll,” or fully digest the message He was giving them. Moreover He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.” (Ezek. 3:1) 9 So I went to the angel and said to him, “Give me the little book.” And he said to me, “Take and eat it; and it will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.” (Rev. 10:9) H. The exhortation that Jesus repeated the most in His earthly ministry was the call to have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying. 15 He who has ears to hear, let him hear! (Mt. 11:15) 9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” He who has ears to hear, let him hear! (Mt. 13:9, 43a) 9 And He said to them, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” 23 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” (Mk. 4:9, 23) When He had said these things He cried, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” (Lk. 8:8b) 7“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” (Rev. 2:7) II. THE COMING CRISIS IS UNPRECEDENTED AND THUS IS UNFAMILIAR TO US B. God's glory and judgments will shake all the nations 6“I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land…7 I will shake all nations…” (Hag.2:6-7) C. We must not yield to a scoffing spirit of unbelief about Jesus' coming. 3Knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and 4saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” (2 Pet. 3:3-4) 2But a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. (Gen. 2:6) 1• When Noah heard this strange message from God, he was moved with godly fear 7By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household… (Heb. 11:7) III. LEADERS MUST LEAD 2Hear this, you elders, and give ear, all you inhabitants of the land! (Joel 1:2a) IV. TELLING THE MESSAGE: THE NEED TO PROCLAIM THE MESSAGE A• We must not only hear and be gripped by this message, we must also proclaim it 3Tell your children about it, let your children tell their children. B. 23“If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”24Then He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given. 25For whoever has, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.” (Mk. 4:23-25) V. TELL THE CHILDREN: ESTABLISHING A DYNAMIC SPIRITUAL CULTURE 3Tell your children about it, let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. (Joel 1:3) F. Establishing a dynamic spiritual culture according to the message of Joel will keep a scoffing and complacent spirit from taking root in our children. 3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” (2 Pet. 3:3-4) H. We want to raise children in a spiritual culture where passion for Jesus, faith, obedience, and much prayer is seen as normal. This is what God is after in commanding all to “Tell the children…” 3 Tell your children about it,
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