22/08/2026
Siloam Baptist Church’s Morning Service for Sunday 16th August 2026.
Welcome to Siloam’s Morning Service for Sunday 16th August 2026, taken by Alan Davison.
Having read from Luke 7:24-29, Jesus’ comments on John the Baptist, Alan then turns our attention to the Old Testament, to Malachi 2:17-3:7, the passage referenced. Setting both the Old Testament context and its application by Jesus in the New Testament, Alan then applies these to our own lives now:
1. God Sent His Messenger
Malach 3:1, 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, even the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight. Behold, He is coming,” says the Lord of hosts.
2. The Effect of the “Messenger of the Covenant”
Malachi 3:2-3, 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 launderers’ soap. 3 He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness.
3. The Consequence of being “purified as silver”
Malachi 3:4, 4“Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to the Lord, as in the days of old, as in former years.”