Guard Your Marriage

This sermon is part 4 of 7 in the series Malachi: Return to Me

Week 4 – Return to Me

DIGITAL BULLETIN 22 January 2022, 10:30 a.m.

Malachi: Return to Me 2023 — “When life is broken, hurtful, and falling apart… RETURN TO ME”

In this message, Pastor David Royer continues the @EagleLifeChurch series “Return to Me” from the last book of the Old Testament. In this series, you will start 2023 with faith to return to God in love, worship, faith, family, humility, justice, and blessing.

In this sermon, you will learn the way to guard your marriage. As children of Abraham and children of God, He has called us to protect our marriages from cultural disruptions, sinful desires, and reckless attitudes.

Join us as we return to God and pray for an awakening in our generation.

“From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, ‘How shall we return?’”
Malachi 3:7 (ESV, emphasis added)

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Sermon Notes

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SCRIPTURE: Malachi 2:10-16 (TLB); Hebrews 12:24 (ESV), Revelation 1:6 (ESV); Matthew 19:8-9 (NKJV)

We are children of the same father, Abraham, all created by the same God. And yet we are faithless to each other, violating the covenant of our fathers! ¹¹ In Judah, in Israel, and in Jerusalem, there is treachery, for the men of Judah have defiled God’s holy and beloved Temple by marrying heathen women who worship idols. ¹² May the Lord cut off from his covenant every last man, whether priest or layman, who has done this thing!
Malachi 2:10-12 (TLB)

Are we Not Children of Abraham? (Malachi 2:10-12)
Guard Your Passions (Malachi 2:13-15)
How Does God Feel About Divorce? (Malachi 2:16)

Yet you cover the altar with your tears because the Lord doesn’t pay attention to your offerings anymore, and you receive no blessing from him. ¹⁴ “Why has God abandoned us?” you cry. I’ll tell you why; it is because the Lord has seen your treachery in divorcing your wives who have been faithful to you through the years, the companions you promised to care for and keep. ¹⁵ You were united to your wife by the Lord. In God’s wise plan, when you married, the two of you became one person in his sight. And what does he want? Godly children from your union. Therefore, guard your passions! Keep faith with the wife of your youth. ¹⁶ For the Lord, the God of Israel, says he hates divorce and cruel men. Therefore, control your passions-let there be no divorcing of your wives.
Malachi 2:6-9 (TLB)