I'm going to ask you to take
your Bibles and turn with me to the book of Malachi. Malachi,
the last book of the Old Testament. As we've been going through these
judges and then the prophets, I've tried to take each of the
prophets and obviously not being able to deal with every verse. And I won't, I know, with the
book of Malachi either, but I've tried to preach each of the prophets
in one message. The book of Malachi, I'm going
to try to preach this book, but as I was preparing my notes,
it just worked out to four messages. And so I'll try to preach this
book over the next few Wednesdays. We've come to the last word from
God to the nation of Israel before the coming of the Lord Jesus
Christ. And they didn't know. There were
prophets that overlapped. There were prophets that prophesied
and overlapped each ministry. And they had no idea that this
was going to be the last word from God for about 400 years. God was not going to speak. And
in these last words from the Lord, gives great assurance to his
people and a great warning to the false prophets. So before
we begin this evening, let's ask our Lord's blessing, then
we'll start. Our Father, as we come tonight,
we thank you for this blessed time to hear your Word. Oh, the glorious privilege to
hear the gospel of God's grace. Lord, we know that faith cometh
by hearing. And I pray this evening, Lord,
have mercy. Lord, if you will, you save sinners. I ask you tonight, Lord, would
you bless the Word. Oh, would you bring forth fruit
unto salvation. Lord, we knock and ask and seek
for Christ's sake. Amen. Over 2,000 years ago, God sent this prophet Malachi. And the Scripture I know was
born to Israel, the natural Israel in particular. I understand that. But this book was written for
the comfort and the assurance of the spiritual Israel. God's
Israel. And this Word is alive tonight. This is a Word to us. It's not
history. This is alive. This is real. This is God's Word for us tonight. One of the last services, Lord
willing, that we'll have in this year, 2013. Just a service or
two more. But this is God's Word, and I
pray that the Lord is pleased to bless it. The burden of the
Word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. The utterance of God to God's
people, to God's Israel, to God's elect, declaring His distinguishing
grace. Now listen, He starts off, and
as I said a moment ago, they didn't know. They did not know
that this was going to be the last word for almost 400 years. Now you think about it. 400 years they would not hear from
God. And oh, the wisdom! The mercy
of Almighty God to leave His people with this word. Verse 2, I have loved you, saith
the Lord. I have loved you, saith the Lord. What more could He say? When the years would begin to
roll on and on and on and on, God doesn't send a prophet. He doesn't send a prophet. He
doesn't send a prophet. But this was the last thing He
told me. I've loved you. I've loved you. Even you, wayward
Jacobs, I have loved you, yet ye say wherein hast thou loved
us? Or in what way, Lord? How And our Lord in tender mercy
answers, I've loved you according to my distinguishing grace. I've loved you because I chose
to show mercy to you, compassion to you. It was not Esau, Jacob's
brother, saith the Lord. It wasn't Esau, Jacob's older
brother. Yet I love Jacob. And I hated
Esau and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons
of the wilderness. I laid his mountains, his state
of reprobation. I chose to leave Esau to himself. God has the right to do that. If God Almighty chooses to leave
a man alone, this is the state of reprobation. This is a reprobate. One that God has left alone.
That's a reprobate. You've got elect unto salvation,
you've got reprobates. That's only two kinds of people
that's ever been born in this world. One is an object of mercy
and one is a The object of God's wrath. Does God have the right
to do that? God loves according to His good
pleasure. I have left Esau. I hated Esau. I laid his mountains. That mountain wherein he trusted
the law. I was deserving. This is mine
by law, by right. God Almighty shows mercy to whomsoever
He will. Romans 9, 15, 16. Hold your place
right there. Romans 9, 15 and 16. Wherein
have you loved us, Lord? Wherein I have loved you, saith
the Lord. How have you loved? Wherein have
you loved us? Here, Romans 9, 15-16, he saith
to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. I will
have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is
not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God
that showeth mercy. How have you loved us? I have
loved you according to my distinguishing grace. I chose. to show mercy
to you. He blesses the Jacob's of this
world and causes the Esau's to come to nothing. Look at verse
4. Whereas Edom, that Edom was the
country inhabited by Esau. So you'll understand what Edom
was. Whereas Edom saith, we are impoverished, but we will return. and build the desolate places,
thus saith the Lord of Hosts. They shall build, but I shall
throw down. They shall call them the border
of wickedness, and the people against whom the Lord hath indignation
forever." Esau is of this world. I read that right here. Here's
a free will act of so-called repentance. We are impoverished. We are demolished. Man by nature
has no problem convincing other men. You need to repent. You need to get things right.
You need to come back to the Lord. You need to walk down the
aisle. You need to be baptized. You
need to have the Lord's Supper. You need to turn over a new leaf.
You need to rededicate. Man has no problem convincing
men to do something because you're a sinner. They read that in the
Bible. But here's their attitude. We
are impoverished. We are demolished. We do need
to turn over a new leaf. But we will return. We'll build
the desolate places. The Lord says, you'll build them,
I'll tear them down. Almighty God has mercy on whomsoever
He will. Is there unrighteousness with
God? God forbid. God forbid. And then from verse
6, through verse 15 of chapter 3. And I'm not going to deal with
all those verses tonight. But in those verses right there,
Almighty God, by and large, is going to be talking to the false
prophets. He will talk to His people in
those verses, and I want to deal with a few of them tonight, because
like I said, I plan to preach four messages out of this book.
But Almighty God is going to talk to these false prophets
And he's going to set forth his displeasure with them. This book
is alive tonight. If you want to know what God's
attitude is toward false preachers, listen to what God has to say.
400 years. He's not going to speak. And
this is the last word from God until the Lord Jesus Christ comes.
Well, until John the Baptist comes in the announcement of
the Lord Jesus Christ. 400 years. What does God have
to say? Well, He says to His people,
I've loved you. I've always loved you. I've loved
you with distinguishing grace. I've loved the Jacobs. I hate
Esau's. Here's what the Lord has to say.
Verse 6, a son, and he's talking to false prophets. Verse 6-8,
a son honoreth his father, and a servant his master. If I then
be a father, where is mine honor? And if I be a master, where is
my fear, saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priest that despise
my name? And ye say, wherein have we despised
thy name? You offer polluted bread upon
mine altar, and you say, wherein have we polluted thee? In that
you say, the table of the Lord is contemptible. And if you offer
the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? If you offer the lame
and sick, is it not evil? Offer it now unto thy governor.
Will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person, saith the
Lord of hosts? Now, I know for the sake of time,
we can't deal with every verse, but let's look at a few of these. To you false prophets, to my
people, this is my word to you, I love you. I've always loved
you. To you false prophets, you set
forth that which is dishonorable. You're setting forth And you've
despised my name." That's part of verse 6. Wherein have we despised
thy name? He said, you've offered polluted
bread. You've offered a sacrifice. This
is not referring to the show bread. It's offering to the sacrifice. You offer a sacrifice that's
polluted. They say, wherein have we polluted
it? In that you say the table of
the Lord is contemptible. It's worthy to be rejected. It's not worthy of consideration. So you'll understand what he's
saying in this. When we preach the gospel of
God's free grace, we preach Christ. We preach the honor of the Lord
Jesus Christ. We set forth Him. We glorify
Him. We magnify Him as the fulfillment
of all that was in the law. Man by nature hears the glorious
gospel of free grace. They say that's contemptible.
That's not worthy to be considered. That's not worthy to be heard. There should be, there ought
to be a respect for God's sovereignty. When men say God, we worship
God. Just the very fact that they're
saying that, there ought to be, just in the acknowledgement of
God Almighty, the One that they say made all things, upholds
all things, sovereign in creation, sovereign in providence, and
not sovereign in salvation? Where is He limited? He said
you've polluted, The sacrifice. How have we polluted? Verse 8,
you offer the blind for sacrifice. Is that not evil? You offer the
lame, you're sick. When men preach today, when false
prophets stand in pulpits today, what kind of little G God are
they setting forth? I'll tell you what they're setting
forth. One that's sick and lame. and blind. One that can't help
himself. One that needs your arms and
your legs. One that needs your will. One
that needs your help. He said, you're setting forth
pollution. You're polluting. You're setting
forth a polluted sacrifice. I want you to notice, If you
have a margin, and my margin says in verse 7, you offer polluted
bread. There's a reference there to
Ezra 2, verse 62, and Nehemiah 7, verse 64. And they both say
the same thing, so I'm just going to read one of them. Ezra 2.62
says this. This is the reference. He says,
when you offer polluted bread, I'll read this to you. Ezra 2.62.
These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy,
but they were not found. Therefore were they as polluted
put from the priesthood." Now, what is he saying? He said, you
priests that are offering a sacrifice that is contemptible, Not worthy,
you say, not worthy to be considered. You say that this that I set
forth is not worthy to be heard, not worthy to be honored. You
are the priest whose heritage can't be found. A lineage was
kept of the order of the priesthood. And whenever they went back and
started looking for proof of these priests, those that could
not find their heritage to be justified were kicked out because
they were polluted priests. You priests that are setting
forth a polluted sacrifice, you're the polluted ones. You're the
ones that have no heritage. And you're standing in a place
that is to be honorable concerning the Lord Jesus Christ because
you're a picture of Christ. That's the place of the priest.
When that priest went in and offered that sacrifice, that
priest was a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. And you have no
heritage. You cannot show yourself to be
one sent from Me. You are the polluted one setting
forth a polluted sacrifice. The sacrifice that you're setting
forth, it wasn't the best. You took the blind and the lame
and the halt. Again, setting a slight upon
the Lord Jesus Christ, saying that He Himself is impotent. Men that stand in pulpits today,
and declare a weak and impotent God. I'm telling you, they are
a blight. They are a blight. Don't hear them. When Almighty God is not set
forth as sovereign, we dishonor Him. Men that stand in pulpits
disrespect Him, and the people that hear Him have no respect
for Him either. You're setting forth polluted
bread. Polluted bread in that your actions
say that the Lord is not worthy to be considered. You're saying
that the table of the Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, is
to be disesteemed. And it's the same thing today. He's not worthy to be heard. A polluted sacrifice. An impotent
sacrifice. An impotent gospel. An impotent Jesus. And if I did not mean one that
was not worthy to be heard, I would have never referred to Him that
way. We refer to Him as the Lord Jesus.
The Lord Jesus Christ. Men stand up and they use that
name. And they have no right to refer
to Him that way. They set forth one that is not
worthy to be considered. They do set forth one that is
not worthy to be considered. Because the one they set forth
is powerless. And Almighty God reprimanded
these false prophets for it. You offer blind, lame, sick,
that which is sickly, impotent. saying that the Lord Himself
cannot be God without your help. Letter part of verse 10. Verse
10. Who is there even among you that
would shut the doors for naught? Neither do you kindle fire on
mine altar for naught. I have no pleasure in you, saith
the Lord of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your
hand. Let me ask you this. When He
said, except an offering at your hand. Do you think God Almighty
blesses a false gospel? To the salvation of a sinner,
will God bless a lie? No, sir. I will without reservation
declare There is no message that is blessed to the salvation of
God's elect except the message of sovereign grace. Sovereign
saving. Sovereign electing. Sovereign
redeeming. Sovereign quickening grace. Particular redemption. Christ
died only for His elect. That's the only message that
declares not one thing that He did. was not for his purpose. Salvation of sinners everlastingly
loved in Christ. To say that he died to make salvation
possible is to say that he's sick, lame, blind, can't get
the job done. There will be some with that
message, they say, that will be in hell that Christ died for.
And God does not bless it. I've heard people say, well,
I was converted under Arminianism. I was converted under free will
preaching. No, you weren't. No, you weren't. I wasn't either. Almighty God
is God. He blesses one message. The Lord
rebukes these false preachers and declares that there shall
be A faithful following after Him in spite of them. Look at
chapter 1 verse 11. For from the rising of the sun
even unto the going down of the sun, my name shall be great among
the Gentiles. And in every place incense shall
be offered unto My name, and a pure offering. For My name
shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts." Almighty
God is going to save His people. He shall bless His name. He shall
honor His Son. He shall call out His elect.
This is the encouragement that I have in preaching the gospel. A false gospel has no promise
to it. It has no promise in God's Word
to be effectual. None. Men are appealing, Carl, to dead
sinners. They're appealing to dead people.
There is no promise in it. This is the only message, Mitch,
that I know God's going to bless. And this is the encouragement
that I have. That I can, with absolute assuredness
and boldness, I know, I know God's going to bless this message.
I know that His Word is not going to return void. I know that whatever
God Almighty wants to do tonight, He's going to do. I know that. There is going to be salvation. My name is going to be honored.
But these false prophets, they had no heart for the work. They
had no heart for the work. I'm telling you, a false prophet,
a false preacher, and I have stood, I know what I'm talking
about. I have stood in a pulpit. I was
preaching before God ever called me out of darkness. And I'm telling
you it is nothing but arrogance and pride. And it's all about
me. And it's trying to impress you
with how much I know. And I'm trying to appeal to your
emotion. And I'm thinking if we can sing
just as I am enough times, long enough, finally somebody will
come down and do something. No heart for the glory of God.
The Lord rebukes. Almighty God is going to save
His people. Look at verse 12 to verse 14. But you've profaned it. You've
abused my worship with irreverence. Make statement after statement
after statement. Irreverence. Men assemble themselves
together in a place they call a place of worship. And it's
nothing but just entertainment and music and on and on and on. Irreverence, irreverence, irreverence. The gospel is not the issue. You've abused, you've profaned,
he said. In that you say the table of
the Lord is polluted. and the fruit thereof, his meat
is contemptible. Ye say it also, behold, what
a weariness is it." I looked that up. He said, you're saying
that my worship is weariness. Here it is. To be tired or bored
because of monotony. You've said that my worship is
a weariness to you. I've had people say that about
me. Clay Curtis told me one time, somebody told him, you need to
get some more material. He said, you just preach the
same thing over and over and over. Is there anything else
that you have to preach? No. No. that this is weariness. Behold what a weariness is it. And you've snuffed at it. You've
sighed with disgust. I just want to go somewhere where
I can hear something that will tickle my ears. You snuffed at
it, saith the Lord of Hosts, and you brought that which was
torn and lame and sick. You brought an offering. Should
I accept this of your hand, saith the Lord? But cursed be the deceiver
which hath in his flock a male, and voweth and sacrifices unto
the Lord a corrupt thing. For I am a great king, saith
the Lord of Hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen." continues his rebuke of false
preachers in chapter 2. You know, I know that one might
say, boy, I tell you what, you kind of wear it out, don't you,
on false preachers in this world? Do you know what I'm doing? I'm
repeating what God has to say. And what the Lord has to say
is the only thing that we have to say. Chapter 2, verses 1 to
3, And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. If ye will not hear, If you will
not lay it to heart to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord
of Hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your
blessings, yea, I have cursed them already, because you do
not lay it to heart. Behold, I will corrupt your seed
and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn
feast. and one shall take you away with
it." I'm going to send a curse upon you. Hold your place right
there and turn to 2 Thessalonians 2.9. 2 Thessalonians 2.9. When Almighty God says, I'm going
to send a curse upon you, what is that? 2 Thessalonians 2.9-12. Even him, 2 Thessalonians 2,
9, even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan, with
all power and signs and lying wonders, with all deceivableness
of unrighteousness in them that perish because, here's the reason,
here's the reason, I'm going to curse you, because they received
not the love of the truth that they might be saved. And for
this cause, for this cause, because they would not hear. Here's the curse that's promised
back in Malachi 2, verse 11, 2 Thessalonians 2.11, for this
cause, God will send them strong delusion that they should believe
a lie. That they all might be damned
who believe not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. Listen to me. If you will not hear, I promise
you, you will not hear. If you don't want to hear, God
will give you just exactly what you want. The only reason that
anybody in this building tonight and anybody else in this world
that God has ever called out of darkness, the only reason
they don't think just like this is because God Almighty chose
to show mercy and would not leave them to themselves. The only
reason that I would believe this or you would believe this is
because God chose to have compassion and would not let you perish.
If He would have left you or me to ourselves, we would not
hear. And Almighty God, for the sake
of His everlasting covenant of grace, will take a Jacob that
believes by nature the same thing that an Esau believes. And the
only reason that that Jacob believes God is because God chose to show
mercy to him and gave him a new heart and made him willing in
the day of God's power and called him out of darkness. And that
rebel against God believed God because God gave him faith. That's
the only difference. We have nothing to glory in save
Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I will curse, back in Malachi
2, I will curse your blessing. That is, I'll take what should
have been a blessing to you, and I'm going to make it a curse.
I'm going to curse your blessing." Now, here's what he's saying.
You take two people sitting in this congregation tonight, sitting next to each other, sitting
one here, one here. Two people. One of them hears
and one of them doesn't. One of them hears by the grace
of God, doesn't hear because God left him to himself to do
whatever he wanted to do. But he says, I'm going to curse
your blessing. Listen, that one that believes
not hears just exactly what I'm saying, just like the other one
does. And here we are tonight, by the grace of God, hearing
the gospel of God's grace, hearing what God has to say. hearing
what the Lord has to say. This is the blessing. I'm going
to take what should have been a blessing to you, and I'm going
to make it a curse. Hold your place and turn to Psalm
69-22. Psalm 69-22. I'm going to take what should
have been a blessing, the hearing of the gospel, Psalm 69, 22. Let their table
become a snare before them, and that which should have been for
their welfare, let it become a trap. Let it be that which
should have been a blessing to them. Look at Romans 3. Romans
3, 1-2. Romans 3. Verses 1 and 2. I'm going to
curse your blessing. If God leaves a man to himself,
God is just. If God Almighty sends the gospel,
if you hear the gospel, and God leaves you to yourself, and you
perish, it was your fault. Romans 3, 1 and 2. What advantage
then hath the Jew of what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way, chiefly because
that unto them was committed the oracles of God. For what
if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the
faith of God without effect? God forbid. Yea, let God be true. Every man a liar, as it is written.
that thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest
overcome when thou art judged." Almighty God does, which is right. Look at Romans 11. Romans 11,
9 and 10. Romans 11, 9 and 10. I'm going
to curse your blessing. Romans 11, 9 and 10. David saith, It's what we just read back in
Psalm. Let their table be a snare and a trap and a stumbling block
and a recompense unto them. Let their eyes be darkened that
they may not see. And bow down their back. Always. False preachers stand
with a Bible in their hand. They read it. They don't believe
it. And that which should have been
a blessing to them is going to be a curse. But in the day of reckoning,
God Almighty has set forth, you're going to know that that salvation
that was given to my people was all of grace in Christ. Back
in Malachi, as we wrap this up, chapter 2, verses 4 to 6, you shall know. Malachi 2, 4,
you shall know. that I've sent this commandment
unto you that My covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord
of hosts." He's talking to these false preachers, these false
prophets that set themselves up that had no proof of their
lineage, no proof of being in the priesthood according to God's
Word. You're going to know that My
covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord. My covenant was
with him, a picture of Christ. Life and peace I gave them to
Him for the fear wherewith He feared me and was afraid before
my name. The law of truth was in His mouth. and iniquity was not found in
his lips. He walked with me in peace and
equity, and did turn away many from iniquity." God's covenant
was with Christ, set forth by God's preachers, God's prophets,
set forth a perfect, holy sacrifice concerning the Lord Jesus Christ.
God's preachers never preach an impotent Christ. Never. Never a blind, never a halt,
never a lame, never a needy Christ. God Almighty. You false preachers,
you stand to preach for God. That's what you say. You should. have set forth the truth. You
should have spoken aright. This is the condemnation. Look
at verse 7 to 10, chapter 2. For the priest's lips should
keep knowledge. They should seek the law at his
mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. But you
have departed out of the way. You have caused many to stumble
at the law. You've corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the
Lord of Hosts. Therefore, have I also made you
contemptible and base before all the people according as ye
have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law. Have
we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why
do we deal treacherously, every man against his brother, by profaning
the covenant of our fathers? When the Lord told them back
in verse 9, you have been partial in the law. Here's what He meant. You've not shown Christ to be
the fulfillment of what you're setting forth in this law. You've
not set forth the Lord Jesus Christ. You've not set forth
my Son. You've not set forth Him. You've
taken that showbread. You've taken that candlestick.
You go through all of the motions, but you've been partial in the
law in that you've not set forth Him. You've dealt with the law
in its outward sense. And you've told people, if you
go through these rules and regulations, you're right with God because
you've kept the law, but you've been partial. You've not set
forth My Son. You've not set forth Him. When
we take the Old Testament and we preach these pictures and
types, when we talk about the ark of Noah, when we talk about
the brazen serpent, when we talk about the rock, we want to see
Christ in that. We want to see Him. We want to
honor Him. And after the Lord's rebuke for
their actual and spiritual adulterous toward Him according to His Word,
the Lord then rebukes these false priests for saying that God loves
and delights in everyone. Do you see why I say that this
Word is just as alive tonight as it was over 2,000 years ago? Let me ask you this. The false
preacher is not set forth. God loves everybody. God loves everybody. God wants
to save everybody. Look at verse 17, chapter 2. You've wearied the Lord with
your words. Yet ye say, wherein have we wearied
him? He said, when you say, everyone
that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord. And he delighteth
in them. Or, where is the God of judgment?
He said, you weary me because You set forth that every evil,
every one that's evil, you say in the sight of the Lord, you're
good. God loves you. Almighty God has
promised that He's going to judge the wicked for their rebellion. That's what God said. They say
God loves everybody. The Scripture says, Jacob have
I loved and Esau have I hated. He said, you weary me with your
preaching. Now these scoffers ridicule the
Lord for what they say is delay. You say, where is the God of
judgment? Where is He? 2 Peter 3, 3 and
4. 2 Peter 3, 3 and 4, knowing this first, that there
shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own lusts,
and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the
fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the
beginning of creation. Men make a mock at sin. He said, you weary me because
you say that evil is good and God's pleased with it. You say
God loves all men. And where is the coming of His
judgment? That's what else you say. You
make a mock at sin, you jeer at religion as a whole, but especially
That the ministers of free grace that preach a sovereign God,
you mock them. You mock the second coming of
Christ. The resurrection. The torments
of hell. You mock God's judgment is what
you're doing. God loves all evil. God loves
all men. You're just saying God's not
just. That's what you're saying. You're just saying God's not
going to truly deal with sin. That's what you're saying. They mock now, but there's coming
a day when all things are going to be settled according to the
Lord's absolute holiness. Ecclesiastes 8.11 says, Because
sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore
the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Now, I'm going to read the verse
in closing because I want to leave on this note. I'm going
to read the verse that I want to start with next time. Verse
1 of chapter 3. Our Lord has set forth in these
two chapters that we just looked at, this is my word to my people. I love you. I love you. This is my word to those false
prophets. I'm displeased with you. You
mock my sacrifice. You mock my word. You lie. But here's the word
of the Lord to God's people. Take heart. We're living in a
day where this message that we've just preached, this is the way
it is right here. This is what false preachers
are preaching. But listen, take heart. Behold, I will send my
messenger. He's talking about John the Baptist,
the coming of the Lord. Behold, I will send my messenger.
He shall prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek
shall suddenly come to His temple. Now let me tell you this. His
temple, this is His people. Know you not that you are the
temple of the living God? Listen to me. The Lord comes
suddenly to His people. He comes suddenly and comes suddenly
and comes suddenly. He comes even now. The Lord whom
you seek, and God's people do seek. I want to be careful. I
tell you already, I'm getting into the notes for the next one,
but that's okay. That's alright. The Lord whom you seek, and they
do, shall suddenly come to His temple, even the messenger of
the covenant. Oh, that messenger. brings forth that blessed covenant
time after time after time. God's people never tire of hearing
of the covenant of God's grace, whom you delight in. And they
do. Behold, He shall come, saith
the Lord of Hosts. I'm going to stop right there
because I know where I'm going, and I'm going to stop. I pray
that God bless these words to our heart. I know this. God's going to have mercy. God
is going to bless His Word. He's going to comfort His people.
He's going to lift up the broken, the lame, the halt, the maimed,
you that need Him. He is the mighty God. Lord, bless
these words to our hearts for Christ's sake.