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All right, we're spending six weeks looking at Malachites,

the last book of the Old Testament,

and it's God's way of preparing His people

for the First Christmas.

It'll be the last book of the Bible that God writes and then the next major event in human history

Is the birth of the baby Jesus that we're going to celebrate in a big way come Christmas

And it's God's way of calling a family meeting. So the context is kind of like this.

When we get together for church,

we consider this a family meeting.

If you're in a family, you've had a family meeting.

It's where everybody sits down, it's like, okay, we got something to talk about. It's important.

God in chapter one and chapter two of Malachai, he tells us that he's our father.

So he loves us like a father's heart.

And when you think of God, think of the father heart of God.

And he calls everybody together for a family meeting,

and that's the context of Malachai.

And he's going to give some instruction about how to take care of his children.

Some of his kids are younger, some of them are older, just like our church family.

And the big concept today is that God is going to have a strong word because he's very

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