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Sunday, October 1, 2023
SERIES: TOUGH LOVE \ TENDER MERCIES
A STUDY IN MALACHI
LIVE MESSAGE: ABANDONING COVENANTS
At 11:00AM EST
Scripture: Malachi 2:10–16 ESV
Pastor Philip Miller
Scripture Reading John 15:1–11 ESV
John 15 ESV and Audio
I Am the True Vine
15 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. 7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. 9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
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LIVE 11:00 AM EST
Sunday, October 1, 2023
SERIES: “TOUGH LOVE \ TENDER MERCIES”
A STUDY IN MALACHI
LIVE MESSAGE: ABANDONING COVENANTS
Scripture: Malachi 2:10–16 ESV
Pastor Philip Miller
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MESSAGE: ABANDONING COVENANTS
Sunday, October 1, 2023
SERIES: “TOUGH LOVE, TENDER MERCIES”
A STUDY IN MALACHI
MESSAGE: ABANDONING COVENANTS
Scripture: Malachi 2:10–16 ESV
Pastor Philip Miller
Scripture: Malachi 2:10–16 ESV
Malachi 2 ESV and Audio
Judah Profaned the Covenant
10 Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers? 11 Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. 12 May the Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob any descendant of the man who does this, who brings an offering to the Lord of hosts!
13 And this second thing you do. You cover the Lord’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. 14 But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. 15 Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one Godseeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth. 16 “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”
SERMON NOTES
Sunday, October 1, 2023
SERIES: “TOUGH LOVE, TENDER MERCIES”
A STUDY IN MALACHI
LIVE MESSAGE: ABANDONING COVENANTS
Scripture: Malachi 2:10–16 ESV
Pastor Philip Miller
When Jesus was asked what the greatest commandment in all the Law and the Prophets was, He gave a two-fold answer: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, AND love your neighbor as yourself.”
Because if we love God rightly, we will love our neighbor; and a failure to love our neighbor is a failure to love God.
This answer sums up the Law and the Prophets. And one of those Old Testament prophets was Malachi, whose book we’ve been studying in this series. Thus far we’ve seen how Malachi has called out God’s people for their failure to love God (the vertical axis).
In Malachi 2:10–16, Malachi is going to turn his attention to the horizonal axis—about the relationship we have to one another—because the Israelites failed to love one another well. And in this 3rd of 6 disputes in the book, Malachi’s focus is on how the men of Israel failed to be faithful to their wives. They were faithless toward God and faithless toward their wives.
This sermon has three parts:
1) Faithless Betrayal
The Israelites were breaking faith with their wives and God.
Not only were they abandoning their covenant with their wife as they divorced, but they were also abandoning their covenant with God as they welcomed idolatry into their homes, and they were trashing their own marriage covenants and the covenant of God Himself.
But the problem ran even deeper than their faithless betrayal. All of this is arising from their fragmented hearts.
2) Fragmented Hearts
Our spiritual lives cannot be compartmentalized.
God insists on our integrity, our wholeness. All of life is under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Nothing is outside His domain.
He wants our whole heart, not just a piece of it. He wants our full devotion.
3) Full Devotion
God calls us to wholehearted covenant-love.
Because there’s nothing God loves to do more than to take all the broken fragments of our lives and start making us whole, so that we can begin to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love our neighbor as ourselves.
But there is a catch. To be whole, we must give Him our whole selves.
Takeaway:
We will never be whole until we are wholly His.
It will not do to give God only a part of our selves.
Jesus gave His whole self for you. Won’t you give your whole self to Him?
Benediction
Scripture: Jude 1:24-25 ESV
Jude 1 ESV and Audio
Doxology
24 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, 25 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
PASTOR TO PEOPLE
Autumn has long been my favorite season.
I love the crisp breezes, crackling leaves under foot, and the smell of fresh apple cider. There’s something nostalgic and reflective to this season that I find delightful.
I reread William Shakespeare‘s 73rd Sonnet this week, which is a meditation on the fall season, and I thought I’d share it with you, without commentary, for your reflection and enjoyment.
That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin’d choirs where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away, Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou seest the glowing of such fire
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed whereon it must expire, Consum’d by that which it was nourished by.
This thou perceiv’st which makes thy love more strong, To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
Remember, you are loved, more than you know!
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