You take your Bibles, if you have them with you tonight, and turn to the book of Malachi. Malachi chapter number four this evening. Malachi chapter number four. This may not be a normal book of the Bible that you'd think that we would go to for a Lord's Supper service, but there's a phrase that I want us to see. We're going to be mainly in the entire book of Malachi tonight, and I'm going to do my best to go through. We'll be in just about every chapter here in Malachi. But I want to read Malachi, our text, and the title and message we'll find in a verse here in Malachi chapter number four. This is the last chapter of Malachi, the last chapter of the Old Testament. And we'll start, we'll read the entire chapter, start in verse number one, and we'll read down to verse number six this evening. Says, for behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven, and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble. And the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear my name shall be the son of righteousness, or shall the Son of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings? And he shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stall, and he shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet. In the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts, And verse number four, we find the Talhahoi message. There are those first two words. Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth. with a curse. Let's pray. And dear Lord, we thank you for this day. Thank you for the wonderful service that we had this morning, the beautiful day that you gave us. And Lord, we thank you for the message that we heard this morning. Thank you for those visitors that came. And Lord, thank you for a good afternoon, Lord. But we come back together here, and I know we've already sung some songs, Lord, to get our heart where it needs to be, to get our thoughts where it needs to be as we meet together this evening to partake in the Lord's Supper, Lord, and take communion, to participate together as children of God. I pray in this time and this message, Lord, that you'd fill me with your spirit and your power, and that you'd speak to hearts tonight as we prepare for this special service to follow. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. So you see here in verse number four, it says, remember ye the law of Moses. We have the special service, what we call the Lord's Supper. Some churches call it the Lord's Table. Some call it communion. None of those are wrong here. The passage that normally you go to in 1 Corinthians 11, before the passage that we normally read, starting there, I believe it is in verse 22, Paul calls it, tells the Church of Corinth, he calls it the Lord's Supper. And that's what we'll call it here tonight. But we think of the Lord's Supper, we're remembering on the Lord's Supper. We're remembering something. We talked about that a little bit this morning with Memorial Day tomorrow, Memorial Day weekend. We take time to remember those who gave their life for their country, for our freedoms. Well, we have somebody that we're able to remember and that we ought to remember each and every day. We have a savior who, much like those soldiers who gave their life for something, gave their life for a cause, gave their life for liberty and freedom. We have a Savior who gave His life for a cause, for liberty and freedom. He gave His life for us, to give us liberty and freedom from sin, to break the chains of sin that we were once bound by. He shed His blood. His body was broken for us. And here He tells them at the end of the book of Malachi, the end of the Old Testament, what after this chapter, this is the last book that's written, Chronologically, in the Old Testament period, he said one of the last things that is said to the children of Israel is, remember ye the law of Moses. And that comes after he reminds them. that the day cometh. The day of God's judgment cometh. Hey, you better get things right. And we know the history, we know the story. This ushers in, this is the beginning. What happens next is the 400 silent years where the people walked away from God and God left them. to walk in the path that they had chosen. He didn't walk away from them. He let them walk in the path that they had chosen for themselves. It was prophesied that someone will come, a prophet will come, and when he talks that he would send He will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord, but he sends them John the Baptist. We know that Isaiah prophesied of the coming of John the Baptist, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, preparing the way of the Savior that was to come shortly after him. But we know, looking at the book of Malachi, If we're to put this book into context, put the state of the children of Israel into context, this was a time in Israel's history when they had neglected God. They had left God. And we see that so often in Israel's history. But here, this is the last prophet, the last book, the last reminder, hey, We're going to give you another chance. God is a patient God. We see that through the history of Israel. He gives them chance after chance, all the way from before they were in Egypt to after they were in Egypt. He gives them chance, mistake after mistake. He presents another prophet or another judge or he has to send bad kings as he did to the northern tribes of Israel. He had to send some kings and he had to bring in some enemies to take them into captivity and eventually gave them up to their sinful way, their rebellious way that they had chosen. But Israel has neglected God. They were not living according to His will. The priests were corrupt. Their relationship with God was inconsequential to them. It didn't matter. They had no thought of their relationship with God, their walk with God. They had no thought. Hey, we are the children of God. We must walk with Him. and maybe they've forgotten, and maybe there were some generations that did not teach of Abraham, and Moses, Enoch, and Abel, and all these other, you can go through all of these people that led in the rich history of Israel, King David, and King Solomon, and you can go down the line, the revival, and King Josiah's reign, and so many other stories that they could tell, the good judges, And they have the books of the prophets. Maybe they forgot. Maybe a generation failed to teach the next generation. And for whatever reason, whether they taught it or not, here they are in a state where, hey, we just don't care. We want our own way. They're reminded here and told, hey, remember ye the law of Moses. That tells me they've forgotten the law of Moses. The book that they had, the Pentateuch, the books of the prophets, they had forgotten it. And it's sad, it's much like many Christians today. This book, it's opened on Sundays, it's opened on Wednesdays. But for a lot of Christians, it's opened Sundays and then it's put on a shelf, it's put on a table, it's put on a desk, and it's left there, never to be opened. You look and you see these His Bible's collecting dust. That's a sad state of Christianity. And we look and we say, oh, Israel this, Israel that. They were terrible. They forgot. They had to be reminded to remember the law of Moses. How could they forget the Word of God? How could they forget the promises of God? Yet, we find ourselves in a very similar state very often. And here they're told, remember ye the law of Moses. But their relationship with God didn't matter. If our relationship with God has become unimportant, as it did to the Israelites, we need to take stock of ourselves. This is something that Paul talks to the Church of Corinth as he writes Colossians. And what we know is Colossians, sorry, not Colossians, 1 Corinthians chapter number 11. And he writes about the Lord's Supper and taking it, and quotes the words of Christ, saying, This do ye in remembrance of me. But we take a time, and he talks about that in Corinthians, of self-examination, where we're to look within. Much like the prayer of David, where he said, search me and try me, know my thoughts, see if there be any wicked way in me. We go and we examine, hey, what are some things I need to get right? This evening, quickly, I want to take a few moments and I want to look at the questions of a nation that had forgotten. And again, the title of my message is Remember Ye, and this is after all of their questions. We're going to go through the book of Malachi, and we see some questions that really, and many of them, and God asks some questions in this book that are rhetorical questions, but Israel asks questions And I want to look at these. This is the state of a people that have forgotten. They have forgotten the law of God. They've forgotten his word. They have forgotten their God. But if you'd go to Malachi chapter number one, we find the first question there in the beginning verse number one. It says, the burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. And what does God say to Israel? What does God say to His people through the prophet Malachi? He said, I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, He said, I have loved you, Israel. I have loved you, children, my beloved children. But you say, but ye, yet ye say, wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother, saith the Lord? Yet I loved Jacob. Their first question is, where in hast thou loved us? And people that have forgotten God, what's the first question that they asked here? How have you loved us? They forgot how God loved them. That tells me they forgot that they were saved out of slavery. They've forgotten all the blessings. They forgot the story of the crossing of the Red Sea, the story of the crossing of the Jordan River. They forgot. what the promised land was, how it was flowing with milk and honey. They forgot the days of David, the days of Solomon. They forgot all of these things, the days of the conquest. All those stories were gone. They have forgotten. Wherein hast thou loved us? Can you imagine looking up to God? Hey God, you tell me you love me, but I don't see your love in my life. How can we forget that God has loved us? And God does love us. He loved us in sending His Son. We know John 3, 16 says, For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. How did He show that He loved us? He sent His only begotten Son to die, to suffer and die. The worst suffering and death imaginable that's ever been put together and imagined by man. That's what he did, and he shed every ounce of his blood. Every part of his body was touched with suffering for us. They assumed that God did not love them because the government was corrupt at this state. This is not the days of David. This is not a time in their history where the nation was looking to God, but their eyes were on Jesus. And they look, oh God doesn't love us. Look at our government, it's corrupt. Look at our economy, it's poor. And they forgot, that doesn't mean God doesn't love them. It means God is a just, He's a righteous God and He's brought judgment on them. They brought what the state that the people are in, the children of God are in in the book of Malachi is something that they brought on themselves with their sin, with their rebellion, with their neglect of God, with their forgetfulness of God. And they just assumed, oh, God doesn't love us. Look at this mess we're in. We're all that's left. The rest are gone. They're in captivity. They're taken. We're ruled by somebody else. And we know we go into the 400 years. They never had their independence again. And I got the year wrong last time. Was it 1968? I said 58 last time. Huh? 48? But it was thousands of years, hundreds of years before they were ever able to be called the nation of Israel again. It was 400 years before they ever heard from God again. They brought that on themselves. It didn't mean God didn't love them. And they were wrong with this assumption because God loves all people because he made them. This is his creation, his children, and especially this nation is his chosen people. The people that he chose amongst the entire world to be his children that he would bless. and take care of as long as any did that. Hey, I set before you a blessing and a curse, a blessing if you follow me, and a blessing if you walk after me, and a blessing if you remember my law, and keep my testimonies and my statutes. Write them on the table of thine heart. Put them on the post of thy door. Put them as frontlets between thy eyes, and write them upon thine hand. He says, then I will bless you, but there's a curse, and Israel's living in that curse. It's a curse if you rebel and walk away from me. Why did they think there was no blessing? What they thought was true because God's eternal rewards go only to those who are faithful to Him. They were right in one assumption. They were right to see and to say, hey, the blessings are gone. They were right, they were gone. Because God's blessings, His eternal rewards go to those who are faithful to Him. He said many years before this, in the book of Deuteronomy, He tells them, hey, a blessing and a curse. The blessing doesn't, hey, oh, I know you walked away from me. Hey, I know, I still love you, here's my blessing. He does still love them during that. He loves us, and we're told that He chastises those whom He loves. He chastises us and has to bring us back to the straight and narrow path that He's laid out for us in love, much like we do as parents with our children. Hey, that's out of love. We discipline and raise our children for the Lord out of love, and God has to do that. His love doesn't stop, but hey, the blessings have to back away. We show, again, Israel had forgotten God. They had forgotten not just the law of God, but they have forgotten God altogether. We show that we forget God's love. And just like Israel here, we forget that we show today in 2025, I can show that I have forget God and I forget God's love. We show that, I show that, you show that by how we live. What kind of a life do we live? How dedicated are we to God? How surrendered are we? We sing that song, I surrender all. Is all surrendered? He loved us with an everlasting love and sent his only begotten son for us. said, I gave my life, the other song we sing, I gave my life for you, what has thou given to me? That's that question, we show. And what is that question that Paul gives in Romans? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Oh, hey, there's God's grace. God loves me. I can live however I want. And you'll find churches that preach and teach, hey, as long as you love God, God loves you, it's okay. Live how you want Monday through Saturday. Come back. and raise your hands while we sing the songs and the lights are going and the guitar and the drums are going, and then we'll come to the Bible and we'll tell you how good you are and how much God loves you for 10 minutes. Then go back and live how you want. God loves you. God loves you. Well, I don't find that. Yes, God loves. I find God's love in the Bible, but I don't find where God says, hey, live how you want. We see that here. Hey, remember ye the law of Moses. Paul asks the question, hey, shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? It's a rhetorical question, but Paul answers it. What does he say? God forbid. Amen. Wherein hast thou loved us? The next question is also in Malachi chapter number one, verse number six. It says, a son honoreth his father, and a servant his master. If then I be a father, it says, hey, if I'm your father that loves you, where is my fear, saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests that despise my name? And ye say, and here's their next question, wherein have we despised thy name? Verse number seven, they're answered, ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar. And it says, I put these two questions together, they say, wherein have we despised thy name? And then they ask, he answers that question, and then they ask, wherein have we polluted thee? And it's answered again in that ye say, the table of the Lord is contemptible. What's their next question? The next question of the people that have forgotten God, wherein have we despised thy name? And wherein have we polluted thee? God was not very pleased with these people at this state. He accused them of dishonoring Him with their imperfect sacrifices. And we see that if you were to read, continue to read in Malachi, they were bringing imperfect sacrifices. Sacrifices that were not acceptable. Not just like Cain's, where Cain brought fruits and vegetables, his crop, but they were bringing lambs that weren't spotless. They weren't, and that's, remember back to our text. In chapter 4, remember ye the law of Moses. They weren't even following the ceremonial laws for their sacrifices and their offerings anymore. They were dishonoring God. In Romans 12, verse 1, we are told that our lives are to be a living sacrifice. They were bringing unacceptable, impure offerings. They were despising the name of God. They were polluting God. polluting his house, his temple, his tabernacle. Our lives are to be a sacrifice like that. Is our life acceptable? Is our sacrifice, our life that is to be a living sacrifice, is it acceptable to God? If all we give God are our leftovers, He will be displeased with us just like He was displeased with Israel. When we give Him the leftover of our time, hey, if I can fit God in, Hey, I was busy today, but if I have time to read my Bible, I'll try and get it. If I have time to pray, I'll try to get it in. If I have time to go to church, hey, there's something else that's more important than church today. I'm going to do that. God will forgive me. I'll be back in church on Wednesday. I'll be back in church on Sunday. That's a sad state to be in, giving God the leftover of our time, giving God the leftover of our money. We say, hey, I'm going to pay all my bills. I'm going to take care of myself. I'm going to get the things I want. And then what I have left, I'll see if I can fit in that 10%. I'll see if I can fit in a little over my 10% to give not only the tithes, but tithes and offerings after everything else. Hey, I got to take care of myself. God will understand that, right? We know that Malachi talks to them about tithes and offerings and how they were robbing God. That's one of the questions we're going to get to today. Giving God the leftover time, our money, our energy, our heart, our spirit. Hey, I spent all my energy, all my time on all these things for myself, my work, my hobbies. All right, I got a little bit. I got a little bit to do. Or I got a little bit left in the tank to give. I'll give that to God. No, we should give to God first. The first of everything. He told Israel, hey, what was the law of Moses? Give of the first fruits. or to give to God first. We repeat the same sin as Israel. They didn't want to bring anything of value to God. They kept the best for themselves. What we bring to God reflects our true spirit and attitude towards Him. What we give, when we give, how we give, all of those things. The priests were to reflect God's attitude and character. And by accepting imperfect sacrifices, they led people to believe that God also accepts imperfect sacrifices. We have the same position and responsibility as priests, the priesthood of the believer that we believe in. We don't have to go to a priest anymore. We have the same responsibility. Those priests were to only accept perfect, pure, Offerings. Perfect, pure sacrifices. Well, we have that same responsibility today on May 25th, 2025. As a believing in the priesthood of the believer, I have the responsibility to only accept a pure and perfect sacrifice. That sacrifice is my life. A living sacrifice for my Lord. What image of God's attitude and character do others see in you? They were reflecting God's attitude and character, his spirit, by what they accepted. That was the people's image of God was those priests. Well, what is our life, that living sacrifice? What does it reflect of God's character and attitude and his heart? If we casually accept sin, we are the same as these priests, and God is not pleased with us. Worship had become a weariness to them. In verse number 13 he says, Ye shall also, or he said also, behold, what a weariness is it? He's talking about the worship, bringing those sacrifices. Some people think that following God is supposed to make life comfortable. They're looking for a God of convenience. Hey, just bless me, God. I gave you time on Sunday. Just take care of me. Give me a comfortable life. But the truth of the matter is that it takes commitment and hard work to live by God's high standards. God is a holy and a righteous God. And what does He tell us? Be holy, for I am holy. I am the Lord your God. Be holy, for I am holy. It takes a lot of commitment. It takes a lot of hard work to live our life, that living sacrifice to meet God's high standards, to say, be holy, be perfect, because I'm holy, and I'm perfect. And as priests, the priesthood of the believer, believing in that, we have that same responsibility to only accept that perfect, holy, acceptable, offering. These people were unfaithful. They didn't say it with their mouths that they were rejecting God. But they were living as if He didn't even exist. They lived as if they could do anything they wanted without any punishment. And they wondered why God wasn't blessing. How have you loved us? How have we despised your name? What have we done? How have we polluted thee? We've done nothing. We're your chosen people. Our temple's still there. We're still bringing sacrifices to the priest. We're still doing all of those things. God didn't exist. The next question we find in chapter number 3, in verse number 7. It says, Even from the days of your fathers ye have gone away from mine ordinances, ye have left my word, ye have left my way. And he says, And have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? God's patience is endless. We know that he's a patient God. He's a God of a second chance, and third chance, and fourth chance, and fifth chance, and so on and so forth. He will always allow us to return to him. Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh unto you. Look at the history of the world. We disobey and walk away from God, but he has always been willing to accept us back. Here the people have the nerve to say that they never disobeyed. What are they asking when they say, where in shall we return? How can we return if we never left? They've already asked, hey, how have we despised your name? How have we polluted you? We haven't even left. How can we return to you, Lord? You're telling us, hey, return to you. Return to your word. We haven't even left you, God. We're right here. We're still here. The temple's still there. We never left you, God. Where are we to return? What are we to return to? We haven't left anything. To return means we've left something. They were delusional. They were believing. the lies of the devil. They were religious people. They were following their religious traditions, but as we're told in the New Testament in the end times, a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. It was empty and vain. The next verse here in chapter 3, we find the next question. They ask, will a man rob God? but ye have robbed me. But ye say, wherein have we robbed thee? The answer is a question to entice and offerings. We must remember that God's blessings are not always material. And we think, oh, hey, we hear a story. You can hear stories and testimonies, and I have them, and I can tell you stories. I gave to God, and God blessed me, met my needs. Sometimes it was just the exact amount that I needed, because, hey, no matter how tight my money got, I never changed my giving. I never gave less. I continued to give what the Lord laid on my heart to give. You know what? He met my needs. We can listen to stories of other men of God and blessings. We can look at the promises and sometimes we think, oh hey, I'll give to God. Yeah, God will bless me. Okay, I'll give to get a blessing. First, right away, we're giving in the wrong heart. We should give to bless God, not to be blessed by God. God will bless us. Promises are true. But his blessings are not always material. Sometimes people give up on giving. Oh, I gave, and I gave, and I gave. I didn't see anything. It was still hard. Well, maybe God was testing your faith. Maybe you were giving in the wrong heart or the wrong spirit. We may not experience every promised blessing there, but we will be rewarded in heaven. When you stay faithful to God, stay faithful to His word, walk in His way, and give faithfully to Him, He will bless you. How we give is very similar to how we worship. How we give will reflect our spirit and attitude towards God. They asked Him, wherein have we robbed Thee? The next question is also in chapter number three, and I just have a couple more, and I try to hurry here, but what have we, verse number 13, it says, your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord, yet ye say, what have we spoken so much against thee? Ye have said it is vain to serve God. And he answers their question, hey, how have we spoken against thee, God? He said, well, you've said it's vain to serve God. And what prophet is it that we have kept his ordinance? Hey, what, we haven't seen any, what prophet is there if we've walked in God's way and sacrificed as we ought to, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? And you say, what have we spoken so much against thee? What's the use of serving God? What good does it do for me? Again, looking for, hey, what can God do for me? What blessings can I get out of God? Instead of saying, hey, how can I bless God? How can I minister to God? How can I give of myself to the Lord? What good does it do for me? What's the use of serving God? God is God and deserves to be served. He says, hey, where is my fear? Where is my honor? What we should be asking is, what good does it do for God? Then we come to chapter number four, our text verse. It says, remember ye the law of Moses. He tells them there in the beginning of chapter four, he says, hey, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven, and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble. They'll burn up in that oven. And the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. There'll be nothing left of them. The day cometh where the wrath of God will come down. but unto you that fear my name. Hey, if you fear me, you're walking my ways, you're keeping these ordinances, you're loving me, you're bringing those imperfect and holy and acceptable sacrifices, the living sacrifice that is your life, It says, you shall be the Son of Righteousness. And notice it's capital S there, the Son of Righteousness. Arise with healing in his wings. And you shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stall. You'll be taken care of. You think of a calf in a stall. They have every need met. I worked on a farm. When I was a teenager for a summer, those calves, we took care of everything for those calves. We'd come in, we'd lead them to where they needed to go, we'd make sure they were fed, all of those things, and some of them were even fed with a bottle. We'd go in there, and one of the worst jobs, we'd have to clean out that calf pen. We'd have to go in there. shovel everything, the inches of piled up manure on the bottom of that, and it was nasty, it was stinky. I dreaded those days. Hey, it's calf pin cleaning day. They had everything taken care of, and they didn't have to lift a finger or a hoof in their case. He says, hey, you'll grow up as calves of the stall. It says, towards the wicked and those who walked away from Him, His wrath will be as an oven burning hot. If we don't turn to God, if we don't put our faith and trust in Him as our Savior, it says, hey, that day is coming and the oven will burn you. There will be nothing left. My wrath will consume you. It can consume the unsaved, but I believe that wrath will come upon the saved. Hey, we'll have to stand before God. We'll miss the judgment of the tribulation. He'll come back before that. We're going to have to stand before God and answer. Answer for how we live life. Answer for what we... Hey, how did you live? How did you spend the time that I gave you, that I blessed you with on earth? How did you live for me? He says, but to those who love and obey Him and fear Him, That day that came would be as the healing warmth of the sun. The healing warmth. Getting that healing. It says, hey, the sun of righteousness. And it says, with healing in his wings. But you know what? We must be willing to be refined. If you go back to chapter number three, verses number two and three in closing here, it says, Who may abide the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap. And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. And he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. In the process of refining metals, the raw metal is heated with fire until it melts. The impurities separate from it and rise to the surface. They are skimmed off, leaving only the pure metal behind. Without this heating and melting, there could be no purifying. As the impurities are skimmed off the top, the reflection of the worker appears in the clear, pure surface. As God purifies us, his reflection in our life will become more and more clear to those around us. I think in the old days, as they purify that gold, they'd get it to that perfect 24-karat gold. You could look down there, even in its molten, melted state, and see your reflection pure, as if you're looking into a mirror. You see the reflection of the refiner. That's just like our life. As he purifies, as Job said, I'll come forth as gold. He's going to come forth as pure gold, that the face of the refiner is reflected. in that gold, in that precious metal. And we are precious metal in the hands of our Lord as He refines us. What did they see in Stephen this morning? We looked at that. What did they see? The face of an angel. What did they see in Peter and John? They have been with Jesus. They had been purified and the reflection of the refiner was very clear to those around. Even look at that fuller soap. This was a strong soap. It was alkali used to whiten cloth. Used to make it pure white cloth. It's used here as a symbol of the purifying process. You know, in just a moment, as we close this part of the service here in the preaching time, we're gonna go to 1 Corinthians 11, and we're gonna see a phrase, and I have a part of it on the screen here. This do ye in remembrance of me. Why do we partake in the Lord's Supper? To remember. to take time and remember to take time as we've ended here in Malachi with that purifying process to allow the refiner sometimes to apply some heat, to melt us down, skim off those impurities. Hey Lord, if there's any impurities, bring your spoon, and I know there's probably a special name for that spoon, but bring that spoon, bring that scoop, and skim those impurities off, that I may be a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable. If you'd stand with me with your eyes closed and your heads bowed, we're going to have a time of invitation here as we close this part of the service. We're not going to sing a song. We're just going to have the piano play for this service. And we looked, and God said to Israel, hey, remember ye the law of Moses. We take the Lord's Supper that we would do this. What do we do it for? Do this in remembrance. of me, do we remember our God? Do we live a life that says, hey, I remember God? Are we letting that holy refiner refine us into that pure gold that his reflection would be clear to those around us? Are we allowing the impurities to be skimmed off the top?