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05 May 31, 2015, Malachi 3 & 4, A Pure People
This document provides a summary of Malachi chapters 3 and 4 from the Bible. It discusses the coming messenger who will prepare the way for God and purify God's people. It describes how God requires his people to bring full tithes and offerings. The people complain about serving God, but God says he will protect those who fear him. Chapter 4 predicts the coming day of the Lord that will burn like an oven for the wicked. It says Elijah will come first to turn people's hearts back to God. The document also provides background information on pastor John Piper and the title and scripture reference for one of his sermons on Malachi 4:1-3 about the rising sun of righteousness.
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- 1. Malachi 3 and4 A Pure People May 31, 2015 First Baptist Church Jackson, Mississippi USA
- 2. What’s the numberone thing?
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- 4. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KFOtNWjTX5s/UdT_aGKSebI/AAAAAAAAAB0/ieKqL_IsJHg/s960/1031-wallpaper-slide-v2.gif 1 Corinthians 10:31NKJV 31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
- 5. May Memory Verse: 2Corinthians 9:7 NIV “Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”
- 7. Positioning yourself tofocus and rely on God for the strength, provision, & wisdom you need.
- 8. On Mondays, beginningJune 1, our church family will receive prayer requests for the week upon which you can focus in addition to you own personal prayers.
- 9. Consider fasting ona certain day each week, or abstaining from a certain food as a part of your discipline to pray during this 90 day period.
- 10. Monday, June 08,2015, 9:00 AM - Friday, June 12, 2015, 12:00 PM
- 11. Sunday, June 28,2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
- 12. http://kazyoung.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Challenge.jpg We have threechallenges that the Education Department has placed before us in 2015:
- 13. http://rejoiceministries.org/images/hiding-gods-word-banner.jpg 1.) Memorize themonthly memory verses and know each month we are hiding God’sWord in our heart.
- 14. January verse: Romans10:9 February verse: Ephesians 2:8-9 March verse: Romans 3:23 April verse: I Peter 1:3
- 15. April MemoryVerse: 1 Peter1:3 NIV 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
- 16. http://beavercreekchristian.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/becoming-a-disciple-maker.jpg 2.) Share yourfaith with one person each month and build a relationship with them, so they will not only become a disciple – but a disciple maker themselves. Luke 19:11-27
- 17. http://www.tillhecomes.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/God_At_Work.jpg 3). Ask SundaySchool class members to share how they have seen God at work during the week.
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- 21. Malachi 3:1-18 NKJV TheComing Messenger 1 “Behold, I send My messenger, And he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord,Whom you seek, Will suddenly come to His temple, Even the Messenger of the covenant, InWhom you delight. Behold, He is coming,” Says the LORD of hosts.
- 22. 2 “But whocan endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire (purifying) And like launderers’ soap (cleansing).
- 23. 3 He willsit as a refiner and a purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi, And purge them as gold and silver, That they may offer to the LORD An offering in righteousness.
- 24. 4 “Then theoffering of Judah and Jerusalem Will be pleasant to the LORD, As in the days of old, As in former years.
- 25. 5 And Iwill come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness Against sorcerers, Against adulterers, Against perjurers, Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, And against those who turn away an alien— Because they do not fear Me,” Says the LORD of hosts.
- 26. http://wallpaperscristaos.com.br/christianwallpapers/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/I-the-Lord-do-not-change-christian-wallpaper-hd_1366x768- 582291_960x447.jpg 6 “ForI am the LORD, I do not change; Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.
- 27. 7 Yet fromthe days of your fathers You have gone away from My ordinances And have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” Says the LORD of hosts. “But you said, ‘In what way shall we return?’
- 28. Do Not RobGod 8 “Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbedYou?’ In tithes and offerings.
- 29. 9 You arecursed with a curse, For you have robbed Me, Even this whole nation. 10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this,” Says the LORD of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it.
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- 31. 11 “And Iwill rebuke the devourer for your sakes, So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,” Says the LORD of hosts;
- 32. https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6049/5906156217_489944d63e_z.jpg 12 “And allnations will call you blessed, For you will be a delightful land,” Says the LORD of hosts.
- 33. The People ComplainHarshly 13 “Your words have been harsh against Me,” Says the LORD, “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken againstYou?’
- 34. 14 You havesaid, ‘It is useless to serve God; What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance, And that we have walked as mourners Before the LORD of hosts?
- 35. 15 So nowwe call the proud blessed, For those who do wickedness are raised up; They even tempt God and go free.’”
- 36. A Book ofRemembrance 16 Then those who feared the LORD spoke to one another, And the LORD listened and heard them; So a book of remembrance was written before Him For those who fear the LORD And who meditate on His name.
- 37. http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/4f/2d/d2/4f2dd2605abc591c0ac2a560f4c08d8f.jpg 17 “They shallbe Mine,” says the LORD of hosts, “On the day that I make them My jewels And I will spare them As a man spares his own son who serves him.”
- 38. 18 Then youshall again discern Between the righteous and the wicked, Between one who serves God And one who does not serve Him. Malachi 3:1-18 NKJV
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- 40. Then, in chapter4, we have the prediction of the Day of the Lord and of the Sun of RighteousnessWho ushers it in. The first verse is a vivid description of the GreatTribulation period --
- 41. Malachi 4:1 NKJV TheGreat Day of God 1 “For behold, the day is coming, Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up,” Says the LORD of hosts, “That will leave them neither root nor branch. (In other words, they shall be consumed.)
- 42. http://home.earthlink.net/~serfpub/fourhorsemen.jpg In the Bookof Revelation we read that at one fatal swoop one-fourth of the population of the world will be wiped out (Rev. 6:8).
- 43. Revelation 6:8 NKJV 8So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.
- 44. Malachi 4:2-6 NKJV 2But to you who fear My name The Sun of Righteousness shall arise With healing in His wings; And you shall go out And grow fat like stall-fed calves.
- 45. 3 You shalltrample the wicked, For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet On the day that I do this,” Says the LORD of hosts.
- 46. http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/2e/e1/90/2ee19058747adb013a66f2af5105b7a5.jpg 4 “Remember theLaw of Moses, My servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, With the statutes and judgments.
- 47. https://thejordanvalley.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/elijah-logo.jpg 5 Behold, Iwill send you Elijah the prophet Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.
- 48. 6 And hewill turn The hearts of the fathers to the children, And the hearts of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.” Malachi 4:2-6 NKJV
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- 50. John Piper wasborn in Chattanooga, Tennessee where his father, Bill, was a traveling evangelist and church planter. • The Piper family eventually moved to Greenville, South Carolina, where he spent the remainder of his youth.
- 51. John married NoëlHenry in 1968, and together they have four sons, a daughter, and twelve grandchildren. • Piper attendedWheaton College (1964– 68) & completed a Bachelor of Divinity degree at FullerTheological Seminary in Pasadena, California.
- 52. John did hisdoctoral work in New Testament Studies at the University of Munich, Germany (1971–74). • His mother died in December 1974 in a bus wreck in Israel and his 1990 booklet What's the Difference? included a tribute to her.
- 53. Upon completion ofhis doctorate, he taught Biblical Studies at Bethel University and Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota, for six years (1974–1980). He served as Pastor for Preaching andVision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota for 33 years.
- 54. On January 11,2006, he announced that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and Piper responded to his diagnosis with the following: "This news has, of course, been good for me. The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
- 55. The news ofcancer has a wonderfully blasting effect on both. I thank God for that.The times with Christ in these days have been unusually sweet." Piper underwent successful surgery on February 14, 2006.
- 56. This message istitled: The Sun of RighteousnessWill Rise December 20, 1987 Scripture: Malachi 4:1-3 Topic:The Person of Christ
- 57. Three astounding effectsJesus has had on our world: 1) One third of the earth’s population call themselves Christian. 2) His birthday divides history in half. 3) His resurrection sets Sunday apart.
- 58. 1. Those WhoCallThemselves Christian One third of the world's population today calls itself Christian. That is, 2.44 billion people of the world's 7.325 billion have come under the sway of this Man Jesus and say that Christianity is their religion.
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- 60. Not only that,Christianity is the most extensive and universal religion in history. There are Christian churches in every inhabited country in the world and in two- thirds of the world's 223 countries the population is over 50% Christian.
- 61. So the firstindisputable significance of the presence of Jesus Christ on this earth is that the life of this Man has influenced more people over the course of human history than any other single man.
- 62. http://godclear.com/images/jesus.jpg Buddha, Confucius, Mohammed,or even Moses do not compare in the extent of their influence on history and the world.
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- 64. 2. The DatingSystem Second, virtually every person in the modern western, and most of the non-western, world call this year 2015 AD.
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- 66. The reason bankersand butchers, car dealers and doctors, teachers and attorneys, computer programmers and presidents date their checks “2015" is because Jesus Christ was born 2,015 years ago.
- 67. No other manin history has been accorded the honor of dividing history in half—and with such definitive influence that millions who do not call Him Lord are forced to bear witness daily to His on-going importance in the world by using the date 2015.
- 68. 3. The SettingApart of Sunday All over the western world, and in a large part of the non-western world, Sunday is recognized as a holiday, and most of these western cultures recognize a difference even between Saturday and Sunday.
- 69. http://blog.hillsbiblechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/jesusresurrection8.jpg The historical reasonfor this is that Jesus Christ rose from the dead on Sunday.
- 70. Why Does JesusHave Such an Effect on theWorld? The religious, historical, and cultural significance of the birth of Jesus Christ is so huge that no one can begin to give it an adequate description.
- 71. Now that fact,in and of itself, before we even turn to the Bible, confronts you and me with a profound choice: will we ignore this Man and take Him lightly in spite of His being the most influential man whoever lived, or will we inquire earnestly intoWho this Man was and is and why He has changed the world so deeply?
- 72. Why is thebirth and death and resurrection of this Man having this kind of effect on the world?
- 73. There are manyreasons why people don't give whole hearted agreement to the Biblical witness about Jesus Christ—why people hold back from full, red-blooded commitment to Christ—why they watch the drama of redemption unfolding in history like a spectator instead of a participant.
- 74. Sometimes it isn'tbecause they see logical or historical obstacles but instead it's often because they don't see that it really makes any difference in their lives.
- 75. http://groundedinthegospel.com/media/W1siZiIsIjIwMTIvMTIvMTcvMDVfMDNfNDZfMzA1X0plc3VzX0RpZmZlcmVuY2UuMDA3LmpwZyJdLFsicCIsInRodW1iIiwiNTk4eDMyMyMiXSxbImUiLCJqcGciXV0.jpg The whole thingseems irrelevant to real life to them. It doesn't connect.
- 76. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Caffeine_Molecule.png It's like someesoteric scientific claim about the molecule.
- 77. It may wellbe true, but the likelihood of it making much difference in my life is so remote that I hardly need to make any commitment to the truth of the molecular theory. Leave that for the scientists. And leave Jesus for the religious.
- 78. I've got mylife to live. Let’s go to a verse in Malachi (4:2), the last prophet in the OldTestament, and sketch five images of the coming of Jesus Christ.
- 79. If they sawthe coming of Jesus the way the prophets saw it, they would see its relevance for their lives, and they wouldn't be indifferent anymore. Malachi's Great Expectation of the Coming Lord in chapter 4, verse 2.
- 80. http://desertpeace.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/coming-of-messiah.jpg?w=477 Here is aprophet writing 450 years before Jesus but full of expectation that the Messiah is coming.
- 81. In 3:1 hesays, "The LordWhom you seek will suddenly come to His temple; the Messenger of the covenant inWhom you delight; behold He is coming says the Lord of hosts." And in verse 3:2, "He is like fuller’s soap and a refiner's fire."
- 82. This same greatexpectation in 3:1 is described in 4:2, and this is the verse we want to unfold this morning. • Malachi has just warned that those who proudly resist God will be consumed with fire on the coming Day of Judgment.
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- 84. But then Malachihas a different word to say to those who fear the Lord. For them (us) the future holds something vastly more wonderful.
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- 86. Malachi 4:2 NKJV 2But to you who fear My name The Sun of Righteousness shall arise With healing in His wings; And you shall go out (leaping) And grow fat like stall-fed calves.
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- 88. When John theBaptist's father prophesied in Luke 1:78, he alluded to this verse and said that with the coming of Jesus the day was dawning from on high. The Sun of Righteousness was rising.
- 89. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RDaa782y3sM/TaBpJSRcOBI/AAAAAAAACoM/4WrCEfKR2PQ/s1600/zzzzMessiah.jpg Luke 1:78 NASB 78Because of the tender mercy of our God, With which the Sunrise from on high will visit us,
- 90. And Jesus hasbeen rising all over this world ever since. • One day His rise will reach its noonday brightness and He will appear in glory and the final division between the unbelieving and the believing will be made.
- 95. Five Pictures ofWhatthe Coming of Jesus Means - • But for those who fear the Lord—who wake up from their indifference or rebellion against Him and honor Him with trust and allegiance—what does the coming of the Lord mean?
- 96. http://christianmotivations.weebly.com/uploads/7/6/2/0/7620268/4760747_orig.jpg What does itmean for you today if you are a true Biblical Christian?
- 97. Five pictures fromMalachi 4:2; 1. A rising sun 2. Beams of righteousness 3. Wings of healing 4. Breaking out of a stall 5. Leaping like calves
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- 99. 1. A RisingSun Jesus Christ is a rising sun. That means at least four things. We'll mention only two (omitting: warmth where there was cold, and growth where there was atrophy).
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- 101. Light WhereThere WasDarkness Jesus brings light where there was darkness and when you have light, you can see - Jesus helps us see things like they really are. He makes sense out of things.
- 102. Jesus said toPilate, "For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice." And Pilate mocked Him and said, as though he lived in the 21st century, "What is truth?"
- 103. That is thetragic and cynical cry of our age:What is truth? Not because there's a passion for truth, but because there is so much skepticism that any such thing exists.
- 104. The effect ofthis skepticism and relativism is moral, intellectual, personal and family bankruptcy. • Why do many families come apart? Because they have no anchor of truth. The husband and father has no clear vision of why he or his children exist.
- 105. All he cando is pass on a few tips for how to make more money or stay healthy. And the emptiness gets deeper and deeper with each unbelieving generation.
- 106. http://joyousjewels.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/light-of-the-world.jpg But Jesus isthe light of the world and He brings sense and meaning out of absurdity.
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- 108. Security WhereThere WasDanger The second thing implied by His being a rising sun is that He brings security where there was danger.When it is dark, there is more danger because you can't see the path in front of you.
- 109. You might falloff a cliff or trip over a log or bang your head against a limb. When the sun finally rises, you can move with security and that's the way it is with Jesus. He points the way to go again and again. (John 14:6-7)
- 110. John 14:6-7 NKJV 6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. 7 If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”
- 111. He shows upthe danger and the foolishness of many choices before we make them. He guards us from many evil forces that only have power in the dark.
- 112. So when Jesuscomes into the world, He comes as a sun: He is light in the darkness of confusion and ignorance and skepticism. • He gives a fixed point of truth in a world where every standard seems to have come unglued.
- 113. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dxrosz-BlJs/T6t0zpRQhyI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/YaOae70Ug90/s1600/No+Fear.jpg And in doingthis, He guards us from destroying our lives and keeps us safe.
- 114. Five pictures fromMalachi 4:2; 1. A rising sun 2. Beams of righteousness 3. Wings of healing 4. Breaking out of a stall 5. Leaping like calves
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- 116. 2. Beams ofRighteousness The sun is a sun with beams of righteousness. Which means that Jesus makes things right. He makes man right with God through reconciliation.
- 117. He also makesman right with man through grace and humility and patience and love. In the end, He will make right all the wrongs that His people have suffered, so that we don't have to carry the burden of revenge and indignation.
- 118. If you lookat the incredible injustices in the world today, and see people suffering when they seem innocent and prospering when they seem wicked, Jesus gives an answer: where He is trusted, He can reconcile and restore; where He's not, He will have the last word in the judgment.
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- 120. Five pictures fromMalachi 4:2; 1. A rising sun 2. Beams of righteousness 3. Wings of healing 4. Breaking out of a stall 5. Leaping like calves
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- 122. 3. Wings ofHealing This Sun of Righteousness rises with healing in its wings. Can you remember a spectacular sunrise that you experienced?
- 123. Early one morningyou saw how it happens on the rim of the ocean. A thin line of orange and red appears along the water.Then it intensifies, brighter and brighter, and you see the brightness focusing more and more on the center of the line, until the flaming ball surges up out of the water.
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- 125. http://heidiviars.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/beautiful-sunrise-fox-deer-march-2014-013.jpg And then youwatch it rise up, and in a sense it brings that whole red line on the rim of the water up into the air as though the sun had wings.
- 126. When Malachi sawthat, God told him: the coming of the Messiah will be like that and the effect of His beauty will be healing. Jesus is a great Healer. Though Jesus does not heal every disease in this life, He will heal every disease in the resurrection.
- 127. In other wordsJesus meets the tremendous need we all feel for hope beyond the grave—that all sickness and pain and sorrow and crying will be gone forever. (Revelation 21:4)
- 128. Revelation 21:4 NKJV 4And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.
- 129. Healing (marpe’, "restorationor health") in its wings (or rays) in Malachi 4:2 refers to the restorative powers of righteousness, which are like the healthful rays of the sun. • God's people will be spiritually restored and renewed.
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- 131. Five pictures fromMalachi 4:2; 1. A rising sun 2. Beams of righteousness 3. Wings of healing 4. Breaking out of a stall 5. Leaping like calves
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- 133. 4. Breaking Outof a Stall One effect of all this for those who fear the Lord will be a going forth from the stall — "You shall go forth from the stall."
- 134. http://dennisgable.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/freedom_quote_31.jpg The coming ofJesus means freedom not bondage and we don't want to minimize that deep longing in our hearts for freedom.
- 135. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jYE7LGzQx54/UAio1aUxgqI/AAAAAAAAAFY/UptrcLn9u7Y/s1600/wholeness-thumb.jpg Freedom in Christis essential to all joy – which Jesus promises to give us.
- 136. Until He comes,we are all in a real sense trapped and bound in the stall. We will never know the freedom for which we were made as long as we are in the stall—until Jesus sets us free at the Rapture!
- 137. Five pictures fromMalachi 4:2; 1. A rising sun 2. Beams of righteousness 3. Wings of healing 4. Breaking out of a stall 5. Leaping like calves
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- 139. 5. Leaping LikeCalves When the Sun of Righteousness rises with healing in His wings and we are set free from the stall of bondage, we will not merely walk, or run; we will leap like calves.
- 140. In other wordsfreedom is the necessary condition of leaping joy. Jesus said in Luke 6:22–23, "Blessed are you when men hate you. ... Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold your reward is great in Heaven."
- 141. http://wunderground.com/data/wximagenew/h/HOLLY/251.jpg The figure ofcalves enjoying open pasture after being cooped up in a stall expresses the future satisfaction and joy of the righteous.
- 142. You may thinkthat some people you know don’t have the personality for this and that they could no more leap like a calf than speak Russian. But we do not know each other very well.
- 143. John Piper remembersonce in seminary going out with people from the adult Sunday School that he was teaching. They came out of the pizza place and he commenced to demonstrate the high step of a drum major in the Greenville, S.C., Christmas parade.
- 144. Well the mouthsof those folks fell open. And they stared in disbelief. They didn't know he had a calf in him. • There is a calf in every believer and given the right setting, it will leap.
- 145. http://becomingellipsismark.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/man20leaping20cropped.jpg We would dowell to give it some room, otherwise we will look very out of character in Heaven when Jesus takes us running through the fields.
- 146. TheTrue Meaning ofBeing a Christian Jesus comes - to give light and truth where there was darkness and confusion, to set things right where they were wrong, to give healing where there was sickness and brokenness, to give freedom where there was bondage, and to give calf-like joy where there was dreariness and fear.
- 147. Father, I praythat none would be able to resist the offer ofYour grace in these words. Let every family be united in the faith this year. May those who have been spectators stop holding back, and join the drama of redemption. And may even this morning the Sun of Righteousness rise with healing in His wings so that all of us might go forth leaping like calves from the stall. In Jesus' name. Amen.
- 148. Full author JohnPiper John Piper (@JohnPiper) is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is author of more than 50 books. © 2015 Desiring God Foundation. Distribution GuidelinesL
- 149. The Plan ofHope & Salvation John 3:16 NKJV 16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 14:6 NKJV 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
- 150. Romans 3:23 NKJV 23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Romans 6:23a NKJV 23a For the wages of sin is death, • Death in this life (the first death) is 100%. • Even Jesus, the only one who doesn’t deserve death, died in this life to pay the penalty for our sins. • The death referred to in Romans 6:23a is the second death explained in Revelation 21:8.
- 151. Revelation 21:8 NKJV 8“But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” Romans 6:23b NKJV 23b but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- 152. Romans 5:8 NKJV 8But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Revelation 21:7 NKJV 7 “He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.” •Romans 10:9-10 explains to us how to accept Jesus as our Savior.
- 153. Romans 10:9-10 NKJV 9that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Romans 10:13 NKJV 13 For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.”
- 154. If you havequestions or would like to know more, Please, contact First Baptist Church Jackson at 601- 949-1900 or http://firstbaptistjackson.org/contact/