"Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me." Malachi 3:8.
INTRODUCTION. -- When the strange question of the text is first put to us, we
are disposed to answer at once, "No, certainly not, certainly no one will reach such
a pitch of blind and desperate wickedness as to rob God." But God gives a different
answer. He says, "Ye have robbed me."
6. The confession that is due Him. We owe to God the Father and to His Son
Jesus Christ to confess them as our God and Savior before the world.
8. The worship that is due. Worship is due to God from man. This is God's
first great claim upon man. This is His supreme right. If you do not give it
you rob Him.
1. God's rights are the supreme rights. All our modern moral philosophy is
out of joint because it puts the rights of the finite above the rights of the
infinite -- the rights of the creature above the rights of the creator.
2. The monstrousness of robbing God is seen if we think of the way in which
God has dealt with us. God is love and all His ways with man are ways of
love.
CONCLUSION. -- We have seen some of the ways in which man robs God, we
have seen the enormity of this sin, we have seen the curse and blight that come into
our own lives from it. The practical conclusion of the whole matter is self-evident.
Let us repent of our sin today, let us confess it to God today, let us render to Him
today and from this time on the full measure of that which is due Him, and He will
open the windows of heaven and pour into our lives a blessing that there shall
not be room enough to contain it, an overflowing blessing.