THE GOD OF THE NEW COVENANT (12 OF 12)
The God of the New Covenant (12 of 12)
Series: Return and Seek: The Minor Prophets
Patrick Edwards
Malachi
Introduction
Twelve weeks ago we began this journey through the Book of the Twelve by watching a man called to marry a woman who was adulterous and sexually promiscuous. And we were invited by this picture to consider in part the hurt, the betrayal, the shame at loving someone, providing for them, being faithful to them to only have them completely disregard your love and to pursue another.
Of course, we quickly realized that this picture of Hosea and Gomer was just a glimpse into the utter wickedness of Israel and their unfaithfulness to the God of their covenant. The case is made very clearly at the beginning of the Twelve that God's people are unworthy of Him and that He has every right to justly divorce His bride. And yet, He will not. Instead, He promises at the end of Hosea 3 to restore His people and to set the whole world to rights.
With each prophet, thus, we've seen more and more of this plan unfold, of how God will judge and punish the wicked, that He will restore and redeem His people. But we've seen that 'the people of God' does not explicitly refer to ethnic Israel. Instead, in a seemingly surprise twist God has revealed His heart to redeem the Gentiles as well. He will redeem some people from every nation; He will judge some people from every nation. He will redeem some from Israel; He will judge some from Israel.
How He will do all of this is also something we've watched unfold along the way. Right, because the part where God judges and destroys wickedness makes sense. But how does a just and holy God actually forgive and redeem sinners? How can the bridegroom forgive and accept the adulterous wife and still remain holy and just? Over the last few weeks we've started to see this aspect of the mission of God unfold more and more where particularly last week in Zechariah we started to see how through the shed blood of the me ...
Series: Return and Seek: The Minor Prophets
Patrick Edwards
Malachi
Introduction
Twelve weeks ago we began this journey through the Book of the Twelve by watching a man called to marry a woman who was adulterous and sexually promiscuous. And we were invited by this picture to consider in part the hurt, the betrayal, the shame at loving someone, providing for them, being faithful to them to only have them completely disregard your love and to pursue another.
Of course, we quickly realized that this picture of Hosea and Gomer was just a glimpse into the utter wickedness of Israel and their unfaithfulness to the God of their covenant. The case is made very clearly at the beginning of the Twelve that God's people are unworthy of Him and that He has every right to justly divorce His bride. And yet, He will not. Instead, He promises at the end of Hosea 3 to restore His people and to set the whole world to rights.
With each prophet, thus, we've seen more and more of this plan unfold, of how God will judge and punish the wicked, that He will restore and redeem His people. But we've seen that 'the people of God' does not explicitly refer to ethnic Israel. Instead, in a seemingly surprise twist God has revealed His heart to redeem the Gentiles as well. He will redeem some people from every nation; He will judge some people from every nation. He will redeem some from Israel; He will judge some from Israel.
How He will do all of this is also something we've watched unfold along the way. Right, because the part where God judges and destroys wickedness makes sense. But how does a just and holy God actually forgive and redeem sinners? How can the bridegroom forgive and accept the adulterous wife and still remain holy and just? Over the last few weeks we've started to see this aspect of the mission of God unfold more and more where particularly last week in Zechariah we started to see how through the shed blood of the me ...
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