When it Hits God's Fan: Part 5 (Malachi 2.1-9)

Conclusion

So many of God's servants, His children, have not taken God's honor to heart. They give Him their leftovers defiling His name and bringing upon themselves discipline. Oh that we would learn that we are to do as God instructs. That we are to abide by His Word as His has so given it. Let us learn that good enough is not good enough. God deserves excellence and glory in all that we do. If there is no excellence, if there be no glory may it not come from us, His beloved children.

"He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things" (Romans 8.32, ESV)? The answer is He would not. And yet we cannot say the same for us. We hold back the greatest that we have. We hold back our best, our excellence. We hold back giving God glory and honor, not taking to heart that His command and His promise.
God gave us Jesus, His only-begotten Son. He sent Him as the High Priest, not in the line of Levi, but in the line of Melchisidek. And it was Jesus who not only became our High Priest, but also our sacrificial Lamb.
When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, (Hebrews 10.8-12, ESV).
Praise God for the great High Priest, who knows our every weakness, and who has been tempted in every way as we are yet without sin, who died a sinner's death, and rose again to sit at God's right hand so that all who believe in Him will live forever and ever with God on high.
Oh that we would learn from Him, giving God all we have to give, not that it would be taken from us, but that we would lay it down willingly.

Next week we will finish this segment in Malachi 2.1-9.