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Open your Bibles to the book of Malachi, or as some would call it, Malachi, the Italian

prophet.

Malachi.

That's the last book in the Old Testament.

And I haven't done something like this for quite a while.

What's in my heart to do is I want to take probably two weeks.

I could do three, but I think probably we'll just do two weeks

and study the book of Malachi.

And there's two parts to this that we're going to need to study.

So part one today is going to do primarily with the correction that leads to the fullness

of covenant.

Let me, I can say that better.

The Lord is very confrontive, but when he corrects, it's always an invitation to life.

His corrections are never punishment focused. They are always life focused. They are always invitations to step into purpose,

to step into destiny. And so we find in the first three chapters, especially, we find the Lord

addressing some of the issues of the heart

that we'll look at in a moment. We're just going to skim a couple of them, but address the

issues of the heart that had become dead in the people. They had become a people of routine

instead of the life-giving relationship that we're supposed to have with the Lord.

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