Bible Talks from Malachi

The Day of the Lord concerns the return of Christ to judge the living and the dead. It is looked forward to by those who fear the Lord.

As God speaks again to his people to correct their crooked ways he deals with areas of their life that need to be straightened out. God’s desire is still to bless his people and the world through them, the question will be whether they’re willing to line their walk with their talk – or here in this passage, their wallets with their wants.

Everything we have belongs to God and He has first option on the first portion of every form of income. As a result to not give it for the kingdom of God becomes a form of robbing God.

God's people claimed that He took pleasure in evil and failed to act justly. God's response finds its fulfilment in the coming of John the Baptist and in the 1st and 2nd coming of Christ.

Breaking faith with God will result in breaking faith in our relationships especially in the covenant of marriage.

In the first 2 weeks of this series in Malachi we saw the love of God expressed in his faithfulness toward his people, and that if we understood this properly we would give God our very best. This week we see how God’s faithfulness to us expresses itself as we relate to one another. A faithful God expects his people to to be faithful to one another.

God has given us his best when he chose us before time and chose his Son to die for us. It is only right that we in turn give our best.

This week we begin looking at the Old Testament Prophet Malachi. Written to a hurting nation, this Word is delivered to a people who have not learnt their lesson. They’ve been hammered, but their hearts are hard as ever, and in these first 5 verses God will challenge their misconceptions and show that he is for them, even while they drag their feet and rebuild their broken city.

Malachi is God’s messenger bringing God’s last word to God’s chosen people before Jesus comes over 400 yrs later.
That word is “I love you because I chose you.”