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Introduction:
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Textual Segment:
Last week, we saw that God reminded His people of His unconditional love.
He loved them as a Father and had chosen descendants of the younger twin, Jacob, over the older twin, Essau, and given the covenant blessings to them.
Even though the covenant was unconditional, God does expect a minimal response of honor and respect from His people.
Malachi now addresses the lack of respect from the very ones who should be leading and teaching the nation to respect Him, the priests.
as Father
as Master
as King
Relational Segment:
We too should give God the honor and respect which is due Him.
Our worship should be pure and glorifying to Him.
I.
The Rebellion of the Priests
Honor our Master
I.
They despise and dishonor God’s holy name
God should never have to ask, “where is my reverence”
Reverence- fear, awe, terror
The priests took God for granted and had lost their awe of Him.
The basic problem they had were that they no longer feared God.
This is the root of many of the other problems we will discuss later.
They no longer were in terror of the wrath of God.
God declares His name will be great among the gentiles as well as the Jewish people
Acts 1:
All people in the world should have reverence for God.
Honor our King
God’s name is to be feared
God is God!
He is supreme.
The Almighty, The All powerful one.
Their lack of fear led to:
II.
They offer polluted sacrifices
Malachi 1:
They offered pollute sacrifices
lame, sick, blind, old, blemished, the stolen
God had spelled out in the Law that sacrificed animals were to be “without defect”
A sacrifice was to be the best, not an animal you would want to cull anyway.
Giving someone a piece of trash and then claiming to have really done something is ridiculous.
The same thing is at play.
Offering an animal which is about to die and unneeded isn’t a sacrifice!
They clearly had quit having reverence for God
Otherwise, they would never have considered offering improper sacrifices.
III.
They pervert God’s Word leading many to stumble
What they should have done:
Keep knowledge
Speak the Law
What they did:
departed from they way
caused people to stumble
corrupted the covenant of Levi
Application: There are lessons we can learn from the rebellion of the priests:
Instead of following their bad example, we should:
a. Reverence God’s name
Fear the Lord, stand in awe of Him.
We serve a mighty and powerful God.
Even though He loves us unconditionally, never lose awe and respect for Him.
b.
Offer Pure Sacrifices
God still wants our best!
Offer Him the best of our talents, our time, our skills.
As stewards, all we have is His.
Use the best of it for His honor and glory.
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Teach truth of the Word
c. Teach truth of the Word
We must proclaim the truth.
even if it goes against popular opinion
even if we would rather not hear it ourselves
God’s word is truth and isn’t to be compromised.
Remember Satan’s tactic with Eve,
He got her to doubt what God had said.
This same poisonous attitude is still prevalent in the world and in many churches.
When the word of God says something they don’t like, they find a way to interpret it differently.
They claim it was culture specific.
Since we are more enlightened, we are beyond that now.
They say that God couldn’t say what He wanted to say because of flawed men who were writing the Bible
They teach God has changed His standards of right and wrong.
Instead of all of that nonsense, when God says it, that settles it!
Study the word of God to know what He expects and do it!
II.
The Rebuke of the Priests
God warns that the priests and their descendants will be punished if they do not repent.
III.
The Role Model of the Priests
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