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"*OFFERING GOD LESS THAN YOUR BEST*"
*Malachi 1:6-10*
IMBC Hobart; 01-07-07 am
INTRODUCTION:
- We as 21th century Christians need to be very careful that our worship to God is always acceptable and that their is nothing in our lives that will hinder our relationship to God.
- But often we are our own worst enemies, because we at times can be so independent that we would just as soon do it our own way than God’s
- Read article "/Trying To Do the Job Alone/"
- Any person that offers God anything less than His best is hindering his potential in the hands of a mighty God.
- In the first five (5) verses of the book of Malachi
Israel is challenged to openly respond to God's love
- Earlier, God had challenged Israel to love the Lord wholeheartedly; listen to two verses in the book of Deuteronomy:
1.
*Deut.
6:2*, “So that you and your son and your grandson
might fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statues and His
commandments which I command you, all the days of your
life, and that your days may be prolonged.”
2.
*Deut.
6:5* "You shall love the Lord your God with all
your heart and with all your soul and with all your might."
- The seriousness of Israel's sin and the fact that they had strayed from God is very evident in these passages before us this morning in the book of Malachi.
- There is probably no one in this auditorium this
morning who wants to intentionally displease God with their lives
- But there may be things in your life that are
displeasing to God that you need to take care of this morning on this first Sunday of a brand new year!
- And there is no better time than the present to take care of those things that offend a holy God!
I.
*/THE CHARGE OF DISRESPECT/* – *Malachi *
* 1:6-9*
A.
Disrespect for God – *vs.
6*
1.
Malachi was speaking very bluntly and using a common illustration to get his point across to the Jewish disobedient believers.
a.
These were common everyday
relationships (father~/son, servant~/master) that
all Israel expected to be honored, as we do
today!
b.
God felt He should receive honor as their
God just like they normally would for others
they respected.
c.
It was clear to God, but not so clear to
the Israelites that God was like a father
to Israel, and it was an analogy that was
used by God many times in Scripture.
1).
*Exodus 4:22* "And thou shalt say to Pharaoh,
Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my first-
born."
2).
*Isaiah 63:16* "Doubtless thou art our father,
though Abraham be ignorant of us, O Lord, art our
father, our redeemer; thy name is from ever lasting."
3).
*Isaiah 64:8* "But now, O Lord, thou art our
father; we are the clay, and thou our potter, and we
all are the work of thy hand."
4).
*Hosea 11:1* "When Israel was a child then I
loved him, and called my son out of Egypt."
d.
In fact the fifth commandment (of the 10 com-
mandments) states that the children are to
honor their parents (*Ex.
20:12*; *Deut *
* 5:16*) and listen to this kids, if the children
did not obey their parents and they were
found guilty of rebelling against parental
discipline, the parents were encouraged in
the Law to take the rebellious child and the
elders of the city would stone them to
death (*Deut.
* *21:18-21*) for their
disobedience.
2.
Therefore should the nation which considered
itself a "/son/" of the Lord be any less obedient
to God?
a.
The next phrase in the verse presents that
very question; "if then, I be a father where is mine
honor?"
1).
The Hebrew word for "honor" also in
Other verses is translated "glory";
"Where is my GLORY?".
aa.
The glory of God is spoken of fre-
quently throughout the Scriptures,
and God is even called the "king of
Glory" in *Psalms 24:7-10*,
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