Part I in the Series: Repentance, Restitution, Restoration of a People
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This message is the first in a series presenting God’s Call to a disobedient people for Restoration unto Righteousness. This first message presents the foundation of the Law of God in the Eternal Decree of God, as given in Deuteronomy 29:29. There in it states there are secret things belonging to the Lord our God. But the things God has chosen to reveal to us are designed to focus the attention of a people upon the Law of the Lord. So God’s Law is NOT to be relegated by the Church to some expression of a bygone dispensation. The text and many like it throughout the Old and New Testament, instructs us that from all eternity God designed the Law of the Lord as the Standard of Obedience for His Chosen People (cf. Psalm 1; Psalm 19; Psalm 119:1,18,29,44,45; Isaiah 8:16,20; 42:4; Matthew 5:17-18; Romans 7:7-14, 22-25; Romans 8:4-7).
The Law of the Lord stands as a fortress and hedge around the Gospel, teaching a people HOW to repent and the “means” God uses to establish and deliver a people unto repentance. In the midst of these texts we find when a man or a woman… or any people… or even a whole nation have sinned against God, God requires their repentance WITH RESTITUTION unto RESTORATION.
But how should they make restitution of they are to be restored?
- How could David and Bathsheba make restitution when their sin brought the death of Uriah, and led to the thousands of deaths in the civil wars of Israel?
- How did Bathsheba make restitution as explicitly stated in the book of Proverbs and demonstrated in the Book of I Kings?
- How did the Apostle Paul make restitution in his repentance from having “laid waste” the Church of Jesus Christ?
- How did Jehoshaphat make restitution in his repentance for having allied himself to the wicked Ahab and contributed to the death of thousands at the disastrous battle of Ramoth-Gilead?
- How did Jonah make restitution for his disobedience in fleeing from the Lord?
- How did Peter make restitution in his repentance from the terrible sin of denying his Lord?
It is this issue we will take up in our next message in this series this coming Sunday, January 17th, 2021.
