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All that the old covenant was ever intended to do was to drive men to despair and then the despair to plead for mercy and grace from a kind and loving God... When an Old Testament person saw the Law for what it really was, a ministry of condemnation, a ministry of death, and when they were slain, as it were, and when they feared hell, and when they realized their sinfulness, and when the Law had done its work and they had a repentant heart and they came to God and pleaded for mercy and pleaded for grace and pleaded for forgiveness which they didn't deserve but which they pled for, and God in grace looked at them and forgave them, that work of transformation that occurred there was the Spirit of God's work. And He was applying the new covenant work of Christ retroactively to that penitent sinner. But it was the Spirit's work. Salvation any time whether in the Old Testament or the New Testament under the old covenant or the new covenant was, is, always will be the work of the Spirit who is none other than the Lord. And isn't it marvelous, the same God who wrote the Law is the same God who liberates the repentant sinner from the bondage of the Law?
John MacArthur

Bible – Afrikaans – Maleagi Chapter 4:1-6.

Index: Afrikaans

 

Maleagi 4

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4:1 Want kyk, die dag kom, en dit brand soos ‘n oond. Dan sal al die vermeteles en almal wat goddeloosheid bedrywe, ‘n stoppel wees; en die dag wat kom, sal hulle aan die brand steek, sê die HERE van die leërskare; sodat dit vir hulle geen wortel of tak sal oorlaat nie.

4:2 Maar vir julle wat my Naam vrees, sal die son van geregtigheid opgaan, en daar sal genesing onder sy vleuels wees; en julle sal uittrek en huppel soos kalwers uit die stal.

4:3 En julle sal die goddelose vertrap, want hulle sal soos stof wees onder julle voetsole op die dag wat Ek skep, sê die HERE van die leërskare.

4:4 Dink aan die wet van Moses, my kneg, wat Ek hom beveel het op Horeb vir die hele Israel–insettinge en verordeninge.

4:5 Kyk, Ek stuur julle die profeet Elía voordat die groot en vreeslike dag van die HERE aanbreek.

4:6 En hy sal die hart van die vaders terugbring tot die kinders, en die hart van die kinders tot hulle vaders, sodat Ek nie hoef te kom en die land met die banvloek tref nie.