“And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.”
The only way to obtain mercy is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ paying for our sins in His body on the tree. Because He bore the curse, we are free from the law, married to Christ, and we can now serve God.
He gives the Spirit, not because we’re good, but because He promises blessings to sinners in Christ. And, by faith, we receive the Christ who enables us to love.
God rebukes the priests for worshipping a false god, because the god they served made them cruel, rather than loving.
We are not to take the false christ; we receive the true. The true makes us love, “Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you; leave there your gift before the altar, and go your way; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift (Matt 5:23-24).” He declares love’s so important, that before we ask for other stuff, we are to love our brother by the grace of forgiveness. Yet, the false prophets were cruel. God’s prophet says, “Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and has married the daughter of a strange God.” He chose a god who couldn’t save, rather than that God of love who gives love to His people.
Love is God’s gift to us to glorify the gospel. We live so that Christ is praised, being warned of God. We obtain mercy to be merciful, rather than, “And this have you done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regards not the offering any more, or receives it with good will at your hand. Yet you say, Wherefore? Because the Lord has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously: yet is she your companion, and the wife of your covenant”. God tells the believing husband, “Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered”, so He teaches the husband to love his wife by shutting the doors of heaven, pardoning his sin, and giving him zeal for God. He will treat the wife properly for his own life demands it before God.
The false christ of the false prophet is cruel. He leaves sinners to themselves, and they die in sin, “You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, Wherein have we wearied him?: When you say, Every one that does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of Judgment (Mal 2:17)?” The God of Judgment purges sinners by revealing Christ to us. The false prophet has no such God.
He gives the Spirit, not because we’re good, but because He promises blessings to sinners in Christ. And, by faith, we receive the Christ who enables us to love.
God rebukes the priests for worshipping a false god, because the god they served made them cruel, rather than loving.
We are not to take the false christ; we receive the true. The true makes us love, “Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you; leave there your gift before the altar, and go your way; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift (Matt 5:23-24).” He declares love’s so important, that before we ask for other stuff, we are to love our brother by the grace of forgiveness. Yet, the false prophets were cruel. God’s prophet says, “Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and has married the daughter of a strange God.” He chose a god who couldn’t save, rather than that God of love who gives love to His people.
Love is God’s gift to us to glorify the gospel. We live so that Christ is praised, being warned of God. We obtain mercy to be merciful, rather than, “And this have you done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regards not the offering any more, or receives it with good will at your hand. Yet you say, Wherefore? Because the Lord has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously: yet is she your companion, and the wife of your covenant”. God tells the believing husband, “Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered”, so He teaches the husband to love his wife by shutting the doors of heaven, pardoning his sin, and giving him zeal for God. He will treat the wife properly for his own life demands it before God.
The false christ of the false prophet is cruel. He leaves sinners to themselves, and they die in sin, “You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, Wherein have we wearied him?: When you say, Every one that does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of Judgment (Mal 2:17)?” The God of Judgment purges sinners by revealing Christ to us. The false prophet has no such God.
"so He teaches the husband to love his wife by shutting the doors of heaven." Elucidate please....
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