Robbers of God

Malachi 3:7-12
Context: Gods warning to the restored remnant.

I: “The Priest robbed him of holy service.” 1:6-13.
1. “Where is my honour?”
2. “Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar.”
3. They offered the blind, lame, and sick.
4. “Offer it now unto thy governor.”
5. They had commercialized the house of God.

II: The people were robbing God.
1. “Return unto me.” “Wherein shall we return?”
2. “Will a man rob God?”
3. “Where in have we robbed thee?”
4. “In tithes and offerings.”
5. “Bring ye all the tithe unto the storehouse.” Prove me.

III: They failed to discern between the righteous and the wicked.
1. “It’s vain to serve God, and what profit is it…”
2. “We call the proud happy.”
3. A book of remembrance was written.
4. “In that day when I wake up my jewels.”