I'll read from verse one to verse
six. Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way
before me. And the Lord, whom ye seek, shall
suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant,
whom ye delight in. Behold, he shall come, saith
the Lord of hosts. But who may abide the day of
his coming? And who shall stand when he appeareth? For he is
like a refiner's fire, and like fuller soap. and he shall sit
as a refiner and purifier of silver. And he shall purify the
sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they
may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. Then shall
the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as
in the days of old, as in former years. And I will come near to
you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers,
against the adulterers, against false swears, against those that
oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless,
and that turn aside the stranger from his right. And fear not
me, saith the Lord of hosts, for I am the Lord, I change not. Therefore, ye sons of Jacob,
ye are not consumed." How's Brenda? Is she better still? Good, good. Very encouraging.
Always good news. Let's pray. Oh, our Father, in the blessed,
holy, glorious name of Your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, we come
to offer You thanks, to offer the praise and heartfelt thanks
of our hearts and lips Lord, we bless you that you're God
and it's because you're God and you never change. That's why
we're not consumed. That's why we have such a blessed
hope. That's why whatever comes and you send our way in your
providence, you always give the grace, the strength and the ability
to stand up under it. And Lord, if we bring any grace
or any glory to your holy name, it's because you caused it to
be so. We could attribute nothing to ourselves. And Lord, I thank
you for these dear saints of God that's gathered out here
this evening. And I pray for those who have great trials right
now. Pray for Sister Peggy. Lord,
you're the only one that can do for her body, do for her strength,
And we pray that you would strengthen her, would strengthen her body. I know it's her heart and will
and purpose to be here. The Spirit's willing, but the
flesh is so weak. And I pray for Mary. Lord, the
same thing. Lord, her Spirit's willing, but
the flesh is so weak. And Father, we pray for Steve's
family, his brother and his sister. And poor Donna, she lies so sick. Oh, bless the Savior. Lord, she's
in your hands. They're in your hands. We're
all in your hands. And we would never want to find ourselves
anyplace else. But do have mercy upon them and
strengthen them, encourage them. Enable them to bear this and
bring glory to your name through it. We thank you for what you're
doing for Janet's sister. Pray that you'd continue to strengthen
her. Enable her to get out and come home. And Lord, bring glory
to Yourself in the service, enable me to speak, enable me to deal
with these scriptures. And Father, we need You. Pray
You to forgive us of everything that's unlike You, and even of
our sin, our unbelief, and all the things that's wrong with
us. But we find our only hope and plea in you and your blessed
righteousness. Amen. Amen. Sweep over my soul, sweep over
my soul. Sweet Spirit, sweep over my soul. My joy is complete. When I sit at His feet, Sweet
Spirit, sweep o'er my soul. Malachi said here, Behold, I
send my messenger before my face. Now, we know that that's John
the Baptist. And then the Lord will come suddenly to his temple.
And Christ did. He came to the temple suddenly,
opened up Isaiah 61, and began to preach from it. But Malachi
was sent in a time after the Babylonian captivity, after Zechariah
and Nehemiah and those fellows, those dear prophets. And the
temple had been rebuilt. Remember, we talked about the
temple and Zechariah being rebuilt and almost rebuilt, and they
quit, and they started again and finished it. And the temple
had been rebuilt. Sacrifices had been resumed.
The ordinances of divine worship had started all over again. The
priesthood was active. And to all outward appearances,
everything seemed to be going fine. That is, all outward appearances.
The priesthood was already defiled. They had already married, as
Nehemiah had done chastisement for marrying strange women, people
that had other gods. He had done chastisement for
that, and yet they did it again. We'll see that here in Nehemiah,
I mean, excuse me, Malachi. And the support of the print
ministry and the support of the house of God, the temple, was
neglected. And here in Malachi, all their
worship was superficial, just absolutely superficial. Like
our Lord Jesus told the Pharisees of His day. He said, you indeed
draw near to me. with your mouth. And you worship, you know not
what, but your hearts, your hearts are so far from me. And you clean
everything up on the outside, but don't you know that He that
made the outside also made the inside? And that's the way they
were. These people and their worship
was all superficial. And a lot like the days that
you and I live in, they had the name of the Lord, they professed
professed to be his people, and yet there was a terrible coldness
and indifference toward the Lord. And he says, you know, that in
the last days, because the love of God would wax cold, the iniquity
would abound. And iniquities abound. Now, a
lot of folks go through a lot of religion. Go through a lot
of religion. Go through a lot of motions and
a lot of rituals and a lot of superficial things and make a
lot of noise. But, beloved, I'm telling you,
that there is no heart in it, no soul in it. Their unbelief
is evident by the things they say about God, the way they call
about God, and the way they go through their worship. And religion
to them is nothing but a ritual. It's an outward exercise. It's
a mechanical thing. And the way they drew, the way
they worshiped God, it was like our Lord said, you draw near
to me, you lift with your lips, but your hearts are far from
me. And it's just, in the religious world, they were just like this.
They're lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a
form, a form of godliness, but denying the power of it. And
God sent his messenger to these people. Let me tell you three
unique things about the book of Malachi. Three unique things.
First of all, it's the last book in the Old Testament. It concludes
the Old Testament. It's God's last word to his people
for 400 years. You're not going to have a prophet?
Nobody's going to stand up and speak for God? When Malachi closes
and says his last word, the next prophet that steps on the scene
is John the Baptist, and he comes with a thundering voice, preparing
the way of the Lord. He's the voice in the wilderness.
And the last word of this is repent ye, and the first word
John came preaching was, repent ye for the kingdom of God is
at hand. So this is the last book in the
Old Testament. Secondly, this message was delivered as a dialogue,
a dialogue between God and man. You know, God speaks and then
they speak. And Malachi came and delivered
this message from God to men. And there's a series of questions.
And these series and these questions are answered. And twelve times
in these first three chapters, they would say, God is saying,
and He said, but you say. You say. Twelve times they would
say, you say. You remember when our Lord Jesus
Christ on the Sermon on the Mount, He said, you have heard it said.
Well, that's what these say. They say. They say. No matter
what God said, they say. And thirdly, this message. is written as though God himself
is speaking to them. This is the dialogue. God's speaking
to them. And of the 55 verses in this
book, 55 verses out of four chapters, 47 of them are spoken by God
to these people more than any other prophets in the Old Testament.
And so the first thing that Malachi does is he cries out and talks
about God's sovereign, distinguishing, electing love Now, starting in
verse 1, the burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. Now, here's the first thing that
he says to them. I've loved you, saith the Lord. Oh, listen. I've loved you, saith the Lord. The first thing he does, he starts
talking about the love that he has to Jacob. Yet you say, wherein
as thou lovedest was not Esau Jacob's brother, saith the Lord?
Yet I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau, and laid his mountains
waste. He begins to talk about God's elect and God's love for
His elect. And everything God does in this
world, He does for His elect, for their eternal salvation,
for their everlasting good. And here He says, But I hated
Esau, the lady's mountain, whose heritage wastes for the dragons
of the wilderness. Oh, the reprobate exists only
to serve God's purpose of grace towards His elect. We eat food on our table that
some wicked man most likely produced. Some Esau, some were produced.
But God uses them for us. You think these fellows that
make all this technology and computers and phones and medicines
and science and all that, you think all them people are believers
that we benefit from all this stuff? No. No. So God, he says, for the children
not yet being born, neither having done any good or evil, according
to the election of God, that it might stand not of works,
but of him that calleth. Jacob have a love, but Esau have
a hatred. And oh, beloved, listen, we owe
all that we have and are to God's distinguishing mercy. Right now,
we owe it all to God's distinguishing love and grace that God bestowed
upon us in Christ, and He did it from all eternity. And I bless
His name for that because, listen, if it had been for me to choose
Him, how many of us would have ever chosen Him? How many of
us were religious and went to churches and didn't still know
God? How many of us prayed on altars and didn't know God? How
many of us wept tears and yet those tears had no remorse in
them, just a feeling of guilt. We want to get rid of our guilt.
But all that we have to Christ And God's distinguishing mercy
given to us in Him. The Lord said He loved us with
an everlasting love. And He said, I'll have mercy
on whom I'll have mercy, and have a compassion on whom I'll
have compassion. So it's not of Him that willeth,
nor of Him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. And
then He asked the question, who maketh thee to differ from another?
What have you got that you didn't receive? And also, beloved, we
owe all that we have. And I'll tell you, here's what
Malachi does. These Levites, you know, these
men who served in the temple of God, the Levites, and there
was lots of ministries in the temple of God. They were not
sustained by the offerings and the tithes as the people required,
as God required. They had to go out and work in
the fields for their needs, and then so God's service of His
house was neglected. And those whom they ministered
to suffered because of it. And that's why the scripture
said, Even so, the Lord hath ordained that they which preach
the gospel should live ever. Now, I told you that there were
seven questions in this dialogue between God and man. Now, there's
seven questions. And probably the saddest part
about these seven questions is, and what these people are like,
is they were not aware of the awful condition that they were
in. So when they came and Malachi began, these questions began
to be asked, this dialogue between God and man, these folks were
astonished. And that's why it says there
in verse one, excuse me, verse two, here's the first question.
I have loved you, saith the Lord, yet you say, here's the first,
when hast thou loved us? Where have you loved us? If you
loved us, why ain't everything just hunkered over? At times, we're so blind and
we're just so burdened out that we lose sight of the love of
God towards us. And that's what David said, you
know, he said, "'When hast thou loved us?' But as for me, my
feet were almost gone, my steps had well not slipped, for I was
envious of the foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked."
That's one of the greatest things that the devil uses against the
Lord's people. I said, oh my, look at all the
things that happens to God's people. I said, look at them.
Look what's the condition they're in. And he used that against
them. But he said, oh, I was in. I
was a fool, man. I was a fool. And David said
again in another place, Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain,
and washed my hands in innocence. For all the day long I've been
plagued and chastened every morning. So you say, we're in as thou
loved us. We're in as thou loved us. And yet you say we're in,
was not Esau Jacob's brother, he asked? Saith the Lord, yet
I love Jacob. Why didn't you do love Esau?
I hated Esau. And I was against him. I have
laid his mountains and his heritage to waste. We're for evil. Esau says, we
are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate
places, saith the Lord. They shall build, but I'll throw
it down. They shall call him to the border of the wickedness,
and all the people against the Lord have his indignation forever."
So you see, God's against them, but he's for Jacob. And that's
why they say, if you don't love me, why don't you love Esau?
Here's a second question, verse 6. This is God saying this. Now, this is God speaking. A
son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I be your
Father, where is my honor? Where is my fear? Saith the Lord
of hosts unto you, O priest, that do not despise my name.
And you say, When have we polluted thy name? When have we despised
thy name? Ain't that what they said? They
said there, When have we despised thy name? O you priest that despise
my name. When have we despised your name?
They despise the name of God by the way they worship, by the
way the things that they did, and they, God says, you despise
my name. You know, a son will honor his father. That servant
will do what his master tells him to do. And yet, if I'm your
father, you don't give me no honor. And if I be your master,
where's your fear for me at? You despise, wherever we despise
your name. The Lord reminded them, and listen,
they had no fear of God in their hearts. And oh, they said, when
have we despised thy name? But we ain't despised your name. People should know, and when
you say it, people are God-haters. And they are. I mean, men, apart
from a revelation of God, they're God-haters. Now, what I mean
by that is they don't hate the God that they know. And the Scriptures
tells us that the carnal mind is against God, and that word
enmity means furious. Furious. They're not upset with
their God, but they're upset with the God of the Bible when
they find out He does as He pleases, for whom He pleases, and always
as He pleases. He does not owe anybody anything. He is the Father, and yet they
go around using His name in an horrible way. He's their master,
but yet they have no fear of God before their eyes. And they'll
go in a church service, and they'll carry on the awfulest rigmarole,
and countin' and explainin' the scriptures away. And then when
you say that you despise God, when have we despised you? These
folks were shocked that God said, you despise me! You despise my
name! The only name we're in their
salvation. The only name who has all power. The only name that you can call
on to be saved. The only name that God Almighty
will have anything to do with you for. They said, you despise
it? Well, we don't despise it. We don't despise it. And oh,
listen, here's another one. He says in verse 7, You offer polluted bread upon
mine altar, and that's why I say, and you say, God says this about
them, and then they say this. They did not know the condition
they were in. You offer polluted bread upon
mine altar, and you say, where have we polluted thee? In that
you say the table of the Lord is contemptible. Where have we
polluted you? Where have we polluted your worship? Where have we polluted you? made
you and your name and your worship polluted. Well, listen to what
God says. He says you offer the blind for a sacrifice. Is not
that evil? And if you offer the lame and
sick, is not that evil? Offer it now. Take it to your
governor. Take that blind calf. Take that blind lamb. Take that
lame heifer. Take them ones up there that
God has. Take them doves up there that's
got half of the feathers missing on them. Full of mites and things. Take them to your governor. You
won't offer me this awful thing. You won't offer me the blind.
You won't offer me the lame and the sick. Now offer it to your
governor. Will he be pleased with you?
Accept your person, saith the Lord. And all this is said now,
I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us.
This hath by your means. Will he regard your persons,
saith the Lord of hosts? Who is there even among you that
would shut the doors for naught?" Oh, you won't do anything for
nothing. You won't do it because it's in your heart to do it.
You won't even kindle a fire on the altar for nothing. You
won't pay for everything you do. I have no pleasure in you,
saith the Lord of Hosts. Neither will I accept an offering
at your hand. Don't bring it to me. Just don't
bring it to me. For from the rising of the sun, even under
the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the
Gentiles, and that every place incense shall be offered in my
name, and a pure offering. And my name shall be great among
the heathen, saith the Lord of Hosts." That's us. But you've
profaned it. You priest, you Israel, you profaned
it in that you say the table of the Lord is polluted, the
fruit thereof, even his need is contemptible. And oh, what
a weariness is in it! What a weariness is it to me!
You snuffed out it, saith the Lord of hosts. You bought that
which was torn, the lame, the sick. Thus you bought an offering.
Should I accept this of your hand? saith the Lord. You know,
we have told you time and time and time and time and time again,
and we'll say it until I get through preaching and my preaching
is done and my time is run. But I'll say this as long as
I'm able to preach and as long as I'm able to stand, that it
must be perfect to be accepted. And that's why we cannot bring
anything of our own because nothing that we have is ever perfect. the only way in the world there's
any perfection. The Scripture says you are complete
in Him, perfect in Him. He has to be the one to present
as holy, acceptable, and unblameable, and unreprovable in His sight.
Anything else, God says, I won't accept it. All it is, is you're
bringing me your lame excuses, you're bringing me your sorry,
weak offerings, you're bringing me your evil hearts, and you're
bringing me the wickedness of your mind, and you're bringing
me this, and saying that I'm doing the best I can. God said
the best you got is lame, sick, weak, blind, and torn. Go out
and get roadkill and offer it to God. That's what he's saying
here. But cursed be the deceiver which hath in his flock a male,
and vows to sacrifice unto the Lord, Lord, a corrupt thing."
Oh my, I'm a great king, saith the Lord of Hosts, and my name
is dreadful among the heathen. Oh, it's dreadful to me. It's
dreadful to me. Look at another one here. Fourth
question. Verse 17 of chapter 2. You have wearied the Lord with
your words. When have we wearied Him? See
how they say that? God said, this is what you've
done. They said, well, we're in the wilderness. When did we do
this? When did we say this? When have we wearied Him? When
you say, everyone, here's how you wearied. Everyone that doeth
evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in
him. Or where is the God of judgment?
They're taking the worst people and saying they're good people.
Fine people. Good people. No matter what anybody
does, they get to go to glory. They're good people. And that's
what he says. They doeth evil, and you say
it's good in the sight of the Lord. Good in the sight of the
Lord. And, O beloved, this priest was supposed to keep knowledge,
to seek the word of his mouth. But they left the way, and caused
the people to stumble. Look back up here in verse 7.
They caused the people to stumble. Showing they were weary. For
the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek
the law of his mouth. For he is the messenger of the
Lord of hosts. But you depart out of the way.
Not only that, but you cause many to stumble at the law. You've
corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of Hosts. You've
corrupted it. And he says, Therefore I have
also made you contemptible, made you base before all the people,
according as you have not kept my ways, but have been partial
in the law. You've been partial. You say
this one's right and that one's wrong. Keep this part of the
law, not that part of the law. Have we not all one Father? Has
not one God created us? Why do we deal preciously every
man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our Father? This
is what they were doing. They were supposed to be teaching
people the Scriptures, teaching what God said. But they departed. And then when they've done that,
everybody departs with them. They become contemptible and
base before all the people. They say, you say and you do
not. And then look what he said, "...Judah hath dealt treacherously,
and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For
Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord, which he loved,
and hath married the daughter of a strange God." They led the
people to profane the very holiness of God, profane God's holiness. They profaned God's altar. They
profaned God's worship. Look what they said, And this
have ye done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears,
with weeping, and with crying, out insomuch that ye regard not
the offering any more, or receive it that were good at your hands.
And, O beloved, they come down where they didn't have any guide
whatsoever. And the preachers and the priests
were contemptible. Now here's another one. Verse
7 of chapter 3. Now the Lord is the one talking
here, and then these people say this thing back. Even from the
days of your fathers, you are gone away from mine ordinances,
and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return
unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But you say, when shall we return? We ain't going nowhere. That's
what they're saying. We ain't going nowhere. Oh, they didn't even know that
they had strayed from the Lord. They were actually thinking they
were doing God's service. Is that what our Lord told them
so many times in the New Testament? Oh my. They thought that, you
know, where are we going to return? We're going on about our business.
We don't need to return. And oh, here's one. Here's one. And preachers have used this
in the wrong way more than you can ever imagine. In verse 8, will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you
say, wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Where
have we robbed you? The people of Israel robbed God
of His honor as their God, their half-hatted worship. The tithe was devoted to God,
to the ministry, so that the Levites could live and support
the ministry. And yet they robbed God. And
preachers say, well, you robbed God of your testimony, you robbed
God of your tithes, you robbed God of your devotion and all
that. But always said, where have you
robbed me? You took the things that belong to me that are supposed
to support the ministry, and you keep it to yourself.
Look what he said. You know, in Leviticus, let me
read this to you. and all the tithes of the land,"
and tithe means a tenth, whether of the seed of the land or the
fruit of the tree, it is the Lord's. It is holy under the
Lord, and if a man will at all redeem all of his tithes, he
shall add thereto the fifth part thereof, and concerning the tithe
of the herd or of the flock, even as whatsoever passeth under
the rod, the tenth shall be holy under the Lord. Now, why did
they do that? Well, they took a tenth of the
fruit, a tenth of the apples, a tenth of everything in the
flock, a tenth of everything they had, and they carried it
up to the temple, because that's how the Levites lived. If they had any apples, they
got them off somebody else's tree. If they had any fruit,
they got it out of somebody else's garden, and that's how they brought
a tenth of it. And you take a tenth and spread that among a bunch
of people, a bunch of Levites and that, and it didn't go very
far. And that's what they said. They said, you're robbing me
of that. You'll entice the increase. And if you kept, said, well,
I can't, I can't give my tithe now. Then if you did, when you
did bring your tithe, you had to add a fifth of that to it.
You had to add, what would that be? 20%? A fifth of it? And so they had to add it back.
Bring it back. And oh, you go on and on and
on about it, but now let me say something about this business
right here. Before the law was given, requiring tithes, and
Abraham and Jacob both voluntarily tithed as a response to acknowledging
God as they belonged to Him and owed everything to Him. And Abram
said to God, and he said, Blessed be Abram of the Most High God,
possessor of heaven and earth, and blessed the Most High God
which delivered thine unto my hands, and gave him a tithe of
all that he had. Jacob sent this pillar for a
stone, and said, This shall be God's house, and of all that
thou shalt give me, I'll give you a tenth of it back. And there,
God sent as a display of repentance, the Lord calls for Israel to
bring all the tithes into the storehouse, into the temple.
And they did. They have places where they keep
it all. And promises to bless and honor those who act in such
a way as to worship. It's promised to them to honor.
Look what he says. He goes on to say here, Chapter
3, verse 8, Will a man rob God? Yes, you've robbed me, but you
say, where have you robbed me? In tithes and offerings. You're
cursed with a curse, for you have robbed me, even the whole
nation. Bring ye all the tithes into
the storehouse, that there may be need in mine house. And then,
when you do this, prove me now, herewith saith the Lord of hosts,
that if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you
out a blessing, that you shall not be room enough to receive
it. And now look, he goes on to say this, and he said, I'll
rebuke the devourer for your sakes. And he won't destroy your
fruits of your ground, he'll not cause your vine to caster
fruit before the time. And all nations shall call you
blessed, for you shall be a delightsome lamb, saith the Lord of Hosts.
And, O Beloved," that's what God said, "'Honor the Lord with
thy substance, and with the firstfruits of thine increase, so shall thy
barn be filled with plenty, and thy presence burst out with new
wines.'" Now, let's go to the New Testament. Let me show you
something now. I hope I'm not taking too long, but let me show
you something. In the New Testament, tithe is
mentioned only eight times, and in each time it refers to the
Old Testament practice. Our Lord says the scribes and
Pharisees paid tithes of Nehemiah and Isaac coming, and they ought
to have done that, but they left mercy and judgment undone. Now
fast twice in the week, give tithes of the law of life, it
says, and go on and on. But this is a law that never
applied to believers by the gospel. The gospel teaches believers
to give generously and willingly. The law is what requires the
tithe. And here he says, see, we don't have the priesthood
anymore. We don't have a storehouse anymore.
We don't have to, I don't have to have the fruit off of your
trees. I don't have to have the apple. I don't have to have your
animals. I don't have to have that anymore.
And then he goes on to say in Acts 2.44, all that believed
were together and had all things common, and sold their possessions,
and departed to all men as every man had need. And, O Beloved,
they all had one heart, and the Lord sold the things, laid them
at the apostles' feet, and everybody brought, and brought it to the
apostles' feet. And okay, let me finish the last
one here. Let's look here. Chapter 3, verse 13 again. Here's
another. Here's the last question. Boy,
it's hot in here, ain't it? Your words have been spout against
me, saith the Lord. Yet you say, what have we spoken
so much against thee? Oh, my. Oh, what have we spoken
so much against you? The previous verse shows that
they've spoken against the Lord both in word and action. They
robbed him of his tithes. They went and done what they
wanted to do. They kept up the religious ceremonies. They didn't
worship God in their hearts. So what have we spoken against
you? But oh, listen, beloved. God shall have a faithful remnant.
There's a faithful remnant. And bless His name. Look down
here in chapter 3 and verse 16. God has a faithful remnant in
the midst of this rebellious and profane and wicked people. There's a faithful remnant. And
oh, God's elect. And they're going to experience
the fulfillment of our Lord's prophecies. Look what it said
in verse 16. Then they that feared the Lord
Well, all this was going on. When God would bring a charge
against them, they'd say, well, if you say we've done these things.
Then David feared the Lord, spake often one to another, and the
Lord hearkened, and he heard. The Lord listens to us now, pays
attention to us. And a book of remitment was written
before him for them that feared the Lord, and listen to this,
and that thought upon his name. He said, over here, they don't
even think about me. And listen to what he says, "'And they shall
be mine,' said the Lord of Hosts. In that day, when I make up my
jewels, I'll spare them as a father spares his own son that serveth
him.'" And oh, beloved, look who's coming. Look who's coming
back over here in chapter 4. Oh, this speaks about our Lord
Jesus coming. For behold, the day cometh that
shall burn as an oven, the proud yea and all that do wickedly
shall be a stone, and the day that cometh shall burn them up,
saith the Lord of hosts, that it won't leave a branch or a
root. 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. Out of the stalls. Oh, my. I heard a song yesterday
when I was coming home. And the song says, when those
that are hurt and the healer, and he that does the healing,
meet at the same time. The song was about people hurting
and the pain they were going through. But when those that
are hurting and the healer meet at the same time. Oh, what great
work is done. And Christ is going to rise when
that day comes for the rising of Him with that heel in His
wings. Judgment for everybody else. Our blessed Savior, thank You
for allowing us this time together. I pray that You would be pleased
to take what has been said and use it this evening to Your glory
and our good. And Lord, I thank You for allowing
us this privilege to go through the Old Testament. It's been
profitable. It's been good. And I pray that
when we go back and look through it again, that we'll be able
to remember things that we've heard, things that's been said. The Lord is your precious Word.
So open our hearts to understand it, our minds to believe it,
and the grace to walk in it. We ask these things in Christ's
holy name. Amen. Amen.