Homiletics Study: Exile & Return
Lesson 28 Passage: Malachi 1-4
Content (List of Topics or Events)
Today: Love Defiled – Priest Profane and Judah Unfaithful (Malachi 1-2) 1. Lord’s love declared (1:1-2) 2. Lord’s love for Jacob described (1:3-5) 3. Lord questions people’s honor and respect (1:6) 4. Priest’s unacceptable offerings; contemptible sacrifices brought to Lord’s table (1:7-14a) a. Bringing imperfect offerings; would Lord be pleased and accept you? b. Plead for grace for unacceptable offerings? c. Pure offerings required; Lord’s name great among nations d. Lord’s table defiled, contemptible; cheating with blemished offerings e.Lord is a great king to be feared 5. Warning to Priests of rebuke so covenant will continue with true instruction; nothing false (2:1-6) 6. Priests ought to preserve knowledge of law as messenger; teaching caused stumbling. Profaning covenant by being unfaithful (2:7-10) 7. Judah has been unfaithful by marrying women who worship foreign gods and unfaithfulness to wife (2:11-16) 8.Weary God by doing evil in God’s eyes (2:17) | A Day is Coming; Call to Listen and Return (Malachi 3:1-16) 1. Messenger of covenant will prepare the way before the Lord you are seeking (3:1) 2. A refiner’s fire and purifier being acceptable offering before the Lord (3:2-4) 3. On trial testifying against sorcerers, adulterers, perjurers, those that defraud, oppress widows and orphans, deprive foreigners of justice but do not fear the Lord (3:5) 4. Consistent to descendants of Jacob requesting “return to me and I’ll return to you” (3:6-7) 5. Return by not robbing God; bring whole tithe and floodgates will be open and blessed (3:8-12) 6. Arrogant talk against Lord and ask about what you gain by carrying out the Lord’s requirements (3:13-15) 7. Those who fear the Lord, shared and Lord listened and heard and names entered on scroll of remembrance (3:16) | On That Day: Healing or Judgment (Malachi 3:17-4:6) 1. On that day those who fear Lord will be a treasured possession and, with compassion spare them (3:17-18) 2. The day coming will burn like furnace; set arrogant and evil on fire destroying them (4:1) 3. Those who revere Lord’s name the sun will rise heal and be glad (4:2) 4. You’ll trample on the wicked when the Lord acts (4:3) 5. Remember the Law given through Moses, the decrees and laws given (4:4) 6. Prophet Elijah will be sent before that great and dreadful day (4:5) 7. Hearts will be turned parents to children and children to parents or Lord comes to strike land with total destruction (4:6) |
Divisions (Main Blocks of Thought)
Today: Love Defiled – Priest Profane and Judah Unfaithful | Malachi 1-2 |
A Day is Coming; Call to Listen and Return | Malachi 3:1-16 |
On That Day: Healing or Judgment | Malachi 3:17-4:6 |
Subject Sentence (Summarizes the contents of the Divisions – No more than 10 words)
Malachi questions challenging unfaithful telling of Defining and Refining Day |
Aim (Main Teaching Point of the Passage)
CTATL that God loves His people and requires our best; the Lord is coming unfaithful will be judged and righteous will rise |
Application Questions
How are you giving your best and honoring God with your finest? |
Where are you faithfully speaking out for the Lord? If not, why not? |
If what ways do yourself as God’s treasured possession? |
Principles to Remember
God is deserving of honor and praise |
If we return to Him; He will return to us. |
The Day of the Lord is Coming |
Characteristic of God
Faithful to His Covenant |
Theme
God’s call to faithfulness to Him and His kingdom, and covenant commitments to our wife. A day is coming |
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