‘When the worship of God was all wrong’ (Malachi 1:6-14)

We have a saying in Australia that goes, ‘things are crook in Tallarook’. Maybe they aren’t always, Tallarook is quite a pretty place. But things were certainly ‘crook’ in Judah when Malachi declared God’s word in Malachi 1:6-14. The people had settled back into Jerusalem after the exile, but the worship had been turned upside down. Were they bored with worship or with God or both? Either way, they weren’t giving their best to God and He was not pleased. Worship can be all wrong when are hearts are far from Him.

Message

Outline

• Those opening verses of Malachi
• Two truths in tension
• Bored with God?
• See how the text tells us how there was…

A problem with the present worship (v.6-9, 12-14)

A promise regarding the future worship (v.10-11)

Guess who’s coming to dinner?
Out with hypocrisy…!