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VBS week is one of my favorite weeks of the entire year.
It is an up-close picture of how the church is to function the other 52 weeks of the year.
For a week straight we prioritize evangelism, discipleship, and fellowship.
We invest our time and energy into our youngest generation - and as statistics and experience prove - there are eternal dividends from such a selfless investment.
Now, I am not going to offer we do this every other week of the year, because I think we would likely die - but I do think this is pretty close to what the early church in Acts looked like.
They would get together with other believers, they would study together, laugh together, eat together, witness together and grow together.
They experienced the ups and downs of spending time with people that are different than themselves yet unified for the common purpose of bringing glory to God through reflecting on the story of the Gospel.
This week we spent each day, playing games, eating snacks, doing crafts, teaching and listening to lessons taught, all focused on the person of Jesus.
And the reality is that this is how life should be lived out everyday.
Every day of our lives should be linked to Gospel truth.
Whether you are new to truths of Jesus or if you have grown up around this truth - you are never too old, and never too righteous to live in the midst of the Gospel.
A couple weeks ago, we enjoyed a story about one of our teen boys at camp who genuinely thought the deodorant he applied earlier in the week was plenty for later in the week - while we all knew differently.
He should have revisited that daily, if not a couple times a day.
Likewise, the truth of the Gospel should be revisited each day and several times through the day.
God is your Creator.
Your sin produces brokenness.
Yet Jesus came and suffered and died and rose again to restore you back to the good design of God.
And that’s what we covered last week in this two part series entitled Restored: Getting Back to God’s Good Design.
Last week we looked at two of our four points.
Design | Brokenness | Repentance | Restoration
As we studied the first part, we learned in Genesis 2-3 that God created a perfect world and in that perfect world He created mankind in His image.
And in His image, He planned humanity to have a beautiful purpose.
God’s original design was for humanity to be a: “class”
A reflection of His perfection.
We were designed to be His image bearer and point to His greatness.
But in Genesis 3, we see something drastic happen.
What entered the scene that changed things forever?
- One word - SIN.
As we saw last week, Adam and Eve broke God’s law and pursued their own desires departing from God’s good design.
This original sin has now passed from generation to generation - leaving in its wake a ripple effect of brokenness.
No longer are we reflecting God’s Glory in perfection, but now we reflect in brokenness.
Things are no longer seen through the perfect reflection of who God is, but is skewed.
ILL: Broken Mirror.
It still reflects, but not like it should.
So Sin is present and it produces brokenness in our homes, our work, our communities.
This brokenness from God’s perfection permeates our thoughts, our bodies, and our relationships.
Nothing is as it should be any longer.
But as we will see this week, God has a plan of rescue from ourselves and His name is Jesus.
You see, Jesus Came to Rescue Us from our Sin and Brokenness.
Which leads us to the third and fourth truth in this series.
Design | Brokenness | Repentance | Restoration
Join me this morning in Acts 3 and Revelation 21.
Acts 3 is set in time following Christ’s death, resurrection and ascention.
in the first few verses of this chapter you have peter being used of God to heal a man who was crippled since he was born.
In astonishment to what has happened, Peter makes it clear that it wasn’t by their own power this happened.
And then he calls them out for their denial of Jesus in Pilates presence.
As we saw last week, we all fall short of God’s perfection - and Peter is no different.
If you remember back to Christ’s arrest and subsequent crucifixion, all of the disciples, including Peter ran for their lives.
Early that day, Peter was boasting of his loyalty and Christ told Him that he too would deny being with Christ.
and sure enough he did.
When Peter was confronted outside of where Christ was being questioned,:
The point of bringing this up and tying it to Acts 3, is that Peter knew what denial looked like.
But over in Luke 24:12, we see the next seen with this denier.
Mary comes the morning of Christ’s resurrection and tells Peter and John the news and this is Peter’s response.
And it is here we find a good example of what it means to repent.
Peter made a huge mistake, but had a change of mind.
You see, Repentance is a change of mind.
As someone from our church posted this week on facebook, “Repentance is not when you cry, but when you change.”
Peter sets the example here as he went from running away from and denying Christ to running to His resurrection.
And as a result, he is forever changed.
And you see the proof in the next few verses there in Acts 3.
You will notice a couple things:
1. v. 18 -Everything that happened to Christ, happened for a reason.
God used the evil of man to fulfill His plan of redemption.
- He is that powerful!
2. v. 19 - knowing about Christ is not enough.
Simply believing that He existed will not grant forgiveness.
v. 19 says to repent and be converted.
Remember, repentance means change.
From a biblical perspective the change needed is initiated and empowered by God’s grace.
But those two words - repent and be converted - both denote that something is going to be different.
3. v. 21 - as a result of this change that takes place, God does a work of restoring all things.
This has been the plan all along.
God’s original design of His creation being a reflection of His perfection will be restored.
And this restoration will occur because and through Jesus Christ.
Now, moving forward in this thought, we must understand a couple things:
1. Understand that your sin carries consequences.
In Gen. 3, You find the fall out from the fall.
Adam and Eve are awake to shame, guilt, and pain.
The created order and creation itself is subjected to futility.
The perfect roles that were designed for Adam and Eve are now distorted, and they are escorted out of Eden.
Things will never be the same.
2. Understand that Jesus is our only hope for restoration
3. Repentance is turning from our sin and to Christ.
As we see there in acts 3:19
And as we turn to Christ, He does a transformative work in you and begins the process of restoration.
Getting you back to God’s good design for you, which is to be a reflection of His perfection.
And how God accomplishes this in you is through:
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The Spirit of God that comes to live in you.
2. Your submission to His leading in your life.
God draws you, enables you, and changes you to reflect Him!
Now there is coming a day when all things will be completely restored.
Dear friend, there is coming a day when God will restore all things back to Himself.
But for now, faith is the initial and continual step God works through to restore you.
Faith.
What is faith?
ILLUSTRATION:
Wheelbarrow.
Dear friend, in what do you need to trust God today?
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