Malachi 3:7-8: “Promise of Pardon”

Malachi 3:7-8: “Promise of Pardon”

Malachi: Promise of Pardon

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A Sermon by Dr. Bob Griffin, Teaching Elder at Sovereign Grace Church

I. REPENTANCE
A. REBELLION
Mal 3:7a “From the days of your fathers you have rebelled against My statutes”
1. POSITION (Eph 5:25-27; Ex 34:6-7)
2. PRECEDENT (Ex 14:10-13; 16:2-3 ; Ex 17:1-3 Num 11:1ff)

B. REJECTION
Mal 3:7b “and haven’t kept them.”
1. POINT (James 1:14-15; Prov 28:13)
2. PARALLEL (Ex 32:1-4; Num 16:12-14, 28; 12:1)

C. RETURN
Mal 3:7c “Return to Me,
1. PLEA (Mt 3:8; Lk 5:32; 15:7; 24:47; Acts 11:18; 20:21 Rom 2:4;  II Cor 7:10; II Tim 2:25; Zech 1: 1-5; James 4:6-10)
2. PERSONAL (Ex 32:26; Is 29:1-2; Rom 6:23)

D. RESPONSE
Mal 3:7d “and I will return to you,” says YHWH-Tsabaoth.
1. PROMISE (II Pet 3:9; Hos 11:3-4, 7-9)
2. PRODIGAL (Luke 15; 19:10)

II. RESULT
A. REASONING
Mal 3:7e But you ask, ‘In what way should we return?’
1. PERPLEXED (Is 53:6)
2. PIVOT (John 4)

B. REACTION
Mal 3:8a “Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me.”
1. PROOF
2. PARADIGM (Ps 24:1)

C. REPLY
Mal 3:8b But you question, ‘How have we robbed You?’ In your tithes and contributions!
1. PRETENSE
2. PLAN Deut 14:22-29; Lev 5:14-16; 22:14; 27:31-32; Gen 14:18-20; 28:22)

D. RECKONING
Mal 3:9 “You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you.”
1. PENALTY
2. PRINCIPLE