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Pastoral Prayer
Good morning thank you all for joining us this morning, in person and online.
I am Pastor Kyle and I don’t know about you but I am thankful for the country we live in.
What a great nation we are blessed to be in.
That God has given us the freedoms that we have.
But today is not about our nation today is about our God who is over all of creation.
Let us go to him in prayer.
Praises: Conversations, Volleyball Night, Camp Cocollala (5 students leading)(show of hands of who is attending) Scholarships.
Needs Chris and Becca, Barb, Ben, and Katie Kendrick
Introduction
Exegetical Summary
When God’s Priests profane the worship of God, God’s people follow.
God calls for the priests to seek his face and repent of the sin in their hearts, because this type of worship is a nuisance, but God will be Worshiped by others.
Last week we started a sermon series that I am calling “Reality Check”.
The Series is in the book of Malachi and the idea is that we all have a perception of the world around us.
Our perception of the world around us is based on the truth or facts that we are aware of and based on those facts we interpret the world around us and this becomes our reality.
We discussed three things that effect our perception of reality:
We don’t have all of the facts.
This actually happened last weekend.
It was just a communication breakdown but there were different realities going on.
We get our facts from the wrong places.
We just have bad information.
Who here has ever had bad information.
Me and the kids with onfo.
We sometimes just ignore the facts that we have.
Mountain Dew and health.
But all of these influence how we see the world around us and how we tackle problems and challenges.
There is much to discuss in the world around us but we have to have a correct view of what is going on to make any headway on those conversations.
So we are taking a summer break to make sure we are looking at the world through the correct filters and see the world clearly.
The prophet Malachi started his oracle with a call to remember God’s love for Isreal.
If you were not here last week this is the during the end of the OT right before the 400 years of silence between the OT and NT.
God is calling out the Israelites one last time.
We know from the NT that they did not heed these words correctly and would end up developing into Pharisees and Sadusees.
Malachi started with God calling them to remember his love for them, that he chose them in his sovereignty not because they were worthy, but because he wanted to.
He started chapter 1 with God saying “I have loved you” The priests would have agreed with him but God was laying down the foundation of the rebuke that was coming in the next section.
So far God has not specifically called them out on anything but that is going to shift in today's section of scriptures.
Let us pray and then we will open the Word of God.
Pray
Stand with me as we read Malachi Chapter 1 verses 1-14.
I am going to encourage you to bring bible.
If you don’t have one let me know and I will get you one.
You can also grab one of the sanctuary bibles in the back if you forget yours.
Malachi 1:1–14 (CSB)
1 A pronouncement:
The word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi.
2 “I have loved you,” says the Lord.
Yet you ask, “How have you loved us?”
“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
“Even so, I loved Jacob, 3 but I hated Esau.
I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
4 Though Edom says, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of Armies says this: “They may build, but I will demolish.
They will be called a wicked country and the people the Lord has cursed forever.
5 Your own eyes will see this, and you yourselves will say, ‘The Lord is great, even beyond the borders of Israel.’
6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master.
But if I am a father, where is my honor?
And if I am a master, where is your fear of me? says the Lord of Armies to you priests, who despise my name.”
Yet you ask, “How have we despised your name?”
7 “By presenting defiled food on my altar.”
“How have we defiled you?” you ask.
When you say, “The Lord’s table is contemptible.”
8 “When you present a blind animal for sacrifice, is it not wrong?
And when you present a lame or sick animal, is it not wrong?
Bring it to your governor!
Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the Lord of Armies.
9 “And now plead for God’s favor.
Will he be gracious to us?
Since this has come from your hands, will he show any of you favor?” asks the Lord of Armies.
10 “I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle a useless fire on my altar!
I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of Armies, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.
11 “My name will be great among the nations, from the rising of the sun to its setting.
Incense and pure offerings will be presented in my name in every place because my name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord of Armies.
12 “But you are profaning it when you say, ‘The Lord’s table is defiled, and its product, its food, is contemptible.’
13 You also say, ‘Look, what a nuisance!’
And you scorn it,” says the Lord of Armies.
“You bring stolen, lame, or sick animals.
You bring this as an offering!
Am I to accept that from your hands?” asks the Lord.
14 “The deceiver is cursed who has an acceptable male in his flock and makes a vow but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord.
For I am a great King,” says the Lord of Armies, “and my name will be feared among the nations.
Effect of Profane Worship
Today we are going to be in verses 6-14.
Malachi is addressing the priests of Isreal.
If you remember the priests were from the line of Aaron.
The method of worship was the sacrifices that God laid out in the law and any other offering that people would bring to the alter and give to God.
There were many different types of offerings that had specific purposes.
They would bring animals and crops to the place of worship.
The place of worship was the tabernacle and then the temple.
The priests were set apart as mediators of worship between the people and God.
They had a very important role in the community of Isreal.
He is addressing them in this section.
This section starts like the last section.
God makes a statement that the priests would agree with He states:
Malachi 1:6 (CSB)
6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master.
But if I am a father, where is my honor?
They have no issue with this statement.
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