WILL A MAN ROB GOD? (19 OF 21)
by Mike Stone
Scripture: Nehemiah 13:10-14
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Will a Man Rob God? (19 of 21)
Series: Rebuilding - Questions From Nehemiah
Mike Stone
Nehemiah 13:10-14
We will have today and 2 more lessons in this wonderful book. Nehemiah continues to provide rich and practical lessons as we reopen, reengage, and rebuild. I had thought about interrupting our series as we prepare for our revival emphasis. But in the Lord's good timing, there are tremendous messages about revival here in Nehemiah 13.
We saw one last week in verses 1-9, ''Are You Up to Date with God?'' And the revival theme continues in verses 10-14 as today's question is, ''Will a man rob God?''
My title is obviously taken from Malachi 3:8-10 - ''Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, ''How have we robbed You?'' In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with a curse: for you have robbed me, even this whole nation.
Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in My house, and prove me now in this says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.''
My title is obviously taken from the preaching ministry of Malachi. It's in Malachi 3:8 that God asks, ''Will a man rob God?''
Malachi is an interesting figure. His name means, ''A messenger from God.'' Some ancient Jews taught and some scholars still believe that Malachi was not a real person. That the ''Malachi'' wasn't a name as much as a title. Some suggest that Malachi was Ezra, Zerubbabel, or even Nehemiah himself. What we do know is this, the prophecy is from this same time period and lines up perfectly with today's text.
One rabbi writes that ''Malachi describes a priesthood that is forgetful of its duties, a temple that is underfunded because the people have lost interest in it, and a society in which men divorce their wives to marry out of the faith.'' (Rabbi Gunther Plaut)
In that sense, the prophecy of Malachi and the narrative of Nehemia ...
Series: Rebuilding - Questions From Nehemiah
Mike Stone
Nehemiah 13:10-14
We will have today and 2 more lessons in this wonderful book. Nehemiah continues to provide rich and practical lessons as we reopen, reengage, and rebuild. I had thought about interrupting our series as we prepare for our revival emphasis. But in the Lord's good timing, there are tremendous messages about revival here in Nehemiah 13.
We saw one last week in verses 1-9, ''Are You Up to Date with God?'' And the revival theme continues in verses 10-14 as today's question is, ''Will a man rob God?''
My title is obviously taken from Malachi 3:8-10 - ''Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, ''How have we robbed You?'' In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with a curse: for you have robbed me, even this whole nation.
Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in My house, and prove me now in this says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.''
My title is obviously taken from the preaching ministry of Malachi. It's in Malachi 3:8 that God asks, ''Will a man rob God?''
Malachi is an interesting figure. His name means, ''A messenger from God.'' Some ancient Jews taught and some scholars still believe that Malachi was not a real person. That the ''Malachi'' wasn't a name as much as a title. Some suggest that Malachi was Ezra, Zerubbabel, or even Nehemiah himself. What we do know is this, the prophecy is from this same time period and lines up perfectly with today's text.
One rabbi writes that ''Malachi describes a priesthood that is forgetful of its duties, a temple that is underfunded because the people have lost interest in it, and a society in which men divorce their wives to marry out of the faith.'' (Rabbi Gunther Plaut)
In that sense, the prophecy of Malachi and the narrative of Nehemia ...
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