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  • Malachi 3:13-18 - A Day of Distinction (Rev. Erik Veerman)

    Malachi 3:13-18 - A Day of Distinction (Rev. Erik Veerman)
    Nov 30 2025
    31 min
  • Malachi 3:6-12 - Robbing God and Ourselves (Rev. Erik Veerman)

    Malachi 3:6-12 - Robbing God and Ourselves (Rev. Erik Veerman)
    Nov 23 2025
    32 min
  • Malachi 2:17-3:5 - The Refiner's Fire - Who Can Stand? (Rev. Erik Veerman)

    Malachi 2:17-3:5 - The Refiner's Fire - Who Can Stand? (Rev. Erik Veerman)
    Nov 16 2025
    Malachi 2:17-3:5 We are returning this morning to our study of the prophet Malachi. We’re basically half-way through. Our sermon text this morning is from 2:17 to 3:5. You can find that on page 954. As you are turning there, I wanted to briefly remind you of what we’ve considered so far. Chapter 1 opened up with God reminding his people of his love for them. Even though they didn’t recognize his love, yet God confirmed it. He said, “I have loved you.” They were his chosen people, not because of anything they did, but because he called them to be his. The reason God opened up with his unconditional love is because they needed to hear some tough love. So, Malachi’s prophecy turns to their failures. First, he called out the people for bringing polluted offerings to the temple. Next, he turned his attention to the priests. They were supposed to guard and teach knowledge and be a model of uprightness, but they failed. Then, in the middle of chapter 2, God revealed their unfaithfulness in their marriages. Despite God’s faithfulness to them, they had displayed faithlessness to him. In all of these things, God was calling them back to himself. He was calling them to repent and return to him by faith. Which brings us to our passage this morning. We’ll see that there was an underlying problem. In their hearts, they had been questioning God’s goodness and justice. Listen for that as we now read Stand Reading of Malachi 2:17-3:5 Prayer In 1968, a man filed a lawsuit against his former employer. He alleged that his former employer ruined his life. He had been unjustly fired. This began a protracted 30-year legal battle against the company. But in the end, despite all his efforts, he lost. As you can imagine, that was greatly disappointing. So, in the late 1990s, this same man filed a new lawsuit against a new defendant. This time his lawsuit was against God, whom he identified as “the Sovereign ruler of the universe.” The lawsuit claimed that God had taken no corrective action against… (now listen to this) his nation, his company, or his church for the extremely serious wrongs which ruined his life. A judge declared the lawsuit frivolous, of course. None of us here have sued God in a state or federal court, but let me ask: have you put God on trial in your heart? Have you witnessed or experienced injustice (against yourself or someone else) and subsequently questioned God’s character because of it? I mean, if God is indeed sovereign and just, why does it appear that those who hate justice are the ones who seem to prosper? Why do those who hate the truth or who oppress and kill seem to get away with it over and over? In our verses this morning, God addresses and responds to those very questions. And it’s deeply personal. It was deeply personal to the returned exiles in Jerusalem and it is deeply personal to us. Look at chapter 2 verse 17. The Lord tells the people, through Malachi, that their words had “wearied him.” They had been believing and saying something over and over which God was displeased with. Look at what they had been saying. “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” They had been witnessing that evil people were thriving. And they assumed that because these wicked people prospered, that God was therefore pleased with them… even delighted in them. And then at the end of verse 17, they put God on trial. Notice the rhetorical question they asked. “Where is the God of justice?” They were implying that even though God declared that he was just, yet his inaction against injustice meant to them that God therefore loved sin and evil. Now, we’ve talked about the returned exiles’ plight before, but I want us to consider their situation from a different angle. It had been at least 80 years since the people began to return to Jerusalem from exile. To be sure, there were multiple waves of people who returned, so not everyone had returned at once. But a lot of time had passed since they started returning. And a couple positives things had happened. First, the temple had been rebuilt. And second, the walls of Jerusalem had been repaired. And because of that, they expected at any moment, the Messiah would come. After all, this was the time in their history when it was to happen, right? God had promised in Isaiah that out of the stump of Jesse, out of king David’s line, a righteous branch would emerge. So, when the royal lineage of David appeared dead, that was when God would raise up a humble king, the Messiah, who would restore the kingdom and bring peace. At that time. The lineage of David was indeed a stump. The exile had happened. And so, when some of the exiles started returning and when the temple was restored and when the city walls were rebuit. There was eager anticipation that the Messiah was about to come. He would come and usher in a new kingdom of prosperity and power. That’s what they thought. But he hadn...
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