Teachings – The Sun – The Sun of Righteousness

THE SUN – THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

UNFOLDING THIRTY-SEVEN

WHERE WE ARE

This is the second discourse related to Malachi 4:2, and the Sun of Righteousness. In the first discourse, Pastor explains to us the healing beams of Christ’s light, and challenges those who have not fully experienced Christ’s healing to do so. Let us not sit back and wait indoors – staying out of the beams that truly heal and give us liberty. 

SCRIPTURE

Malachi 4:2

“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.”

THE SUN – THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
UNFOLDING THIRTY-SEVEN

The Jews expected that the coming of Messiah would exalt their nation. Yes,

“Their expectations were great, but they were also carnal and sensuous, since they looked for an earthly king, who would make the despised nation victorious over all its enemies, and enrich every man of Abraham’s race.”

Instead, 

“The religion of the Jews at His coming was dry and dead, like stubble. The Pharisee thought that he was righteous because he put on a broad phylactery, and tithed anise, and mint, and cummin, and such trifles; the Sadducee thought much of himself because he was a man of common sense, a thinker, a rationalist; and other sectaries of that period found equally frivolous grounds for glorying.”

What does Christ’s coming mean to us? Pastor explains,

“Revival will not have an equally beneficial effect upon all. To some the rising of this sun will bring healing and blessing, but to others it will bring scorching and withering.”

Consider the tares among the wheat. They shall be scorched and withered.

“Whatever other light there may be, we every one of us know that until the sun rises our condition is one of comparative darkness.”

There are children of God, who –

• start out brightly, then walk in darkness,
• experience cloudy days, or
• have their worst darkness at the end of their lives.

Some are sick and need the healing wings, while some are in bondage and are, as calves, led out of their stalls.

“The children of God may be in such a state that they are not growing, for else we should not have the promise, ‘Ye shall go forth and grow up.'”

Pastor concludes –

“Plead ye then this promise, and cry, ‘O Sun of Righteousness, arise upon those that fear thee: come now in all Thy majesty and wealth of grace: pour upon us Thy light and heat and life, and fill this place with Thy glory.”

THOUGHT GOING FORWARD

There is great promise in this verse. Malachi 4: 2 should be committed to the heart, mind, and soul of those who fear the name of God for in His Son we can place our confidence and hope. As Christians, yes, we face our times of darkness. Yes, we our growth is stunted with preoccupations of those competing lights of the world. Sometimes the ambient light of our desires distracts us, lessens the brightness of the Sun of Righteousness. Finally, for those who remain in bondage to their sin, or to the guilt of their sin, let them flee to that One and Only Sun of Righteousness who covers us.   

IN TRIBUTE TO SPURGEON’S LOVE OF SHORT RYHMES

Neither sin, nor stunted growth –
neither cloudy day nor year,
the Father made His Son an oath
to preserve all those who fear.