Malachi 3 is on every Church’s building campaign short list of texts to be preached. But this text is not about giving to our churches. It is about the effect of corrupt leadership on its people, and it is a call for us to place our hope in God alone rather than in the men who lead us.

The God of the Bible looks endlessly patient. After all, his love for us knows no bounds. His arrival waits upon the last of His Children to turn toward Him. But, in the book of Malachi, we see a people who misunderstood his patience and abused it. God’s response may shock you.

Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated. What if I told you that there was so much more to this claim than we see – this statement is about more than election, it is about God’s holiness and his call to us to put away the things of this world and live in obedience to Him.