by MJR | Oct 17, 2022 | Genuine Hope
You have wearied the LORD with your words. But you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”Malachi 2:17 I remember the first time I heard...
by MJR | Oct 14, 2022 | Genuine Hope
Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers? Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of...
by MJR | Oct 13, 2022 | Genuine Hope
My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name. True instruction was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he...
by MJR | Oct 12, 2022 | Genuine Hope
For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts.Malachi 1:11 We often sing songs of...
by MJR | Oct 11, 2022 | Genuine Hope
A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’Malachi 1:6 I think we can...
by MJR | Oct 10, 2022 | Genuine Hope
The oracle of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet I have loved Jacob but Esau I have hated.”Malachi 1:1-3 Malachi was...
