The document is a series of summaries and excerpts from a message about enduring trials and reconciling the existence of evil with a just God. Some key points: 1) Jesus is the answer to questions about suffering and God's justice. His first coming provided salvation, his second will be to judge. 2) God uses trials to purify believers, like refining silver, which requires heat. Jesus cleanses and mines out impurities through hardship. 3) All will face God's justice either at the cross of Jesus, through faith, or at the final judgment when Jesus returns. His second coming will be for damnation, not salvation.

3. MALACHI
3:1-51
“I will send my messenger, who
will prepare the way before me.
Then suddenly the Lord you are
seeking will come to his temple; the
messenger of the covenant, whom
you desire, will come,” says the
Lord Almighty.
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4. MALACHI
3:1-52
But who can endure the day of his
coming? Who can stand when he
appears? For he will be like a
refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap. 3
He will sit as a refiner and purifier
of silver; he will purify the Levites
and refine them like gold and silver.
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5. MALACHI
3:1-5Then the Lord will have men who
will bring offerings in righteousness,
4
and the offerings of Judah and
Jerusalem will be acceptable to the
Lord, as in days gone by, as in
former years.
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6. MALACHI
3:1-55
“So I will come to put you on trial.
I will be quick to testify against
sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers,
against those who defraud laborers
of their wages, who oppress the
widows and the fatherless,
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7. MALACHI
3:1-5and deprive the foreigners among
you of justice, but do not fear me,”
says the Lord Almighty.
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8. WHO CANWHO CAN
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WHEN
QUESTI ONS
HAVE TURNED
I NTO
ACCUSATI ONS

9. When there is high trust, there are
fewer questions. When there is low
trust, there are far more questions.
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EXHAUSTI NG
THE
I NEXHAUSTI B
LE GOD

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GOD HEARS
OUR HEARTS

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WE CANT
KNOCK HI M
OUT SO WE
WEAR HI M
OUT

13. When it comes to fights, some
people are knock-you-out, some
people are wear you out.
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ACCUSATI
ONS
AGAI NST
GOD

15. GOD, THAT
I S WRONG
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“
”

16. They’ve got two accusations that they
begin with against God. The first is
that God is evil and we are good.
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17. No longer is God on the throne
judging us, we’re on a throne judging
him. How many of us emotionally
have been there? “God, that’s wrong.
You shouldn’t have allowed that to
happen.
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18. You should have intervened. You
should have stopped them. You
should have done something. You
should have said something. God is
evil; I am good.”
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19. WHERE I S
THE GOD
OF
JUSTI CE
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“
”

20. Their second accusation is, “Where
is the God of justice?” We’ve all
been here. Some catastrophe comes
into your life, something horrifying,
or somebody you love is victimized
in a horrific way.
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21. Usually it’s when we’re hurting, we’re
very emotional, or someone we love
is hurting and very emotional. And
what they’re doing—and this is what
hurt people do, this is what religious
people do, and this is really what
hurt religious people do.
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22. See, God is just and God is loving,
and what happens is it says early on,
“I have loved you,” and here it says,
“Where’s the God of justice?” So,
when we sin, we want God’s love.
When they sin, we want God’s
justice.
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23. You get that? We call that hypocrisy.
“You hurt me—justice. I hurt you—
love.” They’re doing the same thing.
And because God is loving and just,
our sin makes it complicated.
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24. The Bible says that God is a great
physician, and that sin infects all of
our being, and that when we get
impatient and we want him to deal
with everybody and everything right
now, we think that God is slow.
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RECONCI LI NG
GOD AND
EVI L

26. Atheism says there is no God. It is
what it is. God’s not involved in evil
because there’s no God. DeismDeism
says, well, there is a God, but he’s
far, far away. He’s inactive, he’s
distant, he’s an absentee landlord.
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27. MonismMonism says that God is both good
and evil. This is a lot of eastern
religion, the yin and the yang, black
and white, God is good and evil. So,
the good and evil we see in the world
is a reflection of the character of
God.
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JESUS I S
THE ANSWER

29. When someone is hurting, when
someone is struggling, when
someone is suffering, when they
become absolutely concerned with
themselves, every time you see them,
all they want to talk about is,
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30. Because the answer to the questions
is always the same, and his name is
Jesus. Most of your questions will
not get answered in this life.
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31. Until we get to the kingdom of God,
there’s going to be things that we
don’t know. It doesn’t mean that
there isn’t an answer, but there’s not
an answer that is revealed to us yet.
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32. God won’t answer all of your
questions in this life, but his answer
to your questions is his presence in
your life. The Bible says that he’ll
never leave us, he’ll never forsake us.
He’ll be with us always until the end
of the age.
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PEOPLE GET
READY,
JESUS I S
COMI NG

34. This is what we celebrate every
Christmas where we say that Jesus is
Immanuel, which means, “God with
us.” Malachi’s telling us the
Christmas story.
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35. The people walking in darkness have
seen a great light. It’s Immanuel,
God with us. God’s come down to
be with us. So, who’s coming? It’s
the Lord. Ultimately, we know that’s
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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36. It says that the Lord is coming to his
temple, and all of this is
foreshadowing Jesus.
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37. WHO CANWHO CAN
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THE MESSI AH
HAS COME

38. Now, here’s the point: God wanted
to make sure that the way we used to
worship him is no longer the way we
worship him. We don’t go to the
temple, we go to Jesus. We don’t go
to a priest, we go to the great High
Priest. We don’t offer a sacrifice; we
have faith in the sacrifice of Jesus.
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39. We believe that to get close to God,
you don’t go to a place, you go to a
person named Jesus, that the
connecting point between heaven
and earth is not a wall, right, it’s a
risen Savior.
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THREE
THI NGS
TO NOTE
ABOUT THE
BI BLE

41. I T I S
FROM GOD
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42. Number one, the Bible’s from God.
This is the book that God wrote.
One of the ways we know that is
something called prophecy, that in
the Old Testament in particular,
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43. I T I S THE
ONLY
BOOK GOD
WROTE2 WHO CANWHO CAN
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44. Number two, this book is the only
book that God wrote. It’s unique.
The only place you’ll find stuff like
this is in the Bible because this alone
is the book that God wrote.
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45. I T I S ALL
ABOUT
JESUS3 WHO CANWHO CAN
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46. Number three, it’s all about Jesus.
It’s all about Jesus. The point of the
whole Bible—all the concepts,
themes, directions, stories, and
trajectories—is about Jesus.
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47. There’s hope for you. There’s
forgiveness for you. There’s
provision for you. There’s love for
you. There are answers for you and
it’s all in Jesus. Let’s talk about
Jesus.”
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HE I S
COMI NG

49. Jesus’ first coming was for salvation.
His second coming will be for
damnation.
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50. JESUS
CLEANS
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51. And you go live a clean life because
you’ve already been made a clean
person in Christ. At the cross, all of
our filth went to Jesus and all of his
righteousness came to us.
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52. JESUS
MI NES
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53. Jesus cleans us and he also is not
only like a cleanser, but he’s like a
metalworker. And the way it would
work in that day is that you would go
out and you would pan, or dig, or
sluice, or however it worked,
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54. and you would get—it mentions it
here—your gold or your silver, your
precious, precious metals. But, the
problem is they’re not pure. There’s
a lot of impurities in them. They’re
commingled with a lot of other
things that are not valuable or
precious.
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55. So, you need to separate that which
is precious from that which is not.
How do you do that? How do you
separate like that
The answer is heatheat.
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56. What happens then is some of us
want to be pure, and we want to be
precious, we just don’t want pain and
we don’t like heat.
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57. And there’s always a lot of teachers
going around saying, “There’s a way
to be precious without the heat.”
Those are called false teachers.
There’s no way to be purified
without the heat.
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58. Sometimes, this is heat you caused.
You did something, made your own
life pretty hard, and God’s going to
use it. Sometimes, somebody else
sinned against you, and they brought
the heat.
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59. Don’t start accusing God and
questioning his character. Don’t try
to live your life to avoid all heat
because you will not become more
precious and valuable.
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60. The Lord Jesus wants to look down
on you and see his reflection in your
character, and to get there is going to
be some heat and cleanings.
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61. See, God is trying to get the
imperfections and the impurities out
of your character and mine so that
he would get more glory and we
would be prepared for our future.
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62. JESUS AS
JUDGE
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63. Jesus came the first time for
salvation, coming the second time
for damnation. And it says in
particular that nobody is getting away
with anything, all right? Do not be
deceived. God will not be mocked.
We all reap what we sow.
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64. You can’t control God. You can’t
manipulate God. You can’t cajole
God. You can’t force an outcome
that you want by pressing his hand.
That’s sorcery. Most religious
teaching is sorcery, how to get God
to give you what you want.
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65. Their question is, “Where is the
God of justice?” Justice comes for all
in one of two places: at the cross of
Jesus or the white throne of Jesus.
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66. When Jesus came the first time, he
went to the cross to die in our place
for our sins as our substitute.
There’s the justice and the love of
God kissing on the cross of Jesus.
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