05 May 31, 2015, Malachi 3 & 4, A Pure People

Malachi 3 and 4
A Pure People
May 31, 2015
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA

What’s the number one thing?

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The glory of God!

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1 Corinthians 10:31 NKJV
31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or
whatever you do, do all to the glory of
God.

May Memory Verse:
2 Corinthians 9:7 NIV
“Each of you should give what you
have decided in your heart to give, not
reluctantly or under compulsion, for
God loves a cheerful giver.”

Positioning yourself to focus and rely
on God for the strength, provision, &
wisdom
you need.

On Mondays, beginning June 1, our
church family will receive prayer
requests for the week upon which you
can focus in
addition to you
own personal
prayers.

Consider fasting on a certain day each
week, or abstaining from a certain
food as a part of your discipline to
pray during
this 90 day
period.

Monday, June 08, 2015, 9:00 AM -
Friday, June 12, 2015, 12:00 PM

Sunday, June 28, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM

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We have three challenges that the
Education
Department has
placed before
us in 2015:

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1.) Memorize the monthly memory
verses and
know each
month we
are hiding
God’sWord
in our heart.

January verse: Romans 10:9
February verse: Ephesians 2:8-9
March verse: Romans 3:23
April verse: I Peter 1:3

April MemoryVerse:
1 Peter 1:3 NIV
3 Praise be to the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great
mercy He has given us new birth into
a living hope through the resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the dead,

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2.) Share your faith with one person
each month and build a relationship
with them, so they will not only
become a disciple – but
a disciple maker
themselves.
Luke 19:11-27

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3). Ask Sunday School class members
to share how they have seen God at
work during the week.

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Malachi 3:1-18 NKJV
The Coming Messenger
1 “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,
Even the Messenger of the covenant,
InWhom you delight.
Behold, He is coming,”
Says the LORD of hosts.

2 “But who can endure the day of His coming?
And who can stand when He appears?
For He is like a refiner’s fire (purifying)
And like launderers’ soap (cleansing).

3 He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver;
He will purify the sons of Levi,
And purge them as gold and silver,
That they may offer to the LORD
An offering in righteousness.

4 “Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem
Will be pleasant to the LORD,
As in the days of old,
As in former years.

5 And I will come near you for judgment;
I will be a swift witness
Against sorcerers,
Against adulterers,
Against perjurers,
Against those who exploit wage earners and
widows and orphans,
And against those who turn away an alien—
Because they do not fear Me,”

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6 “For I am the LORD, I do not change;
Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of
Jacob.

7 Yet from the days of your fathers
You have gone away from My ordinances
And have not kept them.
Return to Me, and I will return to you,”
“But you said,
‘In what way shall we return?’

Do Not Rob God
8 “Will a man rob God?
Yet you have robbed Me!
But you say,
‘In what way have we robbedYou?’
In tithes and offerings.

9 You are cursed with a curse,
For you have robbed Me,
Even this whole nation.
10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse,
That there may be food in My house,
And try Me now in this,”
Says the LORD of hosts,
“If I will not open for you the windows of heaven
And pour out for you such blessing
That there will not be room enough to receive it.

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11 “And I will rebuke the devourer for your
sakes,
So that he will not destroy the fruit of your
ground,
Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in
the field,”
Says the LORD of hosts;

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12 “And all nations will call you blessed,
For you will be a delightful land,”

The People Complain Harshly
13 “Your words have been harsh against Me,”
Says the LORD,
“Yet you say,
‘What have we spoken againstYou?’

14 You have said,
‘It is useless to serve God;
What profit is it that we have kept His
ordinance,
And that we have walked as mourners
Before the LORD of hosts?

15 So now we call the proud blessed,
For those who do wickedness are raised up;
They even tempt God and go free.’”

A Book of Remembrance
16 Then those who feared the LORD spoke to
one another,
And the LORD listened and heard them;
So a book of remembrance was written
before Him
For those who fear the LORD
And who meditate on His name.

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17 “They shall be Mine,” says the LORD of hosts,
“On the day that I make them My jewels
And I will spare them
As a man spares his own son who serves him.”

18 Then you shall again discern
Between the righteous and the wicked,
Between one who serves God
And one who does not serve Him.
Malachi 3:1-18 NKJV

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Then, in chapter 4, we have the
prediction of the Day of the Lord and
of the Sun of RighteousnessWho
ushers it in.
The first verse is a vivid description of
the GreatTribulation period --

Malachi 4:1 NKJV
The Great Day of God
1 “For behold, the day is coming,
Burning like an oven,
And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be
stubble.
And the day which is coming shall burn them up,”
Says the LORD of hosts,
“That will leave them neither root nor branch.
(In other words, they shall be consumed.)

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In the Book of Revelation we read that at one
fatal swoop one-fourth of the population of the
world will be wiped out (Rev. 6:8).

Revelation 6:8 NKJV
8 So I looked, and behold, a pale horse.
And the name of him who sat on it was
Death, and Hades followed with him. And
power was given to them over a fourth of
the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger,
with death, and by the beasts of the earth.

Malachi 4:2-6 NKJV
2 But to you who fear My name
The Sun of Righteousness shall arise
With healing in His wings;
And you shall go out
And grow fat like stall-fed calves.

3 You shall trample the wicked,
For they shall be ashes under the soles
of your feet
On the day that I do this,”

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4 “Remember the Law of Moses,
My servant, which I commanded him in
Horeb for all Israel,
With the statutes and judgments.

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5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the
prophet
Before the coming of the great and
dreadful day of the LORD.

6 And he will turn
The hearts of the fathers to the children,
And the hearts of the children to their
fathers,
Lest I come and strike the earth with a
curse.”
Malachi 4:2-6 NKJV

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John Piper
Born: January 11, 1946

John Piper was born in Chattanooga,
Tennessee where his father, Bill, was a
traveling evangelist and church planter.
• The Piper family eventually moved to
Greenville, South Carolina, where he
spent the remainder of his youth.

John married Noël Henry in 1968, and
together they have four sons, a daughter,
and twelve grandchildren.
• Piper attendedWheaton College (1964–
68) & completed a Bachelor of Divinity
degree at FullerTheological Seminary in
Pasadena, California.

John did his doctoral work in New
Testament Studies at the University of
Munich, Germany (1971–74).
• His mother died in December 1974 in a
bus wreck in Israel and his 1990 booklet
What's the Difference? included a
tribute to her.

Upon completion of his doctorate, he
taught Biblical Studies at Bethel University
and Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota, for
six years (1974–1980). He served as Pastor
for Preaching andVision of Bethlehem
Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota
for 33 years.

On January 11, 2006, he announced that he had
been diagnosed with prostate cancer and Piper
responded to his diagnosis with the following:
"This news has, of course, been good for me.
The most dangerous thing in the world is the
sin of self-reliance and the stupor of
worldliness.

The news of cancer has a wonderfully
blasting effect on both. I thank God
for that.The times with Christ in these
days have been unusually sweet."
Piper underwent successful surgery
on February 14, 2006.

This message is titled:
The Sun of RighteousnessWill Rise
December 20, 1987
Scripture: Malachi 4:1-3
Topic:The Person of Christ

Three astounding effects Jesus has had on
our world:
1) One third of the earth’s population call
themselves Christian.
2) His birthday divides history in half.
3) His resurrection sets Sunday apart.

1. Those Who CallThemselves
Christian
One third of the world's population today
calls itself Christian.
That is, 2.44 billion people of the world's
7.325 billion have come under the sway of
this Man Jesus and say that Christianity is
their religion.

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Not only that, Christianity is the most
extensive and universal religion in history.
There are Christian churches in every
inhabited country in the world and in two-
thirds of the world's 223 countries the
population is over 50% Christian.

So the first indisputable significance
of the presence of Jesus Christ on this
earth is that the life of this Man has
influenced more people over the
course of human history than any
other single man.

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Buddha, Confucius, Mohammed, or even
Moses do not compare in the extent of
their influence on history and the world.

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2. The Dating System
Second, virtually every person in
the modern western, and most
of the non-western, world call
this year 2015 AD.

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The reason bankers and butchers, car
dealers and doctors, teachers and
attorneys, computer programmers
and presidents date their checks
“2015" is because Jesus Christ was
born 2,015 years ago.

No other man in history has been
accorded the honor of dividing history
in half—and with such definitive
influence that millions who do not call
Him Lord are forced to bear witness
daily to His on-going importance in
the world by using the date 2015.

3. The Setting Apart of Sunday
All over the western world, and in a
large part of the non-western world,
Sunday is recognized as a holiday,
and most of these western cultures
recognize a difference even
between Saturday and Sunday.

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The historical reason for this is that Jesus
Christ rose from the dead on Sunday.

Why Does Jesus Have Such an Effect
on theWorld?
The religious, historical, and cultural
significance of the birth of Jesus Christ
is so huge that no one can begin to
give it an adequate description.

Now that fact, in and of itself, before we
even turn to the Bible, confronts you and
me with a profound choice: will we ignore
this Man and take Him lightly in spite of
His being the most influential man
whoever lived, or will we inquire earnestly
intoWho this Man was and is and why He
has changed the world so deeply?

Why is the birth and death and
resurrection of this Man having this
kind of effect on the world?

There are many reasons why people don't
give whole hearted agreement to the
Biblical witness about Jesus Christ—why
people hold back from full, red-blooded
commitment to Christ—why they watch the
drama of redemption unfolding in history
like a spectator instead of a participant.

Sometimes it isn't because they see
logical or historical obstacles but
instead it's often because they don't
see that it really makes any difference
in their lives.

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The whole thing seems irrelevant to
real life to them. It doesn't connect.

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It's like some esoteric scientific claim
about the molecule.

It may well be true, but the likelihood of it
making much difference in my life is so remote
that I hardly need to make any commitment to
the truth of the molecular theory.
Leave that for the scientists.
And leave Jesus for the religious.

I've got my life to live.
Let’s go to a verse in Malachi (4:2),
the last prophet in the OldTestament,
and sketch five images of the coming
of Jesus Christ.

If they saw the coming of Jesus the
way the prophets saw it, they would
see its relevance for their lives, and
they wouldn't be indifferent anymore.
Malachi's Great Expectation of the
Coming Lord in chapter 4, verse 2.

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Here is a prophet writing 450 years
before Jesus but full of expectation
that the Messiah is coming.

In 3:1 he says, "The LordWhom you seek
will suddenly come to His temple; the
Messenger of the covenant inWhom you
delight; behold He is coming says the Lord
of hosts." And in verse 3:2, "He is like
fuller’s soap and a refiner's fire."

This same great expectation in 3:1 is
described in 4:2, and this is the verse
we want to unfold this morning.
• Malachi has just warned that those
who proudly resist God will be
consumed with fire on the coming
Day of Judgment.

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Judgment Day

But then Malachi has a different word
to say to those who fear the Lord.
For them (us) the future holds
something vastly more wonderful.

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Malachi 4:2 NKJV
2 But to you who fear My name
The Sun of Righteousness shall arise
With healing in His wings;
And you shall go out (leaping)
And grow fat like stall-fed calves.

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When John the Baptist's father
prophesied in Luke 1:78, he alluded to
this verse and said that with the
coming of Jesus the day was dawning
from on high.
The Sun of Righteousness was rising.

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Luke 1:78 NASB
78 Because of the tender mercy of our God,
With which the Sunrise from on high will
visit us,

And Jesus has been rising all over this
world ever since.
• One day His rise will reach its
noonday brightness and He will
appear in glory and the final
division between the unbelieving
and the believing will be made.

Five Pictures ofWhat the Coming of Jesus
Means -
• But for those who fear the Lord—who
wake up from their indifference or
rebellion against Him and honor Him
with trust and allegiance—what does
the coming of the Lord mean?

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What does it mean for you today if
you are a true Biblical Christian?

Five pictures from Malachi 4:2;
1. A rising sun
2. Beams of righteousness
3. Wings of healing
4. Breaking out of a stall
5. Leaping like calves

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The Rising Sun is a picture of Christ

1. A Rising Sun
Jesus Christ is a rising sun.
That means at least four things.
We'll mention only two (omitting:
warmth where there was cold, and
growth where there was atrophy).

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Light WhereThere Was Darkness

Light WhereThere Was Darkness
Jesus brings light where there was
darkness and when you have light,
you can see - Jesus helps us see things
like they really are.
He makes sense out of things.

Jesus said to Pilate, "For this I was
born, and for this I have come into the
world, to bear witness to the truth.
Everyone who is of the truth hears My
voice." And Pilate mocked Him and
said, as though he lived in the 21st
century, "What is truth?"

That is the tragic and cynical cry of
our age:What is truth?
Not because there's a passion for
truth, but because there is so much
skepticism that any such thing exists.

The effect of this skepticism and
relativism is moral, intellectual, personal
and family bankruptcy.
• Why do many families come apart?
Because they have no anchor of truth.
The husband and father has no clear
vision of why he or his children exist.

All he can do is pass on a few tips for
how to make more money or stay
healthy.
And the emptiness gets deeper and
deeper with each unbelieving
generation.

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But Jesus is the light of the world and He
brings sense and meaning out of
absurdity.

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Security WhereThereWas Danger

Security WhereThere Was Danger
The second thing implied by His being
a rising sun is that He brings security
where there was danger.When it is
dark, there is more danger because
you can't see the path in front of you.

You might fall off a cliff or trip over a
log or bang your head against a limb.
When the sun finally rises, you can
move with security and that's the way
it is with Jesus. He points the way to
go again and again. (John 14:6-7)

John 14:6-7 NKJV
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the
truth, and the life. No one comes to the
Father except through Me.
7 If you had known Me, you would have
known My Father also; and from now on
you know Him and have seen Him.”

He shows up the danger and the
foolishness of many choices before
we make them.
He guards us from many evil forces
that only have power in the dark.

So when Jesus comes into the world,
He comes as a sun: He is light in the
darkness of confusion and ignorance
and skepticism.
• He gives a fixed point of truth in a
world where every standard seems
to have come unglued.

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And in doing this, He guards us from
destroying our lives and keeps us safe.

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Beams of Righteousness

2. Beams of Righteousness
The sun is a sun with beams of
righteousness. Which means that
Jesus makes things right. He makes
man right with God through
reconciliation.

He also makes man right with man
through grace and humility and
patience and love. In the end, He will
make right all the wrongs that His
people have suffered, so that we don't
have to carry the burden of revenge
and indignation.

If you look at the incredible injustices in
the world today, and see people suffering
when they seem innocent and prospering
when they seem wicked, Jesus gives an
answer: where He is trusted, He can
reconcile and restore; where He's not, He
will have the last word in the judgment.

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Wings of Healing

3. Wings of Healing
This Sun of Righteousness rises
with healing in its wings.
Can you remember a spectacular
sunrise that you experienced?

Early one morning you saw how it happens on
the rim of the ocean.
A thin line of orange and red appears along the
water.Then it intensifies, brighter and brighter,
and you see the brightness focusing more and
more on the center of the line, until the flaming
ball surges up out of the water.

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And then you watch it rise up, and in a sense it
brings that whole red line on the rim of the
water up into the air as though the sun had
wings.

When Malachi saw that, God told him:
the coming of the Messiah will be like
that and the effect of His beauty will
be healing. Jesus is a great Healer.
Though Jesus does not heal every
disease in this life, He will heal every
disease in the resurrection.

In other words Jesus meets the
tremendous need we all feel for hope
beyond the grave—that all sickness
and pain and sorrow and crying will be
gone forever. (Revelation 21:4)

Revelation 21:4 NKJV
4 And God will wipe away every tear
from their eyes; there shall be no
more death, nor sorrow, nor crying.
There shall be no more pain, for the
former things have passed away.

Healing (marpe’, "restoration or
health") in its wings (or rays) in
Malachi 4:2 refers to the restorative
powers of righteousness, which are
like the healthful rays of the sun.
• God's people will be spiritually
restored and renewed.

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Breaking Out of a Stall

4. Breaking Out of a Stall
One effect of all this for those who
fear the Lord will be a going forth
from the stall — "You shall go forth
from the stall."

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The coming of Jesus means freedom not
bondage and we don't want to minimize
that deep longing in our hearts for freedom.

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Freedom in Christ is essential to all joy
– which Jesus promises to give us.

Until He comes, we are all in a real
sense trapped and bound in the stall.
We will never know the freedom for
which we were made as long as we
are in the stall—until Jesus sets us free
at the Rapture!

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Leaping Like Calves

5. Leaping Like Calves
When the Sun of Righteousness
rises with healing in His wings and
we are set free from the stall of
bondage, we will not merely walk,
or run; we will leap like calves.

In other words freedom is the
necessary condition of leaping joy.
Jesus said in Luke 6:22–23, "Blessed
are you when men hate you. ...
Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy,
for behold your reward is great in
Heaven."

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The figure of calves enjoying open pasture after
being cooped up in a stall expresses the future
satisfaction and joy of the righteous.

You may think that some people you
know don’t have the personality for
this and that they could no more leap
like a calf than speak Russian.
But we do not know each other very
well.

John Piper remembers once in seminary
going out with people from the adult
Sunday School that he was teaching.
They came out of the pizza place and he
commenced to demonstrate the high
step of a drum major in the Greenville,
S.C., Christmas parade.

Well the mouths of those folks fell
open. And they stared in disbelief.
They didn't know he had a calf in him.
• There is a calf in every believer and
given the right setting, it will leap.

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We would do well to give it some room,
otherwise we will look very out of character in
Heaven when Jesus takes us running through
the fields.

TheTrue Meaning of Being a Christian
Jesus comes -
 to give light and truth where there was darkness
and confusion,
 to set things right where they were wrong,
 to give healing where there was sickness and
brokenness,
 to give freedom where there was bondage, and
 to give calf-like joy where there was dreariness and
fear.

Father, I pray that none would be able to resist the
offer ofYour grace in these words. Let every family be
united in the faith this year. May those who have been
spectators stop holding back, and join the drama of
redemption. And may even this morning the Sun of
Righteousness rise with healing in His wings so that all
of us might go forth leaping like calves from the stall.
In Jesus' name.
Amen.

Full author John Piper
John Piper (@JohnPiper) is founder and teacher of
desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College
& Seminary. For 33 years, he served as pastor of
Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He is author of more than 50 books.
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The Plan of Hope & Salvation
John 3:16 NKJV
16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should
not perish but have everlasting life.”
John 14:6 NKJV
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

Romans 3:23 NKJV
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23a NKJV
23a For the wages of sin is death,
• Death in this life (the first death) is 100%.
• Even Jesus, the only one who doesn’t deserve death, died
in this life to pay the penalty for our sins.
• The death referred to in Romans 6:23a is the second
death explained in Revelation 21:8.

8 “But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable,
murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and
all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns
with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Romans 6:23b NKJV
23b but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord.

Romans 5:8 NKJV
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in
that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
7 “He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will
be his God and he shall be My son.”
•Romans 10:9-10 explains to us how to accept Jesus
as our Savior.

Romans 10:9-10 NKJV
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus
and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from
the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one
believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 10:13 NKJV
13 For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be
saved.”

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