Malachi 3:1 Interpreting this prediction by the event, let us read what it says, I. As to the manner of the Saviour's coming. (1) He was to come announced by a forerunner. (2) He was to come to fulfil a great commission. (3) He was to come suddenly. II. Consider what is said of a certain work that... [ Continue Reading ]
Malachi 3:3 Under the image of the text is symbolized the whole course of the sanctification of the elect, until, through the searching discipline of God, they attain the perfection to which they are predestined Our Lord's Passion has caused an entire revolution in the experiences and views of mank... [ Continue Reading ]
Malachi 3:6 We can all of us, perhaps, look back to occasions when, if God had been pleased suddenly to call us away, in the state in which we were living at that moment, we could only have put our hands upon our lips and confessed that the sentence was perfectly just. Why are we here, the survivor... [ Continue Reading ]
Malachi 3:7 I. This is one of those verses which show most clearly and graciously the forethought of our heavenly Teacher, in providing for us the Old Testament: (1) in that words spoken on a particular occasion to the Jews are made to convey a heavenly warning and message to Christians of all gene... [ Continue Reading ]
Malachi 3:8 I. (1) Heaven is not the only domain of God's vast property. All here on earth belongs to Him as well. If all belongs to God, then comes in the liability to commit robbery against Him. For, it may be, that there shall be no general habitual sense and acknowledgment of His sovereign clai... [ Continue Reading ]
Malachi 3:10 I. God has ever connected the enjoyment and use of certain blessings with the observance of His ordinances, and with obedience to His requirements. II. Although God has thus connected blessedness with obedience, and with the observance of His ordinances, the people of God have often n... [ Continue Reading ]
Malachi 3:16 In the text the prophet describes the method used by good men to confirm themselves in their faith. "They that feared the Lord," he says, "spake often one to another." It was their surest means, by God's grace, of resisting the temptation, of their enemy, and so it is ours. It was the... [ Continue Reading ]
Malachi 3:16 There are three main features of this description in the text. I. The book of remembrance. Probably the rudiment of this idea is to be found in Ezra 6:1. There was a roll found on a critical occasion, "in the palace which is in the province of the Medes," the remembrance of which the... [ Continue Reading ]
Malachi 3:17 I. Notice the finding of the jewel. Just as the diamond and the gold are hidden among the rocks and earth, mud and sand, and are only found by great labour and trouble, so God's jewels are lost and hidden among vile sins and earthly habits, and shut up in hard, stony hearts; it is with... [ Continue Reading ]