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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: The name Malachi means “my messenger.” The reference here is, of course, to John the Baptist, who was to prepare the way of the Lord. Mal_3:1. And the lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, Now, the temple at Jerusalem is utterly destroyed, so how can the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap: All that only looked like religion, but was not real and genuine, was purged away at his coming. He was like a refiner’s fire, consuming the false pretensions of the Pharisees, and the vain boastings of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: Christ comes suddenly, but he comes to stay: “He shall sit.” If he comes into our heart at this moment, — and he may come there suddenly, — he will come to stay there, and he will sit there “as a refiner and purifier of silver.” Mal_3:3. And he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years. And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. This is their comfort; even the immutability of God is on the side of his people. He is just, and always just, he hates sin, and always hates sin; yet that unchangeableness of his is always on the side of the people of his choice.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. Ye wanderers from God, take this invitation home to your hearts, and act upon it. Arise, and return unto your Father; for when you are yet a great way off, he will see you, and will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. They were always ready to deny or question a just accusation, instead of letting it operate upon their conscience, so they asked about this charge. Mal_3:8. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. They had kept back from God’s service the money which was needful for the carrying...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation, They could not make out why they were so poor, and why they could not get on; the real reason was that there was a curse resting upon all that they did, because they had robbed God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. They had kept themselves poor by their own meanness. If they had behaved rightly towards...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, with the LORD of hosts. The locust and the caterpillar came up and ate their harvests, all because God was angry with them; and he alone could change their miserable circumstances.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts. God is able, simply with a turn of his hand, or a glance of his eye, to enrich or to impoverish. He gives in a thousand ways that we cannot control, and he takes from us in as many ways which perhaps we cannot understand. It is always best to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then — At that very time, — Mal_3:16. They that feared the LORD spake often one to another: They could not bear to hear their God thus spoken of, so they went to one another’s houses, they found one another out, and talked to one another. Mal_3:16. And the Lord hearkened, — He loves to listen to the holy talk of a holy people: “The Lord...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; “Others, who thought much of themselves, shall be thrown away like worthless pebbles, but these faithful ones shall be mine in that day when I am putting my jewels into my crown, for they shall be precious in my sight.” Mal_3:17. And I will spare them, as a man...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, Not now, but then; by-and-by, there shall be a distinguishing mark set upon all mankind: “Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked,” — Mal_3:18. Between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. This exposition consisted of readings from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you — Here is the difference: “But unto you” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise- Not like a scorching and burning oven as the sun of the heavens is in the East, but he shall arise — Mal_4:2. With healing in his wing; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. All is right with those who are right with God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great...