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Setting
Concerned with the Northern Kingdom - see the three names of v2 Ephraim, Benjamin Manasseh. The O.T church has either been ravaged by a foreign power - Assyria i.e the fall of Samaria (722BC) or excited the church after 586Bc NBC
Form- Prayer
A stanzas of 4 lines each. Reacurring petition climacs in the 1st, 2nd last stanzas. A progressing urgency. v3 O God - v7 O God of Hosts - v19 O Lord God of Host NIVSB
Purpose
I want to motivate my hearers to persistently ask God to restore his Church to it’s former Glory.(Based on what He did in the past -v 8-16 His people His Person -Christ v17)
Introduction
The situation then is similar to the situation today. The attacks on the church may not be necessarily physical but more subtle, i.e. Materialism, secularism, Rationalism, Individualism, Hedonism, pragmatism
ASK GOD TO RESTORE US v1-6 >The God who restore us v1Ps 23:1,2 Isa 40:11 Eze 34:23 Joh 10:14 Heb 13:20 1Pe 2:25 5:4 Lead - Joh 10:3,4
>Those who need restoring v2a
>The prayer for restoration - Hear v1a - Stir yourself v2a Turn us again v3a >The persistent prayer for restoration v4 - 6
Question God about His anger v4 Mt 15:22-28 Lu 18:1-8
Proof that He’s angry v5-6
WHY GOD RESTORES US v7-16
>Persistent plea for restoration v 7 Lu 1:16 saved Mk 4:12 2Ti 2:25,26
>Proof God’s going to restore us from Allegory of the Vine v8-16 Mt 21:33-41 Joh 15:1-8 v14 Ac 15:16 v15 Mk 12:1 Joh 15:1 v16 Joh 15:6 2Th 1:9 v17 Joh 5:21-29 HOW GOD RESTORES US v17 -19 By the use of means Ist Means is the Church Christ v17 Ps 80:15 89:21 110:1 Isa 53:5 Da 7:13,14 Joh 5:21-29 2nd Means is Prayer v 18a, 19a Quicken us - Php 2:12,13 Eph 2:1-5 By Promising two things You/Church want turn back from God ( The Churches former Glory) v18a Ps 79:13 Joh 6:66-69 Heb 10:38,39 > You/Church shall be saved ( The Churches former Glory) v19a