Our Text:
Malachi 3:1-7 ““Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. 2 But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap. 3 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord. Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years. 5 “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.6 “For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. 7 From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, ‘How shall we return?’ “
Remember What Jesus Did! “A NEW Covenant in my blood for the forgiveness of sins” - Matthew 26:28.”
“I have come that they might have LIFE and LIFE to the FULL” - John 10:10
The Invitation:
“Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, ‘How shall we return?’”
POINT: That “return to Me” is what we call “
REMEMBER: Well, BEFORE there can be any “action” on YOUR part there must be “
Q: How do you know what God desires?
A:
“Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of Christ”- Romans 10:17
Remember: God “doesn’t deal with us as our sins deserve” - Psalm 103:9
Q: How do you receive that gift?
A: By
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