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INTRODUCTION:
If I were to ask you this morning, "What is the purpose of the
seasons"? Many of you could properly identify the benefits of Fall,
Winter, Spring and
Summer. God made the seasons for a reason. It is obvious that if
the earth was not afforded the changes that the seasons bring that
the results could be
catastrophic to some parts of the world. Did you know that it
was not an accident that an exact distance separated the earth and
the sun? Because they
are that perfect distance apart the seasons come and go and
mankind is allowed to live in somewhat acceptable comfort.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 states: To
everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under
heaven: God intended for man to have a time of refreshing in his
physical life. Ecclesiastes
3: 10-13 goes on to state: "I have seen the God-given task with
which the sons of men are to be occupied. He has made everything
beautiful in its time.
Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can
find out the work that God does from beginning to end.
I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to
do good in their lives, and also that every man should eat and
drink and enjoy the good of
all his labor - it is the gift of God".
God, in His omnipotence, knew what we needed physically and He
created it for our enjoyment.
But if God had quit there, if thats all there was to life, we
would still be walking around wondering why we still felt so
discouraged and depressed.
Many have went to the grave having had everything this physical
life could offer. Many have lived a life of self-gratification only
to find out in the end that
physical refreshing in its self lacked the ability to give them
what they really needed.
It is true that we need physical refreshing but God makes it
very clear in this third chapter of Acts that we also need what I
call a spiritual refreshing.
Listen to Acts 3:19 "Repent therefore and be converted, that
your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come
from the presence of
the Lord",
The earth is barren in the winter waiting to be refreshed by the
springtime. The Christian life is also sometimes barren needing to
be refreshed by the
presence of the Lord.
I. Refreshing Comes Through Fellowship (Romans 15:30-33)
30Now I beg you, brethren, through the Lord Jesus Christ, and
through the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in
prayers to God for me,
31that I may be delivered from those in Judea who do not
believe, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the
saints, 32that I may
come to you with joy by the will of God, and may be refreshed
together with you. 33Now the God of peace be with you all.
Amen.
II. Refreshing Comes Through Giving (I Cor. 16:15-18)
15I urge you, brethren-you know the household of Stephanas, that
it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted
themselves to the ministry of
the saints-16that you also submit to such, and to everyone who
works and labors with us.
17I am glad about the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and
Achaicus, for what was lacking on your part they supplied. 18For
they refreshed my spirit
and yours. Therefore acknowledge such men.
III. Refreshing Comes Through Witnessing (Philemon 1:1-7)
1Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,
To Philemon our beloved friend and fellowPages
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