15/03/2023

引言：最后的意义重大

过去父母最后再问还要不要晚餐的时候，如果回答不要了，半夜肚子饿还可以偷偷打开冰箱的门，看看还有没有食物可以吃。今天如果是天堂的门，要关了，我们没有权利可以开的时候，我们的回应会是怎样呢？

昨天经文提醒我们信仰的生命，今天是讲我们事奉的生命。仿佛神在很认真对我们每一个人说话。是对我们每一个最后的呼召！

一、起来，君尊的祭司！

1. 认真地听从（V1-3）
我们都是认识神服事神的祭司。放在心上的听从是非常认真的听从与顺服。我们若认真听从顺服神，就能长久活在神的祝福里。我们若离弃神，不把神的话当一回事，咒诅就会临到我们。连我们的后代也会遭殃，一同被神除去。

2. 存敬畏的心（V4-7）
存敬畏神的心就如把神的的每一句话都记在心里，不做神不喜悦的神。就如诗篇第一篇所形容的，唯喜爱耶和华的律法，昼夜思想，这人便为有福。生命和平安的约是从人对神的敬畏和顺服而来的。

神设立祭司的制度，是要我们与神同行，成为神的使者。一颗敬畏神的心，是完全放下自己，活出神的道，不绊倒别人。

3. 回到神的道（V8-9）
堕落的祭司就会误导百姓。一列火车的列车长若自行把火车驶出轨道，车里的人都会有生命的危险。今天我们不是单顾自己而已，而要看重我们的在神眼中的身份。是君尊的祭司，不要因体贴肉体，结果绊倒别人。

二、活出，圣洁的国度！

1. 遵守神立的约（V10）
诡诈就是不忠实、没有信用。当我们用诡诈的心来对待人的时候，就如我们诡诈对待神。若对神对人没有了爱，剩下的就是诡诈，就如背弃了神的约。我们要更多认识神的爱，回应神的爱，回到神的约里面。

2. 跟随神的圣洁（V11-12）
事奉外邦神的女子，就如外邦神的儿女。祭司就如神的儿女，体贴了肉体，娶了外邦神的儿女，子孙后代就会跟随母亲敬拜敬拜外邦偶像，不再成为神的后裔。

对我们而言，更应该深思的是，我们有没有把神的吩咐认真地放在我们心里面，明白神的圣洁。神曾经很多次吩咐以色列百姓不要娶外邦的女子，到了最后一卷书还在提这件事情。如此可以看见人的悖逆和神的耐心。

3. 喜爱神的婚姻（V13-16）
神喜悦的婚姻是一男一女、一夫一妻、一生一世。神有能力为亚当造多位的妻子，但祂只造了夏娃，是为了带来虔诚的后裔。

总结：最后的警告，你是否愿意回应？（V17）

今天神透过话语在问我们一次，我们是否愿意起来回应？烦琐的原文是使人厌倦、感到疲倦。我们的祷告不会使神厌烦，只有我们的罪孽会使神厌倦。

诡诈的心带来咒诅管教临到就苦了自己。神严厉警告我们目的不是为了要咒诅人，而是要人谨守我们的心，及时悔改！以便重回祝福的应许。

Malachi 2: The Last Call
GK611 Morning Devotion
15/03/2023
Speaker: Asher Chang + Rev David Tan

Introduction: The Last Call has significant meaning

In the past, when parents asked if they wanted dinner at the end, if they answered no, they could still open the door of the refrigerator in the middle of the night to see if there was any food left to eat if they were hungry. What would our response be today if the door to heaven were to close and we had no right to open it?

Yesterday the scripture reminded us of the life of faith, today it is about the life of our ministry. It is as if God is speaking to each one of us very seriously. It is a last call to each one of us!

1. Arise, priests of the King’s honour!

(1) Listen attentively to （V1-3）
We are all priests who know God and serve Him. Hearing and obeying that is put on the heart is very serious hearing and obeying. If we listen and obey God earnestly, we will live long in God’s blessing. If we turn away from God and do not take God’s Words seriously, the curse will come upon us. Even our descendants will be cursed and removed by God together.

(2). Have a fearful heart （V4-7）
To have the fear of God is to take to heart every Word of God and not to do things that does not please God. Blessed is the man who loves the law of the Lord and meditates about it day and night, as described in the first Psalm. The covenant of life and peace comes from the fear and obedience of man to God.

God established the institution of the priesthood so that we might walk with God and become His ambassadors. A God-fearing heart is one that puts itself down completely and lives the Word of God without stumbling over others.

(3) Return to the Word of God （V8-9）
A fallen priest will mislead the people. If the conductor of a train pulls the train off the track on his own, the lives of all the people in the train are in danger. Today we are not to think of ourselves alone, but to look at our identity in the eyes of God. We should not stumble over others as a result of caring for the flesh.

2. Live out the nation of holiness!

(1) Keep the covenant of God （V10）
To be deceitful is to be unfaithful and faithless. When we treat people with a deceitful heart, we treat God with deceit. If there is no more love for God and for people, what remains is deceitfulness, just as if we have forsaken God’s covenant. We need to know more about God’s love, respond to God’s love, and return to God’s covenant.

(2) Following God’s holiness （V11-12）
The woman who serves the Gentile gods is like a child of the Gentile gods. The priests are like the children of God, who are carnal and married to the children of the Gentile gods, so that their children and grandchildren will follow their mothers in worshiping and adoring the Gentile idols, and will no longer be the descendants of God.

What is more important for us to think deeply about is whether we have put God’s command seriously in our hearts and understand God’s holiness. God had commanded the people of Israel many times not to marry Gentile women, and this matter is still mentioned in the last book. This shows the rebellion of man and the patience of God. 3.

(3). Loving God’s Marriage （V13-16）
The marriage that God loves is one man and one woman, one husband and one wife, for one lifetime. God had the power to make many wives for Adam, but He made only Eve in order to bring forth a godly offspring.

Conclusion: The final warning, are you willing to respond? （V17）

Today God is asking us once through the Word, are we willing to rise up and respond? The wearied original text is tiresome and wearisome. Our prayers do not bore God, only our sins do.

A deceitful heart brings a curse on itself when discipline comes. The purpose of God’s stern warning is not to curse people, but to keep our hearts and repent in time! So that we may return to the promise of blessing.