• Malachi exposes our selfish perspectives
  • Introduction
    • Malachi 1:2, 6, 7, 12; 2:14; 3:7, 8, 13 – “you say …” statements
  • We don’t even recognize God’s blessings.
    • “How have you loved us?” – Malachi 1:2
    • God had blessed them the whole way, but they failed to recognize it.
    • Do we make the mistake of thinking God does not love us if some specific prayer is not answered?
    • Hebrews 2:9-18; 4:15-16; 12:2-3 – Jesus knows the suffering and temptation we face!
  • We offer pitiful worship and claim it’s good enough.
    • “How have we despised your name? … How have we defiled you?” – Malachi 1:6-7
    • “My, how tiresome it is!” – Malachi 1:13
    • “How have we robbed you?” – Malachi 3:8
  • We live in sin and then pretend to worship.
    • “For what reason does God reject my worship?” – Malachi 2:14
    • Malachi 2:10-15
    • Matthew 5:23
    • I Peter 3:7, 10-12 – Mistreating your wife hinders your prayers!