Reaping Righteousness: God’s Reckoning and Restoration
Joel 3:5-8

I. The Seizing of Sacred Things
A. Sacred Silver and Gold Stolen
1. Sacrilege in the Sanctuary
2. Spoiling the Sacred Spaces
B. Sacred Things Sold for Selfish Gain
1. Selling Spiritual Heritage
2. Selling Souls to the Grecians

II. The Sovereignty of God’s Sentence
A. God’s Promise to Punish the Perpetrators
1. Recompense Recalled
2. Retribution Revealed
B. God’s Plan to Punish and Punishers to Pay
1. Selling Sons and Daughters into Slavery
2. Sowing and Selling, Suffering and Serving

III. The Savior’s Strategy of Salvation
A. The Sovereign Savior’s Sovereign Sovereignty
1. God’s Spoken Word as a Sword
2. The Power of Divine Judgment as a Call to Repentance
B. The Spirit’s Stirring for Spiritual Surrender
1. Repentance and Reconciliation
2. Restoration for the Repentant

IV. Confronting Corruption and Claiming Christ
A. Confronting the Corruption of Covetousness
1. Recognizing the Root of Greed
2. The Dangers of Spiritual Theft
B. Claiming the Covenant of Christ’s Covering
1. Christ as the Cure for Covetousness
2. Continuing in the Covenant of Compassion