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Losing Touch with the Living God: The Message of Malachi is unavailable, but you can change that!

For many people, their Christian life has become indifferent. Faith has lost its edge and the great enthusiasm which followed their conversion has gradually cooled. The Christian life has become comfortable and easy. It almost seems as if they are losing touch with the living God. While this may be a description of ourselves and even of the church today, it was the state of Israel at the time of...

a nation, they all had the same origin. They were one creation. Malachi is saying that God has his people in the world (Israel then—the church now), who are bound to him by a special relationship. The implication is that, by virtue of this special relationship with God, they are all bound in a special relationship to each other. They have the same God, the same Father, so they are one, they are a unity. Then comes Malachi’s final question in which he draws out the practical inference. ‘Why do we
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