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It’s Not Over Yet! Series
Contributed by Otis Mcmillan on Dec 20, 2009 (message contributor)
Summary: In our text today, God promises restoration of the fallen house of David. God will repair its broken places and restore its ruins. He will bring about a new nation that is stronger and more powerful than what was there before. A new day will come, one tha
2. God promises to Restore His People By Fixing Them Up - Am 9:11 ¶ In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
Sin, separation and slavery have a way of breaking us up. The nation experienced a loss of joy, identity and self worth. They lost their names, the culture, religion and their hope. God promises to put them back together again. Jesus described the Father as a good shepherd who would leave the ninety-nine in search of the one. Jesus came to seek and to save that which is lost (Luke 19:10). God knows how to repair the breaches and build your faith, self esteem, and revive your hope.
3. God promises to Restore His People By Giving Them Increase - Am 9:12-13 “That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this. Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt”
After the people are restored in their relationship with God, God raising them up to their former glory and then fixes everything that has been broken. God will restore His people by giving them increase: (1) give them an effective witness that will attract the unsaved and the uncommitted to Christ. (2) Make them effective workers and attract other workers who willingly join in the work (3) give them an abundant harvest for our labor.
This text speaks of real prosperity: (1) more people than we can house (2) more land than we can cultivate (3) more harvest than we can gather (4) more vineyards than we can pick (5) more grapes than we can tread and a cycle of blessing that will not stop. The planting season and the reaping season will overlap!
4. God Promises to Restore His People By Replanting and Maturing Them-. Am 9:14,15 “And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.”
God will put his people in the right location. Their growth had been very limited in Babylon. Now they must be uprooted and disturbed again. God promises to replant them in their native soil. This was the land God picked out for them while they were in Egypt hundreds of years before. It is difficult to be productive when you are scattered and disconnected. But when they are replanted, they shall build cities and inhabit them; plant vineyards, and drink wine of them; they shall make gardens and eat fruit of them. Israel experienced many blessing when they return from captivity, but the perfect fulfillment of this promise can be found only in Christ Jesus. Christ alone completed the law and fulfilled the promises. Through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, God completed the restoration promised. Salvation and restoration is a gift that is now available to everyone.
