Covenant Faithfulness and Community Fruitfulness

Sunday, July 10, 2011
Ben Janssen
Malachi • God's Messenger Through the Centuries
Malachi 2:10-12

Malachi’s second oracle is focused on the problem of Israel’s covenant faithlessness. By intermarrying with people who did not worship the Lord, the people had committed an abominable act, turning God’s grace to them into an opportunity to commit spiritual adultery. The prophet calls for God to respond severly to their treachery,thereby demonstrating why the Church today must take seriously any covenant faithlessness within her midst.

Series Info

Malachi • God's Messenger Through the Centuries

Series Description

Malachi is the final book in the Old Testament and was the final prophetic voice of God until John the Baptist came some 400 years later. Malachi’s prophecy was given to the nation of Israel following their return home after a 70 year captivity in Babylon. Hopes for a return to pre-captivity prosperity were not panning out, however, and God sent Malachi to inform the people of his unceasing love for them. But he also pointed out the real source of Israel’s problems and the real solution to the sin that continued to plague them, and it is this message from God that continues to be proclaimed to us down through the centuries.

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