Sermon Snippets with Max Taylor
Each week we take fifteen minutes to explain, illustrate, and apply God’s Word to your everyday life. Thank you for listening!
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Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
Malachi 2:17-3:3
After a quick recap of the Lord’s accusations against the Israelites, we zero in on the weariness of God with the people. It is important that we properly understand the indifference and apathy as the backdrop against which God gives hope in the coming prophecy. Jesus shows us God’s faithfulness, justice, and His ultimate desire for restoration. God’s desire is for us to be made righteous so that we can serve Him in a way acceptable to Him. Can’t wait to dig in deeper in the coming weeks!
Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Malachi 2:14-17
We close off the chapter by looking at God’s purpose and the beautiful spiritual picture of marriage to represent our union with God made possible through Christ. There are some good lessons on marriage from these verses that we should glean, as well as a warning about divorce or viewing marriage too loosely. Then Malachi closes out with a description of God’s weariness at the people’s apathy and indifference. Looking forward to starting into chapter 3 next week!
Tuesday Jan 28, 2025
Tuesday Jan 28, 2025
Malachi 2:10-13
We see two sad realities concerning the children of Israel in today’s verses, their callousness towards each other and their lack of commitment to God. They took awful advantage of one another and they arrogantly refused God’s love and instead pursued a strange woman as it were. These acts were not taken lightly by God. He denied their offerings and did not regard their cries to Him because of their insincerity. May these things not be true of us. May we worship God supremely and repent sincerely so that our service to Him would be acceptable in His sight!
Tuesday Jan 21, 2025
Tuesday Jan 21, 2025
Malachi 2:10-11
Today we are just beginning to look at these verses, and we are seeing that how we treat one another is directly linked to how we treat God, just as New Testament books like 1 John teach. Their cold treatment of their brethren (brethren in a spiritual sense) was connected to their abandonment of God to pursue their own selfish desires. We will continue to unpack these thoughts next episode.
Tuesday Jan 14, 2025
Tuesday Jan 14, 2025
Malachi 2:7-11
This rebuke is relevant for us because as New Testament believers, we are all priests. We have been dedicated to God just as the Levites and the firstborn of the Israelites before them. So when we read this indictment, we ought to read it from the viewpoint that it could be addressing us as priests. What are we doing with the covenant of Levi that we have inherited?
Tuesday Jan 07, 2025
Tuesday Jan 07, 2025
Malachi 2:1-7
I love that God’s Word is personal, its messages are directed to us individually. And it is also sufficient to meet our deepest needs and speak into our deepest problems. The question is, will we take His Word to heart? The Levites of this time failed that question, but it didn’t have to be that way. We can take God seriously. We can share Him with others and be a mouthpiece for truth in our communities. May we pray for strength to do just that.
Tuesday Dec 31, 2024
Tuesday Dec 31, 2024
Malachi 1:12-14
In the final verses of Malachi chapter one, God contrasts the sad condition of Israel with His own greatness. The people are described as defiling and destroying God’s name, calling the table of the Lord marred, and counting God a weariness, and God will not accept their offering. But then we get a glimpse of Him. Perfect, exalted, loving, holy, a great king. May we fix our thoughts on Him and shift our gaze to Him for the year ahead.
Tuesday Dec 24, 2024
Tuesday Dec 24, 2024
Malachi 1:10-11
As we continue to unpack accusations two and three, God traces the root of their problem to covetousness. It is our love for other things that creep in and redirect our love for God that causes us to offer unworthy service to Him, profane His name, and ultimately question His love for us. God shows His people here that their greed and desire for gain is what caused contempt for the Lord to fester. And as a result, God had contempt for the people. In the end, the Lord will be glorified in the earth, the question is will He accept our worship?
Studying God's Word
This podcast is committed to studying God's Word through consistent normal-literal-grammatical interpretation, in connection with the context, from a dispensational approach, and by comparing Scripture with Scripture. Every episode will examine the Scripture expositionally from a Separated Baptistic perspective. We believe God's Word is sufficient for all matters of life and theology and look forward to studying it each week together!
About the Host
I am 100% non-catholic, non-charismatic, non-calvinist, non-chauvinist, non-conformist Christian. As a sixteen-year-old, I surrendered to the call to preach one night in youth group, and I began preparing for the ministry even as a homeschooler. I studied Youth Ministries and Church Music at Pensacola Christian College, where I graduated in 2021. While there, I was on staff at a large youth group as well as being a Christian Service leader, residence assistant, and the senior class chaplain, which gave me broad exposure into the calling of ministering to people. The Lord also used three summers counseling at Christian camps, and attending and preaching in churches across the US to impress upon me the need for serious New Testament churches. I believe these experiences give me unique insight that will prepare me for the calling to plant a church in the future. Currently, I am intensely studying the Bible, completing courses, reading, and writing in preparation for that calling. Thanks for listening!
- Max
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