Church Year: Advent 2:
Date: December 6, 2015
Theme: Purified In Christ
– Malachi 3:1-4
– Pastor: John Hein
The Order of Worship: Bulletin
Liturgy: TLH, p. 15 ff.
Hymns:
TLH 64 : Jesus, Thy Church with Longing Eyes
TLH 61 : Comfort, Comfort, Ye My People
TLH 63 : On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry
Communion:
TLH 314 st. 65: Lord Jesus Christ, We Humbly Pray
TLH 62 st. 4: Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel
Theme: Purified In Christ
Malachi 3:1–4 (Listen)
3:1 “Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts. 2 But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap. 3 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the LORD.1 4 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years.
Footnotes
[1] 3:3 Or and they will belong to the Lord, bringers of an offering in righteousness
(ESV)