Sunday Notes: Malachi 2:17-3:5
- (Mal 2:17 ESV) You have __________ the LORD with your words. But you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of __________?”
- Offense 1: Weary – __________, made tired, worn out
- What is going on in Israel is a blatant disregard for __________ law
- This whole thing is upside down
- Instead of straightening out the problem
- They __________ it with kind words
- They make you feel better about your __________.
- This mindset destroys our grasp of the holiness of God – He is perfectly __________ forever in __________ ways.
- Offense 2: Where is the God of justice?
- The wages of sin is __________
- What we really want is __________, not justice
- (Mal 3:1 ESV) “Behold, I send my __________, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the __________ in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the __________ of hosts.
- __________ the __________
- Matthew 11:10-15, Mark 1:1-8
- And he will __________ the way before me
- Which was exactly the mission of JTB
- To call the lost sheep of __________ back
- To repentance
- To come back to the covenant.
- The __________ is promised here following JTB
- (Mal 3:2 ESV) But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he __________? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ __________.
- No one can stand before the Lord
- None of our efforts, earnest as they might be can stand before a perfect, holy God
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- This is why we need a __________, a redeemer
- (Mal 3:3 ESV) He will sit as a __________ and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the LORD.
- __________ will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver
- This is a restoration of how it should have been
- 1 Peter 2:4-10, Revelation 1:5-6
- His people are the __________
- (Mal 3:4 ESV) Then the offering of __________ and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in the days of old and as in former __________.
- (Mal 3:5 ESV) “Then I will draw near to you for __________. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the __________, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
- Judgment indeed on the sins of __________ – swifty, wasting no __________.
- Matthew 5:27-32, Matthew 5:33-37
- Let us then honor the __________
- Honor Him in __________
- Honor __________ in action
- __________ Him with our lives
