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The Prophets: Faith In The Darkness (Malachi)

The Prophets: Faith In The Darkness (Malachi)

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Fellowship Bible Church

590 Jackson Rd, Sewell, NJ 08080, USA

Saturday 9:30 AM

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Malachi Speaks with Questions

•God Deserves our Best Efforts (1:7-10)
Giving our best to God is our best response because he gave his Best for us.
•God Designed Marriage for Life (2:14-16)
Marriage is about what we give not what we get.
•God Directs the Refining Process (3:2-4)
Our purification is purposeful, controlled and timely.
A question stirs the conscience, and accusation hardens the will.
God Deserves our Best Efforts (1:7-10)
Giving our best to God is our best response because he gave his Best for us.
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?... 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?... 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Romans 8
(1) Love God Fully

30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:30
(2) Serve God Faithfully

23 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. Col. 3:23-24
(2) Serve God Faithfully

"The Lord ensures the believer that he will receive a just, eternal compensation for his efforts (cf. Rev. 20:12, 13), even if his earthly boss or master does not compensate fairly."
The MacArthur Study Bible
(3) Sacrifice Personally

31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 32 Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, 33 just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
1 Cor. 10:31
God Designed Marriage for Life (2:14-16)

Marriage is about what we give not what we get.
Our society insists decisions should be made by individual “fulfillment,” but the Bible reminds us our decisions are best made in light of our individual “responsibilities” to one another.
God Directs the Refining Process (3:2-4)
Our purification is purposeful, controlled and timely.
•The purpose of the refining process is repentance: a change of action (1:8) and of attitude (1:14).
•The controls of the refining process are managed by God; he adjusts the heat to reveal our impurities (3:2).

In the process of refining metals, the raw metal is heated with fire until it melts. The impurities separate from it and rise to the surface. They are skimmed off, leaving the pure metal. Without this heating and melting there could be no purifying. As the impurities are skimmed off the top, the reflection of the worker appears in the clear pure surface. As we are purified by God, his reflection in our life will become more and more clear to those around us.
The Life Application Bible
•The length of the refining process may be longer than expected. God is patient—don’t assume he isn’t working (2:6).
•God Deserves our Best Efforts (1:7-10)
Giving our best to God is our best response because he gave his Best for us.
•God Designed Marriage for Life (2:14-16)
Marriage is about what we give not what we get.
•God Directs the Refining Process (3:2-4)
Our purification is purposeful, controlled and timely.

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