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Malachi - Author and Messenger
He was the author & His name means My Messenger
Theme: True worship is an expression to God from a good relationship with Him.
It is not a deed done, or ritual, event, or religious practice.
David H. Roper said, “The Israelites were experiencing a decline in the quality of their life because they had lost their desire for a relationship with God, and His personal and intimate love for them.
Therefore, because they had no sense of God's love for them, their love for God became cold and mechanical.
That then impacted every relationship in their lives.”
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God loves His people!
Dwight L. Moody started a revival at Cambridge University by saying, "Men, don't think that God don't love you, 'cause He do."
Moody only had a 8th-grade education, and yet God used that him to turn tens of thousands to a relationship with Christ.
He made people think about the implications of God’s love.
In verses 1-5 God expresses this love by saying I have given you a hope and a future.
Jeremiah talks about the same thing.
“giving a hope and a future”
We, as Christians, also have a hope and a future!
The most broadly accepted truth about God!
One author said, “Every bit of love we have comes as a result of God’s love for us.”
So, knowing this, we can have great confidence!
God is interested in loving more than just Israel!
The Lord is coming!
While it will be hard on many, it is something to eagerly anticipate for His people who are living in a right relationship with Him.
Refined gold and silver have nothing to hid.
When we are seen clothed in His righteousness, we also will have nothing to hide!
He will purify - not incinerate to nothing!
God’s purifying will bring true Social Justice - not just the bits that some want today (“race” “Gender” …), but across the board!
God does not change!
In the first half of this verse He says, in effect,
"I am the Lord, and I always act like the Lord.
I never change.”
"From the beginning of time I have acted like God; I have never acted in any other way than you would expect God to act.”
Because we have a God who does not change, we can depend on Him.
We can trust His commandments/ordinances and His ways.
God wants to bless!
This is not a get rich quick thing or a wealth and prosperity thing!
It is a life lived in faithfulness bringing results!! God still expects work to be done.
God had worked this way in their past!
Deut 8.4 says the same
Much of the time we think of God blessing by giving more.
Yet history has also shone that He can bless by making things last.
Cars that keep passing rego long after you expected, cloths that last, food that is satisfying even in smaller portions even bumper crops as we work the veggie garden.
Don’t place God in a box about how He has to bless.
That is never our place.
He is not a magic vending machine that we pay our dues to, and push the buttons to get what we want from Him!
God will bless in the future!
Not only will there be healing, but also abundance.
One aspect of the our future blessing is knowing that wickedness will not prevail!
verse 4.3
Conclusion: True worship is an expression to God from a good relationship with Him.
God loves us and that makes the relationship possible.
God is in favour of good relationships and supports them among His people.
God blesses those who seek a relationship with Him.
Without a personal, intimate relationship with God, life always declines in value.
This is true of nations, and it is true of individuals.
We saw in Malachi that the people of his day did not take God seriously and so the nation declined, until no one took the nation seriously.
So, “Don't think that God don't love you, 'cause He do!”
1.Can you identify expressions of God’s love in your life?
2.Is your relationship with Him so strong that you are looking forward to His return?
3.What does God’s blessing pouring into your life look like?
Can you express it?
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