Malachi : A Message For the Madness

1. Malachi:A Message For the Madness

2. Love • Names • Bread • Me • Snuff • Priests • Marriage • Words • Fair • Stealing M a d A b o u t: Malachi:A Message For The Madness

3. Malachi:A Message For The Madness “Mad About Repentance”

6. Communicates - Restores - Initiates - Changes Not OUR GOD:

7. Malachi:A Message For The Madness “Mad About Repentance”

8. What is it? - Why do I need it? - How do I get it? Repentance:

9. Repentance: - What is it? -

11. Repentance: • A simultaneousturning from something, to something else. - What is it? -

12. “Turn” or “Return”: • A simultaneousturning from something, to something else. Over 1100 times in O.T.!

13. Matthew 21:28-29 – “But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.”

14. Exodus 13:17 – “And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt”

15. Repentance: • Mind • Attitude • Direction • Action • etc… - What is it? - CHANGE

16. Genesis 6:6 – “And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.”

17. Exodus 32:14 – “And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.” • Judges 2:18 – “And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.”

18. Care We see GOD’s:

19. Repentance: • Mind • Attitude • Direction • Action • etc… - What is it? - CHANGE

20. Care - Character We see GOD’s:

21. Numbers 23:19 – “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”

22. Hebrews 13:8 – “Jesus Christ the sameyesterday, and to day, andfor ever.”

23. James 1:17 – “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with Whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”

24. Care - Character - Consistency We see GOD’s:

25. Psalms 110:4 – “The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.”

26. Psalms 132:11 – “The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; He will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.”

27. Jeremiah 4:28 – “For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.”

28. Care - Character - Consistency - Compelling We see GOD’s:

30. Ezekiel 33:11 – “Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?”

31. Care - Character - Consistency - Compelling We see GOD’s:

32. 2nd Peter 3:9 – “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”

33. Repentance: • A simultaneousturning from something, to something else. - What is it? - CHANGE

34. Repentance: - Why do I need it? -

35. Repentance opens the door to blessing, restorationandprovision. Repentance: - Why do I need it ? -

36. We see GOD’s: Goings -

37. Jeremiah 26:3 – “If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.”

38. Jeremiah 26:13 – “Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.”

39. Jeremiah 26:19 – “Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.”

40. Repentance opens the door to blessing, restorationandprovision. Repentance: - Why do I need it ? -

41. Joel 2:13 – “And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.”

42. 2nd Chronicles 7:14 – “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land”.

43. James 4:8 – “Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.”

44. Repentance opens the door to blessing, restorationandprovision. Repentance: - Why do I need it ? -

45. Goings - Goodness - We see GOD’s:

46. Romans 2:4 – “Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?”

47. Isaiah 55:6-7 – “Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.”

48. Repentance opens the door to blessing, restorationandprovision. Repentance: - Why do I need it ? -

49. We see GOD’s: Goings - Goodness - Godliness -

50. Repentance opens the door to blessing, restorationandprovision. Repentance: - Why do I need it ? -