DISCOURSE: 1272 THE EFFECTS OF CHRIST’S ADVENT Malachi 3:1. _Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his people, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of host... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1273 THE IMMUTABILITY OF GOD Malachi 3:6. _I, the Lord, change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed_. THERE is not any thing in the whole creation that is in itself immutable. The angels indeed are, by God’s gracious favour, established, so that they are no longer in any dang... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1274 SIN A ROBBERY OF GOD Malachi 3:8. _Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me_. FIDELITY in Ministers, how unacceptable soever it may be to their hearers, is their indispensable duty. Accordingly, we find all the prophets, and all the Apostles, distinguished for it, notwithstanding t... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1275 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP APPROVED OF GOD Malachi 3:16. _Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine,... [ Continue Reading ]