Stewardship

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There was a story in our local news a few year's ago about a person who tried to sue a car dealer. Apparently this person had made a very low offer to purchase a used car and got very upset when he went to pick the car up only to find that the car had just been sold.

He thought that since he had simply made an offer to purchase the car that the salesman was obligated to accept it. In today's terms he failed to understand a very basic principle in all contractual agreements. And that is, without an accepted offer there is no mutual agreement (no deal).

The Old Testament opens and closes with unacceptable offerings to God. In the first incident Cain became so upset when God accepted his brother Abel's offering while rejecting his that he murdered him (Gen 4:8).

In Malachi, the last book in the Old Testament there are other grievous & unacceptable offerings in the first chapter. This time the priests were offering God the blind, lame, and diseased animals as sacrifices. He told them that if they continued in their sin that the following two things would happen (v.10):

1. "I will have no pleasure in you

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