Route 66 Joel: Sound the Alarm The Day is Coming -- Be Saved

"Joel:  Sound the Alarm The Day Is Coming – Be Saved!”

Joel 2:1,32

June 24, 2018

Why Do We Need to Sound the Alarm?  

1:15; 2:1,10-11; 30-32

The Day of the Lord Is Coming – We Need to Be Saved

Who or What Do We Need to Be Saved From?

• God’s Judgment on the Nations 3:1-16a
• God’s Judgment on His People
• Trouble in the Past 1:1-12; 2:15-20
• Trouble Ahead 2:1-11

What Is Salvation?

• God’s Redemption of People 2:32
• God’s Rescue From Enemies 2:20; 3:16b-17
• God’s Restoration of Prosperity

2:18-27; 3:1-21; Revelation 22:1-2

• God’s Residing with His People

2:28-32; Exodus 33:15-16; John 1:14; Revelation 21:3

Why Will God’s People Be Saved?  2:32; 2:26-27; 3:17

How Will God’s People Be Saved?  1:13-15; 2:12-17

• Return to the Lord With All Your Heart
• Rend Your Heart
• Pray & Fast
• Consider & Change Your Ways

Who Will Save You?  2:32; Romans 10:9-13

LISTEN TO THE WORD

• Do you hear the message that the Day of the Lord is coming? Are you prepared and ready? If you are not, then do some-thing about that today!
• Do you see the plague of locusts in our day? What would be the connection or the locusts or army of our day?
• Do you see and hear God’s call to love His Word, to read and study His word, to meditate on His Word, to follow His Word? How will you do that this week?  In a LifeGroup and even more in your own daily walk with the Lord? 
• Do you hear & understand the clear word that God’s judgment is real and it ends in hell for those who don’t know Christ? Do you hear God’s clear call and invitation to hear the Gospel and respond to it and be saved? Who will save you?

LEARN THE WORD

• How do you see the Lord at work in Joel? How does that change how you think & then respond to the Lord?
• Where do you see the scarlet thread in the book of Joel?
• What do you learn about God & His role in history in Joel’s time & even now? How does that help you hope in Him?

LOVE THE WORD

• Where do you see God’s love and faithfulness to His people in Joel? Where do you see it in your own life?
• When you see God’s call of salvation, that He is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and overflowing with love? What is your response to that?
• As you see God’s loving and tough discipline He brings on His people, how does it make you trust and love God more?

LIVE THE WORD

• Where do you need to return to the Lord, rend your hearts (not just the “outside”), and change your ways? Write them down today and do something about them!
• Do you ever pray and fast over your sin and the sin of our nation? Start praying today and consider a time when you can fast by yourself and even with others.
• Turn to the Word & Turn others to the Word - LISTEN for what the Lord has to say to you, LEARN more about Him & His Word, fall deeper in LOVE with Him, and then LIVE it out this week, & share it with someone in your circle of influence.