Lesson 3 · March 23, 1901
Rendering the Lord His Own
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Questions
- 1.Whom does the Lord promise to send? What would he do? Who would come? Where would He come? What is He called? How is He regarded? What is again said of this Messenger of the covenant? . Note 1.
- 2.What questions are asked concerning His coming? To what is He likened? . Note 2.
- 3.As what shall He sit? Whom will He purify? How thoroughly? What will be the result? .
- 4.How will the Lord regard these righteous offerings? . See .
- 5.In what also will He come near? Against what class will He be a witness? What kind of witness? Of what are all these transgressions? What is His rule of witness and judgment? .
- 6.What only has saved the wicked from destruction? . Note 3.
- 7.What had the people done? For how long? What invitation does the Lord give? What promise does He make? What question is asked by the disobedient? .
- 8.What solemn question does the Lord ask? What statement does He make? How does unbelief again question? How does the Lord reply? .
- 9.What is the result of robbing God? How many are affected? . Note 4.
- 10.What duty does the Lord urge? Why? What does He ask us to do as respects Himself? With what are we to prove Him? What will He do if thus proved? How great will be the blessing? Who says this? Is His word good? .
- 11.What will He rebuke? For whose sake? What further promises does He make? .
- 12.What will be the ultimate results of such blessing? Who thrice declares all these promises? .
Notes
1. "My messenger." Christ's messenger, John the Baptist. ; . "The Lord, whom ye seek." Jesus Christ, the Desire of all nations. "Come to His temple." Including all His first coming, to the temple at Jerusalem, to the people of God, to the sanctuary on high, where He ministers His own life for His people, and confirms His covenant in every soul that accepts. "Behold, He cometh." His second coming, including the work of judgment, when He comes before the Father, as well as His appearing in glory.
2. "Abide." No one, save only in Christ's righteousness, may abide that day, or stand before Him acquitted in the judgment. That they may do it then, He is now like a refiner's fire to burn away all dross, like soap to cleanse. He is not only the fire through His Spirit, but He watches over the process, that the fire may not be too fierce, and yet that the dross may be consumed. "A refiner." When the refiner of silver can see his own image perfectly reflected in the molten metal, the silver is pure. So Christ waits, yea, even kindles the furnace fires, that the dross may be consumed. "Sons of Levi." God's own spiritual priesthood, of which Levi was a type.
3. "Therefore." It is because God does not change, because "His mercy endureth forever," that men are spared in their sins. Not until there is no hope, till the sinner identifies himself with the sin, does the sinner die.
4. "The curse" is not an arbitrary curse pronounced upon the disobedient. It inheres in the very transgression itself; and it keeps back the blessing of God, not alone from the transgressors, but from those associated with them in church capacity. They are diseased members, affecting the whole body, and not until they are separated or healed will the blessing of God come in its fulness.
Supplementary Questions
Notes
How much is a tithe? To whom does the tithe belong? God tests man in respect to time and means. What is a test with respect to time? What in respect to means? Where is the tithe to be brought? If after we have paid it honestly, it is wrongly used, shall we lose the blessing? What is the tithe?—A debt we owe? a self-assumed obligation? or God's share in the revenue of our partnership with Him?
Bible texts in this lesson
Malachi 3:1-12 · Malachi 3:1 · Malachi 3:2 · Malachi 3:3 · Malachi 3:4 · Leviticus 9:22-24 · Leviticus 9:5 · Leviticus 9:6 · Leviticus 9:7 · Leviticus 9:8 · Leviticus 9:9 · Leviticus 9:10 · Leviticus 9:11 · Leviticus 9:12 · Mark 1:2 · Luke 7:27
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