Abandoning Covenants

The greatest commandment in all the Law and Prophets was twofold. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself. One of those Old Testament prophets was Malachi.

Thus far we've seen Malachi calling out God's people for their failure to love him. Today we continue a series on tough love and tender mercies. We'll look at how both we and Israel are called to be faithful to our marriage partners and thus be faithful to God.

Stay with us. From Chicago, welcome to The Moody Church Hour with Pastor Philip Miller. In a moment, a time of worship and teaching as we continue a series on tough love and tender mercies taken from the book of Malachi.

Today's focus, abandoning covenants. Here now is Pastor Philip along with worship leader Tim Stafford. Well good morning Moody Church. Good to see all of you. We're excited to continue our series in Malachi today as we learn what it means to bring our whole hearts to God in worship and we need that, don't we?

We live fragmented lives. We're distracted and our hearts are torn in a million different ways and places with all kinds of competing allegiances and God is calling us to wholehearted devotion before him. So would you stand wherever you are and let's give the Lord this service, this time and all of ourselves without reservation. Let's pray. Father, we give you ourselves this morning.

We hold nothing back. Would you make us whole and unified, wholly yours today? Father, we can't do that on our own. We need your Holy Spirit to transform, to unify and make us into the people we were always meant to be. And so Father, we want to lay ourselves out and say, come, do the surgery, the heart surgery that we most need.

We know it'll hurt, but the wholeness on the other side will be worth it. And so we entrust ourselves in this time to you for the glory of your name and for our eternal joy. We pray this in Jesus name. Amen. Let's praise the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords today.

Lift us up. Come unto an angel host to be among the stars like chandeliers comfort every grace that knows the heart of every man he is big forever, he is big forever, he is big forevermore Come, our fortress and our strength the rock on which we can depend to sing his majesty, his power and his glory be I'm shaken by the schemes of man, ever changing man I am the angels rise and the angels fall he is faithful forever round in pain forever, round in pain forever, round in pain forevermore He got immortal, found forsaken by a traitor's kiss the curse of sin and centuries did pierce the lonely prince of peace haunted by the sinless man, the crucified that struck his land buried by the sons of man, he was rescued by the fathers and he's laid at his feet forever, laid at his feet forever, laid at his feet forevermore King eternal God of grace, we love you with the highest praise heaven shouts his praise to the Lord, your holy, holy, holy Lord the joy he never lost in life, and all his love and faith in his life justice calls and praises rise at the name of Jesus Christ King of peace forever, King of peace forever, King of peace forevermore Praise the Lord, praise the King This Lord of everything, he's here today, he's here with us now and he's saying I am with you, and he's saying abide in me These are Jesus' words from John 15 I am the true vine, and my father is the wine dresser Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away And every branch that does not bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you Abide in me, and I in you, as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself Unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me I am the vine, you are the branches Whoever abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit For apart from me, you can do nothing If anyone does not abide in me, he is thrown away like a branch and withers And the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned If you abide in me, and my words abide in you Ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you By this my father is glorified, that you may bear much fruit And so prove to be my disciples As the father has loved me, so have I loved you Abide in my love If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love Just as I have kept my father's commandments, and abide in his love These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you And that your joy may be full For my waking breath, for my daily breath I depend on you, I depend on you For the sun to rise, for my sleep at night I depend on you, I depend on you You're the way, the truth, and the light You're the wild that never unspies I'm the branch, and you are the vine Draw me close, and teach me to abide Where the spirit leads, as I'm following you I depend on you, I depend on you For the victory, still in front of me I depend on you, I depend on you You're the way, the truth, and the light You're the wild that never unspies I'm the branch, and you are the vine Draw me close, and teach me to abide Be my strength, my star in the night Be my heart, my treasure, my path I am yours forever in the light Draw me close, and teach me to abide When I pass through death, as I enter rest I depend on you, I depend on you Your eternal ground, to be raised with us I depend on you, I depend on you You're the way, the truth, and the light You're the wild that never unspies I'm the branch, and you are the vine Draw me close, and teach me to abide I depend on you, I depend on you Lord, here in your presence you find us, humbly falling at your feet We need you, we depend on you Help us, Lord, we pray in Jesus' name, Amen When Jesus was asked what the greatest commandment in all the law and prophets was, he gave a two-fold answer Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself This one great commandment has two axes, if you will Love the Lord your God with all that you are, there's the vertical axis And love your neighbor as yourself, there's the horizontal axis Love God and love people Because if we love God rightly, we will love our neighbor, and a failure to love our neighbor is actually a failure to love God 1 John 4 verse 20 says, if anyone says I love God and hates his brother, he's a liar For he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen So love God and love people, you can't have one without the other To fail in one is to fail in the other Love God and love neighbor, these two axes form such a deep integrated connection that they are actually one whole They are one cloth so that Jesus can sum them up as the one greatest commandment This then is what God desires, deserves, and demands, that we love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength And that we love our neighbor as ourselves This sums up the law and the prophets, and one of those prophets was a guy by the name of Malachi whose book we are studying And thus far we've seen how Malachi was calling out God's people for their failure to love God Instead of bringing their first and best to him in terms of their sacrifices and worship, they've been giving God their leftovers They've been bringing animals for sacrifice that are maimed and sick and decrepit And the priests, to make it worse, have been telling everybody, oh it's fine, you know that animal, that's good enough for God, it's just going to burn anyway And Malachi conveys the heart of God here and says look, if you keep polluting God's offerings, if you keep corrupting the priesthood, then you're going to lose the temple You're going to lose the priesthood God's going to come and shut it all down unless you return to him So, so far the book has largely been about the vertical axis of people's failure to love the Lord their God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength But we have to remember that when we fail to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, when we fail to love him rightly, invariably, inevitably, we fail to love our neighbor rightly as well And today Malachi is going to turn his attention to the horizontal axis because they failed to love one another as well, and here in this third dispute of six disputes in the book of Malachi as God and the people argue back and forth Malachi's focus turns to the men in particular who have failed to be faithful to their wives They've been faithless toward God and they've been faithless toward their wives So let's listen in as God speaks his tough love to call the people back to his tender mercies Malachi chapter 2 verses 10 to 16, that's our passage today, and I'm going to begin reading here in verse 10 If you'll listen, this is the word of the Lord Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers? Judah has been faithless and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign God May the Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob any descendant of the man who does this, who brings an offering to the Lord of hosts And this second thing you do, you cover the Lord's altar with tears, with weeping and groaning Because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand, but you say, why does he not? Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless Though she is your companion and your wife by covenant, did he not make them one with a portion of the Spirit in their union?

And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring So guard yourselves in your spirit and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not be faithless Thanks be to the Lord for the reading of his word In this passage we see their faithless betrayal, which is arising from fragmented hearts along with God's call to return to full devotion So we're going to use that as our outline, faithless betrayal, fragmented hearts, and full devotion Would you bow your heads? Let's pray and we'll jump in Father, what you desire, deserve, and demand is our wholehearted affections Our wholehearted devotion, our wholehearted worship Father, we lead lives that are massively fragmented and we need you to make us whole And so teach us what it means to follow Jesus, to walk according to your spirit, and become the whole people we were meant to be We love you, we give ourselves to you, in Jesus' name we pray, amen, amen So first of all, faithless betrayal, faithless betrayal Verse 10 begins with, have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers? Malachi begins by reminding his people of their family bonds with one another Have we not all one father?

Has not one God created us? Now at first blush we might think that Malachi is referring back to Genesis 1 and 2 and the dawn of creation And we might assume that he's reminding the people of their common humanity as fellow image bearers before God And while that is certainly true, the very next phrase here doesn't fit with that assumption This last phrase, why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers? So Malachi is particularly addressing here the children of Israel, the sons and daughters of the covenant keeping God And as children of the covenant, God was said to be Israel's father So for example, the Israelites are called the sons and daughters of God in Deuteronomy 32 verse 19 In Hosea 11 verse 1, God says, out of Egypt I called my son So when God established the covenant with Abram, he created a new people for himself Where he would be their father and they would be his sons and daughters So while it is true that all of humanity is indeed created by God and bears his image The emphasis here is on the covenant people of God who are sharing covenant family bonds with one another And God is saying, look, you're family, you're my family, I'm your father, you're my sons and daughters I created you as my people when I entered into covenant with you So why aren't you treating each other like family? Why are you being faithless with one another? Why are you disloyal?

Why are you betraying each other? Why are you committing treachery within the family of God? Why are you profaning the covenant like this? You're despoiling the covenant, polluting it, you're corrupting it And they say, how?

How are we doing this, God? Verse 11, Judah has been faithless and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem Notice how the regions are zeroing in on the very heart of the people, right? From Judah to Israel to Jerusalem For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord which he, that would be God, which God loves And just pause for a moment before we finish that sentence How would you expect this to end?

You've profaned the sanctuary, right? They've been offering all kinds of bad worship You're assuming, I would assume, that this is about worship still, right? But that's not what he says Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord which God loves And has married the daughter of a foreign God Interesting So just as the Israelites were called the sons and daughters of Yahweh Those who worship false gods were called the sons and daughters of those deities So for example, in Numbers 21, 29, we read that the Moabites were called the sons and daughters of Chemosh Which was the false god that they worshiped So here you have the sons of Yahweh who are marrying the foreign gods The daughters of foreign gods That's what's going on The sons of Yahweh are marrying the daughters of foreign gods Which was of course strictly forbidden under the law In places like Deuteronomy 7 verses 3 and 4 Unless the foreigner was actually becoming a worshiper of Yahweh Like Ruth, for example Ruth became a worshiper of Yahweh So that was okay This really isn't about ethnicity It's about theology God commanded the children of Israel to marry within the covenant In order that they might worship the one true God as a couple, as a family And with whatever children may be born We can see God's purpose for this down in verse 15 When he says, what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring Remember, through the family of Israel will come one day Messiah And through him all the families of the earth are going to be blessed And so it is imperative for God's unfolding plan of redemption That the children of Israel pass along their faith from one generation to the next Without dilution, without compromise And for that reason the sons and daughters of Yahweh Are to marry only within the covenant people of God And those in Malachi's day don't have to think back very far To Solomon and the great case study disaster Of why obedience in this area is so needful King Solomon, you'll remember, married tons of foreign wives And it drew his heart away from the Lord So he ended up building temples and shrines So his wives could worship all their foreign deities And the nation became contaminated with the worship of idolatry Which is why when the people of Israel are coming back now From the exile in Babylon This becomes a major issue Ezra and Nehemiah called the people only to marry within the covenant people of God In 454 BC, Ezra discovered that many of the people Especially the priests and Levites had married foreign women outside the covenant You can read about this in Ezra chapter 9 verse 2 He was appalled, he confessed the sins of the people And they wept bitterly and pledged that they would change That's in Ezra chapter 10 About a decade later, Nehemiah comes back to the people And discovers they're marrying women outside the covenant again And you can read about that in Nehemiah 13 And so now Malachi, just a handful of years after Nehemiah Is calling out the people for doing the same thing all over again They're welcoming pagan worship into the covenant community They're offering sacrifices in the temple for their families At the very same time that their wives are offering worship To the false gods of the neighboring nations They're failing to honor God in the temple And they're failing to honor God in their households You see that But it gets worse It gets worse Jump down to 14b, the second half The Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth To whom you have been faithless Though she is your companion and your wife by covenant Skip down to 16 For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her Says the Lord, the God of Israel Covers his garment with violence Says the Lord of hosts So guard yourself in your spirit And do not be faithless So this passage reads like a funnel Okay It starts out really wide You've been faithless within the family of God What does that mean? You're marrying women who are worshipping false gods And furthermore, what's worse Is you're divorcing the wife of your youth So you can marry a bride outside the covenant You see, it's narrowing down This is one big cluster of sin And it's funneling down Here's the scenario that Malachi has in mind You have middle-aged Israelite men Who have grown tired of their aging wives And are swapping them out for young exotic and idolatrous women That's what's going on And Malachi says, faithless You're profaning It's an abomination It's treachery You're doing violence Because they're breaking faith with their wives And with God They're breaking faith with their wives And with God Not only are they abandoning the covenant with their wife As they divorced and remarried They're abandoning the covenant with God As they welcome idolatry Into their homes They're trashing their own covenants Of marriage And they're trashing the covenant with God himself But their problem runs even deeper Than their faithless betrayal here It's all arising From their fragmented hearts Their fragmented hearts It would be one thing if they just walked out on God And said, I'm done with you Just openly own their rebellion But they're still pretending everything's okay They're still coming into worship every week Every month Like this is no big deal Look at this, verse 11 Judah has been faithless An abomination has been committed in Israel And in Jerusalem For Judah has profaned the sanctuary Of the Lord which he loves He's married a daughter of a foreign God May the Lord cut off the tents of Jacob Any descendant of the man who does this Who brings an offering to the Lord of hosts So here they are living in Flat out Disobedience to God They're divorcing their wives They're embracing idolatry And then they have the audacity To waltz into the temple sanctuary With an offering like everything's okay It would be like me spitting in my wife's face And then five minutes later showing up with flowers She's like, you think that makes it okay?

You think that just makes everything fine? No And the term here for offering Is specifically referring to the offering of first fruits Which was both an offering of thanksgiving And dedication to the Lord The first fruits offering was when you came and said God I thank you for all the good gifts you've given me And I dedicate all that I have And all that I am to you And God says I've had enough Of this duplicity You come to dedicate yourself Unreservedly to me in worship While at the same time Welcoming idol worship into your homes Your soul is conflicted Your loyalties are divided Your heart is fragmented And I want your whole heart Not just a piece of it And not only is your heart fragmented before me Says the Lord, it's fragmented at home too Because whatever piece of your heart still belongs to me Is something you can't share with your unbelieving spouse Your faith in me, in my covenant love In my sacrificial grace In my faithful promises All these things that are supposed to be the deepest part Of who you are at the core of your being You can't actually share that With your unbelieving wife And she wants your whole heart Not just a piece of it Don't you see God saying look You're not wholly mine And you're not wholly hers either Because you're not whole yourself You're not whole Your heart is torn It's divided It's disintegrated It's fragmented See even in the New Testament God commands his people not to pursue marriage with unbelievers 2 Corinthians 6 verse 14 Paul says do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers It's a picture of like a pair of oxen harnessed together And the point is in marriage You and your spouse need to be pulling In the same spiritual direction If you're plowing toward God And your spouse is plowing in another direction It's gonna be rough going for you And not just for you But for any of the children that you might have No friends God's design Is that you would be able to share your whole heart With your spouse In marriage And bring your whole heart In worship before God He's after your wholeness you see But the hearts of these Israelite men were not whole They were fragmented Not just because of their marriage to idol worshipers But because of the divorces Where they abandoned their wives in the first place Verse 13 And the second thing you do You cover the Lord's altar with tears With weeping and groaning Because he no longer regards the offering Or accepts it with favor from your hand But you say why does he not Because the Lord was witness between you And the wife of your youth To whom you have been faithless Though she is your companion and your wife By covenant Now the Hebrew here in verse 13 is a bit vague But basically what God is saying is I'm not accepting your offerings With all those tears and weeping and groaning That you've heaped up on the altar But the question is whose tears are they Whose weeping is this And in the context it doesn't make sense For these to be tears of repentance From these faithless men Because there's no hint of repentance in the passage And furthermore this is a charge That God is bringing against them This second thing you do So whatever they're doing it's not good Many commentators believe that the tears here Are the broken hearted tears of the wives they've betrayed These men have heaped up onto the altar of the Lord The tears, the weeping and the groaning Of their ex-wives And God is saying I can't accept your offering Or grant you favor Because all I can see on the altar Are the tears, the weeping and the groaning Of the wife that you've faithlessly betrayed You married her before me And all those witnesses She was the wife of your youth The joy of your heart Your companion through thick and thin She was your wife by covenant You promised to love and to cherish To have and to hold In sickness and in health And forsaking all others To be faithful to her Until death do you part And then you threw it all away You betrayed and discarded her How dare you treat your wife like that And then come into my holy presence Like everything's okay Your sins are shouting louder Than your sacrifice Because friends our spiritual lives Cannot be compartmentalized Our spiritual lives cannot be compartmentalized No God insists on our integrity On our wholeness No duplicity No hypocrisy No fragmentation This is why in 1 Peter 3 verse 7 Christian husbands are called to honor And respect their wives as joint heirs Of God's covenant grace In order that quote your prayers may not be hindered Friends, husbands, do you realize God will not answer our prayers, husbands With favor if we are not treating our wives with honor What father worth his salt Would grant the request Of the one who's mistreating his daughter If we say we love God And hate our brother We're liars Which is why Jesus says in Matthew 5 verses 23 to 24 If you're offering your gift at the altar And there remember that your brother has something against you Leave your gift there Before the altar and go First be reconciled to your brother And then come and offer your gift Friends we cannot give our whole heart to God While our relationships lie in fragments We cannot give our whole heart to God While our relationships lie in fragments We can't compartmentalize And pretend everything's okay We can't put on a holy demeanor And pull the wall over God's eyes It doesn't work Friends we cannot beat our kids And walk into worship like everything's okay We cannot betray our spouses And come in and partake of the body and blood of Christ The symbols that represent him in communion We cannot hate our neighbor And then come in and confess our love for God We cannot lust online And then come in and sing holy, holy, holy Is the Lord God Almighty We cannot exploit the poor Monday through Friday And then sing blessed assurance on Sunday All of life Is under the Lordship of Jesus Christ There is nothing outside his domain And he wants our whole heart Not just a piece of it He desires, deserves, and demands Our full devotion Our full devotion We've seen faithless betrayal, fragmented hearts And now full devotion Can't you see friends how through all of this Malachi Is calling them back to whole heartedness Both with their wives and with God Verse 10, have we not all one father Has not one God created us Why then are we faithless to one another Profaning the covenant of our fathers Isn't God our father Aren't we family Don't we have loyalty to one another Aren't we called to be different with one another Did not the one God create us as his covenant people Did not the one God unite us as one in marriage When you covenanted with your wife Verse 14b, the Lord was witness Between you and the wife of your youth To whom you have been faithless Though she is your companion And your wife by covenant Did he not make them one With a portion of the spirit in their union And what was the one God seeking Godly offspring So guard yourselves In your spirit Let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth God's saying, look, I was there, I bore witness I was there when you covenanted with the wife of your youth Your companion Your covenant bride I was there and I was wedding you together in one flesh union By the presiding of my spirit And now as one father and one God, one spirit I have united you as one flesh In order that with one heart and one mind And one accord you might raise godly offspring To worship the one true God With one voice and one testimony Of one faith in the coming one The Messiah, the one in whom All the nations will be blessed But you, you threw it all away Because you deserve to be happy Verse 16, for the man who does not love his wife But divorces her, says the Lord The God of Israel covers his garment with violence Says the Lord of hosts So guard yourself in your spirit And do not be faithless Friends, all these unbiblical divorces that are happening in this chapter That is, they don't meet the biblical grounds For divorce of adultery, abuse or abandonment These unbiblical divorces are hateful and violent grievances Against these women and against our Heavenly Father And despite all of their religious pretending They love neither God nor their neighbors And Malachi ends by repeating an admonition that he gave up in verse 15 So guard yourselves in your spirit And do not be faithless Guard yourselves in your spirit Guard yourselves against fragmentation Guard yourselves against duplicity Guard yourselves against disintegration Guard the wholeness of your spirit Guard the oneness of your devotion Guard the unity of your soul Guard the earnestness of your worship Guard the affections of your heart Guard the integrity of your promises The one God, the one Father with one Spirit Is calling you and me to guard the oneness of our spirit For God deserves nothing less than our full devotion Don't you see right here at the end God is calling us to wholehearted covenant love Wholehearted covenant love It's an invitation, a command, a rebuke To every wayward heart To every faithless son or daughter To every fragmented soul God is saying come back to me Return to me Repent from your sin Return to my heart Throw yourself on my mercies Return to me Because friends there's nothing God loves more Than to take all the broken fragments of our lives And start making us whole again So that we can begin to love the Lord our God With all of our heart, soul, mind and strength And love our neighbors as ourselves But there's a catch There's a catch To be whole We must give him our whole selves Our whole selves Because we will never be whole Until we are wholly his We will never be whole until we are wholly his It will not do To give God only a part of yourself Fragmentation, compartmentalization, duplicity These are the death traps of the soul And like the proverbial Humpty Dumpty who sat on the wall We cannot live long in pieces Our souls long to be made whole And only God can put us back together again Friends do you realize That God sent his one and only son Jesus Christ The Messiah The godly offspring that all this covenant was anticipating That he sent his son to come and be our savior Who perfectly loved the Lord his God With all of his heart, soul, mind and strength He perfectly loved his neighbor as himself He was faithful in all his doings He kept every single one of his promise He was loyal to all of his covenants He was perfectly whole in every way You see he guarded his spirit with integrity But then he went to the cross And he died the death we deserve to die He died a death that was for the faithless The fragmented The duplicitous The betrayers The haters The violence Sinners He died in our place and for our sake The righteous For the unrighteous to bring us to God And on the third day he rose again And sat down at the right hand of God In majesty on high And he sent his spirit Who would come and guard our spirits on the inside He sent the spirit to make us whole again Don't you see He was broken that you might be healed He was shattered that you and I might be mended He was fragmented on the cross In order that we might become whole He was our substitute in every way And he says to you and me Come, come to me Return to me And I will make you whole But I need all of you All of you All the broken pieces All your guilt All your shame All your brokenness All your bitterness All your hate and anger and lust and anxiety I need all your self-loathing All your betrayals All your sin And violence And faithlessness Bring it all to me And I will make you whole by my spirit Who will guard you and keep you Because I am a husband who will never betray you I am a covenant keeper who is faithful and true I am the sacrifice that shouts louder than all your sins I am the one who gave up my spirit in order that you might have my spirit forever And I am a savior who is more than enough for you I gave my whole self to save you Will you not give your whole self to me? I want your whole heart Not just a piece of it Won't you give it all to me? Because you will never be whole until you are wholly mine Would you bow your heads and pray with me? Oh Father Forgive us for playing games Forgive us for honoring you with our lips while our hearts are far from you Forgive us for the gaps Between our Sunday and our Monday Forgive us for this morning For our irritability For our impatience Father our hearts are shot through with fragmented Disintegrity And Father if it weren't for Jesus there would be no hope for us That's why we cling to the cross We hold fast to grace Because if you don't save us no one will And so Father would you take the broken pieces of who we are all these shards and fragments Would you take our duplicity our lack of integrity Would you take all of this sin and brokenness Would you do something amazing with it Would you mend us and make us whole by the power of your Holy Spirit indwelling in us We confess we are a long way from who we were meant to be We thank you that Jesus blood covers over all of our sin That if we confess our sins you are faithful and just and will forgive us of our sin And all of our unrighteousness you cleanse us of it all And so Father we confess before you We cling to Jesus as our only hope And we give you ourselves we hold nothing back Help us to walk by your Spirit And slowly but surely become whole again Help us we pray In Jesus name Amen On today's Moody Church Hour we heard Pastor Phillip Miller telling us about Abandoning Covenants taken from Malachi chapter 2 This has been the fourth in an eight part series on tough love and tender mercies Next time on The Moody Church Hour we walk the Palm Sunday road in Jerusalem Jesus is hailed by adoring crowds just before his trials and crucifixion Don't miss Hosanna in the Highest next week on this broadcast The Moody Church Hour is a listener supported ministry We count on the ongoing financial support of listeners like you Together we share solid biblical teaching that transforms lives across America and around the world You can call us at 1-800-215-5001 That's 1-800-215-5001 Online you'll find us at moodychurchhour.com That's moodychurchhour.com Or write to us at Moody Church Media 1635 North LaSalle Boulevard Chicago, Illinois 60614 This broadcast is a ministry of The Moody Church