Christmas messages appearing on Juice 107.3 FM on the Gold Coast during the Christmas season by local Church pastors. Featuring: Brendan Valiant from Border Church Bianca Serratore from Fire Church Leigh Elsmore from Beachside Church Noriko Reid from Hope Church Stewart Perry from Robina Anglican ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx-izdOtQwI

Notes God is described as surrounded by fire: Hebrews 12:29 – God is a Consuming Fire Daniel 7:9-10 – A stream of fire issued and came out before Him Isaiah 66:15 – YHWH will come in fire Many people run from fire and many will one day run from God. Luke 23:30 - Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us,' and to the hills, 'Cover us.' What type of people run to fire when others run away? • Firefighters, heroes, loved ones What drives some people to run to fire when others run away? • Training (talk about my own firefighter training) • Calling (momentary or lifetime) • Love (desire to rescue) Properties of Fire 1. Fire illuminates and exposes Moses and the burning bush – Exodus 3 Pillar of fire/cloud Jeremiah 23:29 – Is not My Word like Fire 2. Fire warms and nourishes John 18:18 – Peter warmed himself. Luke 24:32 - They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?” 3. Fire purifies and refines Purify silver Isaiah 48:10 - Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction. Malachi 3:3 - 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. Zechariah 13:9 - And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’” Richard Nixon – “The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire” 4. Fire tests 1 Corinthians 3:12-13 - Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw-- each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. Oscar Wilde – “What fire does not destroy, it hardens” 5. Fire consumes 1 Corinthians 3:14-15 – If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire. Consumes the sin that binds us – Daniel 3 6. Fire cauterizes and heals Malachi 4:2 - But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. 7. Fire protects Zechariah 2:5 – And I will be to her a wall of fire all around, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory in her midst.'" 8. Fire forges Trinity Plutonium test, July 16, 1945 Sand into glass – Compare Genesis 22:17 & Jeremiah 33:22 with Revelation 4:6; 15:2 – “and before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal.” “And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire--and also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands.” Tongues of fire, undoing Babel. 9. Fire signals and rallies Emmet Fox – A small spark can start a great fire.” Light on a hill – Matthew 5:14 Isaiah 11:10 - In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples--of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious. 10. Fire burns and destroys This only applies to the wicked. Matthew 28:10 Destroy Body and Soul in Hellfire John 3:16 Eternal fire refers to the consequences – Jude 1:7 compared with Matthew 25:41 Smoke of torment rising forever already happened once – Jeremiah 17:27 cf 2 Chronicles 36:19. Revelation 20:9-10 We do not have to fear – Isaiah 43:2 - When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. Like Elijah, we can run to the fire – 2 Kings 2:11. Elisha wasn’t left out – 2 Kings 6:17 There is no room for sin in eternity. Either we have it consumed now or we are consumed with it. We have a choice, either let the fire run into us or we can run into the fire and be saved. Nahum 1:9 – Affliction shall never rise again ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK-bbYk_Mm0

Do we pray for the latter rain or are we to first pray for no rain? The counterintuitive approach to the end times and why it makes sense. Presented by Brendan Valiant. Originally presented August 20, 2022 at Border Church, Australia. To support our ministry, please see the options at https://border.church/give ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WpxuYxTefo

We look at the opening of James and the Genre of this book as a New Testament counterpart to Proverbs. Presented by Brendan Valiant. Originally presented July 2, 2022 at Border Church, Australia. To support our ministry, please see the options at https://border.church/give ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClTkpovK9uA