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You Have Wearied Me — Malachi
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Theme: You have wearied the LORD with your words
Theme: You have wearied the LORD with your words
Date: 04/23/2017 File Name: MinorProphets17c.wpd
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Date: 04/23/2017 File Name: MinorProphets17c.wpd
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The Prophet Isaiah wrote, “And he said, Hear you now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also?” (, NIV).
What does it mean to weary God?
The same thing it means to weary men.
We exasperate them, we annoy them, we aggravate them, we enfuriate them.
When Malachi uses the world weary in this verse, he is not implying that God becomes physically tired.
God is a Spirit, and does not grow weary as in aching muscles, and sore joints.
But God can be exasperated, and annoyed, and aggravated, and infuriated by the behavior of His people.
The Prophet Isaiah wrote, “And he said, Hear you now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also?” (, NIV).
What does it mean to weary God?
The same thing it means to weary men.
We exasperate them, we annoy them, we aggravate them, we enfuriate them.
When Malachi uses the world weary in this verse, he is not implying that God becomes physically tired.
God is a Spirit, and does not grow weary as in aching muscles, and sore joints.
But God can be exasperated, and annoyed, and aggravated, and infuriated by the behavior of His people.
The great Old Testament example of this is found in Deuteronomy chapter 9. It’s one of those “You-didn’t-know-it-them,-but-let-me-now-tell-you-now” moments.
Moses is preaching a series of sermons to the people of Israel as they are about to enter the Promised Land.
This is a whole new generation.
Their parents were the ones who left Egypt as slaves.
They’ve all died and this second generation of Hebrews are about to take possession of the land God will give them.
In Moses recounts the story of meeting God at Mt. Horeb, and the “Golden Calf” incident.
He tells them,
“Remember this and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God to anger in the desert.
From the day you left Egypt until you arrived here, you have been rebellious against the LORD ... 13 And the LORD said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are a stiff-necked people indeed!
14 Let me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven.
And I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.”
(, , NIV84)
As we arrive at Malachi’s era, it’s 900 years past the “Golden Calf” incident and God’s Covenant People are still exasperating Him.
The Prophet is blunt in 2:17 ... “You have wearied the Lord ... “
They’ve Wearied with Their Divided Hearts
• They’ve Wearied with Their Divorces
They’ve Wearied with Their Divorces
• They’ve Wearied with Their Doubts
They’ve Wearied with Their Doubts
• They’ve Wearied with Their Dishonesty and Theft
They’ve Wearied with Their Dishonesty and Theft
They’ve Wearied with Their Disillusionment and Cynicism
• They’ve Wearied with Their Disillusionment and Cynicism
I. GOD IS WEARIED BY THEIR DIVIDED HEARTS 2:10-11
1. idol worship has remained an issue among God’s covenant people
a. they had not ceased their worship of Yahweh, but they had added other gods to their pantheon, and this resulted in a divided heart
their pantheon, and this resulted in a divided heart
b. faithlessness to the Father has consequences
1) when the people broke faith with God, they also broke faith with each other
2. the reason behind their idolatry is that Jewish men have been marrying non-Jewish women who then introduced pagan worship to their husbands
women who then introduced pagan worship to their husbands
a. Israelites were forbidden to marry those who were devotees of pagan gods
“Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.
16 And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.”
(, NIV84)
“Do not intermarry with them.
Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,” (, NIV84)
• “Do not intermarry with them.
Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,” (, NIV84)
1) Malachi points out three terrible truths about these unlawful marriages
A. THE COVENANT DENIED
A. THE COVENANT DENIED
A. THE COVENANT DENIED
“Have we not all one Father?
Did not one God create us?
Why do we profane the covenant of our fathers by breaking faith with one another?”
(, NIV84)
1. God was the father of Israel — He had created this special nation at Mt. Sinai
a. the rhetorical question “Is there not one father to all of us?” is stressing the uniqueness of Israel as a nation
uniqueness of Israel as a nation
2. if in fact Israel was a special creation of God, a holy family, the prophet asks “Why do we deal treacherously each man with his brother?”
we deal treacherously each man with his brother?”
a. Malachi is referring to the sin of intermarriage which defiles, the covenant that Israel had so eagerly agreed to at Mt. Sinai
had so eagerly agreed to at Mt. Sinai
“When Moses went and told the people all the LORD’s words and laws, they responded with one voice, “Everything the LORD has said we will do.”
(, NIV84)
3. the practice was a menace to the distinctive faith which was the basis of God’s covenant with Israel as well as the national existence
covenant with Israel as well as the national existence
a. to marry pagan unbelievers was a denial of their covenant with God
B. THE NATION DEFILED
B. THE NATION DEFILED
“Judah has broken faith.
A detestable thing has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: Judah has desecrated the sanctuary the LORD loves, by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.” (, NIV84)
1. God condemns the intermarriage of His covenant people with the pagan people around them in the strongest terms possible
around them in the strongest terms possible
a. the NIV quotes God as saying, A detestable thing has been committed in Israel
b. the word detestable is actually the word abomination — a much stronger word
1) an abomination is an action so evil that God finds it repulsive
2. holiness is a fundamental attribute of God
a. because Yahweh is holy, his people were to be holy — set apart from the world of sin in all areas of their lives, including marriage
sin in all areas of their lives, including marriage
b. such marriages had always been condemned because of the danger of seduction into idolatry
into idolatry
c. now, however, by marrying the daughter of a foreign god, the holiness of the nation had been violated
had been violated
C. THE PERPETRATORS DENOUNCED
“As for the man who does this, whoever he may be, may the LORD cut him off from the tents of Jacob—even though he brings offerings to the LORD Almighty.”
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