As children of God we have a single goal, treasure in heaven; a single vision, God’s purposes; and a single Master-God, not money. Therefore, we must not let ourselves become preoccupied with the mundane things of this world “what [we] shall eat, or what [we] shall drink”.

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The warning that Malachi ends with is not of the Lord’s coming but of his curse.

God provided a way that they could escape the curse. God has provided a way that we as well can escape the curse. The way is Jesus.

Ownership of land came to represent participation in the covenant community to whom God had given the land. But that ownership had to be legitimized by an attitude of faith and gratitude toward God shown by one’s proper use of the land.

But it does say, he is like a REFINER’S fire. And therefore this is not merely a word of warning, but a tremendous word of hope. The furnace of affliction in the family of God is always for refinement, never for destruction.

The will of God for his people is plain from this verse. He wills that we are faithful to each other.

You should hold your pastors accountable to fulfill the biblical vision of pastoral ministry.

THE EXILE HAD CHANGED ISRAEL, it and other events changed her identity.

If you want final culminating proof in the goodness of God, you can always go to Calvary. Whenever we are inclined to doubt the goodness of God, we can just return to the cross, for there God’s love is so greatly manifested. He gave his own Son; how shall he not also with him freely give us all things? We have some evidences of God’s love Job never knew.

The accusers at the second trial were probably not the Jews but the Romans. The different mood was due to the emperor himself and his effort to make the Christians a scapegoat for the great fire of Rome.