The Refiner 39;s Fire Full Movie Download

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InExodus, God appears as a pillar of cloud and fire to guide the Israelites. If the pillar moved, the people knew to follow it until it stopped in order to find their new place of rest. In this way, fire was comfort and guidance for the Israelites. As he did for his chosen people in biblical times, today God continues to protect, guide, and provide for humanity. Like the Israelites, God may not speak directly to us, but will still make his will known to us, if we pay attention.

There was once a group of women studying the book of Malachi in the Old Testament. As they were studying chapter three, they came across verse three, which says: 'He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.' This verse puzzled the women, and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God. One of the women offered to find out about the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible study.

The man answered 'Yes', and explained that he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left even a moment too long in the flames, it would be damaged.

Prayer: Father God, may we find comfort in knowing that in every circumstance, Your eyes are on us. May our hearts be open to Your refining, that we might glorify You and reflect Your image more fully every day. Amen.

I thank God for His grace today. Each of us can go boldly to Christ in our time of need. When we are facing trials and are in the refining fire, Jesus is there with us and His grace will see us through. We cannot earn His favor, we cannot be good enough to deserve forgiveness, because we are forgiven! We are free and His grace is sufficient for us all.

When I worked and traveled with David Wilkerson (Brother Dave), he would often times be reading books written by puritan authors; J.B. Stoney, William Gurnall, and others who wrote amazing books on holiness and living pure lives before the Lord. If you read these books, you can often find yourself trying to live a holier life, to be pure, and then struggle with shame for never measuring up to that level of holiness. If you are not careful, you can feel condemned. You can find yourself striving to be a better Christian.

Brother Dave would often discuss the topic of holiness and grace. He would quote the puritan writers and then relate it to America today. He was constantly and consistently trying to live a life of holiness before the Lord.

Let me finish today by saying, God loves you. God has you right where He wants you! You are of great value to Him! Rest in His love and let patience have its perfect work as you become a reflection of Him.

Basically, a smith heats ore, which can contain more than one metal, to separate the lesser metals (impurities) from the valuable ones. Eventually, as the smith removes more impurities, he will be able to see his reflection in the pure metal. Sometimes this process takes place many times over because different impurities are removed at different temperatures.

As you move into the new year, looking for clarity, answers, and direction, can you see how God is working on refining your heart? What is he using in your life, in your hard places, to make you better reflect the heart of Jesus?

Lord, be with us in the fire. Thank you for the reminder that you are ever watchful over our hearts and are working on turning us into better reflections of Jesus. Give us strength to hold on through the heat and comfort when we feel as though we cannot stand another minute. Amen.

Are you familiar with the process of purifying gold? 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. Only then will the imperfections hidden within rise to the surface so the refiner can carefully skim the dross until the surface is clear. This process is repeated until he can see his reflection in the purified liquid.

A good goldsmith never takes his eyes off of the fire or the gold. He must perfectly balance the heat of the fire with the vulnerability of the metal. Too much heat will ruin it, but too little will allow impurity to mar its God-given beauty and worth. It is a delicate balance that only a skilled goldsmith can be trusted to properly handle.

The fire of trials and suffering in our lives accomplish the same type of purification within our hearts as followers of Jesus Christ. Our goldsmith is the Creator of the universe who numbers the hairs on our heads. His hands are strong and gentle, His eyes filled with both determination and compassion as He watches the flames do their refining work.

Dear Lord, thank you for continuing to refine me, mature me, and grow me in my faith. Help me to recognize the refining fire you're using in my life and to find peace and comfort in the fact that you are using even my toughest circumstances to make me more like Christ. In Jesus' name, amen.

I am not an expert on glassblowing, but I see a similarity and connection that I find adds additional insight with the symbolism of being put in a silversmith refining fire. Let me explain to the best of my ability how glassblowing works:

He is a refiner's fire, and that makes all the difference. Arefiner's fire does not destroy indiscriminately like a forestfire. A refiner's fire does not consume completely like the fire ofan incinerator. A refiner's fire refines. It purifies. It meltsdown the bar of silver or gold, separates out the impurities thatruin its value, burns them up, and leaves the silver and goldintact. He is like a refiner's fire.

It does say FIRE. And therefore purity and holiness will alwaysbe a dreadful thing. There will always be a proper "fear andtrembling" in the process of becoming pure. We learn it from thetime we are little children: never play with fire! And it's a goodlesson! Therefore, Christianity is never a play thing. And thepassion for purity is never flippant. He is like fire and fire isserious. You don't fool around with it.

But it does say, he is like a REFINER'S fire. And therefore thisis not merely a word of warning, but a tremendous word of hope. Thefurnace of affliction in the family of God is always forrefinement, never for destruction.

Behold, I send my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.

The second individual mentioned is Jehovah's messenger whoprepares the way. "Behold, I send my messenger to prepare the waybefore me." Who is this? Well the New Testament quotes this veryverse to identify John the Baptist, the one who came to prepare theway for Christ (Matthew 11:10; Mark 1:2; Luke 7:27).

But you don't have to read in from the New Testament that thisis a kind of prophet whom God would raise up in the last day. Itsays in Malachi 4:5, "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophetbefore the great and terrible day of the Lord comes." So the firstmessenger mentioned in 3:1 that God will send to prepare his way isa kind of Elijah or one like Elijah. That is why Luke 1:17 saysthat John the Baptist went before Jesus in the Spirit and the powerof Elijah.

So I conclude that the messenger of the covenant, the Lord, theowner of the temple of God, is none other than the Son of God, whois with God and is God, and who came into the world and madehimself known to us personally in Jesus Christ.

So when verse 2 goes on to say, "But who can endure the day ofhis coming, and who can stand when he appears, for he is like arefiner's fire," I conclude that it is talking about the Son of Godwho came to us in Jesus Christ.

We were created in theimage of God with the potential to reverence God and trust him andobey him and glorify him, but we were born in iniquity and in sindid our mothers conceive us. We are shot through with the impurityof rebellion and unbelief, and we fall short of God's glory againand again.

You can prove this to yourself in many ways. For example, you cannotice how readily your heart inclines to those things that willshow your strengths to other people, and how resistant your heartis to communion with God in solitude.

So we are impure by nature and by practice. But Godwill have no alloys in heaven. "Blessed are the pure in heart, forthey shall see God." And yet he will have someone in heaven. Hewill have a redeemed people. His banquet hall will be full. Andtherefore he must be a refiner's fire. If he were only a forestfire, heaven would be empty. If he were only an incinerating fire,heaven would be empty. And if he were no fire, heaven would beempty.

But how do we know heaven will not be empty? Or to put itanother way, how do we know that God will not simply abandon impurepeople like us? We don't deserve salvation? Why are we not simplyconsumed? Why does Christ come as a refiner's fire and not a forestfire?

Verse 6 gives the answer? "For I the Lord do not change;therefore, you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed." But by itselfthat doesn't make sense. What if God were changelessly bent onbeing a forest fire? What if he were changeless in unrelentingwrath? What sort of changelessness is it that guarantees that weare not consumed?

It is covenant-keeping changelessness. According to verse 1 theLord comes as "the messenger of the covenant." The reason Jesus isa refiner's fire and not a forest fire is because God made acovenant. And Jesus is the emissary of that covenant. He confirmsit and seals it with his blood. So his blood is called in Hebrews13:20, "the blood of the everlasting covenant."

Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.

For behold, the day comes burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

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