Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today,

Pastor Chuck continues with the Covenant of Life and Peace as we pick up in Malachai chapter 1 verse 14.

Now with today's message here's pastor Chapp.

Bob pronounces a curse upon that man that would make a promise to God and then substitute

on it.

Give God sacrifice something that was corrupted corrupted for I am a great king

saith the Lord of host and my name is awesome among the heathen now he addresses himself to the priest and now will ye priest this

commandment is for you and if you will not hear and if you will not lay it to heart to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of Host,

I will even send a curse upon you and I will curse your blessings.

Yea, I have cursed them already because you do not lay it to heart.

Now, in order to get a real background to Malachai, you need to read again the books of Ezra and Nehemiah because Malachi was prophesying during the time of Ezra and Nehemiah.

This was the time when the children of Israel had returned from their Babylonian captivity

and were starting to rebuild the nation. And we remember how they read to the people, the law of the Lord, and how that the people have begun to put away their wives and began to marry the wives from the cities of Ashdod and Amman and the Moabide. and background to Malachi in Nehemian Ezra which you should reread just to put the whole prophecy in perspective.

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