Malachi: Challenge to Corrupt Leadership
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A Sermon by Dr. Bob Griffin, Teaching Elder at Sovereign Grace Church
I. COMMAND
A. PRIESTS
Mal 2:1 “And now, O priests, this command is for you.
1. 420 BCE
2. AD 2014 (I Pet 2:5,9)
3. Every Year
B. PLEA
Mal 2:2a If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to My Name, says YHWH-Tsabaoth,
1. Execution (Ps 119:11; Jas 1:22)
2. Illustration
II. CONSEQUENCES
A. PROCLAMATION
Mal 2:2b then I will send the curse upon you and I will turn your blessings into a curse. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you don’t take it to heart.
1. Curse Coming (Rom 3:23; 6:23; 5:12)
2. Curse from Blessings
3. Curse Here (Jn 3:36)
B. PRONOUNCEMENT
Mal 2:3 Behold, I will rebuke your children, and spread the manure of your offerings on your faces, and you shall be taken away along with it.
1. Rebuke
2. Reproach
3. Remove (John 15:6)
III. CONDEMNATION
A. POLLUTION
Mal 2:8 But you have turned aside from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says YHWH-Tsabaoth,
1. Turned (Deut 33:9-10; Hag 2:11; II Chron 15:3)
2. Tripped
3. Tainted
B. PROHIBITION
Mal 2:9 “and inasmuch as you do not keep My ways but were unfair in your teaching, so I make you despised and abased before all the people.”
1. Disobedience (II Pet 2:4-6,9; 3:9)
2. Distorting (Titus 1:5-9)
3. Despised
4. Disgraced