IT'S NOT ME. IT IS YOU. (6)
Scripture: Malachi 3:6-12
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It's Not Me. It is You. (6)
Robert Dawson
Malachi 3:6-12
When a couple breaks up, a partnership is ended, or there is just difficulty within the relationship, we have all heard the phrase, "It's not you, it's me." Well, the Israelites were experiencing a rough patch in their relationship with the Lord and their response was not, "It's not you, it's me." Their response was, "It's you, and not me."
Despite the fact the nation was guilty of offering blemished animals, insincere ritualism, 1/2-hearted worship, divorcing their wives to marry pagan unbelievers, they laid the blame for their fractured relationship with God on God. They questioned His love. They questioned His commitment to them. They doubted His Word.
They looked at the messiness of life they were enduring and their splintering relationship with God and said, "It's Him, not us." They felt God had not treated them how they deserved to be treated, never mind all their failures which is what they did, the never minded, put out of their minds, their failures. They questioned God's faithfulness to them.
God responds to their accusations with cold hard irrefutable truths of His own. God unequivocally tells them that He is faithful. God is faithful.
In verse 6 we read, "For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed."
I know most of us have heard the little story of the old man and woman driving down the road in their old pickup truck when she points to the space between them and says, "I remember when we used to sit so close to one another when we drove, right next to you. What happened to us?" The old man, driving the truck says, "I ain't the one who moved."
That is what God is telling the nation of Israel. Things are different and it's not because I moved but because you moved. I have not changed. I do not change. I will not change. I am unchanging.
God is faithful to Himself.
- His character never changes. He will never not be who He is.
- He w ...
Robert Dawson
Malachi 3:6-12
When a couple breaks up, a partnership is ended, or there is just difficulty within the relationship, we have all heard the phrase, "It's not you, it's me." Well, the Israelites were experiencing a rough patch in their relationship with the Lord and their response was not, "It's not you, it's me." Their response was, "It's you, and not me."
Despite the fact the nation was guilty of offering blemished animals, insincere ritualism, 1/2-hearted worship, divorcing their wives to marry pagan unbelievers, they laid the blame for their fractured relationship with God on God. They questioned His love. They questioned His commitment to them. They doubted His Word.
They looked at the messiness of life they were enduring and their splintering relationship with God and said, "It's Him, not us." They felt God had not treated them how they deserved to be treated, never mind all their failures which is what they did, the never minded, put out of their minds, their failures. They questioned God's faithfulness to them.
God responds to their accusations with cold hard irrefutable truths of His own. God unequivocally tells them that He is faithful. God is faithful.
In verse 6 we read, "For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed."
I know most of us have heard the little story of the old man and woman driving down the road in their old pickup truck when she points to the space between them and says, "I remember when we used to sit so close to one another when we drove, right next to you. What happened to us?" The old man, driving the truck says, "I ain't the one who moved."
That is what God is telling the nation of Israel. Things are different and it's not because I moved but because you moved. I have not changed. I do not change. I will not change. I am unchanging.
God is faithful to Himself.
- His character never changes. He will never not be who He is.
- He w ...
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