Message Notes

YAG 15th RETREAT
Theme: Tithes and Offerings
Date: 4-5 May 2012
Text: Malachi 2
Title: Danger of God’s Curse
Session #3

1. What is “ A Divine Curse”

a) Non-blessing

b) Punitive element

c) Physical and spiritual significance

d) Content of Blessings and Curses                           Deuteronomy 27-28

e) Significance of Warning about the Threat of a Divine Curse

2. Validity of pronouncement of a Divine Curse

a) Consequence of dishonouring God

b) Consequence of dishonouring the Covenant with God

c) Consequence of rejecting God’s warning

d) Validity today

3. The Divine Curse in Malachi

a) I will send a curse upon you       Malachi 2:2e

b) And I will curse your blessings    Malachi 2:2f

c) I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart              Malachi 2:2g

4. Ramifications of the Divine Curse

a) Behold, I will rebuke your descendants                Malachi 2:3a

b) And spread refuse on your faces, the refuse of your solemn feasts           Malachi 2:3b

c) Therefore I have made you contemptible and base before all the people                Malachi 2:9