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Lesson Summary:

Malachi declares God’s love for Israel while rebuking Israel for their grave dishonor of God.

Focus Passage: Malachi 1

Outline and Lesson Goal

Principles and Applications

I. God’s Unmitigated Love for Israel (Malachi 1:1-5)

Principle: God’s Love for His People is Everlasting.
Application: How has God demonstrated His absolute love for you?
Scripture Reference

The Lord appeared to him from afar, saying,“I have loved you with an everlasting love;
Therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness.
Jeremiah 31:3 (NASB)

II. Israel’s Utter Dishonor of God’s Name (Malachi 1:6-14)

Principle: God’s People Should be Devoted to Honoring His Name.
Application: In what ways are you defiling and dishonoring God today? How are you trampling on His name?
Scripture Reference

⁸we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
⁹Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.
¹⁰For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
2 Corinthians 5:8-10 (NASB)