We have been looking at how to renew our faith for the new year. We look forward to a new year in hope of having a better year. As we think about the upcoming year, we are looking at how we can have an improved, deeper faith for 2024 and we are looking at this through the lens of Malachi. Malachi records that the people are questioning God. They do not believe that God has shown his love toward them. They do not understand why they do not have the favor of the Lord. So God is explaining to the people the problems in their faith and what needs to change to have a righteous relationship with him. Please take your copies of God’s word and turn to Malachi 2:10 and we are going to consider the paragraph here.

To set up this section, we need to be reminded about the context of the discussion between God and his people. God has been explaining to the people that he is not receiving their worship. The people are bringing their sacrifices and offerings, but God would rather the temple doors be closed than for the people to continue in their worthless offerings. There are two problems that God observes that is going on among the people that makes their worship worthless. We will look at these two problems and consider what this looks like in our lives. Then we will consider God’s solution so that we can have the faith that God wants in his people…

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