#716 – Behold, He is Coming (Malachi 3:1)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 26 July 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Malachi 3 sets the stage for Christ coming to redeem sinners and bring them back into right relationship with God. We long for His return, "Come, Lord Jesus!"
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:05.8 | Malachai chapter 3 verse 1. |
| 0:08.6 | Behold I send my messenger and he will prepare the way before me. |
| 0:14.0 | And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. |
| 0:20.0 | And the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, |
| 0:23.0 | behold he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. |
| 0:27.0 | What a promise here at the end of the Old Testament, that the Lord whom you seek, so there's a messenger |
| 0:37.0 | that will prepare the way, but then the Lord whom you seek, the Lord will come to his temple. |
| 0:45.0 | This is a picture of God's promise to come to his people. |
| 0:50.0 | Right here at the end of the Old Testament, setting the stage for what's about to happen |
| 0:56.0 | when we turn the pages of the New Testament and we discovered that the Lord has come. |
| 1:02.8 | Jesus, God in the flesh has come. |
| 1:07.5 | And this promise that he would come |
| 1:09.7 | would provide hope for hundreds of years in anticipation of that. |
| 1:16.0 | And this is where we see the heart of the gospel in the Old Testament, |
| 1:22.0 | looking to the New Testament, the reality that God is not |
| 1:26.2 | distant from us, even though we have sinned against Him and we deserve to be separated from him forever? |
| 1:34.5 | God has not left us alone in our sin. |
| 1:37.2 | He has come to us. |
| 1:41.2 | God has made the way for us to be saved from our sin. Let's never get over this |
| 1:47.7 | glorious reality. God came to us in the person of Jesus to live the life we couldn't live on our behalf, a life with no |
| 1:58.7 | sin, and then to die the death we deserve to die for our sin. God came to us to pay the price for our |
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