“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.For I, Jehovah, change not; therefore ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
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… Can I just tell him how God speaks? The first thing I need to let you know that Malachi 3.6 tells us the character of God. It shows that he's an anchor. It shows that he's reliable and dependable. and it says, for I am the Lord and I don't change. So the first thing you got to understand is that God is an anchor that does not change. He is something that is going to be the same and he has been the same and he will be the same. So if God spoke in the Bible days and he said he don't change, he's still speaking today. So let me tell you 11 ways I just got to flow through this. I'm gonna have to maybe do an Instagram live or do something on this later because I really feel that people need to hear this, but God speaks. Somebody shout at me, God speaks. God speaks in an audible voice. Now this is getting more and more rare, but this is how God has spoken. …
… verses 6 through 12 is what I'm going to deal with today Malachi chapter 3 verses 6 through 12 now I'm going to go down and talk about these things now let me give you a little bit of background about Malachi Malachi is the last prophet mentioned in the Old Testament it's the last book of the Old Testament and God says some things through him that is going to be the last thing that God says to Israel before there is a break for 400 years. God's going to stop talking, but this is what he says to them. Chapter 3, some things that he says to them before heaven is going to close down and be quiet. And I thought I ought to talk about this because he spends time talking about money. Now, I notice when the pastors start talking about money, people get tight. I saw some of y'all grab y'all purses and put it, held it tight. We're not taking up another offering disservice. …
… You got a trusting God problem. And so let's go to the Bible to learn. Malachi chapter three, it says this, I, the Lord, do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. Ever since the time of your ancestors, you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you. Let's just pause there real fast. The Bible says in the book of James that if you draw near to God, God will draw near to you. Prodigal son gets on that gravel road, goes running back home. What does the father do? Doesn't stand on that porch, runs down the road. So he says, if you return to me, I'll return to you. This is the promise of God, says the Lord Almighty. But you ask, how are we to return? Verse eight, will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. But you ask, God, how are we robbing you? And he replies in tithes and offerings. You are under a curse. Now let me just pause there. We believe that because of the sacrifice of Jesus, if you're a believer in Jesus, you can never be cursed again. …
Further, we know that we ourselves are weak and, therefore, we dream that God is also weak. When the furnace of affliction is very hot and we feel that we cannot endure its heat, we foolishly think that God cannot uphold us under the fiery trial. If our labor is very hard and we feel that we cannot accomplish it, we are very unwise to dream that God cannot give us all the strength we need for our task. How can we be so foolish as to estimate the Omnipotence of Jehovah by our weakness, for I will not venture to call it strength? We also know that we constantly change. We are as fickle as the weather—fair today and foul tomorrow—and, therefore, we fancy that God changes as often as we do. Some talk about His loving His children today and hating them tomorrow, but that is not true. Listen to these texts, "I am the Lord, I change not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed." "God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent." "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of burning." Judge not the Lord, then by your fickleness as if He were such an one as yourselves! …