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Argument about honoring God in worship
Some questioned this accusation. How did they
dishonor God? By offering blind and lame sacrifices
that even their own governor would not accept. (Read
Malachi 1:6 -14).
People today still have this issue to overcome that is
giving God their best. Many have stopped attending
services like they use to, they have stopped serving in
the various ministries at their local churches, and
basically many have just flat out stopped attending
church. Some will say that times have gotten tough!
Well, if you had been attending church, you would have
known that times are going to get even tougher! But
God is able to bring us out of whatever may come our
way! And even as Malachi said, try being slake with
“Uncle Sam”, it won’t work, and the government will
not accept anything less than what it asks for! But we
don’t have a problem giving any old thing to God.
Argument against the priest
God was not worshiped properly because the priest did
not act as godly priest by honoring God, giving the
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people true instruction in God’s law, walking in
righteousness and peace, or turning people from
wickedness. Because they corrupted the Levitical
covenant, God will despise and curse them. (Read Mal.
2: 1-9).
Even the Ministers of God are not exempt! There are
Ministers, or Pastors who care more about what they
can get, rather than giving people truth. God was not
pleased then, and he is not pleased now!
Argument on marriage and divorce
The Jewish family was defined by its relationship to
one father, Abraham, and one God, the God of Israel.
But many Hebrew were destroying the traditional
family, some by marrying foreign wives and others by
divorcing their Hebrew wives. This profaned the
people’s worship of God at the temple and made it
impossible for him to accept their sacrifices. (Read
Mal. 2: 10 -16)
Today, one by one, states are legalizing same sex
marriage. And many in the church are accepting it as
though God has changed His mind about it. As well as
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