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Oh Happy Day
STAND IN HONOR OF GOD AND HIS WORD
READ WITH ME FROM YOUR BIBLE
LOOK!
A word that gets your attention to pay attention, usually to something you believe to be supremely important.
Look, is an emphatic word that is at times used loudly and boldly as a warning, to awaken someone from their slumber.
Malachi, as he finishes his supremely important, prophetic message from God to the people of Israel, uses such an emphatic word to grab their attention.
One of his purposes with this message was to awaken or revive God’s people from a place of complacency in their service to Him.
Chapter 4 is the last chapter in our English Bible, but in the original Hebrew these 6 verses constitute the last 6 verses of chapter 3.
In these final 6 verses Malachi declares a warning regarding the coming Great Day of the Lord.
Look or Notice 3 things in his warning: The People, The Promise, and The Purpose
The People
2 Groups
1- The Wicked and Arrogant
Of course Pharoah had been a wicked person.
The Philistines, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians and other persecutors of the Israelites would have been considered wicked persons by the Jews.
Malachi was giving a warning to them, however, about the first group of people that included many who would have never been considered as part of it.
Of course Pharoah had been a wicked person.
The Philistines, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians and other persecutors of the Israelites would have been considered wicked persons by the Jews.
Malachi was giving a warning to them, however, about the first group of people that included many who would have never been considered as part of it.
Look back in
There are many examples of those who seemed to be amongst the people of the camp of the army, the cause of the people, the church of Jesus Christ, and suddenly these people have turned their backs in the other direction.
Illustration: Recently Joanna and I, being ones who like history, got in to watching a television series called Turn, based on the spies and espionage of the Revolutionary War.
One of the story lines had to do with the turning of Benedict Arnold.
There are many examples of those who seemed to be amongst the people of the camp of the army, the cause of the people, the church of Jesus Christ, and suddenly these people have turned their backs in the other direction.
Illustration: Recently Joanna and I, being ones who like history, got in to watching a television series called Turn, based on the spies and espionage of the Revolutionary War.
One of the story lines had to do with the turning of Benedict Arnold.
Arnold was a true patriot.
One of the Sons of Liberty.
He fought bravely at the Battle of Sara-toga.
He was one of the most confident and ambitious Generals of the Continental Army.
He was wounded several times but eager to recover and return to battle.
Only there was one problem, Arnold did not feel he was receiving the honor or the reward that he felt he deserved.
Pride became the point at which he could be turned from the American side to serve for the British, which the rest is history.
There are many examples of those who seemed to be amongst the people of the camp of the army, the cause of the people, the church of Jesus Christ, and suddenly these people have turned their backs in the other direction.
Just like the people Malachi describes in these verses, as ones having turned their backs on God in pride, thinking that their service to God deserved more than they were receiving.
2 - The Righteous
2 - The Righteous
The difference in the wicked and the righteous is not always in actions, but there is a difference in their attitude.
The difference in the wicked and the righteous is not always in actions, but there is a difference in their attitude.
Look in
Look in
If you are a true Christ follower, you know you are righteous because of the act of Christ on the cross, not your own.
Here are some ways to examine yourself to see if you have a healthy fear of God:
Do you have a reverential respect and appreciation of God and His grace given to you?
Do you have a respectful obedience of God’s Word lived out in your life?
Do you have repetitive conversations with God the Father and about Jesus Christ.
Do you have repetitive conversations with God the Father and about Jesus Christ.
Those who fear God just do what comes natural to them - talking even to people who are not believers telling of his Goodness, telling about his grace and telling the gospel to all who will listen.
1st remember - the Bible says that there are none of us righteous - no not one.
2nd notice in the warning:
The Promise
- Malachi speaks from God with certainty.
“Is coming” - carries with it the sense of reality.
It is understood from this first clause that the event is happening, not as a matter of maybe but as a matter of reality.
What makes it a reality?
The fact that God promised it and God is the faithful promise keeper.
Up until this point God had kept His promises: Abraham had a son, Moses delivered the people, they entered the Promised Land, the people broke the covenant and were sent into captivity, God brought them out of captivity.
Now He promises again the coming Great Day of the Lord.
God the faithful promise keeper
Here we need to see the Great Day of the Lord not as an event but more as a period of time between two events.
Here we need to see the Great Day of the Lord not as an event but more as a period of time between two events.
The Great Day of the Lord had its first fulfillment
God ended the 1st Testament of His Word with this promise of the coming.
It found its first fulfillment at the birth, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.
Jesus came to bring judgment upon sin through his sacrifice, and freedom from sin for those who faithfully trusted his sacrifice.
Turn over to the last chapter of the entire Bible, .
God ended the 2nd Testament of His Word with this promise of the second coming of Christ.
What all of humanity, especially the church, must focus upon is the fact of it will happen, not when it will happen.
tells of so many people of faith that did not see the first coming, but faithfully trusted God’s promise of its fulfillment.
We must do the same.
It will find its 2nd fulfillment when Jesus returns bringing with Him the wrath for the wicked we see promised here in v.1 and v.3 of chapter 4. Jesus also will bring our reward.
If you mare wondering why you do not see a reward described like we see the wrath described, it is because Jesus is our reward.
Whatever comes after is just icing on the cake.
What all of humanity, especially the church, must focus upon is the fact of it will happen.
tells of so many people of faith that did not see the first coming, but faithfully trusted God’s promise of its fulfillment.
We must do the same.
It will find its 2nd fulfillment when Jesus returns bringing with Him the wrath for the wicked we see promised here in v.1 and v.3 of chapter 4. Jesus also will bring our reward.
If you mare wondering why you do not see a reward described like we see the wrath described, it is because Jesus is our reward.
Whatever comes after is just icing on the cake.
Promise of that day: 4:1,3 - Wicked removed and 4:2 - the righteous healed (emotionally, physically, and spiritually).
Promise of that day: 3:18 - No doubt on that day of the difference between the wicked and the righteous, the wheat and the tares, the sheep and the goats.
God’s timing is always perfect and with purpose.
Why this warning?
Why shout look?
The Purpose
The purpose relates back to the people.
Purpose #1 - The warning is to elicit a response of repentance from the wicked facing judgement and wrath on that day.
Ezekiel 3
When God’s prophet’s predicted destruction, God’s purpose was always for the wicked to turn back to Him away from their sin - to repent.
When the judgment of God comes to sweep men and women into hell for eternity, there is one spot that is safe.
Nearly two thousand years ago the wrath of God was poured on Calvary.
There the Son of God took the wrath that should have fallen on us.
Now, if we take our stand by the cross, we are safe for time and eternity.727[1]
[1] Michael P. Green.
(2000).
1500 illustrations for biblical preaching (p.
207).
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.
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