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Malachi 3:7 \u2013 Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,\u201d says the Lord Almighty.\nSERMON POINT #1 \u2013 RELIGIOUS\u2026BUT SELF-SEEKING\n\nMalachi 1:13 \u2013 And you say, \u201c\u2019What a burden!\u2019 and you sniff at it contemptuously,\u201d says the Lord Almighty. \u201cWhen you bring injured, lame or diseased animals and offer them as sacrifices, should I accept them from your hand?\u201d says the Lord\u2026 \u201cI am a great king,\u201d says the Lord Almighty, \u201cand my name is to be feared among the nations.\u201d\n\nSERMON POINT #2 \u2013 RELIGIOUS\u2026BUT SELF-CENTERED\n\nMalachi 2:13-16 \u2013 Another thing you do: You flood the Lord\u2019s alter with tears. You weep and wail because he no longer looks with favor on your offerings and accepts them with pleasure from your hands. You ask, \u201cWhy?\u201d It is because the Lord is the witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant. Has not the one God made for you? You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth. \u201cThe man who hates his wife and divorces his wife,\u201d says the Lord, the God of Israel, \u201cdoes violence to the one he should protect,\u201d says the Lord Almighty. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful.\n\nSERMON POINT #3 \u2013 RELIGIOUS\u2026BUT UNBELIEVING\n\nMalachi 2:17 \u2013 You have wearied the Lord with your words. \u201cHow have we wearied him?\u201d you ask. By saying, \u201cAll who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord, and he is pleased with them\u201d or \u201cWhere is the God of justice?\u201d\n\nMalachi 3:13-14 \u2013 \u201cYou have spoken arrogantly against me,\u201d says the Lord. \u201cYet you ask, \u2018What have we said against you?\u2019 \u201cYou have said, \u2018It is futile to serve God. What do we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord Almighty?\u201d\n\nSERMON POINT # 4 \u2013 RELIGOIUS\u2026BUT UNTRUSTING\n\nMalachi 3:8-10 \u2013 Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. \u201cBut you ask, \u2018How are we robbing you?\u2019 \u201cIn tithes and offerings. You are under a curse \u2013 your whole nation \u2013 because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,\u201d says the Lord Almighty, \u201cand see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.\u201d\n\nMalachi 3:7 \u2013 Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,\u201d says the Lord Almighty.\n\nMalachi 4:1-2, 5-6a \u2013 \u201cBut for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves\u2026 See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before the great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the hearts of the children to their parents.\u201d