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Passion for God's Honor
by Jim Nicodem
Text: Malachi 1:6–14
Topic: How we best respond to God's love for us
Big Idea: God demands our greatest sacrifice, reverence, and worship.
Keywords: Election; Excellence; God, greatness of; Grace; Half-heartedness; Honor; Offerings: Reverence; Sacrifice; Worship
Introduction:
- Illustration: Students wanted to do their best for their favorite professor.
- Malachi describes the incredible love of God for his people.
- Malachi tells the people that they need to honor God in return.
Honoring God means bringing him the best sacrifice.
- God is unhappy with tainted offerings of injured or diseased animals.
- The worship we bring God today is our lives.
- Illustration: Even after thunderous applause, a composer still wants to do better.
- God does not want us to bring him second best.
- Illustration:Imagine paying the IRS with the equivalent of a tainted offering.
Honoring God means giving him the greatest reverence.
- Illustration: Former "great" athletes are now forgotten.
- God is the definition of greatness.
- Proper worship is pointed toward an awesome God.
- The name of God should be held in the highest regard.
Honoring God means giving him the warmest worship.
- God deserves better than half-hearted worship.
- Illustration: Child asks about the people who "died in the service."
- Worship is not about what we get out of it; it's about what God gets out of it.
- We give God our best because he deserves it.
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