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Lesson Summary:

Malachi rebukes the priests and the men of Judah for breaking their sacred covenants.

Outline and Lesson Goal

Principles and Applications

I. Breaking the Priestly Covenant (Malachi 2:1-9)

Principle: God’s People should be Examples of His Grace to the World.
Application: How have you failed in being an example to others in living the Christian life?
Scripture Reference

⁹But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
¹⁰for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
I Peter 2:9-10 (NASB)

II. Breaking the Patriarchal Covenant (Malachi 2:10-12)

Principle: God’s People should be Completely Set Apart to Him.
Application: In what ways are you compromising in your life? How are you making certain you are in the world but not of the world?
Scripture Reference

¹⁴Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?
¹⁵Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?
¹⁶Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said,
“I will dwell in them and walk among them; And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
2 Corinthians 6:14-16 (NASB)

III. Breaking the Marriage Covenant (Malachi 2:13-16)

Principle: God’s People Should Honor the Marriage Covenant.
Application: How are you ensuring your faithfulness to your spouse in thought, word, and deed?
Scripture Reference

Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Hebrews 13:4 (NASB)