Today, God has blessed us with countless numbers of faithful men who lead churches well.

And we praise God for each man who closely guards his life and his doctrine for the sake

of his own soul and for the sake of the souls entrusted to him.

Such faithful men will go unnoticed by the world and maybe even under thanked for their

work by the people they serve.

But we thank God for you, men, many of you listened to this podcast.

So we are grateful to God for you, each of you.

At the same time, one of the most painful topics we see pop up in the inbox regularly

is the fallout over the sins of unfaithful pastors.

Pastors can fail their people by not watching their lives, not watching their doctrine.

And these situations are tragic and very painful and often devastating.

The heartbreaking stories we hear bears this out.

No churches immune from this that compromise happens in huge suburban mega churches.

And it happens in very small rural country churches too.

And it was a problem even among the priests of the Old Testament calling for the stern

warnings we read in the prophets.

In fact, God reserved some of the harshest language in the Bible for priests who morally

fail.

As we will see today in Malachi, chapter 2, verses 1 to 9.

This text remains relevant for pastors today as Pastor John explained in 1987 in a sermon

from about 34 years ago.

Here now is Pastor John to explain.

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