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Malachi
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Malachi�“I Have Loved You, Saith the Lord”
"I Have Loved You, Saith the Lord"
The Lord asks for “a pure offering.”
“Return unto me, and I will return unto you.”
Paying tithing opens the windows of heaven
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"I Have Loved You, Saith the Lord"
"I Have Loved You, Saith the Lord"
SCRIPTURE
1 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.
5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.
- Malachi 1:1-5
"I Have Loved You, Saith the Lord"
Paul E. Koelliker
Of the Seventy
Both modern and ancient scripture are full of reminders of Heavenly Father’s eternal love for His children. I am confident that our Heavenly Father’s arms are constantly extended, ever ready to embrace each one of us and say to each one with that quiet, piercing voice, “I love you.” Because of the heaven-designed pattern of the family, we more fully understand how our Heavenly Father truly loves each of us equally and fully. I testify that it is true. God does know and love us.
- Elder Paul E. Koelliker, “He Truly Loves Us,”�General Conference, April 2012
I Know That My Savior Loves Me�(2010 Primary Theme Song)
MUSIC
1. A long time ago in a beautiful place,
Children were gathered ’round Jesus.
He blessed and taught as they felt of His love.
Each saw the tears on His face.
The love that He felt for His little ones
I know He feels for me.
I did not touch Him or sit on His knee,
Yet, Jesus is real to me.
Text: Tami Jeppson Creamer & Derena Bell
Music: Tami Jeppson Creamer
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2. Now I am here in a beautiful place,
Learning the teachings of Jesus
Parents and teachers will help guide the way,
Lighting my path ev’ry day.
Wrapped in the arms of my Savior’s love,
I feel His gentle touch.
Living each day, I will follow His way,
Home to my Father above.
Chorus:
I know He lives! I will follow faithfully.
My heart I give to Him.
I know that my Savior loves me.
"I Have Loved You, Saith the Lord"
The Lord asks for “a pure offering.”
The Lord asks for “a pure offering.”
SCRIPTURE
6 A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
- Malachi 1:6-8, 12
The Lord asks for “a pure offering.”
Jeffrey R. Holland
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
In the premortal councils of heaven, God had promised…us that help would come from His pure, unblemished Firstborn Son, the Lamb of God…By offering their own little symbolic lambs in mortality, Adam and his posterity were expressing their understanding of and their dependence upon the atoning sacrifice of Jesus the Anointed One…Unfortunately, as a symbol of genuine repentance and faithful living, this ritualistic offering of unblemished little lambs didn’t work very well, as so much of the Old Testament reveals. The moral resolve that should have accompanied those sacrifices sometimes didn’t last long enough for the blood to dry upon the stones.
…Beloved friends, as we unite across the globe each week in what we hope is an increasingly sacred acknowledgment of Christ’s majestic atoning gift to all humankind, may we bring to the sacramental altar “more tears for his sorrows [and] more pain at his grief.” And then, as we reflect, pray, and covenant anew, may we take from that sacred moment “more patience in suff’ring,…more praise for relief.”
- Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, “Behold the Lamb of God,”�General Conference, April 2019
I Feel My Savior’s Love�(Children’s Songbook #74)
MUSIC
1. I feel my Savior’s love
In all the world around me.
His Spirit warms my soul
Through ev’rything I see.
2. I feel my Savior’s love;
Its gentleness enfolds me,
And when I kneel to pray,
My heart is filled with peace.
Words: Ralph Rodgers Jr., 1936–1996; K. Newell Dayley, b. 1939; and Laurie Huffman, b. 1948
Music: K. Newell Dayley, b. 1939 © 1978, 1979 by K. Newell Dayley.
3. I feel my Savior’s love
And know that he will bless me.
I offer him my heart;
My shepherd he will be.
4. I’ll share my Savior’s love
By serving others freely.
In serving I am blessed.
In giving I receive.
Chorus:
He knows I will follow him,
Give all my life to him.
I feel my Savior’s love,
The love he freely gives me.
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The Lord asks for “a pure offering.”
“Return unto me, and I will return unto you.”
“Return unto me, and I will return unto you.”
SCRIPTURE
2:17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
3:7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
- Malachi 2:8, 13; 3:7, 14, 18
“Return unto me, and I will return unto you.”
C. Scott Grow
Of the Seventy
The Savior felt the weight of the anguish of all mankind—the anguish of sin and of sorrow. “Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.”
There are times when each of us needs “relief from feelings of guilt that come from mistakes and sins.” As we repent, the Savior removes the guilt from our souls…The Savior offers healing to those who are suffering from sin. “Will ye not now return unto me, and repent of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you?”
…When we sin, Satan tells us we are lost. In contrast, our Redeemer offers redemption to all—no matter what we have done wrong—even to you and to me. As you consider your own life, are there things that you need to change? Have you made mistakes that still need to be corrected?
- Elder C. Scott Grow, “The Miracle of the Atonement,”�General Conference, April 2011
Teach Me to Walk in the Light �(Children’s Songbook #177)
MUSIC
1. (Child) Teach me to walk in the light of his love;
Teach me to pray to my Father above;
Teach me to know of the things that are right;
Teach me, teach me to walk in the light.
2. (Parent) Come, little child, and together we'll learn
Of his commandments, that we may return
Home to his presence, to live in his sight--
Always, always to walk in the light.
3. (Both) Father in Heaven, we thank thee this day
For loving guidance to show us the way.
Grateful, we praise thee with songs of delight!
Gladly, gladly we'll walk in the light.
Words and music: Clara W. McMaster, 1904-1997 © 1958 IRI
Obbligato by Darwin Wolford, b. 1936. © 1989 IRI
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“Return unto me, and I will return unto you.”
Paying tithing opens the windows of heaven
Paying tithing opens the windows of heaven
SCRIPTURE
8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
- Malachi 3:8-11,12
Paying tithing opens the windows of heaven
Carl B. Pratt
Of the Seventy
[T]ithing is not a matter of money, really; it is a matter of faith—faith in the Lord. He promises blessings if we obey His commandments…We might conclude that since we pay tithing with money, the Lord will always bless us with money…it doesn’t necessarily work that way. The Lord promises blessings to those who pay their tithing…and if we faithfully pay…, we will not lack for the necessities of life, but He does not promise wealth. Money and bank accounts are not His richest blessings. He blesses us with wisdom to manage our limited material resources, wisdom that enables us to live better with 90 percent of our income than with 100 percent. Thus, faithful tithe payers understand provident living and tend to be more self-reliant.
I have come to understand that the Lord’s richest blessings are spiritual, and they often have to do with family, friends, and the gospel…Regular tithe payers find their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ strengthened, and they develop a firm, abiding testimony of His gospel and of His Church. None of these blessings are monetary or material in any way, but surely they are the Lord’s richest blessings.
- Elder Carl B. Pratt, “The Lord’s Richest Blessings,”�General Conference, April 2011
I Want to Give the Lord My Tenth �(Children's Songbook #150)
MUSIC
1. I want to give the Lord my tenth,
For ev’ry time I do
It makes me think of all the gifts
He gives to me and you.
2. He gives us life, this lovely world.
And though my tenth seems small,
It shows my faith and gratitude
To him, the Lord of all.
Words and music: Lonnie Dobson Adams, b. 1942. © 1969, 1989 IRI
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Paying tithing opens the windows of heaven
Malachi’s prophecies are being fulfilled in the latter days
Malachi’s prophecies are being fulfilled �in the latter days
SCRIPTURE
3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
- Malachi 3:1-3
Malachi’s prophecies are being fulfilled �in the latter days
Russell M. Nelson
President of the Church
2018 - Present
This dispensation of the fulness of times was foreseen by God as the time to gather, both in heaven and on earth. Peter knew that after a period of apostasy, a restoration would come…In the year 1830 the Prophet Joseph Smith learned of a heavenly messenger named Elias, who possessed keys to bring to pass “the restoration of all things.”
Six years later the Kirtland Temple was dedicated. After the Lord accepted that holy house, heavenly messengers came with priesthood keys. Moses appeared “and committed…the keys of the gathering of Israel from the four parts of the earth, and the leading of the ten tribes from the land of the north.“After this, Elias appeared, and committed the dispensation of the gospel of Abraham, saying that in us and our seed all generations after us should be blessed.” Then Elijah the prophet came and proclaimed, “Behold, the time has fully come, which was spoken of by the mouth of Malachi”…These events occurred on April 3, 1836, and thus fulfilled Malachi’s prophecy. Sacred keys of this dispensation were restored.
- President Russell M. Nelson, “The Gathering of Scattered Israel,”�General Conference, October 2006
Angels We Have Heard on High�(Hymn Book #203)
MUSIC
1. Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o’er the plains,
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains.
2. Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
Which inspire your heav’nly song?
3. Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing;
Come, adore on bended knee
Christ the Lord, the newborn King.
Text: French carol, ca. 1862
Music: French carol
Chorus:
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
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Malachi’s prophecies are being fulfilled �in the latter days
We are sealed as families in the temple
We are sealed as families in the temple
SCRIPTURE
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
- Malachi 4:5-6
We are sealed as families in the temple
David A. Bednar
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
The restoration of the sealing authority by Elijah in 1836 was necessary to prepare the world for the Savior’s Second Coming and initiated a greatly increased and worldwide interest in family history research. The Prophet Joseph Smith declared: “The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead…For it is necessary that the sealing power should be in our hands to seal our children and our dead for the fulness of the dispensation of times—a dispensation to meet the promises made by Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world for the salvation of man…Hence, God said, ‘I will send you Elijah the prophet’”.
- Elder David A. Bednar, “The Hearts of the Children Shall Turn,”�General Conference, October 2011
The Hearts of the Children�(Children's Songbook #92)
MUSIC
The hearts of the children turn to their fathers.
Malachi prophesied the hearts shall turn.
Elijah fulfilled the prophecy.
And fam’lies can be sealed for eternity.
(Sung 2 times)
Words and music: Patricia Kelsey Graham, b. 1940. © 1982 IRI
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We are sealed as families in the temple
The End