Malachi 1:1-5
March 10, 2019
preached by Doug Cooper
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“It is a sweet compound of faith that knows God to be my Father, love that loves Him as my Father, joy that rejoices in Him as my Father, fear that trembles to disobey Him because he is my Father, and a confident affection and trustfulness that relies upon Him, and casts itself wholly upon Him, because it knows by the infallible witness of the Holy Spirit, that Jehovah, the God of earth and heaven, is the Father of my heart.”

~ Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892), renowned English pastor

“God’s unfailing love for us is an objective fact affirmed over and over in the Scriptures. It is true whether we believe it or not. Our doubts do not destroy God’s love, nor does our faith create it. It originates in the very nature of God, who is love, and it flows to us through our union with His beloved Son.”

“The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent…that is exactly what discontent(ment) is – a questioning of the goodness of God.”

~ Jerry Bridges (1929-2016) author, speaker and staff member of The Navigators

“Measure not God’s love and favor by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.”

~ Richard Sibbes (1577–1635), English theologian and author

“When there was no ear to hear, you sang to me…
When there were no strings to play, you played to me…
When I had no wings to fly, you flew to me, you flew to me.”

~ Robert C. Hunter (1941-present), musician, poet, translator and principle lyricist for the Grateful Dead

“I sought the Lord, and afterward I knew
He moved my soul to seek Him, seeking me;
It was not I that found, O Savior true;
No, I was found, was found of Thee.

Thou didst reach forth thy hand and mine enfold;
I walked and sank not on the storm-vexed sea;
‘twas not so much that I on thee took hold,
as thou, dear Lord, took hold on me.”

~ Anonymous Hymn (1878)

Sermon Passage

Malachi 1:1-5 (NASB)

¹ The oracle of the word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi.

² “I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob; ³ but I have hated Esau, and I have made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.” ⁴ Though Edom says, “We have been beaten down, but we will return and build up the ruins”; thus says the Lord of hosts, “They may build, but I will tear down; and men will call them the wicked territory, and the people toward whom the Lord is indignant forever.” ⁵ Your eyes will see this and you will say, “The Lord be magnified beyond the border of Israel!”