Picture This. He had a broken body, a despairing mind, and a lonely soul. How can we experience his fire as refining and not people like us? And therefore purity and holiness will always Miracle of the Floating Axe Head Speaker: Pastor Kyle ; Sep17. This is the sermon from our Sunday evening service on 8/5/2018 titled "Refining Fire" on Malachi 3:1-5 with Mike Harris. refiner's fire," I conclude that it is talking about the Son of God A “fuller” was a person in ancient times who would clean cloth, sometimes by stomping on it with his feet, or by using different substances, to clean it. The way to experience the fire of Christ as refining and not has two forms: one is the fire of affliction and the other is the are not consumed.'" It was banged up; it was out of condition. This is a beautiful and not uncommon figure of speech in Scripture: 1. It purifies. Verse 5 makes it clear that when God comes, not everyone will be The refiner’s fire has a future purpose. Contact Us. Most of us are familiar with this picture of the refining process: fire is used to melt down a metal, so that the impurities will rise to top and can be skimmed off, so that the metal will be pure. will have no alloys in heaven. . " Why? Therefore, Christianity is never a play thing. He saved us SO THAT we might praise Him and thank Him and SING that worship music that is so pleasing to Him: “THAT we might present to Him offerings in righteousness.”  That starting here on earth, and continuing in heaven forever, we will make music and worship Him, singing with all the saints of all time:  “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and might, and honor and glory and blessing!”, This is what God is doing in this COVID-19 time. . up? ruin its value, burns them up, and leaves the silver and gold So when verse 2 goes on to say, "But who can endure the day of Watch; Listen; Downloads Sermon Audio; February 7, 2021 . It’s a searing process, at a precise temperature for a specific length of time, which produces the pure, precious metal. condemnation. Talk about it... Nobody has commented yet. Job said “When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.” (Job 23:10-note) Gold is tested by fire. Most people in the world have no experience of lasting joy in their lives. So when the Lord comes, some are refined and some are consumed. This is how many of us need to be thinking about this COVID-19 crisis. He confirms But thankfully God didn’t leave it there. fire. It melts down the bar of silver or gold, separates out the impurities that ruin its value, burns them up, and leaves the silver and gold intact. So Malachi says, you THINK you want God to come and work among us. “The Refiner’s Fire” (Malachi 3:1-4 sermon) Posted on 2020/04/20 by Shawn Thomas. God has been stripping away things out of our lives that maybe we have relied on too much, or put too much emphasis on: God may have allowed some of these things, and others, to be “stripped away” from our lives, maybe just for a time, to get us to STOP making “idols” of these things, and depend on HIM the way we should. . of rebellion and unbelief, and we fall short of God's glory again ", Hebrews 12:5–10, 14, "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord . This is a beautiful and not uncommon figure of speech in Scripture: 1. Sep25. You can't answer God is working in the lives of His people in this crisis, preparing us to worship Him, better than we ever have before! will live. And what specifically can I do to work WITH Him on what He is doing in my own life in particular?”, — Some need to come back to God for the very first time …, — Others need to THINK about what God is trying to do in your life in this time. of sin, what can a man do to have that mercy? prepares the way. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for He may be doing that right now in the life of someone you know — be praying for people you know, who need to come to the Lord in this time. Billy had of course garnered so much world-wide attention, having been seen on tv, and having written so many books, and so on — but after some years, Ruth came out with her own book, called It’s My Turn. you to their answers in the Scripture in the time we have. that John the Baptist went before Jesus in the Spirit and the power It produces something of A BETTER QUALITY, according to THE REFINER’S PURPOSE: Or to put it the way Malachi puts it again and again: So the end purpose of all of the refining and purifying that God is doing in our lives, is SO THAT we may WORSHIP Him in a higher, and better, and more perfect way. — But even among those of us who DO already know Him, God is using this time to purify us specifically so that we will worship Him better than we did before this crisis:  there will be some sins that we will have forsaken in this time, that will not be clouding our relationship with Him any longer, so our worship will be better, stronger, sweeter, as a result of all this. They said it was a good saxophone, it was made in the 1970’s when things were really constructed well, but it badly needed some repairs. It says it several different ways: — At the end of :2 it says: “For He is like a refiner’s fire.”  Verse 3 goes on to say: “He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them like gold and silver.” Over and over there it tells us that God’s purpose is to REFINE His people. Trust the goodness of God. ( Log Out /  Refining is a process by which everything else is removed and only the pure metal remains. Humans held the quill, but God ultimately inspired their words. show your strengths to other people, and how resistant your heart witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against will have a redeemed people. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. fire of intentional self-denial. That is why Luke 1:17 says . Clear & Biblical Preaching; Try PRO Free; Trending This Week. Or to put it The reason Jesus is Which simply forest fire. The impurities are invisible from the outside, so the goldsmith must patiently and intentionally hold the gold over the hottest part of his fire, liquefying it. are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." What if he were changeless in unrelenting He will perform a spiritual alchemy for the world. Don't doubt his Verse 6 gives the answer? And makes thee own his loving care. virtually interchangeable with this other person called the Lord, Sermons. We are shot through with the impurity . Of whom could you say that he is the owner of the fire? Nothing can Separate us From the Love of Christ Speaker: Pastor Jessica; Sep17. image of God with the potential to reverence God and trust him and God sent a message to the prophet Zechariah- (Zechariah 13.9) “This third I will put into the fire; The via negativa is emptying, refining, cleansing, purifying. When you pour disinfectant into a wound, it can sting. And perhaps the next most important thing to say is that there —2 Chronicles 33:12. A Southern Baptist pastor for almost 35 years, I currently serve as Senior Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Angleton, Texas, and post my weekly sermons here. February 24, 2019If you made a commitment to Jesus Christ please contact us. There will always be a proper "fear and it and seals it with his blood. Scripture: Luke ... Sermon Topics: Hardship, Following Jesus, Refiner, Attitude. There is something He wants you to GET out of this, that fits in His ultimate plan. the question, How do I qualify to get refined? February 14, 2021 . God is still about that business, and our passage from Malachi 3 today reminds us of what He is doing: “Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. NEVER AGAIN has Israel worshiped idols — to this day! refined. He started to play it, but he said the sound was horrible. Malachi says THAT is what God’s purpose is with His people:  it says He will be like “a refiner’s fire,” melting us down, so that the impurities in our lives can be skimmed off. means that life in the refiner's fire is a life of trust in the furnace of affliction in the family of God is always for We see several indications in this passage of how God’s purpose is to purify His people. We don’t have to guess; we can see here and in other scriptures what His purposes are: God uses the events and circumstances of our lives to make us a more holy people, who will be able to worship Him more perfectly. Behold, I send my messenger to prepare the way before me, and God did that then, God has done that in events all throughout history, and God is STILL doing that today. wrath? So I conclude that the messenger of the covenant, the Lord, the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes "HE SHALL SIT AS A REFINER AND PURIFIER OF SILVER" A. It does say FIRE. 5:3-12), Book of James Sermons: What Real Faith Looks Like, This Week In Paradise (pastors family blog). Recent Sermons. be: get rid of your own sin. I have loved Jacob!'" The book of Malachi began with a statement of how the covenant This "I" is identified at the end of the verse: "Says the Lord of Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. A refiner's fire refines. And What if God were changelessly bent on messenger mentioned in 3:1 that God will send to prepare his way is I love the book, because in it she shares honestly about a lot of the marriage and family struggles they had — and yes, even “great ministers” like Billy Graham have those struggles! therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob!" The speaker is Jehovah, God the Father. . You can prove this to yourself in many ways. which though perishable is tested by fire, may redound to praise those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hireling in He is author of. I. So he had them fix it: they replaced all the worn pads, they had to straighten out some buttons that had been bent, and they shined it all up. In the same way, Malachi said when the Lord comes, He will be like “fuller’s soap” — cleansing His people. and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. But it does say, he is like a REFINER'S fire. If he were only a forest temple of God? He was much more gracious to his brothers, and he gave glory to GOD whom He recognized had orchestrated everything that had happened, for His purposes. Sermon Podcast. And the fire (I figure Cheryl might come out with a book like that one of these days, perhaps she’ll call it, “It’s My Turn,” or maybe “She didn’t go down quietly,” or something like that!) What is He doing through all the other events and circumstances in our lives? What false trust do I need to give up, to depend on You more? And if he were no fire, heaven would be says the LORD. owner of the temple of God, is none other than the Son of God, who Some will be consumed. is no painless path to heaven. We've got it going on! The Refiner’s Fire As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. (1:2). — Verse 2 also says that He is “like fuller’s soap”. We learn it from the So DON’T leave this time without asking God: “Lord, what do You want me to get out of this crisis? It does say FIRE. who owns the temple of God. Once a metal is in its melted down state, the dross in the metal rises to the top and is then removed from the metal before it cools. The people of Israel were saying, “We can’t wait for Him to appear!” But Malachi was saying to them here: Listen, His coming may not be the pleasant experience you think it’s going to be! You don't fool around with it. Who is this? A refiner's fire does not consume completely like the fire of Because Jesus said, "Blessed — In my own daily Bible reading in II Corinthians 12 last week I read where God gave the Apostle Paul a revelation of Paradise and the highest heaven — but He also gave him what Paul called a “thorn in the flesh” — a physical ailment that He allowed to come and torment his life, and that He would not heal him of, for the specific purpose of making him humble and more dependent upon God. his wages, the widow and the orphan, against those who thrust aside And If you got rid of your own sin, therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed—you are not As A REFINER’S FIRE He ‘consumes’ and burns up the dross, as the fire of a furnace. Christ is the great refiner. like an incinerator's fire. And finds thee free from all deceit. whom he receives . down the bar of silver or gold, separates out the impurities that God uses our circumstances for the specific purpose of purifying our lives. How you can learn to worship Him better in this time? What is the purpose of the God’s activity that He has been describing in this passage; what is the purpose of all the melting and refining and purifying? The first individual mentioned is "I"—"Behold, I send . I will come in Jesus Christ and cleanse you through His death on the cross. listen on-the-go. verse to identify John the Baptist, the one who came to prepare the an incinerator. fire. This shows us the purposes God has for the events He allows in our lives today as well. ", James 1:2–4,"Count it all joy, my brethren when you meet various trials, for Is this good news for sinners? . The refiner’s fire is real, and qualities of character and righteousness that are forged in the furnace of affliction perfect and purify us and prepare us to meet God.” Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, “The Songs They Could Not Sing,” Ensign, Nov. 2011, 106. In our extremities, it is possible to become born again, born anew, renewed in heart and spirit. Listen In Connect. Only then will the imperfections hidden within rise to the surface so the refiner can carefully skim the dross until the surface is clear. Who Am I? the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; the Joseph Gray - October 10, 2010 Therefore you serious. So his blood is called in Hebrews God spoke this analogy through the prophet Malachi to … Baptisms 2020 Speaker: Pastor Phil. This message is to encourage the believer that even though we go through trails and hardships, we will not be utterly destroyed but we will be purified by the Refiners Fire. For some, the refiner’s fire causes a loss of belief and faith in God, but those with eternal perspective understand that such refining is part of the perfection process. The second individual mentioned is Jehovah's messenger who And that is exactly what the Bible says that God is doing with US! None of God’s children enjoy the Refiner’s Fire, but all of us experience it to one degree or another, at one time or another. When He has tried and purged thee duly, And Jesus is the emissary of that covenant. be a dreadful thing. A refiner’s fire melts down a metal, such as gold or silver, for purification purposes. Why has He gone to all this trouble to save us, and work all these things into our lives? We would like to hear your story and pray for you. . So he took it to a music shop in Milwaukee, called Brass Bell. The most important thing to say is that it is a life of THERE IS SOMETHING HE WANTS YOU TO GET OUT OF IT. 'And I the Lord do not change. He’s saying, you think it’s going to be pleasant when He comes, but He’s going to come into your life like “soap;” He’s going to come into your life like “bleach”, to clean you up! Here is the thing— and this is something that many, many of us really need to hear today, and consciously adopt into our lives:  God does NOT just want us to “get out” of our current situation. God used the “refiners fire” of that captivity to “skim the impurity” of idolatry from their lives. A refiner's fire refines. confidence in God. A refiner’s fire is a crucible for heating precious metal, like gold and silver, to a molten state, from which then the dross – the impurities – are skimmed off. The hotter the fire, the closer you are to the end of the process. fear God—which means mainly fear to dishonor him with We don’t have to fill up every minute. “Not Flashy, But Faithful” (Luke 1:8-11 sermon), “The Refiner’s Fire” (Malachi 3:1-4 sermon), “Building Your Life On The Rock” (Matthew 7:24-27 sermon), "Seeking Him First" (Matthew 6:33 sermon), "How To Seek The Lord" (Isaiah 55:6-7 sermon), "It's What's Inside That Counts" (Matthew 5:8 sermon), "Ambassadors For Christ" (II Corinthians 5:20 sermon), "The Christian Race" (Hebrews 12:1-2 sermon), "Following Jesus" (Matthew 4:18-22 sermon), Joshua 3:5 Sermon: "Preparing For God To Work", “When You Follow Jesus” (Mark 10:29-30 sermon), "The Disciple's Character" series (Beatitudes Mt. Peter was hot- tempered and used rough language. Summary: The Woman asked the silver smith, "How do you know when the silver is fully refined?" It is SO THAT — this is the purpose — “SO THAT they may present to the LORD offerings in righteousness.”. So His judgment finally came; Babylon invaded and destroyed the Temple, and carried many of the Israelites off into captivity for a time before they were allowed to return. You see, you can go through the motions, you can say the words, you can act out your faith and fit in with many other Christians. 1 Peter 1:6–7, "Now for a little while you may have to suffer various trials, He is like fire and fire is The situation of that “thorn” was like a “refiner’s fire;” it was like “a fuller’s soap,” cleansing and purifying Paul’s life from pride, making him even more the kind of person God could use. refiner's because we need to be refined. Juanita Bynum Sermons 2017 - The Refiner's Fire1 of 2 by Pastor Juanita Bynum April 9,2017Like and Share If You Like This Video . As C.S. The answer is implied in the word itself. For example, going back to Ruth Graham’s book My Turn; she said that looking back, she felt like Billy made two decisions in his life that were not God’s will: the first was when he took a pastorate; the second was when he became a college president. ( Log Out /  began. According to verse 1 the If it takes the merciful fire of God to destroy the rebellion And the answer of the whole Bible is: trust in the purifying Well the New Testament quotes this very And “today” means even TODAY — in 2020, in the United States of America, with the COVID-19 crisis going on. He is a refiner's fire, and that makes all the difference. time we are little children: never play with fire! We would love to hear from you. Praising God Listen. You can imagine, the circumstances that God uses in our lives to “scrub us” or “melt us down” are probably not going to be very pleasant: — it could mean a financial crisis or the loss of a job, — it could even be an international pandemic …. What habit needs to change? greater. Updated January 2018. consuming? says in Malachi 4:5, "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet Matthew Parker on Sep 1, 2013 (message contributor) (rate this sermon) | 3,858 views. This is what we see in our next point, and it comes right out of our text this morning in Malachi 3: II. 2 “But who can endure the day of His coming? not consuming? he At first, Joseph was very proud: he went around telling his whole family about his dream of how they were all going to bow down to him — but after he had been cast into the pit by his brothers, and sold into slavery, and thrown into prison, and all he experienced — by the time you get to the end of Genesis, Jospeh had a much more humble attitude. his temple." Ruth Bell Graham was the wife of the famous evangelist Billy Graham. unchanging, purifying love of God. ( Log Out /  So we are impure by nature and by practice. What new direction do You want to take me as a result of this? — It’s like the doctor in Italy I mentioned the other night in prayer meeting, who, working through this crisis, said “I WAS an atheist, but now I am returning to God.” This is the kind of thing God is doing in times of crisis. God uses all of our circumstances for His purposes. And it is what God is doing in EVERY time in our lives. But in Ruth Graham’s book, she has a quote that many of us would do well to remember, especially in THESE days we are living through today: “There is no situation so chaotic that God cannot, from that situation, create something that is surpassingly good. A refiner uses a fire to heat metal to a molten … Pursue holiness without which no one will see the Lord. self-denial. Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter. of Elijah. It melts So if God uses “all things” that happen, for His ultimate good purposes — as my old Sunday School teacher used to say, ‘all means ALL!” — then we know that He is using what is going on right now in our lives too. Ruth Bell Graham was the wife of the famous evangelist Billy Graham. ", Matthew 5:29–30, "If your right eye causes you to sin pluck it out . This is not the work of refinement, but the final judgment of He smiled at her and answered, "Oh, that's easy when I see my image in it." I have a friend in Louisiana who put up a post on Facebook asking her friends, what “good” things have they seen come out of this crisis time: and almost every one of them was saying something like: We are getting more family time; we need to keep this up; we have been too busy; WE NEED TO SLOW DOWN! Change ). Both things are true: the Lord is like a refiner's fire; and a "HIS temple." He knows exactly when to bring the silver out of the fire. Today’s Word: The heroes of faith all went through times of difficulty when the Refiner's fire proved the genuineness of their faith and separated them from the things that were holding them back. While only about 2 percent of the impurities remain, it must be refined further. God says I am going to use these events that will happen, to bring about My purposes. hosts." away. FEATURE SERMON; TEXT-FEATURE; Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter. He is always using what look like “bad” things in our lives, for His ultimate “good” purposes. is a kind of prophet whom God would raise up in the last day. who came to us in Jesus Christ. His banquet hall will be full. What sin is He cleansing you from? At the end of :3, He says “He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, SO THAT they may present to the Lord offerings in righteousness.”  Did you see the “SO THAT” there? It is accomplished through firing, putting the metal over the fire until it is a liquid from which can be drawn from. Be the first! (ARE you spending time with Him daily in worship? But historians tell us that from the time of that Babylonian Captivity, never again would Israel fall into idolatry. Have any questions? I’m grateful to see that there are a number of people who ARE thinking about making changes in their lives as a result of this. But his allegiance to the cause of Christ makes the bleakness of his life glow with glory. The Refiners Fire: 1/4/2015 (SUN) ... Favorites-To-Go! But in reality, when God works, He works on you like a washerwoman scrubbing a dirty piece of laundry! You NEVER just “happen” to have some thing happen in your life. This passage is still very insightful for us today, because it shows us what God’s purposes are in this world: God is preparing for Himself a holy people, who will worship Him in righteousness. A REFINER’S FIRE does not destroy. Refining copper to purity is an extensive process, and even the metal that comes out of the massive blast furnaces and is poured into ingots is still not yet ready to use. This person is someone An incinerator before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes." He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities. jump out of the refining fire of mercy into the forest fire of There is NO situation, no matter who chaotic it may appear to us, that God cannot make something surpassingly good come out of. That's what refining does—it starts to burn up And therefore this Three things point to the divine Son of God and Wool, for example, would come off of the sheep very dirty, as you could imagine, and it had to be cleansed before it could be used. being a forest fire? Purity comes through the refining fire. I. himself known to us personally in Jesus Christ. . As I read it, look for three In God’s plan, this is not to be “wasted” time; He is doing something in this time; in you and in our world. This day, I want to speak of the Refiners Fire. ", 1 Corinthians 9:27, "I pommel my body and subdue it. Refining Fire; And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself . What is God doing in this COVID-19 crisis? paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness. The answer cannot We were created in the So even though these were “bad” decisions; she said God USED both of them for His purposes in the long term. But how do we know heaven will not be empty? God used even Joseph’s brothers’ sin, for His ultimate purposes. Greek scholar, Kenneth Wuest, provides a beautiful illustration of God’s refining fire. He “melts us down” like a refiner does silver or gold, to skim off our impurities. a refiner's fire and not a forest fire is because God made a and if because Jehovah's temple is his temple, but also because he seems therefore he must be a refiner's fire. 3 He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the Lord offerings in righteousness.”. I also see a lot of “STRIPPING AWAY” that is happening in this crisis. The Refiner's Fire Contributed by Rev. “SO THAT” is what we call a “purpose clause.” Whenever you see that “SO THAT” it indicates the PURPOSE for the activity was being described. "HE SHALL SIT AS A REFINER AND PURIFIER OF SILVER" A. 'Yet We need to “get” the things that God designed for us to get out of this situation. possible to become pure painlessly than it is to be burned Here in Malachi 3, the Lord is talking to His people about the events that were going to happen in their nation, in the days ahead: that a messenger would come who would prepare the way (that would be John the Baptist); that the Lord Himself was going to come into their very midst (that of course would be Jesus); and that this would happen in the Temple in Jerusalem. fire, heaven would be empty. And yet he will have someone in heaven. "'I have loved Speaker: Clif Daniell Series: The Refiner's Fire Passage: Malachi 3:13-18. He knew about this in advance, and He already had plans to use it. 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