{"id":1082,"date":"2011-12-03T11:24:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T17:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:10","slug":"robbers-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"Robbers of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Malachi 3:7-12<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Context: Gods warning to the restored remnant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: &#8220;The Priest robbed him of holy service.&#8221; 1:6-13.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. &#8220;Where is my honour?&#8221;<br \/>\n2. &#8220;Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar.&#8221;<br \/>\n3. They offered the blind, lame, and sick.<!--more--><br \/>\n4. &#8220;Offer it now unto thy governor.&#8221;<br \/>\n5. They had commercialized the house of God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: The people were robbing God.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. &#8220;Return unto me.&#8221; &#8220;Wherein shall we return?&#8221;<br \/>\n2. &#8220;Will a man rob God?&#8221;<br \/>\n3. &#8220;Where in have we robbed thee?&#8221;<br \/>\n4. &#8220;In tithes and offerings.&#8221;<br \/>\n5. &#8220;Bring ye all the tithe unto the storehouse.&#8221; Prove me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: They failed to discern between the righteous and the wicked.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. &#8220;It&#8217;s vain to serve God, and what profit is it&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n2. &#8220;We call the proud happy.&#8221;<br \/>\n3. A book of remembrance was written.<br \/>\n4. &#8220;In that day when I wake up my jewels.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malachi 3:7-12 Context: Gods warning to the restored remnant. I: &#8220;The Priest robbed him of holy service.&#8221; 1:6-13. 1. &#8220;Where is my honour?&#8221; 2. &#8220;Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar.&#8221; 3. They offered the blind, lame, and sick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}