How does the Lord say I love you The book of Malachi is a book of chastening Elder D Todd Christofferson made this statement about the Lords chastening Correction is vital if we would conform our ID: 535955
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MalachiSlide2
How does the Lord say, “I love you”?Slide3
The book of Malachi is a book of chastening. Elder D. Todd Christofferson made this statement about the Lord’s chastening: “Correction is vital if we would conform our
lives.
Paul said of divine correction or chastening, ‘For whom the Lord
loveth
he chasteneth’ (Hebrews 12:6). Though it is often difficult to endure, truly we ought to rejoice that God considers us worth the time and trouble to correct” (“As Many as I Love, I Rebuke and Chasten,”Ensign, May 2011, 97–98).Slide4
Why were the people chastened? Malachi 1:7-8?In what ways do people offer
less than their best to the Lord
?
How do you
feel when you give your best
to Him
?Look at Malachi 2:7-8: Is there anything in your actions that might cause others to stumble?Slide5
Scripture chain for Malachi 1:7-8: Proverbs 13:24Psalms 94:12Revelation 3:19D&C 90:36
Alma 62:41
Malachi 3:2-3 What is the Lord preparing us for through His chastening?Slide6
Stage I: The Breaking—The refiner breaks up the natural ore.Slide7
Stage II: The Crucible—The refiner places unrefined silver into a crucible (a fireproof melting
pot)Slide8
Stage III: The Dross—The refiner places the crucible in the heated furnace to remove dross.Slide9
Stage IV: The Heat—The refiner raises the temperature to higher degrees.Slide10
Stage V: The Reflection—The refiner sees a clear image of himself.Slide11
Only when the refiner looks into the crucible and sees a clear reflection of himself is the process complete. That event describes our Refiner’s loving intentions for allowing us to be in our own “furnace
of affliction.” As we trust Him to use our trials to cleanse our character and purify our hearts, we will begin to see the “silver lining.”
Isaiah
48:10
is a great cross reference for Malachi 3:3Slide12
“The fierce flames, the fervent heat, the burning fires of the Second Coming that destroy the wicked shall also cleanse the righteous. … Evil and sin and dross will be burned out of their souls because they qualify to abide the day”
(
The Millennial Messiah: The Second Coming of the Son of Man
[1982], 543–44).Slide13
Malachi 3:7-10
What principle does the Lord teach about the purging process?
Name some latter-day devourers.
How
might the promise to “rebuke the devourer” be fulfilled in our day
?
In what ways have you or your family been blessed for faithfully paying tithing?Why is tithing one of the best ways to rebuke devourerers?
(Hint: think of other times the Lord has limited supplies and provisions and what blessings came as a result)Slide14
Elder
David A.
Bednar
: “
A subtle but significant blessing we receive is an increased spiritual and temporal capacity
to
do more with
less. As well, the
spiritual gift
of gratitude
will enable
our appreciation for what we
have
and constrain
desires for what we
want
. A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment (see Luke 12:15)”
(“The Windows of Heaven,”
Ensign
or
Liahona,
Nov. 2013, 18
).
Malachi 3:3-10Slide15
Elder Dallin H. Oaks: “During World War II, my widowed mother supported her three young children on a schoolteacher’s salary that was meager. When I became conscious that we went without some desirable things because we didn’t have enough money, I asked my mother why she paid so much of her salary as tithing.
Malachi 3:3-10Slide16
“I have never forgotten her explanation: ‘Dallin, there might be some people who can get along without paying tithing, but we can’t. The
Lord has chosen to take your father and leave me to raise you children. I cannot do that without the blessings of the Lord, and I obtain those blessings by paying an honest tithing. When I pay my tithing, I have the Lord’s promise that he will bless us, and we must have those blessings if we are to get along’ ”
(in Conference Report, Apr. 1994, pp. 43–44; or Ensign, May 1994, p. 33
).
Malachi 3:3-10Slide17
“James
E.
Talmage
once
imagined
the Lord saying: ‘“You have need of many things in this world—food, clothing, and shelter for
your family
… , the common comforts of life. … You shall have the means of acquiring these things; but remember they are mine, and I require of you the payment of a rental upon that which I give into your hands. However, your life will not be one of uniform increase … [so] instead of doing as mortal landlords
do—requiring
you to
pay
in advance, whatever your fortunes
or
prospects may be—you shall pay me
only
when you have
received.
If it so be that in one year your income is abundant,
then your
10 percent will be
a
little more; and if it be so that the next year is one of distress and your income is not what it was, then
your
10 percent will
be
less.
Whatever
your circumstance, the tithe will be fair
. Have
you ever found a landlord on earth who was willing to make that kind
of
contract with
you? When
I consider the liberality of it
all, I
feel in my heart that I could scarcely raise my countenance to
Heaven if I tried to defraud God out of that which is rightfully His’” (“Like a Watered Garden,” Ensign, Nov. 2001, 34–35).
Malachi 3:3-10Slide18
Malachi 3:3-10Mormon Messages
video
“Flecks of Gold”Slide19
Malachi 3:3-10Mormon Messages
video
“Flecks of Gold”Slide20
If the trunk of the tree represents you, what might the
branches
and
roots
represent?
Malachi 4:1Slide21
Timeline
Signs of the Times
Adam
Ondi
Ahman
ArmageddonAppearance in JerusalemRighteous Caught UpAppearance to the WorldMillennium BeginsSatan Bound1000 years
Resurrection of the Terrestrial
Resurrection of the
Telestial
Resurrection of the O.D.
Final Battle
Final Judgment
Wicked Destroyed
Three Degrees of Glory (O.D.)Slide22
Malachi 4:5-65. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:
6. And He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children,
and the heart of the children to their fathers,
lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
D&C 21. Behold, I will reveal unto you the Priesthood, by the hand of Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
2. And He shall plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers,
and the hearts of the children shall turn to their fathers.
3. If it were not so the whole earth would be utterly wasted at His coming.Slide23
Show Elder Bednar’s General Conference Talk, “The Hearts of the Children
Shall Turn
,” October 2011 General Conference
OR
The Youth video “Now I’m Converted” (4:21)Slide24Slide25
What did Moroni tell joseph?
JSH 1:33
-35, 42 Slide26
Malachi 4:5-6Who?
What?
Where?
When?
Why?
How
are hearts turned to children?How are hearts turned to fathers?“The word turn here could be translated bind, or seal”(Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith [2007], 472).How do you think our ancestors feel toward us fordoing this work for them?
What
experiences have you had with doing family history and temple work for your own ancestors?Slide27
ca 900 BC 1 Kings 17:1
Elijah
has sealing power
897 BC
2 Kings 2:11-12 Elijah is translated420 BC Malachi 4:5-6 Malachi prophecies Elijah’s return
AD 33
Mathew 17:3
Elijah gives
the sealing power to
Peter
, James and John on the Mount of
Transfiguration
21 Sep. 1823
D&C 2
Moroni
appears to Joseph Smith and
repeats Malachi’s prophecy
3 April 1836
D&C 110:13-16
Elijah
returns and gives the sealing power to
Joseph
Smith in the Kirtland
temple.
11 June 1998
Eric
and Megan Richards are sealed in the
San
Diego Tempe
Sealing Power Time LineSlide28
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