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</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>OCT
15 - MALACHI 3-4 - A PICTURE OF LIGHT</b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>1.
3:1 (3:1-3, ESV) MESSIAH’S FIRST AND SECOND COMING. <font size="3">“Behold,
I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the
Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the
messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming,
says the LORD of hosts.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
ways Father, are </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">sudden</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
Restoration of Passover was this way (2 Chronicles 29:36 ). Pentecost
was this way (Acts 2:4) Now comes Your visible Kingdom suddenly
through Christ, and the Feast of Tabernacles Harvest! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed
be your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">2.
3:6 (3:4-6) JEHOVAH: RESTORES AND PURGES ISRAEL. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
I the LORD do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not
consumed. </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">You
do not reward us according to our desserts, O Jehovah Father! In
wrath You remember mercy. Your longsuffering protects us.
Intercessions of a Moses preserve us. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:kingdom come.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">3.
3:10 (3:7-12) JEHOVAH: REBUKES ISRAEL FOR TITHE FAILURE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Bring
the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my
house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of host</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">s</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">,
if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for
you a blessing until there is no more need.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">If
under Old Covenant Israel tithed, </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">how
much more</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
should the Church, the One New Man - do today under the Covenant of
Grace! Grace from the Holy Spirit is more powerful than the rules and
laws of the Old Testament. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">4.
3:13-14 (3:13-15) JEHOVAH REBUKES ISRAEL FOR VAIN WORDS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
words have been hard against me, says the LORD. But you say, ‘How
have we spoken against you?’ </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">14
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">You
have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our
keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the LORD of
hosts?” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">But
this is false reasoning. Forgive us Father our sins, if we like
Israel have let such thoughts lodge in our minds. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
:daily :bread Give us this day.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">5.
3:16 (3:16-18) JEHOVAH: DESCRIBES HIS RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Then
those who feared the LORD spoke with one another. The LORD paid
attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written
before him of those who feared the LORD and esteemed his name.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Blessed
be Your Name Father, for such a word of comfort and consolation! You
are the God Who is with us in hours of testing. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
4:2 (4:1-3) JEHOVAH: FORETELLS JUDGMENT AND BLESSING. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But
for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with
healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the
stall.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Final
victory comes from </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
Father! You in Christ will eventually overthrow Satan. We’ve read
it in Your Book, </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">our</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Rod of Moses! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
bring us not into temptation!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
4:5-6 (4:4-6) JEHOVAH: REMINDER OF MOSES AND ELIJAH. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Behold,
I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day
of the LORD comes. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">6</span></font><span style="text-decoration:none">
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">And he will
turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of
children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a
decree of destruction.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
a reconciliation! We rejoice in this powerful promise from You,
Father! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">one!</span></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
3:2-3 (3:1-3) </b></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">CHRIST:
HIS WORK AT HIS COMING! </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But
who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he
appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.
</span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">3
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">He
will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the
sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will
bring offerings in righteousness to the LORD.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Lord
Jesus, we submit to Your purging ministry, for we are a Kingdom of
priests, after the order of Levi.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Quote
from Thomas Jefferson, </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Declaration
of Independence - </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of
Happiness.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the Day: 105:8-10 (105) TELL OF ALL HIS WONDERFUL WORKS.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“He
remembers his covenant forever, the word that he commanded, for a
thousand generations, </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">6
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">the
</span></font><u><font size="3">covenant</font></u><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
that he made with Abraham, his sworn </span></font><u><font size="3">promise</font></u><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
to Isaac, </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">10
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">which
he confirmed to Jacob as a </span></font><u><font size="3">statute</font></u><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">,
to Israel as an </span></font><u><font size="3">everlasting covenant</font></u><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">For
Your Covenant Father, we </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallow
your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">This
historical Psalm was evidently composed by King David, for the first
fifteen verses of it were used as a hymn at the carrying up of the
ark from the house of Obed-edom, and we read in 1 Chron. 16:7, “Then
on that day David delivered first this Psalm to thank the Lord, into
the hand of Asaph and his brethren.” Our last Psalm sang the
opening chapters of Genesis, and this takes up its closing chapters
and conducts us into Exodus and Numbers. We are now among the
long Psalms, as at other times </span><span style="text-decoration:none">we
have been among the short ones. These varying lengths of the sacred
poems should teach us not to </span><span style="text-decoration:none">l</span><span style="text-decoration:none">ay
down any law either of brevity of prolixity in either prayer or
praise.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">105:5.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Seek the Lord, and
his strength: seek his face evermore.</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
First we seek Him, then His strength, and then His face; from the
personal reverence, we pass on to the imparted power, and then to the
conscious favor. This seeking must never cease - the more we know the
more we must seek to know.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">105:6.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>O you seed of
Abraham His servant, you children of Jacob His chosen. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Election
is not a couch for ease, but an argument for seven-fold diligence. If
God has set His choice upon us, let us aim to be choice men.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">105:8.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>The word which He
commanded to a thousand generations. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">This
is only an amplification of the former statement, and serves to set
before us the immutable fidelity of the Lord during the changing
generations of men. His judgments are threatened upon the third and
fourth generations of them that hate Him, but His love runs on
forever, even to “a thousand generations.”</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">105:11-12.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>When they were but
a few men in number; yes, very few, and strangers in it. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">The
blessings promised to the seed of Abraham were not dependent upon the
number of his descendants or their position in this world. The
covenant was made with one man, and consequently the number could
never be less, and that one man was not the owner of a foot of soil
in all the land, save only a cave in which to bury the dead, and
therefore his seed could not have less inheritance than he.
The smallness of a church, and the poverty of its members, are
not barriers to the divine blessing, if it be sought earnestly by
pleading the promise. Were not the apostles few, and the disciples
feeble when the good work began? Neither because we are strangers and
foreigners here below, as our fathers were, are we in any the more
danger; we are like sheep in the midst of wolves, but the wolves
cannot hurt us, for our Shepherd is near.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">105:17.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>He sent a man
before them, even Joseph. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">He
was the advance guard and pioneer for the whole clan. His brethren
sold him, </span><u>but God sent him</u><span style="text-decoration:none">.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Who was sold
for a servant. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Joseph’s
journey into Egypt was not so costly as Jonah’s voyage when he paid
his own fare: his free passage was provided by the Midianites, who
also secured his introduction to a great officer of state by handing
him over as a slave. His way to a position in which he could feed his
family lay through the pit, the slaver’s caravan, the slave market
and the prison, and who shall deny but what it was the right way, the
surest way, the wisest way, and perhaps the shortest way. Yet
assuredly it seemed not so. Were we to send a man on such an errand
we should furnish him with money - Joseph goes as a pauper; we should
clothe him with authority - Joseph goes as a slave; we should leave
him a full liberty - Joseph is a bondman: yet money would have been
of little use when corn was so dear, authority would have been
irritating rather than influential with Pharaoh, and freedom might
not have thrown Joseph into connection with Pharaoh’s captain and
his other servants, and so the knowledge of his skill in
interpretation might not have reached the monarch’s ear. God’s
way is the way. Our Lord’s path to His mediatorial throne ran by
the cross of Calvary; our road to glory runs by the rivers of grief.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">105:37.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>And there was not
one feeble person among all their tribes. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">A
great marvel indeed. The number of their army was very great, and yet
there wa</span><span style="text-decoration:none">s</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
not one in hospital, not one carried in an ambulance or limping in
the rear. Poverty and oppression had not enfeebled them.
Jehovah Rophi had healed them; they carried none of the diseases of
Egypt with them, and felt none of the exhaustion which sore bondage
produces. When God call</span><span style="text-decoration:none">s</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
His people to a long journey, He fits them for it; in the pilgrimage
of life, our strength shall be equal to our day. See the contrast
between Egypt and Israel - in Egypt one dead in every house, and
among the Israelites not one so much as limping. </span><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>(From
“The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by D.O.
Fuller)</b></span></font></font></p>
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