EXPOSITORY LISTENING - In the process of genuine listening it’s either constant increase or constant decrease. As followers and worshipers of Christ, we actually never stop "buying truth". We constantly open to Christ by closing to the usurpers of His rule. There’s always a price for free grace. So let your mind be open and closed. Let it be open to the truth of God’s Word and let it be closed to the clamoring counsel of the ungodly. You’re the temple of the Holy Spirit.

THE BOOK OF MALACHI: PROPHETIC WORDS FOR A LOVE FOR GOD STARTING TO GROW COLD - God’s judgment doesn’t always come immediately upon the commitment of sin. There’s frequently a delay. Sometimes a very long delay. And when nothing seems to be at stake, people quickly think obedience doesn't matter too much to God.

EXPOSITORY LISTENING - Hearing God’s Word with faith means hearing God in His Word, hearing truth in His Word, and hearing reward in His Word. Learn to love it above all impostors pressing to rule your life. You’ll be safe, clean, and happy above all.

THE BOOK OF MALACHI: PROPHETIC WORDS FOR A LOVE FOR GOD STARTING TO GROW COLD - If your are entering marriage, marry only in the Lord. Do not marry an unbeliever. If you are already married or divorced and legally re-married, stay in your marriage. Your marriage is the fountain of everything else your will be before the Lord. It forms the foundation of your devotion, your prayer, your worship, your honesty, your purity. You can't please Him in anything else if you bring an unscriptural heart to the covenant of your marriage.

EXPOSITORY LISTENING - We need to hear a fresh, wonderful, soul-saving call to have a godly fear for our Creator. No wonder we’re told in Scripture to “take care” that we listen to God every moment of every day; everything of your eternal future hangs on how you hear God’s Word today and every day forward from this moment on. Your ears belong to God alone and He will help you to find courage and freedom when we walk in obedience to Him.

THE BOOK OF MALACHI: PROPHETIC WORDS FOR A LOVE FOR GOD STARTING TO GROW COLD - God's grace is activated by repentance in the same way that His wrath is activated by presumption. In other words, the person who plans to sin, relying on God's forgiveness at a later date will meet nothing but ruin and wrath. But the person who has committed sin and comes to God with a contrite, humble heart, finds cleansing and new hope.

EXPOSITORY LISTENING - There is a spiritual key, a practice that not only keeps people from drifting, but actually produces the opposite positive effect. It revives and encourages vital faith in careful listeners; the meeting together of believers in Christ. Listening well always involves listening corporately. None of us listens honestly all alone. Don’t forsake the body of Christ. You will die without this.

THE BOOK OF MALACHI: PROPHETIC WORDS FOR A LOVE FOR GOD STARTING TO GROW COLD - If you can keep your worship of God obedient and sincere, and if you can keep your relationships with others gracious and undefensive, you will have eliminated 90 percent of your spiritual downfalls. And remember, Paul described Christian love in 1 Corinthians 13 - "Love keeps no record of wrongs."

EXPOSITORY LISTENING - People may hear the Word with their ears, but to truly hear God's Word you need humility, repentance and patience or you may lose your soul. So bring your best attitude and your clearest minds to church with you. Look to God in faith. Shun distractions. And fasten your seat-belts. There’s nothing ordinary happening here.

THE BOOK OF MALACHI: PROPHETIC WORDS FOR A LOVE FOR GOD STARTING TO GROW COLD - God, in firm, yet still loving words, is trying hard to remove our blind-spots. He’s bringing understanding to remove the mystery of our frustrated, fruitless worship. Because the biggest mistakes we can make spiritually are the mistakes we allow to continue unchallenged.