Sermon Series on the Book of Joel A

Sermon Series on the Book of Joel A Wake Up Call (Joel 1)

Book of Joel • 1: 1 -12 Desolation of the Land • 1: 13 -20 Call to mourn and fast • 2: 1 -11 The Day of the Lord • 2: 12 -17 Call to repentance • 2: 18 -27 Promise of deliverance and restoration • 2: 28 -32 Promise of outpouring of the Holy Spirit • 3: 1 -16 Judgment of the nations • 3: 17 -21 Eternal blessings for God’s people

Bad news

Bad news is good news

• Joe 1: 2 Hear this, you elders; give ear… • Joe 1: 3 Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children…

• Joe 1: 4 (KJV) That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

"Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. " Hebrews 3: 15

• Joe 1: 8 Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth… • Joe 1: 13 Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God!

• Joe 1: 14 Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly… • Joe 1: 19 To you, O LORD, I call…

2018 YEAR OF PRAYER 2019 YEAR OF PROCLAMATION 2020 YEAR OF PERSONAL DISCIPLESHIP

“Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible. ” Karl Barth

Our response • Hear • Tell • Awake • Lament • Consecrate/gather

Pray for Singapore 1. Leaders 2. Family Units 3. Young people (next generation)