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God's Plan of Restoration
Pastor Joe Garnett
Have you ever gone to a custom car Throughout the Bible, God lays out a
or bike show? If you have not, I highly plan of restoration for man if we choose to
recommend you do so. You will follow Him and allow His Word to perform
undoubtedly see some of the most the restoration in our lives.
amazing examples of design and
craftmanship on display through the Every classic automobile had its
automobiles the owners have placed in day of creation, that day when it reached
the shows. Many have been returned, not the end of the assembly line an absolute
only to their original form, but done so in a beautiful piece of art was completed.
matter that made them better that when And when you looked in the window you
they rolled offed the assembly lines. It is found this thing called a price sticker that
that restoration that we want to discuss sometimes shocked you open seeing the
here in this article. price, but it declared or reflected the
value the manufacturer had placed that
I have spent years designing,
building, and racing stock cars, and have automobile.
even completed a few restoration projects In the same way, man had a
on automobiles, but nothing compared to creation date, in which he was created in
what I see at car shows and cruise ins. God’s own expressed image. “And God
said, Let us make man in our image, after
Now this may seem like a strange
comparison, but I find that automobiles, our likeness: and let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl
motorcycles, as well as other items have of the air, and over the cattle, and over all
some commonality with people when it the earth, and over every creeping thing
comes to restoration. Automobiles, that creepeth upon the earth. 27. So God
motorcycles, boats, furniture, and a created man in His own image, in the
multitude of other things break down in image of God created He him; male and
time and they get older. female created He them. 28 And God
bless them, and God said unto them, be
Through the love of people for these fruitful and multiply, and replenish the
items, many will be chosen to be earth, and subdue it: and have dominion
completely restored, and as exciting as over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl
of the air, and over ever living thing that
those thoughts are, it is even more moveth upon the earth. 29 And God said,
exciting when you realize that broken behold, I have given you every herb
people can be restored as well. bearing seed, which is upon the face of all
