Ep. 190 - The Sun Will Rise with Healing in Its Wings - Malachi 4:1-6

This Sermon's Focus:Judgement is necessary to make things right. There is a lot wrong with this world and a lot of us have personally experienced that. Many of us want to see justice done on the wicked. We need evil to be called out for what it is. That is not wrong. God echoes our frustration and our hate for evil. He tells us he will make right what has been wrong. He will punish wickedness and sin. But he reserves the right to be that judge. He tells us to give that judgment to him. He will remove evil once and for all. He will punish the wicked. Thankfully though, God does also promise to bring mercy to those who revere his name and healing to those who are wounded and hurting. While many of us have been hurt, we also have hurt others. We have evil inside. So we desperately need a cleansing, a healing. We need mercy from God so that we too are not judged. And God says that those who fear him, who revere him, who fall down and plead for his mercy and trust that he will be merciful through the judgment of Jesus in our place, we will be saved. We will be forgiven. We will be healed. This is not something we deserve. So two things are true. God will judge evil. God will also save those who revere his name and bring healing. Both of these truths are powerful, real and necessary for us to be healed forever. The Sermon Text: Malachi 4:1-6“Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the Lord Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them. 2 But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves. 3 Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I act,” says the Lord Almighty.4 “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel.5 “See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. 6 He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.”