WHY RESTITUTION?

WHY RESTITUTION?

                                                     LESSON FIVE

MAIN IDEA:  Restitution, no doubt, has far reaching benefits which shall be dealt with in this lesson.

STUDY TEXTS: “Matthew 5:23-24, Philemon 7-21”

LESSON OBJECTIVE:       To teach the benefits that Christians enjoy when restitution is practised.

INTRODUCTION:

God has a definite plan for His children when He makes every Christian to restitution for what he or she illegally acquired through fraudulent means. This serve as undeniable testimony to people who otherwise might never seriously hear and take to heart the story of the gospel. Christianity that compels a man to pay his just debts, restore back the things he has stolen, and uncover his crimes, gains confidence all over the world.

SUBJECT MATTERS:

1.                 When restitutions are made, the peace of God floods the Christians heart. (Phil. 4:7)

2.                 As soon as guilt and condemnation are removed from the heart of the Christian, there is confidence toward God in prayer and progress in his Christian life. (Prov. 28:1)

3.                 The practice of restitution makes Christians repentance genuine and his experience of salvation will manifest to others as fruit of God’s grace. (Acts 19:18-19)

4.                 Obedience to God’s demand for restitution makes the power and possibility of grace desirable to sinners who will be challenged to yield to the Lord for a similar work of grace into their lives. (Acts 11:26)

5.                 Christian obedient to restitute his way pleases God. (Isaiah 1:19)

6.                 Restitution makes the Christian life and service acceptable to God. (John 14:15)

7.                 The Christian who makes restitution is bold in preaching the gospel. (Rom. 1:16)

8.                 The believer is sure to make heaven in the end.(John 14:23)

PRACTICAL LESSON:

          All the issues raised in the subject matters are actually practical lessons.

MEMORY VERSE:     “Philemon 1:16”

          Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?.

 DISCUSSION:

1.                             Explain the benefit of restitution.

Why will Paul, an Apostle, write to Philemon to receive Onesimus as himself? (Philemon 17)