Malachi 3:7 Even from the days of your fathers you are gone away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you… It is a fearful crime to rob God, and yet it is done every day, and done by His professed friends as well as by His open enemies. God is robbed whenever His requirements are disregarded, whenever His rights are resisted, whenever the demands and interests of His kingdom are neglected. Consider wherein God is robbed by His people. 1. In the matter of affection. "My son, give Me thy heart." That is the supreme offering. 2. In the matter of consecration. God will have the whole heart, life, gifts, or none. 3. In the matter of service. God's claim is absolute upon your time, influence, prayers, efforts, gifts, means, even in their potentiality. 4. In the matter of gratitude. 5. In tithes and offerings. (J. M. Sherwood.) Parallel Verses KJV: 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. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? |
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