Well, good evening once again,
and welcome to our study of the book of Malachi. I welcome you,
each one, to these studies. They've been such a blessing
to me and I just hope and pray that some of that will be able
to go out through this recording device and into your ears and
you'll be blessed too. We're going to be in the book
of Malachi chapter four and we're going to be looking here at verse
two again. There's so much in this wonderful
verse of scripture. We've noticed there that unto
you that fear my name and truly the only people that ever truly,
truly reverence or fear the name of the Lord are those that he
has regenerated. It's not out of fear of being
caught over sin, but it is a reverence, a respect for all that he's done
on our behalf, and that he is the sum and substance of all
our salvation. He is the sum and substance of
all our righteousness, and he's the sum and substance of all
our hope and peace. that everything is in him. And those that fear my name,
he says, shall the son of righteousness arise. And that's, it's a growing
thing, that this wonderful blessing of salvation is a growing thing.
We never come to the complete understanding of it. We just,
there's more and more. It's launch out into the deep,
the Lord said to his disciples there on a fishing boat. And
we find out that that truly is a statement that could be made
about looking into the blessings and benefits of our Savior, the
Lord Jesus, to understand one more of those every spiritual
blessings. And we just never come to the
end. It's always rising. It's always rising. It's always
getting larger. The Lord never turns out to be
less than we thought. He's always more. And what a
blessing that is. Shall fear my name, shall the
sun of righteousness arise. Grow. growing, larger, bigger. We find out that he's greater
than we ever anticipated. He does more, says more, has
more in the meanings of his words, and on and on it goes as we are
privileged to study his word. And then it says here, he has
healing, he will arise with healing in his wings and he has the ability
of taking care of every spiritual disease that we have. Now sometimes
he is pleased to take care of some of the physical frailties
that we have and people have been healed physically and we
thank God for that. he doesn't always do that. Sometimes
we find that he let a person go free and another man was requested
to give his life for God. So we just don't understand those,
but it's in the hands of God and he does as he pleases and
it's all for the furtherance of the gospel and we're just
thanking for it. We're just thanking for it. And
then, notice here in the last part of this verse, the last
phrase, and ye shall go forth and grow up calves of the stall
One more way the Lord describes grace and the benefits of grace
is found in this verse of Scripture Those that fear my name shall
go forth. They shall grow up as calves
of the stall. Those that fear my name, those
that I have dealt with, those I've raised from the spiritual
dead, those that I've lifted out, I've brought them out of
a horrible pit. All of these words that God gives
us in his scriptures to describe what he does on our behalf that
we cannot do for ourselves. They first mention The first
mission of conversion through every day of his glorious salvation
from the very first moment of our conversion from the very
first moment of our salvation when he gives us that great grace
of Salvation he gives us the new birth from the very first
moment of conversion through every day of his glorious salvation. Even until grace presents the
saints in glory, Christ is precious and his benefits are marvelous
and we get to see them grow. The benefits and the blessings
of the Lord We they grow as it tells us here shall grow go forth
and grow up as calves of the stall very very good terminology
here about those who are specifically cared for. They're not going
to be wild cattle. They're not going to be ready
to take on anybody that comes into their field. There's nothing
more exciting than to be chased over a fence by a cow or a bull. That's right up there for me.
I've had it happen several times. I'm glad that it's over. But
what a blessing it is to read about, she'll go forth and grow
up as calves of the stall, those pets. My dad used to buy bummer
calves and bring them home. And you know, after you worked
with those calves, and after you taught them to suck on a
bucket that had a nipple on it, and after a while they would
suck it out like going through a straw, they got acquainted
with you. And they became pets, and they
looked to you, and they were calves of the stall. They were
friendly. They weren't out to do you harm. Well, that's what
we have here. So from the very first moment of conversion, the
Lord allows us to know that He has blessed us with every spiritual
blessing, and that He has kept us, and that He has created in
us a heart that is from God, and it's friendly towards God,
and it's friendly towards God's people, and it isn't bitter and
harsh. And we're not always whining
about the way things are turning out. I know there's moments.
There are moments. But it's not an ongoing thing. It's a blessing to have God do
that for us. Would you turn with me over to
the Psalms? I don't know how many times we've been in the
Psalms when we've been studying this book of Malachi. And also,
as we look at the book of Ezra, we've been in the Psalms a lot
because there's so much said in here. And I read one time
that the Psalmists, they gave us the prayers that we wish we
could pray. And I think that's so true. But
here in Psalm 103 verses one through four, one through four,
Psalm 103 verses one through four, Psalm of David bless the
Lord. Oh my soul and all that is within
me bless his holy name Bless the Lord. Oh my soul and forget
not all his benefits those benefits that allowed us to be the calves
of the stall to grow up as calves of the stall in a protected environment,
to have His hedge about us, to have an environment where we
not want for food or water, where we have the water of life gushing
out, and we have the bread of life, the Lord Jesus, these water
of life and bread of life. There's no want. We have all,
and as we eat, it never runs out. Where sin abounded, grace
did much more abound. So we have forget all his benefits. It's a constant benefit that
the Lord gives to us. He is our benefit and he has
all these benefits to give us. Verse 3, who forgiveth, look
at this, who forgiveth all thine iniquities. My goodness, we're
calves of the stall. We have been given a wonderful
blessing of the knowledge that the Lord Jesus Christ took care
of all our sin debt. He forgiveth all thine iniquities,
who healeth all thy diseases, thy spiritual diseases. He's
taken care of our mind that was set against Him, and He's given
us a mind to love Him. He's taken care of our sight.
We can see Him in the Scriptures. He's taken care of our hearing.
We can hear Him in the Scriptures. He's taken care of our feeling
towards Him. He's taken care of our hands,
taken care of our feet. He's taken care of our heart.
He's taken care of all of us. Oh, what a blessing it is now.
to have all these rich benefits and to realize that he and he
alone forgiveth all our iniquities and in verse 4 who redeemeth
thy life from destruction he bought us he redeemed us he redeemed
sinners he bought sinners We're just sinners saved by grace. But think about that calves of
the stall raised in his place fed his food given his water
and blessed with his blessing. He has a blessed curry comb to
go over us with. He has a blessed bath to give
to us. He just blesses us with every
spiritual blessing. We're just calves of the stall.
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction, who crowneth thee with loving
kindness and tender mercies. My goodness, we are well treated. We are given so much and it is
the Lord that does that and not we ourselves. In the 116th Psalm,
would you travel there with me? Just go a little bit further
here in the book of the Psalms. Psalm 116 in there in verse 12. Psalm 116 in verse 12. What shall
I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me? You
know, the Lord doesn't want us to trade. We're not trading with
God. I'll work and then I'll get benefits. No, we're just calves of the
stall. born unto him, and he has taken
care of all our needs. Every requirement that God had
against us, the Lord Jesus Christ has fulfilled with all spiritual
blessings. Here it says, what shall I render
unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me? I will take the cup
of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. That's what
we do. He gives us his salvation. We are ready to take it when
he gives it to us. He's changed our heart. He's
given us a new heart. He's given us the new birth.
He's raised us from the spiritual dead. And he says, I'll call
upon the name of the Lord, capital L, capital O, capital R, capital
D, as it's in our translation, which is Jehovah. I will call
upon the name of the Savior. He is all my salvation. We notice those who are given
because of grace only. Fear of God our reverence for
God are given a Redeemer with the ability to heal all their
spiritual diseases and to give us a life of such blessings in
Christ Ye shall go forth and grow up What a wonderful thought
the Lord declares that his people will go forth and they will grow
up as calves of the stall well cared for oh my goodness well
cared for and We've had all the water and all the food. We have
a warm place to be and that's on the bosom of the Lord Jesus.
We have no fear. We come and rest at peace. He
says, peace be unto you. I give you my peace. He's the
prince of peace. So he gives us all spiritual
peace. There's no longer any apprehension
about wandering off because He has tied us up to Him. We're
latched to Him. We're nailed to a sure place.
We're set on a solid rock. So we have all these blessings.
The Lord declares that His people will have this going forth and
growing up as calves of the stall. over again in the Psalms. Let's
look here in Psalm 92. Psalm 92. Psalm 92 in verse 12. Let's look there in Psalm 92
in verse 12. As we think about these, the
Lord will give us as calves of the stall Those who fear the
Lord, he will rise with healing in his wings. We're like calves
of the stall, going forth and growing up of calves of the stall. And here in Psalm 92 and verse
12, Psalm 92 and verse 12, we read these words, 12, 13 and
14. It says, the righteous shall flourish like a palm tree. My
goodness, we're like calves of the stall. It doesn't matter here when we
put on spiritual weight, but we're still not proud about it
because it's the Lord that gives us that. We don't have pride
in what the Lord gives us. We're thankful for what the Lord
gives us. We're not going to be proud that we know something
that someone else doesn't because it all comes by revelation. The
righteous shall flourish like a palm tree. He shall grow like
a cedar in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the
house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God." Just
like we read about these folks here, the elect, the saved ones,
those that have a respect and a reverence for God that he gave
to them when he gave them a new heart and regeneration. These
calves of the stall, they're planted in the house of the Lord,
and they shall bring forth fruit in old age. They shall be fat
and flourishing." My goodness, calves of the stall, they're
prime. They're just prime because they're
the Lord's calves. To show that the Lord is upright,
He is my rock and there is no unrighteousness in Him. How blessed
is that? How blessed is that? They shall
not hunger or thirst, we read. These calves of the stall, they
shall not hunger, they shall not thirst. But we're just thankful
for what the Lord gives us. We're just thankful that the
Lord would be interested in us. We're just thankful because we
had nothing in ourselves that would draw us aside for any of
these things. Calves of the stall, as tame
and not wild. The Bible tells us that man be
born like a wild ass's colt, without control, just wild, running
wild. And you know, here in America
we have some wild horses and wild donkeys. Out here in the
western parts of the United States, and my wife Nancy and I have
seen them out there in Nevada, and they're just running free.
It takes a lot. It takes a lot to try to break
one of those animals, to even be friendly, to be able to be
ridden. It takes a lot. Man be born like
a wild ass's coat, and yet the Lord demonstrates His taming
grace. That's what we are, calves of
the stall. Not wild, not wild. Oh, we were. We're by nature.
We're wild. We're wild longhorns of Texas. We're wild cattle there in Europe. They have a wild cow. I've seen
pictures and watched film of some cows down in New Zealand,
bulls in New Zealand. They're wild. They'll take you
off a horse if they get a chance. Put men up in trees. They're
just wild. They are unapproachable. And
where I grew up down there in extreme northern California,
they used to put the cattle out there in the National Forest.
And if you're out there walking around and you saw, you know,
they'd just take off. And if they didn't, you better
find a place to hide because this old cow, this bull is just
ready to take you. So we're not like that when the
Lord saves us. We're given this calves of the
stall. We're brought into that position
of having favoritism of God. Touched by him raised by him
fed by him all these things the scriptures tell us about the
Lord Jesus Not long before he was crucified over there in the
book of Mark Would you turn there with me the book of Mark chapter
11? We read here in the book of Mark chapter 11 a situation
that the Lord on purpose shares with us In Mark 11 and verse
1 it says, And when they came nigh to Jerusalem unto Bethpage
and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent forth two of his disciples. And he saith unto them, Go your
way into the village over against you, and as soon as ye enter
into it, ye shall find a colt tied whereon never man sat. Loose him and bring him. This
is the command of the Lord. Now on purpose he goes to this
place and on purpose he knows that that cult is tied there
because he's determined, he's predestinated that cult to be
there. And it says, and if any man sin
to you, why do you this? Say ye that the Lord hath need
of him, and straightway he will send him hither. The Lord deals
with all the situations there. He deals with that when it comes
to our salvation. He has it all covered. All the
bases are covered. Nothing is left to chance. The
gospel is brought. God grants that wonderful blessing
of regeneration. And then we have repentance towards
God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are turned from our
old dead idols to look at the living and true God. That's what
Peter said, thou art the Christ, the son of the living God. Everything
we had before that is a dead God. We had our dead works and
our dead faith and our dead experiences. Everything is dead, but now he
gives us life. We're calves of the stall. We're
put into great favoritism. He's been caring for us just
like a lamb born lost, yes, but He's caring for it wherever it
is, He's caring for it. And then He says there in verse
4, And they went their way and found the colt tied by the door
without in a place where two ways met, and they loose him. And a certain of them that stood
there said unto them, what do you, do ye, loosing the colt? And they said unto them, even
as Jesus had commanded, and they let them go. My goodness, what
the Lord does, even from a distance, what he does in our salvation,
he takes someone to come who knows something, Preaches the
gospel now they took that cult to Jesus and cast their garments
on him now Most of you that are listening to me this this evening
most of you know what it's like to see somebody old Western movies
Someone trying to get on an unbroke cult someone trying to get on
a horse. It's unbroken. We got we got
a We got a party going on here
Men stand around and laugh when he's bucked off and on and on
it goes. Notice this. When the God of
heaven, when the God of creation, when the God of sovereignty,
when the God who is performing all his purpose, doing all things
after the counsel of his own will, they spread their garments
on this colt that was unbroken and Him and he set upon him the
Lord Jesus Now this cult became totally changed with the master
this cult became totally changed all of his as Inherit nature
was brought under control Aren't you thankful for the restraining
hand of God? I? Aren't you thankful for the
restraining hand that God prevents his people from doing things
that they would normally do? He protects us and prevents so
much from happening. And the moment he raises his
restraining hand, what are we doing? We're Moses's, we're David's,
we're Abraham's. We're all the folks in the scripture
that a woe is me. Woe is me, I'm undone. So they
spread their garments on this colt, and here we have him subduing
that colt. Didn't buck. It didn't go through
a dance. Crow hop. Didn't do any of that.
It just walked off with the master on his back. And the same thing
is brought out here with regard to a man over in the Book of
Luke. Would you turn there with me to the Book of Luke? Made
him a calf of the stall. Here's a man that's just a wild
man. It's hard to imagine what this
man's life was like. It's just hard to imagine. And
the only way that we can imagine is to realize that what God is
doing, what Christ is doing here, going to this man who lives in
a cemetery, and is just out of control, is to realize that that's
what we are by nature, that we have such an evil spirit in us
by the fall, wickedness in us by the fall, that we're just
uncontrollable. Religion cannot control us. Oh, it may for a season, it may
for a season, but it cannot control the heart. Over here in the book
of Luke chapter 19, excuse me, Luke chapter 8 verse
26. And they arrived at the country
of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee. And when he
went forth to the land, there met him out of the city. Now
again, I just have to say this, the Lord's here on purpose. The
Lord's here on purpose. The Lord must go through the
country of the Gadarenes. There is a man there that he
needs to have a visit with. He needs to deal with this man.
The woman at the well, he needs to go through Samaria. And I
am so thankful that in every one of God's people's lives,
there's been that very thought has been given. He must needs
go. The Lord was gracious to go through
a town that I was living in called Central Point, Oregon. and he
must need to go through Central Point, Oregon. He brought a man
who knew the gospel and preached the gospel and only preached
Christ, preached Christ and Him crucified. And this man knew
that salvation is of the Lord. And he knew that everybody is
ruined by the fall. And he knew that all of God's
people Those he chose in Christ before the foundation of the
world were redeemed by Christ. He's an actual redeemer. He redeemed
his people. And this man knew that true life,
true salvation, true peace with God comes through God, through
regeneration by the Holy Spirit. So here we have that experience
brought out here in this country of the Gadarenes. This man, he
met him out of the city, a certain man which had Devil's long time
And worn wear no clothes neither abode in any house, but in the
tombs. Oh My and when he saw Jesus he
cried out and fell down before him and with a loud voice said
what have I to do with you thee with thee Jesus thou son of God
Most high I beseech thee torment me not For he had commanded the
unclean spirit to come out of the man for oftentimes it caught
him, and he was kept bound with chains and fetters, and he broke
the bands and was driven of the devil into the wilderness." We
notice here just how uncontrollable natural man is, even religion,
with the strongest of threatenings from Mount Sinai. The strongest
threatenings of the law, the strongest threatenings of the
Ten Commandments, the strongest threatenings of hell, the strongest
threatenings of judgment by God will not constrain the natural
man. The heart is still deceitful
above all things and desperately wicked. And we're going to find
out that the Lord takes care of the problem this man had.
And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said,
Legion, because many devils were entered into him. And they besought
him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
And there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain. And they besought him that they
should suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them. Then
went the devils out of the man and entered into the swine. And
the herd ran violently down into a steep place in the lake and
were choked. They drowned. When they that
fed them saw what was done, they fled and went and told it in
the city and in the country. And they went out to see what
was done and came to Jesus and found the man out of whom the
devils were departed. Now notice this. God and God
alone can perform this kind of work. That's this kind of salvation. Natural man and religious salvation
is just momentary. It doesn't last. You have to
go to something else. You know, the drug addicts have
shown us this very thing. You take a little, and then you
need more, and then you need more, and you need more, and
you need to trade to something else. And that's the way it is
in religion. You just need more, more works.
And the works is not enough here, I'll go somewhere else. More
circus, and more show, and on and on it goes. Notice this,
this man. When these folks came back, they
lost a lot of dollars. That's what they were concerned
about. Swine wasn't even supposed to be raised there. But, he said
here, they came back, the man that the devils were departed,
notice this. Verse 35, sitting at the feet
of Jesus. This is a calf of the stall,
sitting at the feet of Jesus. He'd been favored by grace. He'd been given grace. God had
given him grace. Oh, this man was in a terrible
condition. His family couldn't be around
him. He couldn't be around his family. This man was in a terrible
condition. And if we say for a moment that
we don't have demons like this before the Lord saves us, we
just don't know what salvation is. Our worship of our free will,
the worship of our own works, the worship of all is just a
demon in us. And here it goes on, he's sitting
at the feet of Jesus and notice he's clothed and in his right
mind. And they were afraid. To say
they weren't afraid before, but they're afraid now. This man's
calmed down. He's not going to kill them.
He's not going to come after them. He's under control. The
Lord controlled him. He's sitting at the feet of Jesus.
Where do we sit? Where do we assemble? At the
feet of Jesus. That's where we assemble. And
we're clothed. We have the righteousness of
Christ imputed to us. We have His robe of righteousness. And we're in our right mind.
Let this mind be in you which is also in Christ Jesus. We have
that mind of Christ given to us. That He is all our salvation. And He's all our hope. And we're
not depending upon anything else in this world. Wild stock are
a menace to themselves and others. Tame stock are a blessing. The
Lord declares that his people are going forth. They're growing
up. They're calves of the stall.
What a blessing it is to have these rich blessings of the Lord.
Notice with me in the book of Isaiah chapter 49. Isaiah chapter
49. Let's go back over there in the
book of Isaiah chapter 49. And notice there in chapter 49
of the book of Isaiah. And there in verse 9. Isaiah
49 verse 9. that thou mayest say to the prisoners,
Go forth to them that are in darkness, show yourselves They
shall feed in the ways, and their pasture shall be in high places. They shall not hunger nor thirst,
neither shall the heat nor sun smite them, for he that hath
mercy on them shall lead them. Even by the springs of water
shall he guide them. Oh, to be calves of the stall,
to be taken in and out to pasture, to have all the clean water to
drink, all the food to eat. And it's just speaking about
we've dining on our Savior the Lord Jesus dining upon his blessings
Feasting upon the bread of life drinking of the water of life
going in the door of life the Lord Jesus in the book of Isaiah
chapter 55 would you go there with me Isaiah chapter 55 and
there in verse 12 and Isaiah 55 and verse 12, let's read these
last two verses of this chapter. For ye shall go out with joy,
and be led forth with peace. The mountains and the hills shall
break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field
shall clap their hands. What a joy it is to be around
those who have been favored by grace, calves of the stall, contented. angry, but contented, having
peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ready ready to
wait upon the Lord, to trust Him. And then it goes on in verse
13, instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead
of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree. These beautiful
trees, instead of having these negative things, having these
positive things, these blessings, spiritual blessings as they're
represented, they shall be to the Lord for a name and for an
everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. Hallelujah. We got the brand on us. The Lord's
brand cannot be cut off. I will lose none. All that the
Father giveth me shall come unto me, and he that cometh unto me
I will in no wise cast out. What a blessing it is to have
this wonderful love of the Lord God Almighty given to us in Christ
Jesus the Lord in regeneration, and to know to have reverence
for Him. He is our God. Salvation is of
the Lord. And then to see Him as the rising
sun with healing in His wings, to have Him take care of all
of our diseases, and then to realize We've been raised as
calves of the stall In Jeremiah It's another book
over here Jeremiah again filled with these rich blessings of
the Lord Jeremiah 31 Jeremiah 31 and there verse 9 Jeremiah
31 verse 9 They shall come with weeping Jeremiah 31 and verse
9 they shall come with weeping with supplications. Will I lead
them? I will cause them to walk by
the rivers of waters in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble
for I am a father to Israel and Ephraim is my firstborn Here
the word of the Lord. Oh ye nations and declare it
in the isles afar off Set and say he that scattereth Israel
will gather him and keep him as a shepherd doth his flock
To be the in the flock of the Lord Jesus To have him as our
shepherd to bring us out of every nation For the Lord hath redeemed
Jacob and ransomed him From the hand of him that was stronger
than he look at that therefore they shall come and sing in the
height of Zion and shall flow together to the goodness
of the Lord for wheat and for wine and for oil and for the
young of the flock and of the herd and Their souls shall be
a watered garden and they shall not sorrow anymore at all Just
look at the figurative languages brought out here by that this
preacher Jeremiah this declare of the gospel Jeremiah that the
that all of these things, oh, for wheat, and for wine, and
for oil, and for the young of the flock, and of the herd, and
thy soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall not sorrow
anymore. There's no need to run. We've
got everything. We have everything. We have every
spiritual blessing. We have all of the rich food
of God. We have the bread of life, the
Lord Jesus. We have the water of life. We
have the sweet pastures. We have that word, and we have
the prophets, and we have the kings, and we have the judges. We have all of this summed up
in one person, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ. And I will satiate the soul of
the priest with fatness, verse 14, and my people shall be satisfied
with my goodness, saith the Lord. My people shall be satisfied
with my goodness." Oh, you see those calves coming out of the
stall. They've been protected there. The rough weather didn't
strike them there. The snow didn't strike them there. The folks that didn't like calves
didn't find them there. On and on it goes. Well, such
a blessing. And then, would you turn over
here in the New Testament, in the book of 2 Thessalonians,
2 Thessalonians chapter 1. And there in verse 3, 2 Thessalonians
chapter 1 verse 3, we are bound to give God, excuse me, to thank
God always for you, brethren, as it is meet because that your
faith groweth exceedingly and the charity of every one of you
all toward each other aboundeth. so that we ourselves glory in
you in the churches of God for your patience and faith on all
your persecutions and your tribulations that ye endure. Oh, the Lord
is so gracious. Calves of the stall. We have
such a blessing that God would give us that picture, that type,
that shadow, that His people are so cared for, so watched
over. The God of Israel neither slumbers
nor sleeps. He doesn't even close His eye
while He's watching us. He keeps His eye on us. And over
here in the book of 2 Timothy chapter 3, excuse me, 2 Peter,
I apologize there, 2 Peter chapter 3, 2 Peter chapter 3 and verse 18,
it says, but grow in grace. Now we have all the grace, but
we get to grow in it. all of the sanctification, but
we get to grow in it. We get to find out more and more
what we have. We find out that we have all the sanctification,
all of the redemption, all of the peace. It's all given to
us. But it's like someone that has
a gold mine going in there and finding this nugget and that
nugget and that vein and that vein. You know, it's all ours. The gold mine belongs to us.
But over time we get to discover more and more of what we have.
And that's grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ. Did you see that? It doesn't
say grow in doctrine. Grow in articles of faith. It doesn't say that. Grow in
all this other stuff. Grow in works, no. It says, grow
in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christ. To Him be glory, both now and
forever. Amen. Grow in grace and in the
knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. All those other
things. Most of the time, they're just
They take our time, they waste our time when we should be in
the bread of life, the word of God. Now notice over here, going
back to the book of Malachi chapter 4, Malachi chapter 4 and verse
2, but unto you that fear my name. shall the sun of righteousness
arise with healing in his wings, and ye shall go forth and grow
up as calves of the stars. What a blessing God has for each
and every one of His lost sheep. When He comes to them, the gospel
is brought, God in His miraculous way does the new birth, regeneration,
draws us out, brings us out, calls us out of darkness to His
marvelous light, brings us to Him, gives us a new thought about
God because we had a a bad thought about him, we just couldn't put
him in the right place, but with regeneration we can see God as
he is, as the scriptures declare it, and we're glad about that,
we're satisfied about that, that God is God and beside him there
is none else, and that he's a God that saves. He actually is a
savior that saves his people. And he's actually a redeemer
that redeems his people. And he actually has grace that
is gracious to his people. And those calves of the stall,
they're not ready to run everybody over the fence. They're at peace
with God. They're at rest with God. They're
satisfied with the blessings that God has given them. Well,
we thank you for the time you've given us tonight to listen to
this message from the Book of Malachi, the Gospel according
to Malachi. And I pray that it will be a
blessing to you to think about God's calves of the stall, that
they are His, they're His calves, they will grow. And they have
all these blessings. He has taken wild asses, colts,
taken wild calves and give them peace. Just like he did the maniac
of Gadara. Those folks came back and they're
afraid of a man sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in
his right mind. God bless you, my friends.