The Greatness of God's Electing Love

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🗓️ 4 October 1987

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Have you learned the love of God in a way that makes you tremble?

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0:00.0	This morning's text is found in the book of Malachi, Malachi
0:07.0	Malachi chapter 1 verses 1 through 5.
0:11.0	The oracle of the Word of the Lord to Israel by Malachai.
0:17.0	I have loved you, says the Lord, but you say, how hast thou loved us?
0:24.0	Is not Esau Jacob's brother, says the Lord?
0:29.0	Yet I have loved Jacob, but I have hated Isaw.
0:35.0	I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.
0:41.0	If Edam says, we are shattered, but we will rebuild the ruins. The Lord of
0:47.2	hosts says, they may build, but I will tear down, till they are called the wicked country, the people with whom the Lord is
0:56.6	angry forever.
0:59.8	Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say great is the Lord beyond the border of Israel.
1:07.0	Malachai, he prophesied about 450 BC in Israel. And you remember the situation, I think in those days
1:18.5	perhaps the exile was over. They had gone into exile for some 70 years, some came trickling back more quickly than others.
1:28.0	It was over now and Jerusalem had been rebuilt and the temple had been restored, but the people hadn't learned
1:35.8	their lesson.
1:36.8	When you read through this book of Malachai, you're dismayed at what you find after God's
1:41.6	attempt to discipline his people.
1:44.8	You find that they're skeptical of God's love, careless in worship,
1:48.0	indifferent to the truth, disobedient to the covenant,
1:51.2	faithless in their marriages, and stingy in their offerings.
1:55.2	We're going to see all those things as we preach through this book of the next 10 or 11 weeks.
2:02.0	To this carnal and rebellious people, God sent his messenger Malachi, and the first message
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