Does Our Worship Insult God

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Does Our Worship Insult God?
Themes in Malachi

• Malachi 17-11

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Emptiness of Mechanical Worship

• Within 100 years, worship had become vain
• The crisis not a minor one
• Mechanical worship just the bare act
• The heart must be involved Isaiah 2913
  (Matthew 158,9)

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Link Between Worship and Character

• Social corruption injustice Malachi 35
• Worship rendered vain
• 1 Samuel 1522
• Mark 1233
• New Testament applications
• Unbridled tongue, not help others - James 126,27
• Indulgence in private sin - 1 Timothy 28
• Hostility, enmity - Matthew 523,24
• Mistreatment of mate - 1 Peter 37
• Disobedience prayer? Proverbs 289
• Iniquity the sacred meeting? Isaiah 113

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Offering Only Our Leftovers

• Worship of mere convenience
• Will a man rob God? (Malachi 38)
• Offering the blind, lame, sick
• Davids attitude 2 Samuel 2424
• Generosity measured by sacrifice Mark 1243,44
• We need to hear Malachis admonition

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Conclusion

• Trifled with the greatness of God
• Tired of this game Malachi 113
• Close the doors Malachi 110
• Sowing reaping in worship 2 Corinthians 96-8