1. Refined by Fire and Water

2. Baptism

3. Miqveh

4. Stone Jar

5. Baptism One time or continual process Miqveh- Mi and qveh – Mi- from – Qveh (kavvah)- “wait” Is 40:31 But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.

6. Numbers 31:23-24 23 everything that can endure fire, you shall put through the fire, and it shall be clean; and it shall be purified with the water of purification. But all that cannot endure fire you shall put through water. 24 And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you may come into the camp.”

7. I Cor 3:10-17 12 If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13 their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work. 14 If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. 15 If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames. 16 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.

8. What does it mean to be clean? Pure Refined as gold, silver, Ritually clean

9. Refining Process Crushed stone to smaller stone to powder Hot water used to wash it What's left: Dirt, lead, impure metals with silver Melted with temperatures exceedingly high Poured over ash repeated When refined it is the most conductive and reflective metal Bars are 93-97% pure after one pass through a crude refinery

10. Malachi 3:2-5 3“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.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. 4 “Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem Will be pleasant to the Lord, As in the days of old, As in former years.5And I will come near you for judgment;

11. Can you endure Fire James 1:24 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.