Honoring God“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ - Malachi 1:6

Burden on Malachi

Massa - Oracle, Revelation and in this context “Burden”

Malachi is post-exilic prophet Approximately ~440 BC

Time line of Prophets

Honoring God -Malachi 1

How did you love us? - Love

How have we despised your name? - Honor

How have we polluted you? - Holiness

God’s Love for us

God’s love & Election - Mal 1:3

God’s Love in choosing Jacob -Romans 9:13

God’s Love He Chose us - Ephesians 1:4

Faithful Remnant - Elected by Grace - Romans 9:5

God choose us - Not us - John 15:16

Honoring God “A son honors his father, and a servant his

master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ - Mal 1:6

Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ but now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed. - 1 Sam 2:30

God HolyPolluted Offering - at Lords Table

Vow made to God - Mal 1:14

Pay your vows - Make your vows to the Lord your God and perform them; let all around him bring gifts to him who is to be feared - Ps 76:11

Consecrate Holy - 1 Peter 1:16, Lev 11:44

What a weariness? 1:13 - Do you question God?