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What is the Purpose of Affliction & Dross Burning? Sometimes our afflictions are due to wrong decisions of others or ourselves. Sometimes God allows these experiences to teach us, test us, and strengthen us. Dross burning is when God uses various situations to purify our Christian character. Some of these unpleasant situations are for…
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Among the instructions and encouragements, the writer now turns to teaching about God’s discipline. God is a teacher. He wishes for His people to mature, have self-control, learn failure, deal with difficulties, learn to ask for wisdom and grace, to help each other in afflictions, and the goals of a godly life. My translation…