Good evening and welcome to our
study of the book of Malachi. We're in this fourth chapter
of the book of Malachi and it is only six verses long. And I'd like to read the entire
chapter tonight. And we're going to spend our
time on a passage here in verse two, a thought in verse two.
Last week we looked at fearing the name of the Lord. the name
of the Lord our God, and I just want to say this. If we think
we can do this fear, this reverence of the Lord, in our fallen state
in religion, we are greatly mistaken. The fall is too serious, and
every thought of our being about God is wrong. We must be born again. Our thoughts
about God before we're saved are not in our heart. They're
only in our intellect, and they don't make any difference. We
may have good thoughts. We may say we believe the word.
But if we do not have it in our heart, it makes no difference. Before I read this fourth chapter
of the book of Malachi, I would like you to join me in reading
one verse of scripture over in the book of 2 Corinthians. 2nd
Corinthians chapter 5 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ
if any man is born again if any person is born again if Christ
in you the hope of glory he is a new creature and This is the
same word that we find with regard to God creating the heavens and
the earth. It takes the power of God to create and only He can do it. Old things
are passed away. Now you notice in that thought,
that phrase right there, it doesn't say all old things are passed
away. I appreciate what Brother Mahan
had to say about that verse. Not all old things are passed
away. We still deal with the flesh. The Lord does not save
our flesh. That's for the future. That's
for the end. We'll have a body like unto his
glorious body. But it goes on to tell us, as
the Apostle Paul writes to these saints at Corinth, he said, all
things are passed away. Behold, all things are become
new when it comes to spiritual things. Every thought that we
had about God is wrong unless we're born again. It does not
help us. It doesn't make us better. It
doesn't change our view before God. It doesn't change God's
view of us. We must be born again. We must be a new creature, creation
in Christ Jesus, in order to appreciate and enjoy that. Then
all things are become new. Thoughts of God are completely
new because it's by revelation. Our thoughts about the Bible
are completely new because it's by revelation of the Holy Spirit.
Our thoughts of sin, our thoughts of the future, our thoughts about
heaven, our thoughts about hell, our thoughts about us, they're
all new thoughts. They have a spiritual application. They're spiritual. They're not
just bound up in history. They're not just bound up in
some words that we find in the Bible, but they're bound up in
the person Christ Jesus. And he is our creator, our spiritual
father. So we're going to look at that
verse two again in our reading. And I just want to make that
clear that I hear people, uh, well, I don't know how many times
I've heard people say at a funeral, I wonder if they made peace with
God. That is an impossibility in this life. We cannot make
peace with God. We have peace with God through
our Lord Jesus Christ. That's it. And nowhere else.
We'll never make peace outside of Christ. All right, going back
to the book of Malachi. Verse one, for behold, a day
cometh that shall burn as an oven. and all the proud, yea,
and all that do wickedly shall be stubble, and the day that
cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall
leave them neither root nor branch. There will not be any remembrance
of them." Today is my grandfather's 139th birthday. I just barely
remember Him, but I remember Him. But in heaven, all those
that are without Christ, we will not remember. There won't be
a root or a thought about them. We'll have our time spent on
trusting Christ or bowing before Christ and worshiping Him. Now
the next verse, verse 2, but unto you that fear my name. I
was just mentioning that if we think we can fear the name of
the Lord on our own, we're gravely mistaken. We are gravely mistaken. We cannot do that because of
the fall. Brother Mike Baker in his lesson
on total depravity brings out so many verses of scripture about
this total depravity. It's a term that's not found
in scripture, but the scriptures are filled with the principle
of it. And over and over it declares that there is no way of approaching
God on our own. So this fear is a gift of God. It is a gift of grace. The reverence
that you might have, if you're born again, the reverence you
have of the Lord God Almighty is a reverence that is a gift.
He teaches us about God. We don't get it anywhere else.
But unto you that fear my name shall the son of righteousness
arise with healing in his wings. And ye shall go forth and grow
up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked,
for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet. In the
day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts, remember ye
the law of Moses, my servant, which I commanded Unto him in
Horeb for all Israel with the statutes and judgments behold
I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great
and dreadful day of the Lord Before his coming the first time
before his coming in the incarnation We have Elijah or as Jesus Christ
himself shared with his disciples. This is John the Baptist the
prophet coming and before that great and dreadful day of the
Lord. Now that's not the second coming that all these people
are talking about. That was the day, the time the Lord came in
his incarnation and his teaching and his preaching and then his
eventual time that he was taken out and crucified for the sins
of his people. And verse six, and he shall turn
the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the
children to their fathers. lest I come and smite the earth
with a curse. Amen. Last verse of the prophet,
the preacher, the elder Malachi as he wrote these words. All
right, we're going to go back here to verse two. Because in
verse 2 it says, but unto you that fear my name. Isn't that
a wonderful thing? What a blessed account of the
Lord Jesus Christ under this figurative language of the Son
of Righteousness. Just think what the Son is to
the earth. I'm just going to mention three
things, but we could come up with a number of other things.
Number one is the sole fountain of light. There is no light. We say, well, we've got electric
lights. Well, that depends on the sun bringing in the rain
or the sun having created the coal and all of this other stuff.
It is because of the sun that we have light. And it is the
sole fountain of life. I remember talking to someone
who claimed to be a Christian and saying that God could have
had those six days in the book of Genesis could have been eons
and eons long. the day and the night the same.
If the night is eons long, there is no life at all on the earth. It's dependent upon the sun and
the sole fountain of heat. We get our warmth from the sun,
and these things are symbolic of what we have in Christ Jesus.
The Lord is all righteousness and all the church's righteousness. He is the Lord our righteousness,
and the church is called the Lord our righteousness. Did you
notice with me what the Son of Righteousness shall do to everyone
he giveth a heart of reverence or fear to? Did you notice that
with me in verse two? But unto you that fear the name
of my name shall the Son of Righteousness arise with healing in the wings. Now we're not going to get near
all of this verse taken care of tonight or looked at tonight
or reviewed tonight, but this passage tells us He shall arise. Now there's many verses in the
scripture that share this principle to God's people. I just like,
for example, to go over to the book of Psalms, Psalms 112. In
Psalms 112, we have a wonderful verse of scripture. Psalms 112
and verse 14, we have this verse of scripture that shares with
us about the same principle that's mentioned here in Malachi chapter
4 and verse 2. Psalm 112, and there in verse
4, we read these words. But the upright, there ariseth
light in darkness. Now, the darkness to the upright,
those who are going to be saved, those who have been appointed
to grace, those whose names are written down in the Lamb's Book
of Life, the darkness that they're born into is just as severe as
the darkness to anyone else. The depravity that we're born
into is just as serious as the depravity that everyone else
has. All of Adam's children have that
innate Being that they're depraved and It takes the grace of God
to bring us out of that state says praise ye the Lord Blessed
is the man that feareth the Lord verse 1 verse that delighteth
greatly in his commandments. His seed shall be mighty upon
the earth. The generation of the upright
shall be blessed. Wealth and riches shall be his
house." This is not necessarily physical riches, but, oh my,
the riches that the Lord has for his people. There is every
spiritual blessing given unto his people. and his righteousness
endureth forever. Upon the upright there ariseth
light in darkness." We are in a dark place when the gospel
comes to us. We are dead in trespasses and
sin, and there is no way that the preacher, no way the teacher,
no way that any evangelist, no way that any revivalist, nobody
can reach us. It takes the grace of God. Now,
he uses Folks he uses people he uses preachers to bring us
the gospel But it must be the gospel of his free and sovereign
grace and no other gospel will do We cannot expect growth out
of candy corn. We must have the real we must
have real grace We must have real gospel. We must have the
gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ from beginning to end not part
of it So the upright there arises light in darkness He finds us
in our darkness. We finds us in our natural state
He is gracious and full of compassion and righteous unto the upright
there arises light in to the upright, to those that God chose
in Christ before the foundation of the world, he has promised
that there will be light sent their way. And this light is
none other than the light of the son of righteousness, the
light of the gospel, the light of Christ, the light of God,
as Christ himself said, I am the light of the world. So the
upright, these are God's elect, these are God's chosen ones,
and they are in darkness, thick darkness, black darkness, like
everybody else, but there is a beam of light that comes from
his holy being to us, in the gospel and raises us up and we
can see the face of his glory. We can see the glory of God in
the face of Jesus Christ. We can see what we could not
see before, where we might be in the same boat, we were in
the same boat that we find there's no form nor comeliness in him,
and when we're raised out of that darkness, there is a knowledge
that he is altogether lovely, that there is no part of his
being, his character or his attributes that is not to the benefit of
the church and not to the benefit of the individual, and we're
raised out of darkness, gross darkness, black darkness, to
that marvelous light. It's also brought out here over
in the book of Isaiah, chapter 60. Would you turn there with
me? Isaiah, chapter 60. We read again about this glorious
message that God brings through his son, the Lord Jesus, that
he has healing in his wings, that he is the son of righteousness
with healing in his wings. In Isaiah, chapter 60, We read
there in Isaiah chapter 60 verse 1 and verse 2, arise, shine,
for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon
thee. Well, it's like the blessed sunrise. It is so beautiful and so beneficial
and so glorious that this light would shine in darkness, and
the darkness comprehended it not, could not overcome it. There's
no place to hide when the light comes. Now, bedbugs want to hide,
but God's people, when they're regenerated, want to be in that
light. Arise, shine, for thy light has
come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. Now, we could
certainly say that that is pictorial language about the Lord Jesus
Christ and his ministry upon the earth, but as being in Christ,
we get to enjoy that ourselves, too. The glory of the Lord is
risen upon thee. For behold, the darkness shall
cover the earth, and gross darkness the people." Now that's where
we are by nature. We can't see. In fact, we're
dead. There is a darkness that is beyond
comprehension. We only understand that gross
darkness after we've been saved, after we've been resurrected,
after we've been brought out of darkness to this marvelous
light. We can only understand a little bit about that darkness.
The darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the
people. There is nothing that can be done on the behalf of
or by the people of But only the gospel, only the preaching
of the gospel and the call of the Holy Spirit and the resurrection
by the Lord Jesus Christ of His people. He is the true resurrection. I am the resurrection and the
life. But the Lord shall arise upon
thee and His glory shall be seen upon thee. So we have this wonderful
picture given to us of what God does spiritually. Nobody else
may see it, just as we find the passage of scripture when a great
thing happened, many other people just thought there was thunder.
But some people heard the voice of the Lord. And that's the way
it is with the resurrection that God gives us. Most people don't
notice anything going on. In fact, they may be annoyed
by the message. But to God's people that are
raised out of this gross darkness, there is life in the message.
There is life in the messenger. There is life in the purpose
of the Holy Spirit giving us the new birth. For behold, the
darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people.
It is a serious darkness, but those that God raises and causes
to fear His name or reverence Him, He gives them the light
of the sun of righteousness. It arises with healing in His
wings. In this Bible, let's turn just
a little further. And we find this passage of scripture
over, backing up to the book of Isaiah chapter 9. Isaiah chapter
9. Look here in Isaiah chapter 9.
The wonderful message that continues throughout the Old Testament
and is brought into the New Testament. We just have to say right here,
the gospel does not change. Doesn't matter what period of
time we're in. And we're going to find these verses of scripture
that share with us the glories of the gospel and the position
that God's people are in by nature. we all will come to the conclusion
that we are in the fall. That when Adam fell, we fell
and died in him. Now we may have physical life
and we're animated and we want our heart to beat and our lungs
to breathe and all this other things that go on. We want to
be healthy. But when it comes to our spiritual
being, we're dead. There is nothing there that anybody
can quicken or awaken. It takes the Holy Spirit to do
that. And when He does it, it is with vigor. He doesn't raise
people half up and then, well, they're not complacent with that,
they're not satisfied with that, they'd rather have other things,
and He quits. No. He is is an absolute creator
and he does as he pleases when he's working with his people
and it is irresistible. It will not be stopped. God will
profit in it. Here in the book of Isaiah chapter
9 verse 2, the people that walked in darkness, the people that
have walked in darkness, and we just cannot comprehend that
darkness. Many years ago, my wife and I
and a couple of our children went to the Mammoth Caves there
in Kentucky. We got down in that great long
cave and the tour guide turned out his lights and asked us to
turn out all our lights. Well, you could walk if you want
to, but you're going to stumble and fall. It was gross darkness.
You could not get out on your own. A match, maybe, but you're
not going to get out without light. And so it is. We'll not
get out of this life alive without the light of the Lord Jesus Christ,
the light of the gospel, the light of the new birth. It must
be given to us by God Almighty. or we'll never get out. The people
that walked in darkness have seen a great light. God's people
are so thankful that they got to see the sunrise of the glory
of Jesus Christ. It is far superior and far more
glorious than any sunrise that has ever taken place on this
earth. It goes to the soul. It is a soul light. Seeing a great light, they that
dwell in the land in the shadow of death, upon them hath the
light shined." Just a moment of breath, a heartbeat away from
death. And yet God sustains us until.
He gives us grace. He sustains us until we hear
the gospel. We're invincible, and I hate
to use that word too much because people take it wrong, but God
will not let any of his lost sheep die before they hear the
gospel and are saved. Now, we might be like that thief
on the cross. We may only have an hour or two
left in our life when he saves us, but he did not let that man
die. before he heard the gospel. And
the gospel declarer and the gospel needer met at Calvary. And a man said, remember me when
thou comest into thy kingdom. He recognized that he was the
chiefest of sinners. He was getting what he deserved.
But remember me when you enter into your kingdom. And so he
saw a great light. Here is a man beaten, here's
a man with a crown of thorns, here's a man nailed in his hands,
and yet he saw the light of the world. He saw the sunrise, he
saw the sun of righteousness rising with healing in his wings. He saw more than anybody else
that day saw. What a glory it is to see the
resurrection of Jesus Christ in a person. In the book of Matthew,
chapter 4, this verse in Isaiah is brought out over here in the
book of Matthew, chapter 4, to share with us the old and new.
They are the same, the same gospel, the same preaching. Nobody was
ever saved by the law in the Old Testament and nobody is ever
saved by the law in the New Testament Everybody that was saved in the
Old Testament was saved by grace through faith and that not of
ourselves just like they are in the New Testament era and
here in the book of Matthew chapter 4 and verse 16 for the people
which sat in darkness and That's where we are. We're sat in darkness.
Can't do anything. Oh, we may walk around. We may
go to the grocery store and buy groceries. We may go pay our
taxes. We may go on a cruise. We may
do all these things. But when it comes to spiritual
things, we're stuck in a pit. We cannot get out on our own. And it takes this wonderful light. They that sat in darkness saw
great light. What is that? They get to see
Christ. It's appointed unto them to have
their eyes open and get to see the Son of Righteousness, the
Lord Jesus. And to them which sat in the
region of the shadow of death, we just don't know how close
we are to death every day. It is so imminent, so close. Nothing keeps us but the grace
of God from dying. I don't know about you, but there
are a number of times in my earlier life I should not be alive today
talking to you. I should have died. I was in
a situation I should have been killed, but God preserved my
life so I could hear the gospel when I was 34 years old. God
is gracious and I got to see the light and the light is is
the Son of God. The light is the Lord Jesus Christ. The light is the real issue. The light is the main thing.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the main thing. He is the real issue. He is the real resurrection. He is the real light of the glory
of God in the face of Jesus Christ. He is the real. So, this light
is real and he said to those that truly God had given them
The gift of respecting, reverencing the name of the Lord Jesus, He
gave unto them, every one of them, the privilege of seeing
the Son of Righteousness arise. In the book of Luke chapter 1,
would you turn there with me, Luke chapter 1, this is a wonderful
passage of scripture, I don't know how many times I've used
that tonight, wonderful passage of scripture, wonderful passage
They are all good, aren't they? We just never tire of them. And
we may read in one place one week, and next week we get back
there and we're given something else. Here in the first chapter
of the book of Luke, it's a long chapter, so I'd like you to go
over to verse 67. Now this is John the Baptist's
dad, Zacharias. And he had his mouth opened after
nine months of silence. And he says enough here to preach
a hundred messages for him. Well, probably enough to preach
the rest of our lifetime. But he says, and his father Zacharias
was filled with the Holy Ghost. and prophesied, saying, Holy
men of God, spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. And
he prophesied. And he wasn't prophesying future
things. He's prophesying or foretelling
what is going on. This is what's happening right
here. This is the fulfillment of Scripture. Blessed be the
Lord God of Israel for he hath visited and redeemed his people
What a statement is made here He has visited God has visited
and redeemed his people and hath raised up a horn of salvation
for us in the house of his servant David talking about the Lord
and John the Baptist was born and it was a few months later
before the Lord is born but Zacharias understood what was going to
be happening here and Verse 70, as he spake by the mouth of his
holy prophets, God spake by his mouth of the holy prophets about
this one, the horn of salvation, coming from the house of David,
which have been since the world began. The prophets have been
declaring this message. Someone's coming to take care
of the problem. The fall is so serious that no
one else can take care of it. It is only the Son of the Living
God can take care of the problem. That's how big it is. The Son
of God gave up the glory that He had with the Father for a
season to take care of this serious problem. And when He came down
to this earth, nobody knew Him. as the Son of God, except those
he revealed himself to, and that was by the spiritual revelation
through the new birth. as he spake by the mouth of his
holy prophets, verse 70, which have been since the world began,
that we should be saved from our enemies, not just the Romans,
my goodness, but saved from our real enemies, saved from sin,
saved from death, saved from the punishment of sin, saved
from hell, saved from the second death, that's the real enemies,
and from the hand of all that hate us, Well, everything of
this world hates us. Everything of our natural birth
hates us. Our families hate us when we
have this glorious light. And we say a word about it. To
perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember His
holy covenant Wow, these words performed the mercy promise to
our fathers and to remember his holy covenant. Not just a covenant
with Abraham about some physical land or a covenant to David about
this or that, but the holy covenant, this holy covenant, this eternal
covenant that is spoken of throughout the scriptures and now bears
out as it's brought out in the New Testament that this is the
one of the covenant. Person of the Covenant the oath
which he swore to our father Abraham that he would grant unto
us that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might
serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him
all the days of our life this is Zacharias talking about this
and thou child shalt be called the prophet of the highest for
thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways
he's looking down at his new son and saying You are the fulfillment
of the prophets, the Old Testament prophets. You will be the announcer. You will be the declarer. You'll
be the forerunner of the light of life. You'll be the forerunner
of the sun of righteousness. You'll be the forerunner of the
light of the world. And you'll give knowledge of
salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins.
through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the day spring from
on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness,
and in the shadow of death to guide our feet into the way of
peace. We have this glorious promise
that when God saves someone, he has given them the light of
life. We sit in darkness, We sit in
the valley of the shadow of death. We sit in the shadow of death,
but he has given us light to them that sit in darkness, no
longer any spiritual darkness. Now we may not see as we hope
we could see, but we see much better than we've ever seen before.
I remember going to the deacon of the church when the Lord saved
me and telling him, I'm not sure exactly what happened to me,
but I know this. I know more about grace now than
I've ever known in my life. There was a revelation, a light
about grace, and grace is for great sinners. Great sinners. John chapter 1. Would you turn
there with me? John chapter 1. Here we go, talking
about the announcer, the forerunner. John chapter 1. and verse nine,
John chapter one and verse nine, excuse me, six through nine,
there was a man sent from God whose name was John. The same
came for a witness to bear witness of the light that all men through
him might be saved. He was not that light, but was
sent to bear witness of that light. That was the true light,
which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was
in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew
him not." How serious this is. The Lord Jesus was in the world.
The world was made by him and everybody that was there. And
yet, they knew him not. He came to be the light. John
8, 12, I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall
not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. We may
not understand algebra. We may not understand calculus. We may not understand this pandemic. We may not understand how to
conjugate a sentence. in English. We may not be able
to read all the books that we hope to read. We may be limited
in those areas. But when God saves someone, He
lets them have the light, spiritual light, and they know the Lord
Jesus Christ as their light. as their savior, as their hope,
as their peace, and they hear him say, peace be still, and
it touches their heart. Ephesians chapter 5 and verse
8, for ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord,
only place that we have light. We're not going to get it in
a church membership, and we're not going to get it in a vacation
Bible school, and we're not going to get it in some religious organization. We're not going to be, by joining
a church, we're not going to get that. The light that God
has for his people is in the Lord. And then he says, here's
a hard check. Walk as children of light. If
this is something you can't do, if this is always a problem,
this is never able to have a thought, spiritual thought about the Lord
Jesus Christ in a positive manner, let's check where we are. 2 Peter. Would you turn with me
to 2 Peter? 2 Peter chapter 1. 2 Peter chapter 1. As we come close to the end of
our thoughts here on this verse of scripture about the Son of
Righteousness arising with healing in His wings, the Son, the glorious
Light of God Almighty, Christ Jesus, the Light. In 2 Peter
1, verse 19, we have also a more sure word of prophecy. Whereunto
ye do well that ye take heed as unto a light that shineth
in a dark place, until the day dawn and the day star arise in
your hearts. We have the word of God. How glorious is that? The word
of God, this verse of scripture, and we have a word of prophecy
made more sure. So the words of the prophets
are made more certain. We have also a right sure word
of prophecy. We have also a sure word of prophecy. These are other translations
and they share with us the sure word of prophecy is about the
Lord Jesus Christ. Also, we have the prophets' messages. They show us even more certainly
that these things are true. So, the word of the Lord is brought
out, the sure word of prophecy, where unto ye do well that ye
take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place. And
this light shines in our heart. It's by creation we're given
light. And it's more than a candle. It's more than a sun. We have
to go back to the Old Testament in the days of creation. Before
God created the sun and the moon and the stars, He said, let there
be light. There was light and it was glorious
light the light of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ
And that's what he brings to us Oh to be able to read through
the scriptures and say this speaks of my Savior. He is the light
He's the glorious light. He allows me to see in this dark
world. Other people can't see it they
don't have any idea what it's about, but the Lord has revealed
it to me and Jesus said about himself. I am the root and the
offspring of David and the bright and the morning star Bright and
morning star the light that comes from him Romans chapter 10 it says and
thou shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him From
the dead thou shalt be saved Now that's not a prescription
on how to get saved. That tells us what we know when
we are saved. Saved is in past tense. I remember
my dad underlining that and telling me if I should pay attention,
maybe one day I'll be saved. And that was the formula right
there. Romans chapter 10, these verses.
The moment you believe. Well you can't believe until
you've been given the grace of God, until you've been born again. Thou shalt believe in thine heart
that God hath raised him from the dead." That is one thing
about true Christianity. There is no question in our mind
about the Daystar arising, the Son of Righteousness arising
with healing in His wings. He would go into this earth and
he would be buried three days But he would also come out and
when the Word of God says he came out of the tomb Just like
he said he would the church says yes and amen That is what God
gives to me. So as we close tonight Would
you go back with me to the book of Malachi? there and at last
Book of the Old Testament book of Malachi chapter 4 and verse
2 Malachi chapter 4 and verse 2 But unto you that fear my name
shall the son of righteousness Arise with healing in his wings
and He has the ability of taking care of every spiritual problem
we have. He has the ability of taking
care of all the fear that we have. He has healing in His wings. We may die of cancer. We may
die of this pandemic. We may die in a plane crash.
That's not the kind of healing he's taken care of, even though
he's gracious at times to heal friends of ours, or family of
ours, or even ourselves from some sickness. But eventually,
we will die. That healing he's talking about
here is far more grand than just healing of this temporal body.
It is healing that He gives us from a spiritual standpoint.
Whereas we were broken, dead, and without hope, He quickens
us, causes us to have life, gives us the light of the glory of
God. The Word of God becomes precious to us. It is something
that we ponder on and think about because it is the message of
our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. with healing in his wings, and
ye shall go forth and grow as calves of the stall." How wonderful
the prophecies and the prophets of the Lord Jesus are to share
with us this great information about our Savior, and then to
find, as He speaks throughout the Scriptures, this is not just
one verse of Scripture hidden off somewhere in the book of
Malachi, but this is a verse of Scripture that has many counterparts
throughout the Scriptures that share with us this glorious light
that He gives us in the revelation of Jesus Christ to us, that we
might see Him, and in seeing Him, we might have life and life
more abundant. May God bless you as you think
on these things, and may God be gracious to us. Amen.