00:00:00A Five Minute Morning Reset
00:00:34Malachi And The Silver Refiner
00:02:38Richard Wurmbrand In Prison
00:03:42Living So Clearly Jesus Shows
00:04:19Ephesians 2:10 And A Challenge
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Fire can feel cruel when you’re standing in it, but what if it’s also doing something precise and necessary? Have you ever watched a silversmith work? He is able to take the raw material and melt it down with extreme heat, and the use it to create something beautiful. That sounds a lot like how God sometimes works in us. Listen today to find out more.
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Good morning and welcome to Starting Right.
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I am Danny Mack, and I'm going to be here every Monday to Friday to help you get a great start to your day.
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So grab your cup of coffee, sit back and relax for the next five minutes as I help you start your day by starting right.
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Recently, as I was reading through the Bible, I came into Malachi chapter 3 and verse 3, and it talks about God this way.
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He says, He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.
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It reminded me of a story of a group of ladies who were attending a Bible study, and they decided that they wanted to go and talk to a silversmith and find out a little bit more about the refining process.
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So off they went.
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As they talked to the silversmith, he talked about not only the casting process, but how the refining process took place.
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In that refining process, you heat up the raw silver and you let the impurities rise to the top and then you take them off.
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And then once that's done, you were able to use that silver to cast something new and something beautiful.
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One of the ladies asked the silversmith, Do you sit and watch it while it's going on?
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He said, Yeah, I have to sit and watch it continually with my eyes on it, because if it is in the fire too long, it will actually injure the silver.
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At that point, the lady remembered the words from Malachi.
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He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.
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When we're going through things, when we're going through trials, and we're going through frustrations, those things don't come upon us randomly.
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But when they do come, God uses them to make us better.
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As the ladies were finished their visit and were leaving the silversmith, she asked one more question.
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She said, When do you know that the process is complete?
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The silversmith smiled and said, Well, that's actually quite simple.
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When I can see my own image in the silver, the refining process is finished.
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Isn't it the truth?
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God wants to be able to see him in us, and he wants other people to be able to see him in us.
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He is the refiner.
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He's refining you and I every day by what we're going through.
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And he continually shows us more about himself in everything that we do.
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And eventually he wants people to be able to see in us who he is.
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Richard Wormbrandt was a minister in Romania during the communist rule, and he was put into prison for his faith by the communist authorities.
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Two and a half years of that time in prison, he was in solitary confinement.
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He later on went to write the book in God's Underground.
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In that book, he tells the story about one day a young communist man was thrown into his cell because the young man had said something that the state didn't like very much.
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So Wormbrand introduced himself as a pastor.
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The young man told him that he wanted nothing to do with Christianity, quoting the Marxist mantra, religion is the opiate of the people.
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So Wormbrandt didn't try to evangelize him.
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As Rations were very meager in prison, Wormbrandt used to share his bread with the young man.
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And slowly over time they became friends.
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And one day the young man said, Tell me who is Jesus like?
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Wormbrandt replied quietly, Jesus is like me.
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To which the young man replied, Then I would like to get to know him.
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I like that story a lot.
00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:53.039
When we know that we are living the life Christ wants us to live so clearly and so properly that we have the boldness and the assurance to say, Jesus is like me.
00:03:53.919 --> 00:04:01.199
And when we say that, the people we say it to have seen Jesus in us so much and so often that they say, I want that too.
00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:06.159
This morning I want you to know that many of us are going through that refining process.
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We're being refined, we're having the impurities worked out of our lives, to leave something that God can now take and mold into whatever shape that He wants.
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And He can only fully do that when He can see Himself clearly in our lives.
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I'll leave you with this verse today.
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Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 10.
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For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God prepared in advance for us to do.
00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:45.759
So, my friends, as we are being refined, as we are going through the processes that are sometimes very difficult, let God remove the things from our lives that need to be pulled off, the crud that needs to be removed from us.
00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:47.279
We all have some.
00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:55.040
And then let our lives reflect who Jesus really is so people around us can see him and see his love and his reality in us.
00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:57.759
I hope you have an awesome day, my friends.
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Take care.
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God bless you.
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We'll talk to you tomorrow.
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Thank you for listening today.
00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:15.839
And I invite you to join me Monday to Friday right here on Starting Right with Danny Mack.
00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:13.439
Good morning and welcome to Starting Right.
00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:19.920
I am Danny Mack, and I'm going to be here every Monday to Friday to help you get a great start to your day.
00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:27.839
So grab your cup of coffee, sit back and relax for the next five minutes as I help you start your day by starting right.
00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:41.439
Recently, as I was reading through the Bible, I came into Malachi chapter 3 and verse 3, and it talks about God this way.
00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:46.560
He says, He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.
00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:56.880
It reminded me of a story of a group of ladies who were attending a Bible study, and they decided that they wanted to go and talk to a silversmith and find out a little bit more about the refining process.
00:00:57.200 --> 00:00:58.719
So off they went.
00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:06.480
As they talked to the silversmith, he talked about not only the casting process, but how the refining process took place.
00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:13.920
In that refining process, you heat up the raw silver and you let the impurities rise to the top and then you take them off.
00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:19.840
And then once that's done, you were able to use that silver to cast something new and something beautiful.
00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:24.480
One of the ladies asked the silversmith, Do you sit and watch it while it's going on?
00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:35.359
He said, Yeah, I have to sit and watch it continually with my eyes on it, because if it is in the fire too long, it will actually injure the silver.
00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:39.280
At that point, the lady remembered the words from Malachi.
00:01:39.599 --> 00:01:43.120
He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.
00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:51.920
When we're going through things, when we're going through trials, and we're going through frustrations, those things don't come upon us randomly.
00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:55.200
But when they do come, God uses them to make us better.
00:01:55.680 --> 00:02:00.560
As the ladies were finished their visit and were leaving the silversmith, she asked one more question.
00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:04.079
She said, When do you know that the process is complete?
00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:08.400
The silversmith smiled and said, Well, that's actually quite simple.
00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:13.520
When I can see my own image in the silver, the refining process is finished.
00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:16.560
Isn't it the truth?
00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:22.560
God wants to be able to see him in us, and he wants other people to be able to see him in us.
00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:24.159
He is the refiner.
00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:27.520
He's refining you and I every day by what we're going through.
00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:32.719
And he continually shows us more about himself in everything that we do.
00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:37.199
And eventually he wants people to be able to see in us who he is.
00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:46.159
Richard Wormbrandt was a minister in Romania during the communist rule, and he was put into prison for his faith by the communist authorities.
00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:50.800
Two and a half years of that time in prison, he was in solitary confinement.
00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:55.039
He later on went to write the book in God's Underground.
00:02:55.360 --> 00:03:05.199
In that book, he tells the story about one day a young communist man was thrown into his cell because the young man had said something that the state didn't like very much.
00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:08.719
So Wormbrand introduced himself as a pastor.
00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:16.639
The young man told him that he wanted nothing to do with Christianity, quoting the Marxist mantra, religion is the opiate of the people.
00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:19.759
So Wormbrandt didn't try to evangelize him.
00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:24.800
As Rations were very meager in prison, Wormbrandt used to share his bread with the young man.
00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:27.199
And slowly over time they became friends.
00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:31.199
And one day the young man said, Tell me who is Jesus like?
00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:35.199
Wormbrandt replied quietly, Jesus is like me.
00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:39.599
To which the young man replied, Then I would like to get to know him.
00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:42.960
I like that story a lot.
00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:53.039
When we know that we are living the life Christ wants us to live so clearly and so properly that we have the boldness and the assurance to say, Jesus is like me.
00:03:53.919 --> 00:04:01.199
And when we say that, the people we say it to have seen Jesus in us so much and so often that they say, I want that too.
00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:06.159
This morning I want you to know that many of us are going through that refining process.
00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:14.000
We're being refined, we're having the impurities worked out of our lives, to leave something that God can now take and mold into whatever shape that He wants.
00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:18.160
And He can only fully do that when He can see Himself clearly in our lives.
00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:20.560
I'll leave you with this verse today.
00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:22.879
Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 10.
00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:31.040
For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God prepared in advance for us to do.
00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:45.759
So, my friends, as we are being refined, as we are going through the processes that are sometimes very difficult, let God remove the things from our lives that need to be pulled off, the crud that needs to be removed from us.
00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:47.279
We all have some.
00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:55.040
And then let our lives reflect who Jesus really is so people around us can see him and see his love and his reality in us.
00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:57.759
I hope you have an awesome day, my friends.
00:04:57.920 --> 00:04:58.720
Take care.
00:04:58.959 --> 00:04:59.680
God bless you.
00:04:59.839 --> 00:05:01.519
We'll talk to you tomorrow.
00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:10.319
Thank you for listening today.
00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:15.839
And I invite you to join me Monday to Friday right here on Starting Right with Danny Mack.
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