Ramsey Creek Baptist Church

The priests in Israel had fallen into an evil pattern of thinking & behavior. Malachi explained how they were not taking to heart the honor of God's name, and goes on to show the effects of such an evil pattern in family life. When the desires of the flesh outweigh our fear of the Lord, the result is always sin. Similarly, our issues with God inevitably become issues with each other. The marriage union should have been held in honor because God adds Himself into it, but the men an priests in Israel were abandoning, forsaking, and divorcing their wives to marry women who would lead them away from worshipping the One True God (which was explicitly against God's Law - see Ex.34, Deut. 7). - Be faithful in marriage. - Raise children as an expression of God’s faithful love. - Guard your hearts in relation to your spouse, because abandoning the truth regarding marriage & the home has dire & damaging results.