“But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among the nations.“But the deceiver is cursed who has in his flock a male, and vows and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.But cursed be the deceiver, who hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King, saith Jehovah of hosts, and my name is terrible among the Gentiles.
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… What about Malachi? Malachi chapter 1 verse 14 says, For I am a great king, thus says the Lord of heaven's armies, and my name is feared among the nations. Wow, that's who he is. And so looking at this argument, the coming of the king, and the biblical argument for God being the king, we see this. We see that the king and kingdom concept in reality. This is important. The king and kingdom concept in reality, that is to say that it's in the heart and the mind of who we are. We can relate to that. And I just put this out to you, as I mentioned earlier. How is it? Why is it? That God communicated to the entire world with the Bible and all of its global languages that there's a king, kingdom, dragons, warfare. It's something that we can relate to. And we see it lived out. Even in the passion of Jesus' week, 2,000 years ago, Passion Week, his arrest, the trial, the crucifixion. …
that's the context of this verse, is people that were still offering, they were bringing something to the altar, and God says, I wish someone would just shut the doors to that temple. I wish someone would just shut it down, because you guys are doing this uselessly. You're doing it as a burden to you. You're saying this is a burden, and gosh, I'm always convinced because I'm thinking... am I looking at this as a burden? Oh man, I've got to study, I've got to figure out what this title even means, I've got to think this all through, am I looking at this as, oh, let me get this over with. I mean, there are times when I'm speaking and I'm dreading. And it does become tiresome. Oh my God, I don't want that, I don't want to be that guy, I don't want to beat this. I don't want you to say, okay, Francis, if this is such a burden to you, then just shut up and go. …
Hereby they endeavour to save their credit; for they apprehend that they shall be concealed. They appear with others to go to the contribution, as it is not known, but that they put in that which is good. But they cheat the church of God, and defraud the expectations of the poor: or rather, they lie to God: for those who receive what is given, stand as Christ’s receivers, and not as acting for themselves in this matter. They that do thus, do that which is very much of the same nature with that sin, against which God denounces that dreadful curse in Mal. i. 14. “Cursed be the deceiver which hath in his flock a male, and voweth and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.” That hath in his flock a male, ewe, that has in his flock that which is good and fit to be offered to God: for it was the male of the flock principally that was appointed, in the law of Moses, to be offered in sacrifice. He has in his flock that which is good, but he vows and sacrifices to the Lord “the torn, the lame, and the sick,” as it is said in the foregoing verse; ye said also, “Behold what a weariness is it, and ye have snuffed at it, saith the Lord of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hands, saith the Lord? ” …