#1,233 – God's Covenantal Love (Malachi 2:4–6)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 23 December 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the Word with David Platte is a resource from Radical.net. Malachi chapter 2, verses 4 through 6. |
| 0:08.4 | So shall you know that I have sent this command to you that my covenant with Levi may stand, |
| 0:14.1 | says the Lord of hosts. My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. |
| 0:23.8 | It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. |
| 0:31.8 | He stood in awe of my name. True instruction was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity. |
| 0:40.1 | Wow. |
| 0:40.9 | What a description of what God designed for priests in the Old Testament, how he entered |
| 0:49.0 | into special covenant with them, that they would lead his people, represent the glory of God before the people, |
| 0:57.7 | and the sins of people before the glory of God, that they would stand as intermediaries between the two |
| 1:03.5 | and the picture here. And to see the words that God describes his relationship with the priest here. |
| 1:12.3 | My relationship, my covenant with them was one of life and peace. I gave my words to him. |
| 1:18.0 | It was a covenant of fear and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name. |
| 1:24.4 | What a powerful picture of the priest standing in awe of God, fearing God, experiencing life |
| 1:31.6 | and peace in God. |
| 1:33.2 | True instruction was in his mouth. |
| 1:35.8 | Priest designed by God to speak truth, no wrong found on his lips. |
| 1:41.4 | He walked with me in peace and uprightness. What a picture walking with God in peace, |
| 1:48.4 | walking with God in uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity, encouraging the people of God |
| 1:57.3 | to turn from their sin and to walk with God in peace and uprightness as the priest was. |
| 2:04.0 | So that was the picture in the Old Testament. |
| 2:06.8 | And here in Malachi chapter 2, God is rebuking the priests because they had not done that. |
| 2:12.3 | And so we take this passage and we bring it into the New Testament and we realize |
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