God Asks, Where Is My Honor?
Minister: |
Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: |
7/8/2012 PM
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Text:
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Malachi 1:6-14
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Psalters: |
188, 290, 291, 81 |
- The sin.
- Judah?s apathy and indifference toward God and His worship consists of their not giving God the due ?honor.?
- ?Honor? is the abundant and loving reverence for God, the zeal for Him, the living service of a life dedicated to Him.
- Instead they had a grievously poor attitude toward God: but cold, pathetic indifference (7, 8, 13).
- The ugliness and seriousness of their attitude is seen in the example of children to fathers and of slaves to masters (6).
- Children are to honor their parents (Ex. 20:12) and servants are to fear their masters (I Peter 2:18).
- God is a Father and a Master ? honor and godly gratitude is rightly owed to Him.
- The seriousness of this sin.
- The seriousness is found in the names God gives to Himself: Father and Jehovah of hosts (6).
- Our text implies that God is our Father and He is ?Jehovah of hosts.?
- As Father and as Jehovah of hosts, God is to be honored.
- Instead Judah ?profaned,? i.e., violated the honor by polluting it, treating God?s name as if it were common.
- They did the activity of worship but without their hearts being involved (7,12-14).
- Their indifference to the proper way of sacrifices indicated indifference to God?s promised salvation in His Lamb.
- Public worship and living a life as God?s friend was a weariness to them, so they cynically asked how they despised God?s name (6b) and snuffed at it (13).
- The application.
- Have you ever thought worship to be wearying?
- Do you find it a burden to do what God commands you to do and may not do what you want to do?
- The living, true God reigns with majesty and He is worthy of all honor and glory.
- Is the truth of God?s grace in Christ so earth-shaking that it demands your all? Do you give Him honor?