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Introduction:
Introduction:
WE just had valentine’s day.
One of those really important gift giving times
DId anyone go out to eat or get some good treats
I love chocolate, cookies,
I hate spicy foods.
I put the white in white boy.
If a chili or a pepper touches my food
Did you know that I greatly admire penguins but I hate anything with a wood stick that you eat.
I hate Popsicle sticks.
I hate anything with a wood stick that you eat.
I hate Popsicle sticks.
I love corndogs but always remove the sticks
I love corndogs but always remove the sticks
Anyway there are all kinds of things that people need to learn about people because
In my first year at Baylor
Valentine’s came and I was BROKE
I had to give and receive a gift
A gift is a sign of what you know about a person
I unwrapped my presnet
Red Hots and A Red haired troll doll
I didn’t do much better I gave my favorite book, Pilgrim’s progress
Still the worst Valentine’s Ever
Perhaps some of you are trying to make up for a bad valentine’s but I hope not.
There is a lot going on in our lives but most of it isn’t as important as giving that right gift to your love.
For me this year, my wife and I give gifts to our kids
Likely my last Valentine with Charlotte at home.
The testimony you saw with Arianna is an hour long
At one point I guided the conversation into a deep point and asked what would be important if she knew that she was going to die.
Morbid for a 15 year old but vital for all of us to ask.
Important things matter more.
Ari quickly said school wasn’t important but she also said “boys” weren’t and relunctantly said her clothes.
But finally and you heard it in her testimony, her relationship with Christ would be the most important if she was going to die so she realized it should be the most important now.
We know that is the right answer but what do our lives actually show?
What is treasurer?
Treasure is what you value.
What do you think of Diamonds?
If I said this morning that everybody gets to get a diamond that would be really something right.
Diamonds aren’t that rare.
Diamonds are the hardest material found on earth.
They resist scratching better than anything else.
Other than that, they hold no unique distinctions.
DeBeers, a South African company monopolized the market, limited supply, and in the 1950s advertised hard in movies and print to get everyone to purchase diamond engagement rings.
Its a false market.
All gem-quality materials are rare.
They compose just a tiny fraction of the Earth.
However, diamonds actually number among the most common gems.
Ask yourself this: “How many people do you know who own at least one diamond?”
Now, ask this question about other gems, like rubies, sapphires, or emeralds.
https://www.gemsociety.org/article/are-diamonds-really-rare/
A treasure is what you value, what you determine has worth.
Just like a good gift is valuable to the one who receives the gift.
I hope you gave of your treasure to some who loves you and that you recieved from someone.
I hope you gave them something you truly value.
Speaking of love, Ariana demostrated for us this truth form Jesus
This is a huge gift!!
Ari said it was the most important gift she could except in her life, and she also stated it would be the most important for her family and friends.
Our God is a generous and giving God.
The whole act of creation upon completion was given to us.
Writing of Malachi on 11th century text.
But God is of course infinitely smarter than a 19 year old Bill and Lori and He gave to His chosen people exactly How he wanted to be given gifts, how he wanted to be worshipped.
One of the hardest things to do is give a gift to a person who has everything,
what can you give to God?
Books 2 through 5 of the Bible tell a lot about when, where, how, and why to give treasure to God.
It is so detailed that Jewish priests were dedicated their whole lives just to knowing how to take, process, and accept the gifts.
Some of the important rules, as I summarize them
Animals can have no defects, no problems with them
“On the day you wave the sheaf, you are to offer a year-old male lamb without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord.”
(, HCSB)
Plant offerings came from the first part of the harvest and also had to be good
Money offerings could not have any other Gods depicted on the money
The animals had to be slaughtered in a specific way, the plants presented in a specific way, if an earthly leader has rules to bring a gift to him how much more God who created this whole ordered universe.
Doesn’t it work out that way in our life?
Romantic gifts of rocks
My wife gives me her love, her wealth, her intelligence, her body but she cannot die for me or give me an eternal purpose in life.
Jesus gave me forgiveness by giving His life, He gave me purpose by giving me his ways, and He continues to bless me.
He offers the same to you or for those who follow He has already given it to you.
So what have you given Him?
There came a time when the first people who worshipped God, His chosen people, the Jews, their priests stop caring about what the people gave God and the people also ignored what to give God.
A prophet rose up, one who was called by God to give a message from God.
In fact, we don’t even know his name as Malachi means my messenger.
Malachi wrote sometime between 500-400 BC .
Other events of his time Battle Of Marathon, life of Buddha, life of Confucius, Second Invasion Of Greece by Persia, Peloponnesian War, and the life of Hippocrates of the Hippocratic Oath.
But in Israel the people returned from Exile.
Just 30 years prior, about a generation or two.
Parents and Grandparents could remember not having a Jewish homeland.
But now that years have passed the kids just saw how hard it was to live.
And they were ignoring who they were as God’s people.
The priests were the ones who would determine if the gift was appopriate, their were a lot of rules to remember
Malachi 1:
The people began bringing crappy animals, cheap, what was left over.
The people began bringing crappy animals, cheap, what was left over
Ever been in charge of receiving donations for a thrift store or to those needing help.
Some people will bring useless stuff or stuff that should be trash.
Others will donate 3 cans of beat up soup.
God basically said you suck.
Why you bringing me crappy gifts?
If you a bring a crappy, thoughtless gift to a romantic partner they will be furious and if it is the beginning of the relationship it might be over.
Bring this to someone you trying to honor and they will be dishonored.
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