Malachi 2:17-3:6 Hope in God - Revision history

Wakefien at 18:30, 13 July 2023

2023-07-13T18:30:14Z

Wakefien: /* MTR: Take some time to praise God for His promise of Salvation as patiently you place your hope in God's timing. */

2023-07-12T14:40:31Z

‎MTR: Take some time to praise God for His promise of Salvation as patiently you place your hope in God's timing.

Wakefien: /* Image Refining Silver, cupellation */

2023-07-12T14:39:45Z

‎Image Refining Silver, cupellation

Wakefien at 14:39, 12 July 2023

2023-07-12T14:39:03Z

Wakefien: /* Image: elusive perfection, moving the goal posts. Multi-engine sim training */

2023-07-12T14:37:42Z

‎Image: elusive perfection, moving the goal posts. Multi-engine sim training

Wakefien: /* MTR: Take some time to praise God for His promise of Salvation as you place your hope in God. */

2023-07-12T14:36:48Z

‎MTR: Take some time to praise God for His promise of Salvation as you place your hope in God.

Wakefien: /* MTR: Take some time to praise God for His promise of Salvation. */

2023-07-12T14:36:29Z

‎MTR: Take some time to praise God for His promise of Salvation.

Wakefien: /* Image: The solution to struggle with sin is not to think about sin! */

2023-07-12T14:35:22Z

‎Image: The solution to struggle with sin is not to think about sin!

Wakefien: /* Denying justice to those who are outside the usual bounds of culture. */

2023-07-12T14:34:40Z

‎Denying justice to those who are outside the usual bounds of culture.

Wakefien: /* The Assuring Answer: God's children have no need to fear His judgement. (3:5-3:6) */

2023-07-12T14:33:59Z

‎The Assuring Answer: God's children have no need to fear His judgement. (3:5-3:6)

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 ====The work on the temple was completed in 515 BC.====
 =====Life was not easy, Persia dominated the political scene, hearts were indifferent, even resentful to God, and the people's hope in God had waned.=====
-=====Sometime between 45 BC and 430 BC a prophet, Malachi appeared on the scene.=====
+=====Sometime between 450 BC and 430 BC a prophet, Malachi appeared on the scene.=====
 ====In our first week in Malachi we learned that we need to make sure we are honoring God.====
 ====Last week we learned of our need to be faithful to God.====
-====This week we will dig into God's justice.====
+====This week we will dig into God's justice using the theme '''Put Your Hope in God'''====
-=Body=
+=Body (Read all of Malachi 2:17-3:6)=
 ==Common Question: Why do ''good'' ''things'' happen to ''bad'' ''people''? (2:17)==
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 =====He prospered them in the united monarchy.=====
 =====He patiently withheld judgement during the rebellion's of the divided kingdom.=====
 =====Even in the judgement of exile God preserved a remnant.=====
 =====God returned the people to the land.=====
 ====Anyone paying attention should have realized that God had been faithful in the past and so he would be faithful in the future.====
 ===The question actually betrays a deeper, more dangerous question. Is God really just?===
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 ===God's goal is acceptable worship. (4)===
+====God had been worshipped properly in the past.====
 ===MTR: Pray and ask God for patience while also checking your own worship to make sure it is pure.===
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 ===The real problem is not so much a laundry list of sins, but a failure to revere God. (5b)===
 ====We could sit here and develop a list of sins. We could add to the sins already listed here and go into all sorts of detail!====
-====But when we focus on the sins, I think we may end up missing the mark. The real problem is a failure to revere, fear God.====
+====But when we focus on the sins, I think we may end up missing the mark. The real problem is a failure to revere, fear God. Not God phobia, but reverence.====
 Christians have a bad rap for being "legalistic." I think that sometimes we focus too much on a list of what we can and cannot do and don't focus enough on God. If we truly revered God I think we would find ourselves living a much better life.
 ====Image: The solution to struggle with sin is not to think about sin!====

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 Thankfully, this is not how our God operates. We serve a God who has been faithful in the past and will be faithful in the future. Our position in Christ is what saves us from judgement. We should strive to be like him as if our grade depends on it because it doesn't. No pressure! Strive for perfection because you are free to miss the mark and know tha God will catch you.
-===MTR: Take some time to praise God for His promise of Salvation as patiently you place your hope in God's timing.===
+===MTR: Take some time to praise God for His promise of Salvation as you patiently place your hope in God's timing.===
 ==Memory Verse: Colossians 3:23==
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 ===God's actions are the actions of a refiner. (2-3)===
 Malachi paints a picture of a refiner's fire. God will judge the wicked, but he does so as a refiner.
-===Image Refining Silver, cupellation===
+===Image: Refining Silver, cupellation===
 In the ancient world silver was refined through a process called cupellation. In cuppelation smelter would take lead bullion (silver is often found in lead deposits), heat the bullion in a shallow porous cup and allow the lead to oxidize. Once the lead oxidized the lead oxide could be heated until it vaporized. Ground up pottery and bone could be added to absorb the vaporized lead oxide and what remained was silver.

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 ===MTR: Take some time to praise God for His promise of Salvation as patiently you place your hope in God's timing.===
+==Memory Verse: Colossians 3:23==
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 When I was an undergraduate student working on my degree in aviation I had to take a multi engine commercial pilot course. The course was one of our pinnacle courses and was really only offered to those who were very far along in their degrees on track to fly for the airlines. I  enjoyed the course, especially flying the complex airplanes. I would argue that a small multi-engine airplane is probably the hardest airplane anyone will ever fly. But I also had a teacher who pushed us hard. It was almost as if we could never be good enough. "Oh, you have done a good job landing through the clouds so now do it with an engine failed. Oh, you did that, okay now let me fail several of your instruments. You did that, okay let's do it at night..." What I eventually realized was that the teacher was pushing us to our breaking point to see how we responded when we could not achieve perfection. In situations like these I will admit I have a strong tendency to hedge my bets. To do not as well on the single engine full instrument landing so that I don't have to go do the harder task.
-Thankfully, this is not how our God operates. We serve a God who has been faithful in the past and will be faithful in the future. Our position in christ is what saves us from judgement. We should strive to be like him as if our grade depends on it because it doesn't. No pressure! Strive for perfection because you are free to miss the mark and know tha God will catch you.
+Thankfully, this is not how our God operates. We serve a God who has been faithful in the past and will be faithful in the future. Our position in Christ is what saves us from judgement. We should strive to be like him as if our grade depends on it because it doesn't. No pressure! Strive for perfection because you are free to miss the mark and know tha God will catch you.
 ===MTR: Take some time to praise God for His promise of Salvation as patiently you place your hope in God's timing.===

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 Thankfully, this is not how our God operates. We serve a God who has been faithful in the past and will be faithful in the future. Our position in christ is what saves us from judgement. We should strive to be like him as if our grade depends on it because it doesn't. No pressure! Strive for perfection because you are free to miss the mark and know tha God will catch you.
-===MTR: Take some time to praise God for His promise of Salvation.===
+===MTR: Take some time to praise God for His promise of Salvation as you place your hope in God.===
 [[Category:Sermons]]

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 Christians have a bad rap for being "legalistic." I think that sometimes we focus too much on a list of what we can and cannot do and don't focus enough on God. If we truly revered God I think we would find ourselves living a much better life.
 ====Image: The solution to struggle with sin is not to think about sin!====
-You may be struggling with a particular area of sin, maybe an addiction. Alcohol, pornography, gossip, etc. The solution to the addiction is not to think and dwell on the addiction, the solution is to spend more time gazing at God.
+<p>You may be struggling with a particular area of sin, maybe an addiction. Alcohol, pornography, gossip, etc. The solution to the addiction is not to think and dwell on the addiction, the solution is to spend more time gazing at God.</p>
 ====Theology matters!====
 Now, we have talked a lot about sin, but I also want you to realize that even if you have sinned in these areas. Even if you are guilty, there is hope.

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 ======Oppressing the fatherless.======
 ======Denying justice to those who are outside the usual bounds of culture.======
-The NIV states "deprive foreigners among you of justice." The idea here seems to me to be about denying justice to people outside of "your people." We all actually know what this looks like, if someone wrongs your family or close friends you want justice, but if it happens to someone who is really not like you do you have the same zeal for justice? In our modern society certainly we should apply this to foreign nationals, but in the world we live in I think we need to recognize that citizens of our own country can actually be foreigners to "our people." We must not deny these individuals justice.
+<p>The NIV states "deprive foreigners among you of justice." The idea here seems to me to be about denying justice to people outside of "your people."</p>
 ===The real problem is not so much a laundry list of sins, but a failure to revere God. (5b)===

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 ===God demands that people live according to a high moral standard and God will purge! (5a)===
 ====We need to understand that ultimately God will pass judgement on sin.====
-=====Seven sins describe those who who not properly fear God====
+=====Seven sins describe those who who not properly fear God=====
 ======Attempting to control the physical and/or physical world through incantations, charms, and rituals.======
 Witchcraft is a common problem in the Bible and is first mentioned in Exodus 7:11. God's judgement on sorcery was execution. Sorcery has no place in the life of one who has a proper reverence for God.