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Nicodem, Jim - Passion for God's Honor

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Passion for God's Honor
by Jim Nicodem
Text: Malachi 1:6–14
Topic: How we best respond to God's love for us
Big Idea: God demands our greatest sacrifice, reverence, and worship.
Keywords: Election; Excellence; God, greatness of; Grace; Half-heartedness; Honor; Offerings: Reverence; Sacrifice; Worship


Introduction:
  • Illustration: Students wanted to do their best for their favorite professor.
  • Malachi describes the incredible love of God for his people.
  • Malachi tells the people that they need to honor God in return.
Honoring God means bringing him the best sacrifice.
  • God is unhappy with tainted offerings of injured or diseased animals.
  • The worship we bring God today is our lives.
  • Illustration: Even after thunderous applause, a composer still wants to do better.
  • God does not want us to bring him second best.
  • Illustration:Imagine paying the IRS with the equivalent of a tainted offering.
Honoring God means giving him the greatest reverence.
  • Illustration: Former "great" athletes are now forgotten.
  • God is the definition of greatness.
  • Proper worship is pointed toward an awesome God.
  • The name of God should be held in the highest regard.
Honoring God means giving him the warmest worship.
  • God deserves better than half-hearted worship.
  • Illustration: Child asks about the people who "died in the service."
  • Worship is not about what we get out of it; it's about what God gets out of it.
  • We give God our best because he deserves it.
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