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A Sermon by Dr. Bob Griffin, Teaching Elder at Sovereign Grace Church
I. FAILURE IN SEPARATION
A. SIN OF EXTREME SEPARATION
1. Basis of Unity
Mal 2:10a Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us?
(also Ps 102:18; Is 43:1; Eph 2:10)
2. Result of Disunity
Mal 2:10b Why then are we unfaithful to our brothers, [thereby] profaning the covenant of our fathers?
(also Ex 19:5-6)
3. Application to the Church
(also Rom 14:3; 16:17-18; II Thes 3:6, 14-15)
B. SIN OF INSUFFICIENT SEPARATION
1. Worldliness
Mal 2:11a Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem.
(also Lev. 18:3; Gen. 3:6-7; Matt 4:3-10; I Jn 2:15-17)
2. Carelessness
Mal. 2:11b For Judah has profaned the holiness of YHWH that He holds dear
(also Gen 2:20-25)
3. Foundation Crumbling
Mal 2:11c, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
(also Num 25; I Kings 11:1-10; 16:29-33)
4. Application to the Church
(also Romans 1:16; II Cor 6:14-18)
II. JUDGMENT FOR FAILURE
A. DOUBLE CURSE
1. Cursed for Sin against Brothers (re 2:10)
Mal 2:12a May YHWH cut off from the tents of Jacob [all the] descendants of the man who does this,
2. Cursed for Sin against Holiness of God (re 2:11)
Mal 2:12b who brings an offering to YHWH-Tsabaoth!
B. ADDED LEVEL OF CURSE
1. False Repentance
Mal 2:13a And this second thing you do. You cover YHWH’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning
2. Rejected
Mal 2:13b because He no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand.
Added notes:
ATTACKS on Brothers? the new Evangelicalism assault on Truth
1) Repudiating Separation
2) Avoiding doctrinal controversy
3) Exalting Love and Unity above Doctrine
4) Pragmatic Approach to the Ministry
5) Focus on errors of fundamentalism
6) Divide biblical truths into categories of “important” or “not important”
7) Weariness in fighting and desire for neutrality