MALACHI #2- WHERE IS MY HONOR - PTR. ALVIN GUTIERREZ - 10AM MORNING SERVICE

Malachi 1:6-14
6 “A son honors his father, and a slave his master.
If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I
am a master, where is the respect due me?” says
the Lord Almighty.
“It is you priests who show contempt for my
name.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Malachi 1:6-14
“But you ask, ‘How have we shown contempt for
your name?’
7 “By offering defiled food on my altar.
“But you ask, ‘How have we defiled you?’
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Malachi 1:6-14
“By saying that the Lord’s table is contemptible.
8 When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is
that not wrong? When you sacrifice lame or
diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering
them to your governor! Would he be pleased
with you? Would he accept you?” says the Lord
Almighty.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Malachi 1:6-14
9 “Now plead with God to be gracious to us. With
such offerings from your hands, will he accept
you?”—says the Lord Almighty.
10 “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple
doors, so that you would not light useless fires on
my altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the
Lord Almighty,
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Malachi 1:6-14
“and I will accept no offering from your hands.
11 My name will be great among the nations, from
where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place
incense and pure offerings will be brought to me,
because my name will be great among the
nations,” says the Lord Almighty.
12 “But you profane it by saying,
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Malachi 1:6-14
‘The Lord’s table is defiled,’ and, ‘Its food is
contemptible.’ 13 And you say, ‘What a burden!’
and you sniff at it contemptuously,” says the Lord
Almighty.
“When you bring injured, lame or diseased
animals and offer them as sacrifices, should I
accept them from your hands?” says the Lord.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Malachi 1:6-14
14 “Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable
male in his flock and vows to give it, but then
sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I
am a great king,” says the Lord Almighty, “and
my name is to be feared among the nations.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Leaders, it begins and ends with us;
everything rises or falls with us.
Everything begins and ends with the
quality of a leader.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

It’s important that we never forget,
particularly those of us who are in
leadership or aspire to leadership
that people become like their
leaders.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Luke 6:40
40 The student is not above the teacher, but
everyone who is fully trained will be like their
teacher.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Jesus says that students become like
their teacher. It’s a simple principle,
but it is this: whoever you decide to
follow you will become like.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

It’s incredibly important that God’s
leaders conduct themselves in godly
ways, because people are going to
follow the example that the leaders
set.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Here today, he asks this question:
“Where is my honor? Where is my
honor?”
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

He is here first speaking to the
priests. In the Old Covenant,
everything orbited around the
temple. In the New Covenant, it
orbits around the church.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

In the Old Covenant, the people
were led by the priests. In the New
Covenant, they’re led by the pastors.
These are the spiritual leaders, and
he calls them out by name.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

God tells us two things regarding his
character, that he is a “Father” and a
“Master.” “Father” reveals to us his
affection for us, and “Master” reveals
his authority over us.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Malachi 1:6-8
6 “A son honors his father, and a slave his master.
If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I
am a master, where is the respect due me?” says
the Lord Almighty. “It is you priests who show
contempt for my name. “But you ask, ‘How have
we shown contempt for your name?’ 7 “By
offering defiled food on my altar.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Malachi 1:6-8
“But you ask, ‘How have we defiled you?’ “By
saying that the Lord’s table is contemptible. 8
When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that
not wrong? When you sacrifice lame or diseased
animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to
your governor! Would he be pleased with you?
Would he accept you?” says the Lord Almighty.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

When you offer blind animals in
sacrifice, is that not evil? And when
you offer those that are lame or sick,
is that not evil?”
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Here’s the issue: God doesn’t want
your money. God wants your heart,
and your heart is an indication of
your money, because Jesus says,
“Where your treasure is, there your
heart is.”
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Love is not what you feel,
love is primarily what you do
and how you give.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

So what God is trying to do is get the
finances straightened out, because
once the finances are straightened
out, then the rest of life tends to get
straightened out. You get your
finances in order, it forces you to get
your life in order.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

They’re collecting their offering and
the food, he says, is polluted. What
this really is it’s rotten.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

And God’s saying, “Why would you
give to me what you would never
give to someone else you respect?”
That’s disrespectful.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

God’s saying, “You’re conducting
your affairs with me in a way you
don’t conduct your affairs with
others. You’re taking advantage of
my kindness, and that’s not right.”
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Malachi 1:6-8
7 “By offering defiled food on my altar.“But you
ask, ‘How have we defiled you?’ “By saying that
the Lord’s table is contemptible. 8 When you
offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that not
wrong? When you sacrifice lame or diseased
animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to
your governor! Would he be pleased with you?
Would he accept you?” says the Lord Almighty.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Here’s God’s question: “Is that not
evil?” And he says it again. He says it
twice. “Is that not evil?” Here’s what
he’s saying: “You’re not cheap,
you’re evil.” See, it’s out of the
overflow of the heart that the wallet
spends.
HOW HAVE YOU LOVED US?

Because love is not just the way you
feel, love is what you do, and love is
how you give. “God so loved the
world, he gave.” The Bible connects
giving and loving.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Where your treasure is, your heart
is. And God looks down and says,
“This isn’t just cheap; this is evil.”
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

And it starts with church leaders,
many churches don’t even track the
giving of the leaders, and then the
leaders are encouraging the people
to be generous, but nobody’s
checking to see if the leaders are
generous. That’s evil.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

We don’t want to be legalistic about
this, but we do want to say, “Before
we ask anybody to do anything, we
want to make sure that the leaders
are setting a good example.”
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

It’s not about how much you give,
but it’s about how much you give out
of what you have.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

That God is a generous God and
God has a heart that wants to give,
and when God puts resources in the
hand of the leader, and then the
leader clenches their fist rather than
share, they don’t have the Father’s
heart.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Why would you enthusiastically give
God your sin and begrudgingly give
God your wealth? Why would you
give him the worst gladly and give
him the best begrudgingly?
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

God gives to us so that we can enjoy
and share so that others
might have joy.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

The story of Judas is this: He didn’t
give generously. He stole
continuously. And he saved up all
his money so he could go buy a rope
and hang himself.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Sometimes giving keeps you from
buying a rope. It keeps you from
spending money on things that are
going to kill you. In that way, God is
not taking from you; he’s saving you.
Judas stole all that money. What did
he do with it? He bought a rope.
That was not a good investment.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

You bring a sacrifice without spot or
blemish, foreshadowing that Jesus
would come without spot or blemish,
the Lamb of God who takes away
the sins of the world, the Lamb of
God without spot or blemish. The
Bible uses all this language.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

If Jesus was not a lame sacrifice, if
God gave us his only begotten Son, the
best, perfect, without spot or blemish,
sinless, why would we
think that Jesus, who was a perfect
sacrifice, would be excited about a
lame sacrifice? If God’s people don’t
take God’s glory seriously, no one will.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Malachi 1:9-10
9 “Now plead with God to be gracious to us. With
such offerings from your hands, will he accept
you?”—says the Lord Almighty. 10 “Oh, that one
of you would shut the temple doors, so that you
would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not
pleased with you,” says the Lord Almighty,
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Here’s what’s crazy: people were still
coming because they liked it. You
can have a church that people like
and God doesn’t. Church is for him.
There are benefits for us, but church
is for him.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

They are not honoring God with
their work. Routine has replaced
ritual. It no longer means anything. If
the leaders are halfhearted, the
people are quarter-hearted, and their
children are hardhearted.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

And that’s not going to be a legacy,
that’s going to be a tragedy. And the
leaders are not working hard, and
caring, and giving, and people are
going to be like their leaders, and
God is devastated by the entirety of
this system.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Pastors who expect their people to
work and give and don’t work and
give are cheating. You need to know
that we track the giving of the
leaders, not in a legalistic way, but to
make sure that we’re not asking you
to do something that they’re not
doing. That’s cheating.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

We are to honor God, number one,
with our wealth, number two, with
our work of ministry, and number
three, with our weariness.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

So when it talks about weariness,
there are two ways that we
experience weariness, weariness of
ministry or weariness from ministry.
The first is very ungodly, the second
is actually very godly.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

The weariness of ministry is where
you just start going through the
motions. You get hardhearted. You
get sick of it. You’re not going to go
to the next level.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

You’ve maxed out. Whatever it is,
you’ve been doing it a long time.
You’re just sort of going through the
motions. You’re weary of ministry.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

And we believe that if God is
gracious enough to save people and
to use us, then we should avail
ourselves to every opportunity that
he affords us.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

And the truth is we should not grow
weary of ministry, but we will grow
weary from ministry. You’re going to
be tired and exhausted. You’re going
to be and you should be. Jesus never
got weary of ministry and he still
doesn’t.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

He’s still ministering to us right now.
But there were times on the earth
that Jesus got weary from ministry.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Ministry is more like parenting.
Somebody gets saved—it’s like a kid
being born. Now you’ve got to love
them, serve them, and grow with
them, and look after them for the
rest of your life, and that’s going to
be exhausting and wonderful
because you get to see life.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

You’re going to grow weary of
ministry, or grow weary from
ministry. We would encourage you
to pour your life out growing weary
from ministry.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Malachi 1:11
11 My name will be great among the nations, from
where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place
incense and pure offerings will be brought to me,
because my name will be great among the
nations,” says the Lord Almighty.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

The point of the church is to scream
the goodness of our great King that
his fame would echo through the
nations of the earth. And the nation
of Israel chose not to do that.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

If you have any idea how great this
King is, you don’t see this as a
burden, but a blessing; not
something you have to give your life
to, but something that you get to give
your life to.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Here’s what’s amazing: our King is
great, so making his name great is
something that we get to do by simply
telling the truth about who he is and
what he’s done. That’s the whole
point, so he says, “I am a great King. I
am a great King.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

Faithworks, we are so
excited. We don’t know if
you caught that. We’re
really excited about Jesus
and the opportunity he’s
given us to be part of
making his great name great
among the nations.
WHERE IS MY HONOR?

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