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Trinitarian sourced, eschatologically oriented Big Idea
Even though we have forgotten our offenses against God, Jesus promises to remember us and to restore us to life through the gift of his Spirit.
Sermonic Proposition
We have forgotten God's faithfulness and we have forgotten our faithlessness, but Jesus takes our forgetfulness and promises to remember us faithfully.
Preamble
Thematic Notes
Subject
God’s Faithfulness
Theme
Memory
Fallen Condition Focus
FCF: Pervasive and unknown sin
FCF2: Feeling as though God has forgotten us.
Theological Notes
Patrological
God the Father has chosen his people and designated them for the habitation of glory, but his people have abandoned his ways.
Nonetheless, he writes a book for faithfulness to distinguish his servants, and he promises to forgive those who look to him as their Father.
He receives the mediation of the Son as the lamb who intercedes for the sinfulness of his people.
Christological
The Son is the faithful Israel who honors the Father and kept his ways.
He has warned them about the impending suffering and has taken up his lot with sinners.
In their midst he offers intercession as the priestly king and leads the people into the promised land of God’s presence.
Pneumatological
The Spirit brings knowledge of our sin to us and moves us to remember our offences against God.
He enlivens us to faithfulness and service.
As the Spirit proceeded with the Son to the place of the Skull, he carried the intercession to the Father and brought the Father’s favor to the Son.
Contextual Notes
Historical
Malachi prophesied approximately 500-400 BC.
In his prophecy, then, Judah had returned from Babylon.
Daniel, Esther, and the other exilic figures have already lived.
Ezra and Nehemiah have returned and begun the reconstruction.
Then his prophecy comes, proclaiming the Purifier of the Temple... one who brings with him fire to refine and burn.
He prophecies that God will return to his people, and that he will prepare them as his possession.
They will not be forgotten.
As a precursor to the Hasmonean and Pharisee sects, the historical context and its prophetic word show how taking holiness into our hands can go awry.
We are not responsible for procuring God's blessing.
We are responsible merely for serving him (and serving him through the provision for all people, i.e. tithes for the priests and poverty-stricken).
He is the one who remembers.
Literary
Malachi shows the sin of the priests in the way they have used their mouths and cult practices.
They have not served God, they have defiled the Table of the Lord and his Covenant.
They were supposed to have honored it.
Nonetheless, Malachi 3 promises that a Faithful One will come and purify the Temple and its sacrifices.
He will keep (or inspire) the book of the Lord’s Remembrance.
Luke shows the passion of Jesus as the Second Adam who ‘belongs’ to all nations of the earth; he cares for the least of these and brings with him the ransom of the captive and the healing of the sick.
Earth is God’s kingdom, and the cross becomes his throne: This IS the King of the Jews.
He is crucified in the midst of all people and he provides the priestly means of renewed life by the Spirit.
God has remembered his faithful servant(s).
Genre
Does the presence of Apocalyptic Prophecy in Jesus words to the Jerusalem women indicate the Lukan passion narrative should be understood as Israel’s rejection of God’s Messiah in the Day of the Lord?
Textual Outline: Malachi 3:13-18
The Disposition of the Faithless
The accusation of Jehovah
You have arrogant words
What words?
The sayings of the Faithless
It is vain
What profit
Why mourning
The Turn toward the Wicked
The arrogant are blessed
The wicked escape
The Recompense of the Faithful
The Dialogue of the Faithful
Those who feared spoke
Jehovah heard
The Book of Remembrance written
The Inheritance of the Faithful
They will be mine
They will be my possession
They will be my child
Distinguish between the righteous and the wicked
Textual Outline: Luke 23:27-43
Weep for Yourselves
The women followed him
Do not cry for me, but cry for yourselves
The Time is coming...
The Justice of God's Forgiveness
The Place of the Forsaken Azazel Goat
Two other evildoers were crucified with him
Jesus said, "Father, forgive them..."
They cast lots
The Disposition of the Wicked
The people stood watching
The rulers taunted
The soldiers mocked
The evildoer blasphemed
The Recompense of the Faithful
The other one said, "Do you not fear God?"
We are punished justly, but he unjustly
"Jesus, remember me."
"Today you will be with me in paradise."
Sermonic Outline
The Problem of Memory
Introduction
The intent of a delightful land (Genesis 1-2)
The accusations against God (Malachi 3)
The Book of Remembrance (Malachi 3, Revelation 13:8)
The Crucifixion
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