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Joel 3:1-16a (Joel 3:1-16)

Rev. Michael DixonRev. Michael Dixon, 2018/02/18
Part of the Joel series, preached at a Sunday Morning service

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About Rev. Michael Dixon: The Rev. Michael Dixon is the third pastor in Christ Ridge’s history. Michael grew up nearby in Charlotte, NC. He graduated from Covenant College (B.A., 2001) and Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte (M.Div, 2005). He served in youth ministry at Carriage Lane Presbyterian Church in Peachtree City Georgia from 2004 until 2008 when, shortly after being ordained, he was called to serve as Christ Ridge’s pastor. Michael met Nikki after she graduated from Winthrop University in Rock Hill. They married in April of 2004 and enjoy raising their two children. Michael has a great passion to see people walk with Christ and the church flourish through the teaching of the Word, prayer, and worship. He is currently pursuing a PhD in preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. When he is not pastoring his people, Michael enjoys a good board game, disc golf, the Liverpool Football Club, and spending time with his family.
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Joel 3:1–16 (Listen)

3:1 “For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land, and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.

“What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily. For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples. You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border. Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your own head. I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the LORD has spoken.”

  Proclaim this among the nations:
  Consecrate for war;
    stir up the mighty men.
  Let all the men of war draw near;
    let them come up.
10   Beat your plowshares into swords,
    and your pruning hooks into spears;
    let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”
11   Hasten and come,
    all you surrounding nations,
    and gather yourselves there.
  Bring down your warriors, O LORD.
12   Let the nations stir themselves up
    and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
  for there I will sit to judge
    all the surrounding nations.
13   Put in the sickle,
    for the harvest is ripe.
  Go in, tread,
    for the winepress is full.
  The vats overflow,
    for their evil is great.
14   Multitudes, multitudes,
    in the valley of decision!
  For the day of the LORD is near
    in the valley of decision.
15   The sun and the moon are darkened,
    and the stars withdraw their shining.
16   The LORD roars from Zion,
    and utters his voice from Jerusalem,
    and the heavens and the earth quake.
  But the LORD is a refuge to his people,
    a stronghold to the people of Israel.

(ESV)

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