God's people should treasure Him above anyone or anything else since he is

supremely glorious and satisfied. However, it's all too easy for us to say that we treasure God and then deny him with the way

we live and the things we value.

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Well in today's message delivered all the way from Ethiopia,

Pastor David Platt encourages us from the Book of Malachai

to consider what we're saying about God that with the way

we use our money. We should use our money in everything we have so that his name is

glorified in our lives and his gospel is made known around the world.

So here's David with a sermon titled, Why We Live and Leap for the Glory of God in the world from Malachi chapters two and three.

If you have a Bible and I hope you or somebody around you does you can look on with, let me

invite you to open with me to the very last book in the Old Testament,

Malachi chapter 3. I am standing right now on a rooftop in Ethiopia, actually the same rooftop I was on a year ago at this time and I want to bring greetings to you from 125 or so of your brothers and sisters who were here in Ethiopia.

So to those of you in Tysons, Montgomery County, Loudon, Prince William,

on Main Ave, it's good to be together not just across Washington, but across the world around God's word.

My heart is so full.

When we knew we'd have this many people here in Ethiopia, we decided we wanted to have some time

in the word from Ethiopia.

And there's so much I want to share. My plan was originally to dive into

the Gospels today as Mike led us through kind of the in a sense close of the Old Testament story last week in Nehemiah, but as I was reading Malachai in our Bible reading this week, I was surprised in a sense by just how appropriate

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