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Welcome to Shur Foundation Baptist Church, if you could find your seats and grab your
green song books and turn to page number one.
We're going to sing, Jesus I, my cross have taken.
Welcome to Shur Foundation Baptist Church, if you could find your seats and grab your
green or red song books and turn to page number one.
We're going to be singing, Jesus I, my cross have taken.
And I'm going to need you to lend me your beautiful voices as we sing this together,
Acapulco.
Song number one in your green hymn books, Jesus I, my cross have taken, let's sing it
out together on the first.
Jesus I, my cross have taken, all to leave and follow thee.
Destitute, despised, forsaken, thou from hence my all shall be.
Perish every fond ambition, all I've sought and hoped and known.
Yet how rich is my condition, God and heaven are still my own.
Let the world despise and leave me, they have left my savior too.
Human hearts and looks deceive me, thou art not like man untrue.
And while thou shalt smile upon me, God of wisdom, love and might, foes may hate and
friends may shun me, show thy face and all is bright.
And may trouble and distress me, twill but drive me to thy breast.
Life with trials hard may press me and will bring me sweeter rest.
O, tis not in grief to harm me, while thy love is left to me.
O, twere not in joy to charm me, were that joy unmixed with thee.
Haste thee on from grace to glory, armed by faith and winged by prayer.
Heav's eternal days before thee, God's own hand shall guide thee there.
Soon shall close thy earthly mission.
Swift shall pass thy pilgrim days, hope shall change to glad fruition.
Faith to sign and prayer to praise.
Amen, Brother Alex, could you open yourself up and a word of prayer?
Yeah, well, Father, thank you for our church here.
Thank you to all the people who came tonight.
We pray for those that couldn't make it.
Father, bring them back to me.
We ask you to bless our worship here in all the things we do in Jesus' name, Amen.
Amen.
Our second song will be song 155, Doxology.
Song 155, Doxology.
Let's sing it together.
And there's only one verse on it.
We'll repeat it.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
Praise Him all creatures here below.
Praise Him above ye heavenly hosts.
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
Praise Him all creatures here below.
Praise Him above ye heavenly hosts.
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Good evening. Welcome to Church Foundation Baptist Church.
Let's take our bulletins and go through some announcements really quickly on our front cover.
If you need a bulletin, would you just lift up your hand?
Brother, I'll bring you a bulletin.
All right.
On our front cover, we have the verse of the week.
It says, Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matthew chapter 11, verse 28.
And our service times, our 1030 a.m. for our preaching service.
Sunday morning, Sunday evening is at 3.30 p.m.
And Thursday evening, Bible study, 6.30 p.m.
We're starting a brand new book tonight, the book of Malachi.
And so that'll be, what, four chapters?
We'll start another book after that.
But we'll start, of course, chapter number one.
We'll do an overview tonight and cover chapter one.
And then the sowing times are listed there below.
Did anybody get saved out sowing?
No? Okay.
And then we had a good praise report for our conference.
We had huge attendances on every night.
But ever since then, it's kind of just dropped off.
A lot of people have been sick and things like that,
so let's continue to pray for those that have been out.
And just a quick note there at the top on the upcoming events,
the Pretoria South Africa sowing trip that brother Ian organized down there had 86 salvations.
And so they're going to be starting a sowing group down there,
so it's not necessarily a church plant,
but that's what it's kind of working toward.
So then June 6th, I had to cancel the men's leadership class,
so I rescheduled that to June 20th.
So June 20th, guys, for that one.
And then I'll be in Winnipeg this weekend for the official launch of our church plant up in Winnipeg.
So we'll also be the ordination of brother Jim Wee will be taking place also.
We'll be preaching both sermons.
We're going to have some sowing and fellowship up there.
So that's going to be a great weekend up there in Canada.
June 17th, we have the annual men's shooting event in Stevenson, Washington.
Brother Sean, are you still wanting to put that on?
Okay, I just want to make sure.
I just automatically put it in there because it's kind of something we do.
It's the only thing we get to do that's fun in the year.
So the women get all the other cool stuff.
But anyway, so that's our time to shine.
So keep those kids home.
Let us go have some fun as men out there and shoot some stuff.
Anyway, so I think that we provide the ammunition.
I think we still have some left over.
Cool. All right.
Well, does anybody plan on going to that?
Yeah? Okay.
Let's go shoot some stuff.
And so anybody can go to that.
It's just a men's shooting.
So obviously it's kind of Forefathers Day.
But any man can be there.
And what time do you think we're going to do that?
Noon.
Yeah, that's what I figured.
But I just want to make sure.
So it's going to be noon at the Bridge of the Gods.
And then we'll drive up to the regular spot.
So don't be late.
Otherwise you're going to get left behind like Kirk Cameron and Nicolas Cage.
All right.
So June 18th is Father's Day, of course, which is the next day.
And we'll have a gift for every dad in attendance here.
And lunch will be provided after the morning service.
June 30th through July 2nd will be the Bible Believers Baptist Church big weekend.
And we're going to have Deacon Corbin Russell up there preaching for us on Friday night at 7 p.m.
And there will be a soul winning time on Saturday on the reservation, probably Wapato.
And then a meal and fellowship at the church building at 3 p.m.
Sunday at 1030 I'll be preaching.
And at 3.30 p.m. I'll be preaching there.
July 20th we'll have Pastor Steven L. Anderson preaching for us on Thursday night,
the first night of the Red Hot Preaching Conference.
So he'll be here preaching a Red Hot sermon for you if you're not going.
Who's not going?
Raise your hand.
OK.
So there'll be a couple of people here.
Well, I mean, normally we have a lot more people here to raise their hands.
But anyhow, so it'll be a good time, I'm sure.
And just really thankful for the fact that he's coming to preach for us one more time here.
And so I'll be preaching at 10 p.m. on the Wednesday, so the 19th.
Then I'll be flying to the Red Hot Preaching Conference.
And then speaking of the Red Hot Preaching Conference, that's going to be July 20th through 23rd.
And I believe that's the seventh annual Red Hot Preaching Conference.
So I've been to all of them and it's always a great time.
It's the highlight of the year.
So if you've never been there before, if you've never been at the conference, it'd be a good one to go to.
And then the soul winning trip to Toronto is something that Brother Corbin has put together.
And it's with some guys over in Canada and Toronto.
So I hear it's really receptive there.
And that's going to be the official dates are the August 3rd through 6th.
So I think that's like maybe a Wednesday through Saturday.
Or maybe a Thursday through Sunday or something like that.
But I'll be back here to preach at our church.
I'm just going to go to the actual soul winning part.
And then, of course, you know all this other stuff, I don't need to, I think, belabor the announcements.
And oh yeah, I want to sing happy birthday to Remy and Sean and Hazel and Naomi's in Canada.
But let's, I'm not going to sing happy birthday.
I don't have a piano player. I'm not doing it.
Unless somebody wants to guitar it for me.
And you already know how I sing acapella.
Remy, come sing happy birthday to yourself.
But anyway, happy birthday to you guys.
I'm not singing.
But I'll give you a birthday beating later on.
So that's all I have for announcements.
Let's go ahead and sing another song and then we'll receive the offering.
Alright, our next song is song number 28.
Alas, and did my savior bleed?
And notice that there's no chorus, so it's just going to be a little short one.
The less you have to hear me singing up here by myself on acapella, probably the better.
So we'll pick some short songs.
Song number 28.
Alas, and did my savior bleed?
Let's sing it out together on the first there.
Alas, and did my savior bleed?
And did my sovereign die?
Would he devote that sacred head for such a worm as I?
Was it for crimes that I have done?
He groaned upon the tree.
Amazing pity, grace unknown, and love beyond degree.
Well, might the sun in darkness hide and shut his glories in
When Christ the mighty Maker died, for man the creature sinned.
But drops of grief can ne'er repay the debt of love I owe.
Here, Lord, I give myself to Thee, test all that I can do.
Good singing.
Brother Ramon, would you bless the offering for us?
Father Ramon, would you just stand here now?
Father Ramon, would you bless the offering for us?
Thank you.
Malachi chapter 1.
Pray for us.
Amen.
We're starting a new book tonight, like I said,
and it's going to be the book of Malachi,
and I'm going to do a brief overview.
Let's look at verse number 1 real quickly.
It says,
by Malachi.
Let's pray. Lord, thank you so much for the book of Malachi
and all the lessons that it's going to teach us.
I pray, Lord, that you'd help me
as the pastor here
to just
get the right sense of what the Scriptures
are trying to say to us as a whole
in this book, and also, Lord,
things that can be applied to our life
spiritually out of this book,
and, Lord, we know that all Scripture is profitable
for us. I pray you just bless
and fill me with your Spirit as I preach
your word, and that, Lord, the people
will be attentive to your words.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Alright, so the burden of the word of the Lord
to Israel by
Malachi. So, just a brief overview
of the book.
The book of Malachi is also called
The Prophecy of Malachias,
the last of the 12
books of the
Hebrew Bible, so that's
right before Matthew,
and the times don't take place
right after each other.
There's about a 400 to 430 year
gap in between the book
of Malachi and the book of Matthew,
and so
it's considered one of
the minor prophets, of course, and then
it's grouped together
in those 12
minor prophet books,
and
it is
so
the word Malachi means
my messenger in Hebrew. It's a
transliteration from the Hebrew
to English for us,
but it means my messenger, and some people
believe that it wasn't
necessarily a man named Malachi.
Some people believe that they don't
know who it really is. It's just kind of
saying my messenger. I don't really take
that stance. I think that it probably is
really a guy named Malachi,
and God, you know, He has a way of
putting the right names with the right people sometimes
to make it fit for us
and fit for the time and fit
for, you know, He'll name, have the
prophets name His children certain
names to kind of just, you know, rebuke
Israel and things like that, but
you know, I mean, if you think about it,
one of the verses that are in it is
I will send my messenger
before your face, and so this
is the final prophecy here that we get
of John the Baptist coming and being
a, you know, coming before Christ
and preaching, and
then, of course, in this
book, it tells us basically what's going to happen
next, that, you know, the messenger is going
to come. John, it's going to, and we
of course know that's John the Baptist.
It calls him Elijah when Jesus
references, when people are saying
well, doesn't Elijah have to come first, and then
he says yes, but he's already
come already, and the
person of John the Baptist, you know,
spiritually, not like a reincarnation or
anything weird like that. So, I know
people like to teach that, but it's a strange doctrine.
There's no such thing
as purgatory or reincarnation,
things like that.
So, but
the fact that he, you know, if this
is written by a man named Malachi, which I do,
I personally believe it is. This
is my opinion, but a fitting
name for a person named
my messenger to proclaim
the fact that God's messenger
was going to come, and so then
you have like about 400 years or so
of no prophets preaching
to the children of Israel, because
at this point, I
believe by the context that you
see in the scriptures here
that the second temple
has already been rebuilt, and so
you already have Zerubbabel
and all these other guys
that have come, and I believe
that when it's talking about
sacrifices, because look, the sacrifices
stopped in Israel
for 70 years, so they weren't
sacrificing anymore, so
and this is placed as the
last book for a reason,
because, but God's mentioning
these different
types of things, he's mentioning sacrifices,
he's mentioning the table,
and all these different things
of the temple, so that
kind of tells me that the temple's already
been rebuilt, and already been dedicated,
so, anyway,
then
also, let's see,
so the main message of this
book is, in my
opinion,
it's basically to show God's
people that they can't be faithful
to this covenant. They haven't been faithful
to the covenant, they're no longer being
faithful to the covenant, and
you know, he's basically,
the way
Malachi is preaching these
things, he's doing like a question
answer session, but he knows
the answer, or he knows their
question that they're saying
and he knows their answer also.
He knows their hearts, and so it's kind of
an interesting way how he says the
things in this book,
where he's saying, you know, he
asks them a question, then
he kind of rebukes them for their stupid
thoughts and answers, but
you know, God
knows our hearts, he knows what we
think, he knows where we
you know, when it talks about snuffing at
his, the things that
are important to God, and
it kind of talks about that in this chapter,
but you know, God
is just basically telling them
throughout this whole four chapters how
they've failed over and over again, and that God
is going to punish them for
these things, and he really gets after
the priests, the ones that are supposed to be
doing the sacrifices and working
in the temple of the Lord and all that stuff,
but he also
you know, he's not going to completely
abandon them either,
and he's going to send John, he's going to send
Jesus Christ, and things are going to
change, and
he prophesies
you know, he prophesies
you know, different things here, but like the main
the main thing you really want to take out of this
is that he's, this is the last thing
that happens before the New Testament,
and then of course
you know, the Greeks take over,
and then at some point, you know, history
tells us that, you know,
that all these different things that were kind of
prophesied at the Book of Daniel happened during the time
during that time, the Maccabees
and all that kind of stuff. Now the Book of Maccabees
is not scripture.
You might take it as some historical
context or whatever, but it's
can we really depend on anything
unless it's God's holy word? I mean
I don't believe it's God's word. It's not, it's
it might be in like a Catholic Bible or something.
It might be in the Apocrypha, but it's not
going to be, it's not in the King James.
So, I mean it was
in the 1611, but it is
the King James translators
who helped us to understand that that was not scripture.
That's why they sandwiched it in the
middle. So, they're probably just trying to make
the Catholics happy because they're all upset about
it. So, anyway
you can never make them happy
but, so
and again
I already kind of mentioned the stuff about the Temple. I was just trying
to skim through this and
so he
he's also, he's going to reprove
them because they're still under the Old
Covenant, so he's going to try to correct them
and help them to understand that
they need to keep the commandment. They need to keep
God's covenant. They're still under the covenant.
They've broken the covenant
and they had their part to keep
and that's kind of how covenants
work. Both people are supposed to
keep their covenant, but God will never break his
covenant, but if
they break it, that's on them.
So, the New Testament's an everlasting
covenant, so we don't have to
worry about that being done away with because it's
never going to be. So, number one tonight
we're going to see
the Lord's love for Israel
and look at verse number two
it says, I have loved you, say
the Lord, yet you say, wherein
hast thou loved us?
Was not Esau Jacob's brother?
sayeth the Lord, yet I love
Jacob, and I hated
Esau, and laid his mountains
and his heritage waste
for the dragons
of the wilderness. Now,
this is kind of a
controversial topic
amongst new IFBers in some ways.
Some people think
that Esau, that God's literally
saying that he hates
Esau himself, or
both, but
it's obvious in the context of
this passage, I think, that he's talking
about the nation. That's what I
personally believe and it's, you know,
because it's talking about his heritage. I've laid his
mountains and his heritage, that's the things
that come after him, right?
For the dragons of the wilderness. He hated
Esau. Now,
I,
I'm not dogmatic about this.
I just, it's not
something to be dogmatic over. How do we
really know whether Esau was saved or not? We
really just don't know. And that's kind
of the controversy. Some people believe that
Esau was saved and some people
don't. So, I would
say this for the people that don't believe
that Esau was saved, that
it doesn't really say good things about
him. And, you know,
I will say this also, that in the New Testament
it doesn't say anything positive about
him at all. That's usually
not a good sign that someone
is saved. Like, when he talks about
Cain in the New Testament, he's a false prophet.
When he talks about, you know, he talks
about Balaam, false
prophet. You know, and
I'm not saying that that's 100%
you know, always like some kind of
thing, but you know, it seems like in the
New Testament, if it's going to villainize someone, it's
going to villainize them. If it's going to say that
they're good or whatever. But then
you've got Lot. So,
Lot is called a righteous man.
He is called a just man.
But yet, you don't see him in the Old Testament
do anything that was good. I mean,
I can't think of one thing that
Lot did good. So,
but,
but again, the context here I
believe is talking about the nation
of the Edomites. Obviously,
Esau was long dead when this
came to be. And I
do want to kind of, you know, we're going to do some
studying here, but I want to jog
through and then you can just kind of make up your own mind
and it really doesn't matter what
we think about it. It really doesn't matter what
we think. You know, we know
we're either going to see Esau in
heaven or we're not going to. And I feel like I've
kind of belabored this before.
Just talked about this, this
concept, but right when I chose
to pick this book, I was like, really? I got to deal with Esau
again? Not really.
You know, whatever, but I
found some good scriptures that are
pretty cool. So let's turn to Genesis
chapter 25.
We'll go back to when Esau
and Jacob were in
their mother's womb
and look at Genesis 25
verse
22.
So here I believe
it's talking about both of
them in
some way, shape, or form. Look, it says
in verse 22, and the children struggled
together within her. So I mean, they're
already fighting
in the womb. They're
already having problems. Like, physically
they're beefing.
And she doesn't understand what's going on.
And it says the children struggled
together within her and she said,
if it be so, why am I thus?
And she went to inquire
of the Lord. So she actually goes to the Lord about
it. It's like this struggle is
going on inside of her womb.
And it says, and the Lord said
unto her, two nations
are in thy womb
and two manner of people.
So he's differentiating
there's two different nations.
So obviously we know that Jacob
became the nation of Israel
and Esau became
the nation of the Edomites
or the Edomites.
Two different nations
and then two manner of people.
But really it's hard to
differentiate really
Jacob's goodness over Esau's goodness
in the beginning of the story because Jacob's
kind of a low down scoundrel in a lot of ways
too. And he kind of gets
punished later on for that.
He serves for Rachel
for seven years and then, surprise, it's
Leah. And those types of things
happen to him.
But Jacob
is, you know, it's not
how good we are that makes
God choose us.
Nobody in this room is saved because God
liked the way you were before you got
saved. So if you look at
both these guys it says that there are two manner
of people. So
when you talk about manners it's like what type of
lifestyle do they live? Well, there are
differences between Jacob and Esau.
So one difference is that Jacob
got married. And obviously
Esau did too.
But in the New Testament it does talk
about him being profane.
And you know how people will disagree about this too.
It does say a fornicator
and profane as Esau.
So I don't know how that
is different in your English vocabulary
but in mine that kind of seems to me like
it's talking about that guy.
The Bible doesn't say
in the Old Testament that he committed fornication
so we don't know that for sure.
But then we do know
that he was profane.
And that just means, it's not like he was walking
around saying the F word all the time.
Because that's not what profanity is.
Profanity is when you're using
the things and basically
just kind of treating things that are holy
not holy.
And you're talking about things that are
holy and acting
like they're not a big deal.
And when it came to his birthright
he just sold it for a bowl of
lentils.
A bowl of soup.
And that's where he got his nickname
was from getting
this lentil soup.
It's also red and hairy.
He kind of was named
like his nickname really was red.
And people that have red hair
usually they kind of get that
nickname. Like brother Sean
Big Red
I mean that's his nickname.
Hey
you came up with it not me.
But
you should
have my truck.
Big Red should be in Big Red.
But anyway
so
it says there's two
nations. Two manner
of people. And Esau
was like a grief of mine to his parents
because he's marrying women that are
not inside the
family of faith. And they're upset
about that. He does it a couple times.
But now Jacob goes
and even though he's screwed up
and he gets punished and all the other
things that happened to him with Laban and all that
but God is guiding his life
and Jacob calls upon the name of the
Lord multiple times
in the Old Testament in the book of Genesis.
Where do you see Esau doing that though?
You don't really see that do you?
But I will say this
about Esau in his defense
he is trying
to murder his brother
but then when he has a chance
to just totally annihilate him
and take him off the face of the earth
then he doesn't do that.
And they actually have
kind of like
I'm glad to see a brother moment
and they seem like
they're okay with each other.
So when it's talking about the elder
serving the younger that really doesn't take
place in the life of Jacob.
Jacob is humble when
he's afraid when
Esau comes with
400 men, 400 horses
and then Jacob's got his family split
into the ones that he wants to be killed first in case they
get attacked and which ones can escape
which I think is kind of messed up too.
I mean he's like
put the handmaids up front
Rachel's in the far back
Leah
so it's kind of messed
up but
choosing the favorites there.
But anyway so
the rest of this verse
it basically says
so two people shall be separated from
my bowels and one people shall be
stronger than the other people
and the elder shall serve the younger.
So this has to be talking
about later on.
Because Israel always had Edom
under their feet
and God always
chose to take the side
of Israel.
So when it says that he loved
Israel he's talking about
the nation of Israel
but he also loved Israel the man.
So you can't really deny that fact.
Yes or no.
So and then it says he
hated Esau
and he hated his descendants.
So but not all of them.
You know I don't think that he hated all
of them and you know
it could be just a thing like you know
if you if you love Christ you're supposed to
you're you're you're hate you know
it's supposed to be as if you hate your family members
in comparison to how much you love Christ.
But let's turn over to Deuteronomy
chapter 2 because when the children of Israel
first start going in their
wanderings in the wilderness
they
they run across the path of Esau
his
descendants here and
Deuteronomy chapter 2 verse 1 it says
then we turned and took our journey
into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea
as the Lord spake unto me and we compassed
Mount Seir many days. Now
if you've been here on certain studies when I've
talked about how Esau lived in Mount Seir
he he possessed that land
and I preach a whole sermon
about Genesis 36 his whole
heritage and all that kind of stuff
and it says and the Lord spake unto me saying
you have compassed this mountain long
enough turn you northward
and command thou the people saying
you're to pass through the coast of
your brethren the children of Esau so he
calls them their brethren because they are
related right? Which dwell
in Seir so that where does he dwell
they dwell in Seir it's a Mount Seir
and they shall be afraid of you
take ye good heed unto yourselves
therefore so now you see
where you know they're going to be
you know this is kind of the start of
they're going to be serving the elders
going to be serving the younger because they're afraid
of them and then like they're going to
buy food from them and stuff like that and they don't
really mess with them too much it says metal not
with them verse 5
for I will not give you
of their land no
not so much as a foot breath
because I have given Mount Seir
unto Esau for a possession
so I mean obviously he had
some some well
you know some well wishes for Esau
he gave him a possession
he didn't allow the children of Israel to mess around
with them and obviously
later on that changes and so
you know maybe God
didn't really hate Esau
fully until their time
came to where they were actually doing
bad stuff to the children of Israel
and wasn't doeg and Edomite
he did some pretty gnarly
things killed all the Lord's priests
and there's
prophecies in the book of Obadiah talking
about how God is going to destroy
Edom there's other prophecies about it
but here
as far as we can see
in Deuteronomy God is saying leave them alone
don't mess with them they're your brethren
be good to them
verse 6 he shall buy meat
of them for money
that you may eat and he shall
also buy water of
them for money that you may drink
so he's basically saying respect them
ask them
buy the water
even and buy the
food now skip to verse 12
it says the Horems
also dwelt in Seir
before time
but the children of Esau succeeded them
when they had destroyed them
from before them and dwelt in their
stead as Israel did under the land of his
possession which the Lord gave
unto them so God did give
Esau and Edom
that land and he overthrew the
Horems and they were wicked so
it's kind of they just kind of had their day in the
sun to do these things
before the children of Israel did
but God did give them a possession
and he respected
the fact that that's where they lived
and even when Abraham was in the land
of the Canaanites before he said that their
time is not yet full
their wickedness is not
full to the point where God's
going to overthrow them and
replace them but God's been doing
replacement in countries
for many many years and he
still does it today he did it
with let's see
Genghis Khan
where Genghis Khan just kind of
annihilated all these false
Christian churches and
basically it was filled with Catholics and
Orthodox and you know he was
wicked too but God just kind of uses
other wicked nations to
destroy wicked nations
and then when that wicked nation gets really wicked
then he destroys that one with another wicked nation
so that's just kind of how God
does things a replacement so
there's a replacement theology with
Mount Horem and Mount Seir
or the Horems
those people and there was giants in the
land in those days also
and they killed them so Esau
had a pretty you know he was blessed
by God obviously
in his life so now
let's look at Job chapter 1 verse 1
Job chapter 1 verse 1
In Job chapter 1 verse 1 it says
there was a man in the land of Uz
whose name was Job
and that man was perfect and upright
that feared God and
eschewed evil now
we don't really have time to go into
all the genealogies I've already done that before
but
Uz is a name
that's actually found in Genesis chapter
10 but the Bible
also says that the Edomites
lived in the land of Uz
so
you know I mean I don't know if Uz
was you know he was the original
person that named that place
and then you know when
Esau took over one of his
grandkids or something got named Uz
and so
but that place was already called that
I mean that's kind of a natural thing like you
move into an area and you think it's cool or something
and you just name your kid
Dakota or Cheyenne
or you know whatever something like that I mean
Cheyenne's an Indian but you know there's a place
called Cheyenne, Wyoming
but I mean people name
their kids after places all
the time so that's not really
that strange but
the reason why I wanted to show
Job chapter 1 it says there's a man in the land of
Uz so
you know and then when you think about it
the people that came that were his friends that came
to him were Eliphaz the Temunite
Temun was one of
was one of
Esau's relatives I think it was either his
son or grandson and then
Eliphaz
yeah so Eliphaz and Temun
are both descendants of
Esau so the name
Temun when it says the Temunite
you know Temun is also a name
of a relative of Esau
and then you have Bildad the Shoahite
he was really short
but
anyway
but actually there's
you know he was probably like
one of the sons of Shoah which would have been
I think one of Abraham's sons
from the wife that he
married in Genesis chapter 25 I'm pretty
sure and then Zophar
the Namathite
so the
name was you know the only time
you're going to see the word name in the Bible is the guy
that was the cured of the leprosy but also
one of Benjamin's sons so
you know people
think that the book of Job was written during the time
of the you know after the patriarchs
in between you know
the patriarchs and
when the exodus happened so
that's what most people that's what I believe personally
because all these different
names are names of Esau's relatives
and so where did
Job live? In the land of
us. Now you're like well it could have been the
ancient land of us and it was one of the first
some people think it was one of the first books
in the Bible or something that was actually the
oldest one or something but I don't really know that
that's necessarily true
because you have these certain
names there and
they weren't born until after Esau bore them
so or his wives
bore them for him. Now look at
Lamentations 4
and so Job lived in the
land of us he was a man
in the land of us so I
just I mean I just I want to
just impart this to you that
if Job was an
Edomite which it doesn't
say that he is but he lives in the land
of Edom and
his friends are Edomites
and his friends are
from the you know his other friends are from the same
area but look at Lamentations
4 21 it says rejoice and be glad
oh daughter of Edom that
dwellest in the land of us
so what does the Bible say
that the Edomites lived in the land
of us right so where did
Job where did Job live in the land
of us so what does that I mean
that just kind of tells you that a little bit
of the timeline I mean not to pinpoint
it down but it's after Esau it's
after some of his relatives were born
and I mean some people
I've heard where some people said that
Job was Joe Bob
or Joe not Joe Bob that's one of the
that's that's one of the
huh
yeah that's one of the Duggars Joe Bob
anyway Joe Babb or
something like that but anyway I
don't know that's just you know speculation
in theory but it says that you
know that Edom
dwellest in the land of us so
regardless of whether it's talking about the
people in Genesis chapter 10
you know but regardless
I think that it's just
it's just kept that name and that's
where they live and that's who they you know
they took those people over
and turn to Jeremiah chapter
25 verse 20 Jeremiah chapter
25 verse 20
so Jeremiah
chapter 25 verse 20 says
and all the mingle people and
all the kings of the land of us
and all the kings of the land of the Philistines
and Ashkelon
and Asa and
Ekron and the remnant of
Ashdod so it's talking about
these people in the land of us and it's also talking
about you know the Philistines
Edom and Moab
and the children of Ammon
and all the kings of Tyrus
and all the kings of Zidun and the kings
of the isles which are beyond the sea so these are
the people that Jeremiah has to go and preach to
Dedan, Temah
and Buz
and all that are in the uttermost
corners so
and I believe
that
who's the last guy
Eliphaz? No it's not Eliphaz
who's the last guy in Job that comes
and talks? Elihu
he's a Buzite
and so you talk about
so there's Buz, Temah, Dedan
all these places
that are really just
you know they're speaking about
the same type of people that went to
Job in the land of us so I guess I'm just trying to prove to
you that Esau lived
in the land of us
Job lived in the land of us
and Job was saved so obviously
there was saved people that lived
in Edom
there was you know
his friends kind of gave him some bad
advice and things like that but
the Bible says that Job prayed
for them and
you know obviously
so that you know they weren't reprobates
if they were reprobates why would God
ask them to pray for them?
He would say don't pray for these people. That's what he told Jeremiah
don't pray for these people
because they're going to be
destroyed so
anyway it's possible that Esau's
relatives name was us because
of the us of the table of nations
which is in Genesis chapter 10
which I already kind of said that
but the son so he would have been a
Shemite
so in Genesis chapter
10, 23 I won't have you turn there but it says
and the children of Aram
Uz and Hol and Geether
and these you know these guys
and Mash there's a baby name for you
I'm going to name them Mash
Mash potato
but they so they
they were children of
Shem and Elam was
so I guess Aram
Uz came from Aram so
anyway whoever was the original
Uz you know
I believe that that place was just named
that and then when Esau
came hopefully that makes sense to you
but just like today
you have Israelites
that are able to be saved despite the
curse of God being upon them
as a whole and as a nation so even if God
hated the nation of Esau or
Edom doesn't mean that people can't
get saved that are Edomites
and so it's the same way now like
most of people that would say I'm of Israel
are blinded
and so definitely people that practice
the religion of Judaism
they won't see that Jesus is the Messiah
it's a very small percentage
and God has blinded them
and give them the spirit of jealousy
and but you know
even in the worst nation of the world
you can still find saved people
so even though God
hated Esau in the end
he hated the nation
and this chapter that we're in in Malachi
just beyond the shadow of a
doubt God's done with them
he's sick of them
and he wants to wipe them out
so regardless of what you believe
about Esau the man
I mean you can kind of make your own
determination on that and I won't call
you a reprobate alright
look at let's look at Hebrews
chapter 12 well I'm just going to skip that
but if you want for your own
personal study if you look up Hebrews
chapter 12 it talks about you know
Esau the person and
and basically you know
that he was not a
very good guy apparently
and then in Romans chapter 9
verses 7 through 13
it talks about
how
actually let's go ahead and turn to Romans chapter 9
I do want to cover this there was something
cool that I found here anyway but
in Hebrews chapter 12 it's talking about
how
Esau was rejected and found no
place of repentance though he sought it carefully
with tears but I mean if
you think about the context of that he's
probably talking about the fact that he's upset
that he blew it
and he wanted
to get that blessing back and he does
cry to his dad at the end he's like
don't you have anything else for me father
and he's like no sorry buddy
but I mean he gave him a couple scraps
you know but
he was upset that he lost
the blessing you know
but he God rejected him
from that blessing and made the pathway
through his brother Jacob
and that was
based upon
grace that was based upon
you know how Jacob actually was because
Jacob did humble himself
and call upon the name of the Lord
so look at Romans 9 and 7
it says neither because they are the seed of Abraham
are they children but in
Isaac shall thy seed be called
so you know Paul's talking about here
that just because someone is a relative
of Abraham doesn't make them automatically
saved look what it says in verse 8
that is they which are
the children of the flesh
are not the children
of God I mean that's a real clear
verse right there so anybody that says
yeah Israel just has a free
ride and because they're part of the original
covenant they're God's chosen people
the Bible says that they're not the
children of God right there doesn't it
I mean that's super clear but the children
of promise are counted for
the seed for this is the
word of promise at this time
will I come and Sarah shall have a son
and not only this but when Rebekah also
had conceived by one even by
our father Isaac for the children
being not yet born
neither having done any good or
evil so I think that that
parenthesis right there you know
it's basically saying that you know neither
one of them did anything wrong
at this point they hadn't done
any evil at all so
but it says that the purpose of God
according to election might
stand and then it says right there
not of works
see because we are saved not
of works we're not saved
because God thinks we're something special
everybody is special
in his eyes in the fact that he loves everybody
and wants everybody to be saved right
says but of him that
calleth verse 12 says
it was said unto her
the elder shall serve the younger
as it is written Jacob have I loved
but Esau have I hated
and so that is quoting Malachi
Malachi in the
first chapter that we're in right now
so God did grow to
hate the nation of Esau
as time went on throughout the Bible
and like I said in the book of Obadiah
that whole just there's one chapter in the book of
Obadiah and the whole chapter is about Esau
getting crushed and so there's other
chapters that you could go to
but here in Malachi chapter 1
you know he's proclaiming the doom
and the replacement of
Esau look at Malachi 1
4 back in our text it says
whereas Edom saith we
are impoverished
but we will return and build the desolate
places so they've already gotten whooped
a bunch of times by the children of Israel
and by God it says thus saith the
Lord a host they shall build
but I will throw it down
and they shall call them the border
of wickedness
and the people against whom the Lord
indignation forever
and when it's talking about
that it's like he's done with them completely
done with Edom so
then they get replaced
by somebody else and
you can find that in the book of Obadiah
it actually talks about how they're going to be replaced
out of the land so
Malachi 1 5 says and your eyes
shall see and ye shall say
the Lord will be magnified
from the border
of Israel and I realize that that was a long
point but
you know and what was the original
question wherein hast thou
loved us that's the question
that when God says
you know I've loved you and they're
like well wherein hast thou loved us
but
that word wherein also by the way means
a way you know in what
way have you loved us or in
what respect have you loved us so they're like
you know you're saying you loved us
or whatever but how have you loved us
but I think that this
what's the example he uses
well he loved Jacob
and he hated Esau
so that I mean to him that's just like
a proof hey I chose
you I chose the people
that I'm writing to right now
I've chose the people that
I'm about to rebuke like
crazy for the rest of this book
but the fact that he
picked them shows that he loved them
right and so
that is the kind of the take away
to the question
wherein hast thou loved us
well I mean the example
is this
stuff that he's
talking about with Esau
so it's obviously picked them so number
two tonight and this is my only
my second my last point but
number
six it says a son on
earth his father so now he's about ready to
to tan the hides of
all the priests
the priests so number two is
the priests are rebuked by the lord
verse six a son on
earth his father and a servant
his master but then if I be a father
where is my honor
and if I be master
where is my fear saith the lord of
hosts unto you oh
priests that despise my name
and you say wherein have we
despise thy name
so he's like he's asking questions
and then he's answering them for him
so I just think it's a really interesting
dialogue here
that's going on he's answering them
he knows the answer to the questions but
what's it say
his priests that despise my
name imagine
your job is to be a priest unto the
lord and you despise
god because you despise
god's name that's another
just another way of saying you despise him
and if you despise him you're going to despise
the things that he's implemented for you
to do the priest's job is to take
the sacrifices to take the ties
to move the tab
they don't have to move the tabernacle anymore
but the service of the
lord to sing unto the lord
to play instruments in god's house
god picked the levites to be
the tribe that's supposed to be
the ones that are serving the lord
as a full time position
but apparently some of these guys
despise his name
how weird to have your job
be something and you
hate the god that you're supposed to be serving
you just because that's what despise
means it means you hate it
they hate his name
and so this you know I don't know how
long after the temple being rebuilt this
takes place but it doesn't take long
for them to screw everything up again does it
you know god's already destroyed
their other temple made them
go to babylon for 70 years
killed basically
everybody all these reprobates that were
there saved you know some
of the people and preserved
israel and babylon and
then you know a lot of them come back and they'd already married
all these weird wives and you know calls them
strange wives but
they just never can seem
to stay on the right track
but isn't that how we are too
we'll be on the right track doing
a lot of good things working hard
loving god
doing what's right and then we kind
of veer off the path too
sometimes and you know
this just is a lesson to us
obviously we don't despise the lord
but when we
when we don't fear him
when we don't reverence
his name when we don't reverence his
the things that we're supposed to be doing for him
it kind of shows that you
do kind of despise him not hate him
I'm not saying that you hate god or anything like that I'm just saying
that sometimes we can get on a
track where we're just like I just don't want to feel like
doing this anymore
but that's the human condition we're sinful
people and you know
so one of the lessons we can
learn out of this is that
we need to respect god
because he's saying if I'm
a father where's my honor
so what should we do as
christians we should honor god the father
in a very special way
and the son and the holy ghost
obviously god
and it says if I be
master where is my fear
aren't we called the servants of the lord
well as servants of the lord
we should fear to serve
him right and to serve him
well and to do what he
asks and so if we don't
fear god and we don't honor god
then you know it's
he's looking at that like you despise my
name you despise the things that I've called you
to do and that's not right
that's not how we should be
but yet we find ourselves
picking ourselves up off the ground
multiple times in our lives and
I'm not giving us an excuse as the human condition
but it is the human condition
and we've seen it all throughout
Israel if you've read the bible
you just see how every time things start going
right they go right for a while
and then they screw it all up again
and god has to punish them
look at verse number
seven you offer
polluted bread upon my
alter so now he's just straight up telling them
what they're doing wrong you offer
polluted bread upon my alter
and you say wherein have we
polluted thee in that you say
the table of the lord
is contemptible so
see they despise his name and they
also despise the things that their job
is to do
so they're not holding it as a
holy thing so for them
to put to keep the bread out because they were
supposed to replace the bread every day
with fresh bread right
so obviously they probably had stopped
doing that or they were just being lazy
and oh it can just sit there for a week
and then you know what happens to bread
when it sits out for too long
it goes bad it turns moldy
doesn't it and so I would say at that
point it's polluted
have you ever taken a bite of like moldy bread before
it's disgusting
and they're just like you know
got to throw the whole loaf away because
you know it kind of leavens the whole
lump of the rest of the loaf of bread
or you try to dig past it and find the one that doesn't
have the piece of mold on it but it still kind of
tastes stale you're like ugh anyway
so I mean that's
probably you know obviously it's saying
here that they offered
polluted bread and that they
say the table of the lord is
contemptible so they have pure contempt
for the things of god
they have pure contempt for his name
they're you know they're
and contemptible
basically means you know
despicable deplorable
detestable it means that they just hate
that they you know
when it says they despise his name they
hate his name when it says
that they that the things of
god are contemptible that's something
that they really hate when you have
contempt for something you
really disdain it you know there's
certain things I'm sure that everybody
would list that they hate in this world
but you know the things of god should not be those things
look at verse 8
and if you offer the blind for sacrifice
is it not evil
what were they supposed to sacrifice
what kind of animals were they supposed to sacrifice
unblemished
were they supposed to serve them
you know here get the sick ones out of
the flock well that one's coffin
you know we can get rid of him
and then they give that offering to the lord
or you know well he was
born blind well let's just offer that one to the lord because
it doesn't really matter because they have
contempt for him they don't care
about the things that he wants and
how he wants things and
and how that pictures
the lord jesus christ they
just don't care and it says
if you offer the blind
for a sacrifice is it not
evil and if you offer the lame
and sick is it
not evil offer it
now unto thy governor
will he be pleased with thee or
accept thy person saith the
lord a host so
I mean obviously this is what's happening is they're
they're serving the worst
animals as the sacrifices
they're taking
blind goats
blind sheep you know
sick lambs you know
lame they probably got to drag
them or maybe they got three legs I don't know what's
what's going on with them but
they got problems and god is not
pleased with that and he said and I like the example
he uses because he says you
know offer it now unto thy governor
will he be pleased with thee it's like oh
blind lamb thank you you know
and that's just a man
that's ruling over you
and it kind of makes me think well
you know Israel stopped having kings
after a certain point so I got I guess
this kind of gives us the timetable because
what was Zerubbabel called he was called
a governor right they no longer
had kings and
so then they were ruled over like I
said by the Greeks and then
by the time it comes to Jesus's
day they're ruled over by
the Romans they have no
power to do anything and this is just
shows that in 400 years
how fast things can go
downhill and then
you know you come to the New Testament where
you know the the king
is now just like a puppet king that's
placed there by the Romans named Herod
and he
is like straight up
like possessed by the devil
or at least very controlled by the
devil tries to murder Jesus and
kills a whole bunch of innocent children
to get to him
and this is just how bad Israel's
gotten but they knew the prophecies
you know where was he supposed to be born
Bethlehem they knew that
but you know they just slid
so far down that God had to just get rid of that
whole system look at verse
number nine it says
and now I pray you beseech
God that he will be gracious unto
us this hath
been by your means
will he regard your persons
sayeth the Lord of hosts
so you know
he's he's saying hey
it'd be good for you to just get
right with God and beseech him that he'd
be gracious unto us because remember
people couldn't just go straight to
God and
their sacrifices they
the priests were there to be
intercessors for them in a way
and also the high priest you know he
was supposed to go in and sacrifice once a year
so he's like hey you're
the priest you should be asking God
to be gracious unto us
and he's like this
has been by your means so he's what is he doing
he's blaming the leadership and really that's
the truth of the matter is that
these leaders in these religious
leaders fell down on the job
and again
you can see that happening in our days too
this country
used to have a lot of Bible believing
Christians and it kind of just seems
to me now that people are Christian in name
only they're like crinos or whatever
they're Christian in name only
but they're not really Christians
they're all about prosperity gospel
and just a bunch of
garbage false Bible versions
false gospel
and don't even believe in eternal
security I
can't wrap my mind around the fact
that the Bible says you know if you believe
then you'll have everlasting life
and people are like well I just don't believe in everlasting life
it's what the Bible says
like how what do you mean you don't believe
you don't believe in everlasting life
I mean how many times does God
have to say it just in
John chapter 3 alone
believe on me you'll have eternal life
believe on me you'll have everlasting life
whosoever believeth on the son
you know is saved
and not going to be condemned and
whosoever believeth not you know they're going
to hell and it's just like
I don't believe that
okay
but you said you believe the Bible
and that's what I like to ask
people that already have a wrong
view of the Bible and say do you
believe the Bible and if they say
yes I do then
when they divert
from what the Bible says what I've showed them in the Bible
I say remember when I got here
I told you I
asked you do you believe the Bible and
this is what the Bible says so
do you believe it or not and sometimes that
does work believe it or not because
you're really so you're holding their feet
to the fire the fire is the word of
God and
you know so they have they have to have
an inner inner spiritual
wrestling match with themselves
over those types of things because how
can you say you believe the Bible and then just sit there
and deny exactly what it says
because they know we're not twisting it
and we're just like very clearly
explaining the verses when we're out
sowing and things like that but
anyway God you know
Malachi is pleading with the priest
to get right with God
and he's like
he will not regard your persons
it doesn't matter if you're a leader
or not God's not gonna he's not
gonna say well he's the leader so I'm
just gonna give him a pass on this
that's not how it works God is not
a respecter person it says will he
regard your persons say it
is the Lord of hosts
and so just because he's a priest
or these people are priests doesn't in the ministry
doesn't give them special privilege to do
anything that they want
in Acts chapter number 10
in verse 34 it says
then Peter opened his mouth and said of a truth
I perceive that God is no respecter of
persons but in every nation
he that feareth him
and worketh righteousness
is accepted with him
that's a really great statement that Peter makes
right there and it's very true
that what's gonna make God
happy with you that if you
in every nation
if you fear him and work righteousness
you're gonna be accepted with him
that's what's gonna get
God's respect so if
you're saved and you're doing what's right
that earns God's respect
but when you're doing wrong
it doesn't matter who you are it doesn't matter if you're the
king I mean how many kings in the Bible have you seen
God just go straight after
because yeah it might seem
like they're getting away with it but even David
did he get away with what he did
absolutely not so God
is not a respecter of persons
Paul says it in Romans chapter
2 verse 11 he says for there's no respect
of persons with God
now let's look at verse number 10
back in our text it says who is there
even among you that would
shut the doors for naught neither
do you kindle on my
altar or fire on my
altar for naught I
have no pleasure in you
sayeth the Lord of hosts neither will
I accept an offering at your
hand so these guys are so
corrupt that God won't even allow
he has no pleasure in anything
that they're doing because you can
go through the motions and pretend that you're holy
and all this stuff but God really
knows who you are
and what you're about and
if you have fake sacrifice
in your life then God understands
that too so he's saying
I have no pleasure in you neither
will I accept an offering at your
hand so and
just apply this to ourselves because aren't we supposed
to offer spiritual offerings to God
isn't it cool that
we live in the New Testament we don't have to drag
some animal across the
desert to give
a sacrifice to God at these certain
feasts and all that I mean that's a lot
harder isn't it than offering
our spiritual sacrifices to him
but even spiritual sacrifices to
people are too hard sometimes it seems like
but to apply
this to ourselves I mean
be willing to
to offer
what God wants you to offer
and what are those things again spiritual
offerings look at verse 11
for from the rising of the
sun even unto the going down of the same
my name shall be great
among the Gentiles so here's
kind of a precursor also
to the New Testament he's kind of
just letting the cat out of the bag a little bit
right he's like my name's
going to be great among the Gentiles hey you might
despise my name you might
despise my sacrifice you might
despise my table you might
despise my bread you might
despise the meats but you know what the Gentiles
are going to accept me and the
Gentiles are going to love me and
the Gentiles my name will be great
and in every
place incense shall be offered
unto my name and a pure offering
for my name shall be great
among the heathen so when he's
talking about heathen you know I like to joke
around and call people a heathen or whatever but
it kind of just means you know
Gentile or unbeliever or whatever
but you know he's saying his
name will be great among the heathen so the heathen
kind of probably means Gentiles here right
and that's what he says at the beginning of the
verse anyway saith the
Lord of hosts so
he's reproving them and what are the
Pharisees mad about when Jesus preaches
his first sermon they try to throw him off a
cliff because he's talking about Gentiles getting
saved like he brings up two
specific stories and
they're ready to throw him off a cliff that's how racist
they've become that's how entitled
they've become that's how wicked
they've become I mean they're like
we can't accept this money to be
paid for you know when Judas gave him the blood money
or whatever well we can't have this we'll have to
put it for the potter's field it's
like don't you realize how wicked you are
you murdered somebody you
paid to have somebody killed and then you're
worried about where you're spending the money
that's just
that's so strange to me that
thought process
so anyway
you know these Jewish priests they just hate God
and you know I would venture to think
that when they came back from Babylon they came back
with the Babylonian
teachings of the Talmud and
these priests began to creep
in to the
and maybe that's why they hated him
I don't know but
by the time the Pharisees appear on the
scenes in the New Testament they're already totally
corrupted the Sadducees
which are also rulers of the people
they don't even believe in the miracles
they don't believe in the resurrection
that's why they're Sadducee
and they just don't believe the Bible
but yet they're rulers
of the people I mean they just slide so fast
and then really it's kind of like
an empire for them and that's
what you see in church life
today all around this country you got the Kenneth
Copelands and the T.D.
Jakes and the Joel Osteens
and these types of people where it's just like an
empire of wealth that they're
amassing as they send multitudes
and multitudes to hell
and basically
that's kind of what the Pharisees were like they
appear holy you think they're holy
you know when they whip people with their coats
and then they pretend to fall down or whatever
all this other garbage they're talking
in tongues and barking locked
dogs and that's supposed to be some kind of
you know spiritual experience or something
but in reality
this is kind of how
you know people have always tried to
infiltrate religious
organizations to take them over
and that's what's happening today
and almost every single church now is
flying these rainbow flags
and they're acting like we're the criminals
we're bad because
we stand up for what's right
and they just can't handle it but
you know I got news for you
we're doing the right thing
we're preaching the right stuff
and we're not doing it just to
get a rise out of people
you know if people have a rise out of some of the things that get said
then so be it
but what prophet in the Old Testament
do you not see having some kind of flack
for the things that they preached
I mean John got his head chopped off
and who did he preach against? The king
he preached against Herod
and it cost him his head
he preached against something
and Herod
liked him
he liked him
he listened to his preaching
he didn't even want to cut his head off but his wife
he was henpecked to the point where
she had a little perch
at the bottom of the bed because he was so
henpecked and he made a stupid
promise
he was more interested in keeping the promise out of his mouth
to do anything that this little dancer
girl said for him to do
instead of actually doing what's
right and not murdering
you know the greatest prophet
bored among women
so look at verse 12 it says
but you have profaned it
so when he's talking about
so my name shall be
verse 11 my name shall be great among the heathe
and saith the Lord the host but then it says
but ye have profaned it
and what do they profane?
his name
profane the name of God they're blaspheming it
they're acting like it's not important
you know and even
when you're out sowing sometimes you'll go well
who do you have to believe in to be saved and they're like
God and you know God is God
like God is a legitimate name for God I
get that but we're trying to get them
to you know because there's a lot of people
that believe in a lot of different weird stuff
and they might call you know
God Allah
and Allah is just the Arabic name for God
but when they are talking when the Muslims are talking
about Allah they're talking
about a completely different God
they'll try to force feed us that too and say
oh it's the same God no it's not
no it's not the same God
because they don't believe the truth
the Quran is just
an illiterate nightmare
of retardedness
it doesn't make sense
it contradicts itself multiple times
but then you know whenever we run into
the Muslims out in Seattle
they always have these little gotcha questions
you know how did God die
you know and stuff like that
and they'll try to get you with these little zingers
it's like well you know in Revelation chapter 1
it says I am he that
was alive
and what he says
huh yeah
I am he that liveth and was
dead yeah so did God die
because he does say he's the
almighty also right
Jesus Christ said he's the almighty so
did God die well there's a good
one to take him to Revelation chapter 1
so
but anyway so God is saying here
to these priests
they profaned his name and that you
say the table of the Lord is polluted
and the fruit thereof
even his meat is contemptible
so now he's like getting on the
bread he's getting on all
the other stuff and it says he said
also behold what a
weariness it is
and you have snuffed at it
sayeth the Lord a host and he brought
that which was torn and
the lame and the sick
thus ye brought an
offering should I accept this
of your hand sayeth the Lord
and what do you think the answer is that no
and this is what
they're doing and this is 400
years before Jesus
comes so how corrupted did it get
well it got pretty corrupted
and it kind of makes me wonder like were they did they
when it says what a weariness it is
they start turning into like you know animal
pita people or something like they just
don't I'm just so weary
of having to kill all these lambs and
sheeps or whatever it's just like that's what's
for dinner you know
the oxen the fatted
calf you know they had it made
they had like the ultimate keto diet
and
they had milk they had butter
they had honey and
they had you know grapes and
I mean they had a great keto type
diet and you know they had
the top roast
I mean so but what happens
when you just eat too much of one thing you get
sick of it no matter how good it is
you know I'm sure that there's something that you
just like crave for a certain amount of time and it's
like eh I gotta take a break from this for a while
but they are they're
saying it for a different reason this
is like something spiritually wrong with
them they're weary
of serving God they're weary of his
sacrifices and
you know the application to us here
is that you know we're in
the new covenant and how are we
treating the covenant that we are in
right now because God
still expects us to be
holy he still expects us
to be righteous he still expects
sacrifices from us but
not to be saved but he still
expects sacrifices to us
so let's turn to Romans chapter 12 I got a couple
scriptures I'll have you turn to and then we'll be done
Romans chapter 12 verse 1
it's a very famous verse in the
Bible so what
are we supposed to be doing what kind of sacrifices
are we supposed to be bringing well
the Bible tells us that's the nice
thing about the Bible is that
you know if we don't know what we're supposed to be doing
then we have the scriptures to help us understand
these things it says I beseech you
therefore brethren by the mercies
of God that you present your bodies
a living sacrifice so our
bodies are supposed to be working for the
Lord and what's it say holy
acceptable
unto God which is your reasonable
service so you know
in the Old Testament they had to be holy
acceptable unto God without
blemish and all those things but he wants
our life to be like that he wants us to
be as holy as we possibly
can in this life and
it says it's our reasonable
service so are
we supposed to still do sacrifices
yeah but it's a living sacrifice it's
our body our
life certain service to him it
says be not conformed to this world
but be transformed by the renewing of
your mind that you may prove
what is that good and acceptable
and perfect will
of God so you know
he's basically kind of got the same message in
Malachi he's like where
is my fear where is
my honor but in the New Testament
we're supposed to still fear God
we're supposed to still honor him
in those same ways
but we have the Holy Spirit
they didn't necessarily have the Holy Spirit
indwelling them
in the Old Testament so
in Hebrews chapter 13
go ahead and turn to Hebrews chapter 13
and I
talked about this last week when I finished up
Hebrews 13 but this is another type
of sacrifice that God's well pleased with
and look it's way easier
to give these sacrifices
in this day and time that we live in
we don't have a temple we don't
have to smell animals burning
and all this other stuff and you know
your cute little lambs aren't getting
slain anymore and all that
stuff so but it says in verse 15
by him therefore let us
offer the sacrifice of praise
to God continually
and so what's he want
us to do praise what he does for
us praise him for his
you know and what were the people
what were the priests doing profaning
his name you know
disrespecting his name despising
his name but in the
you know they were supposed to do what was
right by his name then but we're supposed to still do that
now praise God
continually that is the fruit of
our lips giving thanks
to his name
so God still expects us
as New Testament believers to do those
same things that he's asking them to do
see their heart their problem
they were you know it's their
heart that was causing them
to to act in this way
and to profane all the all these
sacrifices and his name
and all this stuff but
we still have the same problems today
people are still doing the same things today
and it's easier
for us today the New Testament
is an easier testament for us
but it also there's
more expected from us
you know instead of sacrificing an animal
that you never have to see again we sacrifice
our whole lives
and so you know obviously
and whether that would be to a slaughter
then you know that's what God called us to do
so it says
in so the so
the sacrifice of praise to
him to God continually that is
the fruit of our lips giving thanks
to his name but to do
good and to communicate
forget not God
expects us to continue a
communication with him and I think
that this is where a lot of Christians fail also
we get so wrapped up in our day
we get so wrapped up in our life
we get so wrapped up well now it's my
time you know I've been working
all day so now it's time for me to relax
you know and it's like
if you haven't given anything to God
at all then maybe
you should give something to God or put
him into your planning book
you know what I mean you got plans
put him in your plan book
and you know it says to
do good and communicate forget not what's he want you
to communicate praise
to praise God continually
the fruit of our lips
giving thanks to his name thanking
us thanking for what we have
thanking him for the food that he
provides us thanking him that we have a
vehicle to drive thanking him that
we have clothes on our back and a
roof over our head food on
the table all these different things
and you know we take these things
for granted because it's just something that
we kind of have something
that we're used to but
things can change really
quickly in this world I mean
we saw that a couple years ago where everything
just changed and
I don't think things have completely changed
back to normal there's a lot of weird
stuff that's going on in this
world and a lot of weird
beliefs so we live
in the twilight zone now
but to do good and
communicate forget not with
such sacrifices God is
well pleased so you don't have to
bring the lamb you don't have to bring the ox you don't
have to bring all these other things you just have to bring
yourself and stop giving
God all your garbage time
your sick lamb
time or your
diseased hoof rot
wealth
just a couple nickels out of your
finances or whatever
the Bible
says that he's a great king in
verse 14
a male and vow of sacrifice
unto the Lord a corrupt thing for I
am a great king sayeth the Lord of hosts
and my name is dreadful
among the heathen
so you know
what are you doing what are you sacrificing
you know is your sacrifice
just the scraps left over that
nobody cares about
is it your garbage time
as they always call it in the NBA you know
when someone's beating a team really bad
you know they call it when they let the
bench players come in they call that garbage
time that means it doesn't mean
anything the game is already
won so like if we're just
gonna come in we're gonna be the type of Christians that just
give God our garbage time
then that is not well pleasing to
God I don't think that's
well pleasing to God at all because
if he's a great king where's his honor
if he's a great father where's his
honor if he's a great master
you know where's our fear
and so
if you take something out of this sermon take this
that don't get slack
in the things of God
don't give him your garbage time
don't give him your lame sacrifices
he wants your heart and he wants
you to be devoted to him
and when we lose track of that
we become like these priests
oh it's a weariness
to us to go to church
it's so hard what's
so hard about it
you drive and you show
up and you sit down and you listen to a sermon
you sing some songs to God what's
so hard about it
you can't give a sacrifice of your time
to God because what you're doing
something more important
you're on summer vacation
for the whole summer
show up for church be
at church when you can be
don't give God your garbage time every single time
you're here in this house it's important
but yet people
just act like it's not important
oh the wind blew
so I couldn't come
everybody will just bring whatever excuse they can
to not serve the Lord
going to church isn't the only thing about serving God
how about going soul winning that's serving God too
when's the last time you've been soul winning
have you been soul winning
this week?
obviously we all have excuses
we all have aches and pains
we all have reasons why we couldn't go
a lot of times it seems like it's weather dependent
oh it's summer it's too hot
I can't go I'm going to melt
oh it's winter time it's raining
when are you going to go?
oh it's got to be
68 degrees
slight wind
cloud cover
well then you're never going to go here
except for maybe the last couple weeks
it was pretty nice
it's been pretty nice today too
but I'm just saying what are we going to give God?
are you going to give him your garbage time
or are you going to give him
your life because that's what he wants
he's not a respecter of persons
do good
be holy
serve him that's what he wants
let's pray Lord we thank you so much
for the scriptures Lord
and I pray Lord that you'd help us to
if we're backslidden I mean summertime is just kind of
one of those times when people seem to
want to take breaks and
pray Lord our church wouldn't be like that
pray that we would obviously
we need vacations we need breaks
but Lord I pray that we wouldn't take a break from you
and I pray that you'd help us
if we get off the path which we always
do because we're sinful
but Lord I pray you'd help us to
get back on the right track and Lord
to get a zeal in our heart
to serve you and be a
living sacrifice for you in Jesus' name we pray amen
all right our last one is song number 150
my faith has found a resting place
song number 150 in your green and red hymn books
my faith has found a resting place
let's sing it together on the first
my faith has found a resting place
not in device nor creed
I trust the ever living one
his wounds for me shall plead
I need no other argument
I need no other plea
it is enough that Jesus died
and that he died for me
enough for me that Jesus saves
this ends my fear and doubt
a sinful soul I come to him
he'll never cast me out
I need no other argument
I need no other plea
it is enough that Jesus died
and that he died for me
my heart is leaning
on the word the written word of God
salvation by my Savior's name
salvation through his blood
I need no other argument
I need no other plea
it is enough that Jesus died
and that he died for me
my great physician
heals the sick the lost
he came to save
for me his precious blood he shed
for me his life he gave
I need no other argument
I need no other plea
it is enough that Jesus died
and that he died for me
Amen. Good to see you brother. Sean Conlon would you dismiss the word of prayer?
Thank you.