Aim: To determine by grace to persevere in our holy faith.
Doctrine: God's church can never be utterly consumed. Dross and chaff gets burned away, but the work of Christ remains forever.
Exegesis: The results of God's cleansing fire: covenant idolators are destroyed (vv. 14-17); covenant-keepers are challenged (vv. 18-20); covenant ministry is defended (vv. 21-23).
Further application: Taking sides in a fiery world: am I fanning the flames; or enduring them? Am I willing to suffer and reign with Christ?
Key verse: v. 19 ''But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying, 'Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.'''
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Rev. Mark Henninger received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and he has been Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois for more than 30 years.