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When Worship Degenerates Malachi Chapter 2

When Worship Degenerates Malachi Chapter 2. Malachi chapter 1 Love , Gratitude and Reverence are essential in worship. Malachi chapter 1 Love , Gratitude and Reverence are essential in worship We must not forget who God is if we are to love Him, be grateful to Him and revere Him.

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When Worship Degenerates Malachi Chapter 2

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  1. When Worship Degenerates Malachi Chapter 2

  2. Malachi chapter 1 • Love, Gratitude and Reverence are essential in worship

  3. Malachi chapter 1 • Love, Gratitude and Reverence are essential in worship • We must not forget who God is if we are to love Him, be grateful to Him and revere Him.

  4. Mal 1:6 6 "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?" says the Lord Almighty. "It is you, O priests, who show contempt for my name

  5. Malachi Chapter 2 Consequence of a broken covenant – Priests and people lose their blessings.

  6. Mal 2:1-8 2 "And now this admonition is for you, O priests. 2 If you do not listen, and if you do not set your heart to honor my name," says the Lord Almighty, "I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not set your heart to honor me.

  7. 3 "Because of you I will rebuke your descendants; I will spread on your faces the offal from your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off with it. 4 And you will know that I have sent you this admonition so that my covenant with Levi may continue," says the Lord Almighty.

  8. 5 "My covenant was with him, a covenant of life and peace, and I gave them to him; this called for reverence and he revered me and stood in awe of my name. 6 True instruction was in his mouth and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many from sin.

  9. 7 "For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge, and from his mouth men should seek instruction — because he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty. 8 But you have turned from the way and by your teaching have caused many to stumble; you have violated the covenant with Levi," says the Lord Almighty.

  10. When worship degenerates • Corruption of Instruction

  11. When worship degenerates • Corruption of Instruction • Breaking Faith

  12. Mal 2:10 10 Have we not all one Father? Did not one God create us? Why do we profane the covenant of our fathers by breaking faith with one another?

  13. James 5:12 12 Above all, my brothers, do not swear — not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. Let your "Yes" be yes, and your "No," no, or you will be condemned.

  14. When worship degenerates • Corruption of Instruction • Breaking Faith • Blatant Disobedience

  15. Deut 7:3-4 3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, 4 for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord's anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.

  16. When worship degenerates • Marital Unfaithfulness

  17. Mal 2:13-14  13 Another thing you do: You flood the Lord's altar with tears. You weep and wail because he no longer pays attention to your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands.

  18. 14 You ask, "Why?" It is because the Lord is acting as the witness between you and the wife of your youth, because you have broken faith with her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.15 Has not [the Lord] made them one? In flesh and spirit they are his. And why one? Because he was seeking godly offspring.

  19. When worship degenerates • Marital Unfaithfulness • Morality Inverted

  20. Mal 2:17 17 You have wearied the Lord with your words. "How have we wearied him?" you ask. By saying, "All who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord, and he is pleased with them" or "Where is the God of justice?"

  21. Purpose of admonition - Hope of a restored covenant

  22. 1 Peter 2:9-10 9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

  23. Conclusion • The pain we suffer is often the result of our disobedience

  24. Conclusion • The pain we suffer is often the result of our disobedience • God still loves His people; His discipline proves that He has not given up on us.

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