Malachi Part 5
Text Malachi 4:1-6
Benny Ho
Toa Payoh Methodist Church
Friday 27 March 2015
SUMMARY
TAKE HOME MESSAGE
(THE WHOLE SERIES)
1) The Unchanging love of God
Unmerited
Unchanging
Universal
2) Set your heart to worship God
Heart of honour
Life of Authenticity
Attitude of Gratitude
3) Set your heart to honour God
Honour Call to priesthood
Honour Character of God
Honour Covenant of marriage
4) Four phases of revival
Preparation
Visitation
Purification
Reformation
5) The day of the Lord
Wicked will see Retribution of God
Righteous will see Reward from God
Church will Repent and Return to God
Live in reality of Malachi 4:2b
Go out and leap...
In Daniel Defo's Robinson Crusoe, his side kick Man Friday asks
"Why doesnt God destroy the devil?"
Robinson correctly answers "God will destroy him".
No if
no but
no maybe.
God will destroy his enemies.
Do not be deceived
God will not be mocked.
God sends us his bills
He writes them
He may not collect them now
but collect them he will.
The day of collection will come.
The day of the Lord.
Surely the day is coming
It will burn like a furnace Mal 4:1
Mal 3:16
Then those who fear the Lord talked with each other
and the Lord listened and heard.
A scroll of remembrance was
written in his presence concerning
those who feared the Lord
and honoured his name.
Every tear cried is counted and remembered by God.
Wicked will see Retribution of God
The furnace "carno" is the wrath of God.
Exceedingly hot.
Wicked will burn like stubble
like dry straw.
All will burn completely
No root or branch will remain.
No life left
no hope of regeneration
No redemption.
Only retribution.
At the first coming Jesus came as Saviour.
At the second coming He will come as Judge.
At Hiroshima where the first atom bomb was used in war, the temperature at the epicentre was estimated to be 6000 degrees. All incinerated. Nothing left.
Such it will be at the day of the Lord.
Hell is real
Eternal judgement is real.
Hellfire is real.
Story is told of a young girl seated to an old man in an aeroplane.
She is reading a bible.
"Do you really believe all that stuff?" the old man asks.
"Sure I do" she answer confidently.
"Then how did the whale swallow Jonah?" the old man asks.
"I dont know" she says, "but when I get to heaven I will ask him."
"But what if there is no heaven" the old man challenges.
"Then you ask him" was the sweet reply.
Samuel Coleridge was presiding over a boxing match and reading bible at the same time.
One contestant complained that his opponent had told him to "Go to hell"
"Good news" Samuel replied,"The rule book says you don't have to go!".
Righteous will see Reward from God
Not only will the sun of righteousness rise
but he will have healing in his wings.
Referring to the time when the
haemorrhoissa was healed, Ps Benny went on to expand on "Hem" of robe, probably the tassel of the prayer shawl, the sign of authority reminding of God's law: the need to believe and act on the promises of God.
The Hebrew word for corner is "kanuph" is also the word for wing.
Church will Repent and Return to God
There is promise for
healing
freedom
and to have the enemy under our feet.
The kingdom as come
but not in its fullness.
We fight the battle
but in knowledge that we are fighting on the winners side.
We already have freedom
If the son sets you free,
you will be free indeed.
The day of the Lord
Wicked will see Retribution of God
Righteous will see Reward from God
Church will Repent and Return to God
Live in reality of Malachi 4:2b
Go out and leap...
