WEBVTT 00:00.151 --> 00:02.393 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the Way Community Church Podcast. 00:02.933 --> 00:06.976 [SPEAKER_00]: Our mission is to show people the way to life with Jesus. 00:07.497 --> 00:11.440 [SPEAKER_00]: My name is Darahal and I am the pastor of the Way Community Church. 00:12.140 --> 00:22.468 [SPEAKER_01]: If you would like to join us as a member or if you simply need prayer or if you want to worship through giving, you can find the links and the transcription of this podcast. 00:22.808 --> 00:31.060 [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to take a break from our argument ready to hear theories, and we're going to have brought a new conversation for the next few weeks around the concept of the refinery. 00:31.260 --> 00:35.667 [SPEAKER_01]: It's exciting times as a way community church as we are launching our vins' ministry. 00:35.827 --> 00:37.770 [SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to call it the refinery. 00:38.170 --> 00:49.819 [SPEAKER_01]: And for we want to fin the few weeks, just appreciating how God uses the fire to cheerify our foes and for Paris as men of God to be the prepped of our homes and to glorify Him in the earth. 00:50.060 --> 01:03.871 [SPEAKER_01]: Following and encourage you, if you know a man of God or a brother who could use this word to share this message and the next few messages with him, you can follow along the transcript of this podcast, grab your bibles, turn to the book of Melica, let's study God word. 01:04.391 --> 01:07.252 [SPEAKER_00]: we are launching today a new series. 01:07.993 --> 01:13.515 [SPEAKER_00]: As we honor the men of the wake community church, we're preparing to launch our immense ministry next Sunday. 01:13.575 --> 01:22.859 [SPEAKER_00]: So for these three Sundays, the first three Sundays of June, I want to preach to the heart of and the experience of the men in our congregation. 01:22.919 --> 01:28.162 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, to the ladies who are thinking, oh, well, because of a ray of preaching to the men, I'll have to come to church in June. 01:30.254 --> 01:58.034 [SPEAKER_00]: Now I think you should still come to church even though the summers are going to be for the heart and experience of man for a couple reasons number one it'll be a reminder of how to intercede for the man number two it'll be a reminder of how to encourage the man in your life what to partner with God to shape in their hearts and in their characters and I'm just tell your ladies I want you in church with these three weeks but don't be real a man he 02:01.453 --> 02:04.356 [SPEAKER_00]: just tell you because I could come back and preach a series to the women. 02:04.396 --> 02:05.056 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just telling you. 02:06.197 --> 02:08.559 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you give real A man, he's all good. 02:10.341 --> 02:13.744 [SPEAKER_00]: The word of God is a double-edged sword because both of us. 02:16.246 --> 02:19.368 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, with that join me in the book of Malacon, Malacon chapter 3. 02:20.770 --> 02:22.490 [SPEAKER_00]: is where we're going to be today. 02:23.251 --> 02:25.711 [SPEAKER_00]: As we begin our series call the refinery. 02:26.071 --> 02:30.472 [SPEAKER_00]: You can find these notes in the Bible app if you search events, the way community church. 02:31.012 --> 02:45.116 [SPEAKER_00]: These words will be there for you, Malacone, chapter three, verse one through four, the word of the Lord says, in a new international version, I will send my messenger who will prepare what church the way. 02:45.756 --> 02:48.136 [SPEAKER_00]: Before me, then suddenly the Lord, 02:51.335 --> 03:04.305 [SPEAKER_00]: The messenger that's capital hymn, that's talking about Jesus, the messenger of the covenant whom you desire will come, says the Lord Almighty, but who can endure the day of His coming? 03:05.245 --> 03:15.413 [SPEAKER_00]: Who can stand when Jesus appears, for He will be like a refiner's fire or a longerer's soap? 03:16.350 --> 03:21.833 [SPEAKER_00]: He will sit as a wet church refiner and purifier of silver. 03:21.913 --> 03:29.217 [SPEAKER_00]: He will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. 03:30.017 --> 03:42.784 [SPEAKER_00]: Then the Lord will have whom men who will bring offerings in righteousness and the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to the Lord as in the day is gone by. 03:46.503 --> 03:52.307 [SPEAKER_00]: He will sit as a refiner and purify her of silver. 03:53.268 --> 03:58.152 [SPEAKER_00]: He will purify the Levines and refine them like gold and silver. 03:58.913 --> 04:04.157 [SPEAKER_00]: Then the Lord will have men who will bring all friends in righteousness. 04:04.237 --> 04:10.141 [SPEAKER_00]: I wanna begin our refinery series with this thought of mine becoming God's man. 04:10.181 --> 04:13.664 [SPEAKER_00]: You may be seated in the presence of the living God 04:16.773 --> 04:18.055 [SPEAKER_00]: God's man. 04:20.638 --> 04:26.467 [SPEAKER_00]: The question has been asked, are leaders born or made? 04:27.989 --> 04:32.175 [SPEAKER_00]: There are people who have different points of views on the answer to this question. 04:33.243 --> 04:41.385 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas Carlisle, a Scottish historian and philosopher, proposed this idea called the Great Man Theory. 04:42.165 --> 04:47.867 [SPEAKER_00]: We're basically, he believed that great leaders are born with all the stuff they need within them. 04:48.647 --> 04:52.348 [SPEAKER_00]: Time will just reveal the qualities they were born with. 04:53.338 --> 04:59.561 [SPEAKER_00]: But then Warren Bennett's researcher and business guru advocated for the made perspective. 05:00.301 --> 05:07.645 [SPEAKER_00]: Simply, that leadership skills can be learned by anybody over time to become a leader. 05:08.626 --> 05:14.869 [SPEAKER_00]: And so the simple answer to this age-old question, our leaders made or born, is both. 05:16.450 --> 05:20.952 [SPEAKER_00]: So then, if that is true about leaders, I wonder about me in. 05:22.764 --> 05:26.989 [SPEAKER_00]: Our men made or born. 05:27.009 --> 05:31.073 [SPEAKER_00]: I think the answer is, is both. 05:32.154 --> 05:40.843 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a major key from the outset and that is this, a man of God is born again and refined over and over. 05:44.138 --> 05:48.202 [SPEAKER_00]: Malikah is only four chapters, but it packs a powerful punch. 05:48.342 --> 05:50.164 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a prophetic boat. 05:50.444 --> 05:56.270 [SPEAKER_00]: And this prophet, his name is Malikah, his name really means my messenger. 05:57.050 --> 06:01.935 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's interesting because in chapter three, he talks about two messengers who will come. 06:02.155 --> 06:03.576 [SPEAKER_00]: One will come to prepare the way. 06:04.257 --> 06:07.918 [SPEAKER_00]: The other will come to refine and to cleanse. 06:08.598 --> 06:16.900 [SPEAKER_00]: That first messenger who comes to prepare the way is John the Baptist, and that last messenger who comes like a refiner's fire is Jesus. 06:17.880 --> 06:27.983 [SPEAKER_00]: And Melakos, whole purpose in writing this book, was a stern review against Israel, because as a nation, they had been disloyal to God. 06:28.883 --> 06:34.266 [SPEAKER_00]: But as he rebukes the nation, he focuses in on the priesthood. 06:35.546 --> 06:45.732 [SPEAKER_00]: Because Malikah understands that the priests were created as a select group called by God to keep the relationship between God and Israel in good standing. 06:46.672 --> 06:55.557 [SPEAKER_00]: And that this priesthood made up of Levites, this special tribe among all of Israel, had a high and holy calling that they had fallen short of. 06:56.512 --> 07:06.182 [SPEAKER_00]: What we know for certain is, is that every priest was a man, but what I hope you can appreciate is that every man has a priestly call. 07:07.663 --> 07:16.092 [SPEAKER_00]: Chameleon, every man, so to speak, has a priestly responsibility in the family and in the community. 07:17.235 --> 07:24.060 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, when I say brothers that you have a priestly responsibility, I don't want you to limit that to the office I hold. 07:24.080 --> 07:30.265 [SPEAKER_00]: The only you got to become a preacher, grab a microphone, mount a pool pit and stand behind a podium. 07:31.066 --> 07:43.596 [SPEAKER_00]: What I mean is, is that you represent those under your influence to God, and there's a direct, net effect of the life you live upon the reality of those under your influence. 07:43.756 --> 07:44.877 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything, let me run that back. 07:47.131 --> 07:52.073 [SPEAKER_00]: When I say that every man, every priest is a man, and every man is a priest, so to speak. 07:52.193 --> 08:12.183 [SPEAKER_00]: What I mean is the high and holy calling of manhood is that you represent those who are under your influence and your life, your reality, your standing before God has a net effect among those or upon those who are under your influence. 08:13.671 --> 08:19.634 [SPEAKER_00]: So, if we are called to be priests, how do we fill out this high and holy calling? 08:19.694 --> 08:26.538 [SPEAKER_00]: The truth is, we cannot make ourselves fit, gentlemen, it requires that we trust God for God's process. 08:27.739 --> 08:33.922 [SPEAKER_00]: There are two questions I want to ask today of Malachi and I believe that this short book is going to answer powerfully for us. 08:34.403 --> 08:41.667 [SPEAKER_00]: Two burning questions in the first is this, how does God measure a man's piety? 08:42.973 --> 08:48.076 [SPEAKER_00]: How does God measure a man's piety? 08:50.098 --> 08:56.782 [SPEAKER_00]: Even the least competitive among us as brothers still understand the experience of measuring yourself against another man. 08:57.662 --> 09:02.245 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, all I like, you know, we put marks on the wall to see if I'm taller this year than I was last year. 09:02.886 --> 09:07.649 [SPEAKER_00]: Standing back to back shoulder to shoulder which are cousins to see who's outgrowing whom. 09:08.487 --> 09:20.351 [SPEAKER_00]: Even now, if I go to the T-box with some of the great men in his church, like Deacon Sam McLeanett, and we tee off on the golf course, he is old enough to be my father, and I'm not going to tell you how old he is, but I'm almost 40. 09:22.452 --> 09:30.375 [SPEAKER_00]: He's old enough to be my father, and we get to the T-box, I grab a drive, I smoke it, pure straight down the fairway. 09:30.835 --> 09:35.577 [SPEAKER_00]: He'll come back behind me with a smaller club, just to prove the point, that younger ain't better. 09:37.747 --> 09:45.737 [SPEAKER_00]: He had the same shot but gooder who would have a smaller clover because we measure our sales as men. 09:46.157 --> 09:52.965 [SPEAKER_00]: But any man claiming to be a man of God is not self-measured but divinely measured. 09:53.827 --> 09:59.289 [SPEAKER_00]: It is God who determines if my claim to being a godly man is really true or not. 10:00.029 --> 10:01.770 [SPEAKER_00]: And so God measures a man's piety. 10:02.070 --> 10:06.231 [SPEAKER_00]: When I say piety, what I mean is a man's deep spiritual devotion. 10:06.871 --> 10:12.173 [SPEAKER_00]: This reverence for God that makes a man true from his soul through everything he does. 10:12.953 --> 10:17.755 [SPEAKER_00]: This commitment to become God's man in mind, in Word, and indeed. 10:18.515 --> 10:26.681 [SPEAKER_00]: And when I make a claim to be in such a man, God is going to measure my truth, Malacot tells us in these ways. 10:26.881 --> 10:29.923 [SPEAKER_00]: A God measures a man by his worship. 10:31.904 --> 10:35.267 [SPEAKER_00]: God measures a man by his worship. 10:36.748 --> 10:39.530 [SPEAKER_00]: Men were created to worship. 10:41.171 --> 10:44.233 [SPEAKER_00]: Worship is not inherently a feminine quality. 10:45.765 --> 10:51.870 [SPEAKER_00]: Worship is the expression of a creative being giving his creator the honor that is due his name. 10:52.931 --> 10:54.352 [SPEAKER_00]: And men were created to worship. 10:54.572 --> 11:01.457 [SPEAKER_00]: And Malikot takes issue in chapter 1 verse 7 through 14 with these Levites who fall in short of excellent worship. 11:02.458 --> 11:14.748 [SPEAKER_00]: The job of the Levites was to make sure that the altar of the Lord remained clean and that only the best and the first were offered to God that was offered in worship matched the holiness of the name that was being worshiped. 11:15.611 --> 11:23.494 [SPEAKER_00]: The issue was, is that they had healthy animals, good animals, but they chose to keep them for themselves and give God the weak and the sickly animals. 11:23.734 --> 11:34.919 [SPEAKER_00]: And God is merciful and He allowed it to go on for a few generations, but after a while the Lord got tired, sent a prophet named Malachi to call them out on half-hearted worship. 11:36.620 --> 11:42.882 [SPEAKER_00]: The question is, or the truth is, the quality of our worship should match the appreciation 11:46.168 --> 11:51.272 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's a major key, a true worshipper only offers God their best. 11:52.853 --> 11:53.554 [SPEAKER_00]: A true worshipper. 11:54.635 --> 12:02.201 [SPEAKER_00]: Once you've matured in the things of God, once you walk with the Lord for a season or two, once you come through some things, you thought you never could have made it through it. 12:02.361 --> 12:10.708 [SPEAKER_00]: It challenges you in the area of worship, and it begs this question in what area of your life are you not giving God your best? 12:12.932 --> 12:21.055 [SPEAKER_00]: Because in whatever area of your life, you are not giving God your best, you're offering false shore of the holy name you claim to praise. 12:22.236 --> 12:27.618 [SPEAKER_00]: So God measures a man by his worship, but then be God measures a man by how he treats his wife. 12:29.718 --> 12:33.440 [SPEAKER_00]: Look up with the Lord says in Malacatu, Y'all can say amen, ladies, I'm gonna come back and get you. 12:35.341 --> 12:37.921 [SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm, I'm taking note of everybody saying amen. 12:38.042 --> 12:40.042 [SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm. 12:42.470 --> 12:43.130 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's cool. 12:43.890 --> 12:46.711 [SPEAKER_00]: It's June, but, oh, it's cool. 12:47.252 --> 12:49.532 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna come back and get you, stay right there. 12:51.853 --> 12:56.194 [SPEAKER_00]: God measures a man by how he treats his wife. 12:56.374 --> 12:58.915 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at Malikawa chapter 2 verse 14 through 16. 12:59.255 --> 13:02.757 [SPEAKER_00]: The word of the Lord says, Yet you say, for what reason? 13:02.777 --> 13:04.677 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, why are you tripping? 13:04.717 --> 13:05.317 [SPEAKER_00]: Why are you mad? 13:05.778 --> 13:10.179 [SPEAKER_00]: Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth. 13:11.180 --> 13:13.863 [SPEAKER_00]: Against home, you have dealt treacherously. 13:14.644 --> 13:18.629 [SPEAKER_00]: Though she is your marriage companion and your wife by covenant. 13:19.310 --> 13:24.556 [SPEAKER_00]: Verse 15, but do, but not one has done so who has a remnant of the spirit and while the one. 13:25.117 --> 13:26.739 [SPEAKER_00]: He was seeking a galley off-screen. 13:26.779 --> 13:27.460 [SPEAKER_00]: Here it is, man. 13:27.800 --> 13:30.524 [SPEAKER_00]: Be careful than about your spirit. 13:31.565 --> 13:35.408 [SPEAKER_00]: and see that none of you deals treacherously against the wife of your youth. 13:35.649 --> 13:47.179 [SPEAKER_00]: For I hate divorce as the Lord, the God of Israel, and him home covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of armies, so be careful about your spirit. 13:47.989 --> 13:50.931 [SPEAKER_00]: that you do not deal treacherously. 13:51.652 --> 13:55.214 [SPEAKER_00]: That phrase, deal treacherously is repeated three times. 13:55.434 --> 14:01.659 [SPEAKER_00]: It's drawing our mind to the picture of a covert operation to pillage another nation. 14:02.519 --> 14:05.341 [SPEAKER_00]: To deal treacherously is to be like a spy almost. 14:06.282 --> 14:12.927 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's under the guise of darkness to have a secret mission to go into another territory and take the goods of that territory. 14:13.676 --> 14:28.642 [SPEAKER_00]: What God is saying through Malica is that when a man deals treacherously with his wife, he becomes a spy against her goods, and instead of adding value to her life, he pillages her for all the good, instead of returning good as he should have his 14:43.565 --> 14:47.567 [SPEAKER_00]: So this point here is not for every man, but this point is for every husband. 14:48.627 --> 14:49.467 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's a major key. 14:50.288 --> 14:56.070 [SPEAKER_00]: God will not treat favorably, the husband who treats his wife treacherously. 14:58.631 --> 15:04.013 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to sit with that for a minute because I know we got a lot of bad examples that would make you think I'm lying. 15:05.573 --> 15:09.775 [SPEAKER_00]: Because we know husbands who deal treacherously and it seemed like they keep winning. 15:10.980 --> 15:14.001 [SPEAKER_00]: But we got to be careful how we measure what's winning and what's losing. 15:15.681 --> 15:23.083 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to hear me say it again, God will not treat favorably the husband who treats his wife treacherously. 15:23.763 --> 15:29.605 [SPEAKER_00]: As a matter of fact, first Peter 37 gives the implication that God don't even hear the prayers of a cruel husband. 15:31.467 --> 15:40.449 [SPEAKER_00]: First pretty three seven says, live with your wife with understanding knowing that she is the weaker vessel but honor her as equal and stature. 15:40.489 --> 15:42.430 [SPEAKER_00]: Why, so that your prayers won't be hindered? 15:44.770 --> 15:49.991 [SPEAKER_00]: Meaning, if you're a cruel husband, if you're a treacherous husband and you're praying to God, God don't leave it here. 15:50.011 --> 15:55.893 [SPEAKER_00]: This doesn't apply to every priest, but it applies to every husband who is a priest. 15:56.951 --> 15:58.452 [SPEAKER_00]: God measures a man by his worship. 15:58.472 --> 16:00.872 [SPEAKER_00]: God measures a man by how he treats his wife. 16:01.112 --> 16:04.053 [SPEAKER_00]: See God measures a man by his words. 16:05.994 --> 16:10.656 [SPEAKER_00]: If word is bond, God is measure a man by that. 16:11.976 --> 16:17.798 [SPEAKER_00]: Malachi, 217 says, you have wearied the Lord with your words. 16:18.858 --> 16:22.940 [SPEAKER_00]: Every time they make a statement, the man reply, what you mean? 16:25.315 --> 16:25.515 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 16:25.815 --> 16:26.956 [SPEAKER_00]: Will a man while God? 16:27.216 --> 16:28.377 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you mean we rock God? 16:28.577 --> 16:29.478 [SPEAKER_00]: Two times an offer. 16:30.819 --> 16:32.520 [SPEAKER_00]: Will a man treat his wife, treacherously? 16:32.661 --> 16:34.982 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you mean by dealing falsely behind her back? 16:36.423 --> 16:39.546 [SPEAKER_00]: Will a man irritate God with the words he misuses? 16:39.726 --> 16:41.007 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you mean him irritate God? 16:41.287 --> 16:41.907 [SPEAKER_00]: Look what it says. 16:42.148 --> 16:43.349 [SPEAKER_00]: How have we reared him? 16:43.549 --> 16:48.773 [SPEAKER_00]: You ask by saying, all who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord. 16:49.833 --> 16:51.094 [SPEAKER_00]: And he is pleased with them. 16:52.115 --> 16:54.217 [SPEAKER_00]: Or where's the God of justice? 16:55.311 --> 17:06.020 [SPEAKER_00]: Those both are untruths, meaning we got to be careful when we use our words to speak what is not true, because it irritates God. 17:08.542 --> 17:16.469 [SPEAKER_00]: Why does it irritate God when a man's words don't line up with God's words, right? 17:16.509 --> 17:21.473 [SPEAKER_00]: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heshal said it this way because words create words. 17:25.396 --> 17:27.738 [SPEAKER_00]: Brother, God is giving you authority in your voice. 17:27.798 --> 17:32.481 [SPEAKER_00]: When you speak, your words create the reality of those over whom you are priest. 17:34.463 --> 17:41.748 [SPEAKER_00]: So when your words over those under your influence, don't match God's words, you create alternate realities. 17:43.009 --> 17:50.215 [SPEAKER_00]: Where it forces those under your leadership to try to figure out whose world am I going to live in and whose words am I going to believe. 17:51.397 --> 17:52.678 [SPEAKER_00]: So it irritates God, you know what? 17:52.818 --> 17:55.960 [SPEAKER_00]: Because the Lord gave you a super power that belonged only to God. 17:57.422 --> 18:00.404 [SPEAKER_00]: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 18:00.584 --> 18:01.705 [SPEAKER_00]: Did he do it with his hands? 18:01.905 --> 18:03.706 [SPEAKER_00]: No, he did it with his. 18:06.328 --> 18:08.490 [SPEAKER_00]: So God said, man, I love you so much. 18:08.510 --> 18:10.952 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna shape you in my image and I'm gonna give you a super power only. 18:11.072 --> 18:16.316 [SPEAKER_00]: I have Hilder II and that is authority in your voice to shape worlds with your words. 18:18.606 --> 18:26.409 [SPEAKER_00]: So when your words don't sound like my word, you're misusing your power instead of agreeing with me, you're working good, kids. 18:27.389 --> 18:27.569 [SPEAKER_00]: Me. 18:28.730 --> 18:33.091 [SPEAKER_00]: That is why God hears and holds accountable every word we speak. 18:33.812 --> 18:36.133 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at Matthew chapter 12, verse 33 through 37. 18:36.173 --> 18:36.973 [SPEAKER_00]: This Jesus talking. 18:37.653 --> 18:44.796 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, make a tree good and his fruit will be good or make a tree bad and his fruit will be bad for a tree is recognized by his fruit. 18:45.549 --> 18:50.078 [SPEAKER_00]: You brood of vipers, how could you, who are evil, say anything good? 18:50.780 --> 18:54.527 [SPEAKER_00]: For the mouth speaks, what the heart is, what church, full of. 18:55.751 --> 19:17.208 [SPEAKER_00]: a good man brings good things out of the good that is stored in him and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him but I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken for by your words you will be acquitted and by your words you will be condemned. 19:19.245 --> 19:21.687 [SPEAKER_00]: When God measures the man, He measures us by our worship. 19:21.707 --> 19:23.549 [SPEAKER_00]: He measures us by how we treat our wives. 19:23.829 --> 19:28.613 [SPEAKER_00]: He measures us by our words and last of all, God measures the man by his ways. 19:30.254 --> 19:35.659 [SPEAKER_00]: Malachi III, five describes, ungodly ways, it says, then I will come near to you for judgment. 19:36.179 --> 19:36.419 [SPEAKER_00]: Why? 19:36.559 --> 19:38.601 [SPEAKER_00]: Because I'm looking at all your ways. 19:38.741 --> 19:44.006 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna be a witness against sorcerers, adulterers, against doses where falsely, dose who oppressed a wage honor. 19:44.226 --> 19:46.668 [SPEAKER_00]: That means a utiboss, but you don't pay your teen fairly. 19:48.223 --> 19:53.025 [SPEAKER_00]: The widow, the orphan, and those who turn away the stranger and don't give them justice. 19:53.325 --> 19:55.686 [SPEAKER_00]: And if all your ways, don't please me. 19:55.946 --> 19:57.406 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna come judge you for your ways. 19:57.966 --> 19:58.567 [SPEAKER_00]: Says the Lord. 19:59.667 --> 20:00.167 [SPEAKER_00]: Because what? 20:00.647 --> 20:02.488 [SPEAKER_00]: A man is not what a man says. 20:02.528 --> 20:04.168 [SPEAKER_00]: A man is what a man does. 20:09.070 --> 20:16.953 [SPEAKER_00]: It was the great philosopher who said these words, stupid ears had stupid doors. 20:20.312 --> 20:22.272 [SPEAKER_00]: Mr. Gaunt was on the sun, was he not? 20:25.733 --> 20:30.674 [SPEAKER_00]: And Mr. Gaunt preaches us this morning, manhood is with manhood does. 20:33.295 --> 20:39.316 [SPEAKER_00]: God measures our ways, brothers, because our ways reflect character or lack their own. 20:40.136 --> 20:43.577 [SPEAKER_00]: Virtues or lack their own ethics or lack their own. 20:43.797 --> 20:49.078 [SPEAKER_00]: And when God measures us, is our character that is in the balance. 20:50.255 --> 20:55.697 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a prophecy about the handwriting on the wall to a king named Bill to Shazor in Daniel chapter five. 20:55.957 --> 21:01.198 [SPEAKER_00]: And when the words weren't interpreted, here with the word says in Daniel 527, these are scared words. 21:01.438 --> 21:04.659 [SPEAKER_00]: It says, you have been weighed on the scales. 21:07.680 --> 21:08.781 [SPEAKER_00]: And you are lightweight. 21:11.281 --> 21:12.502 [SPEAKER_00]: You need to get your weight up. 21:14.342 --> 21:16.543 [SPEAKER_00]: You have been found one thing. 21:17.809 --> 21:18.429 [SPEAKER_00]: What does that saying? 21:18.529 --> 21:27.115 [SPEAKER_00]: That saying when the Lord measures me in a scale, God is not going to look at my stature, my success or my stuff. 21:27.695 --> 21:33.859 [SPEAKER_00]: When I say get your weight up, brother, it has more to do with character than stature, success and stuff. 21:36.420 --> 21:40.243 [SPEAKER_00]: If I say get your weight up, your God tells me get my weight up, he not saying make more money. 21:41.066 --> 21:42.708 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I say, you need to buy a cooler car. 21:42.748 --> 21:44.529 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not saying you need a bigger, nicer house. 21:44.950 --> 21:46.851 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not saying your wardrobe is outdated. 21:46.871 --> 21:49.934 [SPEAKER_00]: You need to be on the cutting edge of all the fashion trends. 21:50.134 --> 21:57.501 [SPEAKER_00]: When God tells us to get our weight up, he's not saying get more skills, so you can leverage it in the marketplace to earn more of a living, more of a keep. 21:57.661 --> 22:02.966 [SPEAKER_00]: When God says, get our weight up, what he's saying is your character is too light. 22:03.267 --> 22:06.730 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have the gravity of God in this, in the character I expect. 22:09.618 --> 22:19.425 [SPEAKER_00]: So God is measuring the man who claims to be God's man, and when he measures us, fellas, when he puts us in the scale in some way, every one of us is gonna come up like it. 22:22.067 --> 22:22.927 [SPEAKER_00]: So what do we do then? 22:23.528 --> 22:29.632 [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, if you call me to be a priest, if you call me to keep your relationship between those under my influence and you in good standing, 22:30.347 --> 22:45.599 [SPEAKER_00]: If you put this holy and high calling on my shoulders, knowing I cannot fit myself for such our influence, what hope is there for the man who is weighed in the scales and found to come up short in some area that really matters to God. 22:45.779 --> 22:49.242 [SPEAKER_00]: Where the first question is, how does God measure a man's piety? 22:49.282 --> 22:52.444 [SPEAKER_00]: The second question is, how does God make a man pure? 23:01.228 --> 23:08.075 [SPEAKER_00]: God's strategy to help the priest is mentioned in verse one of Malachi three. 23:08.876 --> 23:12.339 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, I'm gonna send my messenger who's gonna prepare the way. 23:12.819 --> 23:19.746 [SPEAKER_00]: Then the real messenger is gonna come behind him and when that real messenger shows up, he's gonna show up like a redfinals fire. 23:21.567 --> 23:25.169 [SPEAKER_00]: When you're talking about Ralph, he said, I'm gonna send John the Baptist and what John, the Baptist is gonna do. 23:25.409 --> 23:28.491 [SPEAKER_00]: He's gonna make the culture ready to receive the Son of God. 23:29.052 --> 23:35.736 [SPEAKER_00]: But when Jesus shows up, Jesus is gonna show up and when he does, he's gonna be like a refiner's fire. 23:36.756 --> 23:38.697 [SPEAKER_00]: He is my strategy to help you. 23:39.398 --> 23:41.279 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna send the man to help the man. 23:43.040 --> 23:45.642 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna send a pure man to purify me. 23:47.023 --> 23:50.765 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, this Jesus is not cumbo y'all, my Lord, Jesus. 23:52.337 --> 23:56.799 [SPEAKER_00]: The Jesus Malachi 3 is talking about it's like James Evans from Good Times. 24:00.740 --> 24:01.360 [SPEAKER_00]: That Jesus. 24:04.061 --> 24:07.023 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't know about it won't smoke with James Evans from Good Times. 24:07.063 --> 24:07.823 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not telling the truth. 24:09.584 --> 24:17.427 [SPEAKER_00]: And when he was all one, everybody in Evans' household straight enough and rightfully so. 24:18.127 --> 24:20.648 [SPEAKER_00]: This James Evans from Good Times, Jesus. 24:21.587 --> 24:23.228 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the one that you don't want to play with. 24:23.448 --> 24:34.631 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's why, because he shows up as a pure man to purify the priesthood so that the man who purifies by him can then offer God the offerings God expects. 24:34.811 --> 24:36.652 [SPEAKER_00]: The question is, how does the Lord do it? 24:37.532 --> 24:39.113 [SPEAKER_00]: How does God make a man pure? 24:39.353 --> 24:44.755 [SPEAKER_00]: There are two metaphors in verse number two that if you read him too fast, you'll miss the beauty of the hope in this text. 24:44.975 --> 24:49.016 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, he's going to show up like a refiner's fire and like fuller's soap. 24:49.978 --> 24:50.679 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's the first thing. 24:50.999 --> 24:53.902 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus uses refining fire. 24:56.424 --> 25:02.850 [SPEAKER_00]: A refiner's fire is a beautiful picture of taking a metal, thank God or silver. 25:03.311 --> 25:10.097 [SPEAKER_00]: And realizing that this metal was created to glisten in brilliance, but for whatever reason, it is dull in appearance. 25:10.718 --> 25:12.419 [SPEAKER_00]: So the refiner would take a kill, 25:13.401 --> 25:28.567 [SPEAKER_00]: put heat under it, put the metal in it, and heat it up so much that the solid metal would turn to liquid, and this liquid metal would look like lava almost inside this kiln, and what it would do is start to glow blight bright red. 25:29.207 --> 25:50.048 [SPEAKER_00]: as it glows right red, the dirt and the drawers in it would still be dark and gray, and then the refiner would take a tool and scoop out the dirt and the drawers, put it to the side, then take the hot liquid of the metal and pour it into a mold to recast it as it cools into something beautiful that reflects his image. 25:50.269 --> 25:51.390 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me say that one more time. 25:53.347 --> 26:15.952 [SPEAKER_00]: The refiner will look at a piece of metal and say you were created to glisten with more brilliance than you are, and as I see draws in you, I see dirt and impurities in you, and in order to get it out, I got to put you in some heat, and I'm going to put you in some heat until I can melt down the hardness around you, and when I melt down the hardness around you, that's when all the ugly things are going float to the top. 26:16.072 --> 26:19.254 [SPEAKER_00]: And when the ugly things float to the top, I'm gonna get it out for you. 26:19.434 --> 26:22.996 [SPEAKER_00]: Then I'm gonna pour you back into a mold that shakes you in my image. 26:23.236 --> 26:26.098 [SPEAKER_00]: So this time when you cool, you look like who major. 26:26.258 --> 26:32.141 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that any man in the house who can give God praise what a fact that you ain't gotta be perfect to be purified. 26:32.341 --> 26:38.305 [SPEAKER_00]: You ought to be thankful for the fact that God will turn their heat up on you in your life to clean out your heart. 26:43.840 --> 26:45.661 [SPEAKER_00]: Hear me, man of God. 26:46.721 --> 26:51.224 [SPEAKER_00]: The goal of the refinery is to melt, not burn. 26:57.787 --> 27:00.028 [SPEAKER_00]: God's goal is to melt, not burn. 27:01.229 --> 27:03.190 [SPEAKER_00]: You know it's God if it's heat. 27:03.430 --> 27:05.131 [SPEAKER_00]: You know it's the devil if it burns. 27:09.625 --> 27:10.446 [SPEAKER_00]: What you mean, Robert? 27:10.906 --> 27:14.410 [SPEAKER_00]: When I say burn, I mean, it creates shame. 27:14.490 --> 27:17.193 [SPEAKER_00]: It takes you back to who you're trying not to be. 27:17.454 --> 27:19.336 [SPEAKER_00]: It reminds you of your failures. 27:19.616 --> 27:21.318 [SPEAKER_00]: It makes you feel the weight of guilt. 27:21.378 --> 27:22.079 [SPEAKER_00]: That's burning. 27:22.379 --> 27:24.662 [SPEAKER_00]: But ought to be purged by his fire. 27:24.922 --> 27:29.447 [SPEAKER_00]: Minus he'll turn up the heat in your life because it's not until you end some heat. 27:29.667 --> 27:33.950 [SPEAKER_00]: that you can really see the ugly in you and realize the grace God got available for you. 27:34.130 --> 27:35.891 [SPEAKER_00]: Do I have a man in this house who can testify? 27:35.911 --> 27:38.553 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why I don't dodge no smoke because I know that he might be hot, but I need it to purify my heart. 27:38.573 --> 27:57.085 [SPEAKER_00]: Please, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 27:57.716 --> 27:59.537 [SPEAKER_00]: He never meant for us to have hard hearts. 28:00.738 --> 28:03.660 [SPEAKER_00]: We develop hard hearts as our coping mechanism for trauma. 28:04.780 --> 28:13.746 [SPEAKER_00]: So the heat melts to hardness so he can pick out the dirt and recast the heart for the man he wants us to be. 28:13.986 --> 28:17.028 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus uses reclining fire, but then beat and I'll be done. 28:17.308 --> 28:23.352 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus uses cleansing pressure to metaphors, 28:28.047 --> 28:32.090 [SPEAKER_00]: or as a fuller, he talks about fuller's soap. 28:33.010 --> 28:43.558 [SPEAKER_00]: If you've ever heard of fuller soap, you understand the dynamic that the Texas painting is this large soap, this strong soap that's able to wash out even the darkest stains. 28:44.250 --> 28:52.432 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, in those days, they didn't have on, you know, laundry mats or dry cleaners as we have the day, but they have some call fuller's feels. 28:53.273 --> 28:56.754 [SPEAKER_00]: And a fuller is a laundry mat or a laundry room. 28:56.774 --> 29:00.435 [SPEAKER_00]: So person who's skilled at getting stains out of stuff. 29:01.757 --> 29:09.884 [SPEAKER_00]: So they would bring these garments to the fuller's and out in this field, the fuller would wash it with this fuller's soap, this lot rich soap. 29:10.245 --> 29:22.135 [SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes if the stain was too stubborn, the fuller would have to step into the mechanism and use it their feet to start on the garments. 29:23.076 --> 29:24.877 [SPEAKER_00]: They would have to apply the pressure, 29:25.818 --> 29:31.568 [SPEAKER_00]: of feet to stamp out the stain in the garment while it was in soap. 29:32.049 --> 29:38.520 [SPEAKER_00]: Then when they rips it out, they will lay it flat on the earth so it can be bleached by the sun and dry cling. 29:42.007 --> 29:42.508 [SPEAKER_00]: Men are gone. 29:42.548 --> 30:03.810 [SPEAKER_00]: I know that being a man comes with pressure, but I've come to tell you that pressure is just a foot of a loving God That sees stains in your soul and That testifies the pressure you don't like is the exact pressure on my use to remove the stains from your soul You was born with so that when you're born again, I can make your cream like me and then he put 30:04.310 --> 30:11.955 [SPEAKER_00]: on the earth so we can be grounded in God and let the sun bring the purification from all that's happened to watch our screen. 30:12.235 --> 30:22.560 [SPEAKER_00]: Do I have any man in the house who's almost folded under the pressure who can thank God for the strength that you didn't give up and you didn't give in because he was using that pressure to train you. 30:31.185 --> 30:32.026 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's a major key. 30:33.650 --> 30:40.373 [SPEAKER_00]: Godly men are grounded in reality and cleans by the pressures of life. 30:42.014 --> 30:51.437 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to hear me, man, of God be careful when you're under pressure to try to find and escape. 30:55.859 --> 31:01.202 [SPEAKER_00]: Because the escape may alleviate the pain for a moment, but it's also going 31:04.958 --> 31:06.879 [SPEAKER_00]: and a man of God can only live in reality. 31:08.620 --> 31:12.642 [SPEAKER_00]: A man of God who don't have a good relationship with reality, don't have a good relationship with himself. 31:14.803 --> 31:16.904 [SPEAKER_00]: And the escape blinds you to was real. 31:19.065 --> 31:24.688 [SPEAKER_00]: Ladies, this is also why you gotta be careful not to poke a man, you see who got pressure on you. 31:24.708 --> 31:24.808 [SPEAKER_00]: Amen. 31:24.828 --> 31:24.968 [UNKNOWN]: Amen. 31:25.148 --> 31:25.448 [UNKNOWN]: Amen. 31:25.468 --> 31:28.790 [UNKNOWN]: Amen. 31:28.810 --> 31:29.490 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to hear me. 31:32.822 --> 31:36.144 [SPEAKER_00]: It is not possible to live Godly in Christ Jesus without persecution. 31:37.324 --> 31:43.047 [SPEAKER_00]: Any man who's made a claim to be a Godly man has felt the pressure to want to escape. 31:45.428 --> 31:53.733 [SPEAKER_00]: When you see the pressure on him, don't poke because he's already at the edge of wanting to quit. 31:55.113 --> 31:56.274 [SPEAKER_00]: You'll poke my pusher. 32:00.276 --> 32:02.057 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't make light in the pressure, that's God. 32:03.193 --> 32:03.713 [SPEAKER_00]: Purify, don't poke, pray. 32:03.733 --> 32:05.855 [SPEAKER_00]: And just as bad as poking, also don't cuddle. 32:05.875 --> 32:28.314 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to speak, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, 32:31.338 --> 32:33.579 [SPEAKER_00]: That's fine, tonight at least I'm gonna come back and get you all. 32:33.599 --> 32:34.539 [SPEAKER_00]: You too. 32:34.579 --> 32:34.720 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 32:34.740 --> 32:34.920 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 32:38.341 --> 32:38.461 [UNKNOWN]: Yeah. 32:38.821 --> 32:40.162 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't cuddle. 32:42.423 --> 32:55.669 [SPEAKER_00]: What you mean, Ralph, if you have a nurture or a spirit, as a woman, that'll mean wife, a girlfriend, you could be sister, auntie, mama, grandma, godmother, don't cuddle a man under pressure. 32:56.859 --> 33:07.381 [SPEAKER_00]: because you think you are saving him and what you are doing is destroying the system God set up to make him hear me what I say. 33:07.621 --> 33:18.444 [SPEAKER_00]: My woman is not my mama and my mama and my mama ain't had the call to me since I was 15 years old. 33:22.144 --> 33:25.425 [SPEAKER_00]: The man you called is the man you don't have to keep saving over and over again. 33:32.918 --> 33:51.243 [SPEAKER_00]: God has ordained He, not to burn, but to purify, God has ordained pressure, not to destroy what the clans, a man of God I want you to take hope in this one fact and I'm a let you go. 33:53.323 --> 33:59.165 [SPEAKER_00]: When God could have become anything, God chose to become a man. 34:03.127 --> 34:22.302 [SPEAKER_00]: You miss what I just said, God could have become anything to save, and when God became the perfect thing to save, he said, I know what I want to become, wrap me in flesh, let me be born of a virgin, let me be born a boy, and let me grow up and become a man. 34:31.930 --> 34:34.291 [SPEAKER_00]: then took God and put it in the image of me. 34:34.831 --> 34:37.811 [SPEAKER_00]: A man church, and man, give Lord of Hank, I have a praise if you would. 34:37.832 --> 34:39.832 [SPEAKER_00]: Praise the Lord. 34:43.393 --> 34:44.073 [SPEAKER_00]: Praise the Lord. 34:51.115 --> 34:59.337 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen, all the brothers in the house, I'm right here which, especially to the men in his room who are older than me. 35:00.617 --> 35:04.780 [SPEAKER_00]: You let a man younger than you, whole, sacred office in your life as pastor. 35:06.421 --> 35:12.965 [SPEAKER_00]: I do not take for granted, speaking into the lives of men who've experienced more life than I have. 35:13.966 --> 35:16.467 [SPEAKER_00]: And I deeply respect every man in his room. 35:17.628 --> 35:20.150 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm grateful for those who are my elders. 35:21.010 --> 35:25.813 [SPEAKER_00]: Big brothers, uncles, fathers, as they were, but still honor me to be pastor. 35:25.873 --> 35:26.894 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't take it for granted. 35:27.913 --> 35:32.435 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen, if you hear today, and you don't know Jesus as your personal Lord and save you, I want to extend this invitation to you. 35:34.235 --> 35:36.336 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not offering you religion, religion kills. 35:40.118 --> 35:41.218 [SPEAKER_00]: But Jesus gives life. 35:42.498 --> 35:49.061 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm offering you a relationship with the God of the universe through his song, the Refinery, the full Lord. 35:51.962 --> 35:54.823 [SPEAKER_00]: If you don't know the Lord, if you don't have a personal relationship with him, 35:56.598 --> 35:59.919 [SPEAKER_00]: We would love to talk with you today about what that looks like in your life. 36:01.259 --> 36:17.884 [SPEAKER_00]: Furthermore, if you are, say, meaning you are Christian, but you don't have a church home, you don't have a community like this one, where you can be a part of people that you can grow with spiritually, that you can benefit from and contribute to the way community church, welcome to you as a member with open arms. 36:19.146 --> 36:20.807 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm afraid for you to have them done praying. 36:20.827 --> 36:21.927 [SPEAKER_00]: And our team is going to sing. 36:22.027 --> 36:24.068 [SPEAKER_00]: And as they sing, that is your cue. 36:24.088 --> 36:29.511 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to receive the Lord of Jonah Norse Church, if you step out from where you are walked towards me, here's what's going to happen. 36:29.911 --> 36:31.772 [SPEAKER_00]: This whole room is going to rub them praise. 36:32.412 --> 36:34.993 [SPEAKER_00]: As we celebrate you and celebrate for God is doing it. 36:35.333 --> 36:36.134 [SPEAKER_00]: That's pretty good. 36:36.934 --> 36:39.555 [SPEAKER_00]: God and heaven, we thank you for your grace, for your mercy to us. 36:39.615 --> 36:42.937 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for your love for us. 36:43.197 --> 36:45.078 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for these men who stand among us. 36:46.048 --> 36:48.469 [SPEAKER_00]: men who are filling the heat and the pressure. 36:49.290 --> 36:52.752 [SPEAKER_00]: But who have committed not to dodge any smoke and not to escape? 36:53.472 --> 36:54.493 [SPEAKER_00]: What is inexcapable? 36:55.289 --> 36:58.831 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, Jesus for being the pure man who purifies us. 36:59.732 --> 37:02.073 [SPEAKER_00]: To make us the priest that you called us to be. 37:02.734 --> 37:05.836 [SPEAKER_00]: I pray now for the person who's coming to receive you as Lord and Savior. 37:05.856 --> 37:08.177 [SPEAKER_00]: I pray for the person who needs a church home. 37:08.377 --> 37:12.920 [SPEAKER_00]: I pray for the person virtually who's watching from a distance but fills the closeness. 37:13.540 --> 37:15.882 [SPEAKER_00]: Because of your spirit, do it only you can do it in that heart. 37:16.342 --> 37:20.425 [SPEAKER_00]: We honor you and we praise you in Jesus' night, that it heart-safe man.